Harris calls Trump ‘unhinged and unstable’ over reported Hitler comments: Election 2024 live updates

Kamala Harris said Wednesday that recently reported comments Donald Trump made to his longest-serving chief of staff offer a window into who the former president “really is” and the kind of commander in chief he would be.

In interviews with The New York Times and The Atlantic published Tuesday, John Kelly warned that the Republican nominee meets the definition of a fascist and that while in office he suggested that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler “did some good things.”

Harris repeated her increasingly dire warnings about Trump’s mental fitness and his intentions for the presidency.

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Former Republican congresswomen Liz Cheney, who is campaigning for Kamala Harris, has little time for those in the GOP who are defending Donald Trump after John Kelly, his former chief of staff, confirmed the former president’s praise of Hitler and denigration of US military heroes.

She wrote on X: “If your response to Gen John Kelly, gold star father & Trump’s WH chief of staff, confirming that Trump praised Hitler & called members of our military “suckers and losers” is to defend Trump, you need to look in the mirror and realize your dishonor will live forever.”

More than 1,600 Virginians have had their voter registrations canceled since August under a state program that the Justice Department and advocacy groups contend is illegal.

The scope of the removals was revealed for the first time this week after a federal magistrate ordered the state to disclose the figure as part of a federal lawsuit.

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CNN reports that the Department of Justice has warned Elon Musk’s America PAC in recent days that his $1m sweepstakes giveaway to registered voters in swing states might violate federal law.

The network cited people briefed on the matter.

Per CNN:

Federal law bars paying people to register to vote. The language of the petition currently promises $1 million prizes to people chosen at random for signing a petition in support of First and Second Amendment freedoms. But to sign the petition, you must be registered to vote in specific states.

A letter from the Justice Department’s public integrity section, which investigates potential election-related law violations, went to Musk’s political action committee, according to people briefed on the matter.

MICHIGAN: Harris 49%, Trump 46%, other candidates 2%

WISCONSIN: Harris 48%, Trump 48%

With all eyes on the swing states that are key to winning the 2024 presidential election, Michigan and Wisconsin show races between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump that are too close to call with less than two weeks until Election Day, according to Quinnipiac University polls of likely voters in each of the states released today.

There is a pronounced gender gap.

In Michigan, women 57-37 percent back Harris, while men 56-40 percent back Trump.

In Wisconsin, women 57-39 percent back Harris, while men 59-38 percent back Trump.

Vice President Kamala Harris says there is a plan in place if Donald Trump declares victory on election day before all the ballots are counted in a repeat of 2020.

With less than two weeks until voting ends for the 2024 presidential election, the campaigns are kicking into high gear to try and persuade undecided voters that could swing the result.

Harris told NBC News on Tuesday evening that is where her focus is for now but the real possibility Trump will prematurely declare victory or dispute results is humming in the background.

Ariana Baio reports.