The latest: Both presidential candidates are stepping up to mobilize their core voters

Both major presidential candidates will appear on Thursday to mobilize their core electorate. Vice President Kamala Harris will participate in a livestream with Oprah Winfrey, who endorses Harris and spoke at the Democratic National Convention in August. Donald Trump will be in Washington to speak at an evening event on “Fighting Anti-Semitism in America” ​​with Miriam Adelson. Miriam Adelson is co-owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks and the widow of billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who founded the Las Vegas Sands casino and was one of the Republican Party's biggest donors.

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US Senator introduces bill to provide security protection for presidential and vice presidential candidates

U.S. Senator Rick Scott announced Thursday morning that he is pushing forward a bill that would provide presidential and vice presidential candidates and their spouses with the same protections as the incumbent president.

Scott introduced the bill along with 11 other Republican senators and said in an interview that he has been texting back and forth with Trump. From those conversations, he said, he understands that Trump is “determined to win the race and is determined to fight.”

In that interview, he said his bill would advance those protections for Trump as a major presidential candidate, but clarified that his bill would not apply to former presidents, including former President Barack Obama or President Joe Biden after November.

Scott also said he supports the government's investigation into the assassination and that federal prosecutors need to be more transparent about the details to avoid misinformation.

“Here is a man who was attempted to be killed twice in 64 days,” Scott said. “This is not normal and we need to get this cleared up.”

Trump no longer visits Polish-American shrine in Pennsylvania

Donald Trump no longer plans to visit a Polish-American shrine in Pennsylvania on Sunday, where he would have crossed paths with Polish President Andrzej Duda.

That's according to a person familiar with Trump's plans who spoke on condition of anonymity about the trip, which has not been officially announced. It's unclear why the change was made, but Trump will be in Pennsylvania on Monday for two campaign events.

Duda's office said he would attend a Roman Catholic mass at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa and then unveil a monument to the anti-communist solidarity movement.

He will be in New York, USA, for the United Nations General Assembly.

Trump's campaign team argues with Hispanic voters

Trump's campaign argues that Hispanic voters are more likely to vote for the Republican candidate instead of Harris in November.

In a conference call with reporters to mark National Hispanic Heritage Month on Thursday, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida said Harris had “tried to undo Trump's gains that benefit Hispanic Americans” and that the world was “simply a safer and more stable place” under the Republican president's administration.

Rubio pointed out that Harris co-sponsored a bill in the US Senate that would make it easier for the Cuban military to profit from American tourism and “make all kinds of concessions to Venezuela.”

The Trump campaign called for the celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, an annual tradition that showcases the diversity and culture of Hispanics. The month is celebrated from September 15 to October 15 each year.

Rubio and former California Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado spoke in English and Spanish during the phone call.

While immigration was not the focus of Thursday's call, it is a key contrast between Harris and Trump. At the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's annual leadership conference on Wednesday, Harris criticized Trump's promise to deport millions of people living in the U.S. illegally and questioned whether he would rely on massive raids and detention camps to implement that promise.

Trump has promised to conduct “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” if elected in November, but has not provided details on how such an operation would be carried out.

Kamala Harris steps up her appeal to Mormon voters in contested Arizona

Vice President Kamala Harris is stepping up her efforts to win over voters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, recruiting prominent members of the faith in the crucial state of Arizona to make it clear that Donald Trump does not align with the church's values.

Her national campaign team announced Thursday the creation of an advisory committee to formalize the outreach to current and former members of the church, commonly known as the Mormon Church.

Arizona has nearly 450,000 church members, about 6 percent of the state's population. In what is likely to be an extremely close race, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and former church members could play a decisive role.

Latter-day Saints have traditionally voted Republican and will likely continue to be part of the GOP coalition. They are located in states where Republicans are solidly in power and have long been a major force in Republican primaries and local politics across the West, but have not had much influence in national elections. Nationwide, about 7 in 10 Mormon voters supported Trump in 2020, while about a quarter supported Democrat Joe Biden, according to AP VoteCast.

Leaders of the Democratic protests against the war between Israel and Hamas do not support Harris, but warn against Trump

Leaders of a democratic protest movement against the war between Israel and Hamas said Thursday they would not support Vice President Kamala Harris's presidential candidacy, but urged their supporters to vote against Donald Trump in November.

The Uncommitted movement won hundreds of thousands of votes in the Democratic primaries earlier this year in protest of President Joe Biden's handling of the war between Israel and Hamas. The group's leaders called on the administration to change its policies on the conflict and warned that some Democratic voters would otherwise not vote in November, particularly in the swing state of Michigan.

Despite months of discussions with high-ranking Democratic officials, dissatisfaction among protest voters only grew after the Democratic Convention, when they were denied a speaker on stage and other demands were not met.

Harris' “unwillingness to back down from her unconditional gun policy or even make a clear campaign statement in favor of upholding existing U.S. and international human rights laws has made it impossible for us to support her,” the movement's leaders said in a statement.

The group's leaders also made clear in their statement that they strongly oppose supporters voting for Trump or a third-party candidate who “might inadvertently help make Trump president.” Instead, they urged voters to “vote against Trump and vote on the ballot.”