Voters view Harris as debate winner as she builds national lead over Trump, poll finds – live

This blog is closing soon, thanks for joining us. Here’s a recap of today’s main developments:

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  Donald Trump announced he would not participate in a second debate with Kamala Harris, saying she has turned down previous opportunities to meet and alleging she lost their Tuesday night face-off. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll found Harris the overall winner of the Tuesday evening face-off, and slightly improving her lead nationally.

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  Republicans blamed the influence of Laura Loomer, a rightwing conspiracy theorist, for Trump’s botched debate performance on Tuesday. The Semafor website quoted an unnamed source close to Trump’s campaign as saying they were “100%” concerned about Loomer’s sway over the Republican nominee.

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  The mayor of Springfield, Ohio, said a bomb threat that forced the evacuation of the city hall and other buildings on Thursday, had used “hateful language” towards Haitians and other immigrants. Springfield was thrust into the spotlight this week after Donald Trump and other Republicans including JD Vance promoted the false rumour that immigrants in the city are eating people’s pets.

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  Donald Trump had two counts tossed from his criminal case in Georgia over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, after the presiding judge decided on Thursday they fell under the supremacy clause in the US constitution that bars state prosecutors from charging federal crimes.

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  Donald Trump has failed in his latest attempt to lift the limited gag order imposed on him by Juan Merchan, the judge who presided over the trial in which the former president was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush-money payments. New York’s appeals court declined Trump’s request today “upon the ground that no substantial constitutional question is directly involved”.

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  A North Dakota judge struck down its near-total ban on abortions, saying the state constitution protects some access to the procedure, and the law as written is vague, the Associated Press reports. District judge Bruce Romanick’s decision comes in a lawsuit filed by North Dakota’s sole abortion clinic, which has moved to neighboring Minnesota since the ban was signed by Governor Doug Burgum in 2022.

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  The joint session of Congress scheduled for 6 January 2025 to count and certify electoral votes will be considered a “national special security event” by the homeland security department, all because of what happened last time.

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  Alberto Gonzales, a Republican who served as attorney general under George W Bush, announced he will vote for Harris. “As the United States approaches a critical election, I can’t sit quietly as Donald Trump – perhaps the most serious threat to the rule of law in a generation – eyes a return to the White House,” he wrote in a column for Politico.

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Donald Trump is now in Tucson, Arizona, for a rally – his first since his debate with Kamala Harris.

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Arizona is a key swing state that both candidates will want to secure. Tucson, however, leans heavily Democratic. Second gentleman Doug Emhoff also scheduled a visit to the city today on behalf of the Harris-Walz campaign.

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The former president, who is widely judged as having fumbled his debate against Harris, began by airing his frustrations on stage.

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“Polls clearly show that I won the debate against Comrade Kamala,” Trump said. Early or flash polls after the debate found that, in fact, viewers largely thought that Harris had won the debate. Trump also called moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis “lowlives” for fact-checking him during the debate.

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Kamala Harris just took the stage at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she continued to push Donald Trump to debate again, despite his announcement that he would not do so.

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“Two nights ago, Donald Trump and I had our first debate, And I believe we owe it to the voters to have another debate, because this election and what is at stake could not be more important,” the vice-president said to applause.

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An Atlanta-area judge dismissed two of the charges brought against Donald Trump by Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney, for allegedly trying to overturn Georgia’s 2020 elections, but allowed the rest of the case to proceed, Reuters reports.

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The charges dismissed by judge Scott McAfee deal with filing false documents in federal court. McAfee allowed eight other allegations against the former president to stand.

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Donald Trump announced he will not participate in a second debate with Kamala Harris, saying she has turned down previous opportunities to meet and alleging she lost their Tuesday night face-off.

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“When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are, ‘I WANT A REMATCH.’ Polls clearly show that I won the Debate against Comrade Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ Radical Left Candidate, on Tuesday night, and she immediately called for a Second Debate,” the former president wrote on Truth Social.

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Trump restated his much-repeated claim that Harris and Joe Biden have “destroyed our Country”, then said:

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Everyone knows this, and all of the other problems caused by Kamala and Joe – It was discussed in great detail during the First Debate with Joe, and the Second Debate with Comrade Harris. She was a no-show at the Fox Debate, and refused to do NBC & CBS. KAMALA SHOULD FOCUS ON WHAT SHE SHOULD HAVE DONE DURING THE LAST ALMOST FOUR YEAR PERIOD. THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!

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The Harris campaign has previously said she would be willing to debate Trump again sometime in October. Trump’s running mate JD Vance remains scheduled to debate Tim Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, on 1 October in New York.

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Donald Trump’s pollsters say support for the former president has increased in swing states since his debate against Kamala Harris.

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In a memo, Tony Fabrizio and Travis Tunis write that the candidates were tied before the debate, but after surveying 1,893 likely voters in seven swing states, Trump now leads Harris 48% to 46% when third-party candidates are included, and 50% to 47% in a head-to-head matchup.

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“Clearly, target state voters were not impressed by Kamala Harris’ empty platitudes and while the media would have people believe she is cruising to victory, this couldn’t be farther from the truth,” the pollsters write.

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It’s back to the campaign trail for both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, two days after their first and perhaps only debate. The vice-president has two events planned for this afternoon in North Carolina, while Trump will be in Arizona. Speaking of the debate, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Harris the overall winner of the Tuesday evening face-off, and slightly improving her lead nationally. In the legal arena, a New York appeals court just rejected another attempt by Trump to get the gag order imposed on him in his hush-money case lifted.

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Here’s what else has happened today so far:

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  North Dakota’s strict ban on abortion was tossed out by a judge who said it ran afoul of the state constitution and was vague.

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  The joint session of Congress scheduled for 6 January 2025 to count and certify electoral votes will be considered a “national special security event” by the homeland security department, all because of what happened last time.

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  Alberto Gonzales, a Republican who served as attorney general under George W Bush, announced he will vote for Harris.

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Reuters is out with one of the first polls since Kamala Harris and Donald Trump debated on Tuesday evening, and found voters view the vice-president as the winner in the debate, where Trump came off as the less sharp candidate.

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Harris is also building her lead among registered voters nationally to 47% over Trump’s 42%, a slight jump from previous weeks, according to the survey, which was conducted with Ipsos. Here’s more about it:

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The two-day poll showed Harris with a five percentage point lead among registered voters, just above the four-point advantage she had over Trump in an Aug 21-28 Reuters/Ipsos poll.

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Among voters who said they had heard at least something about Tuesday’s debate, 53% said Harris won and 24% said Trump won. Some 52% of respondents said that Trump stumbled and didn’t appear sharp, while 21% said that of Harris.

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Harris, 59, put Trump, 78, on the defensive with a stream of attacks on his fitness for office and his myriad legal woes.

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The poll surveyed 1,690 US adults nationwide, including 1,405 registered voters. It had a margin of error of around three percentage points for registered voters.

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A North Dakota judge struck down its near-total ban on abortions, saying the state constitution protects some access to the procedure, and the law as written is vague, the Associated Press reports.

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District judge Bruce Romanick’s decision comes in a lawsuit filed by North Dakota’s sole abortion clinic, which has moved to neighboring Minnesota since the ban was signed by Governor Doug Burgum in 2022. Burgum made a failed run for the Republican presidential nomination this year, and has since become a top surrogate to Donald Trump.

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Donald Trump has failed in his latest attempt to lift the limited gag order imposed on him by Juan Merchan, the judge who presided over the trial in which the former president was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush-money payments.

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New York’s appeals court declined Trump’s request today “upon the ground that no substantial constitutional question is directly involved”.

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Trump has repeatedly complained about the gag order, which prevents him from making public statements about the case’s prosecutors, court staff and their families.

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The Department of Homeland Security announced yesterday that the joint session of Congress scheduled for 6 January 2025 to certify the winner of the November election will be given high-level protection as a “national special security event”.

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The January event be the first gathering of senators and House representatives to count electoral votes since Donald Trump’s supporters attacked the Capitol on the same day in 2021.

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The designation puts the Secret Service in charge of security for the day and allows “significant resources from the federal government, as well as from state and local partners”, to be deployed, the homeland security department said.

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“National special security events are events of the highest national significance,” the special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s dignitary protective division, Eric Ranaghan, said in a statement.

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“The US Secret Service, in collaboration with our federal, state and local partners, are committed to developing and implementing a comprehensive and integrated security plan to ensure the safety and security of this event and its participants.”

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Capitol police officers battled Trump’s supporters throughout the building in 2021, and had this to say about the designation:

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This national special security event (NSSE) designation will help us build on the plans that we have already put into place to protect the members of Congress and the constitutional process on January 6. Our department has made more than 100 improvements during the last few years to prepare for anything. We are working closely with our law enforcement partners, as we do during other NSSEs such as the State of the Union, to ensure the legislative process goes smoothly.

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The Harris campaign is embarking on an “aggressive” new phase, building off of the vice-president’s commanding performance in Tuesday night’s debate against Donald Trump.

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The stepped-up battleground state travel will be paired with a series of new TV and digital advertisements featuring moments from the debate, the first of which, Leadership, aired on Wednesday night.

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It features moments from the debate, including the vice-president saying Americans are seeing “two very different visions for the country: one that is focused on the future, one that is focused on the past”. The ad then cuts to Trump saying: “We’re a failing nation. A nation that is dying. We’re a nation that’s in serious decline.”

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The campaign, newly energized after Harris’s performance, said it spent hours on Wednesday reviewing footage of the debate, culling what it believes are revealing exchanges that show Trump on the defensive and Harris’s offering a vision for the future.

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In an interview with the Financial Times, Leonard Leo, the conservative activist who was involved in the effort to build the current rightwing supermajority on the supreme court, says he will spend $1b to fight liberal cultural influence in the United States.

n “We need to crush liberal dominance where it’s most insidious, so we’ll direct resources to build talent and capital formation pipelines in the areas of news and entertainment, where leftwing extremism is most evident,” Leo told the FT in a rare interview.

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“Expect us to increase support for organisations that call out companies and financial institutions that bend to the woke mind virus spread by regulators and NGOs, so that they have to pay a price for putting extreme leftwing ideology ahead of consumers.”

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In a separate letter obtained by Axios, Leo writes that his 85 Fund will review its support of rightwing groups, saying it wants to prioritize efforts to “weaponize the conservative vision”.

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“The 85 Fund intends to gap-fill by placing much, much greater emphasis on projects and leaders that operationalize or weaponize ideas and policies, much in the same way the Left has,” Leo wrote.

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Senate Democrats have attempted to get Leo to testify about his activities, but he has so far frustrated them:

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Alberto Gonzales, the attorney general under Republican president George W Bush, says he will vote for Kamala Harris.

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Gonzales made the announcement with a column in Politico, where he wrote:

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As the United States approaches a critical election, I can’t sit quietly as Donald Trump – perhaps the most serious threat to the rule of law in a generation – eyes a return to the White House. For that reason, though I’m a Republican, I’ve decided to support Kamala Harris for president.

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His reasons center less on support for Harris’s policies than disgust with Donald Trump’s actions, including his involvement in January 6:

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Trump failed to do his duty and exercise his presidential power to protect members of Congress, law enforcement and the Capitol from the attacks that day. He failed to deploy executive branch personnel to save lives and property and preserve democracy. He just watched on television and chose not to do anything because that would have been contrary to his interests. Trump still describes that day as beautiful. And as for those subsequently convicted of committing crimes, he describes them as hostages.

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His felony convictions:

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Any discussion about fidelity to the rule of law has to include Trump’s 34 state felony convictions, his state civil financial judgment of libel based on sexual abuse, as well as the pending federal elections interference case, not to mention the recently dismissed federal documents case that Special Counsel Jack Smith is continuing to pursue. Standing alone, these charges, convictions and judgments show that Trump is someone who fails to act, time and time again, in accordance with the rule of law.

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And the fact that so many of the former president’s senior officials have turned against him:

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To be fair, I have spoken with Trump only once. I do not really know him. It is telling, however, that several senior officials who worked for him in the White House now refuse to support him, including his vice president, chief of staff, defense secretary and national security adviser. Their unwillingness to endorse their former boss is an indictment of his character at a level equal to his many, many criminal indictments.

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Gonzales, interestingly, also says he thinks the supreme court should adopt “a tougher ethics code of disclosure”.

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Here’s the latest on the ongoing controversy over the justices’ ethics:

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Soon after Joe Biden announced he was ending his bid for re-election, misinformation started spreading online about whether a new candidate could take the president’s place.

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Screenshots that claimed a new candidate could not be added to ballots in nine states moved quickly around Twitter, now X, racking up millions of views. The Minnesota secretary of state’s office began getting requests for fact-checks of these posts, which were flat-out wrong – ballot deadlines had not passed, giving Kamala Harris plenty of time to have her name added to ballots.

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The source of the misinformation: Twitter’s chatbot, Grok. When users asked the artificial intelligence tool whether a new candidate still had time to be added to ballots, Grok gave the incorrect answer.

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Finding the source – and working to correct it – served as a test case of how election officials and artificial intelligence companies will interact during the 2024 presidential election in the US amid fears that AI could mislead or distract voters. And it showed the role Grok, specifically, could play in the election, as a chatbot with fewer guardrails to prevent the generating of more inflammatory content.

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Donald Trump can be seen as a Russian asset, though not in the traditional sense of an active agent or a recruited resource, an ex-FBI deputy director who worked under the former US president said.

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Asked on a podcast if he thought it possible Trump was a Russian asset, Andrew McCabe, who Trump fired as FBI deputy director in 2018, said: “I do, I do.”

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He added: “I don’t know that I would characterize it as [an] active, recruited, knowing asset in the way that people in the intelligence community think of that term. But I do think that Donald Trump has given us many reasons to question his approach to the Russia problem in the United States, and I think his approach to interacting with Vladimir Putin, be it phone calls, face-to-face meetings, the things that he has said in public about Putin, all raise significant questions.”

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McCabe was speaking to the One Decision podcast, co-hosted by Sir Richard Dearlove, a former head of MI6, the British intelligence service.

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Donald Trump’s campaign publicly claimed victory in the debate against Kamala Harris on Tuesday night, but at least some of his aides privately conceded it was unlikely that he persuaded any undecided voters to break for him, according to people familiar with the matter.

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“Will tonight benefit us? No, it will not,” one Trump aide said.

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The sentiment summed up the predicament for the Trump campaign that with 55 days until the election, Trump is still casting around for a moment that could allow his attack lines against Harris to break through and overwrite her gains in key battleground state polls.

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And it was an acknowledgment that despite their hopes of getting Happy Trump on stage, they got Angry Trump, who seemingly could not shake his fury at being taunted over his supporters leaving his rallies early and being repeatedly fact-checked by the moderators.

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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are focusing on swing states today.

n Harris is scheduled to hold rallies in North Carolina – in Charlotte and Greensboro, the Associated Press reported.
n Trump is heading west to Tucson, Arizona.

n Yesterday, the candidates marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

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At a fire station in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, close to where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed, Trump posed for photos with children who wore campaign shirts. Joe Biden and Harris visited the same fire station earlier in the day.

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Hello and welcome back to our rolling US political coverage.

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An estimated 67.1 million people watched the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, a 31% increase from the June debate between Trump and President Joe Biden that eventually led to the president dropping out of the 2024 race.

n The debate was run by ABC News but shown on 17 different networks, the Nielsen company said. The Trump-Biden debate in June was seen by 51.3 million people.

n Tuesday’s count was short of the record viewership for a presidential debate, when 84 million people saw Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s first face-off in 2016. The first debate between Biden and Trump in 2020 reached 73.1 million people.

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There was a marked increase in younger and middle-aged viewers, with 53% more adults aged 18-49 tuning in to see Harris debate Trump than watched Biden do the same, according to Nielsen data.

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• Donald Trump announced he would not participate in a second debate with Kamala Harris, saying she has turned down previous opportunities to meet and alleging she lost their Tuesday night face-off. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll found Harris the overall winner of the Tuesday evening face-off, and slightly improving her lead nationally.

• Republicans blamed the influence of Laura Loomer, a rightwing conspiracy theorist, for Trump’s botched debate performance on Tuesday. The Semafor website quoted an unnamed source close to Trump’s campaign as saying they were “100%” concerned about Loomer’s sway over the Republican nominee.

• The mayor of Springfield, Ohio, said a bomb threat that forced the evacuation of the city hall and other buildings on Thursday, had used “hateful language” towards Haitians and other immigrants. Springfield was thrust into the spotlight this week after Donald Trump and other Republicans including JD Vance promoted the false rumour that immigrants in the city are eating people’s pets.

• Donald Trump had two counts tossed from his criminal case in Georgia over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, after the presiding judge decided on Thursday they fell under the supremacy clause in the US constitution that bars state prosecutors from charging federal crimes.

• Donald Trump has failed in his latest attempt to lift the limited gag order imposed on him by Juan Merchan, the judge who presided over the trial in which the former president was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush-money payments. New York’s appeals court declined Trump’s request today “upon the ground that no substantial constitutional question is directly involved”.

• A North Dakota judge struck down its near-total ban on abortions, saying the state constitution protects some access to the procedure, and the law as written is vague, the Associated Press reports. District judge Bruce Romanick’s decision comes in a lawsuit filed by North Dakota’s sole abortion clinic, which has moved to neighboring Minnesota since the ban was signed by Governor Doug Burgum in 2022.

• The joint session of Congress scheduled for 6 January 2025 to count and certify electoral votes will be considered a “national special security event” by the homeland security department, all because of what happened last time.

• Alberto Gonzales, a Republican who served as attorney general under George W Bush, announced he will vote for Harris. “As the United States approaches a critical election, I can’t sit quietly as Donald Trump – perhaps the most serious threat to the rule of law in a generation – eyes a return to the White House,” he wrote in a column for Politico.

The mayor of Springfield, Ohio, has said a bomb threat that led to the evacuation of City Hall and numerous buildings on Thursday “used hateful language towards immigrants and Haitians in our community.”

“Springfield is a community that needs help,” mayor Rob Rue told the Washington Post. The mayor added that national leaders should provide that help and not “hurt a community like, unfortunately, we have seen over the last couple of days.”

Springfield was thrust into the spotlight this week after Donald Trump and other Republicans including vice presidential candidate JD Vance promoted the false rumour that immigrants in the city are eating people’s pets.

Kamala Harris took the stage in Greensboro, North Carolina, and immediately brought up this week’s debate and Donald Trump’s decision not to take part in another.

We “owe it to the voters” to have another, she said, to big applause from the crowd.

She also talked more about her past as a prosecutor and her plans for new home-owners and small businesses: “From the courtroom to the White House, my client have been the American people,” she said.

“I will always put the middle-class and working-class families first, I know where I came from,” she said. “I’m clear about that.”

The White House has rebuked Donald Trump for his association with far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who has been traveling with him this week and who has been identified as a key promoter of the false rumour that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, have been eating people’s pets.

Before Trump’s debate with Kamala Harris on Tuesday, Loomer made racist comments about Harris, who is of Indian descent, saying that if she won the 5 November election, “the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center”.

“It is repugnant, these types of comments, it is un-American to say these types of things, exactly the kind of hateful and divisive rhetoric that we should denounce,” Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House spokesperson, said on Thursday, according to Reuters.

“No leader should ever associate with someone who spreads this kind of ugliness, this kind of racist poison,” Jean-Pierre said.

At the Tucson rally, Trump also promised to eliminate taxes on overtime pay.

But it is unclear how such a policy would work. It is also worth noting that Project 2025, the platform devised for a second Trump term, seeks to make overtime – also known as time-and-a-half pay – more confusing for workers to navigate and would likely reduce the number of workers eligible for overtime.

From PolitiFact:

The plan doesn’t call for banning overtime wages. It recommends changes to some Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, regulations and to overtime rules. Some changes, if enacted, could result in some people losing overtime protections, experts told us.

The document proposes that the Labor Department maintain an overtime threshold “that does not punish businesses in lower-cost regions (e.g., the southeast United States).” This threshold is the amount of money executive, administrative or professional employees need to make for an employer to exempt them from overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Robert Reich, the former US labor secretary, responded to Trump’s incendiary claims about immigrants by noting that immigrants make up about a fifth of the country’s essential workforce.

A 2020 report from the bipartisan immigration and criminal justice reform group Fwd.us estimated that one in five essential workers were immigrants, including in the medical, agriculture and food service industries. The group also estimated that “more than two-thirds of all undocumented immigrant workers serve in frontline jobs in essential industries”.

America is prosperous largely BECAUSE of immigrants.

Nearly 23 million immigrants are considered essential workers — that's 1 in 5 individuals in the total U.S. essential workforce.

They should be lauded for their importance and commitment to our country, not demonized. https://t.co/Fog9ip5ytx

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) September 12, 2024

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America is prosperous largely BECAUSE of immigrants.

Nearly 23 million immigrants are considered essential workers — that’s 1 in 5 individuals in the total U.S. essential workforce.

They should be lauded for their importance and commitment to our country, not demonized. https://t.co/Fog9ip5ytx

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) September 12, 2024

At his event in Tucson, Donald Trump is repeating many of his rote lines about the US-Mexico border, accusing arrivals at the southern border of “stealing” jobs and falsely accusing immigrants overall of driving up crime rates.

In a city that is not far from the border, Trump doubled down on his racist denigration of immigrants and asylum seekers.

He also repeated misinformation about immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, “walking off” with geese in the town’s public parks and with residents’ pets. The hoax can be traced back to a Facebook post that has been debunked. Trump’s assertion during the debate that immigrants “are eating the dogs … they’re eating the cats” has been widely ridiculed.

Markwayne Mullin, the US senator from Oklahoma, would not say whether he would accept a peaceful transfer of power if Trump were to lose and every state certified the result.

In an interview with CNN’s Pamela Brown, Mullin repeated election misinformation and made vague references to “irregularities”.

I asked Sen. Markwayne Mullin if he would vote to certify November's election results once every state has certified them.

His response: "It's hard to say." pic.twitter.com/SLHHIfTohR

— Pamela Brown (@PamelaBrownCNN) September 12, 2024

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I asked Sen. Markwayne Mullin if he would vote to certify November’s election results once every state has certified them.

His response: “It’s hard to say.” pic.twitter.com/SLHHIfTohR

— Pamela Brown (@PamelaBrownCNN) September 12, 2024

Trump speaks in Tucson at first post-debate rally

Donald Trump is now in Tucson, Arizona, for a rally – his first since his debate with Kamala Harris.

Arizona is a key swing state that both candidates will want to secure. Tucson, however, leans heavily Democratic. Second gentleman Doug Emhoff also scheduled a visit to the city today on behalf of the Harris-Walz campaign.

The former president, who is widely judged as having fumbled his debate against Harris, began by airing his frustrations on stage.

“Polls clearly show that I won the debate against Comrade Kamala,” Trump said. Early or flash polls after the debate found that, in fact, viewers largely thought that Harris had won the debate. Trump also called moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis “lowlives” for fact-checking him during the debate.

Donald Trump’s lawyer Steve Sadow has released a statement on the ruling.

“President Trump and his legal team in Georgia have prevailed once again. The trial court has decided that counts 15 and 27 in the indictment must be quashed/dismissed,” he said.

Two of the charges brought against Trump by Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney, for allegedly trying to overturn Georgia’s 2020 elections were dropped.

The dropped charges dealt with filing false documents in federal court. But the judge in the case allowed eight other allegations against the former president to stand.

Correction: A previous version of this post quoted Sadow saying that counts 15 and 17 were dismissed. Sadow corrected the quote and we updated this post to reflect that the counts were actually 15 and 27.

“It is important that the vice-president continues to define and expose Trump,” Bernie Sanders wrote in an op-ed for the Guardian. “But it may not be enough to secure a victory. Voters are hungry for a candidate that will deliver meaningful, material change to their lives.”

The Vermont senator writes:

I applaud Harris for laying out the fundamentals of her economic vision: she promised to cap the cost of prescription drugs for all Americans at $2,000, address the severe housing crisis we face by building 3m units of affordable housing, eliminate medical debt, and take on corporate price gouging that has made it impossible for working families to afford groceries and other basic necessities.

The American people want change, and that’s what Harris must deliver

These are valuable policies. I believe, however, that her chances of winning improve if she expands that agenda to include popular solutions to the most important economic and political realities facing this country.

The American people want change, and that’s what she must deliver.

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Kamala Harris, riding high off Donald Trump’s poor debate performance, has honed in on one line from her opponent:

Kamala Harris: "He said! He said! Concepts of a plan!" pic.twitter.com/pMTCNU1Rf5

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 12, 2024

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During the debate this week, moderator Linsey Davis asked Trump to detail his new approach to healthcare – which he had repeatedly promised to deliver in his previous two presidential runs.

When Trump equivocated, Davis doubled down: “So just a yes or no,” she said. “You still do not have a plan?”

“I have concepts of a plan,” Trump replied.

The fumble was especially unfortunate given that surrogates and advisers talked up the president’s dedication to talk policy.