Kamala Harris says she’ll help black men by decriminalising marijuana

Kamala Harris has said she will decriminalise marijuana to support black men.
The vice president claimed that laws prohibiting the drug have “disproportionately” impacted black men as she made a renewed push for their support.
“As president I will work on decriminalising it because I know exactly how those laws have been used to disproportionately impact certain populations and specifically black men,” the vice president told radio host Charlamagne Tha God.
Ms Harris went on to deny claims she had prosecuted thousands of black people for marijuana-related offences during her time as a public attorney describing herself as a “progressive prosecutor”.
“It’s just simply not true,” she said. “I was the most progressive prosecutor in California on marijuana cases and would not send people to jail for possession of weed.
“As vice president I have been a champion for bringing marijuana down on the schedule so instead of it being ranked up there with heroin, we bring it down.
It comes after the vice president unveiled new policy proposals aimed at black men on Monday that include a new legal recreational marijuana industry which she will ensure black men have access to.
The Harris campaign was criticised last week for patronising black voters after Barack Obama admonished black men for their failure to support the vice president. 
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Byron Donalds, a prominent Trump ally in the House of Representatives, is riling up the crowd here in Atlanta ahead of the former president’s speech.
The loudest cheers come when he spotlights the Republican candidate’s support among male voters, and black men in particular.
A few men stand up out of their seats and jump in the air, shouting “yes”. 
Taking aim at the “liberal left”, Congressman Donalds dismisses accusations of “toxic masculinity”.
“If you want to call it toxic masculinity, be my guest,” he says. “You know what we call it? We call it manhood, and manhood is needed in America today.”
Byron Donalds Donalds first turns his attention to the women in the audience. “Ladies, you look great, y’all look good. Digging the jacket,” he tells one audience member.
“Ma’am, I love your hair,” he tells another.
The congressman says a Trump presidency will be one that “respects women” and “actually protects title nine” – the law which prohibits discrimination based on sex in educational settings.
He then turns to the men in the audience, saying: “I’ll be damned if you’re gonna tell one of my sons that he’s going to be a girl.”
Florida congressman Byron Donalds has taken to the stage.
Mr Donalds, who at one point was tipped as a potential Trump running mate, is tasked with amping up the crowd before the former president makes an appearance.
He gives a brief nod to his one-time rival JD Vance, saying the vice presidential nominee is doing a “great job”.
He goes on to hit the Trump talking points about the cost of living, the influx of illegal immigration and men taking part in women’s sport.
The congressman also takes aim at Harris for giving a cliched stump speech. “You know, if they ask her what’s her plan to secure the border, she’s going to say, you know, I grew up as a middle class child.”
 
Donald Trump’s rally was set to get under way at 7.30pm, but he has kept his supporters waiting for around 40 minutes so far.
Judging by the whoops and cheers, the crowd gathered in Atlanta still appears to be in good spirits. Perhaps its the James Brown and Sinead O’Connor soundtrack.
The former president, who spoke in Chicago earlier this afternoon, is expected to arrive soon.
Election monitors will dispatched to Ohio where a sheriff was recently accused of intimidating voters, the US Justice Department has said.
Bruce Zuchowski, The Republican Sheriff of Portage County, came under fire last month after posting on social media that people with Kamala Harris yard signs should have their addresses written down so that immigrants can be sent to live with them if the Democrats win the election. He also likened illegal immigrants to “human locusts.”
The sheriff’s comment sparked outrage among some Democrats, with the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio demanding that Mr Zuchowski remove the post, which it described as an “impermissible threat”.
The sheriff’s supporters argued he was making a political point about unrestrained immigration and that he was exercising his right to free speech. However, he later took down the post.
In response, the Justice Department has now said it will monitor Portage County’s compliance with federal voting rights laws during early voting and on election day.
“Voters in Portage County have raised concerns about intimidation resulting from the surveillance and the collection of personal information regarding voters, as well as threats concerning the electoral process,” the agency said.
The department added that it regularly sends staff to counties around the US to monitor compliance with the federal Voting Rights Act and other civil rights statutes related to elections and voting.
Jill Biden has invoked the ghost of 2016 as she exhorted Democrat supporters to get out and vote.
The First Lady hit the Harris campaign trail in Pennsylvania this evening, where she drummed home Ms Harris’ policies on housing and price-gouging before urging voters to cast their ballots.
“I want you to remember the morning in 2016​ after the election,” she said, according to The New York Times. “Remember when ​we woke up to find that we had fallen short? Remember that feeling​ — thinking if we only had made more calls, if we only had knocked on ​more doors. We can‘t let that happen again.”
Mrs Biden also slammed Donald Trump for overturning of Roe v. Wade and his plans to raises taxes on workers and families. “Another Trump administration would lead to more chaos, more greed, more division​,” she said.
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At first glance, the Atlanta suburbs may seem an unusual setting for Donald Trump to stage a rally.
Georgia may be a critical state in the presidential race, but its biggest city is a liberal stronghold. Or so you’d think. I’m stood outside the venue for tonight’s event and with an hour to go until the Republican presidential candidate is due to appear there are thousands of people still waiting to get inside.
Some have clearly come straight from work, dressed in hospital scrubs or suits. Others have got baseball caps emblazoned with the word TRUMP or MAGA on them.
“If you don’t want to be a Dem-o-crat come and get your M-A-G-A hats,” sings one salesman going up and down the queue with a cart of goods endorsing the former president.  
Trump’s rally at Atlanta’s Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre is due to get under way at 7.30pm.
Kamala Harris is open to a $12 trillion reparations plan, Republicans have claimed.
Donald Trump supporters have pounced on Ms Harris’s comments after she was quizzed on the subject of reparations in a radio interview earlier today.
“It has to be studied, there’s no question about that,” she told host Charlamagne Tha God, before pivoting to her plans to address racial inequality in the near future.
Ms Harris’ appearance on the show comes amid a media blitz by Democrats designed to appeal to to black male voters, who are yet to throw their support behind the vice president, according to the polls.
Republicans  seized on the remarks, which they cited in a campaign email as an example of Ms Harris’ “radical liberal” tendencies. 
The question of slavery reparations is a deeply contentious issue in American politics, with a 2020 NBC report finding that it could cost the US government up to $12 trillion dollars.
Having been warned by Charlamagne Tha God that there was only a few minutes left, the vice president appears to have been cut off.
Mid-way through discussing Donald Trump’s recent comments disparaging Detroit, Ms Harris was interrupted by a musical interlude.
It seems that’s the last we’ll hear from the Democratic candidate for now. 
Turning to her record, the vice president refers to the introduction of the child tax credit, which she says cut black child poverty by half.
She goes on to highlight her plans for cutting the cost of prescription medication, pointing out that black people are 60 per cent being more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes and thus rely on their savings for treatment.
My work has been on “working to get medical debt not beyond your credit score”, she says, adding that it will help people pay for housing.
Ms Harris admits that nobody wants to hear an “economics 101 lecture” after briefly delivering one.
She circles back to core principles, highlighting her economic message of supporting the middle class.
“Donald Trump thinks about the economy by cutting taxes for billionaires,” she says before harpooning other aspects of the former president’s record.
Kamala Harris has denied claims that Janet Jackson is angry at her over her alleged involvement in attempting to prosecute her brother, Michael Jackson.
Asked about the allegation, Ms Harris says: “That’s just not true.” She clarifies that “I have not talked to her, but certainly it’s not true about her brother.”
Ms Jackson recently questioned the vice president’s racial heritage, claiming she is not black.
The singer, 58, was asked during an interview how she felt about America being “on the verge of voting in its first black female president”.
“She’s not black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian,” she told The Guardian.
Kamala Harris targets Donald Trump as “weak”.
“Donald Trump, through his way of trying to name call and demean and divide, tries to project as though those things are a sign of strength, when in fact the man is really quite weak. He’s weak,” she says.
“It’s a sign of weakness that you want to please dictators and seek their flattery and favour, a sign of weakness that you would demean America’s military and America’s service members.”
She continues: “It’s a sign of weakness that you don’t have the courage to stand up for the constitution of the United States and principles upon which it stands. This man is weak and he’s unfit.”
Ms Harris has looked to project strength in her bid to secure male voters, and this attack appears to come from the same play book. 
“I’ve been very clear,” says Kamala Harris. I think that the court should handle that, and I’m gonna handle November.”
Addressing January 6, she continues: “Donald Trump incited a violent mob to try and undo the will of the people and undo the results of a free and fair election [in which a] violent mob attacked the United States Capitol.”
Kamala Harris hits out at Donald Trump for blocking the border security bill so he could use it as a political football.
Quizzed on her own record on immigration, she points to her efforts to tighten up the asylum application process.
She adds that she passed an “executive order that has actually reduced significantly the number of illegal crossings and tightened up what needs to happen in between ports of entry”.
Harris dismisses the suggestion that Barack Obama dampened her rollout of policies designed to support black voters by admonishing them last week.
“Oh no no no no,” she says. “I’ve been doing this for quite some time.”
Kamala Harris says that the “needs of the black community are not just about criminal justice”.
“We have brought down black unemployment to one of the lowest levels in history, but the community is not going to stand up and applaud just because everybody has a job,” she says.
“My agenda is about tapping into the ambitions and the aspirations, knowing that folks want to have an opportunity.”
Asked what her view is on slavery reparations, Ms Harris says it’s a point that “has to be studied”.
“I do have clear eyes about the disparities that exist and the context in which they exist,” she says. “On the point of reparations, it has to be studied, there’s no question about that.”
Swivelling to her “immediate plans”, she returns to her talking points on home-ownership to support the middle class. “I grew up in the middle class my mother worked hard and raised me and my sister…I know what it means for an individual and a family to have home ownership.”
She adds that black families are 40 per cent less likely to be homeowners, before discussing pressures on “black-owned small businesses” and health issues that predominantly affect black men.
Harris urges listeners to ensure they vote.
“You can’t let anyone take you out of the game,” she says. “The solutions are not going to happen overnight…  but here’s the thing, the things that we want and are prepared to fight for won’t happen if we’re not active. And if we don’t participate, we cannot allow circumstances to take us out the game.
“Let’s not fall for it.”
Harris dismisses a clip that has circulated on social media claiming that she will do nothing “specifically for black people”.
“That’s not true,” she says, describing it as “disinformation”.
The vice president reverts to her record in fighting to effect issues that impact on black citizens. 
She pivots to attack Donald Trump, stating: “Ask Donald Trump what his plan is for black America…Look at Project 2025”.
She adds that the document, which the Republicans have distanced themselves from, “includes making police departments have stop and frisk policies” and “making it more difficult for workers to receive overtime pay”.
Kamala Harris issues a call to the black community to vote.
“By voting in this election, you have two choices…and it’s two very different visions for our nation. 
“One that is about taking us forward and progress and investing in the American people, investing in their ambitions dealing with their challenges. And the other, Donald Trump, is about taking us backward.”
On the subject of tax credits, Harris rehashes her talking points on expanding the childhood tax credit to support young families.
Addressing homeownership, she says: “Knowing that black people are 40 per cent less likely to be homeowners in America, we have a history of legal and procedural obstacles.”
 
Charlamagne Tha God asks Kamala Harris if she locked up black men out of “pure hatred”.
Ms  Harris responds by highlighting her record as a “progressive prosecutor” who “would not send people to jail for simple possession of weed”.
On the subject of marijuana, she says: “As president, I will work on decriminalising it, because I know exactly how those laws have been used to disproportionately impact certain populations, and specifically black men.”
The vice president is targeting a black audience in her messaging so far.
She brings up stop and frisk policing policies and the fact that “black people were dying every day by the hundreds” during the pandemic, when Donald Trump is alleged to have offered Covid tests to Putin.
 
Kamala Harris says: “this is a margin of error race, it’s tight, I’m gonna win.
“What is at stake is truly profound and historic, many would say.
“Some people would say this lofty notion of supporting our democracy, but it is about real issues that affect people every day” she adds, citing drug prices, stop and frisk policing policies and cosying up to dictators.
Kamala Harris’s sit down with Charlamagne Tha God has got under way.
Donald Trump has backed out of an interview with CNBC, marking the second time this month he has ducked a grilling with the mainstream media.
Joe Kernen, the “Squawk Box” presenter, broke the news on air. “Well, Trump cancelled,” he said. “And he was going to come on … and I told him, when you come on, we’ll be able to say you came.”
Mr Kernen added that he did not speak directly to Trump, who came under fire earlier this month for backing out of an interview with ‘60 Minutes’ on CBS amid concerns over live fact checking.
Allies of Kamala Harris circulated a clip of the presenter’s comments on social media, in a bid to portray the former president as shying away from scrutiny.
A spokesperson for the Trump campaign told The Hill: “the interview was pulled due to a scheduling conflict.”
Donald Trump has claimed that the European Union poses an economic threat to the US and is “very tough”.
The former president, speaking at the Economic Club of Chicago, complained about Germany’s car industry as he talked up his plan for tariffs to protect US manufacturers.
“You know what’s very tough? The European Union – our beautiful European countries,” he told interviewer John Micklethwait, the Bloomberg editor-in-chief.
“If you add them up they’re almost the size of us. They treat us so badly – we have a deficit.”
He then hit out at Angela Merkel, the former German chancellor, with whom he had a famously fractious relationship.
“I said to Angela Merkel, when she was there she’s not there any more, I wonder why,” he said to laughs from the audience.
“I said, Angela, how many Chevrolets do you have in Berlin? ‘Why Donald, you have none.’”
Trump continued: “That’s right. You know how many [German] cars we have: Mercedes Benz, BMW, Volkswagen.”
Georgia has broken its record for early voting turnout with more than 180,000 people casting their ballots on the opening day, state election officials have said.
“We are just piling on the record 1st Day turnout. Already 187,973 votes have been cast, so we are looking at blowing by 200,000 votes cast in person today. Hats off to our counties and the voters who are turning out. HUGE!,” Gabriel Sterling with Georgia’s Secretary of State office posted on social media, according to CNN.
“The record 1st day was 2020, with 136,000 votes cast. We will be blowing past the previous First Day record,” Mr Sterling added.
Early in-person voting got under way today in the key battleground state, with North Carolina due to follow suit on Thursday.
Kamala Harris declined an interview scrutinising her economic policy, Bloomberg’s editor has said.
The network’s editor-in-chief John Micklethwait said that the vice president has “so far declined” an invitation to discuss her economic agenda with the Economic Club of Chicago and Bloomberg News.
“For the record and for those watching on television, the Economic Club of Chicago and Bloomberg both invited Vice President Harris to a similar interview about her economic plans,” Mr Micklethwait said earlier during an event with Donald Trump. “She has so far declined.”
It comes as polling shows that Trump continues to be perceived as stronger on the economy, which is the number one issue among voters. A survey released today by Bankrate found that 45 per cent of voters said Trump would be “best for the economy”, compared to 39 per cent for Ms Harris.
Both candidates have come under fire for evading media grillings, after Trump backed out of an interview with ‘60 minutes’ last week amid concerns over live fact checking. The former president has today allegedly cancelled an interview with CNBC, one of the network’s presenters said.
Georgia election officials must certify results, a judge has ruled, in a win for Kamala Harris.
An Atlanta-based judge has denied a request from a Republican member of a county election board declaring she had the right to decline to certify election results if there were concerns about the process.
Judge Robert McBurney, of Fulton County Superior Court, ruled that allowing election superintendents to refuse to certify results would mean voters are “silenced”. The decision will be welcomed Democrats who have raised concerns about allies of Donald Trump seeking to sow chaos by delaying vote counts after the election.
In a statement on Tuesday, the vice president’s campaign said: “Democrats remain ready to stand up and make sure every voter can cast their ballot knowing it will count.”
Georgia is one of seven swing states that could determine the outcome of the election, with Trump currently holding a narrow one-percentage-point lead over Ms Harris, according to polling website 538.
Kamala Harris holds a slim three-percentage-point lead over Donald Trump – 45 per cent to 42 per cent – as the two candidates remain locked in a razor-tight race for the White House, a new poll has found.
According to the Reuters/ipsos voter survey, Ms Harris also held a three per cent lead among likely voters, who supporter her 47 per cent compared to Trump’s 44 per cent.
With barely a cigarette paper between the two candidates, the polling numbers remain well within the four percentage points margin of error. It is also unclear how useful national polling averages are in a race that most experts believe will boil down to a small number of voters in seven key swing states.
However, the numbers may prove a source of optimism for the Harris campaign, which in recent weeks has sought to drum up turnout, as the poll suggests voters are more enthused to vote this cycle than they were in 2020 when Trump lost to President Joe Biden.
Some 78 per cent of registered voters in the three-day poll said they were “completely certain” they would cast their ballot, compared to 74 per cent in a survey completed around the same time in 2020.
According to the figures, Ms Harris may be be drawing strength from voters picking her as the better candidate for healthcare policy and for handling political extremism. Meanwhile voters, who rank the economy as the top issue in the election, said Trump was the better economic steward, according to the new poll.
The poll, which ended on Sunday, surveyed 938 US adults online.
Donald Trump is asked if he would appoint a chief executive to run his company who is 78 years old – like himself.
The former president says he would, but not someone like Joe Biden, “who’s in bad shape, he’s 81 or 82”.
“Some of our great world leaders are in their eighties and if you look throughout history, some of our greatest world leaders were in their 80s,” he continues.
“I took two cognitive tests and I aced them both.”
Donald Trump is asked if he will commit to respect the peaceful transfer of power.
“Well we had a peaceful transfer of power,” he says, before the interviewer says the scenes on Jan 6 2021 were “on par with Venezuela”.
“This is what they like to do,” Trump says. “This is a man that had not been a big Trump fan over the years – so I had a choice, do I do this interview… or do I disappoint a lot of people?”
He claims that the Democrats “protested” the 2016 election result. 
“We want to have honest elections. Do you think it was honest?” he says.
“The primary scene in Washington was hundreds of thousands… and it was love and peace. And some people went to the Capitol. 
“And a lot of strange things happened there… with people being waved into the Capitol by police.”
“We’re going to bring companies and jobs in at levels you’ve never seen,” Donald Trump says. “You would never be able to do it, because you’re not a believer in tariffs,” he tells interviewer John Micklethwait.
Trump is questioned about what he would do for small businesses. Overriding Mr Micklethwait’s protests, he talks about giving Apple a tax break.
Donald Trump says he does not want to put Elon Musk in charge of deregulation. “Cutting,” he says, but adds: “Which would include deregulation.”
“I think it is a threat,” Donald Trump says of TikTok. “There’s nothing that’s not a threat… but sometimes you have to fight through those threats.”
He says he wants to make sure Google is “more fair” but raises concerns that he could “destroy the company” by breaking it up.
Donald Trump is asked whether Google should be broken up.
“Google’s got a lot of power they’re very bad to me… If I have 20 good stories and 20 bad stories… you’ll only see the 20 bad stories,” he says.
“I think Google’s rigged just like our government’s rigged…. I give them a lot of credit, they’ve become such a power.”
Pressed on whether he would break up Google, he answers: “I’d do something.”
“I think I have the right to put in comments as to whether or not interest rates should go up or down,” Donald Trump says, claiming to be a “very good businessman”.
Donald Trump claims he blocked Emmanuel Macron from imposing a tax on US companies in France by threatening to impose a tariff of wine and champagne imported into the US.
“I’m charging you 100 per cent on every bottle of wine and champagne that comes into the United States of America,” he claims he told the French president.
“Starting on Monday morning. This was a Friday.”
Mr Macron backed down on the tax, he claimed.
Donald Trump is pressed on forecasts about his economic policies from the Wall Street Journal.
“They’ve been wrong about everything – so have you,” he says, attacking interviewer John Micklethwait. “You’ve been wrong all your life on this stuff.”
Kamala Harris will speak in Detroit today amid criticisms from within her own party that she is overlooking the city and failing to appeal to black male voters.
Ms Harris is expected to be interviewed by Charlamagne Tha God, a radio host who has been called “the voice of black America”, at 5pm EDT.
Several Democrats have warned The New York Times that the vice-president has shown a lack of urgency in the city, which is located in the swing state of Michigan.
Her campaign is failing to mobilise local officials to speak on behalf of Ms Harris and is not producing enough signs, they claimed. “Folks take Detroit for granted,” said Stephanie A. Young, a state representative.
Ms Harris’s visit to Detroit, which has the highest proportion of African Americans of any US city, comes amid warnings that her campaign is failing to appeal to black men.
Barack Obama, the former US president, admonished black men for not turning out for Ms Harris last week, claiming they were put off by the idea of a female president.
“I saw trade deals that were so stupid that were so bad, you’d have to be an idiot to sign them. And we suffered them for yours,” Donald Trump says.
“You had to be corrupt.”
He claims he forced South Korea to “pay for your military” even though “they went crazy”.
Trump adds: “I got $2 billion for nothing… next year, I’m going to talk to you again, and I was going to make it $5 billion…. the happiest people to see that it was Biden, instead of Trump, with them was South Korea.”
Donald Trump is told that the US has $3 trillion of imports and that tariffs would push up prices. “It is simple mathematics,” John Micklethwait says.
“I was always very good at mathematics,” Trump fires back.
“The higher the tariff the more likely it is that the company will come into the United States and build in the United States so that it doesn’t have to pay the tariff,” he says, insisting this will happen “quickly”.
He says tariffs should be “so high so, horrible, so obnoxious that they’ll come right away”, saying: “You make a 50 per cent tariff, they’re going to come in.”
Donald Trump is told that 40 million jobs and 27 per cent of US GDP rely on trade and would be hit by tariffs.
“I agree it’s going to have a massive effect – positive effect,” he insists.
“It must be hard for you to spend 25 years talking about tariffs being negative and have somebody explain to you that you’re totally wrong,” he tells interviewer John Micklethwait, the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News.
Pressed on the millions of jobs that rely on trade, he answers: “They’re all coming back.”
Donald Trump has suggested he could put a “2000 per cent tariff” on Chinese cars that are manufactured in Mexico and shipped into the US.
“They’re not going to sell one car into the United States,” he pledges.
China is building “massive” car factories that will wipe out US manufacturing, Donald Trump claims.
“It’s going to be the end of Michigan it’s going to be the end of, frankly, South Carolina,” he says.
Donald Trump is pressed on his spending plans, being told that he will add $7.5 trillion to debt and push US debt up to 150 per cent of US GDP.
“We’re about growth, she’s [Kamala Harris] got no growth whatsoever,” Trump answers. “We’re going to bring companies back to our country.”
He then talks up his plans to introduce tariffs, saying: “To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff, and it’s my favourite word.”
Donald Trump has made his way onto the stage at the Economic Club of Chicago. The former president is wearing a blue suit and red striped tie.
Donald Trump will speak at a rally in Detroit, Michigan on Friday evening, his campaign has just announced.
Kamala Harris is due to make a campaign appearance in the city later today, when she will be interviewed by radio host Charlamagne tha God.
Donald Trump has fired out a series of social media posts on his “exceptional” physical condition after refusing to publish his medical records ahead of election day.
He said on his Truth Social platform that he was “healthier by far” than Joe Biden, the US President, and his predecessors Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and had “put out more medical exams than any other president in history”.
Noting that Kamala Harris’ medical report shows she suffers from urticaria, or hives, and allergic reactions, he continued: “These are deeply serious conditions that clearly impact her functioning.”
Trump added that his medical records were “flawless”. He said in a follow-up post: “Kamala’s medical report is really bad…. My report is perfect – no problems!!!”
Kamala Harris has been accused of plagiarising Martin Luther King in the book that helped launch her political career.
The US vice president is accused of copying a more than a dozen sections of Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer.
She appears to borrow from Rev Dr King in an anecdote from her childhood during the civil rights movement.
The 59-year-old wrote: “My mother used to laugh when she told the story about a time I was fussing as a toddler: She leaned down to ask me, “Kamala, what’s wrong? What do you want?” and I wailed back, “Fweedom.”
Read the full story from Rozina Sabur, our Deputy US Editor, here.
Donald Trump’s interview at the Economic Club of Chicago has been slightly delayed, according to the venue. It will take place half an hour later than initially scheduled at 12:30pm EDT, according to the C-Span schedule.
Donald Trump turned a Pennsylvania town hall into an impromptu “musical” after two audience members passed out.
The 78-year-old former president has set a frenetic pace through the battleground states ahead of polling day. But on Monday evening, he cut short a question-and-answer session with voters to spend more than half an hour onstage swaying to music.
Two people fainted in quick succession at the event, with Trump joking the venue owners had refused to turn the air conditioning on because it was too expensive.
Steven Cheung, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, claimed that the town hall was a “total lovefest” and that “everyone was so excited they were fainting”.
Read the full story of Donald Trump’s “musical” town hall here.
A Democratic congresswoman has admitted that her party has a “problem” with black men ahead of Kamala Harris’ appearance in Detroit.
Debbie Dingell, who represents a district in Michigan, said African American men felt “taken for granted” by the Democrats and drew a comparison with the 2016 election, when Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton to become president.
“I don’t think people know Kamala Harris yet. I do,” she told Fox News. “I know how great she is…they need to feel her.”
Ms Dingell continued: “You’ve seen a lot of discussion, and I identified this a couple of months ago, [of] young black men who – and it’s not her problem, it’s Democrat’s problems. 
“It’s the way we didn’t talk about trade in 2016 in the right way. They don’t want to be taken for granted. They feel taken for granted. They want to be talked to directly.”
Tim Walz, Ms Harris’ running mate, has a flurry of campaign stops across Pennsylvania from 1pm EDT, with appearances in Volant, Butler and Pittsburgh.
Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman, is attending campaign receptions in New York at 6:40pm EDT and 7:45pm EDT.
Jill Biden is also on campaign trail for Ms Harris in Pennsylvania at 4:30pm EDT and 6:00pm EDT.
Kamala Harris is in Michigan today, and will be interviewed live by radio host Charlamagne Tha God in Detroit at 5pm EDT.
Donald Trump will be interviewed at the Economic Club of Chicago in Illinois at 12pm EDT.
He will then travel to Georgia, and is expected to speak in Atlanta in 7:30pm EDT.
Scott Presler, a giant of a man at 6ft 5in tall, his lustrous hair falling in great waves down to his waist, is wearing runners’ shorts showing off his long, tanned legs and what appears to be a smidgen of lipstick. 
The flamboyant, one-time chairman of Gays for Trump has given himself a new task: to persuade Pennsylvania’s 80,000-strong, strait-laced Amish community to vote for Donald Trump and in doing so, return the former president to the White House. 
It seems a tall order.
Read the full dispatch from Robert Mendick, our Chief Reporter, here.
Hello and welcome to the live blog. Benedict Smith here. We’ll be bringing you all the updates from the campaign trail, with just three weeks left until polling day.