Election 2024 live updates: Trump ex-staffer claims he once praised Hitler’s generals as Obama raps Eminem song at Harris rally

The New York congresswoman was not messing around here.

See now, if the Republican nominee didn’t stay up late and get up early posting nonsense like this online, he might be less exhausted and not have to cancel so many events.

Harris is a former California attorney general – how likely is it she thinks defunding the police is the answer to anything?

And why would anyone believe in “demoralizing” the police? What end would that serve?

And how would you even go about it – cruel name-calling? Taking their lunch money?

“I’m glad they’re bringing him out. The reason they’re bringing him out – because he doesn’t even want to do it. I think he’s exhausted,” Trump said yesterday of his predecessor, a full 15 years younger than him and having the time of his life on stage in Detroit with Eminem.

“I watched him talking. I think the guy’s exhausted.”

That unconvincing attack came just hours after the Republican had scrapped another campaign event, as we’ve just seen.

One event the Republican did not take part in yesterday was a planned appearance with Robert F Kennedy Jr and Tulsi Gabbard for a health-focused virtual town hall, with his team citing only “changes in Trump’s schedule”.

The switch-up is the latest in a series of cancelled or rescheduled appearances in recent days, which has fueled reports that the former president, 78, is becoming too “exhausted” to fully campaign in the tight race against Kamala Harris.

The Republican has backed out of planned interviews with CNBC’s Squawk Box, The Shade Room podcast and NBC.

The campaign has pushed back on this narrative, however, calling the exhaustion claim “unequivocally false.”

Before his return to North Carolina on Tuesday, the Republican took part in a Latino roundtable event at Doral in Florida, which took on a queasily religious tone as the attendees reached out for Trump in prayer and called on him to “make America godly again”.

Here’s more from Gustaf Kilander.

Also on rollicking form in Madison, Wisconsin, last night was Harris’s vice presidential nominee, who ripped into Trump and Musk with venom.

His warm-up man, West Wing actor Bradley Whitford, wasn’t bad either.

The Democrat was in no mood to cut deals in her NBC News interview with Hallie Jackson last night, also refusing to blame sexism or racism for preventing her taking a big lead in the polls and insisting the country is “absolutely” ready for a woman of color in the White House.

Here’s James Liddell on Harris declining to be drawn on whether she would pardon Trump from the Oval Office.

This was the Republican nominee on stage in Greensboro yesterday, calling both Kamala Harris and Tim Walz “stupid”, Obama “a jerk”, AOC “a young girl” and also suggesting Harris might be on drugs, in amongst all the usual preposterous scaremongering and false promises about migrants and the economy.

He also welcomed Tulsi Gabbard aboard as full-on MAGA and forgot how French fries are cooked, despite making a batch himself at a Pensylvania McDonald’s as recently as Sunday.

Trump spoke for almost two hours – exhausting for all concerned.

The Hitler remark wasn’t the only shocking line in that Atlantic piece.

Trump also reportedly declared that “it doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f***ing Mexican” after receiving the bill for a murdered soldier’s funeral, which he had previously offered to pay.

Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year-old Army private, was bludgeoned to death in April 2020 by a fellow soldier at Fort Hood in Texas and her burned remains were only discovered two months later.

Following the tragic incident, Trump invited Guillen’s family to the White House, where he described the young woman as a “spectacular person” and said he could help the family out “financially” and with funeral arrangements.

However, in a meeting in December 2020, Trump reportedly flew into a rage after being presented with the invoice for her burial.

Barack Obama was joined on stage by Eminem as he campaigned for Kamala Harris in Detroit, Michigan, on Tuesday.

The rapper introduced Obama, who repaid the favor by reciting the lyrics to “Lose Yourself”.

You can see the big moment for yourself below.