Harris readies for key interview with Fox News in latest media push: Live updates

Jimmy Carter cast his ballot in the 2024 election Wednesday.

The former president voted by mail, the Carter Center confirmed in a statement. It happened barely two weeks after Carter celebrated his 100th birthday on Oct. 1 at his home in Plains, Georgia, where he’s been living in hospice care.

His son Chip Carter said before the family gathering that his father had this election very much in mind.

“He’s plugged in,” Chip Carter told The Associated Press. “I asked him two months ago if he was trying to live to be 100, and he said, ‘No, I’m trying to live to vote for Kamala Harris.’”

The Carter Center’s brief statement said it had no more details to share.

Georgia’s registered voters have been turning out in record numbers since early voting began Monday. Nearly 460,000 had voted in-person or cast absentee ballots by Tuesday afternoon, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said.

Carter’s vote should count even if he’s no longer alive by Election Day on Nov. 5.

Robert Sinners, a spokesman for the secretary of state’s office, noted that Georgia election rules state that when an absentee ballot is received by local election officials “it shall be deemed to have been voted then and there.”

Alabama’s Republican Secretary of State Wes Allen claimed that those voters were “issued noncitizen identification numbers,” and are therefore ineligible to cast a ballot.

But the lawsuits uncovered that voting-eligible citizens also ended up on that list…

Andrew Woodward explains how this fits in with wider attempts at voter suppression.

Fulton Country District Attorney Fani Willis is asking a Georgia appeals court to reinstate six charges against Donald Trump and his co-defendants in the sprawling Georgia 2020 election interference case. This includes three charges against Trump himself.

Donald Trump has said “only stupid people put old” people in positions on the Supreme Court – seemingly forgetting that he’s a 78-year-old man running for the top position in the executive branch.

Trump made the remarks during an interview with Bloomberg while in Chicago on Tuesday.

At the Univision town hall he taped in Florida this afternoon, Donald Trump was asked at whether he really believes Haitian migrants are eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio.

The former president refused to admit he falsely accused people of eating the dogs and cats of Ohio:

I was just saying what was reported, that’s been reported, and eating other things, too, that they’re not supposed to be. But this is— all I do is report. I have not— I was there, I’m going to be there, and we’re going to take a look, and I’ll give you a full report when I do, but that’s been in the newspapers and reported pretty broadly.

Trump then said they were “eating other things too that they’re not supposed to be”.

While discussing former president Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania town hall on Tuesday, which consisted of him dancing on stage for 39 minutes instead of answering questions, panelists on MSNBC’s Morning Joe said the event was a sign of Trump’s advanced age.

Speaking with the show’s co-host Willie Geist, Joe Scarborough said Trump was “slurring so many words… Even in his speech last night, I think it was ‘insurrection,’ just slurring through words.

Michelle Del Rey and Greg Evans report.

This afternoon Kamala Harris campaigned with more than 100 Republican leaders from across the country who support her candidacy in the face of the prospect of a second Donald Trump administration.

“I am joined today by over 100 Republican leaders from across Pennsylvania and across our country who are supporting me candidacy, and I am deeply honored to have their support … we are here today because we share a core belief: we must put country over party,” she told the crowd at Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, where George Washington crossed the Delaware River in the War of Independence.

“We know the Constitution is not a relic from our past, but determines whether we are a country where the people can speak freely and even criticize the president without fear of being thrown in jail or targeted by the military,” Harris continued.

After noting that Trump violated his oath the the United States Constitution, Harris reminded the crowd: “Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.”

Continuing, she says: “He considers any American who doesn’t support him or bend to his will to be an enemy to our country. Further, he says that as commander-in-chief he would use our military to go after them. Honestly, let that sink in … Trump is increasingly unstable and unhinged.”

The vice president then made a direct appeal to pro-Constitution and pro-rule of law Republicans: “There is a place for you in this campaign … I pledge to you to be a president for all Americans.”

“Nobody has a corner on the good ideas … for America to be the world’s strongest democracy, we must have a healthy two-party system,” she said reiterating her promise to have a Republican in her cabinet and form a counsel on bipartisan solutions to advise her.

“There’s a fundamental choice in this election… leadership that brings folks together, that builds consensus… and on the other hand, the choice of someone I think we can guarantee will sit in the Oval Office plotting retribution, stew in his own grievances,” Harris said before wrapping up her pitch to voters to come together to stand up for the Constitution.

“Not by the words that I would use.”