JD Vance will sit down with Joe Rogan tomorrow
The sit down follows Trump's three-hour interview with the podcaster last week.
Meridith McGraw
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance is traveling to Austin, Texas, on Wednesday to sit down for an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan in his studio.
Donald Trump joined Rogan for a three-hour interview on Friday.
Rogan, a former UFC commentator and comedian who now has the No.1 podcast in the country, has a huge audience: Trump's interview has over 37 million views on YouTube as of Tuesday morning.
Vice President Kamala Harris' team has been in touch with Rogan, but he said in a post on X that the Harris campaign has not passed on doing an interview.
"They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour," Rogan said. "I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin. My sincere wish is to just have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being. I really hope we can make it happen."
Liz Crampton
North Carolina superintendent of public instruction
GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson is not the only Republican running for statewide office in North Carolina with a history of incendiary remarks. The GOP nominee in this race, Michelle Morrow, has called the public schools she would oversee “indoctrination centers.” She has also suggested that former President Barack Obama be executed by firing squad (at a rally in Charlotte over the weekend, Obama joked he is “self-interested” in the race).
Morrow is up against Mo Green, the superintendent of the third-largest school system in the state. He has called for increasing public school funding and raising teacher pay. North Carolina ranks 48th nationally in per-pupil funding.
This race is first a test of whether voters are unfazed by controversial comments and also the strength of the parental rights in education movement touted by Morrow that has taken hold in conservative circles across the nation.
There is sparse polling in this race, but polls show Green pulling ahead in the final stretch: An Elon University poll released on Tuesday has Green ahead by 8 points after a September poll had them statistically tied.
Pennsylvania state auditor
The job of state auditor is typically an unnoticed role in local government. But in Pennsylvania, investigations by the office into allegations of fraud and abuse have drawn significant attention.
State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, a rising figure in Democratic politics who ran for the Senate two years ago, has presented a broader mandate for the position. He’s challenging incumbent Republican Timothy DeFoor. Kenyatta wants to use the office to be a “watchdog for working families” by cracking down on wage theft, employee misclassification and union busting.
DeFoor, the first Black person from either party to statewide office in Pennsylvania, has largely stuck to the office’s main mission. But he did make headlines for releasing an audit that claimed a dozen school districts engaged in a “shell game” by holding millions of dollars in their general funds and causing local taxes to rise.
In September, DeFoor launched a review into automatic voter registration and whether it excluded non-citizens. While the results of that review won’t be complete until after the election, Kenyatta has said DeFoor is “paving the way for Trump’s Big Lie 2.0.”
Sheriffs races in the Atlanta suburbs
Georgia has seen one of the tensest immigration debates following the killing of college student Laken Riley by an undocumented immigrant — a horrific event the Trump campaign has latched onto as it stirs up support for an aggressive deportation policy.
Zoom in to suburban Cobb and Gwinnett counties to learn how this is playing out. Both were once the GOP’s power base in the state but have shifted sharply to the left: Trump became the first Republican to lose each county for the first time since former Gov. Jimmy Carter’s election in 1976.
In 2020, Democrats flipped these county sheriff's races in the Atlanta suburbs — and promptly withdrew from an agreement with ICE that gives deputies immigration enforcement powers. The GOP state legislature responded by passing a law this year forcing local law officials to cooperate with ICE.
Republican David Cavender is running on immigration in the Cobb County race, challenging Sheriff Craig Owens, the Democrat who won four years ago. Owens has denounced the law, contrasting with Cavender, who has echoed Trump’s rhetoric about the “open border.”
In Gwinnett, incumbent Keybo Taylor is up against Republican Mike Baker.
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