Election 2024 live: Trump’s lisp and tech glitches become focus after rambling talk with Musk on X

Donald Trump’s highly anticipated interview with Elon Musk on Monday derailed somewhat, first by technical difficulty then by the former president’s apparent lisp.

The interview was due to be broadcast on the social media platform X at 8pm but was seemingly beset by technical difficulty, with many reporting they were unable to access the “Space.” Users later commented on the fact that Trump appeared to have difficulty with the pronunciation of the letter “s.”

Earlier on Monday the former president returned to X, formerly Twitter, posting a video recapping the last eight years, going all the way from his 2016 election victory, through his recent indictments, and looking ahead to the showdown in November.

It comes as Democratic presidential contender Kamala Harris pulls ahead in the polls, leading in FiveThirtyEight’s polling average by 2.4 points as of Monday.

Meanwhile, Harris raised $12m from a high-profile fundraiser in her home state of California on Sunday after concluding her tour of the swing states with new running mate Tim Walz in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Harris told supporters in San Francisco, “It’s good to be home,” before warning that healthcare, abortion access, and LGBT+ rights would all be placed under threat during a second Trump term.

Former president Donald Trump returned to X, formerly known as Twitter, with a series of posts on Monday for the first time in a year, reviving an account that had served as a main method of communication in previous campaigns and his four years in the White House, including his followers’ 6 January 2021 storming of the US Capitol.

Trump’s access to his account, @realDonaldTrump, was restored a month into Musk’s ownership of X after being suspended by the platform’s previous