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What's happening on the campaign trail today
- Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, made appearances at different churches today. Harris visited New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, while Walz attended services at Victorious Believers Ministries in Saginaw, Michigan.
- Former President Donald Trump stopped by a McDonald’s in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he used the fry cooker. Trump has frequently hit Harris for saying she worked at a McDonald’s in the past.
- Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, and second gentleman Doug Emhoff also hit the campaign trail today with stops in Wisconsin and Michigan, respectively.
Poll: Voters repelled by election denial and overturning Roe — and drawn to economic proposals
Voters are far less likely to back candidates who say Trump won the 2020 election or who support the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, and they are more likely to support a candidate who they feel is working to address high costs, according to the latest national NBC News poll.
With voters citing the economy and inflation, abortion, immigration and democracy as top issues in this election, the survey tested a series of policy proposals on those topics, offering clues about which policies could move voters. The survey did not identify which party or candidate is associated with the proposals.
Harris and Trump continue to campaign in key battleground states as the clock ticks down to Election Day. Harris sharpened her attacks on Trump’s age and mental fitness, while Trump criticized her effectiveness as vice president. NBC’s Dasha Burns reports for "Sunday TODAY."
Bidens celebrate new expanded White House Tour
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden tonight celebrated an expanded version of the White House tour, which will be unveiled tomorrow.
The first lady argued the expanded tour will allow different kinds of learners to get to know the White House.
“Education is my life’s work, and I know that there are three kinds of learners: visual, auditory and tactile,” Jill Biden said. “The White House tour now lets visitors touch, hear and see their history up close."
Joe Biden emphasized the importance of making "The People’s House" more accessible to the public, referring to his family as “temporary renters” of the space.
The expanded tour marks the first time the Diplomatic Reception Room will be open to public tours.
'60 Minutes' denies accusations from Trump
CBS News' "60 Minutes" denied Trump's accusation that its interview with Harris was edited deceptively to help her.
"60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation that used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes," the show said in a statement. "Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response. When we edit any interview, whether a politician, an athlete, or movie star, we strive to be clear, accurate and on point.
"The portion of her answer on 60 Minutes was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide ranging 21-minute-long segment," the statement continued.
The news show previously said Trump pulled out of his interview with the program, and it said in its statement today that "if he would like to discuss the issues facing the nation and the Harris interview, we would be happy to have him on 60 Minutes."
Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said the statement "is an admission that they did exactly what they were accused of."
"This is another reminder of how hopelessly biased 60 Minutes is, and how correct President Trump was to decline their invitation to be subjected to their fake news hackery," she added.
Vance dismisses Jill Stein as a spoiler, says the 'second best' candidate after Trump is 'anybody not named Kamala Harris'
In his sole campaign event of the day, Vance made his first direct remarks about Green Party candidate Jill Stein and lambasted Harris for what he described as an “anti-Christian approach to public policy.”
“I think that Democrats, if they’re worried about spoilers, they ought to look in the mirror, because Bobby Kennedy had a hell of a lot more support than Jill Stein ever did, and they’re trying to prevent him from getting off the ballot,” Vance said, a reference to Kennedy’s failed bid to remove himself from Michigan’s general election ballot.
“I don’t know much about Jill Stein. I obviously don’t think she’s going to get a whole lot of votes, but my attitude is the best person to vote for is Donald J. Trump and the second-best person to vote for is anybody not named Kamala Harris,” he continued, met with applause from the crowd gathered in a local aircraft hangar.
During tonight’s event, billed with a focus on Catholic voters in Milwaukee’s crucially important suburbs, Vance used broad strokes to accuse Harris of “anti-Christian” prejudice and directly weaponized faith against the Democratic ticket, even though both Harris and Walz attended church services this morning in Georgia and Michigan, respectively.
“Harris is the candidate of anti-Christian and anti-Catholic bigotry. She brags about it. That’s her policy record. Donald Trump is the candidate of defending your First Amendment right to practice your faith however you want to, because this is the United States of America and we believe in religious liberty in this country,” Vance said, without offering specific examples to support his assertion other than two vague references to abortion.
Arnold Palmer's daughter reacts to Trump's references about golfer's anatomy
Arnold Palmer's daughter reacted to Trump's mention of the golfing legend's genitalia during a bizarre rally yesterday, saying she Trump's remarks had not upset her while calling it a "poor choice of approaches."
"There’s nothing much to say. I'm not really upset," Peg Palmer Wears told The Associated Press today. "I think it was a poor choice of approaches to remembering my father, but what are you going to do?"
Trump began a rally yesterday at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, by telling an anecdote about the golfer, suggesting he had unusually large genitalia.
"He was strong and tough, and I refuse to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there they said, 'Oh, my God. That’s unbelievable,'" Trump said.
Republican former Ohio governor endorses Democrat Sherrod Brown
Former Ohio Gov. Bob Taft, a Republican, announced today that he will vote for Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, in the competitive Senate race.
"Although still a Republican, I will be making an exception this year in Ohio’s U.S. Senate race by supporting Sherrod Brown," Taft wrote in an editorial in the Dayton Daily News. "In doing so, I will be joining most voters who make judgments about candidates based not just on party affiliation but, often more importantly, on the candidate and his or her character, experience and expertise."
Taft did not mention the name of Brown's Republican rival, Bernie Moreno. Instead, he focused on Brown's credentials, highlighting his history in office and seniority in the Senate as "advantageous to Ohioans."
"He knows all of Ohio well and understands the concerns and challenges of people across our state, whether in Dayton, Springfield or East Palestine, the site of a tragic train derailment," Taft said. "In my experience he and his staff at locations across Ohio provide excellent constituent service to individual Ohioans no matter who they are or how they have been affected by government decisions."
Taft was Ohio's governor from 1999 to 2007. In 1990, he beat Brown in a race to be Ohio's secretary of state.
"Bob Taft is the only guy to beat me in an election," Brown said in a post to X alongside a link to Taft's editorial. "Despite our political differences, I’m grateful to have his support in this race."
Harris says Trump ‘demeans the office’ of the president after he calls her a ‘s---’ vice president
Harris reacted today to Trump’s calling her a “s---” vice president, telling the Rev. Al Sharpton on MSNBC that “the American people deserve so much better.”
She went on to talk about the importance of the president’s setting a standard not only nationally, but also internationally — saying Trump’s behavior “demeans the office.”
Mark Cuban speaks out against piece of Harris’ tax plan while campaigning for her
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban said yesterday while campaigning for Harris that he would campaign against her if he thought she would tax wealthy people’s “unrealized gains,” which is part of the tax plan she has endorsed.
Cuban headlined a town hall event attended by Arizona entrepreneurs as a surrogate for the Harris-Walz campaign. Toward the end of the event, a man asked him, “Quick question: What about unrealized gains?”
Trump tries to troll Harris by serving french fries at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s
Trump served up french fries today at a Philadelphia-area McDonald’s, oversalting spuds and peppering in some jabs at Harris.
The campaign visit in the critical battleground state just over two weeks from Election Day was designed to troll Harris, who has talked about having worked at one of the fast-food chain’s restaurants when she was younger. Without evidence, Trump has accused he of lying about the experience as a way to improve her working-class credibility.
