Trump campaign melts down over Harris having beer with Colbert amid deadline to commit to final debate: Live

Kamala Harris cracked open a beer on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday and took the opportunity to lash out at election rival Donald Trump, calling him a “loser” and joking: “This is what happens when I drink!”

The Democratic presidential nominee sipped a Miller High Life with the late-night host as she discussed Trump’s politicization of federal hurricane relief efforts, her plans for the economy, the prospects for peace in the Middle East and her opponent’s admiration for “strongman” dictators like Vladimir Putin.

The drink in particular attracted an angry response from Trump’s campaign spokesman Steven Cheung, who posted on X: “Kamala drinks a beer to show Americans how relatable she is, but she ends up looking like an out-of-touch elitist trying to gaslight everyone into thinking she’s one of them.”

Harris has ramped up her media appearances in recent days, guesting on the Call Her Daddy podcast, CBS’s 60 Minutes, ABC’s The View and Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show.

Trump is meanwhile running out of time if he plans to accept CNN’s offer to host a final presidential debate in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 23, which Harris has already accepted.

Here’s the Republican nominee baselessly attacking the celebrated news show he backed out of being interviewed by because they presumed to fact-check him after seeing how well Kamala’s appearance on it on Monday night has gone down.

So what are the running mates up to?

Speaking in Reno, Nevada, Harris’s deputy took Trump to task over Woodward’s reporting on his frequent phone calls with Putin with a characteristically neat line.

Meanwhile, in Michigan, JD Vance broke with his boss by insulting one of his favourite despots, fat-shaming North Korea’s Kim Jong-un.

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