2024 Elections

Explaining an outer garment, a "family photo" that was not what it seemed and a spray tan spat: with just a month to go until election day, it was another week to remember on the US campaign trail.

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Melania Trump is out and about promoting her self-titled memoir.

While the majority of the focus on the outcome of the 2024 presidential election has been on the battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the former chair of the Republican National Committee suggested the real fight for 270 Electoral College votes is farther south where three GOP strongholds are in play for Vice President Kamala Harris.

According to ex-RNC head Michael Steele – now a co-host on MSNBC's "The Weekend" – Donald Trump is at risk of losing Florida (30 electoral votes), Georgia and North Carolina (16 electoral votes each.)

Donald Trump and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp will appear together for the first time since 2020, much to the surprise of a political reporter who's been covering the former president for years.

The two men will be briefed on Hurricane Helene damage in Evans and deliver remarks to reporters, although the event isn't being billed as a campaign appearance, but CNN's Alayna Treene is astonished that they will appear together for the first time since Trump attempted to pressure Kemp to overturn his election loss in the state and has attacked him for refusing.

A legal expert pushed back on a conservative's claims that special counsel Jack Smith was politicizing Donald Trump's election interference case by dropping new evidence weeks before voters head to the polls.

U.S. District judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed a 165-page filing that provides a narrative of Trump's efforts to undo his 2020 election loss, and she must now determine which of those actions should be considered official and thus covered by the Supreme Court's immunity ruling, and CNN panelists debated what impact the new evidence would have on November's election.

Donald Trump consistently draws large and enthusiastic crowds to his rallies, but Kamala Harris was right.

"Scores of people leave early," reported the Washington Post, and while most rallygoers do stay to the end, enduring his rambling diatribes about past elections, his legal woes and various grievances, there's a clear trend at his campaign events.

Throughout election season, jobs and the economy have been a central issue for both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, each presidential candidate has floated their own proposals for protecting and building up American manufacturing.

While Harris has proposed closing tax loopholes for some large corporations and providing government support for specific areas of the manufacturing sector like clean energy and semiconductors, Trump has pointed to tariffs as a key component of his trade policy, proposing a 10% or 20% tariff on all imported goods and a 60% tariff on goods imported from China.

As a bitterly contested US election campaign enters its final stretch, misinformation researchers have raised the alarm over threats posed by AI and foreign influence -- but voters appear more concerned about falsehoods from a more familiar source: politicians.

The United States is battling a firehose of misinformation before the November 5 vote -- from fake "news" sites that researchers say were created by Russian and Iranian actors, to manipulated images generated by artificial intelligence tools that have blurred the boundaries between reality and fiction.