Harris gets testy to start Fox interview as she is questioned about the border: Live

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.

Donald Trump bears responsibility for the attacks on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, according to a filing from Jack Smith in the election interference case against the former president.

Trump is “incorrect” to argue that he is not legally responsible for the attack, according to Smith, who points to his lengthy indictment and evidence that he says “plainly” shows that the former president summoned his supporters to Washington, DC, and directed them to march to the Capitol as part of a pressure campaign to overturn 2020’s election results.

He “willfully caused his supporters to obstruct and attempt to obstruct” a joint session of Congress, then gave them a “false hope” that Vice President Mike Pence would change the outcome, according to Wednesday’s filing.

Read Alex Woodward’s full report.

With the 2024 general election just three weeks out, Vice President Kamala Harris continued her aggressive media blitz as she defended her record and economic plans while assailing Donald Trump as an un-American “fascist” who isn’t fit to serve a second term in the White House.

Harris, who was in Detroit for a series of campaign appearances, took to the airwaves for an hour-long town hall hosted by popular radio host Charlamagne Tha God.

While much of the interview was tame, Harris took a tougher line than she has in many of her public appearances when talking about her rival, as she agreed with the host when he described Trump’s platform as “fascism.”

“Yes, we can say that,” she said.

Andrew Feinberg reports.

Anna Manasco, a Trump-appointed judge, has blocked Alabama’s attempts to purge hundreds of voters from the rolls weeks before Election Day.

The judge wrote: “For decades, federal law has given states a hard deadline to complete systematic purges of ineligible persons from voter rolls: no later than ninety days before a federal election. This year, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen blew the deadline when he announced a purge program to begin eighty-four days before the 2024 General Election, later admitted that his purge list included thousands of United States citizens (in addition to far fewer noncitizens, who are ineligible to vote), and in any event, referred everyone on the purge list to the Alabama Attorney General for criminal investigation.”

She orders Secretary Allen he has three days to issue guidance to county registrars in all sixty-seven counties to immediately restore to active status the voter registration records of registrants inactivated as part of the program, so long as those individuals are legally eligible to vote or have not requested to be removed.

Read the full ruling here.

Here’s Alex Woodward’s report on the background of the case and how Donald Trump and Republicans are more widely preparing their excuse for why they might have lost the election: