US elections live: Kamala Harris appears on 60 minutes as Trump speaks at 7 October event in Florida

As we wait for Trump to begin delivering his remarks on the October 7 Hamas attack in Florida, here is where things stand:

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  Kamala Harris and Donald Trump both attended events today in recognition of the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack against Israel.

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  The Supreme court upheld a ruling that will prevent abortions from being performed in some emergency circumstances in Texas. The court also rejected an attempt by an Alabama fertility clinic to avoid a wrongful death lawsuit that was at the center of a state high court ruling earlier this year that led to IVF access being briefly curtailed in the state

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  The Harris campaign launched a week-long media blitz, beginning yesterday with an appearance on the podcast Call Her Daddy, that will include appearances with Howard Stern, Stephen Colbert and The View this week.

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  Florida is bracing for Hurricane Milton to make landfall. The state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, has declined to speak with Harris or Joe Biden, but says the federal government has fulfilled his requests for aid.

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  A report by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget suggests that both the Harris and Trump campaigns are making promises that will increase US debt, but that Trump’s proposals are more expensive.

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Kamala Harris, together with the second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, will in a few minutes hold a tree-planting ceremony to mark the one-year anniversary of the 7 October attack in Israel.

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The vice-president will then deliver remarks at the event held at her residence at the United States Naval Observatory, which is about three miles from the White House in Washington DC.

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It’s Harris’s only scheduled public speech today, and we will let you know what she has to say.

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As Hurricane Milton churns towards Florida’s west coast, ABC News reports that the state’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, declined to speak to Kamala Harris.

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A nationally prominent conservative, DeSantis mounted a failed campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, and since endorsed Donald Trump. Asked about the episode at the White House press briefing earlier today, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said it was the governor’s choice to speak to Harris or not:

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Ron DeSantis has refused to take a call from VP Harris on Hurricane Milton, source tells @ABC.
White House Press Sec says “If you have POTUS & VP reaching out to offer up assistance…the governor, it's up to him if he wants to respond to us or not.”

— Selina Wang (@selinawangtv) October 7, 2024

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In an interview earlier today with conservative broadcaster Hugh Hewitt, Donald Trump used terminology associated with eugenics to attack migrants.

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The remark came as the former president discussed the alleged harm done by new arrivals to the United States, saying many were “murderers”.

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“Now, a murderer, it’s in their genes,” Trump continued. “And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now.”

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It was language similar to the beliefs of eugenics, which emerged in the late 19th century and held that human ills could be combatted through selective breeding. The theory is today regarded as both inaccurate and racist.

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Here’s audio of Trump’s remark:

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Trump rants about Kamala Harris and migrants to Hugh Hewitt and says, “we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now” pic.twitter.com/ybKFF9TDf3

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 7, 2024

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At the ongoing White House press briefing, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that the supreme court has effectively allowed Texas to deny women abortions even in emergencies, by refusing to take up a Biden administration lawsuit against the state today.

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“Today we saw the supreme court decision and what it means that women in Texas could still be denied critical emergency medical care, because of the state’s dangerous and extreme abortion bans,” Jean-Pierre said. “We have seen and have heard the horrific stories of women being denied the care they need because of these laws.”

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Jean-Pierre also noted that a Georgia court had allowed the state’s abortion ban to go back into effect, and said:

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All of these laws were made possible when the former president handicapped three Supreme Court justices to overturn Roe v Wade. They are creating chaos and confusion for women and doctors.

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The administration has been clear that all patients, including women experiencing pregnancy loss and other pregnancy related emergency, must be able to access the emergency medical care they need, and that is required by federal law. The stories we hear of women being denied care they need in emergency situation [are] completely unacceptable.

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Georgia’s highest court on has today reinstated a ban on nearly all abortions in the state after about six weeks of pregnancy while it considers the US state’s appeal of last week’s ruling by a lower court judge blocking the law.

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The order from the Supreme Court of Georgia allows the ban to take effect at 5pm ET today, Reuters reports.

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A week ago, Fulton county superior judge Robert McBurney struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban, ruling that the ban is unconstitutional and blocking it from being enforced.

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McBurney ruled that the state’s abortion laws must revert to what they were before the six-week ban – known as the Life Act – was passed in 2019. The ban was blocked as long as Roe v Wade was the law of the land, but went into effect after the US supreme court overturned Roe in 2022.

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So for one week, abortions became legal in Georgia again up until about 22 weeks of pregnancy.

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Kamala Harris is on a media blitz, with appearances planned on everything from The View to Howard Stern in the days to come. We will see her later tonight on 60 Minutes, one of the most watched news programs in the country, but based on what we have seen so far, the vice-president doesn’t seem interested in breaking new ground. In excerpts released by CBS, she sidestepped a question about how she would cajole Congress into approving higher taxes on the rich, and demurred when asked if she regarded Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “close ally”. Meanwhile, the supreme court began a new term with cases dealing with transgender rights and the Biden administration’s effort to curb ghost guns on its docket. It also declined to weigh in on a wrongful death lawsuit involving an Alabama clinic at the center of the controversy over IVF care, and a Biden administration challenge to Texas’s abortion ban and how it affects carrying out the procedure in an emergency.

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Here’s what else has happened today:

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  Donald Trump’s policies would add more to the national debt than Kamala Harris’s, an analysis by a nonpartisan budget watchdog found.

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  Biden, Harris and Trump are all marking today’s one-year anniversary of the 7 October attack in Israel.

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  Florida is bracing as Hurricane Milton, which has just been upgraded to a category 5 storm, churns towards it west coast, even as it continues to recover from Hurricane Helene.

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The supreme court began a new term today, where the conservative-dominated body could issue major rulings on transgender rights, rules to curb the spread of ghost guns, and a high-profile death penalty case.

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The court will hear cases in the months to come, and likely issue rulings next year. There is also the chance the justices could be drawn into disputes over the November elections.

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From the Associated Press, here are some of the cases they will be considering, starting with ghost guns:

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The justices will hear a case Tuesday on regulations for ghost guns, privately made weapons that are hard for police to track because they don’t have serial numbers.

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The number of the firearms found at crime scenes has soared in recent years, from fewer than 4,000 in 2018 to nearly 20,000 recovered by law enforcement in 2021, according to Justice Department data.

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The numbers have been declining in multiple cities since the Biden administration began requiring background checks and age verification for ghost gun kits that can be bought online.

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But manufacturers and gun rights groups argue that the administration overstepped and the rule should be overturned.

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The rights of transgender minors:

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Perhaps the court’s most closely watched case so far this year is a fight over transgender rights.

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The case over state bans on gender-affirming care comes as Republican-led states enact a variety of restrictions, including school sports participation, bathroom usage and drag shows.

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The administration and Democratic-led states have extended protections for transgender people, though the Supreme Court has separately prohibited the administration from enforcing a new federal regulation that seeks to protect transgender students.

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The justices will weigh a Tennessee law that restricts puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors. The case does not yet have a hearing date but will likely be argued in December.

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And the case of death row inmate Richard Glossip:

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In the decades since Richard Glossip was sentenced to die over a 1997 murder-for-hire scheme, the case has become a rare one where prosecutors are conceding mistakes.

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Oklahoma’s Republican attorney general has joined with Glossip in seeking to overturn his murder conviction and death sentence.

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Despite those doubts, an Oklahoma appeals court has upheld Glossip’s conviction, and the state’s pardon and parole board deadlocked in a vote to grant him clemency.

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Days after weathering Hurricane Helene, Florida is now in the path of Hurricane Milton, which has just been upgraded to a category 5 storm. The hurricane has the potential to become the latest crisis on Joe Biden’s plate just weeks before the 5 November election.

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Here’s the latest on the approaching storm, from the Guardian’s Anna Betts:

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In her forthcoming interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes program, Kamala Harris did not quite say yes when ask asked if she would consider Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu “a real close ally”.

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“I think, with all due respect, the better question is do we have an important alliance between the American people and the Israeli people, and the answer to that question is yes,” the vice-president replied in an excerpt from her forthcoming interview on the popular news program.

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The US relationship with Israel has grown fraught over the past year, as Joe Biden’s efforts to encourage a ceasefire in Gaza have failed and the conflict has expended into Lebanon. The issue is particularly perilous for Democrats, who are facing a backlash from some voters, including Arab and Muslim communities in battleground state Michigan, over Biden’s support for Israel’s invasion of Gaza following the 7 October attack.

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Harris avoided talking about Gaza in the 60 Minutes interview, instead noting that US military aid has helped protect the country from volleys of missiles shot by Iran. Here’s the full clip:

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Donald Trump’s policies would send the national debt higher than those proposed by Kamala Harris, a nonpartisan budgetary watchdog has found.

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Both candidates have pitched themselves to voters are responsible stewards of the nation’s economy and the government’s spending, while simultaneously proposing expensive new policies. Harris has focused on efforts to fight poverty, making housing more affordable and improve health care, while Trump has floated lowering taxes and spending more on border security and the military.

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An analysis from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget finds that Trump’s policies would send the federal debt climbing by as much as $15.2t through 2035, and as little $1.4t. Over the same period, Harris’s policies could send it up by as much as $8.1t, or nothing at all:

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🚨 NEW DEBT PROJECTIONS 🚨

In the first and comprehensive analysis of the candidates’ plans, we find Vice President Harris would add $3.5 trillion to the debt ($0 to $8.1t) and President Trump would add $7.5 trillion to the debt ($1.4t to $15.2t).

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The project comes as the US deals with a yawning budget deficit and a high debt-to-GDP ratio, which have been fueled by long-term expenditures such as paying for Social Security and Medicare, and short-term emergency responses, such as the stimulus measures approved to offset the impact of Covid-19.

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The supreme court has upheld a ruling that will prevent abortions from being performed in some emergency circumstances in the state, the Associated Press reports.

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Texas is the most populous state in the country with an abortion ban, and the Biden administration had sued to ensure abortions are available for women suffering medical emergencies, citing a separate supreme court ruling from earlier this year in a case involving Idaho’s abortion ban.

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Here’s how the court weighed in on Texas’s law, from the AP:

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The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans.

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Without detailing their reasoning, the justices kept in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations that would violate Texas law.

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The Biden administration had asked the justices to throw out the lower court order, arguing that hospitals have to perform abortions in emergency situations under federal law. The administration pointed to the Supreme Court’s action in a similar case from Idaho earlier this year in which the justices narrowly allowed emergency abortions to resume while a lawsuit continues.

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The administration also cited a Texas Supreme Court ruling that said doctors do not have to wait until a woman’s life is in immediate danger to provide an abortion legally. The administration said it brings Texas in line with federal law and means the lower court ruling is not necessary.

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Texas asked the justices to leave the order in place, saying the state Supreme Court ruling meant Texas law, unlike Idaho’s, does have an exception for the health of a pregnant patient and there’s no conflict between federal and state law.

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Doctors have said the law remains dangerously vague after a medical board refused to specify exactly which conditions qualify for the exception.

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There has been a spike in complaints that pregnant women in medical distress have been turned away from emergency rooms in Texas and elsewhere as hospitals grapple with whether standard care could violate strict laws against abortion.

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Kamala Harris’s media blitz will take her to New York City tomorrow, where the vice-president will appear on three high-profile programs with an eye towards boosting her candidacy ahead of the 5 November election.

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Harris plans to talk with Howard Stern, a one-time shock jock who has remade himself as an in-depth interviewer, her campaign said. Also on her itinerary is an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, whose host has long delighted in pointing out the absurdities of US politics, particularly on the right.

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Harris will finally appear on The View, much as Joe Biden did two weeks ago, and put her policies before the talkshow’s daytime viewership.

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Kamala Harris may be doing more media interviews in the final weeks before the 5 November election, but that doesn’t necessarily mean she is saying all that much.

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CBS this morning released a portion of her interview on their high-profile broadcast news staple, 60 Minutes. It shows Harris telling correspondent Bill Whitaker that she supports higher taxes on the wealthy (as does Joe Biden and most Democrats in Congress), but sidestepping a question on how she’ll get such a plan through Congress. From CBS:

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VICE-PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Well, one of the things is I’m gonna make sure that the richest among us who can afford it pay their fair share in taxes. It is not right that teachers and nurses and firefighters are paying a higher tax rate than billionaires and the biggest corporations.

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VICE-PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: And I plan on making that fair.

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BILL WHITAKER: But we’re dealing with the real world here.

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VICE-PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: But the real world includes–

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BILL WHITAKER: How are you gonna get this through Congress?

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VICE-PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: You know, when you talk quietly with a lot of folks in Congress, they know exactly what I’m talking about ‘cause their constituents know exactly what I’m talking about. Their constituents are those firefighters and teachers and nurses.

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Whitaker is getting at a real issue of concern for Democrats. While they may be able to claw back the majority in the House of Representatives from the GOP in November, their ability to maintain control of the Senate hinges on the re-election of two senators from red states, a tough task that they may not be able to pull off. Should they fail but Harris take the White House, she would be the first president since 1989 to be inaugurated without her party in control of Congress, and in this era of heightened partisanship, that may prove fatal for her prospects of passing any significant legislation in the first two years of her term.

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Perhaps Harris will elaborate on what she would do in this situation when the full 60 Minutes interview airs tonight at 8pm.

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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are among the global leaders commemorating the anniversary of the 7 October attack in Israel today, as is Donald Trump.

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At 11.45am ET, the president will hold a ceremony at the White House, where he’ll conduct a yahrzeit candle lighting alongside an unnamed rabbi. Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, will at 4pm plant a tree on the grounds of the vice-president’s residence in honor of the lives lost in the attack. Harris will also give a speech.

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Trump will mark the occasion with two events: a visit to the grave of Menachem Mendel Schneerson in New York City, then a speech at his golf club in Doral, Florida later on, Politico reports.

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We have a live blog covering the latest on the global commemorations of the attack, as well as the spiraling crisis in the Middle East. You can find it here:

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Kamala Harris has been warned that her bid to win the key battleground states of Michigan and Pennsylvania risks being undermined by her failure to connect with unionized blue-collar workers in the same way that Joe Biden historically has done.

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Jonathan Kott, a Democratic strategist and former Senate aide told the Hill website that the current president is a tough act for Harris to follow in that regard.

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“Joe Biden is the most pro-union president ever,” he said. “He was the only president to be on a union picket line, he’s so over-the-top pro-union.”

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Another Democratic strategist, Ray Zaccaro, told the website: “Biden has had a special relationship with labor throughout his entire career. I don’t think there’s anything particularly lacking in Harris’s position on labor, but there probably are some stylistic and relationship differences for her to overcome.”

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Zaccaro warned: “There is a movement within the labor world that is more aligned with Maga, protectionism, nationalist identity,” adding that some union voters increasingly support “some of the messaging that the Trump campaign is putting out”.

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Kamala Harris has begun what has been described as a week-long media blitz with an appearance on Sunday night on the podcast Call Her Daddy.

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During the interview with Alex Cooper, Harris addressed topics including abortion, reproductive healthcare, housing and student debt relief.

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Harris said Trump’s repeated claim that Democrats support abortion “after birth” is a “lie”, and that it was insulting to claim that women in their ninth month of pregnancy are electing to have an abortion.

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She also rebuked Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who had suggested Harris “doesn’t have anything keeping her humble” because she doesn’t have children.

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“I don’t think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who are not aspiring to be humble,” Harris said, adding: “We have our family by blood and then we have our family by love. And I have both.”

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Harris said economic conditions hinder people having a family, and suggested her aim to build 3m new homes by the end of her first term would assist with that.

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Harris said: “I think that most Americans want leaders who understand that the measure of their strength is not based on who you beat down. The real measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up.”

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Cooper has made a point of also asking Trump on to the show if he wants to appear.

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Welcome to our rolling coverage of the 2024 US presidential election campaign. Today both vice-president Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump will attend ceremonies to mark the one year anniversary of the 7 October attack on Israel by Hamas. Harris is expected to speak at an event at the White House, while Trump will be appearing at a Florida golf course. Joe Biden will also mark the occasion with an event at the White House.

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Here are the headlines …

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  Polling continues to show that November’s election is too close to call.

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  Kamala Harris appeared on the Call Her Daddy podcast on Sunday, discussing abortion, reproductive healthcare, housing and student debt relief.

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  Tim Walz said during an appearance on Fox News that Donald Trump’s agenda would destroy the US economy.

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  Donald Trump held a rally in Juneau, Wisconsin.

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  JD Vance has suggested a second Trump administration would defund Planned Parenthood.

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  The supreme court begins sitting again this week with the regulation of ghost guns and transgender rights on their agenda.

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  Florida is gearing up for what could be the biggest evacuations since 2017 as Hurricane Milton strengthens.

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It is Martin Belam with you here to start with. You can get in touch with me at martin.belam@theguardian.com.

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Lauren Gambino

Kamala Harris’s “60 Minutes” election special has begun with a lengthy explanation of the effort by CBS to secure an interview with Donald Trump.

Scott Pelley, one of the show’s correspondents who was supposed to interview Trump, detailed the back-and-forth with the Trump campaign to secure the interview that he said was due to take place on Thursday last week. But he said Trump canceled the sit down.

Pelley said the campaign provided “shifting explanations” for pulling out of the interview, including that he did not want to be “factchecked” and that he “needed an apology” for a 2020 interview related to Hunter Biden’s laptop.

“Trump has said his opponent doesn’t do interviews because she can’t handle them. He had previously declined another debate with Harris,” Pelley said. “So tonight may have been the largest audience for the candidates between now and Election Day.”

Whitaker asks if the US has a real close ally in prime minister Netanyahu, to which Harris says, “I think, with all due respect, the better question is do we have an important alliance between the American people and the Israeli people. And the answer to that question is yes.”

During the interview, CBS’s Bill Whitaker will ask Kamala Harris about the crisis in the Middle East. Harris sidesteps a question about US support for Israel, and in particular, Netanyahu.

Here is that exchange:

Bill Whitaker: The events of the past few weeks have pushed us to the brink, if-if not into an all-out regional war in the Middle East. What can the U.S. do at this point to stop this from spinning out of control?

Vice-president Kamala Harris: Well, let’s start with 7 October. 1,200 people were massacred, 250 hostages were taken, including Americans, women were brutally raped, and as I said then, I maintain Israel has a right to defend itself. We would. And how it does so matters. Far too many innocent Palestinians have been killed. This war has to end.

Bill Whitaker: We supply Israel with billions of dollars in military aid, and yet prime minister Netanyahu seems to be charting his own course. The Biden-Harris administration has pressed him to agree to a ceasefire. He’s resisted. You urged him not to go into Lebanon. He went in anyway. Does the U.S. have no sway over prime minister Netanyahu?

Vice-president Kamala Harris: The work that we do diplomatically with the leadership of Israel is an ongoing pursuit around making clear our principles.

Bill Whitaker: But it seems that prime minister Netanyahu is not listening.

Vice-president Kamala Harris: We are not gonna stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.

Trump has not yet spoken, but the Guardian’s Richard Luscombe is at the event in Florida and will report on anything noteworthy that he says when he does.

Meanwhile Kamala Harris’s pre-taped interview with 60 Minutes is due to air in two minutes’ time. We’ll bring that to you live as it airs.

Kamala Harris’s interview with 60 Minutes will air in 20 minutes’ time. We’ll bring you news and analysis from that live.

People around the world marked the anniversary of the 7 October Hamas attacks on Monday, and devastating conflict that has followed.

Vigils paid tribute to the 1200 victims of the Hamas attacks, and the hostages in Gaza, and protests called for an end to the Israeli offensive, which has killed nearly 42,000 people, more than half of them women and children, and injured tens of thousands.

US President Joe Biden participated in a Jewish ceremony to remember the victims of the attack, and UK prime minister Keir Starmer called for an end to the escalating regional violence. The events came as Israel launched a wave of strikes on southern Lebanon, where it claims it has been targeting Hezbollah in recent weeks, leading to fears of a broader war:

As we wait for Trump to speak at an event on the anniversary of the 7 October attacks, here are the biggest days to watch out for the next few months. There are no major events scheduled until election day, just a month of campaigning from the candidates.

5 November: Election Day. It could take days for the election result to be known, especially if it is close and mail-in ballots are a factor.

26 November: Trump, the first sitting or former U.S. president to be convicted of a crime, is due to be sentenced in a Manhattan hush money case where he was found guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a payment to silence a porn star. Trump has denied wrongdoing. Sentencing was originally due to take place on Sept. 18.

17 December: Electors, who together form the Electoral College, meet in their respective states and the District of Columbia to select the president and vice-president.

25 December: The electoral votes must be received by this date by the president of the Senate – a role held by the vice-president, now Harris – and the archivist.

6 January 2025: The vice-president presides over the Electoral College vote count at a joint session of Congress, announces the results and declares who has been elected.

Ahead of the count on 6 January 2021, then-President Trump lambasted his vice-president, Mike Pence, for refusing to try to prevent Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s victory over Trump.

On that day, the US Capitol was attacked by Trump supporters trying to stop the count. Biden’s win was certified early the next day.

Congress has since passed the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022, which requires approval of one-fifth of the House and Senate to consider a challenge to a state’s results – a much higher bar than existed before, when at least one member each in the Senate and House of Representatives could together trigger a challenge.

20 January: The inauguration of the election winner and their vice-president takes place. At this ceremony, the victor and the vice-president are officially sworn into office.

Oliver Milman

Here is more on the Fema chief’s response to falsehoods spread by Treump about Hurricane Helene:

Trump has accused Joe Biden’s administration of “abandoning” people to the crisis and, baselessly, of being short of disaster relief funds due to money spent on undocumented migrants. Such claims are “frankly ridiculous” and creating a “truly dangerous narrative that is creating this fear” among affected people, Criswell said.

In multiple rallies in the past week, Trump has accused Biden and Kamala Harris of favoring migrants over disaster-hit areas. “They stole the Fema money, just like they stole it from a bank, so they could give it to their illegal immigrants that they want to have vote for them this season,” Trump has said.

“Kamala spent all her Fema money, billions of dollars, on housing for illegal immigrants.” Trump added the places worst hit are “largely a Republican area so some people say they did it for that reason”.

JD Vance, Trump’s Republican running mate, echoed this theme on Monday, telling Fox News that Fema’s focus on migrants is “going to distract focus from their core job of helping American citizens in their time of need”. Last week, Stephen Miller, a far-right Trump adviser, said that “Kamala Harris turned Fema into an illegal alien resettlement agency.”

Fema does, in fact, have a housing program that offers shelter to migrants leaving detention but this is separate from its disaster relief program. “No money is being diverted from disaster response needs. None,” the White House has stated.

Congress recently provided an extra $20bn for disaster relief but Biden has warned that more funding will be needed to help the long-term recovery of places increasingly assailed by powerful storms fueled by global heating.

Other conspiracy theories and erroneous claims have swirled online and in areas affected by Helene, such as the assertion that Fema will give only $750 to individuals as a loan (it is in fact a grant and can be followed by further claims for more than $40,000) or that the agency is seizing people’s land.

Trump did not make any public remarks as he paid his respects at the final resting place of a famous rabbi in New York earlier on Monday.

But he blasted Biden and Harris over their handling of the Middle East in an interview earlier, accusing the incumbent of having the “worst foreign policy of anybody in history probably.”

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “not listening at all” to Biden, said Trump – with the property tycoon lamenting that war-torn Gaza could one day be “better than Monaco”.

The event in Florida is starting now, though Trump is not yet speaking.

Trump’s event in Florida is so far running 30 minutes late. We will bring you any important lines from those remarks on the anniversary of the 7 October attacks by Hamas when they begin.

Oliver Milman

A slew of falsehoods about Hurricane Helene, including claims of funds diverted from storm survivors to migrants and even that Democrats somehow directed the hurricane itself, have hampered the response to one of the deadliest hurricanes to ever hit the US, the nation’s top emergency official has warned.

Misinformation spread by Donald Trump, his supporters and others about the hurricane has shrouded the recovery effort for communities shattered by Helene, which tore through five states causing at least 227 deaths and tens of billions of dollars of damage. Many places, such as in western North Carolina, are still without a water supply, navigable roads or vital supplies.

“It’s frankly disappointing we are having to deal with this narrative, the fact there are a few leaders having a hard time telling the difference between fact and fiction is creating an impedance to our ability to actually get people the help they need,” Deanne Criswell, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), told MSNBC on Monday.

Here is the press pool report – by the Guardian’s own David Smith – on Kamala Harris’s comments earlier on Governor Ron DeSantis not taking her calls about Hurricane Milton.

Harris said:

Moments of crisis, if nothing else, should really be the moment that anyone who calls themselves a leader says they’re going to put politics aside and put the people first.

People are in desperate need of support right now and playing political games at this moment, in these crisis situations – these are the height of emergency situations – it is utterly irresponsible and it is selfish and it is about political gamesmanship instead of doing the job that you took an oath to do, which is to put the people first.”

Earlier VPOTUS said she had just come off the phone with Fema Administrator Deanne Criswell. She commented on remarks made by Trump.

And I cannot stress enough to all the folks in Florida in the Tampa area, please listen to evacuation orders. Please listen to your local officials because I know a lot of folks out there have survived these hurricanes before; this one is going to be very, very serious and I urge you to grab whatever you need.

The other point I’d make is there’s a lot of misinformation being pushed out there by the former president about what is available, particularly for the survivors of Helene. First of all, it’s extraordinarily irresponsible. It’s about him, it’s not about you. The reality is Fema has so many resources that are available to those who desperately need them.”

Edward Helmore

Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida is reportedly refusing calls about storm recovery from Kamala Harris, more than a week after Hurricane Helene hit the state and two days before intensifying Hurricane Milton is expected to hit the south-west of the state.

Citing a DeSantis aide, NBC News reported on Monday that the Republican governor was dodging the Democratic presidential nominee’s calls because they “seemed political”.

“Kamala was trying to reach out, and we didn’t answer,” the DeSantis aide told the outlet. DeSantis does not appear to have spoken to Joe Biden, either, to the aide’s knowledge.

The Florida governor has, however, been in touch with the Fema director, Deanne Criswell.

Last week, DeSantis said Biden had called him, but he was flying at the time so could not take the call. A source familiar with the planning for Biden’s trip to north Florida to survey Helene’s damage said that the Biden team had invited DeSantis to the event but their schedules conflicted.

The response to Hurricane Helene has become an intense political issue one month before the presidential election. The White House and local Democratic leaders have appealed for an end to misinformation about the storm and the response to it.

Summary

As we wait for Trump to begin delivering his remarks on the October 7 Hamas attack in Florida, here is where things stand:

• Kamala Harris and Donald Trump both attended events today in recognition of the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack against Israel.

• The Supreme court upheld a ruling that will prevent abortions from being performed in some emergency circumstances in Texas. The court also rejected an attempt by an Alabama fertility clinic to avoid a wrongful death lawsuit that was at the center of a state high court ruling earlier this year that led to IVF access being briefly curtailed in the state

• The Harris campaign launched a week-long media blitz, beginning yesterday with an appearance on the podcast Call Her Daddy, that will include appearances with Howard Stern, Stephen Colbert and The View this week.

• Florida is bracing for Hurricane Milton to make landfall. The state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, has declined to speak with Harris or Joe Biden, but says the federal government has fulfilled his requests for aid.

• A report by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget suggests that both the Harris and Trump campaigns are making promises that will increase US debt, but that Trump’s proposals are more expensive.