Harris continues media blitz with look on The View: Live
Vice president Kamala Harris continued her media blitz on Tuesday by appearing on ABC’s The View , being interviewed at length on Howard Stern’s radio show, and guesting on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
The attention seems to be paying off. The Democrat has taken a three-point lead in the latest New York Times/ Siena College national poll — the first time she has pulled ahead of Donald Trump in that survey.
One of Harris’s recent appearances, on the Call Her Daddy podcast, led to a mini-scandal for Republican senator John Kennedy, who was pilloried online for a comment about the interview which also suggested tampons are luxuries.
Meanwhile, former president Trump reportedly sent Vladimir Putin Covid-19 test kits at the height of the pandemic, according to a new book by veteran Watergate journalist Bob Woodward.
Elsewhere on the political front, federal officials say they’ve foiled an ISIS-inspired Election Day threat.
And finally, Melania Trump marked the release of her memoir with a rare live interview on The Five on Fox News, shortly after her husband attacked the network on Truth Social.
Report: Jan 6 prisoners Trump has vowed to free are becoming more radicalized inside jail
Prisoners charged with and convicted of crimes related to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, are reportedly growing more radical by being held together in a Washington, D.C., a harbinger of the dark mood around the 2024 election as top Republicans continue to deny or avoid the fact Trump lost the 2020 election and the former president himself has mused publicly in recent days that his supporters want him to “go after” his enemies.
Josh Marcus has the story.
Trump reportedly used wrong gender for Maine governor during rambling call
“He wants to resettle 75,000 migrants into Maine. That’s only because [Biden and Harris] told him to do so,” Trump said on the call, according to a recording provided to the paper.
Here’s what Mills had to say in response.
Trump’s war on ‘60 Minutes’ continues
Donald Trump is reportedly demanding 60 Minutes release an “unedited” transcript of its recent interview with Kamala Harris.
The former president has been fueding with the mainstay news program, after he reportedly dropped out of a planned election special interview because producers planned to fact-check his claims.
The Trump campaign, for its part, has claimed it never confirmed the interview, and Donald Trump has said he took issue with the questions from a 2020 interview he had on the show.
For more details, here’s Io Dodds’s recent piece on the matter.
Trump falsely takes full credit for ‘$35 insulin’
In a Truth Social post on Tuesday, Donald Trump falsley claimed Kamala Harris is lying about helping secure low-cost insulin for seniors.
“I was the one who got the $35 Insulin, not Lyin’ Kamala,” Trump wrote. “I’ve never seen a group that lies so much.”
As the KFF health thinktank notes in a recent fact-check, both the Trump and Biden administration extended cost-protections on insulin for seniors using Medicare, with a more wide-reaching version of the initiative taking place under the current administration.
Feds foil alleged Election Day attack
Federal prosecutors have accused a 27-year-old Afghan citizen of conspiring with ISIS and stockpiling weapons to launch an Election Day attack in the US.
Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was allegedly planning to liquidate his family’s assets and sell his family’s home, resettle family members overseas, and buy up AK-47 rifles and ammunition “to stage a violent attack in the United States in the name of and on behalf of ISIS,” according to court documents unsealed on Tuesday.
According to a criminal complaint, Tawhedi and a co-conspirator, who is a minor, met with an FBI informant in Oklahoma to buy two AK-47s, 10 magazines and 500 rounds of ammunition.
Alex Woodward reports.
Republican senator slammed for implying tampons are a luxury
Senator John Kennedy voiced his opinion on the necessity of women’s sanitary products during an appearance on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Monday. He was responding to Harris’s appearance on Alex Cooper’s mega-popular podcast over the weekend.
“The Vice President goes on some show called Call Her Daddy or Call Your Daddy or Who’s Your Daddy or something — Call Me Daddy, I like Who’s Your Daddy better — and among other things, she’s talking about tampons,” the senator said.
Call Her Daddy is the second most popular podcast on Spotify, boasting millions of listeners and second only to the Joe Rogan Experience. It’s unclear why the senator appeared surprised that women’s health was a topic of conversation between two women on a podcast whose audience is largely women.
Graig Graziosi has the story.
Elon Musk has no regrets over Kamala Harris assassination post
Joe Sommerlad has the story.
DeSantis lashes out at Harris as they spar over Hurricane Milton: ‘It’s not about you Kamala!’
“We’ve been on emergency footing around the clock, two weeks straight,” DeSantis told Fox News on Tuesday. “That’s been my sole focus. My focus has not been on dealing with Kamala Harris. I saw the news report. I didn’t know she tried to contact me. It’s not about you, Kamala. It’s about the people of Florida.”
Josh Marcus reports.
What really happened during Melania Trump’s infamous hand swatting incident
Melania Trump has addressed the infamous moment she appeared to swat Donald Trump away when he tried to hold her hand in public.
During a visit to Tel Aviv in May 2017, the then-first lady was caught on camera batting her husband’s hand away while they walked along the red carpet.
The incident hit headlines and led to widespread speculation about the state of their marriage.
Rhian Lubin reports on what the former first lady claims happened.
Trump has no chance of winning these blue states… so why is he campaigning there?
Ariana Baio takes a look at what’s happening.
Source: independent.co.uk