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What's happening on the campaign trail today
- Vice President Kamala Harris continued to use star power on the campaign trail today, rallying at a get-out-the-vote event in Georgia alongside musician Bruce Springsteen, director Spike Lee, actor Samuel L. Jackson and former President Barack Obama.
- Former President Donald Trump traveled out West this evening, holding rallies in the battleground states of Arizona and Nevada. The Reno, Nevada, event specifically attempted to appeal to the state's Asian American population.
- Both of their running mates also hit the campaign trail today, with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz making stops in North Carolina and Sen. JD Vance speaking at and participating in a town hall at separate events in Michigan.
What the Justice Department could look like in a Kamala Harris presidency
Harris’ team is quietly considering potential nominees for attorney general, looking at who could serve as America’s top federal law enforcement official if she defeats Trump, the federal criminal defendant who sent the Justice Department spiraling into chaos during his presidency and as he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Harris, a former prosecutor, is known to have a good relationship with Attorney General Merrick Garland, who has overseen the sprawling investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and appointed special counsel Jack Smith, who brought two criminal cases against Trump.
Fracking workers in Pennsylvania are divided over whom they will cast their ballots for in the presidential election. NBC News’ Emma Barnett has more on the how fracking is affecting the election.
Hillary Clinton compares Trump rally at Madison Square Garden to pro-Nazi rally there in 1939
In an interview on CNN, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton compared Trump's upcoming rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City to a rally of Nazi supporters at that same location in 1939.
"One other thing that you'll see next week, Kaitlan, is Trump actually re-enacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939," she told CNN's Kaitlan Collins.
"President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that neo-Nazis, fascists, in America were lining up to essentially pledge their support for the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany. So I don't think that we can ignore it," she added.
Democrats are increasingly blasting Trump and calling him a fascist after his former chief of staff John Kelly used the word to describe him. Trump this evening denied ever having said positive things about Adolf Hitler, including that he needed "the kind of generals that Hitler had."
Stacey Williams goes public with her allegations against Donald Trump
Thirty-one years after Stacey Williams says she was groped by Donald Trump while Jeffrey Epstein watched, the 56-year-old writer, consultant and former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model went public this week with her allegation.
Williams, 56, told her story on a “Survivors for Kamala” Zoom call Monday night that was open to the public and that organizers said hundreds of people joined. It featured an array of women discussing their experiences with sexual violence and included actor Ashley Judd and Tarana Burke, who founded the #MeToo movement.
Williams, a registered Democrat who attended the 2008 Democratic National Convention and has been involved in liberal causes in the past, said on the Zoom call that her decision to come forward was in part related to the election.
Trump denies ever saying he wanted generals like Hitler’s or that the Nazi leader ‘did some good things’
Trump tonight denied ever having said positive things about Adolf Hitler during his time in office, including that he needed “the kind of generals that Hitler had.”
“I never said that,” Trump said in response to a reporter’s question about an article this week in The Atlantic.
“I would never say that,” he added, directly denying the magazine’s reporting.
Liz Cheney's PAC sends $2.5 million to major Democratic super PAC
AB PAC, the super PAC arm of the Democratic research organization American Bridge, received a $2.5 million donation this month from Our Great Task, former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney's PAC.
The donation, disclosed in a new campaign finance filing, is the latest piece of Cheney's campaign to defeat Trump and Republicans this fall. Cheney was once the No. 3 Republican in the party's House leadership, but she fell out with the party after she voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
Vance says Ukrainians will have to decide whether to cede land to Russia, after arguing they should
During a NewsNation town hall, Vance was asked whether he thought Ukraine would be "put into a situation where it has to cede some of the land that Russia" controls.
"I honestly think Ukrainians are going to have to make that decision themselves," he responded.
"Russia is going to, of course, to make the decision about what it will do to stop the fighting," he said later. "But we’re going to have to get these guys together. We don’t have to like Russia. We don’t have to agree with them invading, but we’ve got to get them together and engage in civil diplomacy."
Vance has previously argued that Ukraine should give up some of its land captured by Russia to end the war.
Trump is in Clark County, Nevada, to encourage early voting among Asian and Latino voters. NBC News' David Noriega reports on how the Trump campaign plans to reach key demographics.
Harris campaign highlights John Kelly's comments about Trump in new ads
The Harris campaign is highlighting former Trump chief of staff John Kelly's comments to The New York Times that Trump meets the definition of a "fascist" and that Trump had told him that "Hitler did some good things, too."
The Times released audio clips this week of Kelly's comments — clips that the Harris campaign featured in the ad, which airs on television and digital platforms in battleground states.
The ad, titled "We Were Warned," is part of the campaign's $370 million fall paid media efforts, according to a campaign official.
"He certainly falls into the general definition of a fascist," Kelly told the newspaper in an audio clip used in the ad.
Kelly said, "He commented more than once, 'Hitler did some good things too.'"
The ad ends with a text message in red type across a black screen. The text reads: "Donald Trump is unhinged. Unstable. In pursuit of unchecked power."
Steven Cheung, a Trump campaign spokesperson, said in a statement that Kelly “totally beclowned himself” by recounting “debunked stories” about the Trump administration.
Colorado election officials say they identified at least a dozen fraudulent ballots
At least a dozen mail ballots were stolen, fraudulently filled out and submitted in Colorado for the Nov. 5 election, the Colorado secretary of state’s office said today.
Officials said the issue was identified via the signature verification process, which checks the signatures on ballots against those the state has on file for voters.
Authorities said the ballots were mailed into the Mesa County election office via the U.S. Postal Service, not returned in drop boxes.