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    Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are on the air Wednesday.

    As they make their final pitches to voters in the final stretch of the 2024 election, Harris agreed to take part in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday. Trump recorded a town hall on Tuesday night in which the network focused on female voters, and the event aired Wednesday morning

    The Republican and Democratic candidates have less than three weeks to convince voters everywhere that they should be the next president, tackling issues ranging from inflation and the economy to the southern border and abortion access.

    Stay informed with live coverage from the USA TODAY Network.

    Offshore betting is still helping to increase the chances of Trump winning back the White House because of his chances in battleground states like Pennsylvania.

    As of 10 a.m. ET Wednesday, Trump's probability of winning on Polymarket, a crypto trading platform, was at 60% for the first time since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race. Betfair Exchange, the UK's largest peer-to-peer betting platform, predicted on its temperature gauge on Wednesday morning that Trump was likely to win. Betting on the presidential election is not legal in the USA

    National polls summarized by Real Clear Politics still show a much less emphatic picture: Harris has led by nearly two percentage points since the Harris-Trump debate on September 10, but Harris has trailed narrowly in battleground states throughout October .

    – Jim Sergent

    Jimmy Carter receives a birthday wish: a vote

    Former President Jimmy Carter was among a record quarter-million voters who showed up for the first day of early voting in Georgia yesterday.

    The 100-year-old Democrat previously said he held on to hopes of voting for Harris in 2024.

    Carter, who was diagnosed with cancer that spread to his brain in 2015, has been in hospice care since February 2023. He is already the longest-lived former president and celebrated his 100th birthday on October 1st.

    – Savannah Kuchar and Marina Pitofsky

    Children separated under Trump warn of a second administration

    Several children separated while immigrating to the United States during Donald Trump's administration warned they fear more families will be separated if the former president is re-elected.

    One of the children, Billy, whose last name was not disclosed for privacy reasons, said he came to the United States with his father in 2018 when he was nine. He said he was separated from his father and held in “la” “hielera” or “freezer” for three days. He was then flown to New York to live with a foster family and did not see his father for 40 days. The two were eventually reunited in Arizona.

    Billy, now 16 and originally from Guatemala, said the experience was still traumatic and he feared another Trump presidency.

    “I don’t want this to happen to any more kids,” he said.

    Bill was one of the few children who spoke to Univision at a Kamala Harris campaign press conference outside Trump's town hall. During the press conference, Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, also defended Harris' immigration policies and urged Latino voters to vote for Democrats.

    – Rebecca Morin

    Biden: Trump's music and dance event “got out of hand”

    President Joe Biden weighs in on Trump's bizarre music and dance concert after a town hall meeting Monday night, saying his Republican opponent is “crazy.”

    “He’s unhinged,” Biden said during a Harris event on Tuesday. “Look at his rallies…Last night his rally stopped taking questions because someone got hurt. And guess what? He stood on stage and danced for 30 minutes… I'm serious! …What’s wrong with that? Guy?”

    Trump said on Truth Social, “We started making music” and “just kept going” when the event was interrupted by two medical emergencies. “So different, but in the end it was a GREAT EVENING!” he said.

    -David Jackson

    Trump will attend the Univision town hall to appeal to Latino voters

    Donald Trump will attend a town hall meeting with Univision on Wednesday, a move that comes as he sees a surge in support among Latino men.

    The Univision town hall, titled “Latinos Ask… Donald Trump Responds,” will be held in Miami – a city with a large Latino population, including an influential Cuban population that has leaned more conservative in recent elections. TelevisaUnivision journalist Enrique Acevedo will host the event and will air at 10 p.m. ET.

    Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, attended her own town hall with Univision in Las Vegas last week. Harris answered about a dozen questions from Latino voters — from health care to immigration to Trump's virtues.

    Trump is the leader among Latinos in his home state of Florida. He has the support of 58% of Hispanic voters, while Harris has the support of 40% of Latino voters, according to a Marist College poll released last week.

    – Rebecca Morin

    Trump and Harris are still neck and neck in the polls

    Trump and Harris are still fighting a tough battle weeks before Election Day. Harris is slightly ahead of Trump in several national polls, but only by a razor-thin margin of one point, meaning the race is still essentially undecided.

    Among swing states, Trump has narrow leads in Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina, according to a New York Times and Siena College poll last month.

    – Savannah Kuchar

    Michelle Obama will headline the voter turnout event in Atlanta

    Michelle Obama will be in Atlanta later this month, leading a nonpartisan campaign event specifically aimed at energizing first-time voters.

    The Oct. 29 rally, which is expected to include other unnamed celebrities and civic leaders, is part of a nationwide voter turnout campaign by When We All Vote. The former first lady launched the initiative in 2018 with the goal of “helping close the racial and age gap in voting.”

    Like her husband, former President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama endorsed Harris and took the stage at the Democratic National Convention in August. But her group and the upcoming Peach State event are not affiliated with the campaign or the party.

    – Savannah Kuchar

    Kamala Harris remained open to reparations for slavery, agreeing with an accusation that Donald Trump supports fascism in a wide-ranging interview Tuesday with popular radio host Charlamagne Tha God.

    “There is a margin for error. It's close. I will win. I'm going to win, but it's close,” Harris told listeners at the end of an hour-long interview, three weeks before Election Day. The Democratic nominee is expanding her reach to black voters, particularly black men.

    -Joey Garrison

    Trump took part in a pre-recorded televised town hall hosted by Fox News on Tuesday. The event was intended to focus on issues that particularly affect women voters, and the hour-long event was attended by an all-female audience.

    The show is scheduled to air on Wednesday at 11 a.m. ET.

    –Margie Cullen

    Kamala Harris joins Fox News for her first-ever official interview on Wednesday. She will answer questions from the outlet's chief political anchor Bret Baier in the interview, set to take place near Philadelphia.

    The vice president has focused on campaign stops in Pennsylvania in recent weeks, with the commonwealth expected to be a crucial swing state in November.

    – Marina Pitofsky

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