Trump tries to troll Harris with McDonald’s stunt as CBS News finally hits back at interview claims: Live

Here’s what the presidential candidates are up to today:

Kamala Harris will be joined by Liz Cheney as she makes appearances in three suburban swing state counties won by Nikki Haley before she dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination earlier this year: Chester County, Pennsylvania, then Oakland County, Michigan, and finally Waukesha County, Wisconsin.Donald Trump will be in North Carolina, visiting Hurricane Helene-hit Ashville and meeting with faith leaders in Concord alongside his son Eric and his former housing secretary Dr Ben Carson before holding a rally in Greenville later.Tim Walz, Harris’s running mate, will meanwhile follow up his recent late-night appearance with Jimmy Kimmel by being interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.

The Trump-supporting tech billionaire is pledging to give away $1m to voters in the key swing state of Pennsylvania for signing his political action committee’s petition backing the Constitution.

The giveaway is raising questions and alarms among some election experts who say it is a violation of the law to link a cash handout to signing a petition that also requires a person to be registered to vote.

Here’s the influential horror novelist Stephen King raising precisely that objection on Musk’s own social media platform yesterday…

…and here’s a deep-dive into the thorny legality of the gesture.

If you thought the McDonald’s shift was weird, try this one on for size.

The Republican – who is running for president of the United States, don’t forget – was speaking in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night, hometown of the legendary golfer Arnold Palmer, when he was moved to say of the local hero: “This is a guy that was all man.

“He took showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, ‘Oh my God, that’s unbelievable.’ I had to say it.

“I had to tell you the shower part because it’s true.”

But Donald Trump is definitely not weird, OK guys?

We’ll have more on the reaction to that eyebrow-raising remark shortly but, first up, here’s Katie Hawkinson’s report.

Kamala Harris spent Sunday, her 60th birthday, in the company of Black churchgoers at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, where she read the parable of the Good Samaritan and urged her audience to sow compassion and respect in their daily lives and do more than just “preach the values”.

Unexpectedly, Donald Trump appears to have been listening, briefly putting aside election hostilities to wish her a happy birthday in the spirit of brotherhood.

Here’s more on the Democratic nominee’s trip to church.

The broadcaster has at last come back at the former president over his repeated false claims that its show 60 Minutes edited its recent interview with Kamala Harris to make her answers appear more favorable.

In a statement issued to another CBS program, Face the Nation, on Sunday morning, the network declared: “Former president Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our October 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false.

“When we edit any interview, whether a politician, an athlete, or movie star, we strive to be clear, accurate and on point.

“The portion of her answer on 60 Minutes was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide ranging 21-minute-long segment.”

It also reiterated its offer to Trump to sit down for his own Q&A after he backed out of an initial agreement to appear.

“Our long-standing invitation to former president Trump remains open.

“If he would like to discuss the issues facing the nation and the Harris interview, we would be happy to have him on 60 Minutes.”

Here’s Io Dodds on Trump’s shifting excuses for ducking out of that session.

Here’s our video report on the Republican’s surreal Sunday gig.

Donald Trump spent one of the final Sundays of the election cycle working the fry cooker at a Pennsylvania branch of McDonald’s – the latest bizarre moment in a campaign that has increasingly become a tour of personal vendettas and aimless grudges, despite his aides’ best efforts to keep him on track.

The Republican presidential nominee is known for his love of the fast-food franchise but has become obsessed with the fact that his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris worked in one of its restaurants when she was a student, a detail he griped about during his stunt appearance in Lower Southampton.

The roughly hour-long photo opp closed down the branch in question entirely.

During the visit, Trump had an apron tied behind his back by a McDonald’s cashier before he recieved a short demonstration on how to work the fry station before sticking his head through the drive-thru window.

The former president proceeded to hand out a number of orders, chatting to supporters who were picking up their meals.

But as he took a question from a reporter through the window, Trump again resorted to baseless suggestions that the upcoming presidential election could be tainted by fraud, a charge he and running mate JD Vance have repeated about the 2020 vote.

“Will you accept the results of the election?” the journalist asked.

“Yeah, sure, if it’s a fair election,” came the ominious answer.

Here’s more on an odd afternoon from John Bowden.

Vice President Kamala Harris will go head-to-head with Donald Trump in less than three weeks as Americans cast their votes in the 2024 election.

The race has only become tighter, with Harris just one point ahead of Trump in a new poll. The outcome of the election is anyone’s game.

See the latest poll results:

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Sunday that Elon Musk’s plans to give $1 million to registered voters who sign his super PAC’s petition is “deeply concerning” and should be looked into by law enforcement.

“I think there are real questions with how he is spending money in this race, how the dark money is flowing, not just into Pennsylvania, but apparently now into the pockets of Pennsylvanians,” Shapiro said in an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. “That is deeply concerning.”

“I think it’s something that law enforcement could take a look at,” he added. “I’m not the attorney general anymore of Pennsylvania. I’m the governor, but it does raise some serious questions.”