Election 2024: Harris and Walz kick off bus tour in Georgia; Vance hits Pennsylvania and Wisconsin

After three days of arguments and with a trial scheduled for Jan. 5, 2026, the decision of whether Arizona’s “fake electors” case will move forward is now in Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Bruce Cohen’s hands.

Defendants argued Monday and yesterday that the indictment against 11 people who signed documents claiming to be Arizona’s Electoral College electors in 2020 — even though Biden won the state and Arizona certified his victory — and other Trump allies should be dismissed on the grounds that they were exercising their First Amendment rights.

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Vance told reporters that he is "not worried at all" about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s remaining on the ballots in Michigan and Wisconsin, two major battleground states. Kennedy endorsed Trump and said he would remove himself from battleground state ballots in an effort to support his candidacy.

While Trump has welcomed the support of Kennedy, who ran in the Democratic primaries, he has had a frostier relationship with his previous running mate, former Vice President Mike Pence. Vance told NBC News that he has not spoken to Pence since he became the nominee for vice president.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a new interview that he has previously sued Trump while adding that they have always maintained a good relationship.

"I’ve sued him a couple of times on golf courses that he was building or he was trying to build up in the New York state reservoir watershed, and I was suing to keep them from being built," Kennedy said in an interview with “Dr. Phil” McGraw that was taped shortly after he endorsed Trump on Friday and aired tonight.

Seven advocacy organizations that have been working to engage Latino voters ahead of the presidential election found that many of them are familiar with Project 2025 but that few understood the specifics behind the 900-plus-page conservative policy plan and its potential impact if implemented.

The groups, most of which are left-leaning or progressive, are coming together under a new coalition to launch a bilingual campaign condemning Project 2025 and its stances on specific issues that are important to Latino voters — such as education, health care access, reproductive rights, climate change and immigration, as well as jobs and workers’ rights.

The “Defendiendo Nuestro Futuro, Latinos Against Project 2025” campaign aims to target millions of Latino voters in swing states through door-to-door canvassing efforts, phone-banking and social media.

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Voters in Savannah, Georgia, have contrasting views about Harris’ rally in the city tomorrow.

Tahisha Wright, 42, expressed optimism about the visit, telling NBC News that Harris brings “a new sense of hope, inspiration and enthusiasm about what’s to come as it relates to being an American and making sure that we have policies that are inclusive to all people, not just a few."

An officer was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident this evening along Harris' motorcade route in Georgia, the Savannah Police Department said.

"An SPD motorcycle officer was involved in a single vehicle accident on I-516 this evening. The officer sustained serious injuries and has been transported to Memorial for treatment," police said in a statement posted to X.

Police said they would release more information in the morning. The Secret Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Harris is in southeastern Georgia for a bus tour.

Vance appeared to double down on his 2021 criticism of American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, in which he said that "if she wants to brainwash and destroy the minds of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone."

Vance said he was not reiterating those sentiments to reporters today, saying, "I just said if she wants to brainwash anybody’s kids, she ought to have her own and leave mine alone."

He also pushed back against reports of an “incident” between two members of Trump’s campaign team and an official at Arlington National Cemetery, telling reporters there has been outsized focus on the story.

Trump’s campaign is playing down reports of an altercation during his visit to Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, a move that signals its concern about potential political fallout from the incident.

“A nameless bureaucrat at Arlington whose job it is to preserve the dignity of the cemetery is doing the complete opposite in trying to make what was a very solemn and respectful event into something it was not,” said Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita, a retired Marine who was with Trump on Monday at the cemetery in the Virginia suburbs of Washington.

Trump has long portrayed himself as a champion of service members and veterans — an image bolstered by participants in Monday’s ceremony. But he has also created a pattern of disparaging service members that has led even some former aides to question the authenticity of his support for the military.

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Some members of Taylor Swift’s massive fan base are organizing and taking action for their preferred presidential candidate — even without the pop star’s public support.

“Swifties for Kamala,” which has no official affiliation with Swift or Harris, had raised $142,000 for Harris as of this afternoon, said Irene Kim, a co-founder of the organization and its executive director.

Most of it — $122,000 — was collected during a Zoom event the group hosted yesterday. About 34,000 people joined the roughly two-hour call, which featured appearances from singer-songwriter Carole King and Sens. Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts, Kirsten Gillibrand, of New York, and Ed Markey, of Massachusetts; and Reps. Chris Deluzio, of Pennsylvania, and Becca Balint, of Vermont.

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