Harris to give closing argument in D.C. as Trump campaigns in Pennsylvania

Trump began his press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday morning just before 11:20 a.m. ET, almost an hour and 20 minutes late.

Sen. JD Vance, like his running mate Trump, will tape a podcast with popular podcaster Joe Rogan, according to a source familiar with the upcoming interview. The taping will take place in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday. 

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign faced bipartisan backlash over comments made by conservative comedian Tony Hinchcliffe on Sunday at Madison Square Garden. Jokes, including one about Puerto Rico, were ad libbed, a source told CBS News, claiming the Trump campaign vetted other parts of the routine.

With 62% of Latino voters backing Kamala Harris, the latest CBS News poll shows strong support among this group. But recent comments from Trump could shift the numbers. Lilia Luciano reports from the battleground state of Pennsylvania in the video above.

Podcaster Joe Rogan clarified on social media early Tuesday that Harris’ campaign did not decline an interview for his mega-popular podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” but requested he travel to her for an hour-long discussion.

Rogan said in a post shared to X that “the Harris campaign has not passed on doing the podcast. They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour. I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin. My sincere wish is to just have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being. I really hope we can make it happen.”

Trump spoke with Rogan for roughly three hours in an interview taped Friday. The former president sat down with the podcaster in Austin, Texas, before a rally in Michigan and was delayed for several hours. Trump apologized for making his supporters wait in the cold and pinned his lateness on the interview with Rogan.

In a preview of the speech Harris will give on the Ellipse, the Washington, D.C. park south of the White House, on Tuesday, her campaign said it will serve as “a major moment to make her closing argument to the American people,” in an effort to win over undecided voters. 

Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said speakers ahead of Harris will be “real people,” sharing their stories about why they support Harris.

“We know a lot of these undecided voters, they’re exhausted,” O’Malley Dillon told reporters. “They’re certainly frustrated by the state of the partisanship and divided political system that really was defined under Donald Trump.”

She said lowering costs for things like housing, groceries and health care will be part of the speech as well. Harris is also expected to talk about women’s reproductive rights. 

O’Malley Dillon said they chose the Ellipse location because the background is the White House, and because Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021 speech was there. 

“It’s a place that certainly we believe helps crystallize the choice in this election,” she said. 

Harris will head Wednesday to Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona on Thursday, Wisconsin on Friday and Georgia and North Carolina on Saturday.  

As the fallout from comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s offensive remarks at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally continues, the former president is distancing himself from the performer.

“I don’t know him. Someone put him up there. I don’t know who he is,” Trump told ABC News.

The Republican presidential nominee also said he didn’t hear any of the remarks.

Hinchcliffe has come under immense criticism for his appearance at the Sunday rally, during which he called Puerto Rico an “island of floating garbage” and made crude and racist remarks about Latinos, Black and Jewish people.

Runbeck Election Services shows how they securely print ballots for voters in nine states, including the battleground state of Arizona. For the general election, they’ll print about 35 million ballots.

Roughly 40,000 people are expected to attend the vice president’s speech on the Ellipse outside the White House on Tuesday evening, according to a revised permit from the National Park Service.

Harris’ speech is taking place at the same location where Trump delivered remarks on Jan. 6, 2021, before a mob of his supporters breached the U.S. Capitol building and led to the evacuation of lawmakers and then-Vice President Mike Pence.

Amid the fallout on Monday over the comments in the opening acts at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden, Trump attacked Democrats for labeling him a Nazi and criticized former first lady Michelle Obama in particular for comments she made about him over the weekend.

“I’m the opposite of a Nazi,” Trump said. He said his father told him, “You don’t ever use the word Nazi,” and added, “It’s just horrible the way they talk.” 

Trump said Michelle Obama made a “big mistake” in criticizing him, and said she was “so nasty.”

“I always tried to be so nice and respectful,” Trump said. ” She opened up a little bit … of a box” in criticizing him, he said.

Michelle Obama is set to appear in Atlanta on Tuesday as part of her When We All Vote initiative. 

Steve Bannon, the former Trump White House chief strategist, has been released from prison, the Bureau of Prisons confirmed to CBS News.

Bannon had been serving a four-month sentence at DCI Danbury, a minimum security facility in Connecticut. He was convicted of defying a subpoena from a congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. 

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Barbara Pierce Bush, former President George W. Bush’s daughter, spent the past weekend campaigning for Harris, she told People magazine.

“It was inspiring to join friends and meet voters with the Harris-Walz campaign in Pennsylvania this weekend,” Bush, 42, shared in an exclusive statement to People on Tuesday, Oct. 29. “I’m hopeful they’ll move our country forward and protect women’s rights.” 

Bush’s father served as the Republican president from 2001-2009 and was considered the standard-bearer for the conservative movement. But her mother, Laura Bush, broke with the party in 2010 to support same-sex marriage and abortion. 

Several high-profile Republicans have thrown their support behind Harris, including Bush’s vice president, Dick Cheney. 

Former first lady Melania Trump told Fox & Friends early Tuesday that she and the former president will vote on Election Day in West Palm Beach.

“We will be in palm beach and in the morning, we will go to vote, me and my husband, and then it will be a waiting time, period of waiting and we’ll see and I hope it is a success and a party in the evening.”