US election live: Harris agrees to first-ever sit-down interview with Fox News

Kamala Harris will appear on Fox News for her first formal sit-down interview with the network on Wednesday.

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BIG! VP Harris to sit down with @BretBaier on Weds, her first with FOX (and something Biden hasn’t ever done). pic.twitter.com/xIkn0f30Zg

— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) October 14, 2024

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The interview, with the network’s chief political anchor Bret Baier, will air Wednesday at 6pm ET.

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NEW: Kamala Harris has agreed to her first-ever Fox News sit-down interview on Wednesday with @BretBaier, outside Philadelphia.

Tapes in afternoon & airs at 6 p.m. Eastern. https://t.co/UV7jJwK5wN

— Michael M. Grynbaum (@grynbaum) October 14, 2024

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Although the conservative outlet generally airs content that supports Republican nominee Donald Trump, the vice-president’s appearance signals the inroads she is attempting to make among Republicans. In campaign events across the country, Harris has spoken in front of banners reading “Country Over Party” and alongside guests such as Liz Cheney. Her running mate, Tim Walz, has appeared on Fox News Sunday twice this month, and other Democratic proxies such as Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, and Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, have spoken on the network in recent weeks as well.

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Harris and Trump have both been making regular appearances in Pennsylvania, the country’s largest battleground state. Today will be Harris’s 10th visit to Pennsylvania this campaign, and just last week Trump made stops in both Scranton and Reading in the state.

n AP provides some background on the key battleground state where both candidates will speak today:

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Pennsylvania’s energy industry and natural gas fracking are likely topics as they compete for the fraction of the state’s voters who have not made up their minds. Mail-in voting is well underway in the state where some 7 million people are likely to cast votes in the presidential race.

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Trump beat Hillary Clinton by more than 40,000 votes in Pennsylvania on his way to winning the presidency in 2016, but native Scrantonian Joe Biden edged Trump by about 80,000 votes in the state four years ago.

n Harris will be holding a rally in Erie, a Democratic majority city of about 94,000 people bordered by suburbs and rural areas with significant numbers of Republicans. Erie County is often cited as one of the state’s reliable bellwether regions, where the electorate has a decidedly moderate voting record. Trump visited Erie on Sept. 29.

n Trump plans a town hall Monday at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center and Fairgrounds in suburban Oaks, hoping to drive up turnout among his supporters.

n Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes, the most of any swing state, have long made it a center of presidential electioneering. Democrats have won three straight elections for governor and both current U.S. senators are Democrats, but its legislature is closely divided and both parties have had recent success in statewide contests.

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Donald Trump pledged on Sunday to hire an extra 10,000 border patrol agents if he is reelected as president as he steps up his hardline rhetoric on immigration, Reuters reports.

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The Republican presidential candidate said he would meet the goal by asking Congress to fund a 10% pay rise for border patrol agents and a $10,000 retention and signing bonus, at a rally in the border state of Arizona, an election battleground. There are currently about 20,000 border patrol officers, so the pledge would see a sizeable increase in the force.

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Flanked on stage by leaders of the Border Patrol union, who have endorsed Trump, the former president said: “This will ensure that we can hire and keep the Border Patrol agents that we need.”

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Trump has noticeably hardened his anti-immigration rhetoric in the final weeks of the campaign. Last month he called immigrants in the US illegally who commit violent crimes “monsters,” “stone-cold killers” and “vile animals.” On Friday he called for the death penalty for “any migrant” who kills a US citizen.

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Critics say Trump’s rhetoric reinforces racist tropes – studies generally find there is no evidence immigrants commit crimes at a higher rate than native-born Americans.

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Elon Musk’s America Pac has spent $10.1 million supporting Republican candidates across 18 competitive House races, Business Insider reports. The political action committee has spent more than $100 million this election cycle in total, the majority towards supporting Donald Trump’s candidacy.

Elon Musk's @America super PAC has now hit the $10 million it planned to spend across 18 different House races.

More than $100 million spent on the election overall (mostly on Trump/Harris).

Highest sum in one district was $1.2 million in NY-17 (Lawler vs. Jones). pic.twitter.com/WMdXNNLSP1

— bryan metzger (@metzgov) October 14, 2024

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Elon Musk’s @America super PAC has now hit the $10 million it planned to spend across 18 different House races.

More than $100 million spent on the election overall (mostly on Trump/Harris).

Highest sum in one district was $1.2 million in NY-17 (Lawler vs. Jones). pic.twitter.com/WMdXNNLSP1

— bryan metzger (@metzgov) October 14, 2024

According to Business Insider, which cites FEC filings, the top three races that the Pac has funded are in New York’s 17th district, where Republican Rep. Mike Lawler faces former Democratic Rep. Mondaire Jones; California’s 41st district, where Republican Rep. Ken Calvert faces Democratic candidate Will Rollin, and Ohio’s 13th district, where Democratic Rep. Emilia Sykes faces Republican candidate Kevin Coughlin.

New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called out the Biden administration for arming Israel as increasingly dire images emerge from northern Gaza.

“The horrors unfolding in northern Gaza are the result of a completely unrestrained Netanyahu gov, fully armed by the Biden admin while food aid is blocked and patients are bombed in hospitals,” she wrote on Twitter/X. “This is a genocide of Palestinians. The US must stop enabling it. Arms embargo now.”

The horrors unfolding in northern Gaza are the result of a completely unrestrained Netanyahu gov, fully armed by the Biden admin while food aid is blocked and patients are bombed in hospitals.

This is a genocide of Palestinians. The US must stop enabling it. Arms embargo now.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 14, 2024

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The horrors unfolding in northern Gaza are the result of a completely unrestrained Netanyahu gov, fully armed by the Biden admin while food aid is blocked and patients are bombed in hospitals.

This is a genocide of Palestinians. The US must stop enabling it. Arms embargo now.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 14, 2024

Kamala Harris has differentiated herself from Joe Biden by expressing more sympathy for Palestinians since she joined the presidential race in July, but she’s also maintained strong support for Israel.

Here are Guardian columnists Moira Donegan and Mohamad Bazzi on how Harris should position herself on Gaza:

Speaking in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, today, Tim Walz denounced Donald Trump’s comments that armed forces should be deployed against his opponents, who he called “the enemy within”, after the election. Trump made the statement on Fox News yesterday.

Gov. Walz: Trump just crossed a line that I have to tell you, in my lifetime, I would have never imagined. He said he would deploy the military against Americans who disagree with him. He called it the 'enemy within.' To Donald Trump, anybody who doesn't agree with him is the… pic.twitter.com/aL37tWX7yz

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 14, 2024

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Gov. Walz: Trump just crossed a line that I have to tell you, in my lifetime, I would have never imagined. He said he would deploy the military against Americans who disagree with him. He called it the ‘enemy within.’ To Donald Trump, anybody who doesn’t agree with him is the… pic.twitter.com/aL37tWX7yz

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 14, 2024

Speaking to students at the University of Wisconsin, Walz said: “Trump just crossed a line that I have to tell you, in my lifetime, I would have never imagined. He said he would deploy the military against Americans who disagree with him. He called it the ‘enemy within’. To Donald Trump, anybody who doesn’t agree with him is the enemy.”

Read more about Trump’s comments here:

As news of Kamala Harris’s upcoming appearance on Fox News broke this morning, another headline from the network passed more quietly: former friend of Donald Trump’s and Fox News commentator Geraldo Rivera announced he will be voting for Harris.

Sore Loser
With three weeks to go until Election Day, Donald J. Trump stands a reasonable chance of becoming the 47th President of the United States. Despite assassination attempts, impeachments, special counsels, felony convictions and hundreds of millions in civil penalties,…

— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) October 14, 2024

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Sore Loser
With three weeks to go until Election Day, Donald J. Trump stands a reasonable chance of becoming the 47th President of the United States. Despite assassination attempts, impeachments, special counsels, felony convictions and hundreds of millions in civil penalties,…

— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) October 14, 2024

On Twitter/X, Rivera shared a long post explaining his decision:

“As President [Trump] was a loyal friend, who allowed regular access. My resulting coverage gave him the benefit of most doubts. His presidency was underrated. Throughout his first big scandal in office, the 2017-2019 Mueller Investigation into allegations Trump conspired with Russia to undermine our political process, I stuck with him, deeply suspicious of constant efforts to undermine his Administration.”

“If you are a Republican, Donald Trump has made a liar of you. He has coaxed and intimidated tens of millions into pretending he was reelected in 2020, and that the election was stolen,” Rivera continued. “Former President Trump is a sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution. That is why I am voting for Kamala Harris to be our 47th President.”

With both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump traveling to Pennsylvania today, CNN reports that one-fifth of all advertising money that has been spent on the race since Harris became the nominee has targeted the state.

Out of a total of nearly $1.5B that has been spent on presidential advertising since Harris became the Democratic nominee, more than 1/5 – about $312M – has targeted the PA. That’s almost $90M more than the state that has seen the next most ad spending, MI, @DavidWright_7 reports

— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) October 14, 2024

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Out of a total of nearly $1.5B that has been spent on presidential advertising since Harris became the Democratic nominee, more than 1/5 – about $312M – has targeted the PA. That’s almost $90M more than the state that has seen the next most ad spending, MI, @DavidWright_7 reports

— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) October 14, 2024

According to Guardian polling, Harris holds a narrow one-point lead in the state, while a recent New York Times report shows her four points ahead of her opponent there.

Tim Walz is campaigning today in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, with senators Amy Klobuchar and Tammy Baldwin.

Joking about the support from across the political spectrum that Kamala Harris has received in recent weeks, Klobuchar told students at the University of Wisconsin: “We’re gonna see like a bus going through western Wisconsin with – I want you to picture this – Bernie Sanders and Dick Cheney together holding a sign that says brat fall.”

Sens. Klobuchar & Baldwin have joined Gov. Tim Walz for a students event at UW Eau Claire.

Klobuchar: “We're gonna see like a bus going through Western Wisconsin with — I want you to picture this — Bernie Sanders & Dick Cheney together holding a sign that says brat fall.” pic.twitter.com/cdpIFQ6rIV

— Dylan Wells (@dylanewells) October 14, 2024

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Sens. Klobuchar & Baldwin have joined Gov. Tim Walz for a students event at UW Eau Claire.

Klobuchar: “We’re gonna see like a bus going through Western Wisconsin with — I want you to picture this — Bernie Sanders & Dick Cheney together holding a sign that says brat fall.” pic.twitter.com/cdpIFQ6rIV

— Dylan Wells (@dylanewells) October 14, 2024

If you were looking for a break from the election cycle this weekend, you may have taken a trip to the movies – only to find no such break to be had. The Apprentice, a two-hour biopic focused on Donald Trump’s early life, hit theaters on Friday. Here’s Victoria Bekiempis on the former president’s less-than-thrilled reaction:

Donald Trump railed against a just released biopic about his life in a social media screed early on Monday, calling it a “cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job” meant to thwart his presidential candidacy.

The Apprentice portrays how Trump created his real estate empire under the tutelage of Roy Cohn, a notoriously cutthroat attorney and power-broker in 1970s and 1980s New York City, Intelligencer notes. Trump is played by the Marvel actor Sebastian Stan and Cohn by the Succession star Jeremy Strong.

Trump’s ex-wife Ivana Trump is played by Maria Bakalova – whose breakout role in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm landed her an Academy award nomination. There is a disclaimer at the beginning of The Apprentice indicating that portions were “fictionalized for dramatic purposes”, Intelligencer notes.

In his rant Trump described the film as “fake and classless”. Trump said he hoped it would “bomb” and alleged that it was “put out right before the 2024 Presidential Election, to try and hurt the Greatest Political Movement in the History of our Country, ‘MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!’”

This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Democratic National Committee has announced that it will launch a “six-figure ad campaign” aimed at turning out Native American voters in Arizona, North Carolina, Montana and Alaska. It is the party’s third Native-focused campaign this year, and “the most the DNC has ever spent on a campaign targeting Native voters”, according to the committee.

In 2020, Native voters were crucial to swinging Arizona – a traditionally Republican state – for Joe Biden.

“Native American people will absolutely help decide the results of this election,” Minnesota Lt Gov Peggy Flanagan, a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, said in a statement announcing the ads. If Kamala Harris wins the election, making Minnesota governor Tim Walz her vice-president, Flanagan would become the first Native American woman to serve as a state’s governor.

Democratic and Republican leaders have celebrated today’s holiday in markedly different ways. While the Trump campaign has tweeted “Happy Columbus Day” while saying “Radical left Marxist Kamala Harris thinks that this holiday celebrating the discovery of the Americas and the birth of western civilization is a bad thing,” the vice-president has yet to make any statement on the holiday.

A Gallup News poll released today found that Americans’ trust in the media is still at record lows, as has been the case since 2016. For the third year in a row, Gallup found that more adults have no trust at all in the media than trust it a great deal or fair amount. The news is particularly profound as election day approaches: Gallup found the media is the least trusted group among 10 civic and political institutions involved in the democratic process, such as state and local governments, the judiciary and Congress.

For the third consecutive year, more U.S. adults have no trust at all in the media (36%) than trust it a great deal or fair amount. pic.twitter.com/Eg1Xy1ZHCa

— Gallup (@Gallup) October 14, 2024

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In the 1970s, Gallup first reported that trust in the media hovered around 70% – though that percentage began to fall in the late 1990s and early 2000s, as about 50% of Americans reported trusting the news. Only about a third of Americans said they trusted the media in 2016.

Trust in the media correlates with party affiliation and age, Gallup reports. Currently, 54% of Democrats, 27% of independents and 12% of Republicans say they have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the media. Meanwhile, older Americans trust the media at higher rates than their younger peers (only 31% of Democrats between the ages of 18 and 29, versus 74% of those 65 and older).

Ex-president Bill Clinton has been campaigning for Kamala Harris in Georgia this weekend. At a campaign stop today, he told voters: “You have to realize it is literally possible that the whole election could be decided here.”

Former President Bill Clinton is in Columbus today trying to fire up Georgia Democrats ahead of the first day of early voting tomorrow. “You’ve just got to decide how bad you want this.” #gapol pic.twitter.com/YTrSMohxG9

— Jill Nolin (@jillnolin) October 14, 2024

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Former President Bill Clinton is in Columbus today trying to fire up Georgia Democrats ahead of the first day of early voting tomorrow. “You’ve just got to decide how bad you want this.” #gapol pic.twitter.com/YTrSMohxG9

— Jill Nolin (@jillnolin) October 14, 2024

According to our most recent polling, Donald Trump is currently leading Kamala Harris by one point in the Peach state. A recent poll from the New York Times shows the same. The state’s elections have been in the spotlight since 2020, when then Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger refused to change the election results in Trump’s favor.

For more on the state of the election, and election interference, in Georgia, consider: