Trump narrows Harris’s lead among Latino voters in new poll as Vance and Walz prepare for VP debate: Live

This was utterly ridiculous from The Donald in Georgia yesterday – and a rather unwise visual reminder of the last wall he left unfinished.

Republicans like Minnesota congressman Tom Emmer have been bragging ahead of tonight’s showdown that JD Vance will “wipe the floor with Tim Walz”, calling his state governor “a total fraud” who will try to deploy his “Minnesota nice” persona to fend off attacks about Kamala Harris’s “open-border and soft-on-crime” policy positions.

Big talk, but rather at odds with what Trump himself had to say to Kellyanne Conway on Fox Nation yesterday…

Here’s more on the GOP nominee getting his excuses in early from Rhian Lubin.

Rudy Giuliani’s daughter has issued a stark warning about a second Donald Trump presidency, using her own father’s “implosion” as an example of what happens when someone is caught up in the former president’s “destructive trail”.

Giuliani has gone from a revered prosecutor and New York mayor that led the city through the devastation of the 9/11 attacks to a bankrupt and disbarred attorney since becoming one of Trump’s staunchest allies.

This fall from grace exemplifies how Trump “destroys everything he touches”, according to Caroline Giuliani.

“Watching my dad’s life crumble since he joined forces with Trump has been extraordinarily painful, both on a personal level and because his demise feels linked to a dark force that threatens to once again consume America,” the 35-year-old wrote inVanity Fair on Monday.

Family members of prominent Republicans including Dick Cheney, John McCain and Trump himself have also endorsed Kamala Harris or warned against the prospect of another Trump turn in the White House.

Harris’s running mate will square up to Trump’s vice presidential pick on the debate stage on Tuesday evening in what promises to be a hugely consequential and fiery encounter in New York.

Vance has previously attacked Walz’s military record, claiming the Minnesota Governor dodged deployment to Iraq, while the latter has questioned his rival’s background, pointing out that the Ohio Senator is a Yale graduate who palled around with “Silicon Valley billionaires” while writing a bestseller about his “hillbilly” roots.

The 90-minute debate will begin at 9pm (Eastern time) on CBS on October 1.

It will be moderated by CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell and Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan.

Here’s everything else you need to know from Kelly Rissman.

Trump has continued to try to attack Harris and Joe Biden over the federal response to Hurricane Helene, which has wrought havoc in states like Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, having visited Valdosta in the Peach State on Monday and accused the Vice President of “staging” photos of herself liaising with governors by phone on disaster relief efforts.

He has since posted the following on Truth Social, pledging to get his new pal Elon Musk on the case.

President Biden has meanwhile angrily hit back at Trump’s false accusation on Monday that he and North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper have been ignoring the devastation wrought by the storm, which has killed over 100 people and left hundreds missing and unaccounted for in the Tar Heel state.

The Republican presidential nominee had told his followers on social media yesterday that he “[didn’t] like the reports” he was allegedly getting about the federal and state governments “going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas” hit by the hurricane.

Asked to respond as he addressed reporters after receiving a briefing from Cooper and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrator Deanne Criswell in the Oval Office, Biden interjected, cutting off a question from The Independent to denounce Trump’s baseless statements.

Andrew Feinberg and Julia Musto report.

Donald Trump has eaten into Kamala Harris’s lead among Latino voters as the presidential election campaigning season enters its final month, according to a new national poll from NBC News/Telemundo/CNBC.

The Democrat still has a 14-percentage point advantage over her conservative rival, on 54 percent to 40 percent, but the difference is down to its lowest level for four presidential cycles, with voters citing the economy and the high cost of living as reasons for preferring the Republican ticket.

By contrast, Hillary Clinton picked up 69 percent of Latino support to Trump’s 19 percent in 2016.

Here’s our data correspondent Alicja Hagopian on all the latest election polling.

A Republican congressional candidate posed for a photo with a woman and three young girls in an image that could be mistaken for a family holiday card.

But the picture — posted on the National Republican Campaign Committee website to promote Derrick Anderson’s campaign, and included in a video on his campaign’s YouTube account — is not a family photo at all.

Alex Woodward has the bizarre story.

NOTUS reports that the following Republican Party and Trump World figures will be working the spin room tomorrow for Senator JD Vance after he faces off against Governor Tim Walz in the vice presidential debate.

• Jason Miller
• Donald Trump Jr.
• Tom Cotton
• Katie Britt
• Elise Stefanik
• Byron Donalds
• Howard Lutnick

Both Cotton and Britt are two of Vance’s closest allies in Congress, and Don Jr pushed his father to pick Vance as his running mate.

A naked statue of the former president, titled “Crooked and Obscene”, was erected in a fenced-in lot next to Interstate 15 north of Las Vegas, Nevada, on September 28.

Kelly Rissman has the story.

A business owner in Springfield, Ohio and his family have received graphic death threats after defending his Haitian employees from Donald Trump’s racist smears.

“They come to work every day. They don’t cause drama. They’re on time,” McGregor told The New York Times, saying that the migrants had taken up crucial positions that he’d been struggling to fill after expanding his business.

Now the Times reports that strangers have been threatening McGregor and his family in the most lurid terms, as well as putting up posters near the factory that declared him a “traitor”.