Harris campaigns in Pennsylvania; Trump joins town hall: Live updates

A new cryptocurrency backed by Donald Trump has sold just 3 per cent of its allocated tokens following its launch on Tuesday.

Despite the endorsement, only $11 million of the $300 million sales target has been reached at the time of writing – 24 hours after the project launched to the public. The website also crashed soon after going live, though it has since been restored.

Anthony Cuthbertson reports.

He also told Barstool Sports’s podcast Bussin’ With The Boys that the founder of Facebook had called him after he was shot “and he said ‘that was so brave,’ which was nice.”

Rhian Lubin has the story.

The Independent’s Eric Garcia was present at Donald Trump’s women-focused Fox News town hall when it was taped on Tuesday — he confirms that only Republican friends were invited to attend.

Meanwhile, Matt Gertz of Media Matters for America contrasts this, and the fact the event was edited for time and includes commercial breaks with Kamala Harris’s upcoming interview with Bret Baier tonight on the same network, which will air unedited and with no breaks.

Here’s Ariana Baio reporting on how Baier is batting away criticism from MAGA supporters over his interview with Harris.

Judging by the ecstatic clapping and whooping from the audience at the Fox News town hall, it doesn’t seem like this is a cross-section of women voters, allowing Donald Trump to repeat his talking points and falsehoods.

Anti-Trump conservative group The Lincoln Project tweeted: “Donald Trump can’t even pack a room of people that aren’t rabid loyalists anymore. The “fair and balanced” audience in his women’s town hall today are all Trump supporters. The only thing these women are undecided about is if he should be dictator for four years or life.”

Regular readers of this blog will find Donald Trump’s responses to questions on issues of concern to women voters at the Fox News town hall recorded yesterday strikingly familiar.

As journalist Aaron Rupar notes: “It’s really notable that he has about three or four talking points he loves and he uses them over and over, regardless of whatever question he’s asked.”

Similarly, Trump doesn’t have any specifics on the affordability crisis.

A group campaigning for a Florida abortion-right ballot measure sued state officials Wednesday over their order to TV stations to stop airing one ad produced by the group, Floridians Protecting Freedom.

The state’s health department, part of the administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, told TV stations earlier this month to stop airing the commercial, asserting that it was false and dangerous and that keeping it running could result in criminal proceedings.

Alicja Hagopian takes a look at the latest polling data for The Independent.

That decision “did not invalidate” the section that Trump is charged under “or elevate basic pleading requirements, and the defendant fails to identify any pleading flaw in the superseding indictment warranting its dismissal,” Smith writes.

“Moreover, the defendant’s motion ignores entirely that the case against him includes allegations that he and his co-conspirators sought to create and use false evidence—fraudulent electoral certificates—as a means of obstructing the certification proceeding,” which the Supreme Court’s ruling “expressly” says are protected under the section of law Trump is charged.

“Finally, the defendant’s half-hearted arguments” against conspiracy charges “likewise lack merit.”

Here’s some background on the Supreme Court ruling on which Trump is trying to leverage his case for dismissal: