Trump ‘crossed a line’ by saying army should be used against his enemies, Walz says – live

Kamala Harris will be speaking at a rally in the all-important state of Pennsylvania (the swing state with the highest number of electoral college votes – 19) in just over an hour and fifteen minutes’ time, or 7.35pm ET.

This is Helen Sullivan taking over our live US politics coverage, and I’ll bring that to you as it happens.

Today So Far

Tim Walz is continuing his tour of Wisconsin today with Michigan and Wisconsin governors Gretchen Whitmer and Tony Evers.

Earlier in the day, Walz spoke with students at the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire, before touring Lambeau Field, where the Packers play, and meeting with a small contingent of Oneida Nation members.

Harris to warn of Trump presidency targeting “the enemy from within”

As the Democratic National Committee announces its largest ad campaign focused on turning out Native American voters, Kamala Harris has shared her own message on Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Her post on Twitter/X shows a meeting she held with young Indigenous leaders while campaigning in Arizona last week.

Our latest polling indicates that Donald Trump holds a two-point lead over the vice-president in Arizona. In 2020, Native voters were largely credited for swinging the long-red state blue for Joe Biden.

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.

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.”

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:

Walz: Trump ‘crossed a line’ by saying army should be used against his enemies

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.”

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: