Harris leads by 4 points in new national poll as Trump declines second debate with Fox News: Live

Donald Trump is proposing to give a key tax break to U.S. citizens living abroad, portraying the idea as an attempt to win votes from potentially millions of Americans who could benefit.

The former president and Republican candidate made the promise in a video released by Solomon Yue, CEO of Republicans Overseas. Trump was expected to highlight his idea during an appearance at the Economic Club of Detroit on Thursday.

He is also expected to say he will bar Chinese-made autonomous vehicles from operating on American roads.

Trump will speak shortly, but for now, here is the AP with the full report on the tax plan:

Citing three sources familiar with the plans, CNN reports that Bill Clinton will join the campaign in support of Kamala Harris starting this weekend.

The former president will seek to appeal to rural voters where polls have shown Vice President Kamala Harris performing worse than some recent Democratic candidates, particularly among younger black men.

Clinton will begin with stops in Georgia on Sunday and Monday. A bus tour of North Carolina is expected to follow next week until the hurricanes recover.

The focus is on districts won by former President Donald Trump. But it’s also up to Clinton voters, who hope there are enough left from when he was the last Democratic presidential candidate before Biden won Georgia in 1992, and that he can rejoin them in a coalition from which they have repeatedly dropped out over the last decade.

Clinton will not appear at rallies. Returning to a type of campaigning he hasn’t done since he was named the “Comeback Kid” in the 1992 New Hampshire primary, Clinton’s schedule includes local fairs and porch rallies where he speaks to, at most, a few hundred people at a time .

Alicja Hagopian examines how Harris and Trump could fare in November.

Kamala Harris will take part in a live town hall hosted by CNN on October 23 as Donald Trump continues to refuse to face the vice president on the debate stage again.

Harris-Walz campaign chairwoman Jen O’Malley called Trump’s dodging of any further debate a “disservice to the American people” and released the following statement:

Donald Trump’s refusal to take the debate stage with Vice President Harris again is a disservice to the American people. They deserve to see the candidates side by side again before they cast their votes, to get one last look at their vastly different visions for America. Unfortunately, after stepping away from 60 Minutes and conducting 27 direct interviews with conservative media outlets, it is clear that Trump would prefer to hide in safe spaces and avoid real questions about his harmful agendas and failed divisive leadership. Trump fears another debate in which Vice President Harris would hold him accountable in front of tens of millions of Americans.

Trump may want to hide from voters, but Vice President Harris welcomes the opportunity to share her vision for a new path forward for the country. She happily accepts CNN’s invitation to a live televised town hall meeting on October 23rd in Pennsylvania. This will be a unique opportunity for voters to hear directly from the Vice President how she is committed to being a President for all Americans and how she plans to reduce costs for families, our freedoms, including reproductive freedom, to protect and keep us safe and secure. She will also use this platform to argue directly to Americans that Donald Trump will threaten the stability and security of hard-working families and that a second Trump term poses too great a risk to our country.

Former Secretary of State and Trump rival Hillary Clinton is reveling in Donald Trump’s double standards on trade with China after it was revealed that his much-derided brand Bibles are being printed there.

“Perfect,” she declared on X.

Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump by four points, according to a poll of likely voters Economist/YouGov poll published today.

The vice president leads Trump with 49%, with 45%, while four percent of voters are unsure, one percent supports Jill Stein and one percent supports other candidates.

Harris also leads Trump by three percentage points among registered voters: 47% support the vice president, while 44% plan to vote for the former president.

However, five percent of registered voters were still unsure whether they would vote for Jill Stein, one percent said they would not vote, and another percent supported other candidates.

Donald Trump posted a video message to the people of Florida after Hurricane Milton.

[Note the big edit at the one-minute mark — who made this? CBS?]

Alex Woodward takes a look at the latest surveys.

Chris LaCivita, Donald Trump’s senior campaign adviser, celebrated positive media coverage in several local Pennsylvania newspapers this morning after the former president held two rallies in the state on Wednesday in Scranton and Reading.

“I won’t be seeing this in the PA national newspapers this morning,” he tweeted. [Does he not know there was a major hurricane overnight?]

Kamala Harris’ campaign responded with a video that showed a row of empty seats at a venue where Trump was speaking…

Here’s more footage from Reading, Pennsylvania, last night: