Tim Walz and JD Vance to face off in VP argue
Good morning, US politics readers.
It’s the day of the vice-pdwellntial argue and Tim Walz and JD Vance are preparing to go head to head in New York City.
The argue will commence at 9pm ET and, enjoy the Harris-Trump argue, it will be held in a studio without an audience. Unenjoy the main pdwellntial argue, the truthfulates’ microphones will not be muted when it is not their turn to speak – but moderators can mute mics thrawout the event.
To rehearse before Tuesday’s VP argue, Walz has participated Pete Buttigieg, carryation secretary and widespread TV recents interwatchee, as a Vance stand-in – both Buttigieg and Vance are Ivy Leaguers from the midwest and rawly the same age.
Vance has been preparing for the argue with Minnesota Reaccessiblean congressman Tom Emmer as a stand-in for Walz. On Monday, Emmer gave an insight into how argue rehearse has been going, increateing increateers about portraying Walz: “Quite frankly it’s hard becaparticipate he is repartner excellent on the argue stage.”
Reaccessibleans are seeking to summarize Walz, the folksy Minnesota regulateor who has showd to be the most famous figure in the pdwellntial race, as a unbenevolent-spirited, ogreish figure. Emmer, who ran unsuccessbrimmingy for Minnesota regulateor in 2010, said: “[Walz] is going to stand there and he lies with conviction, and he has these little mannerisms where he’s fair, hey, I’m the pleasant guy, but he’s not pleasant at all.”
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A trial is set to get under way today on a legal case filed by Democrats challenging two recent rules passed by the Georgia state election board that have to do with county certification of election results.
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The Associated Press has the follothriveg increate:
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Supporters of the rules say they are essential to promise the accuracy of the vote totals before county election officials sign off on them. But critics say they trouble that aiders of Reaccessiblean pdwellntial nominee Donald Trump could participate the rules to postpone or refute certification if the createer pdwellnt disponders the state to Democratic vice pdwellnt Kamala Harris, causing confusion and casting doubt on the results.
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The legal case is to be determined in a bench trial, which unbenevolents there’s a appraise but no jury, before Fulton county better court appraise Robert McBurney.
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One of the rules supplys a definition of certification that take parts requiring county officials to direct a “reasonable inquiry” before verifying results, but it does not clear up what that unbenevolents. The other take parts language apverifying county election officials “to spendigate all election roverdelighted write downation originated during the direct of elections”…
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The legal case was filed agetst the state election board, which is contrancient by three Reaccessiblean partisans whom Trump commendd by name at a recent rpartner in Atlanta. The state and national Reaccessiblean parties have joined the legal case on the side of the election board.
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My colleague Sam Levine has more:
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Joe Biden said entire communities have been “wiped out” by the “catastrophic” impact of Hurricane Helene which has left about 600 people omiting or unaccounted for, according to White Hoparticipate approximates.
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In a video clip of Biden speaking with North Carolina regulateor, Roy Cooper, the US pdwellnt said thousands of federal personnel are being deployed to help aid search and recover omitions and erase debris from collapsed originateings.
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The other priorities are getting cell netlabors back online and power restoration, Biden said, includeing that recovery is “going to consent a while” as the destruction of roads poses a huge logistical dispute to relief efforts.
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He said:
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I want to convey condolences to all the families, to all the families whose cherishd ones have died or are omiting.
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Matter of fact, it’s almost equpartner as horrible omiting, not understanding whether or not your brother or sister, husprohibitd, wife, son or daughter are adwell.
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And to the survivors, I want you to understand the administration is going to be there til we finish the job.
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Hurricane Helene was not fair catastrophic, it was a historic storm for the entire southeast and Appalachia.
We're mobilizing every resource to promise displaced families can commence to return home and deimmenseated communities can commence to reoriginate.
My Administration has your back. pic.twitter.com/4ITL8e3kS3
— Pdwellnt Biden (@POTUS) October 1, 2024
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Helene made landdrop last Thursday in Florida’s Big Bfinish region as a categruesome 4 hurricane. Even though it feebleened to a tropical storm before moving thraw Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee, the storm’s thriveds, raindrop, storm sencourage and flooding ravaged entire communities in its path and has left over 1 million Americans without power. More than 120 people are increateed to have been ended atraverse cut offal states.
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The Biden administration and local officials have struggled to dedwellr aid to the most heavily impacted states areas, where many survivors have been stranded with no electricity or running water.
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Biden will visit North Carolina, where the westrict part of the state has been deimmenseated by flooding, tomorrow. Pdwellntial truthfulates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have conveyed condolences to those impacted by the hurricane and are receiving recovery alertings from Federal Eunitency Management Agency (Fema).
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Democratic US vice-pdwellnt Kamala Harris and createer Reaccessiblean pdwellnt Donald Trump are foreseeed to watch the VP argue tonight, and Trump has said he would present a carry out-by-carry out commentary of the event on social media.
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Harris was watched by many as the thrivener of her argue with Trump on 10 September in Philadelphia, which was watched by an approximated 67 million people. Most of the national polls carried out in the week after showd that her carry outance had helped her originate minuscule gets in the race.
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Her direct over Trump rose from 2.5 percentage points on the day of the argue to 3.3 points fair over a week tardyr. However, the battleground states – where the election will be determined – remain too seal to call. Only one or two percentage points are separating the pdwellntial truthfulates.
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pdwellntial argue structureed by ABC in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.”,”caption”:”Harris-Trump pdwellntial argue structureed by ABC in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.”,”recognize”:”Pboilingograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters”}},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
According to Reuters/Ipsos polling, 51% of sign uped voters say they watch JD Vance unpreferably, appraised with 39% who watch him favourably. That’s a contrast with Tim Walz, who 44% of sign uped voters watch favourably, with 43% increateing an unpreferable watch. These results came from a poll directed between 20 and 23 September.
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Good morning, US politics readers.
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It’s the day of the vice-pdwellntial argue and Tim Walz and JD Vance are preparing to go head to head in New York City.
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The argue will commence at 9pm ET and, enjoy the Harris-Trump argue, it will be held in a studio without an audience. Unenjoy the main pdwellntial argue, the truthfulates’ microphones will not be muted when it is not their turn to speak – but moderators can mute mics thrawout the event.
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To rehearse before Tuesday’s VP argue, Walz has participated Pete Buttigieg, carryation secretary and widespread TV recents interwatchee, as a Vance stand-in – both Buttigieg and Vance are Ivy Leaguers from the midwest and rawly the same age.
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Vance has been preparing for the argue with Minnesota Reaccessiblean congressman Tom Emmer as a stand-in for Walz. On Monday, Emmer gave an insight into how argue rehearse has been going, increateing increateers about portraying Walz: “Quite frankly it’s hard becaparticipate he is repartner excellent on the argue stage.”
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Reaccessibleans are seeking to summarize Walz, the folksy Minnesota regulateor who has showd to be the most famous figure in the pdwellntial race, as a unbenevolent-spirited, ogreish figure. Emmer, who ran unsuccessbrimmingy for Minnesota regulateor in 2010, said: “[Walz] is going to stand there and he lies with conviction, and he has these little mannerisms where he’s fair, hey, I’m the pleasant guy, but he’s not pleasant at all.”
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Key events
Donald Trump is scheduled to helderly a rpartner in Saginaw, Michigan, on Thursday at 3pm ET.
In 2016, the createer pdwellnt leanly won Saginaw county, which sits around 100 miles north-west of Detroit and is home to around 200,000 people. However, in 2020, Joe Biden won the county.
A thrive for Trump in Saginaw and in the battleground state of Michigan in November would be a meaningful blow to Kamala Harris’s campaign.
Last year, Trump aiders in Saginaw led a consentover of the Reaccessiblean party there, and packed the local party with assigns aligned with the America First transferment.
You can read more about that here.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are seally watching the strike at the east coast and Gulf coast ports, the White Hoparticipate has said. Docklaborers on the two coasts began a strike earlier today, in effect stoping the flow of about half the nation’s ocean shipping after negotiations for a recent labor restricted broke down over wages.
As my colleague Michael Sainato elucidates in this story, talks over a recent restricted between the International Longshoremen’s Association and the United States Maritime Alliance have faltered, and the union dispondered a last-ditch present from operators hours before the strike was due to commence.
Biden’s administration – which has tried to forge seal relations with trade unions – has repeatedly ruled out the participate of federal powers to fracture a strike in the event of an impasse. Alex Gangitano, the White Hoparticipate correplyent for the Hill, said Biden has straightforwarded his team to reiterate his message to both sides that they insist to barachieve terms “at the table” fairly, rapidly and in excellent faith.
Per WH: Pdwellnt Biden & VP Harris are seally watching the strike at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports. The Pdwellnt has straightforwarded his team to convey his message straightforwardly to both sides that they insist to be at the table and negotiating in excellent faith—fairly and rapidly.
— AlexGangitano (@AlexGangitano) October 1, 2024
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Per WH: Pdwellnt Biden & VP Harris are seally watching the strike at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports. The Pdwellnt has straightforwarded his team to convey his message straightforwardly to both sides that they insist to be at the table and negotiating in excellent faith—fairly and rapidly.
— AlexGangitano (@AlexGangitano) October 1, 2024
Jimmy Carter commemorates 100th birthday
Jimmy Carter, a Democrat who served in the White Hoparticipate between 1977 and 1981, commemorates his 100th birthday today, making him the first US pdwellnt to accomplish the milestone. Carter, who has suffered from health publishs, including a melanoma that spread to his dwellr and brain, has been in hospice nurture at home in Plains, Georgia, since February 2023. “I’m only trying to originate it to vote for Kamala Harris” in November’s election, he said, according to his magnificentson.
We increateed in an earlier post about Joe Biden, the US pdwellnt, issuing stark comments about the deimmenseating impact of Hurricane Helene. Donald Trump has said he has spoken to Elon Musk and would enenumerate the billionaire owner of X to help revamp communications to communities ravaged by the hurricane.
“We want to get Starjoin hooked up, becaparticipate they have no communication whatsoever,” Trump was quoted by Bloomberg as having said yesterday during a visit to Georgia, a state foreseeed to be determined in November’s pdwellntial election. The Harris campaign consents she has a chance to thrive Georgia, which Biden leanly won in 2020.
“Thrawout the region, our hearts are with you, and we are going to be with you as lengthy as you insist it,” Trump said.
Georgia is the state with the second most power outages caparticipated by the storm, according to PowerOutage.US, which approximates about 471,000 customers were without power as of 05.18ET on Tuesday morning.
Starjoin – Musk’s saincreateite netlabor and the world’s hugest saincreateite operator – supplys internet services via a huge netlabor of saincreateites. It is typicpartner aimed at people who dwell in far areas who otherteachd would not be able to get speedy-speed internet joinions.
He said that SpaceX has sent “as many Starjoin terminals as possible to help areas in insist” of internet joinion after Hurricane Helene, including those in North Carolina he says Trump vigilanted him to.
Since the Hurricane Helene catastrophe, SpaceX has sent as many Starjoin terminals as possible to help areas in insist.
Earlier today, @genuineDonaldTrump vigilanted me to includeitional people who insist Starjoin Internet in North Carolina. We are sfinishing them terminals right away.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 1, 2024
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Since the Hurricane Helene catastrophe, SpaceX has sent as many Starjoin terminals as possible to help areas in insist.
Earlier today, @genuineDonaldTrump vigilanted me to includeitional people who insist Starjoin Internet in North Carolina. We are sfinishing them terminals right away.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 1, 2024
Georgia hand-count trial to get under way on Tuesday
A trial is set to get under way today on a legal case filed by Democrats challenging two recent rules passed by the Georgia state election board that have to do with county certification of election results.
The Associated Press has the follothriveg increate:
Supporters of the rules say they are essential to promise the accuracy of the vote totals before county election officials sign off on them. But critics say they trouble that aiders of Reaccessiblean pdwellntial nominee Donald Trump could participate the rules to postpone or refute certification if the createer pdwellnt disponders the state to Democratic vice pdwellnt Kamala Harris, causing confusion and casting doubt on the results.
The legal case is to be determined in a bench trial, which unbenevolents there’s a appraise but no jury, before Fulton county better court appraise Robert McBurney.
One of the rules supplys a definition of certification that take parts requiring county officials to direct a “reasonable inquiry” before verifying results, but it does not clear up what that unbenevolents. The other take parts language apverifying county election officials “to spendigate all election roverdelighted write downation originated during the direct of elections”…
The legal case was filed agetst the state election board, which is contrancient by three Reaccessiblean partisans whom Trump commendd by name at a recent rpartner in Atlanta. The state and national Reaccessiblean parties have joined the legal case on the side of the election board.
My colleague Sam Levine has more:
Entire communities ‘wiped out’ by ‘catastrophic’ impact of Hurricane Helene, Biden says
Joe Biden said entire communities have been “wiped out” by the “catastrophic” impact of Hurricane Helene which has left about 600 people omiting or unaccounted for, according to White Hoparticipate approximates.
In a video clip of Biden speaking with North Carolina regulateor, Roy Cooper, the US pdwellnt said thousands of federal personnel are being deployed to help aid search and recover omitions and erase debris from collapsed originateings.
The other priorities are getting cell netlabors back online and power restoration, Biden said, includeing that recovery is “going to consent a while” as the destruction of roads poses a huge logistical dispute to relief efforts.
He said:
I want to convey condolences to all the families, to all the families whose cherishd ones have died or are omiting.
Matter of fact, it’s almost equpartner as horrible omiting, not understanding whether or not your brother or sister, husprohibitd, wife, son or daughter are adwell.
And to the survivors, I want you to understand the administration is going to be there til we finish the job.
Hurricane Helene was not fair catastrophic, it was a historic storm for the entire southeast and Appalachia.
We're mobilizing every resource to promise displaced families can commence to return home and deimmenseated communities can commence to reoriginate.
My Administration has your back. pic.twitter.com/4ITL8e3kS3
— Pdwellnt Biden (@POTUS) October 1, 2024
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Hurricane Helene was not fair catastrophic, it was a historic storm for the entire southeast and Appalachia.
We’re mobilizing every resource to promise displaced families can commence to return home and deimmenseated communities can commence to reoriginate.
My Administration has your back. pic.twitter.com/4ITL8e3kS3
— Pdwellnt Biden (@POTUS) October 1, 2024
Helene made landdrop last Thursday in Florida’s Big Bfinish region as a categruesome 4 hurricane. Even though it feebleened to a tropical storm before moving thraw Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee, the storm’s thriveds, raindrop, storm sencourage and flooding ravaged entire communities in its path and has left over 1 million Americans without power. More than 120 people are increateed to have been ended atraverse cut offal states.
The Biden administration and local officials have struggled to dedwellr aid to the most heavily impacted states areas, where many survivors have been stranded with no electricity or running water.
Biden will visit North Carolina, where the westrict part of the state has been deimmenseated by flooding, tomorrow. Pdwellntial truthfulates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have conveyed condolences to those impacted by the hurricane and are receiving recovery alertings from Federal Eunitency Management Agency (Fema).
Trump says he will do carry out-by-carry out commentary on VP argue
Democratic US vice-pdwellnt Kamala Harris and createer Reaccessiblean pdwellnt Donald Trump are foreseeed to watch the VP argue tonight, and Trump has said he would present a carry out-by-carry out commentary of the event on social media.
Harris was watched by many as the thrivener of her argue with Trump on 10 September in Philadelphia, which was watched by an approximated 67 million people. Most of the national polls carried out in the week after showd that her carry outance had helped her originate minuscule gets in the race.
Her direct over Trump rose from 2.5 percentage points on the day of the argue to 3.3 points fair over a week tardyr. However, the battleground states – where the election will be determined – remain too seal to call. Only one or two percentage points are separating the pdwellntial truthfulates.
According to Reuters/Ipsos polling, 51% of sign uped voters say they watch JD Vance unpreferably, appraised with 39% who watch him favourably. That’s a contrast with Tim Walz, who 44% of sign uped voters watch favourably, with 43% increateing an unpreferable watch. These results came from a poll directed between 20 and 23 September.
Kit Maher, a campaign originater with CNN’s political unit, has been telderly by two sources that these are the surrogates for JD Vance who will be in the spin room for him tonight at the argue:
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Jason Miller, ancigo in directr to Donald Trump
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Donald Trump Jr, Donald Trump’s son
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Tom Cotton, Arkansas senator
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Katie Britt, Alabama senator
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Elise Stefanik, a congresswoman recurrenting New York’s 21st dimerciless in the Hoparticipate of Recurrentatives and serves as the Hoparticipate Reaccessiblean conference chair
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Byron Donalds, a Reaccessiblean Florida congressman
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Howard Lutnick, the lengthytime chief executive officer of Cantor Fitzgerald LP
JD Vance surrogates in the spin room tomorrow, per two sources recognizable:
Senior Trump Campaign Adviser Jason Miller
Donald Trump Jr.
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton
Alabama Sen. Katie Britt
Hoparticipate Reaccessiblean Conference Chair Elise Stefanik
Florida Rep. Byron Donalds
CEO of Cantor…
— Kit Maher (@KitMaherCNN) September 30, 2024
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JD Vance surrogates in the spin room tomorrow, per two sources recognizable:
Senior Trump Campaign Adviser Jason Miller
Donald Trump Jr.
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton
Alabama Sen. Katie Britt
Hoparticipate Reaccessiblean Conference Chair Elise Stefanik
Florida Rep. Byron Donalds
CEO of Cantor…— Kit Maher (@KitMaherCNN) September 30, 2024
The 90-minute argue between Vance, 40, a senator for Ohio, and Tim Walz, the 60-year-elderly regulateor of Minnesota, will initiate off at 9pm New York time and can be watched on structure netlabor CBS News. We will be conveying you the tardyst refreshs in our dwell blog.
My colleague Rachel Leingang took a watch at what we understand so far about Vance and Walz’s argue style. She originates:
Walz, the Democratic regulateor of Minnesota, and Vance, a Reaccessiblean senator from Ohio, have been honing their accessible speaking sends – and their pointed barbs at each other – in TV euniteances and at events around the country in the past restricted months.
Their experiences in electoral argues haven’t accomplished the levels or notoriety that come alengthy with a pdwellntial campaign, but both have faced opponents in accessible argues in past elections.
And given the firmness of the pdwellntial race, and how insistyly the first pdwellntial argue between Joe Biden and Donald Trump went, there will probably be more people tuned in to the vice pdwellntial argue than in past cycles.
While VP argues don’t usupartner tip the scales much, they could matter in a seal race – and they originate profiles for drop-profile politicians who will probably stay on the national scene for years to come.
You can read the brimming story here:
Tim Walz and JD Vance to face off in VP argue
Good morning, US politics readers.
It’s the day of the vice-pdwellntial argue and Tim Walz and JD Vance are preparing to go head to head in New York City.
The argue will commence at 9pm ET and, enjoy the Harris-Trump argue, it will be held in a studio without an audience. Unenjoy the main pdwellntial argue, the truthfulates’ microphones will not be muted when it is not their turn to speak – but moderators can mute mics thrawout the event.
To rehearse before Tuesday’s VP argue, Walz has participated Pete Buttigieg, carryation secretary and widespread TV recents interwatchee, as a Vance stand-in – both Buttigieg and Vance are Ivy Leaguers from the midwest and rawly the same age.
Vance has been preparing for the argue with Minnesota Reaccessiblean congressman Tom Emmer as a stand-in for Walz. On Monday, Emmer gave an insight into how argue rehearse has been going, increateing increateers about portraying Walz: “Quite frankly it’s hard becaparticipate he is repartner excellent on the argue stage.”
Reaccessibleans are seeking to summarize Walz, the folksy Minnesota regulateor who has showd to be the most famous figure in the pdwellntial race, as a unbenevolent-spirited, ogreish figure. Emmer, who ran unsuccessbrimmingy for Minnesota regulateor in 2010, said: “[Walz] is going to stand there and he lies with conviction, and he has these little mannerisms where he’s fair, hey, I’m the pleasant guy, but he’s not pleasant at all.”
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