How Trump vs. Harris is playing out on Wall Street ahead of the debate
* Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are about to face off in their first debate.
* Wall Street will be listening closely for the candidates’ views on the economy, taxation, and more.
* See who financial industry leaders are putting their money behind and why.
* A trio of emergencies has struck just five weeks ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
* Violence in the Middle East, a dockworkers strike, and Hurricane Helene could all impact the polls.
* Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will be forced to confront the crises in the final days of their campaigns.
Violence in the Middle East, a massive labor strike among East Coast and Gulf Coast dockworkers, and the devastation of Hurricane Helene all struck with only five weeks before the 2024
presidential election.
The Latest: Trio of crises looms over the campaign’s final stretch
Election misinformation has led to an uptick in threats to election officials
A consequence of the prevalence of election misinformation: an troubling uptick in physical threats against election officials of both parties and, in some cases, their families, often based on false
claims about the 2020 election. Jen Easterly, director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, called it “corrosive” to democracy and said it’s something the public needs to
collectively fight.
“Those election officials, they are not faceless bureaucrats,” Easterly said. “They’re folks we see in the community every single day. And they’re not doing this for pay. They’re not doing it for glory.
They are doing it because they believe in the process of democracy.”
Prosecutors lay out new evidence in Trump election case, accuse him of having ‘resorted to crimes’
Donald Trump laid the groundwork to try to overturn the 2020 election even before he lost, knowingly pushed false claims of voter fraud and “resorted to crimes” in his failed bid to cling to power,
according to a newly unsealed court filing from prosecutors that lays out fresh details from the landmark criminal case against the former president.
The filing from special counsel Jack Smith’s team offers the most comprehensive view to date of what prosecutors intend to prove if the case charging Trump with conspiring to overturn the
election reaches trial. Though a months-long congressional investigation and the indictment itself have chronicled in stark detail Trump’s efforts to undo the election, the new filing cites previously
unknown accounts offered by Trump’s closest aides to paint a portrait of an “increasingly desperate” president who while losing his grip on the White House “used deceit to target every stage of
the electoral process.”
“So what?” the filing quotes Trump as telling an aide after being alerted that his vice president, Mike Pence, was in potential danger after a crowd of violent supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on
Jan. 6, 2021.
