Trump joins town hall with only women in audience; Harris to rally in Pennsylvania

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.

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:

At a town hall event with Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner in Georgia recorded on Tuesday, Trump was asked about the remarks he had made in a sit-down interview with the network’s Maria Bartiromo on Sunday.

Read on to see what he had to say when confronted with his remarks, widely understood as fascist. The full town hall will be played on Fox News at 11am ET — we’ll bring you the highlights.

Here’s Rhian Lubin’s report.

Here’s James Liddell with more on Colin Allred’s fiery debate stage attacks on Lyin’ Ted.

The Nebraska Supreme Court orders the secretary of state to immediately carry out a new state law that gives people convicted of felony crimes their right to vote back once they complete their sentence.

This could be a very big deal in a state with tight races on November 5.