Biden not confident of peaceful 2024 election; Trump visits Georgia alongside Governor Brian Kemp: Live

The tech bro was reportedly giving tens of millions of dollars to conservative political causes years before he made headlines this summer for creating a pro-Trump political action committee.

Beginning in 2022, the X billionaire funneled an estimated $60m to groups affiliated with former Trump adviser Stephen Miller and 2024 candidate and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Our own Josh Marcus has more.

Since Donald Trump first emerged on the American political scene in 2015, he has refused to provide a glimpse into his medical records.

If the Republican, 78, wins in November, he will become the oldest person ever to serve as president, ousting the current record-holder, a certain Joe Biden.

When his potential second term ends, he will be 82 years old.

But despite his advanced age, Trump still refuses to provide any glimpse into his records.

Graig Graziosi has this report.

The 44th president, last spotted joking about Trump’s fixation with crowd sizes at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago in August, will tour a series of battleground states to campaign for Kamala Harris in the coming weeks, starting with Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Thursday October 10.

“Kamala Harris won’t be focused on her problems, she’ll be focused on yours,” Obama told the DNC this summer.

“A president, she won’t just cater to her own supporters and punish those who refuse to kiss the ring or bend the knee. She’ll work on behalf of every American. That’s who Kamala is.”

Funding to clean up the devastating Hurricane Helene, which has killed over 200 people, is desperately needed now, President Joe Biden said on Thursday – and he has still not ruled out ordering Congress to a special session to make it happen.

The President, who spent the day touring storm damage in Florida and Georgia, rejected House Speaker Mike Johnson’s suggestion that a delay until the post-election period could be acceptable rather than call Congress back into session from their pre-election recess.

“We can’t wait,” Biden said. “People need help now.”

Andrew Feinberg reports.

The likes of Stephanie Ruhle and Chris Hayes have been picking up on the Republican presidential nominee’s breathtaking string of lies in Saginaw yesterday when he baselessly accused the Biden administration of embezzling FEMA funding to bankroll a non-existent influx of illegal immigrants to steal the election for Kamala Harris in November, which is simply not something that’s happening.

“Professional conservatives”, you say?

This is how Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham are covering it.

Liz Cheney will be part of another campaign event for Kamala Harris next week, this time a “fireside chat” in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, also featuring Alyssa Farah Griffin, Cassidy Hutchinson and Sarah Matthews, former Trump administration aides all, CNN reports.

Cheney, Hutchinson and Matthews have formally endorsed Harris but Griffin, a co-host on ABC’s The View, has yet to do so, but often backs the Democrat’s point of view on that show.

The October 9 event will be hosted by activist group Democracy First in one of the all-important “collar counties” outside Philadelphia in an absolutely vital swing state.

A source told CNN the quartet will “offer a warning about the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy and the rule of law,” making the case about “the need for independents, moderates, and Republicans to stop him from getting back in office.”

Asked during an interview with Fox News’s Bill Melugin yesterday about his wife Melania’s decision to champion women’s rights in her new memoir, Trump had this to say:

“We spoke about it. And I said, you have to write what you believe. I’m not going to tell what you to do. You have to write what you believe.

“She’s very beloved.

“But I said you have to stick with your heart. I’ve said that to everybody, you have to go with your heart.”

Here’s Katie Hawkinson on the rather less breezy reaction to the first lady’s stance from anti-abortion conservatives, who have called her “wrong” and even “disgusting”.

The Republican presidential nominee was in Saginaw yesterday where he very much played the hits, repeating his lie about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, and his false claims that the Biden administration is not helping victims of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina.

Just a day after Jack Smith’s latest damning court filing on his 2020 election interference plot, Trump was back insisting the vote was “rigged” and, interestingly, appeared to have a problem drawing a crowd, which he will not like seeing pointed out.

We were also treated to baseless threats of a Second Great Depression, his old riff about people not being able to watch TV because it’s not windy out (nine years later and he STILL doesn’t understand the principle of battery power storage).

There was also more praise for Elon Musk and further unwise talk about his delight in stiffing contractors.

The rock legend has formally endorsed Kamala Harris for president in an Instagram video, adding that Donald Trump’s “disdain” for the US Constitution should “disqualify him from the office of president ever again.”

The superstar, 75, is a longtime Democrat who has backed Joe Biden and Barack Obama in the past.

He warned in his post that Trump is “the most dangerous candidate for president in my lifetime”.

Kevin EG Perry has more from The Boss.

This was the Republican nominee’s inevitable, angry response to the former Wyoming representative’s appearance with Harris in Ripon – you know that if she’d endorsed him, he’d be out there posting about how wonderful she is.