Election 2024 live updates: Trump pursues Latino votes during roundtable; Harris sits down for NBC interview

As Donald Trump attempts to win over the Latino vote at a roundtable in Doral, Florida, by droning on with half-truths about electric trucks, bunny-killing solar panels, migrants, the Congo, and projecting criticisms of himself onto Kamala Harris, the vice president has released a five-point plan to deliver change for Latino men and their families.

Harris says: “Donald Trump has disrespected and insulted Latino men and communities. As president, I will invest in them.”

The Harris-Walz policy platform states that there will be new training opportunities; financial help to start small businesses and for first-time home buyers; expansion of the child tax credit for 18 million Latino children; and cover the costs of long-term homecare for aging parents through Medicare.

The former president was in town Monday to tour the damage – and show off his fry cook pin he got for working at McDonald’s a day earlier. But it came with problems and headaches for residents as they are still trying to recover from the damage from Hurricane Helene that caused at least 95 deaths in the state.

Rock legend Bruce Springsteen will join Vice President Kamala Harris’s first joint rally with former President Barack Obama in Atlanta on Thursday, kicking off a series of concerts in battleground states — including Philadelphia on Monday, also with Obama.

The concert is part of new efforts by Democrats to encourage early voting in Georgia where 1.6 million people have already cast their ballots.

Springsteen, a lifelong Democrat and friend of Obama, released a video early this month endorsing Harris.

Speaking at a campaign Latino roundtable this morning in Doral, Florida, Donald Trump accused Kamala Harris of “taking a day off” from the campaign with just 14 days to go before Election Day.

The vice president is in Washington, DC “where she will receive briefings and conduct internal meetings with staff” according to her schedule.

At 3.40pm she will sit for an interview with NBC’s Hallie Jackson that will air on NBC Nightly News at 6.30pm. At 4.30pm she will also tape an interview with Telemundo’s Julio Vaqueiro.

The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday upgraded its economic outlook for the United States this year, while lowering its expectations for growth in Europe and China. It left its forecast for global growth unchanged at a relatively lackluster 3.2% for 2024.

The IMF expects the U.S. economy — the world’s largest — to expand 2.8% this year, down slightly from 2.9% in 2023 but an improvement on the 2.6% it had forecast for 2024 back in July. Growth in the United States has been led by strong consumer spending, fueled by healthy gains in inflation-adjusted wages.

This is probably not the news the Trump campaign wants to be publicized.

Meanwhile, here’s the most recent cover of The Economist:

Susan Ford Bales, the only daughter of the 38th president, said the country needs a “serious, compassionate, and honorable leader” – similar to the state of the country at the time her father took office in 1974 after Richard Nixon resigned.

Ariana Baio has the story.

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Kamala Harris will campaign in Houston, Texas, on Friday, with a focus on the state’s abortion restrictions.

She will be joined by Democratic Senate nominee Colin Allred who is running to try and unseat incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz.

Democrats have long dreamed of turning Texas purple, but polling in the presidential race still sees Donald Trump leading by more than the margin of error.