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

John Bowden writes:

In Greenville, it was Trumpmania — minus the mania.

Donald Trump’s “Get out the Vote” rally on the campus of East Carolina University (ECU) was the portrait of a fading spectacle. His visit to campus coincided with the beginning of homecoming week at ECU — in addition to the nearly 30,000 students at the school, thousands of purple-clad alumni are in town as well to soak in some of their old college-era glory.

The Independent saw very few of those young, returning families on Monday.

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NBC News reports that civil rights organization the NAACP is planning a series of events at barbershops and salons in key battleground states in the final 10 days before the election.

The intention is to “stimulate organic conversations about the importance of voting”.

Events are planned in Milwaukee on October 26; Pittsburgh on October 29; Charlotte on November 2; Las Vegas, also on November 2; and Philadelphia on November 4, the day before Election Day.

The NAACP is organizing the events in partnership with an array of media and advocacy organizations, including the NBA, the BET cable network and the group NexGen America.

Kamala Harris leads with Black voters overall, but Donald Trump has made some gains in recent months, especially with Black men.

In the latest polling by Quinnipiac University, Kamala Harris has taken the lead in Michigan:

In Michigan, Harris receives 49 percent support among likely voters, Trump receives 46 percent support, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein and independent candidate Cornel West each receive 1 percent support.

This compares to Quinnipiac University’s October 9 poll when Trump received 50 percent support, Harris received 47 percent support, and Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver and West each received 1 percent support.

In today’s poll, Democrats 96 - 3 percent back Harris, while Republicans 94 - 4 percent back Trump. Independents are divided, with 46 percent backing Harris, 44 percent backing Trump, and 5 percent backing independent or third-party candidates (4 percent back Stein and 1 percent back West). One percent of independents volunteered someone else, 2 percent are undecided, and 3 percent refused to respond.

In a hypothetical two-way race, Harris receives 50 percent support and Trump receives 46 percent support.

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.