Trump rounds out Sun Belt campaign sweep with Tucker Carlson as Harris appears with J Lo in Vegas: Live

The X account that describes itself as “the official rapid response page of Vice President Harris’ presidential campaign” has wasted no time in going after the Republican for his disturbing pledge to protect women “whether they like it or not” by pointing out the real-life consequences of his war on reproductive rights in the starkest terms possible.

This was Harris’s own response to the same line, incidently.

“Everybody watches our rallies, everybody loves our rallies, we never have an empty seat,” Trump declared at his earlier event yesterday in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

“They try and demean us like that horrible, horrible person that I debated when she said ‘and people leave early.’ Nobody leaves early.”

At that very moment, a rally-goer donning a black T-shirt featuring the Republican’s mugshot got up out of his seat and left.

Too perfect.

Here’s Rihan Lubin’s report.

Kamala came after the former independent candidate on X late yesterday, warning that him being put in charge of anything is evidence that Trump is “more unhinged than ever”.

Here’s Gustaf Kilander with more on the Republican’s apparent quid pro quo with Kennedy.

“Shouldn’t they have put him in the back of that?” the host quipped.

“The garbage goes in the back”.

James Liddell has more on a gift for late-night.

Fox News aired more of the Republican nominee’s dungeon-shot interview with Sean Hannity last night, which found him claiming a fictional Trump-Lincoln ticket could have seen off Big George four years but for that pesky pandemic.

He also offered this flagrant lie about the reception Beyonce got in her native Houston, Texas, last Friday as she campaigned for Harris, insisting the crowd were devastated that she didn’t sing.

Here’s where the main players will be today, with just five days to go.

• Donald Trump will spend Halloween casting his sinister shadow over Albuquerque, New Mexico, Henderson, Nevada, and Glendale, Azirona, with the even ghastlier Tucker Carlson joining him for that last one.
• Kamala Harris will be in Reno and Las Vegas, Nevada, before holding another “When We Vote, We Win” rally in Phoenix, Arizona. Her guests will be Jennifer Lopez and the Mexican pop-rock band Maná in Vegas and Los Tigres del Norte in Phoenix, pointed selections in light of garbage-gate.
• Tim Walz will meanwhile be in Harrisburg and Erie, Pennsylvania, before moving on to Detroit, Michigan.
• Byron Donalds, the Florida Representative, will be leading a Team Trump bus tour in Atlanta, Georgia.

Here’s more on J Lo joining the Harris train in response to Tony Hinchcliffe’s Puerto Rico slur from Rhian Lubin.

The Democrat was also in Wisconsin yesterday and was interrupted during her address in Madison by an activist demanding an end to US support for Israel’s military intervention in Gaza.

Unruffled, the Vice President broke off to silence the heckler, which she did politely but firmly, winning a rapturous reception from the crowd.

The latest swing state polling puts Harris narrowly ahead in Wisconsin and Michigan – but the two are tied in Pennsylvania.

The so-called blue wall states are Harris’s most viable, but not only, path to an Electoral College victory after Tuesday’s election.

Here’s more from Gustaf Kilander.

When the Republican presidential nominee finally took the stage in Green Bay, he was still glorying in his garbage man stunt and wearing the vest, which made him look even more like a haunted pumpkin than usual.

But then it was all business as usual, bragging about Madison Square Garden, berating the Wisconsinites who had bothered to show up to support him, raving about BLT sandwiches and lying about immigration and American history before doing his weird double jerk dance to The Village People and heading for the exit.

There was no question what the line of the night was, however…