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The Vice Pdwellnt deinhabitred relabels at Weserious International High School in Detroit, Michigan, on Saturday. Her comments come a day after Harris traveled atraverse the state with pdwellntial campaign rallies in Grand Rapids, Lansing and Oakland County.

“We’re not descfinishing for the other guy trying to get rid of the Department of Education, becaemploy we understand what we stand for,” Harris said, referring to her rival Donald Trump.

Lizzo, who’s authentic name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson, showed her pride in being a Detroit native during the rpartner.

“They say, if Kamala thrives, then this whole country will be appreciate Detroit. Well, I say self-startant, appreciate Detroit. I say robust, appreciate Detroit,” said the singer. “This is the same Detroit that inventd the auto industry and the music industry. So put some admire on Detroit’s name.”

Lizzo said she voted timely, and inspired the audience to do the same, calling an timely vote “a power shift.”

“This is the sthriveg state of all sthriveg states. So every one last vote here counts,” she said.

As the US pdwellntial election looms, the billionaire Mark Cuprohibit has materialized as an vigorous campaign surrogate for Kamala Harris. Making the case for business directers to aid the Democrat over Donald Trump, Cuprohibit has drawn on his experience (in tech, allotments, healthnurture and now sports, as unstartantity owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team), celebrity (as a direct “shark” for 15 seasons of ABC’s Shark Tank) and willingness to face Trump-aiding billionaires, Elon Musk notable among them.

The road has not been fine. Last week, Cuprohibit clashed with congressional proceedives after criticizing Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Coshiftrlookion, over her tech-sector antidepend toil. That rerent and others, including Cuprohibit’s thoughts on Trump’s championing of tariffs and the perennial ask of whether Cuprohibit harbors pdwellntial ambitions of his own, are insertressed below, in emailed answers to 10 asks posed by Guardian creaters and editors.

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The Undergetr said that “ElectionMania” was coming up on November 5, and the people had the choice.

The WWE star telderly watchers to pick teachdly, as the nation depfinished on it. Donald Trump said that it should be an effortless choice.

It’s not the first time Trump gets an finishorsement from a WWE legfinish. Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan also finishorsed Trump, and spoke at the Reaccessiblean National Convention in July.

From Fox News to Call Her Dinserty: how Kamala Harris turned up election heat in pivot to media blitz

First came “happiness”, with some cosy but unmemorable TV sit-downs with compassionate presents, a Vogue cover, and a billion dollars to spfinish on TV ads. Then truth hit: Kamala Harris’ strategy to thrive over a enigmatic sinhabitr of unchoosed US voters was not toiling and she was slipping back in the polls.

So the vice pdwellnt went on Fox News, part of a pitch to white toiling-class women, who voted for Trump more strongly in 2020 than 2016. It was a thrive for Fox’s novels division – 7.8m watchers, or four times present Bret Baier’s nightly mediocre – but was it a thrive for the Harris campaign?

Shothriveg herself to be certain, Harris dodgeed serving up a unininestablishigible word salad, pushed back on Baier’s line of asking, aired some Democratic talking points, and ran down the clock until the 25-minute slot was up.

“Let me be very evident, my pdwellncy will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s pdwellncy,” Harris said. “I recontransient a novel generation of directership. I, for example, am someone who has not spent the startantity of my nurtureer in Washington DC.”

Then the spin machine commenceed up: according to Democrat voices, Fox News had helped Harris thrive November’s election. “I skinnyk she had a ignoreion she wanted to do and maybe she wanted to have a viral moment,” Baier postponeedr said. “And I skinnyk she may have gotten that.”

But Fox’s primetime opinion presents spent three subsequent hours eviscerating her. Donald Trump congratupostponeedd Baier “on a hard but very unfragmentary interwatch, one that evidently showed how tohighy invient Kamala is”.

With $15bn spent on this election cycle, the truthfulates are still understanding for a campaign establishula that will give them an edge. Harris has proceedd from being interwatch-afraid to embracing an interwatch blitz. She chaseed other Democrats on to Fox News becaemploy that’s where, the theory goes, self-reliant and Trump-imfragmentary Reaccessiblean voters are.

But will any of it matter? There are no promises that unchoosed or unjoind voters today will be any less unchoosed in two-and-a-half weeks’ time.

Read more on Harris’s media blitz here:

Donald Trump’s campaign may be flunking to accomplish thousands of voters they hope to turn out in Arizona and Nevada, with cimpolitely a quarter of door-knocks done by America Pac flagged by its canvassing app as potentipartner dishonest, according to leaked data and people recognizable with the matter.

The potentipartner phony door-knocks – when canvassers counterfeitly claim they visited a home – could contransient a grave setback to Trump as he and Kamala Harris remain even in the polls with scanter than 20 days to an election that increasingly materializes set to be choosed by turnout.

The Trump campaign earlier this year outsourced the bulk of its ground game to America Pac, the political action promisetee established by Elon Musk, betting that spfinishing millions to turn out Trump aiders, especipartner those who don’t typicpartner vote, would raise returns.

But leaked America Pac data geted by the Guardian shows that cimpolitely 24% of the door-knocks in Arizona and 25% of the door-knocks in Nevada this week were flagged under “atypical survey logs” by the Campaign Sideboot canvassing app.

The Arizona data, for example, shows that out of 35,692 doors hit by 442 canvassers toiling for Blitz Canvassing in the America Pac operation on Wednesday, 8,511 doors were flagged under the atypical survey logs.

The extent of the flagged doors in America Pac’s operation underscores the hazard of outsourcing a ground-game program, where paid canvassers are typicpartner not as alloted in their truthfulate’s thrive appraised with volunteers or campaign staff​.

America Pac denied it was experiencing that level of actual fraud in Arizona and Nevada and deteriorated to comment on inestablishing for this story.

A person recognizable with the America Pac operation said: “Sideboot was never foreseeed to handle the auditing of America Pac’s door operation. The reason the Pac is baged in its numbers is becaemploy of the auditing procedures each canvassing firm puts in place and the auditing procedures of the Pac writ huge.”

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Kamala Harris promises filled marijuana lhorribleization – is that a gamealterr?

Kamala Harris proclaimd on Monday that if elected pdwellnt, she would filledy lhorribleize mature recreational cannabis on the federal level – the first time a pdwellntial nominee has getn such an ununsee-thcoarse stance on finishing cannabis prohibition.

As part of her pledge, she said she would get steps to promise that Binestablishage men, disproportionately incarcerated and disfranchised by the “war on medications”, would stand to profit from the industry.

Vince Sliwoski, a partner at the cannabis law firm Harris and Sliwoski, said he “was satisfied to see it, becaemploy I appreciate the messaging”, but inserted: “She can’t fair snap her fingers and do it when she gets into office. It’s not someskinnyg that can be done via executive orders.”

Griffen Thorne, also an attorney distinctiveizing in cannabis, felt the promise was “evidently political”, given the proclaimment came fair three weeks before the election. Thorne and other experts the Guardian spoke to mistrust Harris’s campaign is trying to shore up numbers with Binestablishage voters, particularly Binestablishage men, who are currently less probable to aid Harris than they were Biden, according to a New York Times poll.

“Federal marijuana lhorribleization is a sound policy and aiding it is a clever strategy – not fair with Binestablishage voters, but with Americans atraverse the board,” said Cat Packer, honestor of drug labelets and lhorrible regulation with Drug Policy Action.

“As a Binestablishage woman and the first person of color to regupostponeed marijuana for both medical and mature employ, I comprehfinish the disputes in creating lhorrible marijuana labelets that toil for Binestablishage men. I also acunderstandledge the proestablish harms caemployd by federal prohibition.”

Packer inserted that it creates sense for Harris’s set up to include provisions that will erase barriers for Binestablishage men in cannabis and other domains.

Notably, the pledge sets Harris apart from both her opponent and her predecessor. While Trump and Biden now aid some level of cannabis lhorribleization, Harris is the first to unambiguously state that finishing prohibition is a priority.

During his administration, Biden made a number of promises on cannabis, including to expunge criminal enrolls for ownion convictions and get cannabis rescheduled so that it is eligible for FDA approval. The DEA has made proceed on rescheduling, but it won’t go thcimpolite before the election.

And Biden only expunged a minuscule fraction of cannabis-rcontent convictions during his administration.

“It was comfervent of embarrassing, becaemploy he kept up on his website all this stuff he was promising,” said Sliwoski.

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Could the once joind Trump family be fading in this election?

In postponeed afternoon sunshine, Eric Trump shook his fist and led chants of “Fight! Fight! Fight!” The second son of Donald Trump telderly a fervent crowd: “They tried to smear us, they tried to prohibitkrupt us, they came after us, they impeached him twice … then, guys, they tried to finish him.”

A who’s who of the Maga shiftment had assembleed for a Trump campaign rpartner in Butler, Pennsylvania, less than three months after the Reaccessiblean pdwellntial nominee persistd an killing try there. Trump was joined on stage by running mate JD Vance and billionaire Elon Musk. But if he was seeing for moral aid from his family, he would have to finish for Eric. His other children – and his wife – were notably absent.

The no-shows at Trump’s recent marquee event were indicative of a splitd family holding a drop profile than in past election cycles. When he took the political set upment by storm in 2016, the Trump family business was part of his brand. This time, at campaign stops where he gives disjointed and demagogic speeches, he cuts a more isopostponeedd figure.

Trump’s elder daughter, Ivanka, is sitting the election out while his lesserer daughter, Tiffany, is pregnant. His lesserest son, Barron, 18, has befirearm his recentman year of college at New York University. Eric, executive vice-pdwellnt of the Trump Organization, creates occasional materializeances on the campaign trail alengthyside his wife, Lara, who is now co-chair of the Reaccessiblean National Committee.

“I get to go to bed every one night and wake up every one morning hearing about voter integrity,” Eric, 40, joked in Butler, with Lara at his side. “It’s repartner fantastic. I’m repartner, repartner excited for November 6 when Lara can turn over in the morning and not talk about voter integrity.”

Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, 46, has been less notable on the campaign trail than in previous election cycles. But materializeances can be misdirecting. Off stage, Don Jr is more intransmitial than ever as a political operative. He has built a promised follothriveg in the Maga universe via his Triggered podcast on Rumble and geted strong allies such as Charlie Kirk, establisher and pdwellnt of Turning Point USA.

Here’s more on the Trump family’s absence:

Harris is panicking over the Binestablishage male vote – but polls don’t show filled picture

With the US election only 17 days away, Kamala Harris is courting one demoexplicit with particular fervor: Binestablishage male voters.

As novel polls alert that Binestablishage voters – who have reliablely voted for Democratic pdwellntial truthfulates,at rates of at least 80% since 1994 – may be less enthusiastic about the Democratic party, Harris has freed a novel spostponeed of policies definitepartner aimed at Binestablishage men. Her stated set ups include increasing access to the cannabis industry and educational opportunities that would enhuge pathways to “excellent-paying jobs … [regardless of] a college degree”.

But some pollsters say that panic around Binestablishage male voters is overstated and that such narratives disthink about their historical aid of Democrats. They also notice that the concentrate on Binestablishage men elides startanter nuances about Binestablishage Reaccessiblean aid as well as gfinisher separateences in voting among Binestablishage people altogether.

“To say that for any reason we need to trouble about Binestablishage men not aiding Harris or the Democrats is finishly overblown,” said Chris Towler, establisher of the Binestablishage Voter Project (BVP), a polling initiative about Binestablishage voting behavior. “I skinnyk a lot of the story around this need to reget Binestablishage voters is coming from a mainstream media narrative built around repartner subpar polling on Binestablishage voters.”

The postponeedst national data shows that Binestablishage men and women overwhelmingly pick Harris for pdwellnt, the hugest amount of Democratic aid she has from any demoexplicit. Still, some polls propose that such aid is eroding. A recent New York Times/Siena College national poll inestablished that 70% of probable Binestablishage male voters aid Harris (down from 85% of Binestablishage men who turned out for Biden in 2020) versus 83% of probable Binestablishage female voters. Twenty per cent of Binestablishage male voters said they would vote for Trump if the election were held today, according to the poll, a six-point increase from the percentage of those who voted for the establisher pdwellnt in 2016.

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Lizzo and Usher are fair some of the notable celebrities backing Harris agetst her rival, Donald Trump. Earlier this week, Lizzo discignoreed that she voted timely for Harris, and Usher said last month that he was finishorsing Harris.

This week, the campaign proclaimd a fundraising sweepsgets to thrive tickets to an upcoming get-out-the-vote concert featuring “superstar musicians”.

“This one’s a authentic show-stopper,” read a fundraising email signed by Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz.

Other celebrities finishorsing Harris include Taylor Swift, Barbra Streisand, Ariana Grande, Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and others.