Election 2024 live: Trump speaks in Detroit as Obama hits campaign trail for Harris

During his hurricane response press conference, President Joe Biden was asked if he had spoken to former president Donald Trump about misinformation regarding the storms that have struck the southeast over the past two weeks.

He had a curt response: “Mr President Trump, former President Trump, get a life, man, help these people.”

Asked about accountability for the misinformation, the president said: “The public will hold them accountable. The press will hold them accountable. You know truth.”

Pressed on whether he would speak with Trump, Biden replied as he exited the briefing room: “No.”

John Bowden reports from Washington, DC.

Gustaf Kilander reports on her pithy response.

Donald Trump is proposing to grant a key tax break to U.S. citizens living overseas, pitching the idea as an effort to court votes from potentially millions of Americans who could benefit.

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

He’s also expected to say he will stop Chinese-produced autonomous vehicles from operating on American roads.

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

Citing three sources familiar with the plans, CNN reports that Bill Clinton will be joining the campaign trail from this weekend in support of Kamala Harris.

The former president will seek to appeal to rural voters, among whom polls have shown Vice President Kamala Harris is performing worse than some of the last few Democratic nominees, particularly among younger Black men.

Clinton will start with stops in Georgia on Sunday and Monday, with a bus tour next week in North Carolina expected to follow, pending recovery from the hurricanes.

The emphasis is on counties won by former President Donald Trump. But it’s also on Clinton voters, hoping there are enough left from when he was the last Democratic presidential nominee before Biden to win Georgia in 1992 and that he can reconnect them to a coalition they’ve been steadily dropping out of over the last decade.

Clinton won’t appear at rallies. Going back to a kind of campaigning that he hasn’t done since before he became the “Comeback Kid” in the 1992 New Hampshire primary, Clinton’s schedule is for local fairs and porch rallies, talking to at most a few hundred people at a time.

Alicja Hagopian looks at how Harris and Trump might fare in November.

Kamala Harris will participate in a CNN-hosted live town hall on October 23 in light of Donald Trump’s continuing refusal to face the vice president again on the debate stage.

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

Donald Trump’s refusal to join Vice President Harris on the debate stage again is a disservice to the American people. They deserve to see the candidates side-by-side one more time before casting their ballots for one last look at their vastly different visions for America. After backing out of 60 Minutes and doing 27 straight interviews with conservative media, unfortunately it is clear Trump would rather cocoon himself in safe spaces and avoid real questions about his harmful plans and failed divisive leadership. Trump fears another debate where Vice President Harris would hold him accountable in front of tens of millions of Americans.

Trump may want to hide from the voters, but Vice President Harris welcomes the opportunity to share her vision for a New Way Forward for the country. She is happy to accept CNN’s invitation for a live, televised town hall on October 23 in Pennsylvania. This will be a unique opportunity for voters to hear directly from the Vice President on her commitment to be a President for all Americans and her plans to lower families’ costs, protect our freedoms including reproductive freedom, and keep us safe and secure. She will also use this platform to make the argument directly to Americans that Donald Trump will threaten the stability and security of hardworking families, and that a second Trump term is too big of a risk for our country.