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Thursday Briefing
A heated interview with Fox News.
Vice President Kamala Harris at a rally in Philadelphia on Wednesday.Credit…Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
Kamala Harris’s interview with Fox News
With 20 days to the election, Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are seeking to peel away support from each other’s political bases: Harris with Republicans, and Trump with Latino voters.
Harris sat for a contentious interview on Fox News last night, in which the host pressed her on key Republican issues, including immigration, the threat from Iran and her ties to President Biden. “My presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency,” she responded. Read why she participated in the interview.
In a recorded town-hall event that aired on Univision, Trump minimized the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, often skirted questions and avoided mentioning his promise to undertake the largest deportation operation in American history.
Your questions: We asked Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court, this question from a reader. (Send us your questions here.)
Adam: There are countless ways in which the outcome of the election could effectively be decided by the Supreme Court, but almost all of them hinge on three factors in combination: a very tight race in one or more battleground states that could determine the national result where voting procedures are open to plausible legal challenge.
All those factors were present in Bush v. Gore, the 2000 decision that delivered the presidency to George W. Bush. They may recur this year, but that is hardly certain, as the 2020 election demonstrated. That year, in a brisk and dismissive order, the Supreme Court refused to throw out the results in four battleground states that Trump had lost. There is little reason to think the court is eager to get involved this year, either.
Indeed, some justices may be reminded of the election administrator’s prayer: “Lord, let this election not be close.”
