Trump slammed by Giuliani’s daughter as Vance and Walz prepare to go head-to-head at VP debate: Live

Donald Trump has been attacked by the daughter of his former personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who argues the Republican presidential nominee “destroys everything he touches” in an article for Vanity Fair in which she implores voters to support Democrat Kamala Harris instead.

“Watching my dad’s life crumble since he joined forces with Trump has been extraordinarily painful, both on a personal level and because his demise feels linked to a dark force that threatens to once again consume America,” Carolina Giuliani writes.

“It dawned on me that I’ve been grieving the loss of my dad to Trump. I cannot bear to lose our country to him too.”

Harris’s running mate Tim Walz will meanwhile square up to Trump’s vice presidential pick JD Vance on the debate stage on Tuesday evening in what promises to be a hugely consequential and fiery encounter in New York.

For his part, Trump has continued to try to attack Harris and Joe Biden over the federal response to Hurricane Helene, which has wrought havoc in states like Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, having visited Valdosta in the Peach State on Monday.

Republican organizers in battleground states are worried that the Trump campaign isn’t doing enough to drive GOP turnout, as Kamala Harris maintains a roughly three per cent lead in national polls and similar margins in battleground states.

GOP operatives told Politico that the Trump campaign’s tactics to reach voters, relying heavily on super PACs and an army of “Trump Force 47” volunteers to knock on doors and get out the vote, hasn’t made as much of a dent as they would’ve wished in key toss-up states like Michigan and Nevada.

“There’s really no organization,” a Republican operative in Nevada told the outlet.

“He comes out, they