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What's happening on the campaign trail today
- Former President Donald Trump rallied today in Albuquerque, New Mexico, before he headed to Henderson, Nevada. He's also set to participate in a hurricane relief benefit with Tucker Carlson in Glendale, Arizona, tonight.
- Vice President Kamala Harris held events out West today, participating in rally concerts in Phoenix and Las Vegas and speaking in Reno, Nevada. Ahead of the Phoenix event, she told NBC News that Trump's remarks yesterday about protecting women whether they "like it or not" show how he "devalues" women.
- Their running mates are also on the campaign trail. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz held events in Pennsylvania. Sen. JD Vance stopped in North Carolina and sat down with podcaster Joe Rogan for an interview in which he suggested he and Trump can win the “normal gay guy vote.”
RFK Jr. details his conversation with Trump about possible future health responsibilities
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the audience at a Tucker Carlson event tonight about his conversations with Trump regarding possible responsibilities if Trump is elected again.
“As soon as Donald Trump started talking about giving me the power, he asked me to do three things. He asked me to root out the corruption and end the conflicts of interest in our regulatory agencies and end this corporate capture that has turned out regulatory agencies into sock puppets, the industries they’re supposed to regulate," Kennedy said.
He also said that he would advise Trump "to ban pharmaceutical advertising on TV.”
NBC News has reported that Kennedy could play a large health role in a future Trump administration.
Would Justice Department and FBI officials carry out Trump’s prosecutions of his rivals?
Since he entered the 2024 race, Trump has called for the criminal prosecution of at least 16 rival politicians and 15 law enforcement, military and intelligence officials — according to an NBC News review of his public comments — not to mention workers at two federal public health agencies, two tech billionaires, Google and any lawyers, campaign donors and political operatives who engage in what he has called “unscrupulous behavior” in the election.
A separate recent review by National Public Radio found that Trump had issued threats of prosecution more than 100 times.
The winner of the presidential election will play a crucial role in shaping U.S. relations with countries involved in conflicts. NBC News’ Janis Mackey Frayer, Kier Simmons and Matt Bradley report from around the world on how Harris and Trump are addressing key international issues, including the Russia-Ukraine war, the Middle East conflict and the threat posed by China.
'It pisses me off': Emhoff responds to Trump's personal attacks on Harris
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff described in an interview tonight how he feels when Trump hurls personal insults against Harris on the campaign trail.
“As a husband, it pisses me off,” Emhoff said in response to a question from MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell. “But as a first gentleman — you know, someone who hopes to be the first gentleman married to the next president of the United States — we cannot be distracted by it."
"So no matter how I feel about it as her husband, I’ve got to put it to the side so we don’t get distracted, so we focus on this mission of getting her elected,” he added.
Emhoff, who practiced law before his wife became vice president, also talked about his role fighting antisemitism during the Biden administration.
“When they took office, at first it was a little bit of a struggle, frankly, to figure out what I would do, what my role would be,” he said. “But it was Kamala Harris who was the one who pushed me into issues like fighting antisemitism and hate.”
“That was really her up until this very day continuing to push me out in the face of so much hate and antisemitism to use that platform to speak out,” said Emhoff, the first man and the first Jewish person to be married to a vice president.
Thousands of ballots are at stake as the Supreme Court considers Pennsylvania voting rules
Pennsylvania’s mail balloting policies have been the focus of intense litigation since the 2020 election. Now, two new cases may address the rules in the biggest battleground state on the eve of the election, with implications for thousands of ballots that have already been mailed in or dropped off.
The latest fights — and there may be more to come — present two issues. The first case is about whether a voter who returns a “deficient” mail ballot — for example, a mail ballot missing its “secrecy envelope” or one that was undated or misdated by a voter — can cast a provisional ballot, instead, on Election Day, as was the general practice in 2022. The state Supreme Court recently said yes, based on state law, but the U.S. Supreme Court may soon weigh in. The NBC News Decision Desk estimates that thousands of votes could be at stake.
Harris hits back at Trump's RFK Jr. health proposal with one word
Trump said at his rally tonight that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would "work on health and women's health" if Trump wins another term.
Harris hit back on X with a single word: "No."
She added a heart emoji.
Trump hits back at Mark Cuban over comment about 'strong, intelligent women'
Trump said tonight that he surrounds himself "with the strongest of women” after Harris surrogate Mark Cuban suggested in an interview on "The View" earlier today that “you’ve never seen him around strong, intelligent women ever.”
Trump pushed back against Cuban's remark tonight on X, saying Cuban “is very wrong, I surround myself with the strongest of women,” before delivering a series of insults directed at him.
“All strong women, and women in general, should be very angry about this weak man’s statement,” Trump added.
Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt also responded to Cuban’s remark in a statement, calling it "extremely insulting to the thousands of women who work for President Trump, and the tens of millions of women who are voting for him.”
Cuban was responding on ABC's "The View" to Trump's saying at a rally last night that he plans to protect women "whether the women like it or not."
“It’s just that simple, they’re intimidating to him," Cuban said. "He doesn’t like to be challenged by them."
After his remark sparked criticism, some of it from Republican lawmakers, Cuban said on X this afternoon that he knows “many strong, intelligent women voting for Trump” and that he knows Trump has “worked with strong intelligent women.”
"I stand by my opinion that he does not like being challenged publicly," he added.
After the Los Angeles Dodgers’ World Series win, gamblers are turning to presidential election bets. Now legal across the U.S., election betting has surged, with platforms, including Robinhood, accepting wagers. However, concerns have been raised about political betting’s influence on voting behavior.
Trump unloads on Harris, calling her a 'child' who would get 'overwhelmed' by presidency
Trump increased his barrage of personal attacks on Harris at his Nevada rally tonight, calling her "weak," "foolish" and "a child."
"She can’t handle the presidency, she’ll get overwhelmed, melt down, and millions of people will die," Trump said without explanation. "This is not a charity event. This is an election for the biggest and most important job in history."
Harris, of course, has spent four years as vice president.
"Do you want to lose your life savings because we put a weak and foolish person in the White House?" Trump asked. "Do you want to lose your job, or maybe your house or pension, because Kamala has the economic understanding of a child? She's a child."
The Harris campaign has been endorsed by 23 Nobel Prize-winning economists, as well as business leaders such as Mark Cuban, Reid Hoffman and Reed Hastings.
Earlier today, Harris said Trump "does not understand that most people are exhausted with his rhetoric, exhausted with that approach, exhausted with an approach that Donald Trump has that’s trying to divide our country and have Americans point fingers at each other."
Trump says 'if we got something better' than Obamacare, 'I would do it'
Trump said at his Nevada rally that Harris is lying when she says he would undo the Affordable Care Act if he is re-elected.
But moments later, Trump said he was open to making changes to the law and replacing it.
Trump said he "made it good" during his first term, "but it still stinks, OK? If we got something better, I would do it, if it was less expensive. It's too expensive. It is not a very good form of health care."
During his term, Trump repeatedly tried to dismantle major parts of the ACA. He has tried to distance himself from that position during this campaign, including pushing back against House Speaker Mike Johnson's comments this week that there would be "massive" changes to Obamacare if Trump is re-elected, as NBC News has reported. Still, just last month, Trump called the ACA “lousy” and said, “We’re going to replace it."
