Trump and Melania attend Al Smith dinner together as former president rips Harris’s no-show: Live

Here’s a look at where the key players will be today.

• Kamala Harris is touring Wisconsin, stopping off in Milwaukee, La Crosse and Green Bay.
• Her running mate Tim Walz will be in Durham and Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
• Donald Trump will meanwhile attend the 79th Alfred E Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York, a Catholic gala emceed by comedian Jim Gaffigan (who has been playing Walz on Saturday Night Live of late). Trump was busy last month rebuking Harris for not attending but made waves himself at the same event in 2016 by attacking rival Hillary Clinton during his remarks, which was not exactly in the spirit of the occasion.
• His running mate JD Vance will be in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, keeping up the pressure campaign on the swing states.
• Trump cheerleader Elon Musk will also be continuing his series of “talks” in the same state.

The Republican also took part in a pre-taped Fox event with Harris Faulkner yesterday in which he made the embarrassing admission that he had to ask the “young, fantastically attractive” Alabama Senator Katie Britt (yuck) what IVF was before deciding whether he was for or against it, despite outrageously pronouncing himself the “father” of that science earlier this week.

For good measure, here’s Kamala’s two-word assessment of his IVF babble, by the way.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported last night that Trump is again attempting to silence the adult film star Stormy Daniels over the affair she alleges she had with him in 2006, the subject of his recent hush money trial, at which he was found guilty on all 34 counts relating to the falsification of business records by a New York jury in May.

Here’s more from James Liddell.

Before Harris appeared on Fox, Trump had addressed Latino voters during a Florida  hall airing on Univision.

The Republican presidential nominee was given a pretty rough ride by an audience asking some superb questions, not least Tampa construction worker Ramiro Gonzalez, who took the former president to task over January 6, his mishandling of the coronavirus and the huge number of former members of his administration who will not now endorse him.

Just look at the reaction Trump’s insistence that Jan 6 was “a day of love” and not a deadly attempt to overthrow the government drew from these entirely unimpressed ladies in the audience.

Trump also gave desperate and unconvincing answers on gun control and climate change and was backed into a corner on his lie about Haitian migrants eating dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio.

“This was just reported,” he said when asked about the latter claim.

“I was just saying what was reported, that’s been reported, and eating other things, too, that they’re not supposed to be.”

Here’s more from Alex Woodward.

Having predicted in advance that Baier would be “weak and soft” on Harris, Trump was full of praise for the conservative saying he had done a “great job” and in fact been “tough but very fair”.

Uh huh.

A crowing Trump again repeated his opinion that Harris is “totally incompetent” and in need of a psychological exam  – this just 24 hours after his “Ave Maria” dance party in Pennsylvania, essentially an off-Broadway nervous breakdown.

His not very bright and seldom-hugged middle son Eric was also on the same network last night to insist the VP had given a poor showing (what else would he say?).

Here’s Baier himself giving a more cautious assessment of their encounter.

Good morning!

Kamala Harris sat down for her first formal interview with Fox News on Wednesday and anchor Bret Baier went in hard on the Vice President over the Biden administration’s record on illegal immigration.

The interview, which lasted 27 minutes, included several heated exchanges between the Democratic nominee and the the conservative, the pair frequently talking over each other, with Harris much more animated than she has appeared in many of her recent media appearances with friendlier outlets.

Baier tried to take the Democrat to task over the “cover up” of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and how she might hope to differentiate herself from his presidency.

Harris, in turn, hit back on the threat Donald Trump poses and by taking Baier to task for not running a clip of the Republican nominee threatening to send in the military to tackle “the enemy within”, meaning America’s left-wing politicial activists.

Here’s Katie Hawkinson’s report.

Check out The Independent’s analysis of the latest national polls:

The owner of the Kansas City Chiefs said Wednesday that he has no issue with kicker Harrison Butker forming a political action committee designed to encourage Christians to vote for what the PAC describes as “traditional values.”

Butker announced his UPRIGHT PAC last weekend, during the Chiefs’ bye, in a series of postings on social media.

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Donald Trump has said he likes Mark Zuckerberg “much better now” that he is “staying out of the election.”

The Republican candidate, who has previously referred to Facebook as “a true enemy of the people,” appears to be warming up to the billionaire since he has pulled back from politics.

“I actually believe he’s staying out of the election, which is nice,” Trump told Barstool Sports’s podcast Bussin’ With The Boys in an episode released on Tuesday.

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