Harris-Trump live: Trump to hold press conference as Harris leads ex-president among likely voters in new poll

Shut followers of this weblog — or anybody who has seen the information over the previous two weeks — might have observed that Kamala Harris is dominating the information cycle with the spectacularly quick rollout of her marketing campaign for the presidency.

The vp managed to flip, rebrand, reinvigorate, and refocus your complete Democratic Get together effort to retain the White Home in November’s election. Excited crowds have flocked to occasions in key battleground states at rallies in Atlanta, Eau Claire, and Detroit.

As ballot numbers have rapidly begun delivering Harris’s favor, Donald Trump is believed to be seething. The Washington Put up stories that he has “grown more and more upset” on the media protection of the vp.

Counterprogramming by his working mate JD Vance has proved to be very a lot a sideshow and led to mockery over awkward moments and stilted solutions to questions from the press. Trump himself had no scheduled occasions this week apart from a rally tomorrow in deep-red Montana.

A swiftly scheduled “normal information convention” at Mar-a-Lago, the place the previous president has been holed up for a lot of the previous two weeks, has been set for 2pm right now.

Whether or not this may truly take the type of a press convention, or whether or not will probably be a freewheeling stream of consciousness interspersed with components of his stump speech is anybody’s guess, however what is probably going taking place is that Trump believes that when issues aren’t going his manner he’s the one one who can step in and alter the narrative.

His former White Home press secretary Stephanie Grisham was fast to notice this on X this morning.

She wrote: “Re: Trump’s self-announced press convention right now at 2 pm: He’s panicking. I’ve seen this play many instances. He thinks his group is failing him & nobody can communicate higher/‘save’ his marketing campaign/defend him however him. He hates the protection Harris is getting & thinks solely he can repair it.”

What he may speak about is unclear on condition that his Fact Social posts this morning have largely been an array of marketing campaign speaking factors mashed collectively in an indignant rant.

One factor that did stand out was that he talked about presidential debates, the topic of a spat between him and Harris after the previous president backed off doing the beforehand agreed debate on ABC subsequent month and tried to maneuver the showdown over to Fox Information, which Harris refused.

He wrote: “I’ll expose Kamala in the course of the Debate the identical manner I uncovered Crooked Joe, Hillary, and everybody else throughout Debates – Solely I feel Kamala shall be simpler! DJT.”

As in our earlier weblog submit, the Put up has since reported that Trump might suggest one other debate this afternoon. Citing individuals near the previous president who spoke on situation of anonymity, the paper stories that Trump is more likely to return to the proposed ABC Information debate or suggest a brand new debate on NBC Information with Univision.

After backing away from an agreed debate on ABC Information and proposing a brand new debate on Fox Information that Kamala Harris declined, is Donald Trump about to again down and return to the scheduled ABC Information debate or suggest one thing new?

Now, Trump is more likely to return to ABC Information or suggest a debate on NBC Information with Univision, based on individuals near him who spoke on the situation of anonymity to explain non-public deliberations.

These individuals anticipate his proposal within the coming days and doubtlessly as early as Thursday afternoon.

Each networks have an interest within the debate, together with others, the individuals aware of the matter mentioned. Trump has mentioned each networks with advisers, they mentioned.

Secret Service brokers have been positioned exterior the Harris-Walz rally in Eau Claire on Wednesday, the place the vp and her working mate, different Democratic officers and musician Bon Iver appeared earlier than 12,000 individuals at an out of doors occasion area.

Now the impartial presidential candidate has made a brand new confession: he’s obtained a “freezer full” of roadkill and he’s been selecting up lifeless animal carcasses from the curb his “entire life.”

Right here’s James Liddell with this wild story.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, whose specialty election ability is pushing again laborious on rightwing speaking factors in TV appearances, has lent his help to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz over seemingly unsupported allegations concerning his army service which have surfaced since he was decide as Kamala Harris’s working mate.

Buttigieg wrote on X: “Tim Walz served honorably and properly.”

He continued: “Once more, that is strategic: group Trump wants us tied up in debates over pre-retirement conditional rank promotions as a result of they’re determined NOT to debate their (unpopular) insurance policies, like tax cuts for the wealthy and banning entry to abortion.”

This actually shouldn’t be a tough query.

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance is being extensively mocked after he appeared to battle to reply a easy query on why People may wish to go for a drink with him.

“Why would individuals in Wisconsin wish to have a beer with you?” a reporter requested Vance at a marketing campaign cease in Eau Claire on Wednesday.

In a clumsy second, the Ohio Senator laughed after which stumbled over a response.

Joe Sommerlad stories on what he mentioned.

Donald Trump’s federal election interference case is slowly coming again to life.

The 4 felony instances in opposition to the previous president — spanning 88 prices in 4 jurisdictions — have been hung up in months of appeals and delays, making a Russian nesting doll of courtroom battles, with court docket dates and aspect hearings on proof, gag orders and protection arguments all designed to decelerate the chance of one other conviction earlier than Election Day.

Alex Woodward has been carefully following all the instances.

The Each day Present host Michael Kosta has mocked Republicans over their new nickname for Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz after they began calling him “Tampon Tim.”

Final 12 months, Minnesota Governor Walz signed a invoice into legislation mandating that free sanitary merchandise have to be accessible to all menstruating college students in restrooms utilized by college students in grades 4 to 12 throughout Minnesota faculties.

Coming into impact on January 1, the invoice ensures that younger women, non-binary and trans college students all have entry to the straightforward however important merchandise.

Kamala Harris is main Donald Trump by the widest margin to this point within the newest nationwide ballot by Marquette Regulation Faculty.

In a head-to-head match-up, the vp is the selection for president of 52% of registered voters, and former president Trump is the selection of 48% — not the primary survey exhibiting Harris with a 4 per cent lead.

Nevertheless, amongst seemingly voters, that margin grows additional, with Harris receiving 53% and Trump 47%. These outcomes embrace voters who initially didn’t select Harris or Trump however who have been then requested whom they’d vote for if they’d to decide on.

When the poll query was expanded to incorporate impartial candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr, Libertarian Get together candidate Chase Oliver, Inexperienced Get together candidate Jill Stein, and impartial candidate Cornel West, Harris nonetheless led Trump by six per cent — 47: 41% amongst registered voters.

Kennedy is supported by 9%, Oliver receives 1%, Stein is the selection of two%, and West wins 1%, amongst these voters.

When the identical query is put to seemingly voters, Harris will get her largest lead thus far — 8% — with help from 50% of these requested, in comparison with 42% for Trump. For the opposite candidates, the breakdown is Kennedy 6%, Oliver 1%, Stein 1%, and West 0%.

Of word is that the ballot was performed earlier than Harris chosen Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her working mate.

The survey was performed from July 24 to August 1 and 879 registered voters have been interviewed nationwide. The margin of error of +/-4.1 share factors. For seemingly voters, the pattern dimension is 683 with a margin of error of +/-4.7 share factors.

As we reported on this weblog yesterday, a newly-surfaced telephone name from 2020 has captured Donald Trump saying he was “very joyful” with Tim Walz’s dealing with of the unrest that swept Minneapolis after George Floyd’s homicide – undermining Republican criticism which has poured in since Walz was tapped as Kamala Harris’s working mate this week.

James Liddell has the main points.