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Former Vice President Mike Pence broke his general campaign silence in an interview with Lyndsay Keith on Dr. Phil McGraw's "Merit Street Media" platform, to bemoan how former President Donald Trump has betrayed many principles that initially united them on the 2016 ticket, The Atlantic reported Thursday.

Pence, who himself ran unsuccessfully for president in the 2024 primary, has been estranged from Trump ever since a mob supporting the former president rioted at the Capitol and called for his lynching over Pence's refusal to go along with a far-right scheme to block the certification of the electoral count.

Billionaire entrepreneur and "Shark Tank" star Mark Cuban shot down talk that he would join a potential Harris administration – without a TV sales pitch of himself – saying Thursday night that he’s focused on his pharmaceutical company, and can “ have more impact outside rather than inside.”

“No, I’d make a lousy employee, showing up with a suit, you know, going to meetings, that is not me,” Cuban told CNN’s Erin Burnett on her show “OutFront.” He went on to tell the host that his pharmaceutical company Cost Plus Drugs “is my focus right now.”

A 2011 clip surfaced Thursday by CNN shows Donald Trump denigrating debate dodging candidates, and both presidential campaigns issued dueling responses — with Kamala Harris' team jabbing the former president using his own words for refusing to agree to a second debate.

CNN's KFile uncovered a Dec. 9, 2011, interview between Trump and Don Imus, a former host on Fox Business, in which Trump attacked some candidates for not having the "courage" to debate.

Donald Trump’s appearance at the Al Smith dinner Thursday night will come with an ironic twist, according to a prominent New York Times reporter who has covered the former president extensively for years.

Maggie Haberman, a CNN political analyst and reporter at the Times, said Trump would seize the opportunity “to make all kinds of jokes at the expense of some of the people sitting in the room with him” while in New York for the dinner that raises money for charity.

Former Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA) opened up to MSNBC's Ari Melber on Thursday about why she is enthusiastically backing Vice President Kamala Harris for president — her first time going for the Democratic ticket — and outlined why, despite Harris' liberal beliefs, traditional, conservative Republicans would have a lot to like in a Harris administration, even beyond desires to dethrone former President Donald Trump from their party's leadership.

This comes after Harris has spent weeks pushing to win support and endorsements from Republicans in battleground states, culminating this week in a massive Republicans for Harris event in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania.

Former President Donald Trump isn't doing himself any favors with his increasingly confused and rambling stump speeches in the final stretch of the campaign.

That's according to Trump advisor and CNN commentator David Urban, who told the New York Times that the ex-president may be actually helping to motivate Vice President Kamala Harris' supporters to come out in greater numbers. This could pose an especially significant problem in major battleground states like Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Former President Donald Trump is taking the stage again Thursday night — this time for comedy.

Trump plans to speak at the annual Al Smith charity dinner beginning at 7:15 p.m. Eastern Time. Vice President Kamala Harris will not attend in person, according to The Associated Press, but will appear on a recorded video.

A federal court issued an order blocking Florida state officials and in particular Gov. Ron DeSantis' health secretary Joseph Ladapo, from threatening TV stations over ads in support of Amendment 4, the constitutional ballot referendum that seeks to repeal Florida's near-total abortion ban, reported constitutional attorney Adam Steinbaugh.

DeSantis' administration sent letters to TV stations threatening to prosecute their employees for airing the ad, citing an obscure "sanitary nuisance" law intended to apply to physical health hazards like improperly sealed septic tanks. Specifically, they argued that the law might falsely persuade women who are eligible for abortion under health exceptions from seeking care.

Former President Donald Trump lashed out at Vice President Kamala Harris on his Truth Social platform, accusing her of insulting Catholic voters.

"Just found out that Lyin’ Kamala is doing a video message tonight instead of being at the Al Smith Dinner," wrote Trump. "She shouldn’t be allowed to do a video message. Kamala should be there like almost every other Presidential Candidate in their History, except Walter Mondale, who lost 49-1."

One of the police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol during the deadly Trump-incited January 6 insurrection is pushing back against the ex-president’s claim that it was a “day of love.”

During a Univision-hosted town hall in Miami on Wednesday for undecided Latino voters the GOP presidential nominee was asked about the attack.

A coalition of parents, students, teachers and faith leaders are asking the state’s highest court to block the state superintendent’s mandate to teach the Bible in public schools and his agency’s impending $3 million purchase of Bibles.

They argued that the Bible mandate violates constitutional protections of religious freedom and that the Department of Education doesn’t have the authority to spend state funds on Bibles or dictate schools’ curriculum or textbooks. The Oklahoma Department of Education is soliciting bids to purchase 55,000 King James Version Bibles. Additional specifications appeared to point to one Bible: Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.” Bible, endorsed by former President Donald Trump, for which he receives a fee.

A GOP congressional candidate in Virginia is the subject of a new ad featuring cardboard cutouts to ridicule “fake family” members he posed with in campaign footage made public last month.

“Don’t be fooled by fake Derrick Anderson,” the ad’s narrator says in the 30-second spot as an actor spoofing the Virginia House candidate is seen playing what appears to be a fake game of Monopoly.

At the top of her Thursday episode of "Deadline: White House," host Nicolle Wallace highlighted the Latino town hall hosted by Univision on Wednesday night, which featured largely undecided voters.

It was just another of Trump's bad appearances, Wallace pointed out.