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Former President Trump is juggling new authorized threats and a high-stakes marketing campaign with two months to go within the razor-tight race for the White Home.

Trump on Thursday outlined his second-term agenda to the Financial Membership of New York, whereas his attorneys battled particular counsel Jack Smith on the U.S. District Court docket in Washington, D.C., in a testy listening to overseen by Decide Tanya Chutkan.

The split-screen underscored the historic nature of a marketing campaign season by which Trump’s been convicted on felony expenses and faces a number of different prosecutions.

After it was all mentioned and achieved, the Vice President Harris’s marketing campaign announced it raised a surprising $300 million in August — greater than twice Trump’s $130 million haul, setting her as much as flood the airwaves within the 61 days main as much as the presidential election.

Takeaways from Trump’s wild day…

🏛️ IN COURT:

• Trump’s protection attorneys and federal prosecutors have been in Chutkan’s courtroom for the primary time in almost a yr, because the election subversion case had been on maintain whereas the events waited on the Supreme Court docket’s presidential immunity ruling. The particular counsel introduced a brand new superseding indictment that addresses the Supreme Court docket ruling, recasting Trump’s actions as happening exterior of his official capability as president. Trump’s attorneys entered a not responsible plea.

• Chutkan should decide whether or not the superseding indictment adheres to the Supreme Court docket’s ruling. She mentioned she’d file an order quickly on the right way to proceed, however acknowledged it could be an “train in futility” to set a trial date at this level. The trial will nearly actually happen after the election, and probably by no means if Trump wins.

• Chutkan and Trump’s attorneys had a number of bitter exchanges. The choose accused Trump’s attorneys of looking for delays to keep away from embarrassing materials being launched earlier than the election. “This court docket is just not involved with the electoral schedule…That’s nothing I’m going to think about,” she mentioned.

• Trump’s attorneys argued that his conversations with former Vice President Pence pressuring him to not certify the election outcomes fell underneath the Supreme Court docket’s immunity determination. “I’m an originalist,” Trump legal professional John Lauro mentioned. “You might be an originalist, however I’m a trial choose,” Chutkan replied.

The Hill’s authorized workforce has the full takeaways here.

🗳️ ON THE TRAIL:

• Trump mentioned he’d create a authorities effectivity fee, which was first prompt by billionaire businessman Elon Musk. Trump mentioned Musk has agreed to run the agency.

• Trump mentioned he’d “rescind all unspent funds” underneath the Inflation Discount Act, placing Biden’s $740 billion legislative achievement in jeopardy.

• Trump is proposing extra tariffs and tax cuts. Trump mentioned he’d push to increase the person tax cuts enacted in 2017 which are set to run out in 2025, and he mentioned he’d decrease the company tax price from 21 % to fifteen %.

The Hill’s Brett Samuels has the total takeaways on Trump’s proposals here.

Learn extra:

• Hunter Biden asks to alter plea to guilty in federal tax case.
• DOJ indicts former Trump campaign adviser, Russian intel officers.
• 5 takeaways from Trump’s Hannity town hall.
• RFK Jr. will do swing-state rallies for Trump.

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• The suspect accused of killing 4 folks at a Georgia highschool on Wednesday was previously interviewed by the FBI over on-line threats. There have been 22 shootings within the U.S. this yr the place at the very least 4 folks have been killed.

• Weekly jobless claims fell to a two-month low. Leaked stories and political warmth are testing people’s trust in financial information.

• South Carolina handed a school cell phone ban. New Mexico accused Snapchat of being a breeding floor for predators.

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The conflict in Gaza hangs closely over Vice President Harris’s presidential marketing campaign and will play a task in the important thing swing state of Michigan, which has a big Arab American inhabitants.

Professional-Palestinian liberals had hoped they’d have a stronger ally in Harris, however she’s signaled she’ll stay in lockstep with President Biden on key points surrounding the battle, resembling supplying arms to Israel.

That might trigger issues for Harris as campus protest season will get underway.

The Hill’s Alex Gangitano captures the dynamic here: 

“Activists who initially expressed some optimism about Harris are able to deal with her candidacy the identical as Biden’s — with protests at marketing campaign stops and, for some, efforts to get progressives to vote towards her in November.”

Election analyst Nate Silver, whose mannequin presently offers former President Trump a 56 % probability of profitable the White Home, mentioned Harris trails in his mannequin as a consequence of new polls that present a tightening race in Michigan.

Over the previous week, the polls in Michigan have moved greater than 1 level in Trump’s favor, according to Silver’s forecast.

If Trump cracks via in one of many three “Blue Wall” states — Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — his odds of profitable enhance dramatically.

“Along with Pennsylvania, Michigan has turn out to be one thing of a problem for Harris. Nationwide polls and polls of different swing states largely respectable for Harris, however erosion in PA/MI hurts quite a bit within the mannequin.” –Silver

Trump has gone onerous after the Biden-Harris administration following Hamas’s execution of six hostages, together with Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli American citizen.

• The Biden administration has been looking for a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas for months however has been unable to shut the deal.

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed Fox Information on Thursday {that a} deal is “not shut.”

Simply as worrying for Democrats: The Hill’s Amie Parnes stories that Harris is running behind in the polls in comparison with the place President Biden and Hillary Clinton have been positioned at this level of their races towards Trump.

The tight race underscores the significance of subsequent week’s debate for each candidates.

ABC Information released the rules of the debate, and the microphones can be shut off for the candidate who is just not talking. The Harris marketing campaign had sought to alter the foundations to permit the candidates to interrupt each other.

In fact, Trump can be sad with ABC Information, saying in a city corridor occasion with Sean Hannity on Wednesday evening that he believes the community is biased towards him.

• Trump mentioned second gentleman Douglas Emhoff is shut associates with the husband of an govt at Disney, which owns ABC.

• Deadline confirmed the longstanding friendship between the households.

• Nevertheless, ABC has mentioned the information division can have full management over the content material of the talk with out govt interference.
• “All editorial choices are within the arms of ABC Information administration and the seasoned journalists and producers of ABC, who maintain themselves to the best journalistic requirements,” the community mentioned in a press release to The New York Occasions final month.

Views:

• Brookings: Is Harris actually main Trump within the polls?
• The Hill: 4 doable outcomes of the Trump vs. Harris debate.
• City Journal: Kennedy dropping out helps Trump.
• CNN: Harris separating herself from Biden on the financial system frustrates Trump.
• The Hill: Coattails may have a unfavourable impact.
  

Learn extra: 

• Gaza battle roils presidential race.
• Harris featured Trump’s border wall in a marketing campaign advert touting her energy on the border.
• Harris backed a reparations bill in Senate, however has been silent about it throughout her White Home bid.
• Trump, Harris conflict over military, patriotism.
• Harris proposes lower capital gains tax improve in break with Biden.
• Forecasting pioneer predicts Harris victory.

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Welcome to the Rust Belt election.

President Biden’s administration has turned its focus to the Rust Belt states that may very well be decisive in figuring out the following president, doubtlessly giving a lift to Vice President Harris within the race for the White Home.

• Biden visited Westby, Wis., on Thursday, the place he introduced billions of {dollars} in federal investments for climate-friendly vitality choices in rural America.

• Biden laid out particulars of the $7.3 billion in federal funding accessible for rural electrical cooperatives across the nation to construct or buy climate-friendly energy, The Hill’s Rachel Frazin reports.

• Wisconsin is a hotly contested presidential battleground that went narrowly for former President Trump in 2016, earlier than Biden received it again in 2020. Harris leads there by 3.4 factors, in response to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ polling average.

• Trump will maintain a rally in Mosinee, Wis., on Saturday.

In Pennsylvania, Biden is anticipated to announce quickly that his administration will block Nippon Metal’s proposed $14.9 billion acquisition of U.S. Metal over nationwide safety issues. Nippon is Japan’s largest steelmaker, whereas U.S. Metal is predicated in Pittsburgh.

• Harris and Trump agree the deal must be blocked to maintain the corporate in U.S. arms. The United Steelworkers union additionally opposes the deal.

• Nippon Metal has mentioned Americans would comprise a majority of the board of administrators if a deal goes via. U.S. Metal administration has warned that if the deal is blocked, the corporate would “shut metal mills and certain transfer its headquarters out of Pittsburgh.”

• Trump and Harris are successfully tied in Pennsylvania. Whoever wins the state is prone to win the White Home.

• Harris travels to Pittsburgh on Thursday and can spend 5 days there within the run-up to Tuesday’s debate in Philadelphia.

Learn extra:

• Pennsylvania emerges as pivotal Harris-Trump battleground.
• How Biden is spending his final months as president.
• Yellen makes case for clean energy tax cuts in North Carolina.

“Welcome to the influencer period of politics,” by Adam Branton for RealClearPolitics.

“Methods to maintain the peace in Gaza,” by Jonathan Lincoln for Foreign Affairs.

“Pseudo-scholars and the rise of the barbarian proper,” by Sohrab Ahmari for The Free Press.

“Grownup duties are making youngsters too previous, too quick,” by Richard Tucker for The Hill.

5 days till the primary presidential debate.

15 days till early in-person voting begins in Minnesota and South Dakota.

26 days till the vice presidential debate between Vance and Walz.

61 days till the 2024 basic election.

137 days till Inauguration Day 2025.

Friday

• Harris is in Pittsburgh for debate prep.
• Biden delivers remarks on “Investing in America” in Ann Arbor, Mich.

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