Kamala Harris defended her record as a prosecutor and pledged to decriminalize marijuana as president in Detroit on Tuesday, as she aims to shore up support among Black men in an interview with radio host Charlamagne tha God.

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Charlamagne, a Black comedian and author who hosts radio program The Breakfast Club, is known for his blunt interviews of celebrities.

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Although he is a Harris supporter, he has been critical of her and Joe Biden in the past and called Democrats “cowards” for ineffectively prosecuting a case against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. One of his first questions was asking Harris to address a common rumour – that she disproportionately locked up Black men over her more than a dozen years as San Francisco’s district attorney.

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Harris said she was “one of the most progressive prosecutors” on marijuana cases, and would work to decriminalise it, because she knows how that has hurt certain populations, especially Black men.

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Early voting has begun in several states including Georgia, where a record number of voters are casting ballots.

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Donald Trump spoke at Economic Club of Chicago, where he dodged questions about the peaceful transfer of power, refused to say whether he had spoken with Russia’s Vladimir Putin since the election and promoted his tariff-heavy proposals that economic expects say will do little to address inflation and will likely push prices higher.

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Meanwhile, Kamala Harris joined a town hall in Detroit hosted by Charlemagne Tha God.

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Here’s what else has happened today so far:

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  Trump was scheduled to appear on CNBC this week, but backed out unexpectedly. It was the second time the former president canceled an interview recently, after declining to appear on the popular CBS News show 60 Minutes

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  There are many theories about why presidential polls have moved so little since Harris entered the race in July. In an interview today with CNN, veteran Republican pollster Frank Luntz said the atmosphere is beginning to remind him of 2016, when Hillary Clinton lost toTrump, despite winning the popular vote.

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  Tim Walz spent the day in the key swing state of Pennsylvania. Wearing a plaid shirt, Walz spoke at a farm in Volant, Pennsylvania – a small town with a population of just 125 – to tout his campaign’s agenda for rural America.

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The vice-president has joined a town hall in Detroit, hosted by Charlamagne tha God. “This is a margin-of-error race. It’s tight. I’m gonna win. I’m gonna win, but it’s tight,” she told him.

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The event is being livestreamed on iHeartRadio. Prior to the town hall, Harris stopped by the Norwest Gallery of Art for a conversation with Black men about entrepreneurship.

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Donald Trump was scheduled to appear on CNBC this week, but backed out unexpectedly, CNN reports.

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It was the second time the former president had canceled an interview recently, after declining to appear on the popular CBS News show 60 Minutes. He has instead given interviews to rightwing news outlets, and earlier today had a live conversation on economic policy moderated by Bloomberg News.

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CNN reports that Trump’s campaign cited a scheduling conflict as the reason he could not appear on CNBC’s Squawk Box show.

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“Trump canceled, and he was going to come on,” co-anchor Joe Kernen announced on air earlier today. He added that the network had also asked Kamala Harris to appear but that “she’s not coming on”.

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The day is not over, but the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Georgia has seen a record amount of early voting on the first day polls have been open:

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More than 200,000 voters have cast ballots in Georgia during the first day of in-person early voting according to state elections officials, shattering the state's record. #gapolhttps://t.co/mrjIq41dx2

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This is not necessarily indicative of how the swing state, where many polls have shown Donald Trump with a narrow lead, will end up voting in November.

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Donald Trump was asked about a peaceful transfer of power after this November’s election. He dodged.

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The interviewer on stage at the Economic Club of Chicago, Bloomberg News editor-in-chief John Micklethwait, said, moments ago: “If you look at the events of January 6, 2021, it showed to many people that America’s democracy was unruly and violent. Only three weeks to go to the election, will you commit now to respecting and encouraging a peaceful transfer of power?”

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Instead of answering the question about this election cycle, Trump said that the US had a peaceful transfer of power.

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Micklethwait: Will you commit to respecting and encouraging a peaceful transfer of power? 

Trump: You had a peaceful transfer of power. pic.twitter.com/XCou8CMAEl

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There was a smattering of applause in the audience. Micklethwait said: “Come on, President Trump, you had a peaceful transfer of power compared with Venezuela but it was by far the worst transfer of power for a long time,” then added: “Would you respect the decision?”

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Trump digresses with some criticism of Micklethwait. Then he comes back to the topic, but again talking about 2021.

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Donald Trump has just declined to comment when asked directly in an event he’s appearing at in Chicago if he has had conversations with Russian president Vladimir Putin since he left the White House in 2021 after being voted out of office.

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The former president was asked if he had talked to Putin “since you stopped being president”, as has been stated in a book by veteran journalist and author Bob Woodward, reported last week. He asked by Bloomberg News editor-in-chief John Micklethwait moments ago, who is interviewing Trump in an appearance at the Economic Club of Chicago.

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“I will not comment,” Trump said.

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However, he then hinted maybe he had when he added: “But if I did it’s a smart thing. If I have a good relationship with people, that’s a good thing.”

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Woodward said that Trump has held several private calls with Putin since his single-term presidency.

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Donald Trump just took the stage at the Economic Club in Chicago, where he’s repeating his familiar campaign promise to enact high import tariffs to spur domestic manufacturing.

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“We’re going to bring the companies back. We’re going to lower taxes still, further, for companies that are going to make their product in the USA. We’re going to protect those companies with strong tariffs, because I’m a believer in tariffs,” the former president told his interviewer, Bloomberg News editor-in-chief John Micklethwait.

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The ex-president added:

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To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff, and it’s my favorite word. It needs a public relations firm.

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Economists have been skeptical that tariffs would help American manufacturers:

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Donald Trumpis expected to soon take the stage at the Economic Club of Chicago, where we can expect him to outline his plans to lower prices for US consumers. But the Associated Press reports that his tariff-heavy proposals and ideas for meddling with the Federal Reserve are unlikely to undo the impact of inflation, and may instead push prices higher. Meanwhile, Kamala Harrishas seized on his strange behavior at a campaign event yesterday, where Trump spent more than a half-hour swaying to the music onstage. The former president said this morning that he was reacting to a pair of medical emergencies that occurred in the audience, but the Harris campaign has implied it is a sign that he is not as healthy as he appears.

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Here’s what else has happened today so far:

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  The Harris campaign rejected an allegation of plagiarism brought against the vice-president by a conservative activist, CNN reports.

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  Early voting begins today in Georgia, and long lines of voters were spotted in at least one Atlanta-area county. Trump encouraged his supporters to vote by whatever method they chose.

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  Nathan Wade, a former prosecutor in Trump’s election meddling case in Georgia, is testifying behind closed doors to a Republican-led House committee.

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Donald Trump will speak at the Economic Club of Chicago at noon, where you can expect to hear him argue that his policies will tame inflation.

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Prices rose at levels not seen in four decades under Joe Biden, and though the rate of increase has declined in recent months, polls have shown inflation remains one of the issues voters are most concerned about.

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But the Associated Press reports that, based on what Trump has proposed, it’s unlikely he would be able to unilaterally bring prices down. In fact, he might make them go up:

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Last month, the Peterson Institute for International Economics predicted that Trump’s policies – the deportations, import taxes and efforts to erode the Fed’s independence – would drive consumer prices sharply higher two years into his second term. Peterson’s analysis concluded that inflation, which would otherwise register 1.9% in 2026, would instead jump to between 6% and 9.3% if Trump’s economic proposals were adopted.

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Many economists aren’t thrilled with Vice President Kamala Harris’ economic agenda, either. They dismiss, for example, her proposal to combat price gouging as an ineffective tool against high grocery prices. But they don’t regard her policies as particularly inflationary.

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Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, and two colleagues have estimated that Harris’ policies would leave the inflation outlook virtually unchanged, even if she enjoyed a Democratic majority in both chambers of Congress. An unfettered Trump, by contrast, would leave prices higher by 1.1 percentage points in 2025 and 0.8 percentage points in 2026, they concluded.

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Taxes on imports – tariffs – are Trump’s go-to economic policy. He argues that tariffs protect American factory jobs from foreign competition and deliver a host of other benefits.

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While in office, Trump started a trade war with China, imposing high tariffs on most Chinese goods. He also raised import taxes on foreign steel and aluminum, washing machines and solar panels. He has still grander plans for a second term: Trump wants to impose a 60% tariff on all Chinese goods and a “universal’’ tariff of 10% or 20% on everything else that enters the United States.

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Trump insists that the cost of taxing imported goods is absorbed by the foreign countries that produce those goods. The truth, though, is that U.S. importers pay the tariff – and then typically pass along that cost to consumers in the form of higher prices, which is how Americans themselves end up bearing the cost of tariffs.

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What’s more, as tariffs raise the cost of imports, the weakened competition from foreign products makes it easier for U.S. producers to raise their own prices.

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Donald Trump raised a lot of eyebrows last night, including Kamala Harris’s, after he spent a significant part of his town hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania, swaying to music on stage.

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On Truth Social, the former president has offered an explanation for the campaign event that could, charitably, be described as unorthodox. Here’s what he said:

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I had a Town Hall in Pennsylvania last night. It was amazing! The Q and A was almost finished when people began fainting from the excitement and heat. We started playing music while we waited, and just kept it going. So different, but it ended up being a GREAT EVENING!

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For more updates on the US election, tune in to the Guardian’s Today in Focus US Election Extra podcast. Join Lucy Hough, breaking down every essential development in the presidential race every weekday.

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Kamala Harris’s campaign has rejected allegations made by conservative activist Christopher Rufo that she plagiarized parts of a book she co-authored shortly before being elected California’s attorney general, CNN reports.

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Citing the work of Stefan Weber, an Austrian “plagiarism hunter”, Rufo wrote that Harris’s 2009 book Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer co-authored with Joan O’C Hamilton contains sections that were plagiarized.

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CNN took a closer look at the claim, and this is what they found:

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Rufo, in his post, refers to six specific paragraphs from Harris’ roughly 200-page book.

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CNN reviewed several of the passages highlighted by Rufo and found that Harris and O’C. Hamilton failed to properly attribute language to sources.

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Plagiarized works include using someone else’s work without giving them proper and appropriate credit for their ideas and words. Even if the source of the information is cited, it is still considered plagiarism if the ideas are not paraphrased or quoted in the correct place, experts told CNN late last year.

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In one instance, Harris and O’C. Hamilton appear to have lifted some language from a John Jay College of Criminal Justice press release without proper attribution. The book copies exact language and sections of the press release but fails to use quotation marks in several sentences, according to an analysis of the book and the press release.

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The authors do, however, cite the press release as a source in a footnote next to the text.

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They also properly attribute other quotes from parts of the press release.

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In response to Rufo’s allegations, Harris campaign spokesperson James Singer told CNN:

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Rightwing operatives are getting desperate as they see the bipartisan coalition of support Vice President Harris is building to win this election, as Trump retreats to a conservative echo chamber refusing to face questions about his lies. This is a book that’s been out for 15 years, and the Vice President clearly cited sources and statistics in footnotes and endnotes throughout.

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The Pentagon said components for an advanced anti-missile system began arriving in Israel yesterday and that it would be fully operational in the near future, according to a statement this morning. About 100 troops will accompany the system.

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“Over the coming days, additional US military personnel and THAAD battery components will continue to arrive in Israel,” Pentagon spokesperson Major General Pat Ryder said. “The battery will be fully operational capable in the near future, but for operations security reasons we will not discuss timelines.”

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THAAD is designed to defend against ballistic missiles, and will line up alongside Israel’s Arrow 2 and 3 and David’s Sling long- and medium-range defence systems.

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Here’s what our defence editor, Dan Sabbagh, had to say about the THAAD deployment when it was announced:

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Bringing THAAD to bear suggests the US believes that whatever Israel is planning to do will invite a fresh response from Iran, and that it could test existing air defences seriously.

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Two men who were shot during the first assassination attempt on Donald Trump this summer say the US Secret Service was “negligent” in protecting the former president and other bystanders at the campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

n David Dutch, 57, an ex-marine, and James Copenhaver, 74, a retired liquor store manager, told NBC News in an exclusive interview yesterday they were excited to be sitting in the bleachers behind the Republican nominee at the fairgrounds in Butler on 13 July when gunshots rang out and they were hit.

n Another man, Corey Comperatore, 50, was killed in the shooting while shielding his family. Trump was wounded in the ear.

n The interview was the two men’s first public statements since 20-year-old shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, opened fire in July from an unsecured rooftop nearby before he was fatally shot by sharpshooters.

n “It was like getting hit with a sledgehammer right in the chest,” said Dutch. He said he could see chunks of the bleacher and metal “flying all around” until the shooting stopped.

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He said he was still “angry that the whole situation even happened. It should have never happened.” NBC News reported the two men’s attorneys said they were looking into possible litigation over what they view as negligence by the Secret Service.

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Tim Walz will unveil the Democrats’ plans to improve the lives of rural voters later today while he stars in a new radio ad attacking his Republican rivals.

n Associated Press reports it will include a focus on improving rural healthcare with plans to recruit 10,000 new healthcare professionals in rural and tribal areas through scholarships, loan forgiveness and new grant programs, as well as economic and agricultural policy priorities.

n It marks a concerted effort by the Democratic campaign to win over rural votes. Donald Trump carried rural voters by a nearly two-to-one margin in 2020, according to AP VoteCast.

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The vice-presidential nominee is set to announce the plan during a stop in rural Lawrence County in western Pennsylvania, one of the marquee battlegrounds of the 2024 contest. Walz is also starring in a new radio ad for the campaign highlighting his roots in a small town of 400 people and his time coaching football, while attacking Trump and his running mate, JD Vance.

n “In a small town, you don’t focus on the politics, you focus on taking care of your neighbors and minding your own damn business,” Walz says in the ad. “Now Donald Trump and JD Vance, they don’t think like us. They’re in it for themselves.”

n The plan calls on Congress to permanently extend telemedicine coverage under Medicare, a pandemic-era benefit that helped millions access care that is set to expire at the end of 2024. They are also calling for grants to support volunteer EMS programs to halve the number of Americans living more than 25 minutes from an ambulance.

n It also urges Congress to restore the Affordable Connectivity Program, a scheme launched by Joe Biden that expired in June that provided up to $30 off home internet bills, and for lawmakers to require equipment manufacturers to grant farmers the right to repair their products.

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Donald Trump’s town hall in the Philadelphia suburbs turned into an impromptu concert last night after the former president was twice interrupted by medical emergencies in the room.

n As Associated Press reports, the Republican presidential nominee paused during a question-and-answer session as a doctor attended to the first person to have a medical issue. After a second emergency halted the discussion moderated by South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, Trump stopped taking questions. He and Noem mentioned it was hot in the venue, and Trump asked about air conditioning.

n “They probably can’t afford it, sir, in this economy,” Noem quipped.

n Once Noem announced the second person was up and moving, Trump spoke for a few more minutes before suggesting the audience could enjoy some music rather than hearing him answer more questions.

n He called for the Village People’s “YMCA” and it blasted through the loudspeakers, the usual signal that Trump is done speaking and is ready to leave. But he remained onstage. “Nobody’s leaving,” Trump said. “What’s going on?”

n More music played — and for roughly 40 minutes, it didn’t stop.

n Trump bopped and shimmied onstage to an eclectic playlist of songs that included Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” Rufus Wainwright’s cover of “Hallelujah” and Guns N’ Roses’ “November Rain.”

n Finally, Trump left the stage as “Memory” from the musical “Cats” played.

n Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s national press secretary, published on the social media site X a photo of Trump from the side of the stage. “DJ TRUMP!” she wrote.

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DJ TRUMP! 🎶🎶🎶 pic.twitter.com/DvvSS1b9s1

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n Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung wrote on X that “something very special is happening in Pennsylvania” as the scene unfolded, adding Trump “is unlike any politician in history, and it’s great.”

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Vice president Kamala Harris has hit out at Donald Trump ‘s comments suggesting the US military could be used to deal with “the enemy from within” as the two presidential nominees took the fight for battleground Pennsylvania to opposite ends of the state last night.

n Harris, at her rally in northwestern Pennsylvania, called Trump a serious threat to American democracy who is “out for unchecked power”.

n “He considers anyone who doesn’t support him or who will not bend to his will an enemy of our country,” Harris said after playing a clip of the comment on the jumbo screen at her rally at an Erie arena.

n Harris argued that Trump’s comments in a Fox News “Sunday Morning Futures” interview are the latest example of threatening rhetoric from the former president that should concern Americans about what a potential second Trump term could look like.

n Trump made the comment in response to a question about “outside agitators” potentially disrupting Election Day.

n “I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within,” Trump said. He added: “We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think they’re the big — and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can’t let that happen.”

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Trump held his own town hall event last night in suburban Philadelphia.

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Good morning and welcome to what is likely to be another turbulent day in the run-up to the US election amid anger over Donald Trump’s comments suggesting the military could be used to deal with “the enemy from within”.

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Both candidates were in Pennsylvania last night and while the Democratic hopeful, Kamala Harris, used her event in Erie to call Trump a serious threat to American democracy who is “out for unchecked power”, her Republican rival treated the crowds in Oaks to an impromptu playlist as he bopped and shimmied onstage to an eclectic playlist of songs that included Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” Rufus Wainwright’s cover of “Hallelujah” and Guns N’ Roses’ “November Rain”.

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More on last night’s events shortly. In other developments:

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  Nancy Pelosi has admitted she still has not spoken to Joe Biden since her crucial intervention in July led to his decision to drop out of the presidential race. In a Guardian podcast with columnist Jonathan Freedland she also addressed how she feels about Donald Trump. “I hardly ever say his name,” she said of the former Republican president and the GOP’s current nominee, instead describing him as “what’s-his-name”. You can read our story here.

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  Kamala Harris could sit down for an interview with popular podcaster Joe Rogan, whose audience leans heavily towards young men, as she works to shore up support with male voters, sources said on Monday. Reuters reports that Harris campaign officials met Rogan’s team this week but an appearance has not been confirmed yet, said two of the sources, who have knowledge of the matter.

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  The White House said on Monday that the US has been closely tracking Iranian threats against Trump for years and it warned of “severe consequences” if Tehran was to attack any of its citizens. “We consider this a national and homeland security matter of the highest priority, and we strongly condemn Iran for these brazen threats. Should Iran attack any of our citizens, including those who continue to serve the United States or those who formerly served, Iran will face severe consequences,” said White House National Security Council spokesperson Sean Savett.

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  Trump will be interviewed by Bloomberg News and the Economic Club of Chicago at an event on today from 11am – 12pm CDT. Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait will interview Trump in downtown Chicago. It will be carried live on Bloomberg News platforms and the Economic Club of Chicago’s YouTube channel. This evening he will be speaking at an event in Atlanta.

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  Meanwhile Harris will be in Detroit later for a live conversation with radio host and comedian Charlamagne tha God, which will air on iHeartRadio at 5pm EDT.

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Here is more on Biden’s speech.

Biden said Kamala Harris would “cut her own path” once she wins the 2024 election, allowing for more daylight between him and his vice-president as she works to win over skeptical voters three weeks before Election Day.

“Kamala will take the country in her own direction, and that’s one of the most important differences in this election,” he said. “Kamala’s perspective on our problems will be fresh and new. Donald Trump’s perspective old and failed and quite frankly, thoroughly totally dishonest.”

AP reports:

Biden’s comments may give Harris more licence to stake out her own political and policy stances in the critical closing phase of the presidential race, and appear to go further to distance the two than Harris has herself. The vice-president’s aides have privately expressed some frustration that the 81-year-old president has been too focused on his own legacy – and not the race to succeed him.

But Harris has of late faced increasing pressure to articulate how she’d govern differently from Biden, a question trickier than it seems on the surface.

While Biden’s favorability ratings remain underwater, some of the biggest pieces of his legislative agenda, from infrastructure to lowering the costs of some prescription drugs, are popular, and signaling any daylight with the president on foreign policy at a time of global crises could be seen as reckless.

Harris herself has been loathe to do anything that could be perceived as disloyal to Biden, who elevated her from a first-term senator to the vice presidency, and then handed the reins of his political operation over to her, endorsing Harris when he dropped out of the race in July.

The US Justice Department will send election monitors to an Ohio county where a sheriff was recently accused of intimidating voters in a social media post, federal officials announced Tuesday.

AP reports that the Justice Department said it will monitor Portage County’s compliance with federal voting rights laws during early voting and on Election Day. The agency said it regularly sends staff to counties around the US to monitor compliance with the federal Voting Rights Act and other civil rights statutes related to elections and voting.

“Voters in Portage County have raised concerns about intimidation resulting from the surveillance and the collection of personal information regarding voters, as well as threats concerning the electoral process,” the Justice Department said in a news release.

Trump is so far running almost 40 minutes late to his rally in Atlanta.

Biden spoke a short while ago on behalf of Harris in Philadelphia.

He said of Trump that he used to hide is racism, but that now it is “out front”.

“He has the same ideas on race as the 1930s. Trump’s ideas on economy are from the ’20s. Trump’s ideas on women are from the ’50s. Folks, this is 2024, we can’t go back.”

Biden: "He has the same ideas on race as the 1930s. Trump's ideas on economy are from the '20s. Trump's ideas on women are from the '50s. Folks, this is 2024 — we can't go back." pic.twitter.com/DGXpMEJMpM

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 15, 2024

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Biden: “He has the same ideas on race as the 1930s. Trump’s ideas on economy are from the ’20s. Trump’s ideas on women are from the ’50s. Folks, this is 2024 — we can’t go back.” pic.twitter.com/DGXpMEJMpM

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 15, 2024

Donald Trump is expected to hold a rally shortly in Atlanta, Georgia. We will bring you any key developments from that live.

Harris was asked why people “are acting like this is going to be a free and fair election”, given the events of 6 January 2020 – and those leading up to it – and the conservative-leaning supreme court.

She said: “So it will be a free and fair election if we, the American people, stand up for that.”

Harris was asked by a caller about Trump saying he would use a law from 1798 to carry out mass deportations.

She responded: “So you’ve hit on a really important point and expressed it, I think so well, which is he is achieving his intended effect to make you scared. He is running full time on a campaign that is about instilling fear, not about optimism, not about the future, but about fear. And so this is yet another example.”

Charlamagne tha God said to Harris: “I had a politician tell me once that if you’re running for a national election, it’s bad electoral strategy to say you are going to do things for Black people, which is why a lot of politicians don’t speak directly to their plans for Black people.”

Harris responded: “I don’t know that that’s true. I think that what is true is that I am running to be president for everybody, but I’m clear-eyed about the history and the disparities that exist for specific communities, and I’m not going to shy away from that. It doesn’t mean that my policies aren’t going to benefit everybody, because they are –everything I just talked about will benefit everybody.”

Harris was asked about her stance on reparations, too.

She said, “It has to be studied. There’s no question about that, and I’ve been very clear about that position.”

Harris, in that response on her town hall, also pointed out that Donald Trump is selling bibles for $60 (£46).

“Donald Trump and his followers spend full time trying to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down, which is absolutely contrary to the church,” she said. “Where our church, and my church, is about saying true leadership, the measure of that is based on who you lift up and right. And then he’s selling $60 bibles or tennis shoes and trying to play people as though that makes him more understanding of the Black community. Come on.”

In her interview with Charlamagne tha God on Tuesday, Kamala Harris was asked whether she had engaged enough with the Black church.

Harris said that allegations she had not engaged with the Black church “comes from the Trump team … they are trying to disconnect me from the people I have worked with and that I’m from,” she said.

“I grew up in the Black church. I grew up attending 23rd Avenue Church of God in Oakland, California. That’s church. My pastor is Amos C Brown, of Third Baptist Church in San Francisco, California. I have, throughout my career and as vice-president and recently, been actively engaged in the church and church leaders, not only so we can share in fellowship, but so we can share in what we can do together that is about supporting the community,” she said.

Here is a bit more on the record early voting numbers in Georgia.

Voters in Georgia turned out in record numbers as the battleground state opened early voting for the 5 November presidential election between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump, state officials said on Tuesday.

At least 252,000 voters had cast ballots at early-voting sites as of 4pm ET (8pm GMT), nearly double the 136,000 who participated in the first day of early voting in the 2020 election, said Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s No2 election official. “Spectacular turnout,” he wrote on social media.

Early voting, either in person or by mail, has become increasingly popular with US voters. Nearly one in seven voters cast their ballots ahead of election day in 2020, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab. However, many Republicans opposed the dramatic expansion of mail voting that year, saying it was less secure than in-person voting, and Trump cited false claims of mail ballot fraud as he sought unsuccessfully to overturn his defeat byJoe Biden in 2020.

Some Republicans continue to insist that voters should be able to cast their ballots only in person on election day, though party officials are encouraging supporters to vote ahead of time.

Nationwide, 5.5 million Americans have already voted this year, according to Election Lab. By contrast, 27 million people had cast their ballots at this point in the 2020 election as voters sought to avoid crowded polling places during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Like some other states, Georgia has tightened its mail-in voting laws since then, requiring voters who want to cast an absentee ballot to provide proof of identity and limiting the number of places they can deposit their ballots.

Georgia, with 16 electoral college votes, is one of the seven competitive battleground states expected to play a decisive role in deciding the election.

Harris defends record as a prosecutor as she attempts to shore up support with black voters

Kamala Harris defended her record as a prosecutor and pledged to decriminalize marijuana as president in Detroit on Tuesday, as she aims to shore up support among Black men in an interview with radio host Charlamagne tha God.

Charlamagne, a Black comedian and author who hosts radio program The Breakfast Club, is known for his blunt interviews of celebrities.

Although he is a Harris supporter, he has been critical of her and Joe Biden in the past and called Democrats “cowards” for ineffectively prosecuting a case against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. One of his first questions was asking Harris to address a common rumour – that she disproportionately locked up Black men over her more than a dozen years as San Francisco’s district attorney.

Harris said she was “one of the most progressive prosecutors” on marijuana cases, and would work to decriminalise it, because she knows how that has hurt certain populations, especially Black men.