As former president Barack Obama is hitting the campaign trail for Harris this evening, former first lady, Michelle Obama, through her national, non-partisan voting initiative When We All Vote has relaunched Party at the Polls, the organization’s program to increase voter turnout.
In a news release announcing the relaunch, When We All Vote said that during the month of October and into November, the organization’s partners and volunteers will host nonpartisan celebrations near early voting locations across the country in order to “increase voter turnout and bring their communities together to cast their ballots”.
The parties are free to attend and open to everyone in the community, it added.
Tempe, Arizona police announced today that an office for the Democratic National Committee was shot at in the early hours of Sunday morning, the Washington Post reports. According to police, it’s the third time an unidentified individual has shot at the campaign office since 16 September. Fortunately, given the late hour (each of the three shootings has occured between midnight at 1am), no one was in the building.
Police have released images of a 2008-2013 Silver Toyota Highlander they believe may be involved in the shootings and offered a $1,000 reward for any information that leads to an arrest.
Kamala Harris’s campaign event in Las Vegas has concluded, and the vice-president will be en route to Phoenix shortly. Harris is expected to speak again this evening at 6.30pm Arizona time (9.30pm ET) – just after former president Barack Obama is scheduled to deliver remarks on behalf of Harris’s campaign in Pittsburgh.
For those who were unable to attend the Las Vegas town hall, the event will air on Univision this evening at 10pm.
A day after Donald Trump insulted them, the hosts of The View are reacting to the former president.
“Donald Trump, I want to thank you for personally telling so many lies and committing so many alleged crimes and providing us with material on a daily basis,” said co-host Sunny Hostin. “You help us do our jobs and I’m so appreciative.”
Trump spoke about Hostin, and her co-host Whoopi Goldberg, at a campaign event in Pennsylvania yesterday. He called Hostin “dumber than Kamala” and Goldberg “demented”, adding that she had a “foul mouth”.
Goldberg told the Associated Press she was proud of her reputation. “I was filthy and stand on that fact. I have always been filthy.”
Kamala Harris is campaigning today at a Univision town hall in Las Vegas, in hopes of strengthening her support among Latino voters. She’ll be stopping in Arizona later in the day.
At the town hal, – which was hosted by the US’s largest provider of Spanish-language content – the vice-president answered questions about immigration, Medicare and Hurricane Milton.
In response to one woman, who spoke of her mother’s recent death and asked Harris about her plan for those who “live and die in the shadows”, Harris referenced the Biden administration’s proposals to create a pathway to citizenship, the New York Times reports. And in response to another, who shared her own story of contracting long Covid, Harris said she had advocated to define the post-viral illness as a disability under federal law.
Meanwhile, speaking about the disinformation surrounding the federal government’s hurricane response, she reiterated the refrain she has held to in the past days that “this is not a time for people to play politics.”
For more on Harris’s supporters (and detractors) within the Latino electorate, check out reporting from the Guardian’s Joseph Contreras and Melissa Hellmann.
With the fifth circuit court of appeals hearing arguments today on a case that could determine the future of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca), the Obama-era law protecting immigrants who came to the US as children from deportation, members of Congress are speaking up.
Representatives Greg Stanton of Arizona, and Salud Carbajal and Lou Correa of California – who are affiliated with the New Democrat Coalition Immigration and Border Security task force – have released the following statement:
Once again, the fate of the DACA program is in the courts – just the latest attempt by anti-immigrant judges and politicians to upend the lives of Dreamers and their families.
It’s unacceptable that many of our colleagues across the aisle, for so many years, have failed to join Democrats in passing the American Dream and Promise Act. These talented young individuals are American in every way but legal status, yet they live in constant fear and uncertainty. If the courts were to strip away DACA protections without a legislative solution in place, the negative effects would reverberate across the country.
Dreamers are embedded in the fabric of American communities. They work and pay taxes, attend our colleges and universities, and serve in our military. Ending the DACA program would mean pushing hundreds of thousands of talented people out of the workforce – a blow the U.S. economy can’t afford.
The vast majority of Americans, of all backgrounds, believe Dreamers deserve a pathway to citizenship. New Dems call on our colleagues to work across the aisle to pass legislation years in the making to finally end this legal limbo.”
Here’s some Guardian coverage of the ongoing challenges faced by Daca recipients:
More Michigan politicians are speaking up in defense of the city of Detroit today after Donald Trump insulted the manufacturing hub while speaking there.
“Detroit is the epitome of ‘grit,’ defined by winners willing to get their hands dirty to build up their city and create their communities – something Donald Trump could never understand,” Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer wrote on Twitter/X.
Michigan congressman Shri Thanedar added: “keep Detroit and our people out of your mouth.”
And Michigan state representative Joe Tate chimed in: “This is the greatest city in the country & we’ve bounced back after Trump killed our jobs, closed our businesses, & tried to throw out our votes.”
Detroit’s Democratic mayor, Mike Duggan, had this to say about Donald Trump insulting the city during his visit today:
Once the fifth largest city in the country with a population that topped 1.8 million in the 1950s, Detroit’s economy has struggled in decades and the city went bankrupt in 2013. Its population is now about 630,000, but last year, it began adding residents once again.
In addition to insulting his host city, Donald Trump used his speech at the Detroit Economic Club to propose making interest on car loans fully deductible.
Such a policy, he argued, would spur Americans to buy vehicles made by Detroit’s automakers:
The former presidenthas made cutting taxes a cornerstone of his economic policies, including exempting taxes on tips – a policy that Kamala Harris says she also supports.
Donald Trump outlined his economic proposals in a speech to the Detroit Economic Club this afternoon, and could not stop himself from insulting the most populous city in swing state Michigan.
Referring to Kamala Harris, Trump said: “Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she is your president. You’re going to have a mess on your hands.”
The former president’s speech was yet another barnburner. It lasted for about an hour and 45 minutes, and he’s now sitting down for a Q&A.
Joe Biden grew salty this afternoon at the White House, when reporters covering his speech on the response to hurricanes Milton and Helene asked him if he planned to talk to Donald Trump about the misinformation he has been spreading about the storm.
“Are you kidding me?” the president replied. Then, addressing Trump himself, Biden said: “Mr president Trump, former president Trump, get a life, man. Help these people.”
Asked if he planned to call Trump, Biden replied: “No!”
You can see the moment here:
Trump and his supporters have been making an array of untrue claims about the government’s response to the hurricanes that have devastated swaths of the south-eastern US, outraging emergency officials.
Here’s more:
As former president Barack Obama is hitting the campaign trail for Harris this evening, former first lady, Michelle Obama, through her national, non-partisan voting initiative When We All Vote has relaunched Party at the Polls, the organization’s program to increase voter turnout.
In a news release announcing the relaunch, When We All Vote said that during the month of October and into November, the organization’s partners and volunteers will host nonpartisan celebrations near early voting locations across the country in order to “increase voter turnout and bring their communities together to cast their ballots”.
The parties are free to attend and open to everyone in the community, it added.
President Joe Biden has just been speaking at the White House about the federal response to Hurricane Milton in Florida.
You can read about that in our Hurricane Milton live-blog here:
Democratic vice-presidential candidate and governor of Minnestoa, Tim Walz, is scheduled to campaign in Wisconsin on Monday.
The Harris campaign said on Thursday that Walz will campaign in Green Bay and Eau Claire, and that this will be his fifth visit to the state since becoming the vice-presidential candidate.
This comes as a recent Quinnipiac university poll published this week showed Kamala Harris trailing Trump by two percentage points in Wisconsin.
Bernie Sanders will also be campaigning on behalf of Vice-President Harris.
Sanders will hold events in key battleground state Michigan, in Traverse City and Marquette.
The senator “will discuss the most pressing issues facing working class residents of the Great Lakes State. The Senator will focus in particular on the Harris campaign’s plans to lower costs for working families, protect Social Security, and expand Medicare.”
Bill Clinton is going to hit the campaign trail for Kamala Harris, focusing on battleground states in the south.
A spokesperson for the Harris campaign confirmed the news about the former US president and husband to Hillary Clinton on X, writing “The Harris campaign unleashes the Big Dog.”
Clinton will travel to Georgia on Sunday and later make a stop in North Carolina.
Source: US Politics - theguardian.com
