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  Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a speech in Atlanta, focusing on topics revolving abortion access.

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  Donald Trump called Kamala Harris “a threat to democracy.”During the former president’s speech in the battleground state Pennsylvania, Trump said Harris “shouldn’t even be the candidate.”

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  R&B star Usher spoke briefly to a crowd of about 10,000 Saturday at Lakewood Amphitheater in Atlanta assembled for a campaign rally for Kamala Harris with Barack Obama.

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  The Michigan-born rapper Lizzo expressed her support for Kamala Harris at a rally in Detroit. Lizzo said she voted early, and encouraged the audience to do the same, calling an early vote “a power move.”

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  Kamala Harris rallied at a high school in Detroit, Michigan. The Vice President delivered remarks at Western International High School in Detroit, Michigan, on Saturday. Her comments come a day after Harris traveled across the state with presidential campaign rallies in Grand Rapids, Lansing and Oakland County.

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During the former president’s speech in the battleground state Pennsylvania, Trump said Harris “shouldn’t even be the candidate.”

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“They should have picked a candidate fairly, not just given it to her because they want to be politically correct,” Trump added.

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The Republican presidential nominee said that Representative Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer approached Joe Biden about his candidacy and “took it away” from him.

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“I think he might have done better than she’s going to do, because all we had to do is expose her as a lunatic,” Trump said, referring to Harris.

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Usher, an influential R&B musician and bedrock of Atlanta’s musical contributions, spoke briefly to a crowd of about 10,000 Saturday at Lakewood Amphitheater in Atlanta assembled for a campaign rally for Kamala Harris with Barack Obama.

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Usher did not perform, though he has two concerts scheduled in Atlanta this weekend. He appeared on stage ahead of Obama.

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“I feel that this is a momentous opportunity for each and every one of us,” Usher said. “We have an opportunity to choose a new generation of leadership for our country. …“She fights for everyone’s rights. For freedom. … We have to strive to not allow our past to define our future.”

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Usher, like every other speaker so far at the rally, pressed the crowd to vote early and to reach friends and family for votes.

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“How we vote – I mean everything that we do in the next 17 days will affect our children, our grandchildren, all the people we love the most.”

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Trump is has recently started delivering his speeches on schedule.

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He began by telling the story of the Pennsylvanian golfer Arnold Palmer. Trump is holding his rally at the airport in Latrobe named after the golfer.

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Senator Bob Casey showed support for some Trump-era policies in his new ad, which aired on Friday in parts of the state,

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The ad features a Republican-Democrat couple from Old Forge praising Casey as an independent leader. They say he opposed Biden on fracking and backed Trump on trade issues like ending NAFTA and imposing tariffs on China.

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Bob Casey, Senate Democrat in Pennsylvania, touts breaking with Biden on fracking and agreeing with Trump on trade in this new ad… https://t.co/rOz8d6iUzX

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) October 18, 2024

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Barack Obama will hold an event on Saturday to rally voters for Kamala Harris on the first day of early voting in Nevada.

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The Harris campaign said the former president will encourage voters to turn out and vote for Harris, Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Democrats up and down the ballot.

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Kamala Harris told reporters that she’s dedicated more time on the campaign trail and called former president Donald Trump “increasingly unstable and unhinged” as she rallied in Detroit, Michigan.

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The vice-president was asked about her rapid response toward her rival, which seems like a more aggressive shift than the way she was handling his attacks before.

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“It requires that response,” she said. “The American people deserve better than someone who actually seems to be unstable.”

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The Vice President delivered remarks at Western International High School in Detroit, Michigan, on Saturday. Her comments come a day after Harris traveled across the state with presidential campaign rallies in Grand Rapids, Lansing and Oakland County.

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“We’re not falling for the other guy trying to get rid of the Department of Education, because we know what we stand for,” Harris said, referring to her rival Donald Trump.

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Donald Trump has previously said he wants to shut down the US Department of Education, saying that it should be disbanded to “move everything back to the states where it belongs”.

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Lizzo, who’s real name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson, showed her pride in being a Detroit native during the rally.

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“They say, if Kamala wins, then this whole country will be like Detroit. Well, I say proud, like Detroit. I say resilient, like Detroit,” said the singer. “This is the same Detroit that innovated the auto industry and the music industry. So put some respect on Detroit’s name.”

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Lizzo said she voted early, and encouraged the audience to do the same, calling an early vote “a power move.”

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“This is the swing state of all swing states. So every single last vote here counts,” she said.

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As the US presidential election looms, the billionaire Mark Cuban has emerged as an energetic campaign surrogate for Kamala Harris. Making the case for business leaders to support the Democrat over Donald Trump, Cuban has drawn on his experience (in tech, investments, healthcare and now sports, as minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team), celebrity (as a lead “shark” for 15 seasons of ABC’s Shark Tank) and willingness to confront Trump-supporting billionaires, Elon Musk prominent among them.

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The road has not been smooth. Last week, Cuban clashed with congressional progressives after criticizing Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, over her tech-sector antitrust work. That issue and others, including Cuban’s thoughts on Trump’s championing of tariffs and the perennial question of whether Cuban harbors presidential ambitions of his own, are addressed below, in emailed answers to 10 questions posed by Guardian writers and editors.

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Read the full interview here:

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The Undertaker said that “ElectionMania” was coming up on November 5, and the people had the choice.

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The WWE star told viewers to choose wisely, as the nation depended on it. Donald Trump said that it should be an easy choice.

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The Undertaker and Kane with Donald Trump in new TikTok video. pic.twitter.com/tXswBplgRw

— Wrestle Ops (@WrestleOps) October 18, 2024

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It’s not the first time Trump gets an endorsement from a WWE legend. Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan also endorsed Trump, and spoke at the Republican National Convention in July.

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Donald Trump’s campaign may be failing to reach thousands of voters they hope to turn out in Arizona and Nevada, with roughly a quarter of door-knocks done by America Pac flagged by its canvassing app as potentially fraudulent, according to leaked data and people familiar with the matter.

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The potentially fake door-knocks – when canvassers falsely claim they visited a home – could present a serious setback to Trump as he and Kamala Harris remain even in the polls with fewer than 20 days to an election that increasingly appears set to be determined by turnout.

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The Trump campaign earlier this year outsourced the bulk of its ground game to America Pac, the political action committee founded by Elon Musk, betting that spending millions to turn out Trump supporters, especially those who don’t typically vote, would boost returns.

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But leaked America Pac data obtained by the Guardian shows that roughly 24% of the door-knocks in Arizona and 25% of the door-knocks in Nevada this week were flagged under “unusual survey logs” by the Campaign Sidekick canvassing app.

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The Arizona data, for example, shows that out of 35,692 doors hit by 442 canvassers working for Blitz Canvassing in the America Pac operation on Wednesday, 8,511 doors were flagged under the unusual survey logs.

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The extent of the flagged doors in America Pac’s operation underscores the risk of outsourcing a ground-game program, where paid canvassers are typically not as invested in their candidate’s victory compared with volunteers or campaign staff​.

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America Pac denied it was experiencing that level of actual fraud in Arizona and Nevada and declined to comment on reporting for this story.

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A person familiar with the America Pac operation said: “Sidekick was never expected to handle the auditing of America Pac’s door operation. The reason the Pac is confident in its numbers is because of the auditing procedures each canvassing firm puts in place and the auditing procedures of the Pac writ large.”

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Here’s more on the potentially fake door-knocks:

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Lizzo and Usher are just some of the prominent celebrities backing Harris against her rival, Donald Trump. Earlier this week, Lizzo revealed that she voted early for Harris, and Usher said last month that he was endorsing Harris.

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This week, the campaign announced a fundraising sweepstakes to win tickets to an upcoming get-out-the-vote concert featuring “superstar musicians”.

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“This one’s a real show-stopper,” read a fundraising email signed by Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz.

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Other celebrities endorsing Harris include Taylor Swift, Barbra Streisand, Ariana Grande, Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and others.

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• Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a speech in Atlanta, focusing on topics revolving abortion access.

• Donald Trump called Kamala Harris “a threat to democracy.”During the former president’s speech in the battleground state Pennsylvania, Trump said Harris “shouldn’t even be the candidate.”

• R&B star Usher spoke briefly to a crowd of about 10,000 Saturday at Lakewood Amphitheater in Atlanta assembled for a campaign rally for Kamala Harris with Barack Obama.

• The Michigan-born rapper Lizzo expressed her support for Kamala Harris at a rally in Detroit. Lizzo said she voted early, and encouraged the audience to do the same, calling an early vote “a power move.”

• Kamala Harris rallied at a high school in Detroit, Michigan. The Vice President delivered remarks at Western International High School in Detroit, Michigan, on Saturday. Her comments come a day after Harris traveled across the state with presidential campaign rallies in Grand Rapids, Lansing and Oakland County.

Donald Trump has wrapped up his speech in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, after attacking the Biden administration’s handling of the US-Mexico border and promising to rebuild the country’s military.

“We will not be invaded. We will not be occupied. We will not be conquered,” Trump said, repeating the anti-immigrant remarks present at all his rallies.

Donald Trump invited Republican Senate candidate David McCormick to the stage. McCormick is challenging Senator Bob Casey for the seat in Pennsylvania.

“We’ve got to put you back in the White House,” McCormick told Trump, “to fight back on this crazy liberal agenda, the weakness of Kamala Harris that is taking us over.”

Donald Trump is over an hour into his speech in Pennsylvania. His remarks shifted from the economy to immigration.

He repeated a false claim about the Tren de Aragua gang taking over an apartment building in a Colorado town. Trump then called General Mark Milley, who has labeled the former president as a fascist, a “woke general.”

Referring to the handling of immigration, Trump said: “We have to go back to 1798, when we had real people running our country.”

At Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania, a group of more than a dozen steelworkers took the stage. “You’re my hero,” said one of the members of “Steelworkers for Trump.”

He said that, if his rival Kamala Harris is elected, “Pennsylvania will be an economic wasteland.”

The former president is set to hold another rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday, this time in Lancaster.

Donald Trump spoke about Pennsylvania-specific issues, including fracking, steel mills and energy prices.

“Pennsylvania was the commercial and industrial powerhouse of the United States,” he said. Trump told the audience that Democrats “annihilated your steel mills, decimated your coal jobs, assaulted your oil and gas jobs, and sold off your manufacturing jobs to China and foreign nations all over the world.”

He repeated his plan to to levy tariffs on all imports in a bid to boost American manufacturing.

Donald Trump called Kamala Harris “a threat to democracy”

During the former president’s speech in the battleground state Pennsylvania, Trump said Harris “shouldn’t even be the candidate.”

“They should have picked a candidate fairly, not just given it to her because they want to be politically correct,” Trump added.

The Republican presidential nominee said that Representative Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer approached Joe Biden about his candidacy and “took it away” from him.

“I think he might have done better than she’s going to do, because all we had to do is expose her as a lunatic,” Trump said, referring to Harris.

At a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump called the word “tariff” the “most beautiful word in the dictionary.”

“More beautiful than love, more beautiful than respect, no less beautiful than religion,” he said. “It’s going to make our country rich.”

Trump expressed his appreciation for SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s endorsement. The former president narrated the time he saw a SpaceX rocket fly across the sky.

Musk, the CEO of Tesla, is scheduled to host a town hall in Pittsburgh on Sunday in support of Trump.

The billionaire’s political action committee, America PAC, did not say where Musk will hold the rally.

Usher shows his support for Vice President Kamala Harris

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Usher, an influential R&B musician and bedrock of Atlanta’s musical contributions, spoke briefly to a crowd of about 10,000 Saturday at Lakewood Amphitheater in Atlanta assembled for a campaign rally for Kamala Harris with Barack Obama.

Usher did not perform, though he has two concerts scheduled in Atlanta this weekend. He appeared on stage ahead of Obama.

“I feel that this is a momentous opportunity for each and every one of us,” Usher said. “We have an opportunity to choose a new generation of leadership for our country. …“She fights for everyone’s rights. For freedom. … We have to strive to not allow our past to define our future.”

Usher, like every other speaker so far at the rally, pressed the crowd to vote early and to reach friends and family for votes.

“How we vote – I mean everything that we do in the next 17 days will affect our children, our grandchildren, all the people we love the most.”

Donald Trump asked the crowd: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”

The audience yelled “No!” in unison. He attacked Vice President Kamala Harris and the Biden administration for its handling of the southern US border and the Middle East crisis.

Trump then falsely claimed that “they stole the election from an American president.”

Former president Donald Trump is delivering his remarks at a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

Trump is has recently started delivering his speeches on schedule.

He began by telling the story of the Pennsylvanian golfer Arnold Palmer. Trump is holding his rally at the airport in Latrobe named after the golfer.

Former president Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver his remarks at a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania soon. Trump will stage a rally at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport.

We’ll be following his comments in the battleground state.

In a new TV ad, Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, a Democrat, distances himself from President Biden

Senator Bob Casey showed support for some Trump-era policies in his new ad, which aired on Friday in parts of the state,

The ad features a Republican-Democrat couple from Old Forge praising Casey as an independent leader. They say he opposed Biden on fracking and backed Trump on trade issues like ending NAFTA and imposing tariffs on China.

Bob Casey, Senate Democrat in Pennsylvania, touts breaking with Biden on fracking and agreeing with Trump on trade in this new ad… https://t.co/rOz8d6iUzX

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) October 18, 2024

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Bob Casey, Senate Democrat in Pennsylvania, touts breaking with Biden on fracking and agreeing with Trump on trade in this new ad… https://t.co/rOz8d6iUzX

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) October 18, 2024

Barack Obama to rally in Las Vegas in support for Harris

Barack Obama will hold an event on Saturday to rally voters for Kamala Harris on the first day of early voting in Nevada.

The Harris campaign said the former president will encourage voters to turn out and vote for Harris, Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Democrats up and down the ballot.

Former NFL star Antonio Brown is in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, for Donald Trump’s latest rally. Brown has continued to show his support for the former president before next month’s US presidential election.

The ex-Steelers star addressed the crowd of Trump supporters after teasing his appearance on social media earlier this week.

Tampon Tim 😂 LFG pic.twitter.com/t1onAbFkRz

— AB (@AB84) October 19, 2024

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In Detroit, Kamala Harris was asked whether the war in Gaza could cost her the election. She didn’t directly answer the question, but she pointed to the Biden administration’s calls for peace days after the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

“This creates an opening that I believe we must take full advantage of to dedicate ourselves to ending this war and bringing hostages home,” Harris told reporters in Michigan.

Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota and the Democratic vice-presidential pick, paid a visit to the city of Chicago before heading to a rally in Omaha, Nebraska.

He spoke at a hotel ballroom in the city’s downtown area and was introduced by Senator Dick Durbin.

“It’s pretty clear the tired, divisive and old rhetoric of Donald Trump matches the tired, divisive and old Donald Trump,” Walz said.

Earlier this month, I was proud to cast my vote for @Tim_Walz and @KamalaHarris. And this afternoon in Chicago, it was my honor to introduce the next Vice President of the United States, Governor Tim Walz. pic.twitter.com/7zLjaYXyTy

— Dick Durbin (@DickDurbin) October 19, 2024

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Americans are paying attention to Kamala Harris’s media blitzand Donald Trump’s campaign rallies, according to a CNN poll.

A CNN polling project that tracks what average Americans are hearing, reading and seeing about the presidential nominees throughout the race revealed that the word most commonly used in describing the news about Harris was “interview”.

Survey respondents referenced appearances on CBS’s 60 Minutes and the podcast Call Her Daddy, as well as interviews with Howard Stern and Stephen Colbert.

When Americans were asked to describe the news about Trump, “rally” was the second-most commonly used word in response.