Harris and Oprah unite for Michigan event as she’s labeled ‘tough enough’ by more voters than Trump: Live

A group of more than 100 prominent former officials who served in Republican administrations have endorsed Kamala Harris in a scathing letter that claims Donald Trump is “unfit to serve again as president, or indeed in any office of public trust.”

The letter, obtained by The New York Times, counts signatories including former defense secretaries Chuck Hagel and William Cohen, former CIA directors Michael Hayden and William Webster and former Trump administration officials Miles Taylor and Olivia Troye, among others.

The signatories admit they probably disagree with Harris on a number of issues but argue that Trump’s affinity for strongmen and behavior on January 6 disqualifies him from serving again.

“As president, he promoted daily chaos in government, praised our enemies and undermined our allies, politicized the military and disparaged our veterans, prioritized his personal interest above American interests, and betrayed our values, democracy, and this country’s founding documents,” the letter reads.

Josh Marcus has more.

Mike Johnson pushed ahead with his doomed bid to avert a government shutdown on Wednesday, despite clear signs that the legislation was unpalatable to both conservatives in his own party as well as the Democrats who control the upper chamber of Congress.

The House voted early yesterday evening on a continuing resolution to keep the government open, laden with giveaways to the conservative right.

Those included spending cuts and a piece of legislation stapled to the broader package aimed at preventing non-citizens from voting in federal elections – something that is already illegal.

Johnson of course, admitted this in a recent interview and has evaded acknowledging that Donald Trump’s claims of massive numbers of undocumented immigrants voting are false.

“This is the play we’re running,” the Speaker told The Hill this week. “I’ll be working around the clock to try to get it done.”

His failure was evident as the vote occurred shortly before 7pm last night. The yeas trailed the nays by 18 votes, with two members voting present.

Johnson said afterwards he was “disappointed” with the outcome but refused to criticize his own strategy – and was given a surprisingly hard time about it by Sean Hannity on Fox.

Here’s John Bowden with a full report.

Here’s Myriam Page with more on the candidate’s bizarre comment to Greg Gutfeld last night about the wild reaction he misremembers receiving from the entirely non-existent crowd in Philadelphia last Tuesday.

There’s exhaustion and understandable forgetfulness and then there’s complete divorce from reality and cognitive decline.