Harris says ‘justice has been served’ as Biden hails ‘good day for Israel’ after death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar – US politics live

Women “did not want this”, Harris says, explaining that they are dying of sepsis and having fertility treatment cut off.

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“I mean it just gets more unbelievable sometimes. And now the man calls himself the father of IVF? I mean, what does that even mean?” she says.

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“When you listen to Donald Trump talk, it becomes increasingly clear, I think, he has no idea what he’s talking about when it comes to the healthcare of women in America.”

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Just stepping away from the rally for a moment: Politico reports that a judge has denied Donald Trump’s effort to block a new dossier of Jack Smith’s evidence from becoming public, as the special counsel seeks to argues that the former US president is not entitled to immunity from prosecution, in the wake of a July supreme court ruling:

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BREAKING: Judge Chutkan has denied Trump's effort to block a new dossier of Jack Smith's evidence from becoming public.

She says she will unseal it tomorrow.

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 17, 2024

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The decision comes as federal prosecutors said in a court filing that Donald Trump “resorted to crimes” in a failed bid to cling to power after losing the 2020 election.

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The filing unsealed in early October argued that the former US president is not entitled to immunity from prosecution.

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It was submitted by Smith’s team following a supreme court opinion that conferred broad immunity on former presidents and narrowed the scope of the prosecution.

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In case you missed those comments from Trump: during a Fox News town hall taped Tuesday, Trump declared that he is “the father of IVF”, despite acknowledging during his answer that he needed an explanation of IVF in February, after the Alabama supreme court ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law.

n Trump said he instructed Katie Britt, a Republican senator from Alabama, to “explain IVF very quickly” to him in the aftermath of the ruling.

n As concerns over access to fertility treatments rose, Trump pledged to promote IVF by requiring health insurance companies or the federal government to pay for it. Such a move would be at odds with the actions of much of his own party.

n Even as the Republican party has tried to create a national narrative that it is receptive to IVF, these messaging efforts have been undercut by GOP state lawmakers, Republican-dominated courts and anti-abortion leaders within the party’s ranks, as well as opposition to legislative attempts to protect IVF access.

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Tonight in Green Bay, Kamala Harris plans to spotlight reproductive rights, including showing the Wisconsin voters what Trump has been saying about women on the campaign trail.

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She will respond to Trump’s baffling comments calling himself the “father of IVF”.

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That event is expected to start any minute – we will bring it to you live.

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Kamala Harris has hailed the death of Yahya Sinwar as an opportunity to finally end the war in Gaza and prepare for “the day after” when Hamas no longer dominated the territory.

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The US vice-president and Democratic nominee said “justice has been served” with the death of the Hamas leader, adding that the US, Israel and the wider world were “better off as a result”.

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Locked in a titanic election contest with Donald Trump to win the battleground state of Michigan, home to a large Arab-American voting bloc sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, Harris also pressed for an end to the year-long hostilities that have killed more than 42,000 people in Gaza and left a trail of destruction in the territory.

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“Hamas is decimated and its leadership is eliminated,” she said. “This moment gives us an opportunity to finally end the war in Gaza.” The end of the conflict had to be accompanied by security for Israel, the release of the remaining hostages and an end to suffering in Gaza, she said.

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She also hinted at her support for Palestinian statehood by saying it should herald Palestinians’ rights to “dignity, security, freedom and self-determination”.

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Her comments chimed with those of Joe Biden, who has been criticised by progressives for unstinting support for Israel even while Netanyahu had ignored his entreaties to avoid civilian casualties and ease humanitarian suffering in the tiny coastal territory.

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“Israel has had every right to eliminate the leadership and military structure of Hamas,” Biden said in comments that appeared designed to answer criticisms of his support.

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  Joe Biden has released a statement on Israel’s killing of Hamas’s chief Yahya Sinwar. In his statement, Biden called the killing a “good day for Israel, for the United States, and for the world”, adding that he planned to speak to Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders.

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  Kamala Harris also commented on Israel’s killing of Sinwar while on the campaign trail in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “This moment gives us an opportunity to end the war in Gaza,” the US vice-president and Democratic nominee for president in this election, said.

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  Donald Trump told the audience at the Univision town hall last night that “we can’t destroy our country” in order to save the planet from the climate crisis. Answering a question from a veteran construction worker, who had seen first-hand “the devastating impacts of climate change”, whether he still believed global warming was a hoax, Trump launched into a lengthy tirade.

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  At a rally in Durham, North Carolina, Tim Walz delivered a fiery criticism of Donald Trump.“When Trump is talking about bringing back stop-and-frisk policies, those are harassment that went on to the Black community, specifically Black males, and put a disproportionate number of them into incarceration,” he told supporters.

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  Biden announced today further student debt relief for public servants – amounting to about $4.5bn. The action affects about 60,000 borrowers across the country, said the White House, touting the efforts of the US president and Harris to improve loan forgiveness since taking office.

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Meanwhile, in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Kamala Harris slammed Trump’s performance at the Univision town hall yesterday, when he referred to 6 January 2021, when rioters stormed the capitol and injured over 140 police officers, “a day of love”.

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“The American people are exhausted with his gaslighting. Enough. We are ready to turn the page. We’re done,” she said.

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During the Univision town hall, a Republican voter told Trump the former president had lost his vote due to his response to the January 6 riots and the coronavirus pandemic. Trump responded: “Nothing done wrong at all.”

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“There were no guns down there. We didn’t have guns. The others had guns, but we didn’t have guns,” he said. “And when I say we, these are people that walked down – this was a tiny percentage of the overall which nobody sees and nobody, nobody shows. But that was a day of love.”

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At a rally in Durham, North Carolina, Tim Walz delivered a fiery criticism of Donald Trump.

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“When Trump is talking about bringing back stop-and-frisk policies, those are harassment that went on to the Black community, specifically Black males, and put a disproportionate number of them into incarceration,” he told supporters.

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Walz also slammed the idea that Trump “understood” the needs of voters. “If any of our relatives … tells us ‘Donald Trump understands us’, that’s bullshit. He does not understand us. He does not understand you,” Walz said, noting that the former president didn’t “give a damn” if social security checks cleared.

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He appeared at the rally alongside former president Bill Clinton.

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Walz: "Let's us start saying the quiet part out loud about Trump… when Trump is talking about bringing back stop and frisk policies, those are harassment that went on to the Black community, specifically Black males, and put a disproportionate number of them into incarceration" pic.twitter.com/aEOF2hRmBN

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 17, 2024

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Senior Democrats in US cities are preparing to defend their communities in the event of Donald Trump’s return to the White House after the former president has repeated threats that he would use presidential powers to seize control of major urban centers.

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Trump has proposed deploying the military inside major cities largely run by Democrats to deal with protesters or to crush criminal gangs. He has threatened to dispatch large numbers of federal immigration agents to carry out mass deportations of undocumented people in so-called “sanctuary” cities.

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He also aims to obliterate the progressive criminal justice policies of left-leaning prosecutors.

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“In cities where there has been a complete breakdown of law and order … I will not hesitate to send in federal assets including the national guard until safety is restored,” Trump says in the campaign platform for his bid to become the 47th US president, Agenda47.

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Trump provoked uproar earlier this week when he called for US armed forces to be deployed against his political rivals – “the enemy within” – on election day next month. But his plans to use national guard troops and military personnel as a means to attack those he sees as his opponents go much wider than that, spanning entire cities with Democratic leadership.

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Mayors and prosecutors in several US cities are collaborating over strategies to minimize the fallout. Levar Stoney, the Democratic mayor of Richmond, Virginia, a city of more than 220,000, said he was aware how difficult it would be to resist Trump given the enormous powers at a president’s disposal.

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“It’s very difficult to autocrat-proof your city,” he said. “But you have to have backstops, and mayors are working in coalition to ensure they can be a backstop against these divisive policies.”

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Read more:

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Joe Biden has released a statement on Israel’s killing of Hamas’s Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar.

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In his statement, Biden called the killing a “good day for Israel, for the United States, and for the world”.

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Biden went on to add, “As the leader of the terrorist group Hamas, Sinwar was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Israelis, Palestinians, Americans, and citizens from over 30 countries.”

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“Over 1,200 people were killed on that day, the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, including 46 Americans. More than 250 were taken hostage, with 101 still missing. That number includes seven Americans, four of whom are believed to still be alive and held by Hamas terrorists. Sinwar is the man most responsible for this, and for so much of what followed,” Biden continued in his statement.

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He added that he will be speaking soon with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders to “discuss the pathway for bringing the hostages home to their families, and for ending this war once and for all, which has caused so much devastation to innocent people.”

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Notably, Biden made no mention of the 42,400 Palestinians – including healthcare workers and journalists – that Israeli forces killed since October or the nearly 2 million survivors who Israeli forces have forcibly displaced across the narrow strip.

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Moments ago, Kamala Harris stepped up to a podium while on the election trail in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and commented on Israel’s stating that it killed Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, in a battle in Gaza today.

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“This moment gives us an opportunity to end the war in Gaza,” the US vice-president and Democratic nominee for president in this election, said.

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She said “justice has been served” over the reported killing of the leader of the Islamist militants that control Gaza.

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Harris reiterated the administration’s stance that “Israel has the right to defend itself and called for the remaining hostages held by Hamas since it led an attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, to be released.

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But she added that “the suffering must end” in Gaza and said it was “time for the day after to begin without Hamas in power”. Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not pledged a ceasefire.

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We are live blogging all the developments in Gaza, Lebanon and Israel, here.

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  Donald Trump told the audience at the Univision town hall last night that “we can’t destroy our country” in order to save the planet from the climate crisis. Answering a question from a veteran construction worker, who had seen first-hand “the devastating impacts of climate change”, whether he still believed global warming was a hoax, Trump launched into a lengthy tirade.

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  Kamala Harris posted that “Donald Trump incited an attack on our nation’s democracy because he didn’t like the outcome of the election. If January 6 [2021] was a bridge too far, there is a place for you in our campaign.” This is further outreach from the Democratic nominee for president herself, including to hammer home facts about the insurrection at the US Capitol that day. It came a day after she did an interview with rightwing Fox News and led a rally attended by more than 100 prominent Republicans.

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  Tim Walz, Harris’s running mate, will campaign in Durham and Winston-Salem in North Carolina with Common today, to mark the first day of early voting in that important swing state. The Emmy-winning rapper and voting rights activist is to join Walz in Winston-Salem, in a push to get out the vote.

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  Harris is on a swing through two vital “blue wall” states today, with campaign stops including Milwaukee, La Crosse and Green Bay in Wisconsin, then heading to Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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  Joe Biden announced today further student debt relief for public servants – amounting to about $4.5bn. The action affects about 60,000 borrowers across the country, said the White House, touting the efforts of the US president and Harris, his vice-president and successor as presidential nominee, to improve loan forgiveness since taking office.

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During Donald Trump’s Univision town hall, the former president pushed back on the climate crisis, telling an audience member at one point: “We can’t destroy our country” in order to save the climate.

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Answering a question from a veteran construction worker who had seen first-hand “the devastating impacts of climate change” on whether he still believed global warming was a hoax, Trump launched into a lengthy tirade, saying:

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I get awards, environmental awards, for the way I build it for the water, the way I use the water, the sand, the mixing of the sand and the water, I mean, many different, but I’ve had many awards over the years for environmental, the way I’ve built because you know about building, that’s what you do … ”

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Q: Given the amount of the mounting evidence of climate change, do you still believe it's a hoax?

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— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 17, 2024

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Donald Trump incited an attack on our nation’s democracy because he didn’t like the outcome of the election.

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Trump has repeatedly said that he did not lose the 2020 election – a baseless claim which his running mate JD Vance doubled down on this week, saying: “Did Donald Trump lose the election? Not by the words that I would use.”

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Kamala Harris is set to travel through Wisconsin today, Politico reports.

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Her stops include Milwaukee, La Crosse and Green Bay, as well as a college business class. The US vice-president will also hold two rallies before heading to Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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The US president, Joe Biden, announced on Thursday further student debt relief for public servants – amounting to about $4.5bn – with just over two weeks to go until the presidential election, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).

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The action affects about 60,000 borrowers across the country, said the White House, touting Biden and Kamala Harris’s efforts to improve loan forgiveness since taking office.

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AFP reports that the announcement comes as US households feel the weight of higher costs of living since the Covid-19 pandemic, with voters citing the economy as a crucial concern in polls.

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Biden said in a statement that with the latest move, more than one million people have had their debt cancelled under Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

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The promise of the programme – supporting teachers, nurses and others – involved student debt forgiveness after 10 years of public service and 10 years of payments.

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“But for too long, the government failed to live up to its commitments, and only 7,000 people had ever received forgiveness,” Biden said. “I will never stop working to make higher education affordable,” he added.

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Biden has embarked on efforts to cancel student debt for millions of Americans, after a student loan payment freeze instituted by Donald Trump during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Americans hold $1.6tn in student loans, and some end up repaying them over decades as they start jobs and families.

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The Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, on Wednesday stood by debunked claims that immigrants in Ohio were eating pets, telling Latino voters during a town hall he was “just saying what was reported”, according to Reuters.

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Trump in recent weeks has amplified a false claim that has gone viral that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were stealing residents’ pets or taking wildlife from parks for food.

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There have been no credible reports of Haitians eating pets, and officials in Ohio – including Republicans – have repeatedly said the story is untrue.

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At a town hall hosted by the Spanish-language television network Univision, an undecided Mexican-born Latino Republican voter from Arizona, a battleground state, asked Trump in Spanish whether he truly believed that immigrants were eating pets.

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“I was just saying what was reported … And eating other things too that they’re not supposed to be. All I do is report,” Trump replied during the event held in Miami. “I was there, I’m going to be there and we’re going to take a look.”

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According to Reuters, Trump added that “newspapers” had also reported on the claim, without naming any or providing any details.

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Trump, who has not yet traveled to Springfield, has previously said he would conduct mass deportations of Haitian immigrants from the Ohio city, even though the majority of them are in the US legally.

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The city has faced bomb threats since Trump began repeating the false accusations about Haitians.

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The Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, on Wednesday described 6 January 2021, when thousands of his supporters attacked the Capitol in Washington DC in a bid to stop formal certification of Trump’s election defeat, as a “day of love”.

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During a town hall with a Latino audience, hosted by Spanish-language television network Univision yesterday, Trump was told by a participant that he wanted to give the former US president a chance to “win back his vote” given his concerns over the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot, reports Reuters.

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Thousands of Trump supporters attacked the Capitol in Washington DC that day causing millions of dollars in damage. Four people died on the day of the attack, and one Capitol police officer who fought against the rioters died the next day.

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At the town hall in Miami, Trump gave a lengthy response in which he described 6 January 2021 as a “day of love” and said former administration officials who had turned against him were angry about having been fired.

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“I hope someday maybe we’ll get your vote,” Trump said as he wrapped up. “Sounds like maybe I won’t, but that’s OK too.”

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Trump also stood by debunked claims that immigrants in Ohio were eating pets, telling Latino voters during a town hall he was “just saying what was reported”.

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Trump in recent weeks has amplified a false claim that has gone viral that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were stealing residents’ pets or taking wildlife from parks for food.

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There have been no credible reports of Haitians eating pets, and officials in Ohio – including Republicans – have repeatedly said the story is untrue.

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More on this story in a moment, but first, here are the latest updates:

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  Surrounded by more than 100 former Republican officeholders and officials, Kamala Harris urged GOP voters on Wednesday to put “country first” and abandon Trump. Trump is “unstable” and “unhinged” and would eviscerate democratic norms if given a second White House term, she said. “America must heed this warning”.

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  In her interview on Fox News, Harris was asked about the Biden administration’s efforts to tackle illegal immigration at the southern border, and laid the blame on Republicans for failing to pass a border bill. Harris said Trump told Republicans to reject the bill because “he preferred to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem.”

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  In the Fox interview, Harris singled out Iran when asked which foreign country she considers to be America’s greatest adversary. The interviewer, Bret Baier, questioned whether the Biden-Harris administration was “acting like Iran is the number one threat”.

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  Trump’s running mate, JD Vance answered “no” when asked if Trump lost the 2020 election, at a Pennsylvania rally. “What message do you think it sends to independent voters when you do not directly answer the question ‘Did Donald Trump lose in 2020?’” the reporter asked, eliciting boos from the crowd. Vance said, “No. I think there were serious problems in 2020”.

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  Trump doubled down on his controversial comments about “the enemy from within” made over the weekend. Before an all-female audience in Cumming, Georgia, Trump mocked Harris and her allies as “sick”, “evil” and “a party of soundbites”. He told the Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner: “They’re very dangerous. They’re Marxists and communists and fascists. They’re the threat to democracy.”

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  In Trump’s Univision town hall he was asked to name three virtues possessed by Harris, which he did, before again attacking her. He said that “she seems to have an ability to survive,” that “she seems to have some pretty longtime friendships” and that “she seems to have a nice way about her.” “I mean, I like the way some of her statements, some of her – the way she behaves, in a certain way. But in another way, I think it’s very bad for our country,” he said.

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  A Georgia judge has declared that seven new election rules recently passed by the state election board are “illegal, unconstitutional and void”. The Fulton county superior court judge, Thomas Cox, issued the order on Wednesday after holding a hearing on challenges to the rules. The rules that Cox invalidated included three that had garnered a lot of attention: one that required that the number of ballots be hand-counted after the close of polls and two that had to do with the certification of election results.

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  Jimmy Carter, the centenarian former Democratic president, has voted in the 2024 presidential election, his representatives confirmed on Wednesday. A statement from the Carter Center did not reveal who he voted for, but it is assumed the 100-year-old, who is in hospice care, cast his ballot for the Democratic candidate Harris.

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  Alabama cannot remove thousands of people from its voter rolls on the eve of the presidential election, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. The US district judge Anna Manasco, an appointee of Trump, issued a preliminary injunction halting an effort by Alabama’s top election official to try to remove more than 3,200 people from the voter rolls who it suspected of being non-citizens until at least after the presidential election.

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  The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin has called on the Department of Justice to investigate text messages they say targeted and tried to discourage young people from voting in the November election. The League of Women Voters says it initially learned of the alleged text campaign on 10 October, when the group received numerous complaints from voters who had received the text. Two people in their 20s who work with the League of Women Voters also received the message, which reads: “WARNING: Violating WI Statutes 12.13 & 6.18 may result in fines up to $10,000 or 3.5 years in prison. Don’t vote in a state where you’re not eligible.”

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“The last Democrat not to attend this important event was Walter Mondale,” Trump says, “And it did not go very well for him. He lost 49 states and he won one: Minnesota. So I said there’s no way I’m missing it.”

Mondale “was expected to do well, then it didn’t work out,” Trump jokes. “It shows you there is a god.”

Trump then says that Harris is weird and it is weird that Harris isn’t here tonight – saying the word several times, referring to the insult Harris and Tim Walz direct at Trump and his supporters.

“Always: It’s a rule, you gotta go to the dinner, you gotta do it, otherwise bad things are going to happen to you from up there,” Trump jokes, getting a laugh – he is referring to God.

“But my opponent feels that she does not have to be here which is disrespectful to the event and in particular to our Catholic community,” Trump says. The crowd claps.

“They’ve gone after me. Mr Mayor, you’re peanuts compared to what they did to me,” Trump says.

“Mayor Adams, good luck with everything, they went after you,” Trump says to a big laugh.

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Trump is receiving a warm response from the crowd.

“They told me under no circumstances are you allowed to use a teleprompter and I get up here and see there is a beautiful teleprompter,” he says.

Unclear if that is a joke or more of Trump’s obsession with whether Harris is using teleprompters or not.

“You know, here’s the thing that’s so amazing about Donald Trump. It is impossible not to have a strong opinion about Donald Trump. You either think he is endearingly outspoken and brash. Or you think he is a sociopath and you’d like to be his running mate,” Gaffigan jokes. “Donald Trump and I have a lot in common. We both have five children and we both have a lush mane of golden hair. And we both try to travel as much possible to get away from our families.”

Gaffigan then turns to Trump: “I want you to know if you are re-elected, I always liked you. And I’m not saying that because I don’t want to be sent to a labour camp. Well, I guess that’s the reason, sir,” Gaffigan says.

He invites Trump to the stage.

The crowd boos that joke. Someone to Gaffigan’s right said, “We talked about leaving that out.”

“I was gonna leave that out,” Gaffigan says, to laughter.

“As I watched that I couldn’t help but think now I know how my kids felt when I face-timed into a piano recital they were at,” Gaffigan says.

The crowd cheered – not hugely enthusiastically, but more than just politely – following Harris’s appearance.

Gaffigan says, “Shortly I will introduce President Trump, who will likely talk about how vice president Harris’s absence likely proves she hates Catholics, Americans, and babies. Then CNN and MSNBC will say he went to far, and Elon Musk and Fox News will say he was pitch perfect.”

Gaffigan turns to Trump’s baseless claims about immigrants eating cats and dogs. “You know this is the second time grabbing a kitty has been a campaign issue,” he says.

He is referring to Trump’s – much talked about in the 2016 election – “grab em by the pussy” comments.

As Harris turns to face the screen, she says the dinner “provides a rare opportunity to set aside politics”.

She lists various philanthropic activities achieved by the church.

“In the spirit of tonight’s dinner, let us commit to reaching across the divide,” Harris says.

“It is a very important dinner, and an important tradition to be a part of,” Harris says in her video.

Actress and former SNL cast member Molly Shannon appears, playing her fictional Catholic school pupil character Mary Katherine Gallagher.

She makes a speech from House of Dragons, about the need for a woman leader.

Harris asks for advice: Shannon-as-Gallahgher suggests she doesn’t lie, as it is a sin.

Harris says you shouldn’t lie, especially, about “thy neighbour’s election results”.

She would never insult Catholics, Harris says – taking another jibe at Trump: “that would be like insulting Detroiters when you’re in Detroit.”

Harris’s video appearance is being played now at the dinner. Here it is:

“The Democrats have been telling us Trump’s re-election is a threat to democracy. In fact, they were so concerned of this threat, they staged a coup, ousted their democratically elected incumbent, and installed Kamala Harris. In other words, all her dreams have come true. It really makes me consider the power of prayer, right Cardinal. Sometimes prayers takes three and a half years and a George Clooney op-ed,” Gaffigan jokes.

“This is of course a historic race for many reasons. If vice-president Harris wins this election, not only would she be the first female president – a Black woman would be occupying the White House, a former Trump residence,” Gaffigan says.

Addressing Trump, he adds, “Obviously, you wouldn’t be renting to her. I mean that would never happen anyway.”

“Harris’s trajectory has been astounding. In the course of just a couple of months, she went from a mediocre vice-president to everyone’s mamala,” Gaffigan says, to a very muted response.

Harris will be the first to (virtually) address the room, he says.

“You have to admit, the Democrats have done an amazing job rebranding vice-president Harris. The term joyful warrior was used so many times at the Democratic convention I felt like I was at a yoga retreat,” Gaffigan jokes.

“Let’s start off in a joyful warrior pose, and go straight into a downward-facing Doug Emhoff pose. Now laugh uncontrollably.”

“We live in divided times, and I hope whoever is elected in November, they establish an initiative to heal the divide that exists in this country. And I have a great name for this. It could be called, ‘Project 2025’,” Gaffigan jokes.

The media has begun discussing the phenomenon of secret Trump voters. I don’t know if you’ve heard about this: people who publicly say they would never vote for Trump, but when they go in the booth, they do. It’s a small group, it’s called the Biden family,” Gaffigan jokes. That one gets a pretty big laugh, including from Trump.

This election is “being left up to American voters and four billionaires”, Gaffigan jokes.

“There is one group that baffles me. And I think it baffles most everyone in this country. And I’m talking about the undecided voter. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? You don’t know who you’re voting for?” Gaffigan says.

“You don’t see a difference between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Like nobody has ever thought, ‘Wait, is that a Trump quote or a Harris quote?’”

Here is Gaffigan, with Trump and Melania Trump seated to his left.

“I feel like Donald Trump would probably be less loyal to RFK [Jr] than he would be to KFC,” Gaffigan says.