Obama takes down Trump’s lies and pretend ‘power’, urging males to vote for Harris – US elections reside

Good morning, US politics weblog readers, there’s one other busy information day in retailer and we’ll sustain with all of the developments as they occur. Get together politics has seeped additional into hurricane information, and you may observe all that in our storm weblog, right here.

Elsewhere, a lot is afoot on the marketing campaign path. Right here’s what’s in retailer.

• Barack Obama mentioned he had “an issue” with males who preserve developing with bogus excuses to not vote for Kamala Harris and leaning into Donald Trump’s macho aggression, in his first look on the marketing campaign path for the Democrats in Pittsburgh yesterday, within the must-win state of Pennsylvania. Count on extra occasions with the previous, two-term president.

• The previous president instructed the group: “I’m sorry, gents, I’ve observed this, particularly with some males who appear to assume Trump’s habits of bullying and placing individuals down is an indication of power. And I’m right here to inform you: that isn’t what actual power is.
  ”It by no means has been. Actual power is about serving to individuals who want it and standing up for many who can’t all the time arise for themselves, that’s what we should always need for our daughters and for our sons, and that’s what I need to see a president of the US of America.”

• Obama additionally condemned Trump’s spreading of disinformation concerning the hurricane, railing towards “the thought of deliberately making an attempt to deceive individuals of their most determined and susceptible moments”. He highlighted that lies might discourage a number of the individuals affected from searching for assist. Visibly emotional, Obama requested: “When did that turn into OK?”

• The Democratic governors of three important battleground states, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, are going to hit the path collectively.

• Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer, Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro and Wisconsin’s Tony Evers plan a midwestern bus tour from subsequent week, referred to as Driving Ahead , Whitmer’s Combat Like Hell PAC mentioned and Axios reported this morning.

• Invoice Clinton, who possibly didn’t set the Democratic voting world alight along with his prolonged handle on the get together’s conference in August however is nonetheless all the time a giant identify in US politics, goes to Georgia this weekend after which North Carolina, the place Trump is marginally forward within the polls and it’s all palms on deck for the Dems.

• Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’s vice presidential decide, goes to do a TV interview blitz in, the place else, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin within the coming days, Axios experiences.

• Donald Trump will communicate in Aurora, Colorado, this afternoon, a state that’s confidently Democratic lately, however the former president plans to slam it to migrants and asylum seekers once more, planning to make claims about Venezuelans and crime ranges.

• This comes after Trump once more used brutal language to undercut United States allies within the NATO alliance, saying “we is not going to defend you” from Russia in the event that they don’t spend as a lot as they need to on paper on their militaries. Trump was talking in Detroit.