Harris rallies with Cheney at birthplace of the GOP after Trump doubled down on election lies: Live

Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign has announced the launch of Wisconsin Republicans for Harris ahead of her visit to the state with former GOP rep Liz Cheney.

More than 20 Republicans from across the state lead the group and write in an open letter: “Donald Trump does not align with Wisconsin values. To ensure our democracy and our economy remain strong for another four years, we must elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to the White House.”

Donald Trump laughed at his former attorney Sidney Powell over her “crazy” 2020 election conspiracies and compared them to something from Star Trek, according to the new legal filing submitted by special counsel Jack Smith in the former president’s federal election interference case.

New details about the inner workings of Trump’s alleged plot to overturn the 2020 election were revealed in the bombshell document, unsealed on Wednesday, including how even the former president thought Powell had appeared “unhinged” at a now infamous November 2020 press conference.

Rhian Lubin has the story.

Eric Garcia writes:

As the vice presidential debate wore on and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz found his feet, hitting Republican Senator JD Vance more and more, a gathering of Democrats just outside of Washington DC shifted from silent to celebratory.

Democrats and Kamala Harris supporters, many of them military veterans, had descended on the home of Micaela Pond in Arlington, Virginia, to watch what is likely to be the final face-to-face clash between the two presidential campaigns before voters head to the polls.

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National correspondent for NewsNation’s Cuomo, Ali Bradley, secured the first interview with Donald Trump following the unsealing of Jack Smith’s latest filing in the election interference case.

The former president said about the special counsel: “He's a deranged person. I call him deranged Jack Smith. He just lost the big documents case. That was the biggest of them all. They said the documents case and they said that was the toughest of them all. Let me tell you, we just won it. And it was won strongly and completely. And it was a total victory in Florida. And he is a person who is trying and he works for Kamala and he works for Joe. This was a weaponization of government, and that's why it was released 30 days before the election. And it's nothing new in there, by the way. Nothing new.”

The Mar-a-Lago classified documents case was dismissed by a judge appointed by the former president and did not make it to trial. Smith does not work for Vice President Kamala Harris, nor President Joe Biden.

Here’s Alex Woodward’s report on what we learned from Smith’s new filing.

While Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris’s presidential bid captured the world’s attention, Robert F Kennedy Jr’s backing of Donald Trump actually had a greater impact on the outcome of the 2024 election, according to a top pollster.

Speaking on his Risky Business podcast, Nate Silver – founder and former editor-in-chief of data-driven news outlet FiveThirtyEight – described RFK Jr’s endorsement the “most important” of the race so far.

James Liddell reports.

In his latest post on Truth Social, Donald Trump continues to protest his innocence in reaction to what has come to light in the new filing made by Jack Smith in the 2020 election subversion case against the former president.

He also accuses the Justice Department of election interference.

Here’s what Trump posted:

FOR 60 DAYS PRIOR TO AN ELECTION, THE DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE IS SUPPOSED TO DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THAT WOULD TAINT OR INTERFERE WITH SAID ELECTION. THEY DISOBEYED THEIR OWN RULE IN FAVOR OF COMPLETE AND TOTAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE. I DID NOTHING WRONG, THEY DID! THE CASE IS A SCAM, JUST LIKE ALL OF THE OTHERS, INCLUDING THE DOCUMENTS CASE, WHICH WAS DISMISSED!

JD Vance’s debate performance was “hated by hardcore MAGA social media,” according to a top former Republican strategist.

Former GOP operative and author Stuart Stevens said that Donald Trump’s running mate was on a “personal rehabilitation campaign aimed at 2028” in the debate against Tim Walz on Tuesday night – something he claims did not go down well with the MAGA movement.

“Dive into hard core MAGA social media. A lot of them hated Vance’s debate. They wanted Vance to expose Harris as the devil,” Stevens said in a post on X.

“Instead he was on a personal rehabilitation campaign aimed at 2028.”

Rhian Lubin reports.

CNN reports that when the network reached out to Melania Trump’s book publisher to request an interview with the former first lady about the publication of her memoir they were sent an NDA agreement with the stipulation that a “licensing fee” for the sitdown would cost $250,000.

The network did not sign the agreement and the publisher has said the payment demand was sent by mistake.

“Neither Melania nor anyone from her team knew anything about the NDA and the document that was sent reflected an internal miscommunication,” Tony Lyons, the president and publisher of Skyhorse, told CNN in a statement. “Had CNN signed an NDA, in the normal course of business, we would have approached Melania’s team to discuss [specifics of the interview].”