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Kamala Harris has taken a three-point lead in the latest New York Times/ Siena College national poll — the first time she has pulled ahead of Donald Trump in that survey.
The vice president continued her media blitz on Tuesday appearing on ABC’s The View. She was also interviewed at length on Howard Stern’s radio show and later will be a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
On Monday she gave the traditional election interview to CBS’s 60 Minutes — which Trump did not agree to — and was pressed on her economic plan, support for Ukraine and Israel, and on being a gun owner.
Meanwhile, former president Trump reportedly sent Vladimir Putin Covid-19 test kits at the height of the pandemic, according to a new book by veteran Watergate journalist Bob Woodward. Trump also spoke with the Russian leader as many as seven times after leaving the White House, it alleges.
The Trump campaign called the stories “made up” and Woodward “demented and deranged” and a “sleazebag”.
And finally, Melania Trump marked the release of her memoir with a rare live interview on The Five on Fox News, shortly after her husband attacked the network on Truth Social.
DeSantis lashes out at Harris as they spar over Hurricane Milton: ‘It’s not about you Kamala!’
“We’ve been on emergency footing around the clock, two weeks straight,” DeSantis told Fox News on Tuesday. “That’s been my sole focus. My focus has not been on dealing with Kamala Harris. I saw the news report. I didn’t know she tried to contact me. It’s not about you, Kamala. It’s about the people of Florida.”
Josh Marcus reports.
What really happened during Melania Trump’s infamous hand swatting incident
Melania Trump has addressed the infamous moment she appeared to swat Donald Trump away when he tried to hold her hand in public.
During a visit to Tel Aviv in May 2017, the then-first lady was caught on camera batting her husband’s hand away while they walked along the red carpet.
The incident hit headlines and led to widespread speculation about the state of their marriage.
Rhian Lubin reports on what the former first lady claims happened.
Trump has no chance of winning these blue states… so why is he campaigning there?
Ariana Baio takes a look at what’s happening.
All the best revelations from Melania Trump’s new book
Sheila Flynn writes:
The teasers for the memoir were sleek, enigmatic and reflective of the image held world-over of Melania Trump herself – a woman oft photographed but always inscrutable at the side of America’s most controversial man.
She acknowledges as much in the author’s note preceding the eponymous Melania, dangling the promise of a glimpse into her mind and everyday reality, writing that she hopes “to show you the woman behind the public persona, to illuminate the values and experiences that have shaped me, and to offer insights into the complexities of life in the public eye.
“As a private person who has often been the subject of public scrutiny and misrepresentation, I feel a responsibility to set the record straight and to provide the actual account of my experiences,” she continues.
Read on to see what she had to say…
This Montana Senate candidate said his opponent ate ‘lobbyist steak.’ But he lobbied—with steak
During an October debate, Montana GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy took a shot at his Democratic opponent, Sen. Jon Tester, for ” eating lobbyist steak ″ while the Republican fought in Afghanistan.
But Sheehy himself had a taste for red meat and lobbying, according to emails obtained by The Associated Press. He combined the two in pursuit of government contracts that allowed his aerial firefighting company to rapidly expand over the past decade.
“I hope you enjoyed the steakhouse,” Sheehy wrote to Ryan Osmundson, the state Budget Director after a November 2021 meeting in Martinsdale, Montana.
Continue reading…
Why an unenthusiastic Melania Trump is being dragged back into the spotlight
John Bowden writes:
The release of a memoir from Melania Trump with less than a month left in the presidential election cycle feels like the epitome of a Hail Mary. An obvious, direct appeal to the one demographic — women — among whom her husband is bleeding support the most. A call to return to the fold aimed at conservative women turned off by the ugliness of Trump’s campaign and the battle over abortion rights, which has become a weight around the former president’s neck.
Continue reading…
Larry Hogan launches a broadside on crime in crucial Maryland Senate race
The battle for retiring Senator Ben Cardin’s seat in the deep-blue state has been close for months, but both parties are showing more and more signs of valuing the race’s importance in the ending stretch.
John Bowden reports.
Study finds almost half of people convicted of same crimes as Trump go to prison
Forty-two percent of people convicted of falsifying business records in New York in the last decade were sentenced to time in jail or prison, a new study from The New York Times found. In Manhattan specifically, that number is closer to one-third, the outlet’s analysis showed.
Katie Hawkinson reports.
Watch: Melania asked whether she would have married Trump had she known he would be president
Watch: What is Melania’s message to women in the 2024 election?
Asked what she would say to women on the fence about voting for Donald Trump, former first lady Melania Trump manages not to mention reproductive rights in her reply.
There was no follow up question.
Source: independent.co.uk
