Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are working to sway voters as polls show them in a very tight race with just over a month until Election Day.
Meanwhile, their running mates Republican Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) and Democratic Gov. Tim Walz (Minn.) are preparing to face off in their first debate. The event, which starts at 9 p.m. ET Oct. 1 on CBS News, may be the only time Vance and Walz meet ahead of November; no other vice presidential debates are currently planned.
Down-ballot races that could impact the results of the presidential contest are also heating up. Republicans pulled ad funding and other support for North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the partys candidate for governor, after a bombshell report detailing his racist posts on a porn site was published last week. Harris released an ad tying Trump to Robinson amid the scandal.
Read our previous coverage here , and see the latest updates below:
'I'm Not A Fan': Mitch McConnell Rips Trump's Tariff Proposals
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday criticized GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's plans to impose high tariffs on imports if he is elected president in November.
I'm not a fan of tariffs. They raise the prices for American consumers," McConnell told reporters at a weekly press conference on Capitol Hill. "I'm more of a free trade kind of Republican that remembers how many jobs were created by the export that we engage in."
Trump often goes on tirades about trade on the campaign trail and threatens to impose barriers whose cost most economists say would fall squarely on consumers in the form of higher prices. On Monday, the former president vowed to impose tariffs as president even if Congress opposes them .
"I dont need them. I dont need Congress, but theyll approve it, Trump said at a campaign stop in Smithton, Pennsylvania. Ill have the right to impose them myself if they dont. Id rather get their support. The ones that understand business all support it."
Nebraska Governor Gives Up On Last-Minute Electoral College Change
Nebraskas Republican governor, Jim Pillen, admitted defeat Tuesday with a statement saying he would not be calling a special legislative session to change the way his state allocates electoral votes in order to help Trump.
My team and I have worked relentlessly to secure a filibuster-proof 33-vote majority to get winner-take-all passed before the November election. Given everything at stake for Nebraska and our country, we have left every inch on the field to get this done, Pillen said in the statement .
Unfortunately, we could not persuade 33 state senators, he went on, calling it a profoundly disappointing outcome.
Based on the lack of 33 votes, I have no plans to call a special session on this issue prior to the 2024 election. I am grateful to the many Nebraskans who made their voices heard during this process, Pillen said.
Nebraska is one of only two states that do not have a winner-take-all system, rather, the states five electoral votes are doled out to each candidate by popular vote tallies. Harris hopes to snag just one of Nebraskas electoral votes, but in such an incredibly tight race, that one vote could swing the whole outcome.
Congressional Republicans conceded Monday that their last-ditch effort would not pan out the way they wanted.
Trump Makes 'No Beach-Napping' Pledge In Odd Shot At Biden
Trump has made a vow to the American public that no-one asked him to he'll never sleep on the beach when the cameras are on him.
During an increasingly erratic speech in Georgia, the Republican candidate took aim at President Joe Biden , who had the temerity to take a nap while on vacation at Rehoboth beach in Delaware last month, well after he dropped out the race.
A two-minute clip of Biden asleep went viral after his downtime was broadcast on C-SPAN. Biden also biked and went on walks, for what it's worth.
Apparently, the thought of taking a pretty standard vacation gets Trump's heckles up.
"Here's a guy that can sleep on the beach," Trump said, astonished. "How can you sleep on the beach when you have cameras on? I will never sleep on the beach in front of live television. I promise."
Donald Trump Claims Kamala Harris Has Bigger Cognitive Problems Than Joe Biden
At his Georgia event, Trump claimed Harris is in more mental decline than Biden.
They laugh at us all over the world, theyre laughing at us. And you know what theyre really laughing at? Kamala, because they cant believe that shes gonna be president. They cant believe. You talk about cognitive problems? Shes got bigger cognitive problems than he has, in my opinion, he said, referring to Biden, who was dogged by concerns about his mental fitness for office throughout his campaign.
Jack Smith Wins Fight To Lay Out 'Monstrosity' Jan. 6 Brief That Trump Fears
Chutkan will consider the special counsels brief as she prepares to rule on what parts of Trumps revised four-count indictment will remain intact in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Courts immunity ruling, Trump v. United States, in July.
JD Vance Taps Project 2025 Contributor To Help With His VP Debate Prep
Trump keeps denying he has connections to Project 2025, the far-right conservative policy playbook for a second Trump administration written by dozens of his former employees .
But it doesnt help his case that Vance has tapped a Project 2025 contributor to help him prepare for his Oct. 1 vice presidential debate.
Vance will reportedly participate in a mock debate later this week, with House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) playing the role of Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz and Monica Crowley playing the role of a moderator. Crowley, who previously served as Trumps assistant secretary for public affairs at the Treasury Department, is a contributor to Project 2025.
In fact, Crowley gets a special shout-out in The Heritage Foundations 920-page policy roadmap , which bills itself as the conservative movements unified effort to be ready for the next conservative Administration to govern at 12:00 noon, January 20, 2025.
All contributors to this chapter are listed at the front of this volume, but Monica Crowley, Tom Dans, John Berlau, Austin Bramwell, Preston Brashers, Alexandra Harrison Gaiser, Nathan Hitchen, Adam Korzeniewski, and Jonathan Moy deserve special mention, reads an authors note at the bottom of page 710, which marks the end of a chapter on the Treasury Department.
Among other things, this chapter proposes the Treasury Department withdraw from both the World Bank and the IMF, but also force reforms and new policies at both institutions. This chapter also calls on a second Trump administration to withdraw from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement, and instead use Treasurys tools and authority to promote investment in domestic energy, including oil and gas.
Donald Trump Says Debate Was Rigged, Also Calls It One Of His Best Debates
Trump is still simultaneously complaining and boasting about the debate between him and Harris from two weeks ago.
"She did very well? She couldnt put two sentences together! he said at a rally in Georgia on Tuesday of the Democratic nominee, adding: ABC ought to be ashamed. It was three-on-one referring to him against Harris and the networks two debate moderators. It was a horrible situation, he continued.
But right after calling the debate rigged, he declared that it was also one of my best debates.
Political commentators largely ruled Harris as the winner of the debate, calling Trumps racist tangents about immigrants eating peoples pets and other blowups a bad look for him.
Trump On Tariffs: 'One Of The Most Beautiful Words I've Ever Heard'
Trump has defended his flagship economic plan to raise tariffs on foreign imports and offered a bizarre paean to the concept.
The former president has repeatedly said he would impose a 10% tax on imports from most countries, and warned of a higher levy on goods from China.
But economists have said the move would mean household bills spiral as the added costs are passed on to consumers, with the Harris campaign claiming it would mean American families being hit by almost $4,000 a year.
In a speech in Savannah, Georgia, Trump argued the tariffs plan would bring in hundreds of millions of dollars for the U.S. economy and not cause inflation, as many critics have argued.
For years they knocked the word 'tariff,' he said. The word, properly used, is a beautiful word. One of the most beautiful words I've ever heard. It is music to my ears.
Joe Manchin Says He Wont Endorse Kamala Harris Over Filibuster
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, who became an Independent this year after decades as a Democrat, told CNN he wont endorse Harris because of her commitment to gut the filibuster.
Shame on her," said Manchin, a staunch supporter of the filibuster. "She knows the filibuster is the Holy Grail of democracy. It's the only thing that keeps us talking and working together. If she gets rid of that, then this would be the House on steroids."
Harris has vowed to reform the filibuster to allow Congress the possibility of codifying Roe v. Wade. While her comments Tuesday were her first on the matter as the Democratic nominee, it's not a new position for her.
"That ain't going to happen," Manchin, whos retiring this year, told CNN at the Capitol. "I think that basically can destroy our country and my country is more important to me than any one person or any one person's ideology.
CNN Poll Finds No Clear Leader In Presidential Race
A new CNN poll conducted by SSRS found that the race between Harris and Trump is deadlocked, with her claiming 48% support and him 47%.
Though the race is tight, the poll shows an improvement for Harris compared to CNN s last national poll in July. The poll suggests that overall, Harris has begun to build a more positive public image, outpacing Trump across several measures of how the public views her personally, the network summarized.
The poll found that likely voters have more trust in Trump than Harris on the economy, immigration and foreign policy, while they have more faith in Harris than Trump when it comes to abortion and reproductive rights, uniting the country and protecting democracy.
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