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What to know about the campaigns today
- Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been criticized for not doing enough media appearances, was interviewed by Fox News' Bret Baier in a fiery segment that aired this evening. Earlier, she spoke at a campaign event in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, before she traveled to Milwaukee.
- Donald Trump taped a town hall with the Spanish-language network Univision in Miami this afternoon before he holds a high-dollar fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago tonight.
- Trump's running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, is holding rallies in two states, in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in midafternoon and in Wilmington, Connecticut, this evening.
- Harris' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, is attending campaign receptions in Washington, D.C.
What weeks of early-voting data tell us about how Democrats and Republicans are turning out in 2024
Early voting is getting underway throughout the country, including in key battleground states like Georgia, where more than 300,000 people voted yesterday, the first day of early voting.
While Virginia isn’t a core battleground state this year, it does have more than two weeks of mail-in and early in-person voting already in the books, including hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots already cast. We closely monitor early-voting trends to set expectations for election night outcomes, and in Virginia a clear pattern has emerged that could be part of a national trend.
Addressing the potentially historic gender gap in public polling between Trump and Harris for the first time, Vance pitched the Republican ticket to an audience primarily of female voters as a vote for “common sense.”
In the final stretch, Trump and Harris go to Pennsylvania more than any other battleground
Want to know which state is the most critical to both Trump’s and Harris’ paths to the White House? Just check where they’ve made the most visits: Pennsylvania.
Since Harris entered the presidential race in July, she and Trump, along with their running mates — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance of Ohio — have made Pennsylvania their most-visited state for campaign stops across the battleground map.
In her Fox News interview, Harris used some of her strongest language yet to emphasize that her presidency would be distinct from Biden’s if she's elected. She and interviewer Bret Baier clashed over border security, with Harris criticizing Trump for blocking a bipartisan border bill.
Vance says Trump didn’t lose the 2020 election: ‘Not by the words I would use’
In his most direct answer yet about the 2020 election results since he joined the Republican presidential ticket, Vance appeared to say today that he does not believe Trump lost the last presidential election.
Fielding questions from reporters after he spoke at a rally in central Pennsylvania, Vance was pressed about recent appearances in which he has declined directly to say whether or not Trump lost his re-election bid against Biden.
Elon Musk to host political town hall in Pennsylvania tomorrow
Elon Musk is set to host a town hall tomorrow in battleground Pennsylvania with America PAC, his pro-Trump super PAC.
"Musk will be speaking to Pennsylvanians to promote absentee voting and early voting, as well as voter registration in the Commonwealth," according to a media advisory for the event in Folsom starting at 4 p.m. ET.
Musk, who has endorsed Trump, had posted to X that he would "be giving a series of talks throughout Pennsylvania" through Monday.
NBC News reported yesterday that Musk has given nearly $75 million to his super PAC.
Harris campaign official: VP 'achieved what we set out to achieve' on Fox News
Harris campaign communications director Brian Fallon told reporters today that the campaign feels "like we definitely achieved what we set out to achieve" regarding the Harris' interview on Fox News.
Fallon said Harris was "able to reach an audience that has probably been not exposed to the arguments that she’s been making on the trail, and she also got to show her toughness in standing tall against a hostile interviewer."
Federal judge blocks Alabama’s voter purge program ahead of election
A federal judge today temporarily blocked Alabama’s voter removal program that flagged thousands of registered voters and accused them of illegally registering in the state.
The Justice Department had filed a lawsuit against the state of Alabama challenging the program aimed at removing voters from its election rolls, arguing it was too close to the Nov. 5 election.
Confronted by a Republican voter about the Jan. 6 riot, Trump says ‘nothing’ was done wrong that day
Trump shrugged off the idea today that his conduct on Jan. 6, 2021, should cost him the backing of Republican voters after a former supporter confronted him at a televised town hall and said he would not cast a ballot for the former president because of his actions that day.
In his response at the Univision event, Trump also distanced himself from the attack on the Capitol while minimizing the damage done by a mob of his supporters.
Harris highlights bipartisan border bill during heated exchange about migration policy
Harris pointed to a February bipartisan border bill in an at-times heated exchange on Fox News about migration issues. She has previously said that she backs the bill and that she would sign it if it came to her desk.
Harris said Trump told Republicans to kill the bill "because he preferred to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem."
"And in this election, this is rightly a discussion that the American people want to have, and what they want are solutions, and they want a president of the United States who's not playing political games with the issue but actually is focused on fixing it," she continued.