Kamala Harris has taken a slim three-point lead over election rival Donald Trump in the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, which puts her ahead of the Republican by 46 percent to 43 percent.
The vice president is in Washington, DC, today recording interviews with NBC and Telemundo. On the campaign trail, former president Barack Obama will join her running mate Tim Walz in Wisconsin and later appear with rapper Eminem in Detroit, Michigan. On Thursday, rock legend Bruce Springsteen will join Harris and Obama in Atlanta.
Trump called her “lazy as hell” for what he perceived as her absence from the campaign trail during a surreal roundtable in pursuit of the Latino vote at his golf club in Miami. The rambling, lie-filled session concluded with a group prayer during which people laid their hands on the former president before the traditional playout music, “YMCA”.
Later, Trump will hold a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina to shore up the vote in a state Democrats have not won since 2008 but that could be in play.
Trump was on the campaign trail in the hurricane-hit state on Monday, where he again pushed a false conspiracy that the government has been giving FEMA disaster relief funding to illegal migrants.
Harris has 11-points lead on Trump in favorability
51 percent of registered voters say they have a favorable view of Harris, while 40 percent say they have a favorable view of Trump, the new poll released Monday reveals.
Katie Hawkinson has the full details.
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Trump to record podcast interview with Joe Rogan, report says
Politico reports that former president Donald Trump is expected to record an interview with Joe Rogan on Friday.
The interview will take place at Rogan’s podcasting studio in Austin, Texas, according to a person familiar with the plans and granted anonymity to discuss the matter.
Rogan has one of the most-listened-to podcasts in the nation with 14 million followers on Spotify. He and Trump have a complicated relationship in which the former president has attacked him on Truth Social for calling politicians, except for RFK Jr, “manipulative”. They have also greeted each other on friendly terms at UFC events at which Rogan commentates.
Kamala Harris is reported to be in talks to also appear on Rogan’s podcast.
Republican strategist’s surprising insights on Trump v Harris: ‘He was pathetic and he could still win’
Andrew Feinberg writes:
Surrounded by a group of British high school students and a small group of reporters he’d invited to his palatial condominium in northwest Washington, DC, one of the country’s foremost strategists admitted the race was still too close for him to call.
With early voting underway and exactly two weeks left until Americans cast ballots to determine the next president of the United States, Frank Luntz pointed out that this election’s polls consistently fall within the margin for error. Anyone making predictions right now, he added, is a complete fool.
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Trump virtual town hall with RFK Jr canceled
Donald Trump was scheduled to appear at a virtual town hall with Robert F Kennedy Jr and former Democratic Rep Tulsi Gabbard today at 2pm but it has been canceled.
Organizers say the reason was “changes in Trump’s schedule” according to Politico.
This is the most recent event cancellation in Trump’s campaign schedule of late. He has pulled out of interviews with The Shade Room, 60 Minutes, NBC, and CNBC.
Trump’s team is pushing back against a claim that he is canceling scheduled interviews because he is “exhausted”, as Graig Graziosi reports.
Report: Women in states with bans are getting abortions at similar rates as under Roe
Women living in states with abortion bans obtained the procedure in the second half of 2023 at about the same rate as before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to a report released Tuesday.
Women did so by traveling out of state or by having prescription abortion pills mailed to them, according to the #WeCount report from the Society of Family Planning, which advocates for abortion access.
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Laura Loomer claims she is ‘blacker’ than Kamala Harris
Trump confidant and far-right agitator Laura Loomer has claimed that she’s “blacker” than Vice President Kamala Harris.
On October 18, Loomer appeared on Rumble on her program Loomer Unleashed, during which she claimed that Harris had “rolled out more of her fake accents.”
Gustaf Kilander reports.
Full story: Eminem ‘to introduce Obama’ at Harris rally in Detroit
Roisin O’Connor reports.
AOC calls out Trump and Musk for ‘laughing at’ working people
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez accused Donald Trump and Elon Musk of “laughing at” working people with their behaviour during their US election campaigns. The New York Representative discussed the X owner’s and Tesla CEO’s campaign group America PAC which calls on voters in seven swing states to sign a petition. Every day until 5 November, one signatory is selected randomly to win $1m. She also criticised the Republican nominee and former president for being filmed working in a McDonald’s kitchen. AOC told a United Auto Workers (UAW) event in Pennsylvania on Monday, 21 October: “They’re not trying to empathise with us. They are making fun of us.”
Source: independent.co.uk