With Election Day 2024 a week away, Trump and Harris make last-minute push after 48 million vote early

With 62% of Latino voters backing Kamala Harris, the latest CBS News poll shows strong support among this group. But recent comments from Trump may change the numbers. Lilia Luciano reports from the battleground state of Pennsylvania in the video above.

Podcaster Joe Rogan clarified on social media early Tuesday that Harris’ campaign did not decline an interview for his mega-popular podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” but asked him to travel to her for an hour-long discussion.

Rogan said in one post shared to X that “the Harris campaign has not moved forward with doing the podcast. They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they would only do an hour. I feel strongly that the best way to do it on is in my sincere desire is just to have a good conversation and get to know her as a person, I really hope we can make it happen.

Trump spoke to Rogan for about three hours in an interview recorded Friday. The former president sat down with the podcaster in Austin, Texas, before a rally in Michigan and was delayed for several hours. Trump apologized for keeping his supporters waiting in the cold and blamed his delay on the interview with Rogan.

In a preview of the speech Harris will give at the Ellipse, Washington, DC’s park south of the White House, on Tuesday, her campaign said it will serve as “an important moment to make her closing argument to the American people, ” in an attempt to win over undecided voters.

Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said speakers in front of Harris will be “real people” sharing their stories about why they support Harris.

“We know a lot of these undecided voters, they’re exhausted,” O’Malley Dillon told reporters. “They’re certainly frustrated with the state of the partisanship and the divided political system that was really defined under Donald Trump.”

She said lowering the cost of things like housing, groceries and health care will also be part of the speech. Harris is also expected to speak on women’s reproductive rights.

O’Malley Dillon said they chose the Ellipse location because the backdrop is the White House and because Trump’s January 6, 2021 speech was there.

“It’s a place that we certainly believe helps crystallize the choice in this election,” she said.

Harris heads to Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Wisconsin on Wednesday, Nevada and Arizona on Thursday, Wisconsin on Friday and Georgia and North Carolina on Saturday.

Like the fallout from comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s offensive remarks as Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally continues, the former president distances himself from the artist.

“I don’t know him. Somebody put him up there. I don’t know who he is,” Trump told ABC News.

The Republican presidential candidate also said he did not hear any of the remarks.

Hinchcliffe has come under great criticism for his appearance at Sunday’s rally, in which he called Puerto Rico an “island of floating garbage” and made crude and racist remarks about Latinos, blacks and Jews.

Runbeck Election Services shows how they securely print ballots for voters in nine states, including the battleground state of Arizona. For the general election, they will print around 35 million ballot papers.

About 40,000 people are expected to attend the vice president’s speech on the Ellipse outside the White House Tuesday evening, according to a revised permit from the National Park Service.

Harris’ speech will take place at the same venue where Trump delivered remarks on January 6, 2021, before a mob of his supporters breached the US Capitol building and led to the evacuation of lawmakers and then-Vice President Mike Pence.

Amid the fallout Monday over comments made during the opening acts at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, Trump attacked Democrats for labeling him a Nazi and particularly criticized former first lady Michelle Obama for comments she made about him over the weekend.

“I’m the opposite of a Nazi,” Trump said. He said his father told him: “You never use the word Nazi,” adding: “It’s just horrible the way they talk.”

Trump said Michelle Obama made a “big mistake” by criticizing him, saying she was “so ugly.”

“I’ve always tried to be so nice and respectful,” Trump said. “She opened a little bit … of a box” by criticizing him, he said.

Michelle Obama is scheduled to appear in Atlanta on Tuesday as part of her When We All Vote initiative.

Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief White House strategist, has been released from prison, the Bureau of Prisons confirmed to CBS News.

Bannon had served a four-month sentence at DCI Danbury, a minimum-security facility in Connecticut. He was convicted of defying a subpoena from a congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

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Barbara Pierce Bush, the daughter of former President George W. Bush, spent the past weekend campaigning for Harris, she said People magazine.

“It was inspiring to join friends and meet voters with the Harris-Walz campaign in Pennsylvania this weekend,” Bush, 42, told People in an exclusive statement on Tuesday, Oct. 29. “I hope they will move our country forward and protect women’s rights.”

Bush’s father served as the Republican president from 2001-2009 and was considered a standard bearer of the conservative movement. But her mother, Laura Bush, broke with the party in 2010 to support same-sex marriage and abortion.

More high-profile Republicans have thrown their support behind Harris, including Bush’s vice president, Dick Cheney.

Former first lady Melania Trump told Fox & Friends early Tuesday that she and the former president will vote on Election Day in West Palm Beach.

“We will be in the palm beach and in the morning we will go to vote, me and my husband, and then it will be a wait, wait and we will see and I hope it will be a success and a party in the evening.”