US Election 2024: ‘Raising her rhetoric’ Trump hits back after Kamala Harris calls him a ‘fascist’

Vice President Kamala Harris, who was introduced to Georgians by former President Barack Obama, said that his 2008 presidential campaign “energized and inspired” millions of Americans.

Harris added by saying that they were inspired not only by his message but by how he leads, seeking to unite rather than separate us.

“Your friendship and your faith in me — and in our campaign — means the world. Thank you, Mr. President,” Harris told Obama.

Billionaire Elon Musk gave $10 million to Senate Leadership Fund, which is the main super PAC supporting the Senate Republicans on October 1, according to the campaign filing.

Amid the allegations of “illegal immigration”, the former US President Donald Trump called the United States a “garbage can for the world” as he campaigned against illegal immigration at a campaign rally in Arizona on Thursday.

“We’re a dumping ground. We’re like, we’re like a garbage can for the world. That’s what’s happened. That’s what’s happened to our — We’re like a garbage can,” Trump said.

“You know, it’s the first time I’ve ever said that. And every time I come up and talk about what they’ve done to our country I get angry and angrier. First time I’ve ever said garbage can. But you know what? It’s a very accurate description,” Trump further added.

Colorado authorities are investigating an incident in which at least 12 mail ballots appear to have been intercepted before reaching voters intended to receive them, according to a statement from the state's top elections official on Thursday. The intercepted ballots for the Nov. 5 election were filled out and mailed to the county clerk in Mesa County, in the western part of the state, according to the Colorado secretary of state's office.

It did not say whether they were marked for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Democrat nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris or some other candidate. The apparent ballot fraud scheme was discovered after some affected voters received notifications either that their ballots had been processed or needed to be corrected because of a discrepancy with their signature, according to the statement. Several of the affected voters contacted the county clerk's office to report the issue. The county district attorney's office is investigating.

“Colorado's elections are safe and secure. This attempt at fraud was found and investigated quickly because of all the trailblazing processes and tools Colorado has in place like signature verification, ballot tracking and the curing process," Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said in the statement. Trump and his allies have consistently spread unfounded claims that mail ballots are vulnerable to fraud. Ahead of this election, he has urged supporters to cast ballots early if they chose, but has continued to suggest that mail ballots are untrustworthy. A former Mesa County clerk early this month was sentenced to nine years in prison for illegally tampering with voting machines after the 2020 election.

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Over 29 million pre-election ballots have been cast with around 10 days to go for the Election Day, according to the data compiled from 47 states.

Republicans have narrowed their previous statistics of early voting and Democrats are reeling behind. According to the data of 26 states, registered Republicans cast 32% of votes, which is an increase from 27% in 2020.

In comparison to 2020 US Presidential elections, the Democrats have this time voted 42% in the early voting schedule while four years ago, this number stood at 47%.

Former President Donald Trump has said that if he is reelected, he would be open to pardon President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden from federal felony gun charges.

Trump was asked the question by Hugh Hewitt, a conservative radio show host about Hunter Biden, who was convicted earlier on federal gun charges.

“Unlike Joe Biden, despite what they’ve done to me, where they’ve gone after me so viciously, despite what — and Hunter’s a bad boy. There’s no question about it. He’s been a bad boy. All you have to do is see the laptop from hell. But I happen to think it’s very bad for our country,” Trump said.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, during a campaign in Greenville, North Carolina, called Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump “old as hell”.

Walz referred to reports that Trump canceled some of his interviews allegedly due to exhaustion and then described him as "old as hell."

“He’s not near as exhausted as we are. We’re tired of it. We’re tired of the chaos. We’re tired of the meanness. We’re tired of the hate,” Walz said.

Democratic congressional candidates have shifted their pitch on immigration in the final weeks of the 2024 campaign, promising more action to boost border security as they seek to make up ground on an issue where voters favor Republicans. They're talking about it far more in campaign TV ads over the past seven weeks, when almost 15% of pro-Democratic messages have addressed immigration or border security, up sharply from the 3% share they represented in the final weeks of the 2022 midterm campaign, according to new data released on Thursday by the Wesleyan Media Project, a university cohort that analyzes political TV ads.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll completed this week showed that 65% of registered voters believe the U.S. is on the wrong track on immigration policy, with voters favoring Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's hardline approach to the issue over Democratic rival Kamala Harris' by 48% to 35%. Rhetoric from Democrats is now zeroing in on border security rather than primarily promoting pathways to citizenship as in the past, while Republicans lay responsibility for an increase in illegal immigration at Democrats' feet.

Representative Tom Suozzi -- a Democrat who successfully campaigned on immigration in his February special election for the New York seat vacated by George Santos' resignation -- said addressing the issue head on is critical for Democratic candidates.
"I will talk to anybody that will listen for the need for us to embrace the issue of securing the border," Suozzi said in an interview. Effective candidates, he said, need to address "what the people are concerned about."

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The Arizona authorities have arrested a person suspected to be involved in a fire related incident of mailbox outside the Phoenix post office, which has resulted into the damage of electoral ballots.

In a post on X, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego detailed about the incident and thanked the police for arresting the individual involved.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz rallied college Democrats in a visit to Duke University’s campus on Thursday, and stressed the importance of November’s election by highlighting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s “tendencies of totalitarianism” and stating that Vice President Kamala Harris is the better candidate to combat the climate crisis.

In a statement at the university, Walz said, “This is a time when a lot of people need to be reminded what’s at stake here, and it’s not about putting fear in. It couldn’t be clearer the difference in this. You’ve witnessed it on the stage. As Donald Trump descends into madness, Kamala Harris is out last night at a town hall, taking up questions, answering the question,” as quoted by CNN.

The Republicans have appealed a ruling by a Georgia judge which stated that officials cannot refuse to certify 2024 election results as the officials are subject to a “mandatory fixed obligation” during the elections in the battleground states.

Georgia’s Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney in a decision last week stated that “officials cannot refuse to certify or abstain from certifying election results under any circumstance,” which came as a setback for conservatives as the results now cannot be rejected based on a suspicion of fraud or abuse.

The County election officials have a statutory deadline to certify the results by November 12 this time around.

The Democratic chair of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and a prominent Democratic congressman asked the U.S. attorney general on Thursday to appoint a special counsel to investigate whether Jared Kushner, former President Donald Trump's son-in-law, was functioning as an unregistered foreign agent for Saudi Arabia, according to a letter from the lawmakers.

The letter from U.S. Senator Ron Wyden and U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin cited an Oct. 4 Reuters report that revealed that Kushner on multiple occasions had discussed U.S.-Saudi diplomacy concerning Israel with Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, since leaving government. "This revelation is deeply disturbing, as Mr. Kushner appears to be influencing U.S. foreign policy by acting as a political consultant to the Saudi government while also accepting their money," Wyden and Raskin wrote in the eight-page letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland. The letter has not been previously reported.

"Mr. Kushner's proximity to President Trump and the potential for political interference warrants the appointment of a Special Counsel," the letter added. Saudi Arabia has invested $2 billion into a private equity fund, Affinity Partners, that Kushner, who was a top adviser on the Middle East during Trump's administration, founded in 2021 after leaving government, according to congressional investigators.

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Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin on next Wednesday, October 30, Trump’s campaign said.

The rally will be held in evening and it will come just six days before the anticipated Election Day (November 5) and that too in one of the key battleground states which might be one the deciding states in the race to White House.

Vice President Kamala Harris is set to get a family boost as her sister, Maya Harris, is all set to campaign for her in Tempe and Phoenix, Arizona today and tomorrow.

In an information provided by the Harris campaign, the Democratic nominee’s sister Maya will launch the Women for Harris-Walz Ballot Party today in Tempe.

Previously, Maya Harris has worked as a senior adviser on Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and also served as chair of Harris' 2020 presidential campaign during the primary cycle.

American singer James Taylor is all set to join the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz in North Carolina’s Wilmington today. James has endorsed Kamala Harris for the presidential bid.

According to reports, he is poised to perform at the rally alongside his wife Kim and his son Henry in Wilmington.

In a gathering of reporters in Philadelphia, Vice President Kamala Harris said that she hasn't voted yet and didn't get time to review the California ballot.

Two of Harris aides have said that there is a possibility that she would cast her vote by mail, but the plan could change as well. Harris is yet to detail about how she will vote on California’s Proposition 36. “I will keep you posted on that,” Harris added.

According to sources familiar with the development, pop star Beyonce is scheduled to appear along side Vice President and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris tomorrow in Houston, NBC News reported.

According to the report, Beyonce is all set to perform at the rally. Kamala Harris, who became the presidential nominee for the Democratic Party after President Joe Biden announced his departure, is leaving no stone unturned in securing a victory.

With 12 days to go for the US Presidential election, a new poll by CNBC shows that the race to the White House is going to be a neck to neck contest as Republican candidate Donald Trump is seen to be leading with a mere 2% support against Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

The new poll, conducted by CNBC, suggests that Trump has a lead when it comes to economic issues and Harris races ahead when the subject of character, including honesty and the fitness to be the president comes up.

In the CNBC’s “All-America Economic Survey”, Trump garnered support from 48% of registered voters while Harris received around 46% support, with a two point difference which is well within the survey’s margin of error at plus or minus 3.1

Democratic pollster Jay Campbell said, “Even as the data show inflation has theoretically been slowing down, it has become more important in people’s minds over the course of the last three quarters, not less important,” as reported by CNBC.

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday seized replied to President Biden’s remark on wanting to see his predecessor and Republican nominee behind bars. 

Biden told supporters on Tuesday at a local Democratic campaign office in New Hampshire that, “We got to lock him up,” and then quickly revised the remark to say he meant “politically lock him up," reported the New York Times. 

Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, leads his Democratic rival Kamala Harris on the U.S. economy, a Financial Times poll found on Thursday.

The poll found 44% of registered voters said they trusted Trump more to handle the economy versus 43% for Harris, FT reported.

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Among the legacy news outlets that have come up empty in their efforts to interview Kamala Harris and Donald Trump during the general election campaign: NPR, The New York Times, PBS and The Washington Post.

Yet Harris chose to meet with Alex Cooper for her “Call Her Daddy” podcast and talk a little Bay Area basketball with the fellows on “All the Smoke.” Trump rejected “60 Minutes,” but has hung out with the bros on the “Bussin' With the Boys” and “Flagrant.” During this truncated campaign, some of the traditional giants of journalism are being pushed aside. The growing popularity of podcasts and their ability to help candidates in a tight race target a specific sliver of the electorate is a big reason why.

There are certainly exceptions. Harris spoke to NBC News' Hallie Jackson on Tuesday and held a CNN town hall on Wednesday. But political columnist John Heilemann of Puck noticed what he called “an ancient, dying beast railing against the diminishment of its status and stature in the new world.” “The campaigns have their structures and their media plans are very carefully thought through, even if we don't agree with them,” said Sara Just, senior executive producer of the PBS “NewsHour.”

“Obviously, we hope they will do long, probing interviews with PBS.” Journalists consider that an important service. Said Eric Marrapodi, vice president for news programming at NPR: “I think Americans deserve to hear the candidates have their ideas challenged.' Big-media interviews used to be a staple for candidates

That sounds like a campaign staff's worst nightmare, infinite opportunities for their candidates to trip up and have an unplanned story dominate the news cycle. And to what end? Most legacy news organizations don't have the reach they used to, and their audience skews old.

For half a century, a “60 Minutes” interview near the election was considered a key stop for presidential candidates. But Trump shunned broadcast television's most influential news show this year, and has criticized the way its interview with Harris was edited.

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After Kamala Harris “Comrade Kamala Harris sees that she is losing, and losing badly, especially after stealing the Race from Crooked Joe Biden, so now she is increasingly raising her rhetoric, going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler, and anything else that comes to her warped mind. She is a Threat to Democracy, and not fit to be President of the United States — And her Polling so indicates!” Trump posted on Truth Social.

Former President Donald Trump at his Georgia rally on Thursday said the US “will spend more money on health care than any other nation” if he is reelected. 

Trump brought Robert F. Kennedy Jr on stage with him, whom he said is going to help him “make America healthy again”. 

“Under the Trump administration, we will get the toxic chemicals out of our food supply and we will make our children healthy again. We will spend more money on health care than any other nation,” he said.

RFK Jr, who ended his presidential campaign in August and endorsed the former president, is currently on Trump's transition team, CNN reported. 

Donald Trump pushed supporters at a lively rally Thursday in Georgia to vote for him — with an early ballot or in-person on Election Day — in a state that could be crucial in the presidential election, speaking at a filled-to-capacity event organized by conservative provocateur Charlie Kirk and the group he founded.

“Just vote — whichever way you want to do it,” Trump told the crowd, which broke into cheers and chants as Trump spoke.

The Trump campaign strategy of encouraging supporters to vote either early or on Election Day is a turn from when the former president blamed his 2020 election loss on mail ballots, and the number of people voting early hassurged this year. Over 1.9 million voters have cast early ballots in Georgia, and voters nationwide have returned a total of over 23 million advance ballots in the 2024 general election. That’s broken records in states across the country and is partly driven by Republicans embracing early voting at Trump’s direction.

Yet as the election contest with Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris enters its final days, allies like Kirk are searching for people who lean toward Trump but may still sit the election out when it comes to casting a ballot.

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With around ten days left for the US Presidential election, former President Donald Trump appears to be in a soup as a former model Stacey Williams has accused Trump of groping and sexually touching her in an incident dating back to 1993.

According to Williams, she met Trump through late sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein and alleges that the former president groped her in Trump Tower in 1993, which she believed was a “twisted game” between the two men.

At the CNN town hall, Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic presidential nominee said Thursday that if former President Donald Trump wins the White House a second time he will be “plotting his revenge” as she called out his repeated comments about the “enemy from within.”

“He’s talking about the American people. He’s talking about journalists, judges, non partisan election officials,” the vice president said during the CNN town hall.

She said that if Trump wins a second term, he is “going to sit there unstable, unhinged, plotting his revenge, plotting his retribution, creating an enemy’s list.”

Launching a scathing attack on her Republican rival former president Donald Trump, Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris on Wednesday charged that he is “unfit” to lead the country. “Yesterday we learned that Donald Trump's former chief of staff, John Kelly, a retired four-star general, confirmed that while Donald Trump was president, he said he wanted generals like Adolf Hitler had,” Harris told reporters at her official residence in the American Capital.

“Donald Trump said that because he does not want a military that is loyal to the United States Constitution. He wants a military that is loyal to him. He wants a military who will be loyal to him personally, one that will obey his orders even when he tells them to break the law or abandon their oath to the Constitution of the United States,” she said. “In just the past week, Donald Trump has repeatedly called his fellow Americans the enemy from within, and even said that he would use the United States military to go after American citizens,” Harris said. Harris, who became the nominee of the Democratic Party a little over 100 days ahead of the November 5 general elections, said this a day after Kelly, Trump's former chief of staff, spoke against him.

“Certainly, the former president is in the far-right area, he's certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators — he has said that. So, he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure,” Kelly told The New York Times in an interview.
“He certainly prefers the dictator approach to government,” Kelly alleged. Trump “never accepted the fact that he wasn't the most powerful man in the world — and by power, I mean an ability to do anything he wanted, anytime he wanted,” he said.

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Former President Donald Trump spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, he said while answering a question about Israel at an event in Georgia.

Trump said, “We have a very good relationship.” Earlier on Monday, Trump had said that he held talks with Netanyahu over the weekend.

Vice President Kamala Harris has condemned former President Donald Trump as a “fascist” who seeks “unchecked power” and desires a military personally loyal to him, following allegations regarding the former president’s repeated admiration for Hitler.

In a surprise speech from her Washington DC residence on Wednesday, Harris addressed reports that John Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff, recounted how Trump lamented the absence of generals who would swear loyalty to him, similar to the military commanders who served Hitler in Nazi Germany.

“Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable, and in a second term, people like John Kelly would not be there to act as guardrails against his tendencies and actions. Those who once attempted to rein him in from pursuing his worst impulses would no longer be present,” Harris stated.

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After Republican candidate Donald Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly called him a “fascist” and “authoritarian”, the White House has reacted to the development and its press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Wednesday that President Joe Biden agreed with Kelly’s remarks.

Jean-Pierre, in a daily briefing at the White House said, “Do we agree about that determination? Yes, we do.”

Trump has also reacted to the remarks made by his former chief of staff Kelly and the former President called Kelly a “lowlife” and that he is suffering from “pure Trump derangement syndrome.”

Jean-Pierre further said, “You’ve heard from the former president himself saying that he is going to be a dictator on day one. This is him, not us. This is him. And it’s not just, it’s not just us, the White House saying this. You’ve heard it from officials; former officials that worked for the former president say this, as well.”

In a direct attack on his former chief of staff, John Kelly, Republican candidate Donald Trump called him a “lowlife” on his social media platform Truth Social after Kelly called Trump a “fascist” in a report published by New York Times.

In the post, Trump wrote, “The story about the Soldiers was A LIE, as are numerous other stories he told.” Kelly made the news as in the NYT interview, he called Trump “certainly an authoritarian” and said “he certainly falls into the general definition of a fascist.”

Trump defended himself and attacked Kelly by refuting all the anecdotes narrated by Kelly in the interview with NYT and wrote that Kelly is suffering from “pure Trump derangement syndrome.”

The Wisconsin Election Commission has stated on Wednesday that a system delay affecting the speed of printing the labels for early voting envelopes is impacting the system.

Earlier, the NBC News had reported that the state’s election commission had said that an unprecedented huge number of voter turnout in the early voting for the first day of early in-person voting caused system delays.

The official statement, as reported by NBC News said, “Printing a label is not required for in-person absentee voting, though it is certainly an added efficiency for our hard-working local election officials.”

Outlining the steps taken by Democrats to make way through the legal troubles on November 5 or after that, the Harris campaign’s election memo has said that they are preparing “anything that Republicans throw at us”.

The  Harris campaign and the Democratic National Committee, in a memo seen by NBC News said, “The 2024 presidential election is already the most litigated in American history, but we are also the most prepared campaign in history for what we face.”

The 2020 poll saw a fair amount of legal trouble as former President Donald Trump wasn’t ready to accept the mandate and later accused the fudging of election outcome, an allegation which was never proved in courts.

“Democrats are prepared and enter this final stretch with a playbook to protect the integrity of our elections — before and after November 5,” the memo said.

Despite the previous attempts of mixing his messages regarding the mail-in and early voting, Republican candidate Donald Trump has reminded the Florida citizens about the deadline of the mail-in voting on his social media platform Truth Social.

Trump wrote, “FLORIDA! Tomorrow is the last day to request a mail-in ballot! Don’t wait until the deadline to request yours!"

Trump also posted the deadline for the election in other states as well, which includes Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia and Maine.

Former President Donald Trump has accused the ruling Labour Party in the United Kingdom of election interference as he accused the party of “blatant foreign interference”.

Trump’s team has asked the federal election commission to look into the allegations and investigate the incident as the team said that  a senior Labour figure posted a rallying cry for current and former staffers to travel to battleground states and campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris.

British PM Keir Starmer has said that his party members have done nothing wrong and the endorsement by their members of Harris is a voluntary activity and not a party-led act.

The Georgia's Supreme Court declined to take up an expedited plea by the Republican Party that would have brought in new rules from the state’s GOP-led Election Board, ahead of the November 5 election.

The court in its brief order said that it would not hear the appeal of last week's ruling by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox on an emergency basis. The existing rules will remain until the November 5 election day, in a setback to former President Donald Trump's party.

During the in person early voting in Wisconsin, a system lag was reported after higher than expected turnout was witnessed on the first day, according to the state Election Commission.

In a statement, the election commission said, "The WisVote system that some clerks use experienced a period of slowness that has now been resolved. Today’s system lag was purely related to demands on the WisVote system due to high turnout."

The commission said that the staff members immediately resorted to provide resolution by increasing system capacity and it wouldn't prevent any voter's ability to cast his/her vote as in-person absentee today.

Republican nominee Donald Trump is all set to particiapte in the “Tucker Carlson Live” tour in Arizona on October 31, just five days ahead of the anticipated Election Day scheduled on November 5.

Trumps running mate JD Vance will join him during the "Tucker Carlson Live" tour, alongside Megyn Kelly, Charlie Kirk and Kid Rock.

An Ohio man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he brought a massive “Trump” sign to the U.S. Capitol and joined other rioters in using it as a weapon against police officers during a mob attack.Jeffrey Newcomb, 41, of Polk, Ohio, apparently posted on social media that he brought the custom-made, metal-framed sign to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, "because bullets are expensive,” according to an FBI agent's affidavit.

The sign was approximately 8 feet tall and 10 feet wide, with wheels the size of a person's head, the affidavit says.In March 2023, a message posted on a Twitter account linked to Newcomb included photos of the sign in the crowd of Donald Trump supporters who gathered outside the Capitol on Jan. 6.

In one photo, the account's user obscured his face with an emoji.“Went to Jan 6th to peacefully protest in the loudest way possible: With a 13 ft by 10 ft signs on custom made aluminum wagon. I spent $700 on this. Keeping my identity a secret because bullets are expensive,” the post said.The account on Twitter, now called X, has since been deleted.

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The Republican nominee for the 2024 US Presidential election, Donald Trump is planning to vote early and in person, according to a report by NBC News.

Though the exact timing of Trump's casting the ballot is not known, but early, in person voting in Florida would begin begin from October 26 to November 2.

Though Trump has encouraged voters to poll early ahead of Election Day on November 5, he has also cast his doubts on the process ahead of the 2020 presidential election which he lost to President Joe Biden.

The US President Joe Biden on Tuesday said that former President Donald Trump is a threat to democracy and he must be locked up "politically", as the incumbent president addressed Democrats at the New Hampshire campaign office in order for Democratic Party to win the upcoming November 5 election.

To an applause by the gathering, President Biden at a Democratic campaign office in Concord, New Hampshire, said "We got to lock him up. Politically lock him up. Lock him out. That's what we have to do."

Interestingly, when Trump ran for the White House in 2016, the crowd at the Republican rally sometimes chanted "lock her up", referring to the then Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Trump would not discourage them.

Vice President Kamala Harris is all set to campaign in Texas, which is considered a bastion of the Republicans. Harris will focus on efforts to counter former President Donald Trump, just around 10 days ahead of the Election Day.

Harris' campaign says that she will be visiting Houston for an event which will be focused upon women who have been affected by the state's abortion laws, which came upon after the US Supreme Court overturned the historic Roe vs Wade in 2022.

“Texas is the stage for this event,” said senior campaign adviser David Plouffe. “But for us, the most important audience are folks in the battlegrounds.”

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will be interviewed by popular podcaster Joe Rogan on Friday, who has millions of listeners worldwide.

Two officials of the Trump campaign said that the former president would travel to Rogan's studio in Austin, Texas, for the session. In August, Trump had criticized Rogan on his social media platform Truth Social after he supported independent candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. Kennedy has now withdrawn from the presidential bid and endorsed Trump. Later on, Trump praised Rogan.

Trump's opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, has also been planning to do an interview with Rogan in order to expand her appeal to male voters.

Early voting kicked-off in Wisconsin on Tuesday with former US President Barack Obama and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz campaiging in liberal Madison and Republicans holding rallies to encourage voters to elect Donald Trump before Election Day on November 5.

In Wisconsin, an unprecedented result surface in 2020 due to early and absentee voting as COVID-19 pandemic had struck and Republican candidate Donald Trump lost the state by a mere 21,000 votes.

Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are again expecting a razor thin margin in 2024 polls and hence are encouraging the voters to vote early this time around.

During a rally in Madison, Wisconsin, Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz took aim at Donald Trump, calling him "fake" after his recent McDonald's visit. Walz accused Trump of "cosplaying" and using people's livelihoods as political props. He made the remarks before former President Barack Obama’s appearance, energizing the crowd with sharp jabs at Trump.

Tim Walz is set to take the stage alongside Barack Obama in Madison, Wisconsin. This marks their only joint appearance for the day. Later, Obama will travel to Detroit for another event, while Walz will hold a second rally in Racine, Wisconsin.

The rally is part of Obama’s stepped-up campaign efforts for Kamala Harris, with the general election just two weeks away. Meanwhile, Vice President Harris is in Washington DC, where she has recorded interviews with NBC News and Noticias Telemundo, set to air this evening.

With encouragement from former President Donald Trump, Republicans are once again embracing early voting, flocking to polls ahead of Election Day and setting records for pre-November ballots in key states like Georgia and North Carolina. 

The GOP aims to address a perceived issue from the 2020 and 2022 elections, where many voters were discouraged from voting early due to Trump's previous denouncements of mail-in ballots. Trump is now urging his supporters to vote early, claiming that they could be kept from the polls on Election Day. 

In North Carolina, Republicans have narrowed the Democrats' previous advantage, and in Nevada, early voting has seen a slight uptick in Republican ballots. However, the implications of early voting trends remain uncertain, as early data only indicates party registration, not voting intentions. 

Despite Republican improvements in early in-person voting, mail-in voting remains a challenge, with Republicans lagging behind Democrats in states like Pennsylvania, where mail ballots are more common. Trump's past rhetoric about voting methods has also impacted the conservative electorate, as evidenced by audience responses at recent campaign events. (AP)

1. With Election Day two weeks away, Kamala Harris’s campaign is preparing for a tight race, with the possibility that the “Blue Wall” swing states may not vote as a bloc for the first time in decades.

2. Eminem will introduce Barack Obama in Detroit tonight, while Bruce Springsteen headlines concerts across swing states to support Harris in the final push.

3. Obama will campaign with Tim Walz in Wisconsin today, with JD Vance holding two events in Arizona, and Donald Trump campaigning in North Carolina.

4. Trump met with Latino leaders but took time addressing key issues for the voting bloc.

5. Kamala Harris will campaign in Houston on Friday, focusing on winning Texas’s Senate seat and addressing the impact of abortion bans on women.

6. Tim Walz will hold another event in Wisconsin later today as part of ongoing campaign efforts.

7. The IMF has forecasted stronger economic growth for the US compared to other wealthy nations.

Bruce Springsteen is set to join Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama at a get-out-the-vote rally in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday, as reported by CNN. 

The singer will also team up with Obama for a campaign event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Monday, October 28. 

Additionally, Obama is campaigning for the Harris-Walz ticket in Detroit, Michigan, today, where rapper Eminem will also be making an appearance.

Donald Trump has kicked off his day of campaign events with a roundtable discussion with Latino leaders at his golf resort in Doral, Florida. The Latino vote is expected to play a critical role in deciding the outcome of the election, both in key swing states and in congressional districts that will determine the balance of power in the Senate and House of Representatives.

Ahead of the event, Miami's Republican mayor, Francis Suarez, a Trump supporter, spoke to CNN, dismissing concerns that the former president's hardline stance on immigration, including promises of mass deportations and strict policies on undocumented migrants, would alienate Hispanic voters.

Suarez said: "Law-abiding Hispanics care more about ensuring a prosperous future for themselves and their children than about people in the country illegally. There’s a misperception that all they care about is immigration, and that’s, frankly, somewhat racist.

"Hispanics are more concerned about making sure they have opportunities to succeed, ensuring inflation doesn’t crush them daily as it has under this administration. They're law-abiding, like my parents, who came to this country at 12 and seven from Cuba, a communist country that has only brought misery and poverty to its people. They see similar rhetoric being pushed by the Democratic Party, and that’s worrying them."

With two weeks until Election Day, the escalating Middle East conflict is casting a shadow over the race for the White House. Vice President Kamala Harris is walking a tightrope, balancing firm support for Israel with concerns over the civilian toll in Gaza and Lebanon, while former President Donald Trump is making bold claims that he could have prevented the crisis.

Harris faces the challenge of appealing to both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian voters, while Trump insists the situation wouldn’t have unfolded during his presidency and that he could swiftly resolve it if re-elected. Both candidates are targeting crucial Arab, Muslim, and Jewish voters, particularly in key battleground states like Michigan and Pennsylvania.

US Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris will visit Texas on Friday for an abortion-rights event, as Democrats' hopes grow to win a Senate seat in the Republican stronghold. While Donald Trump holds a strong lead over Harris in Texas, which hasn't backed a Democratic president since 1976, the trip marks a significant move away from key battleground states in the final weeks of the election.

Republican Senator Ted Cruz remains ahead of Democratic nominee Colin Allred, with most polls showing a tough race for Democrats to maintain control of the Senate. In Houston, Harris will join Allred to criticise both Cruz and Trump on abortion rights, with Texas enforcing a near-total ban. She will also be interviewed by podcaster Brene Brown during the visit.

The 2024 election is shaping up to be just as close as the last two.

In 2016 and again in 2020, the electoral college was determined by less than a one percentage point margin in the key state of Pennsylvania. According to polling averages, neither former president Donald Trump nor Vice President Kamala Harris currently holds a lead of more than two points in any of the seven most crucial swing states for the 2024 election, indicating that all are up for grabs.

These states, along with a few others, have historically played a pivotal role in determining election outcomes. Here's why.

After an active day of campaigning alongside Liz Cheney on Monday, Kamala Harris is having a quieter day today. She has no public campaign events scheduled but will be sitting down for two interviews.

The first, with NBC News’s Hallie Jackson, is set to air at 6.30pm ET, followed by another with Noticias Telemundo’s Julio Vaqueiro, which will be broadcast at 7pm.

With poll campaign heating up, Republican candidate and former US president Donald Trump said he has seen no evidence of election fraud in 2024, but added he was suspicious of "the other side". Trump made the remarks at a press conference in North Carolina on Monday when he was asked if he had seen any proof of cheating in the polls so far. "Well I haven't," Trump responded. "Unfortunately, I know the other side, and they are not good. But I have not seen."

Trump had claimed that 2020 election was the last election was rigged and has been accused by prosecutors of election interference, BBC reported.

As Vice President Kamala Harris toured crucial states with Liz Cheney, a former Republican lawmaker - a vocal critic of Donald Trump, she appealed voters who are "disillusioned" with Trump, saying that they are "not alone" in an attempt to convince them to switch party, BBC reported.

US Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday hit out on her rival Republican candidate and former president Donald Trump saying Russian President Vladimir Putin will be “sitting in Kyiv,” Ukraine’s capital city, if he is elected to power.

“He has said, Donald Trump, I will solve the matter of Ukraine and Russia in a day. Read through and understand what he is saying. He would surrender,” Harris was quoted as saying by CNN during an event in Michigan with former Rep. Liz Cheney and Maria Shriver.

Harris added: “He would have Ukraine surrender its fight against an aggressor violating its sovereignty. If Donald Trump were president, Vladimir Putin will be sitting in Kyiv, and understand what that would mean for America and our standing around the world.”

Notably, Trump had declined to say whether he wants Ukraine to win the war and termed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “salesman” who “should never have let that war start.”