Election 2024 live updates: Harris, Walz hold bus tour before DNC as Trump confuses Pennsylvania for North Carolina

Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz are holding a bus tour in western Pennsylvania today – one day before the Democratic National Convention gets underway in Chicago.

The presidential and vice presidential candidates will be joined by their spouses Doug Emhoff and Gwen Walz for the event, pitted as the “On the Road to Chicago” tour.

Here’s the details of the schedule:

• 12.30pm ET – Stop in Pittsburgh 
• 2.25pm ET – Stop in Rochester
• 7.30pm ET – Leave Pittsburgh for Chicago

Donald Trump has yet again brought up the appearance of his Democratic rival Kamala Harris – this time claiming he’s “better looking” than her.

At his campaign rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, the former president spoke about the recent Time magazine front cover featuring the vice president.

“Time Magazine doesn’t have a picture of her. They have this unbelievable artist drawing her,” he said.

“They took a lot of pictures that didn’t work out so they hired a sketch artist.”

He then went on to claim that he is the “better looking” of the two presidential candidates.

“I am much better looking than her,” he said.

“I’m a better-looking person than Kamala.”

The Harris-Walz campaign will embark on a bus tour today to speak with voters across Pennsylvania before the campaign heads to the Democratic National Convention.

Vice President Kamala Harris, First Gentleman Doug Emoff, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz will meet with potential voters and speak about the Biden-Harris administration’s record.

The bus tour is expected to begin in Pittsburgh and make various stops throughout the day in Allegheny and Beaver Counties – crucial battleground areas of the state.

Hundreds of books, including scores about LGBTQ+ issues, race and activism, were left in a dumpster and parking lot of a public Florida university on Thursday, angering members of the academic community.

Photos and videos show hundreds of books in dumpsters. The university claimed it was part of routine maintenance, but in the past students had the chance to purchase books being taken out of circulation.

The scene comes as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s continues his campaign to change New College of Florida, a state college with a reputation for being progressive. DeSantis has also signed legislation that targets certain books in school libraries.

George Santos, the former Republican congressman ousted amid a series of scandals, is reportedly set to accept a plea deal in his federal criminal case in order to avoid a trial, lawyers involved in the case and those familiar with the matter said.

The disgraced lawmaker is expected to enter a guilty plea to the judge overseeing his case, District Judge Joanna Seybert, on Monday at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, sources told Talking Points Memo, CNN, The New York Times and other outlets.

Speakers at the Trump rally in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania included state treasurer Stacy Garrity, US Rep Dan Meuser, congressional candidate Rob Bresnahan, and US senate candidate Dave McCormick.

Donald Trump called the Biden-Harris administration’s decision to forgive college student debt a “communist takeover” of the US.

“What they’re doing is a communist takeover of the country…They are a threat to democracy,” Trump said at the Pennsylvania rally.

He claimed he would control inflation and would “make America affordable again”

“Her radical liberal policies, of course, horrific inflation decimated the middle class and gutted the finances of millions of American families,” Trump said, attacking Harris’ economic plans.

The former president at one point during the rally handed over the microphone to pilot Daniel Campo, a former Venezuela resident whose family fled from Cuba and then Venezuela to arrive in the US in 2007.

“We are going on a path that is taking us to what Venezuela became so the only way we can avoid keep going down that path is making Trump president again,” Campo said to a crowd that started chanting “U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A”