Trump secretly sent Putin Covid tests in 2020; Harris takes narrow lead over Trump in new poll: Live

The night Donald Trump met his future wife Melania at a club in New York City, he was on a date with a different woman, the former First Lady has revealed.

In her self-titled memoir Melania recounted that in September 1998, a then-52-year-old Trump introduced himself to her, then 28, at the infamous Kit Kat Klub during Fashion Week.

Ariana Baio has the story.

Donald Trump will join Ben Shapiro’s show today to discuss what he really thinks about Kamala Harris’s 60 Minutes interview, why he’s retiring one of his most famous nicknames, and why peace through strength is the only successful foreign policy.

In 27 days, Americans will go to the polls. Yet it remains unclear whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump has the edge in a byzantine electoral system that will determine the next American president.

The nonpartisan Cook Political Report’s most recent poll of the swing states shows Harris with a two-point lead over Trump in Arizona; Trump two points ahead in Georgia; and Harris with three, one, and two-point leads in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, respectively.

The Democratic candidate also has a single-point advantage in Nevada and is tied with Trump in North Carolina, a state that no Democrat has carried since Barack Obama’s first presidential run in 2008.

All of those contested states are showing Harris well within the polling margin for error — in essence, a statistical tie everywhere. That makes the race to the 270 electoral college votes each candidate needs to claim victory an extremely difficult one to call.

Over the last week, The Independent reached out to insiders with both the Trump and Harris campaigns to get a sense of where each campaign feels that they stand.

She told all those stories, or didn’t, in under 200 words.

Mike Bedigan has the story.

Stern blasts Trump for the “I hate Taylor Swift” social media post after the pop star endorsed Harris.

“How can we have that kind of mentality… because she disagrees with his politics… he *hates* her?” Stern says.

Harris responds: “Donald Trump is an unserious man. And the consequences of him becoming President again are hugely serious.”

President Joe Biden is postponing a planned trip to Germany and Angola to remain at the White House to monitor Hurricane Milton, which is bearing down on Florida’s Gulf Coast, the White House announced on Tuesday.

Biden says Hurricane Milton “could be one of the worst storms in 100 years in Florida” and “if you’re under evacuation orders, you should evacuate now!”

Stern asked Harris about how she feels about President Joe Biden dropping out of the 2024 race in favor of her.

“History is going to show it was one of the most, one of the rarest moments of any president, with courage,” she replies.

Describing where she was when she got the news, as she did earlier on The View, she says: “I’m at home, it’s a Sunday afternoon, in my workout clothes. My niece, her husband, and her two daughters are with us.”

Stern also asked about what she says to people who don’t think a woman can be president.

Harris replied: “Listen, I’ve been the first woman in almost every position I’ve had. So I believe that men and women support women in leadership. And that’s been my life experience and that’s why I’m running for president.”

Among the more personal details touched on during the interview by Stern, we learned that Harris likes to watch MSNBC’s Morning Joe while working out (30 minutes on an elliptical) and her favorite cereal is Special K.

Stern asks if it was hard to make a “love connection” with Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and says he thinks most men would be intimidated by her.

She responds that Emhoff is “one of the strongest, most self-actualized men I’ve known,” she says. “He has the best sense of humor. I don’t want to say simple but he’s very clear: He cares about family, he cares about working hard.”