Associated Press
Live updates: Trump embraces ‘garbage’ news cycle with 6 days left until the election
Here’s what we’re watching today:
- Trump to stump with Favre: The former president is in Green Bay, Wisconsin, with retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre. Favre is shadowed by a welfare spending scandal in his home state of Mississippi.
- Harris to hit three states in one day: The vice president is traveling from Pennsylvania to Madison, Wisconsin, and then back south to North Carolina.
- More “garbage” comments: Trump took questions from a campaign-branded garbage truck. Reggaeton singer Nicky Jam withdrew his endorsement of the former president after a Trump rally speaker called Puerto Rico “garbage.” Harris has called for Americans to “stop pointing fingers at each other.”
Ted Cruz, Colin Allred make spirited final pitches to Texas voters in Senate race
NADIA LATHAN and JUAN A. LOZANO
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and Democratic U.S. Rep. Colin Allred are making their final pitches to Texas voters in a frenzied burst of travel across the state near the end of one of the nation’s most expensive and closely watched Senate races.
Cruz, who finds himself in another competitive contest after narrowly winning a second term in 2018, is leaning into conservative pledges for tougher border measures and attacks on policies that support transgender people, including at a bus tour rally outside of San Antonio on Tuesday.
Allred, who would become Texas’ first Black senator, spent a day criss-crossing Houston, the state’s biggest city and a crucial Democratic stronghold for the underdog congressman, who needs a big showing from loyal Democrats to unseat the incumbent. At a rally at Texas Southern University, a historically Black college, the three-term congressman emphasized his support for abortion rights and blamed Cruz for limiting women’s access to reproductive healthcare.
