Harris readies for key interview with Fox News as she takes to conservative airwaves in latest media push: Live

Late-night TV host Stephen Colbert mocked Donald Trump’s recent dance-filled town hall- as the comedian put on aviator sunglasses and impersonated Joe Biden’s reaction to the odd event.

Colbert, host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, made a series of jokes Tuesday night about Trump’s Monday town hall. where he danced for more than 30 minutes after two attendees had a medical emergency.

Katie Hawkinson has the story.

Vice President Kamala Harris leads former President Donald Trump by 48 per cent to 45 per cent among registered voters in the latest Economist/YouGov poll, little changed from recent weeks.

Harris leads by four points among likely voters — those who either have voted, say they definitely will vote, or both say they will probably vote and also have voted in either 2020 or 2022.

Nearly all supporters of Harris (97 per cent) and Trump (98 per cent) believe their minds will not change before election day.

Slightly more registered voters say they think Harris will win than say they think Trump will (41 per cent to 37 per cent).

About two-thirds of both Democrats and Republicans say they are very or extremely enthusiastic about voting for president.

Harris leads by 51 per cent to 47 per cent among registered voters choosing only between her and Trump; two per cent say they prefer both equally.

Among likely voters, Harris leads among college graduates, women, and Black and Hispanic Americans; Trump leads among non-college graduates, men, and white Americans.

The poll was conducted between October 12-15, 2024 and 1,624 US adult citizens were surveyed.

Read the full poll results here

A Las Vegas man who was arrested with two firearms outside a Trump rally in California last weekend insists he was wrongly portrayed as a would-be assassin by the county sheriff, accusing the lawman of cobbling together an entirely phony narrative in a misplaced bid for glory.

Vem Miller says Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco — a dedicated Trumper who is himself under investigation by California Attorney General Rob Bonta over allegations of widespread civil rights violations — “intentionally, maliciously and with a blatant disregard for the truth, wanted to create a narrative so as to be viewed as a ‘heroic’ Sheriff who saved Presidential candidate Trump from a third assassination attempt,” according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.

Here’s Justin Rohrlich with the full story.

GEORGIA: Trump 52%, Harris 45%, other candidates 2%

NORTH CAROLINA: Harris 49%, Trump 47%, other candidates 1%

NC GOVERNOR RACE: Stein 52%, Robinson 40%, other candidates 4%

In the final weeks of the 2024 presidential race, a snapshot of the state of the race in the key Southeastern swing states of Georgia and North Carolina shows different pictures. In Georgia, former President Donald Trump holds a lead over Vice President Kamala Harris, while in North Carolina Harris is on the upside of a race that is too close to call, according to Quinnipiac University polls of likely voters in each of the two states released today.

“It was an enjoyable and memorable evening,” Melania Trump said reflecting on the photo.

Ariana Baio reports.

Perhaps he watched Kamala Harris’s audio town hall with Charlamagne Tha God, but Donald Trump is now claiming that if the vice president “gets 4 more years” the Black community will lose “its political power forever because their neighborhoods will all be majority migrant”.

The former president wrote on Truth Social this afternoon:

Kamala’s support is collapsing with Black voters. Inflation is hell. Worse, their cities are being used as illegal alien dumping grounds. If Kamala gets 4 more years, the Black Community loses its political power forever because their neighborhoods will all be majority migrant.

Which sounds like something of a fear-mongering knee-jerk statement given the friendly nature of Harris’s appearance and the comprehensive and thoughtful nature of her answers to questions from the community.

Trump followed that up by posting:

I hope everyone listened yesterday as Bloomberg interviewed me. For over a year, I’ve said China is building giant plants in Mexico. Since they heard about the Tariffs, all work has STOPPED on those plants. I saved Michigan autoworkers. Detroit will thrive if I’m elected!

Here’s CNN’s Daniel Dale with a fact check of his specific remarks in Chicago on Tuesday:

Trump told a story about how he saved US jobs with a tariff threat that got John Deere to declare “yesterday” that it’s killing a plan to move some production to Mexico.

Except there was no yesterday declaration, and Deere says it isn’t killing the plan.

And here’s Gustaf Kilander’s report on part of Trump’s contentious conversation with Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait:

An abortion rights campaign in Florida is suing Ron DeSantis’s administration for his “months-long crusade” to derail an upcoming ballot measure that would sink his anti-abortion agenda.

A federal lawsuit filed in Florida on Wednesday accuses state health officials of violating Floridians Protecting Freedom’s First Amendment rights with “coercive” threats to prosecute TV stations that aired its campaign ads — an “escalation” of DeSantis’s broader campaign against Amendment 4.

The administration has also deployed “election police” to question people who signed a petition in support of the amendment, accused petitioners of “fraud,” and launched taxpayer-funded ads and a website accusing the campaign of spreading “lies” about abortion care.

Alex Woodward has the details.

Donald Trump had “no sense of who he was in front of or who he was talking to” when he made a shocking slur about his Democratic rival Kamala Harris during a recent dinner for billionaire donors in New York, according to New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman.

Joe Sommerlad reports.