Harris follows Oprah event with crucial swing state visit as Trump tries to dodge scandal-plagued Republican: Live

Responding to a shout from the crowd, Harris said: “The courts will take care of that, let’s take care of him in November.”

“But if you look at what he’s up to, Donald Trump will give billionaires and big corporations massive tax cuts,” she added. “He intends to cut Social Security and Medicare, and he wants to impose what I call a Trump sales tax. Because here’s the thing, what he is proposing would be a 20 percent tax on everyday basic necessities, which economists estimate will cost most working families more than $4,000 a year extra.”

Kamala Harris called Donald Trump “an unserious man” as she made her pitch to the swing state of Wisconsin to keep him out of the White House.

“In many ways, you’ve heard me say before, he is an unserious man,” Harris told the crowd.

“But the consequences of putting him back in the White House are extremely serious. Just Google Project 2025,” she added.

“By the way, can you believe they put that thing in writing? I mean, they put it in writing, they had it bound, and they handed it out,” the vice president said.

Harris once again brought up her so far only debate with Donald Trump.

“So some of you might have seen the debate last week that I had with Donald Trump,” she said to cheers.

“And I talked about issues that matter to families across America, like bringing down the cost of living, investing in America’s small businesses, protecting reproductive freedom,” she added.

The vice president said she aimed to keep “our nation safe and secure, but that is not what we heard from Donald Trump.”

“Instead, it was the same old tired show, the same old tired playbook we’ve heard for years with no plan on how he would address the needs of the American people. Well, folks, it’s time to turn the page,” she said.

Kamala Harris took the stage in Madison, Wisconsin on Friday night to a raucous crowd.

“We got work to do – 46 days until the election and what we know is this is going to be a tight race until the very end,” she said. “So let’s not pay too much attention to the polls, because let’s be clear, we are the underdog in this race, and we have some hard work ahead of us. But here’s the thing, we like hard work. Hard work is good work. Hard work is joyful work.”

There are just 47 days until November’s presidential election and the latest AP/NORC poll shows Kamala Harris pulling ahead of Donald Trump as the candidate of which voters have a more positive view.

Specifically, the vice president scores higher on where she is “tough enough to be president”, “would change the country for the better”, and “would fight for people like you”.

The former president meanwhile scores highest on “will say anything to win the election”.

Capping the poll off, a larger share of registered voters believe Harris will win on November 5 (40 per cent) over Trump (28 per cent). One-fifth of respondents think both candidates have an equal shot at the White House.

Majorities of both Democratic registered voters and Republican registered voters think their respective candidate will win, while there independent registered voters favor Harris over Trump, but with almost a quarter saying they do not know enough.

In July, after the Republican convention but before Harris was officially designated as the Democratic nominee, the public was more likely to think Trump would prevail over Harris.

While registered voters are divided on whether Harris would make a good president (47 per cent to 41 per cent), a majority think Trump would not (59 per cent to 36 per cent). These views are heavily influenced by partisanship, with about 8 in 10 Democratic voters and Republican voters believing their respective party’s nominees would make a good president.

Registered voters also have more positive views of Harris than Trump as a candidate. While Harris narrowly beats Trump on whether they are each tough enough to be president (43 per cent versus 42 per cent), slightly more think Harris would fight for people like them and would change the country for the better compared with Trump. And six in 10 think Trump will say anything to win the election compared with four in 10 who think the same about Harris.

Currently, about half of registered voters have a favorable opinion of Harris compared with 37% who have a favorable opinion of Trump. The candidates’ favorability ratings are currently similar to August. Last month, the August 2024 AP-NORC Poll found that 48 per cent of the public had a favorable opinion of Harris and 41 per cent had a favorable opinion of Trump.

The latest poll found that 88 per cent of Democratic voters have a favorable view of Harris, while 77 per cent of Republican voters have a positive opinion of Trump.

The nationwide poll was conducted between September 12-16, 2024 using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 2,028 adults, including 1,771 self-reported registered voters. The overall margin of sampling error is +/- 3.1 percentage points; +/- 3.5 percentage points for registered voters.

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers went after Donald Trump and JD Vance during the rally in Madison.

“Donald Trump and JD Vance are a dangerous threat to our country and our democracy. They’re not running to help others,” he said, adding that they’re running to “serve themselves.”

“They’re not capable of being honest or telling the truth, and their radical Project 2025 agenda won’t help Wisconsin families. It’s going to hurt them,” Evers said.

Wisconsin Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin slammed her opponent in her race for re-election, Republican Eric Hovde, calling him a “self-funding multi-millionaire.”

Baldwin was speaking ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris at a rally in Madison, Wisconsin.

“Eric Hovde owns a $3bn California Bank and a $7m ocean view home in Laguna Beach, and he has been named one of the most influential residents of Orange County three years in a row. Folks, we have a Green County, we have a Brown County, but Wisconsin does not have an Orange County,” she said.

“We may laugh at that, but the stakes in this race are incredibly high. Eric Hovde celebrated when Roe was overturned,” she added. “He says he’s 100 percent anti-choice. Meanwhile, I’m leading the effort to restore reproductive freedoms with my Women’s Health Protection Act.”

Panos Anastasiou, 76, is accused of sending more than 456 messages through the Supreme Court’s online portal between March 2023 and July 2024, according to the indictment.

He now faces 22 charges including 13 counts of making threats in interstate commerce and nine counts of making threats against a federal judge.

It is not clear which six justices that Anastasiou is charged with threatening.

With the Federal Reserve trimming interest rates for the first time since before the Covid-19 pandemic and inflation rates slipping to pre-Covid levels, President Joe Biden is taking a moment to savor the victory with a speech to the Economic Club of Washington on Thursday.

Biden said the decision by the Fed to cut rates after years of post-pandemic inflation led them to raise them from the near-zero levels they were at during the worst days of Covid represented a “good day for the country” and “good news for consumers” because borrowing costs will come down.

Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington, DC.