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

A federal judge in Alabama moved yesterday to block the state from implementing a mass purge of voter registrations just weeks before Election Day, landing a major blow to Republican-led challenges to voter eligibility.

A preliminary injunction – issued on Wednesday by Donald Trump-appointed Judge Anna Manasco – arrived days after the Department of Justice and civil rights groups filed lawsuits to stop the state from stripping voter registrations for more than 3,200 people.

Alabama’s Republican Secretary of State Wes Allen claimed that those voters were “issued non-citizen identification numbers,” and are therefore ineligible to cast a ballot.

But the lawsuits uncovered that voting-eligible citizens also ended up on that list, joining thousands of people across the country who were targeted for removal from voter databases in an effort that critics fear is a concerted mass disenfranchisement campaign to suppress turnout this fall.

Alex Woodward has more.

This isn’t a great look for a democracy is it?

Kelly Rissman reports.

We saw how Trump reacted to Bret Baier’s Kamala interview earlier.

Here’s what a few ex-Fox producers (and an ex-anchor!) had to say about the host’s performance.

CNN media pundit Brian Stelter meanwhile referred to the network’s studio as “a Trump field office” and suggested that Harris had used the occasion to mount a proxy debate in light of Trump’s refusal to face her again, casting Baier as his “surrogate”.

Stelter also pointed out the tell-tale emphasis on immigration over abortion in Baier’s line of questioning.

Meanwhile, several top Democratic insiders have been noting how well she did in the circumstances.

This is what Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong had to say on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning about Trump’s insane Truth Social post about their new film.

Greg Evans has this one.

GOP establishment members are becoming increasingly concerned that Trump is spending more time airing personal grievances and obsessions than talking about Harris’s policies.

Polling suggests that Trump has an advantage over Harris in many key policy areas, such as the economy, but Marc Short, former chief of staff to Mike Pence during his time as VP, said he needs to remind voters of his positions.

“He can make an appeal that gets away from personality and appeals to people who may not like him but do like his policies,” he told The Washington Post.

“Staying focused on the issues does that; if you’re commenting on other things, it I think can remind reluctant voters why they have concerns.”

Trump had an opportunity to do just that during a town hall event in Oaks, Pennsylvania, on Monday night.

Instead, after taking a few softball questions, the Republican presidential nominee spent almost 40 minutes swaying to music on the stage.

Gustaf Kilander has more.

Rhian Lubin has more on the Fox man’s post-match comments on his encounter with Harris yesterday.

In an attempt to boost Trump’s record on healthcare, his running mate touted his family members obtaining private insurance for the first time under the former president’s administration.

However, he failed to mention a key fact – it was through the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.

Here’s Ariana Baio’s report.