What to know about the campaigns today
- Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned in the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania, where she held a rally in bellwether Erie County.
- Former President Donald Trump also hit the trail in the state, with a town hall outside Philadelphia that was paused twice for medical incidents in the audience before it turned into a musical event.
- Harris' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, kicked off a bus tour with Democratic governors in Green Bay, Wisconsin, after a stop in Eau Claire.
- Former President Bill Clinton also campaigned for Harris in Georgia, criticizing Trump's attempts to distance himself from Project 2025 and saying the race will come down to whether it's an honest election.
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Trump: 'Let's not do any more questions. Let's just listen to music.'
Trump participated in what started out as a routine town hall that morphed into a listening party of some of his favorite tunes.
The event was supposed to be a Q&A that focused on policy proposals, but after two audience members required medical attention and the Trump campaign played "Ave Maria" while they were tended to, Trump told the crowd: “Let’s not do any more questions. Let’s just listen to music. Let’s make it into our music. Who the hell wants to hear questions? Right?”
After the second incident, a handful of people in the crowd yelled “open the doors.” The room was toasty.
Trump then asked South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who was moderating the event, to get someone to open the door. Unprompted, Trump’s team started playing "Ave Maria" again.
Trump appeared to talk to a Secret Service agent to see what could be done. He then told the crowd: “For security reasons, they can’t [open the doors]. But you know what, I said just open them. Because anybody comes through those doors, you know what’s going to happen to them.” The crowd cheered.
After Noem asked everyone to sit down, Trump quipped: “Personally I enjoy this. We lose weight. You know, you lose weight, we could do this, lose four or five pounds. It’s OK with me.”
The two of them joked that the building could not afford air conditioning because of the economy. Trump cracked another joke, saying: “Would anybody else like to faint? Please raise your hand.” Trump asked his team to put “his favorite chart” on screen and play "Ave Maria."
He talked about what music to play next. Ten songs were played, and Trump stood onstage the whole time, sometimes swaying along to the music while staring into the distance.
Bill Clinton says election will come down to ‘whether we can get an honest, open count’
Former President Bill Clinton said as he campaigned for Harris today that the election will come down to whether there is a fair and transparent vote tally.
Asked by NBC News what will decide the outcome, Clinton responded, “Who wants it bad enough and whether we can get an honest, open count.”
A Clinton aide later said he was referring to various reports of threats and intimidation against election officials.
Sen. Tim Scott is seeking to lead Senate Republicans' campaign arm
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., is calling colleagues and expressing interest in running for chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the campaign arm for Senate Republicans, according to Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo.
Barrasso told NBC News tonight that he spoke with Scott yesterday.
“He knows the country, been to so many states, and I think he’s going to be superb. He called me yesterday. He said I was his first call. I was really happy that he decided to do it,” Barrasso said.
Asked whether Scott is running for the job, senior adviser Nathan Brand said: “The senator is grateful for the encouragement he has received from colleagues to run for chair of the NRSC. He is working tirelessly to send Donald Trump back to the White House and take the U.S. Senate, then looks forward to growing the Republican majority in 2026.”
Scott’s team also pointed to his making the rounds on the campaign trail and said he is good at raising money.
Scott ran in the Republican presidential primaries before he dropped out and endorsed Trump.
Asked whether he believes his colleagues will elect Scott after the November elections, Barrasso, who is vying for the No. 2 Senate GOP leadership position, said: “I do, yeah. People — every senator can speak for themselves, but he certainly has my vote.”
Aides for Sens. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., and Katie Britt, R-Ala., who were reportedly in the running and are no longer considering the position, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Harris campaign sees its path to victory in Pennsylvania running through the suburbs
Harris’ campaign laid out what it sees as her path to victory in Pennsylvania in a memo shared exclusively with NBC News ahead of tonight’s rally in bellwether Erie County.
The campaign pointed to polls showing Harris having made gains in the battleground state’s suburbs — which it dubbed “our own mini ‘blue wall’” in Pennsylvania — compared with Biden’s 2020 performance there.
The campaign also emphasized that a win involves boosting its popularity among educated suburbanites, including those who have voted for Republicans in recent elections. Nearly 160,000 voters in the state cast ballots for former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in the GOP presidential primary this year — with her numbers proving stronger among suburban voters — even after she had already dropped out of the race against Trump.
Abortion rights, gun violence in the spotlight at final Michigan Senate debate
During the second and final Michigan Senate debate, Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin and Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers sparred over a wide range of issues, including the economy, immigration, foreign policy and the auto industry.
But two issues that ignited both candidates’ passions were reproductive rights and gun violence.
Rogers maintained that he would not vote to change Michigan’s abortion laws, nor would he support federal restrictions on the procedure. Slotkin pointed out that he once voted for anti-abortion policies in Congress before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.
She looked directly into the camera and said, “Michiganders, do not believe him. He will not protect you.”
Rogers responded: “I know my opponent wants to make this as divisive as humanly possible, and I get that — it’s unfortunate it misrepresented so many of my positions on this issue.
“People are afraid for their futures in this state,” he continued. “And you know who gave them all that? My opponent.”
Michigan experienced several mass shootings, many of them in schools, in recent years. Slotkin announced gun violence measures last spring after the shootings at Oxford High School and Michigan State University.
Rogers suggested Slotkin should have done more: “With all that passion, you would have thought my opponent would have introduced a whole bunch of series of bills in the U.S. Congress,” he said, advocating for more mental health resources.
Slotkin, who is in her third term, acknowledged how ingrained gun culture is in her state and pointed to her experience as a CIA agent in Iraq. “Thank God I had it [a gun] in a war zone. But this idea that we can’t go after the No. 1 killer of children in America is broken,” she said.
Slotkin also took a hit at Rogers’ residency. Rogers, who represented Michigan’s 8th Congressional District from 2001 to 2015, moved to Florida after he retired from the House. He moved back to Michigan one year before he launched his Senate campaign.
“While Mr. Rogers was off in Florida, I was representing this district where we had not one but two school shootings in my district,” Slotkin said.
Back-to-back medical incidents in audience interrupt Trump town hall
Two attendees had incidents requiring medical attention during Trump's town hall tonight in Oaks, Pennsylvania.
Roughly 30 minutes into the event, the town hall was paused and Trump asked for "Ave Maria" to be played while the first person was attended to. A man was taken out of the room during the first incident and pumped his fist in the air as he was leaving.
The music was played again during the second medical incident as Trump and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who was moderating the town hall, waited silently onstage.
Such incidents occur frequently at Trump's campaign events, often because of heat and how long supporters spend standing. Trump's town hall tonight got underway about 50 minutes after its scheduled start time.
Noem at one point referred to the temperature's being "really warm" at the indoor campaign event while encouraging people to take their seats after the second incident.
Trump also commented on the campaign location's being warm and asked about air conditioning before the town hall continued minutes later.
Walz blasts Trump over comments about using military against political opponents
Walz hit Trump over his remarks from over the weekend calling Democrats the “enemy from within” and seeming to call for the military to go after them.
Walz suggested at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, that Trump’s comments were treasonous and said they were a “call for violence.”
“I’ll tell you what, we’ll let the lawyers decide if what he said was treason. But what I know is it’s a call for violence, plain and simple, and it’s pretty damn un-American if you ask me,” he said.
He told rallygoers to “really think about” Trump’s comments, saying his apparent threat included them.
“Americans who don’t support him, just to be clear, if any of your neighbors or friends or anybody thinks about that, you know he’s talking about — he’s talking about you,” Walz said.
Walz cited his own military record, saying he wore the uniform “proudly,” and he said the idea of sending the military against American citizens made him “sick to my stomach.”
Walz says 'nearly 80-year-old' Trump looks 'confused' at rallies
At a campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Walz slammed Trump over his age and his refusal to release his medical records.
Walz said Trump has been “forgetting things” lately, facetiously citing that as the reason he has not released his medical records yet.
“Watch his rallies. He’s confused. He’s a nearly 80-year-old man. He’s ranting and rambling until people get bored and leave his rallies,” Walz said. “It would be funny if it wasn’t so dangerous.”
Walz noted that Harris released her medical records over the weekend, calling it proof that she has a “clean bill of health” and the physical and mental stamina for the job.
Trump is the oldest presidential nominee in U.S. history.
Harris to ramp up warnings that Trump 'poses risk' to the U.S.
At her Pennsylvania rally tonight in bellwether Erie County, Harris plans to ramp up warnings that a second Trump term would be dangerous and put people’s freedom at risk, a senior Harris campaign official said.
Harris will focus on comments Trump made on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” in which he called Democrats “the enemy from within.”
“We have some sick people, radical left lunatics, and I think they’re — and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard or if really necessary by the military,” Trump said on Fox.
Harris plans to focus on Trump’s comments in interview appearances and at his rallies to paint him as increasingly erratic.
She also will cite his decision to skip a "60 Minutes" interview and his failure to release his medical records, the campaign official said. At a rally yesterday in North Carolina, Harris suggested that Trump's campaign was trying to “hide him away.”
“It makes you wonder, why does his staff want him to hide away? One must question, are they afraid that people will see that he is too weak and unstable to lead America? Is that what’s going on?” Harris said.
The Harris campaign launched an ad called “Enemy Within” this afternoon portraying Trump as “dangerous,” using former Trump-Pence administration officials who now back Harris.
NBC News congressional correspondent Julie Tsirkin talks to Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin and Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers ahead of their second debate in the closely contested Michigan Senate race.