Trump makes appearance at Michigan town hall as Walz claims he cost North Carolina thousands of jobs - live coverage of US elections 2024

Trump speaks at town hall in Flint, Michigan.

Trump is talking now in Michigan. He claims that there are 8,000 individuals within the viewers, and the identical quantity “walking away”, who couldn't get in. This appears unlikely, and Trump has made false claims about his crowd sizes earlier than.

Obama has stated Trump is obsessive about the sizes of his crowds.

Key occasions

Shortly after taking workplace in January this 12 months, Sarah Huckabee Sanders launched a robust salvo within the so-known as battle on woke being waged by Republicans.

She is from a properly-identified Republican household. Her father, Mike Huckabee, was Arkansas’s governor for greater than a decade, from 1996 to 2007.

She served as Trump’s press secretary for 2 years.

A refresher on how US presidents are elected:

The common vote is the general quantity of certified voters who voted for a given candidate: in different phrases, the quantity of ballots forged for one candidate or one other. The primary factor to know concerning the common vote is that successful it doesn't imply you win the presidency. The presidency is received by the candidate who features the bulk of electoral school votes. In different phrases: the US election is decided by races in individual states. In the 2016 election, Donald Trump acquired fewer votes than Hillary Clinton however nonetheless received the presidency and in 2000, George W Bush acquired fewer votes than Al Gore but additionally received.

The electoral school is a gaggle of 538 individuals, known as electors, who formally forged their votes for the US president after residents have voted. This is a requirement outlined within the US structure. The electors are chosen by political events in every of the US’s 50 states forward of the election.

Different states have totally different numbers of electoral school votes, with the quantity determined based mostly on the census. The quantity of votes is the same as its complete congressional delegation: the quantity of senators plus the quantity of representatives. While not a state, the District of Columbia – as in Washington DC – is allotted three electoral school votes.

A candidate wants greater than half – or at least 270 – of the electoral school votes to win. All the votes from a given state go to the identical candidate.

Trump is claiming falsely that he “did a lot better” in 2020 than 2016.

Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump 306-232 within the Electoral College in 2020 and had a 4-level margin within the common vote.

In 2016, Donald J. Trump received the Electoral College with 304 votes in comparison with 227 votes for Hillary Clinton, and Trump misplaced the favored vote.

Trump is being interviewed by Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

She says that Trump will win as a result of America “needs a fighter”.

“Thank you everybody. A lot of love in this room. I love you, you love me,” Trump says.

Trump speaks at town hall in Flint, Michigan.

Obama has stated Trump is obsessive about the sizes of his crowds.

Trump is because of converse at town hall in Flint, Michigan

Trump will converse quickly at a town hall with Sarah Huckabee Sanders within the town of Flint, within the swing state of Michigan – which has 15 electoral school votes.

“I support the second amendment,” he says, referring to America’s “right to bear arms”.

Walz is a gun proprietor and expert marksman.

“But we don’t get to hide behind that when our first responsibility is to protect children,” he says.

“These guys talk all the time about families, today they had a vote to protect IVF and they killed it,” Walz says of the Republicans.

He talks about his personal experiences with IVF, which led to the beginning of his daughter, Hope.

Freedom isn't just a tune Kamala Harris comes out to on stage, “although it is very cool” when she does that, says Walz.

Republicans need to invade your bed room, who you're keen on, your college library, he says, as properly as the liberty to make choices about your personal physique.

Some individuals select to live their lives in another way, he says.

The lesson is, “Mind your own damn business,” he says, as he has earlier than – a lesson from Minnesota.

Walz suggests Trump's ‘idea of a plan' on healthcare is ‘weak reply'

Walz says, “after nine long years” Donald Trump, when requested about healthcare in the course of the debate, “gave us a concept of a plan, seriously, none of my students ever gave that weak an answer.”

He has in contrast Trump to the highschool college students he used to show just a few instances throughout this speech.

Walz says Trump misplaced ‘thousands of manufacturing jobs' in North Carolina

Walz talks about JD Vance saying he is prepared “to create stories” on the marketing campaign path whereas defending his spreading false, racist rumours of pets being kidnapped and eaten in a town in his house state of Ohio.

Walz says “no kidding” and that that has been occurring for years.

“You know who Donald Trump is, you know the pain that he caused, he killed thousands of manufacturing jobs across this state,” he says.

Walz is talking now.

He has introduced up Donald Trump’s false claims that photos of crowds at Harris occasions are AI. “You know what won’t be AI?” he says: “Your ballots”.

As we look forward to Tim Walz to begin talking within the swing state of North Carolina, here's a refresher on the electoral school:

The electoral school is a gaggle of 538 individuals, known as electors, who formally forged their votes for the US president after residents have voted. This is a requirement outlined within the US structure. The electors are chosen by political events in every of the US’s 50 states forward of the election.

North Carolina has 16 Electoral College votes, or nearly 6%.

This is why the entire is 538: 100 senators plus 435 representatives plus three for DC.

A candidate wants greater than half – or at least 270 – of the electoral school votes to win. All the votes from a given state go to the identical candidate.

The occasion that wins a state has its electors formally vote for its candidate. This occurs just a few weeks after the November election – and after US states have licensed their election outcomes – on the primary Monday after the second Wednesday in December.

In 2020 Donald Trump tried to remove electors in some states forward of the electoral school vote however the US supreme courtroom rejected that try the week earlier than.

Tim Walz to deal with crowd in Asheville, North Carolina

Kamala Harris’s working mate, Tim Walz, is about to start talking in Asheville within the swing state of North Carolina – which has 16 electoral school votes.

We will deliver key factors from these remarks to you live.

Meanwhile, for those who’re simply tuning in, Kamala Harris was interviewed by a panel of three National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) members, throughout which the vice-president talked concerning the anti-immigrant sentiment towards Haitians in Springfield, Ohio; Israel’s battle in Gaza; home financial points; gun violence; and reproductive rights. The dialog was one of the few interviews Harris has achieved since turning into the Democratic nominee, and it served as a possibility for her to reaffirm insurance policies.

When requested about “where [she] sees the line in terms of aggression and defense” regarding the battle, she stated that she supported the Biden administration’s one-time pause on the supply of 2,000lb bombs to Israel as “leverage” that they “have had and used”, however that reaching a deal was the true means to ending the battle.

“We have to agree that not only must we end this war, but we have to have a goal of a two-state solution because there must be stability and peace in that region,” she stated, “inasmuch as our goal must be to ensure that Israelis have security and Palestinians in equal measure have security, self determination, dignity”.

When requested what mechanisms the US has to assist Palestinian self-dedication, and whether or not or not it was even doable, as Israel’s ally, to assist such a purpose, Harris responded saying that she believed that it was. She described conferences with Israeli and Arab leaders to “talk about how we can construct a day-after scenario”.

JD Vance is talking throughout a marketing campaign occasion in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

The Guardian’s Alice Herman is there. She writes:

Vance has spoken at size about immigration, invoking against the law dedicated by an undocumented immigrant within the town of Prairie du Chien that Republicans within the state have already seized on to bolster GOP claims about immigrants committing violent crimes. (In truth, research shows immigrants don't commit crimes at a better charge than individuals born within the US).

“We are closer, in this moment, to a nuclear war, or a third world war, than at any time in our country’s history and we have the chaos and incompetence of Kamala Harris to thank for it,” Vance stated.

“Every community is a border state,” he stated. “The problems that Kamala Harris has imported through that American Southern border have now gone nationwide.”

He additionally blamed Harris for the latest obvious assassination try at Mar-a-Lago.

“The American media, the Democrats, the Kamala Harris campaign, they’ve gotta cut this crap out or they’re gonna get somebody killed,” stated Vance, alleging that Democrats, who've highlighted Trump’s authoritarian rhetoric and makes an attempt to overturn the 2020 election, are guilty for the 2 assassination makes an attempt that Trump has confronted up to now throughout his 2024 marketing campaign.

Today up to now

Senate Republicans defeated a invoice that may have protected entry to IVF care, introduced by Democrats looking for to strain Republicans over the politically unstable subject that's certain to be on voters’ minds after they head to the presidential polls in 49 days. Kamala Harris stated Republicans’ refusal to vote in favor of defending IVF regardless of claiming to assist entry “is not an isolated incident”.

Over within the House, the Republican speaker, Mike Johnson, introduced plans for the chamber to vote tomorrow on a spending invoice that can forestall a partial authorities shutdown however be paired with laws aimed at cracking down on non-citizen voting, which not often occurs. Democrats have come out in opposition to the latter half of the invoice, with Senate majority chief Chuck Schumer saying at this time that Johnson’s proposal will seemingly meet “a dead end”, although that might improve the chance of a authorities shutdown.

Here’s what else has occurred at this time up to now:

Kamala Harris simply stated she known as Donald Trump after the Secret Service on Sunday fended off a gunman found outdoors a golf course the place he was taking part in. “I checked on him to see if he was okay, and I told him what I have said publicly – there’s no place for political violence in our country,” she stated.
In a dialog with the National Association of Black Journalists, Harris additionally condemned the marketing campaign in opposition to the Haitian immigrant neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, waged by Trump, his working mate, JD Vance, and conservative commentators. “It’s a crying shame,” the vice-president stated.
In a press release responding to the shocking report in ProPublica, Harris additionally stated anti-abortion legal guidelines supported by Trump had been guilty for the dying of a 28-12 months-outdated Georgia girl.
In an interview with common Spanish radio host Stephanie “Chiquibaby” Himonidis, Harris warned that Trump’s insurance policies would consequence within the separation of migrant households at the southern border.
Trump stated Joe Biden was “very nice” when the president known as him after the second assassination try in opposition to him on Sunday, and requested if he had any solutions for the best way to enhance his safety.