Trump bizarrely tells Dr Phil he’d win California ‘if Jesus came down’: Live

Kamala Harris is set to sit down on CNN for her first sit-down television interview since kicking off her presidential campaign last month.

The vice president and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, will speak with chief political correspondent and anchor Dana Bash in Georgia which will overlap with the pair’s bus tour through the swing state.

The interview is expected to air at 9pm ET on Thursday, as the duo hope to build upon the buzz derived from last week’s Democratic National Convention.

CNN’s political director David Chalian said branded the highly-anticipated interview as the “first time she [Harris] is going to take questions”.

Harris has faced widespread criticism from Republicans, including Trump’s running mate JD Vance, for not undertaking a formal interview with the media.

Harris’s senior aides were “deeply sceptical” that a large media interviews would have an impact on swing state voters, according to Politico.

Donald Trump insisted that he is “not a threat to democracy” in an interview with TV personality Dr Phil on Tuesday night, during which he also suggested that he survived an assassination attempt last month because God wanted him to save the US – and possibly the world.

Read more about the strange interview here:

The families of two fallen Marines killed during the US 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan have allegedly said that “the president and his team conducted themselves with the utmost respect,” following his visit to Arlington National Cemetery for a wreath-laying ceremony.

The statement comes as two members of Donald Trump’s team had been accused of having a “verbal and physical altercation” with an official during the former president’s visit on Monday, a source told NPR.

Trump released a statement on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday morning, supposedly from the families of two deceased Marines Corp soldiers: Staff Sergeant Taylor Hoover and Sergeant Nicole Gee.

Donald Trump has branded Special Counsel Jack Smith’s renewed charges over the former president’s alleged attempts to interfere in the 2020 election as the “single greatest sabotage of our democracy in history”.

US prosecutors filed a new, more stripped-back indictment against Trump on Tuesday, following the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling in on July 1. The High Court’s decision meant that Trump, and other presidents, have immunity for “official acts” undertaken while in office.

Trump faces the same four criminal charges, but the new indictment has taken a renewed perspective of Trump as a political candidate seeking re-election, rather than as the president at the time.

In a string of social media posts, Trump lambasted the resurrected indictment as “an effort to resurrect a ‘dead’ Witch Hunt”.

“What they are doing now is the single greatest sabotage of our Democracy in History,” he said in one post.

In a follow-up post, he added: “For them to do this immediately after our Supreme Court Victory on Immunity and more, is shocking.”

In a third he simply wrote: “PERSECUTION OF A POLITICAL OPPONENT!”

JD Vance brought a very special guess with him on his latest stop on his campaign trail: his mother.

The Republican vice presidential candidate arrived in the battleground state of Michigan on Tuesday and was seen stepping off the Trump-Vance Boeing 737 with mom, Bev Vance.

Former first lady Melania Trump’s memoir went on pre-sale last Friday and the cover is raising eyebrows as it appears awfully similar to that of Chanel Catwalk – a fashion tome which has been on sale for years.

Gustaf Kilander takes a closer look:

Check in with the latest polling date, collected by The Independent:

On Wednesday evening a pre-recorded Dr Phil interview, this time with Robert F Kennedy Jr will broadcast.

The former independent presidential candidate dropped out of the race on Friday, and threw his support behind Trump.

Speaking about RFK Jr’s endorsement during his own interview on Tuesday, Trump told Dr Phil: “I’m very honored. He’s a smart guy, a different kind of a guy, he loves our country. He has some very good views on a lot of things. I’ve known him for a long time, we’re somewhat friendly actually.

However, he remaiend cagey on whether Kennedy Jr would be given a job, adding: “I think he’s going to be a great asset. Will I have him in the administration? I don’t know. We haven’t discussed it. But he adds a lot to the election.”

See below for Donald Trump’s full, hour-long, prime-time interview with clincal psychologist-turned TV show host, Dr Phil.