Some famous “white dudes” — including the guy who played “The Dude” — rallied in support of Harris, who would be the first female president if elected, in the inaugural event of a new group called White Dudes for Harris on Monday night.

The name may be a bit facetious, but the star-studded Zoom call attracted more than 180,000 participants and raised almost $4 million, according to organizers, who are themselves a group of white dude Democratic political operatives. 

Over the nearly 3½-hour call, they said, they sold more than 5,700 White Dudes for Harris trucker caps — “not the pointy ones,” joked Ross Morales Rocketto, one of the organizers, referring to less PC gatherings of white dudes like the Ku Klux Klan. 

John Giles, the Republican mayor of Mesa, Arizona, wrote an op-ed published yesterday in azcentral.com encouraging Republicans to choose “country over party this election and vote against Donald Trump.”

Speaking about the endorsement in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Giles said, “The question that is presented is a moral one and an ethical one,” adding, “Silence is not an option.”

“That’s my argument to my fellow Republicans, that this is not a year that we can follow tradition or follow misplaced loyalty and vote for a Republican at the top of the ticket.”

Vance said in a 2020 podcast interview, which was resurfaced by CNN, that he worried that not having children makes people "more sociopathic."

“The fact that so many people, especially in America’s leadership class, just don’t have that in their lives, you know, I worry that it makes people more sociopathic and ultimately, our whole country a little bit less mentally stable,” said Vance, who has already come under fire for comments he made in 2021 about "childless cat ladies."

The podcast hosted by Chris Buskirk was published online in late November 2020, several months before the Ohio Republican launched his winning campaign for Senate.

Several months later, Vance, who by then was running for Senate, used the “cat lady” language again in a tweet sharing an article from The Hill with the headline, “Poll finds significant percentage fear having children because of climate crisis.” “The cat ladies, man. They must be stopped,” he wrote. 

Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., said he preferred to “respect the process” behind Harris' selection of a running mate when asked whether he would accept an offer to join her on the ticket during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

“She’s got a lot of wonderful folks that she’s looking at, and she’s going to make a decision that’s right for her and right for the country,” he said. “It’s an intensely personal decision, and I want to respect that process.”

Pressed again on whether he would accept an offer to be Harris’ running mate if asked, Peters repeated that he would “respect the process.”

“Whoever she chooses, I will fully support,” he said.

Trump says he wants to debate Harris but added that he “can also make a case for not doing it.” NBC’s Hallie Jackson reports for "TODAY."

The Harris campaign is hitting back at Trump after his campaign released an ad criticizing her handling of the issue of immigration.

“After killing the toughest border deal in decades, Donald Trump is running on his trademark lies because his own record and ‘plans’ are extreme and unpopular," Harris campaign spokesman Ammar Moussa said. "As a former district attorney, attorney general, and now vice president, Kamala Harris has spent her career taking on and prosecuting violent criminals and making our communities safer. She’ll do the same as president.”

The Harris campaign reiterated that the vice president was never named a "border czar," which Trump has dubbed her in his attacks. Biden had tasked her in 2021 with addressing the root causes of migration in Central America.

The Democratic National Committee is launching a bilingual billboard campaign in Reno today "highlighting his intent to work with Donald Trump to ban abortion nationwide, including in Nevada," the DNC said.

The billboards feature an image of Vance and Trump and says, "7 in 10 Nevadans support reproductive rights. JD Vance wants to ban abortion. Trump-Vance is too extreme for Nevada." It is unclear what polling the DNC is citing.

“JD Vance is committed to doing whatever it takes to follow through with Donald Trump’s plans to completely undermine women’s reproductive freedom in every single state across the country," DNC spokesperson Stephanie Justice said in a statement. "Thanks to Trump, MAGA Republicans have enacted extreme abortion bans in 22 states — and if given the chance, Trump and Vance will force Nevada women to face the same horrific reality after they ban abortion nationwide."

LAS VEGAS — Trump’s big bet on Sen. JD Vance faces a big test in the West this week, beginning this afternoon nearly 15 miles from the Las Vegas Strip.

Vance, the Ohio Republican who has endured a bumpy rollout as Trump’s running mate, will start the campaign swing with a speech at a high school in Henderson. 

From there, Vance will head to an event in Reno and then on to California tomorrow for a fundraising luncheon near Fresno. Later that day, Vance will rally at Arizona Christian University near Phoenix. Other stops could be added to the already-packed schedule.

PHOENIX — Arizona voters will finalize the matchup in a hotly contested Senate race and set the stage for congressional races that could tip the balance of power and shape the future of both parties for years to come in the House. 

And Arizona’s position on the front lines of fights and conspiracy theories about election results over the last four years will take center stage once again, as a top election official in Arizona’s largest county faces a primary after having defended it from critics since 2020.

Here’s what to watch for after the polls close at 10 p.m. ET today.