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Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, & Will Arnett To Take “SmartLess” Podcast On Tour

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Fans can tune-in to smartless podcast today at 9am et to gain exclusive access to presale tickets on  smartless.com, general tickets on sale starting friday, july 16 at 10am local time on  smartless.com  .

WHO : Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, & Will Arnett plus mystery guests to be announced 

WHAT : SMARTLESS TOUR LIVE WITH JASON BATEMAN, SEAN HAYES, & WILL ARNETT

Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, & Will Arnett celebrate the first anniversary of their highly successful podcast, “ SmartLess ,” announcing that they will be bringing their show and their friends on the road with SMARTLESS TOUR LIVE. The limited run will kick off on February 2nd in Toronto’s Massey Hall followed by stops in Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago and Madison (WI) before wrapping up in Los Angeles at the Orpheum Theatre on February 12th. 

Will said, “I wish nothing but the best for Sean and Jason on this.” To which Jason and Sean said, “Wait, what?”

“SmartLess,” with Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, & Will Arnett is a podcast that connects and unites people from all walks of life to learn about shared experiences through thoughtful dialogue and organic hilarity. A nice surprise: in each episode of SmartLess, one of the hosts reveals his mystery guest to the other two. What ensues is a genuinely improvised and authentic conversation filled with laughter and newfound knowledge to feed the SmartLess mind. The passion project of three friends has turned into a wildly successful podcast, named one of the Best Shows of 2020 by Apple as well as consistently ranking Top 5 Comedy Shows and Top 10 on overall shows on iTunes. As of August 1st, new episodes will be released exclusively for one week on Amazon Music and Wondery+ before they are widely available on all other platforms.

Guests have included Vice President Kamala Harris, George Clooney, Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sandler, Ricky Gervais, Bryan Cranston, Paul McCartney, Tina Fey, Awkwafina, W. Kamau Bell, Stacey Abrams, Billie Eilish and Megan Rapinoe.

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Artist Presale: Mon., July 12 @ 9AM EST – Thurs., July 15 @ 10PM Local Time

Public On Sale: Fri., July 16 @ 10AM Local Time

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Tue Feb 02 – Toronto – Massey Hall

Fri Feb 04 – Boston, MA – Boch Center Wang Theatre

Sat Feb 05 – Brooklyn, NY – Kings Theatre

Tue Feb 08 – Chicago, IL – Chicago Theatre

Wed Feb 09 – Madison, WI – Orpheum Theatre

Sat Feb 12 – Los Angeles, CA – Orpheum Theatre

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Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes Plot ‘SmartLess’ Podcast Tour

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Will Arnett , Jason Bateman , and Sean Hayes will take their podcast, SmartLess , on tour next year.

The run of shows is set to kick off February 2nd, 2022 at Massey Hall in Toronto, followed by stops in Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, and Madison, Wisconsin. The tour will wrap on February 12th at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles.

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Tickets for the SmartLess tour will go on sale July 16th at 10 a.m. local time via the SmartLess website . A presale will run from July 12th at 9 a.m. ET through July 15th at 10 p.m. local time; information on how to gain access to the presale tickets will be revealed on the show’s new episode, out today, July 12th.

Arnett, Bateman, and Hayes launched SmartLess last July. Each episode features an interview with a different guest, although going into the show, only one of the hosts knows who the “mystery guest” will be, and reveals them to the other two right before the chat begins. Over the past year, the podcast has featured guests like Paul McCartney, George Clooney, Jennifer Aniston, Kamala Harris, Adam Sandler, Billie Eilish, Stacey Abrams, Tina Fey, and Bryan Cranston. There will, of course, be mystery guests at every stop on next year’s tour as well.

SmartLess 2022 Tour Dates

February 2 – Toronto @ Massey Hall February 4 – Boston, MA @ Boch Center Wang Theatre February 5 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre February 8 – Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre February 9 – Madison, WI @ Orpheum Theatre February 12 – Los Angeles, CA @ Orpheum Theatre

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Sean Hayes appeared on the Alternative scene with the release of the album 'A Thousand Tiny Pieces' released on June 6, 2000. The song 'A Thousand Tiny Pieces' quickly became a hit and made Sean Hayes one of the most popular talents at that moment. Thereafter, Sean Hayes released the extremely famous album 'Big Black Hole And The Little Baby Star' which features some of the most listened to tracks from the Sean Hayes collection. 'Big Black Hole And The Little Baby Star' hosts the song 'Boom Boom Goes The Day' which has become the most recognized for fans to experience during the live events. In addition to 'Boom Boom Goes The Day' , a host of other tracks from 'Big Black Hole And The Little Baby Star' have also become recognized as a result. Some of Sean Hayes's most popular tour albums and songs are provided below. After 16 years since releasing 'A Thousand Tiny Pieces' and making a huge effect in the business, fans consistently flock to hear Sean Hayes appear live to perform favorites from the entire catalog.

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During the big rebranding announcement for the Max streaming service, Jason Bateman , Sean Hayes , and Will Arnett were taken on tour with a new trailer for SmartLess: On the Road . The six-part docuseries will follow the three friends through the North American tour of their wildly-successful interview podcast SmartLess . It's billed as a real-life road trip, giving a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes conversations that occur between the hosts before and after they take the stage with their celebrity guests and showcasing the tribulations they face together while traveling through six different cities. The trailer highlights the full experience from the plane rides to the hotels and meetings with a variety of famous faces.

Beginning at the height of the pandemic, SmartLess has achieved a massive following throughout its run thanks to its award-winning hosts and simple yet effective formula. With each episode, one host brings in a mystery guest for an improvised conversation about shared experiences and the life they lead. It's all in an effort to enlighten both the audience and Bateman, Hayes, and Arnett about the experiences of unique people from all walks of life, from athletes to politicians, fellow actors, and more. The three friends also bring their own unique brands of hilarity to the table, making for light, genuine banter.

The trailer shows the hosts taking their original concept to the big time as they go live on tour with high-profile guests like former late-night giant David Letterman and beloved actor Will Ferrell , the latter of whom enters with a fabulous outfit for the occasion. From Boston to Brooklyn, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Madison, and Los Angeles, they not only revel in the live shows but also in their surroundings, taking in the sights and sounds as they travel. Their behind-the-scenes antics are on full display as they mess around in their hotel rooms, crack jokes during car rides, and enjoy some nice, heart-attack-inducing food.

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SmartLess: On the Road promises a slew of exciting guests joining Bateman, Hayes, and Arnett including not just Letterman and Ferrel, but also Conan O'Brien , Matt Damon , Jimmy Kimmel , Kevin Hart , Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , and a whole host of surprise visitors. Aside from their big trip, the trio has been busy themselves. Bateman recently stole the show in Ben Affleck 's buzzy Nike film Air while Arnett has both the recently-delayed Next Goal Wins and the Twisted Metal series on the docket. Hayes notably got to share the spotlight with his two hosts late last year in the Murderville special Who Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery .

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The sold-out live tour of their wildly successful podcast, “SmartLess,” saw the three popular actors traveling and talking with Conan O’Brien, Will Ferrell, Matt Damon, Jimmy Kimmel, Kevin Hart, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, David Letterman, and other guests.

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Sean Hayes, the American singer-songwriter from North Carolina, who has had such a fruitful career spanning about sixteen years since his debut “A Thousand Tiny Pieces”, tonight he is due to perform hits from a variety of songs that he has released over the times. The venue is a very intimate one in Nashville, where everyone is religiously quiet, it is almost taboo to even breathe, or sip your gin and tonic. He performs the most songs from an album called “Run Wolves Run”. “Shake Your Body” and “Gunnin” matching each other in caliber and vibe have this audience tapping feet and he encourages everyone to sing along. “Me and My Girl” is a wonderful sentiment especially as it is such a personal song to Hayes. You can hear he pain in his voice, you can hear how deep the song is, if that’s not enough, he performs it on a guitar that was made in the 50’s showcasing a beautiful tone. This breed of folk pop really is the way forward. Well done, Sean Hayes!

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Here’s the latest on the 2024 race.

Allies of the Harris campaign, including Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, began a campaign bus tour in Palm Beach County, Fla., on Tuesday focused on reproductive rights — a top issue for Democrats in this election . The tour will head to Jacksonville on Wednesday. Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald J. Trump and their running mates will be off the campaign trail today.

Ms. Harris will hold a campaign event in New Hampshire on Wednesday, and that night Mr. Trump will hold a town hall in Pennsylvania that will be televised on Fox News. On Thursday, Mr. Trump will speak remotely to a gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas and in person at the Economic Club of New York. Their running mates are booked for two-day stops in battleground states: On the Republican side, Senator JD Vance of Ohio will campaign in Arizona on Wednesday and Thursday, while Gov. Tim Walz, Democrat of Minnesota, will spend both days in Pennsylvania.

Here’s what else to know:

Trump office prank: Three suspicious devices discovered last week at desks in the Trump campaign’s West Palm Beach, Fla., office — which prompted staff members to evacuate for fear that they were listening devices — were found to be part of a prank, according to a police report.

Isaac Hayes song dispute: A federal judge in Georgia sided with the estate of Isaac Hayes , ordering the Trump campaign to stop using the late singer and songwriter’s “Hold On, I’m Coming” during rallies. Mr. Trump used the song as his exit music often over the past year, including at the Republican National Convention.

Vance on culture issues: In 2017, Mr. Vance championed a little-noticed report by the Heritage Foundation that proposed a sweeping conservative agenda to restrict sexual and reproductive freedoms and remake American families.

Labor Day stops: On Monday, President Biden made his first campaign appearance with Ms. Harris since he stepped out of the race, joining his second-in-command in Pittsburgh as she courted working-class voters in an event celebrating union labor. The holiday is the symbolic starting line of the final stretch of presidential races, and Ms. Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, made a swing through three crucial states.

Harris on steel: Ms. Harris said during the event in Pittsburgh that she opposed the takeover of U.S. Steel by a Japanese company, adopting a position already taken by Mr. Biden. “U.S. Steel should remain American-owned and American-operated,” she said at a local union hall.

Down-ballot races: Ms. Harris’s fund-raising apparatus plans to direct nearly $25 million to organizations dedicated to electing down-ballot Democratic candidates. The cash transfers reflect Ms. Harris’s surge of financial support and the party’s increased focus on state-level races.

Motorcade crash: Mr. Walz was en route to a campaign event in Milwaukee on Monday when several cars in his motorcade crashed, causing some injuries. The Minnesota governor later took the stage as planned. After his speech, he stopped at a Milwaukee hospital to check on his staff members involved in the crash.

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Tim Sheehy was recorded using racist stereotypes about Native Americans.

Tim Sheehy, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Montana, made comments perpetuating racist stereotypes about Native Americans during private fund-raisers last year, according to recordings of the events published by a local news outlet late last week and obtained by The New York Times.

In one recording, Mr. Sheehy, a cattle rancher and businessman, can be heard saying that he had participated in roping and branding cattle on the Crow Reservation, in southeastern Montana, and that it was “a great way to bond with all the Indians out there, while they’re drunk at 8 a.m.” In another clip, he said that he had ridden in a Crow parade, and that “they’ll let you know whether they like you or not, there’s Coors Light cans flying by your head.”

At a campaign event in Shelby, Mont.

By making these remarks, Mr. Sheehy not only used stereotypes, but he also waded into the complex history of Native American tribal dynamics in Montana, where Indigenous residents make up about 6 percent of the population. The state has seven reservations and 12 tribes.

Native Americans say that they have long been forgotten in political discussions and that basic needs on reservations, including water, electricity and health care, have been ignored by leaders of both major political parties.

In Montana, some Native Americans said they were appalled but not surprised by Mr. Sheehy’s comments, first reported by The Char-Koosta News, which covers the Flathead Indian reservation in the northwestern part of the state.

Calvin Lime, who lives on the Blackfeet reservation in northern Montana, said the remarks were a “slap in the face,” and especially unfortunate because the Crow Tribe was one of the most outspokenly pro-Trump tribes . (Mr. Sheehy received the endorsement of former President Donald J. Trump in the Republican primary.)

“For them to bring him there, work with him, they’re happy, they’re promoting him, but behind closed doors they’re the drunken Indian,” Mr. Lime said. “Behind closed doors, you’re actually getting looked at as a lesser-than.”

A spokeswoman for Mr. Sheehy’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment. A spokeswoman for Senator Jon Tester, the Democratic incumbent locked in a tight race with Mr. Sheehy, declined to comment.

At a rodeo fund-raiser

Native Americans in Montana have been a key voting bloc for Mr. Tester, who is in his third term, but local Native American leaders say that Democrats cannot take their votes for granted. Some suggested that Montana Republicans like Representative Ryan Zinke had made progress in improving the perception of Republicans among the state’s tribes, but Mr. Sheehy’s comments may have jeopardized that, said Alexandra Lin, a former member of the Montana Democratic Party who is Indigenous.

“Representative Zinke and Senator Daines have begun to understand these really important demographic groups and have been investing in them,” Ms. Lin said, referring to Steve Daines, the state’s Republican senator, “and it’s surprising that Sheehy is not doing this.”

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Kennedy must remain on the ballot in Michigan, a judge rules.

A Michigan judge dismissed on Tuesday an effort by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be taken off the ballot there — a crucial battleground state — after he ended his independent presidential campaign and endorsed former President Donald J. Trump last month.

Christopher Yates, a judge for Michigan’s Court of Claims, said Mr. Kennedy’s request, which he characterized as “coming at the very last minute,” was a “self-serving act that would cause harm to the party that nominated him by leaving the party with no candidate.”

“Elections are not just games,” Judge Yates wrote in a four-page ruling. “And the secretary of state is not obligated to honor the whims of candidates.”

Mr. Kennedy had been nominated by the Natural Law Party , a minor party in Michigan, which allowed him to avoid steep requirements for an independent candidate to get on the state’s ballot. At the time, Mr. Kennedy was pursuing an ambitious and expensive strategy to get on the ballot in all 50 states, and a minor-party’s nomination granted him easier ballot access in many states.

Both Republicans and Democrats had worried that Mr. Kennedy, a lifelong Democrat before becoming an independent last year, would draw more votes from their candidate. But since he dropped out of the race on Aug. 23 and threw his support behind Mr. Trump , he has tried to remove his name from the ballot in a handful of battleground states in an effort to help the Trump campaign. Mr. Trump won Michigan by fewer than 11,000 votes in 2016, and he lost it to Mr. Biden in 2020 by roughly 154,000 votes.

It is not clear which candidate Mr. Kennedy would draw more votes from, with polls disagreeing on whether Mr. Kennedy’s supporters were more inclined to support Mr. Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris.

Mr. Kennedy requested that his name be removed from the ballot in Michigan on the day he left the race. Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s Democratic secretary of state, rejected that request, citing a statute that says that candidates nominated by a minor party “shall not be permitted to withdraw.”

Judge Yates agreed with that decision, writing that “the court must balance plaintiff’s interest in withdrawing from the race” against “the Natural Law Party’s interest in having a candidate at the top of its ticket.” He added that Mr. Kennedy would have had more freedom to withdraw from the ballot if he had pursued ballot access as an independent candidate.

“But,” Judge Yates wrote, “he is the nominee of a party, which put forward his name for the ballot after he accepted that party’s nomination.”

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Trump says there was ‘no conflict’ at Arlington National Cemetery, despite official accounts.

Former President Donald J. Trump insisted in a radio interview on Tuesday that “there was no conflict” between members of his campaign team and an official at Arlington National Cemetery, contradicting his campaign’s previous statements about the episode last week and Army officials’ account.

“If you look at just the records, there was no conflict, there was no fight, there was no anything,” Mr. Trump said on Sean Hannity’s radio show. Hours earlier, Mr. Trump on his social media site claimed “there was no conflict or ‘fighting’” at the cemetery, calling the story, without evidence, “made up” by the White House.

It was the latest effort by the Trump campaign to defend itself after a physical altercation between a Trump aide and a cemetery official that was set off by the campaign’s defying of a ban on political campaigning at the cemetery in Virginia during Mr. Trump’s visit last week.

Army officials said the cemetery employee had been “abruptly pushed aside” by a Trump campaign aide . The Trump campaign has said there was “no physical altercation” but did not deny there was a dispute. Campaign officials also previously attacked and insulted the cemetery official and said they were prepared to release footage of the episode, though the campaign has not yet done so after repeated requests.

A woman who works at the cemetery filed an incident report with the military authorities over the altercation. But the woman, who has not been identified but was described as a seasoned official at the cemetery, later declined to press charges. Military officials said she feared retaliation from Trump supporters if her identity became known as part of any formal investigation.

Still, Mr. Trump pointed to her lack of a public statement as evidence that the conflict never took place. “Notice that the person representing now doesn’t want to talk,” he said, and added, referring incorrectly to the cemetery official’s gender, “He doesn’t want to speak or talk.”

Steven Cheung, a Trump campaign spokesman, said in a statement Tuesday that “there was no conflict and no fight — just a staffer from the cemetery who tried to block the movement of some individuals.” He added, “From our side, we did not do anything.”

He did not respond directly to a question about whether the campaign planned to release materials that would support its account, saying, “as the Army said, they consider this matter closed.”

Trump campaign officials did not initially deny there had been a dispute. Mr. Cheung initially accused the woman of suffering a “mental health episode.” And Chris LaCivita, a top adviser for the Trump campaign, said in his own statement that the cemetery official was a “despicable individual” who was spreading lies and “dishonoring the men and women of our armed forces.”

Mr. Trump has in the past several days tried to draw attention away from the events at the cemetery and toward Ms. Harris’s role in the turbulent withdrawal from Afghanistan, which Republicans have used to attack the Biden administration over foreign policy.

He has reiterated that he was invited to the cemetery by the families of some of the 13 U.S. troops killed in a suicide bombing at Abbey Gate outside the Kabul airport in 2021.

After Ms. Harris criticized Mr. Trump for politicizing the cemetery, the Trump campaign released a statement signed by family members of seven of the 13 U.S. troops killed in the bombing that said she had “disgracefully twisted” Mr. Trump’s visit “into a political ploy.”

The former president and his aides have also given contradictory explanations for why they filmed at the cemetery. Mr. Cheung initially said the campaign had permission to take photos and video — a notion that statements by the cemetery and the Army had rejected because that would be prohibited by law.

The Trump campaign then highlighted that some of the family members who had appeared alongside Mr. Trump at the cemetery had given the campaign aides permission to film the event themselves — even though the cemetery said officials had repeatedly told the Trump team that it would violate federal law.

Mr. Trump has also repeatedly said that he posed for photos at the graves spontaneously at the request of family members. He brought up the incident at campaign events last week, insisting that he had not been campaigning because “I don’t need the publicity,” which he repeated in the Hannity interview.

“Thank you for saying you wanted me to stand with you at Arlington National Ceremony, and take pictures, that it was your request, not mine, but it was my great honor to do so,” Mr. Trump said of the troops’ families in a post on his social media site, Truth Social, on Sunday.

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In an interview on Sean Hannity’s radio show, former President Donald J. Trump insisted that “there was no conflict” between members of his campaign team and an official at Arlington National Cemetery, directly contradicting his campaign’s statement last week about the episode. At that time, a spokesman said that a cemetery official had tried to “physically block” members of Mr. Trump’s team and that it was prepared to release footage to support its account. The campaign has not yet done so.

A son of John McCain calls the Trump team’s clash at Arlington a ‘violation of a sacred place.’

Jimmy McCain, a son of the Vietnam War P.O.W. and longtime Republican senator John McCain, said Tuesday that the campaign of former President Donald J. Trump had committed a “violation of a sacred place” when it clashed with an official at Arlington National Cemetery.

Mr. McCain, a first lieutenant in the Arizona National Guard, told The New York Times that he was “very shocked” by the confrontation at the cemetery last week, saying it could be an “extremely triggering” event for the families of service members buried there.

“Arlington National Cemetery is a very sacred place for not only veterans, but for their families,” Mr. McCain said. He added, “It’s very hallowed, sacred ground, and it should be left that way.”

The altercation occurred during a visit by Mr. Trump for a wreath-laying ceremony honoring 13 U.S. troops killed in the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 . Federal law prohibits taking photographs or filming for political purposes in that part of the cemetery, and the Army’s public affairs office defended a cemetery official who it said was pushed by a member of Mr. Trump’s staff after trying to prevent the campaign from filming in the restricted area.

A spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, Karoline Leavitt, said in a statement that there “has been no greater advocate for our brave military men and women than President Trump.” She added that Mr. Trump had avoided starting wars and putting “our troops in harm’s way.”

Mr. McCain, who also criticized the Trump campaign’s actions in an interview with CNN published earlier Tuesday, told The Times that he planned to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris. He also said that he joined the Democratic Party about a month ago, after returning from a period of service in Jordan. “You have a lot of time to think overseas,” he said.

Mr. McCain, 36, enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2006 and served in the Iraq war. He later served in Afghanistan as a member of the Oregon National Guard, he said. Although he is a member of the Arizona National Guard, Mr. McCain said, “I don’t represent them in any way with my views.” The Arizona National Guard said in a statement that it does not comment on political matters.

Mr. McCain’s decision to speak out about the altercation and his joining the Democratic Party was perhaps the most dramatic example of a member of the McCain family turning away from the Republican Party, which his father represented as presidential nominee in 2008 and as longtime senator from Arizona. He died in 2018 , and his body lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda before his burial at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. His father and grandfather, both admirals, are buried at Arlington.

Jimmy McCain said he was trying to follow his father’s legacy of “speaking your mind and standing up for what you believe in.”

The cemetery has been politicized by others before — Senator McCain himself once called an ad his campaign ran that included video of him at Arlington “a very bad mistake” — but the episode involving Mr. Trump touched off significant criticism.

Corey Lewandowski, a senior adviser for the Trump campaign , had posted photos of Mr. Trump’s visit to the restricted area of the cemetery, including one where the former president flashed a “thumbs up” pose . The Army said the participants in the visit had been informed of the prohibition against political activities, and that an employee who attempted to ensure compliance with the rules was “abruptly pushed aside.”

On Tuesday, Mr. Trump wrote on social media that “there was no conflict” at the cemetery, calling the incident a “made up story,” even though his campaign had previously acknowledged the confrontation and described the cemetery employee as “suffering from a mental health episode.”

Mr. Trump has disparaged Senator McCain on multiple occasions, including saying he was “not a war hero” despite being shot down over Hanoi during the Vietnam War and held as a prisoner for five and a half years. “I like people who weren’t captured,” Mr. Trump declared.

The senator’s widow, Cindy McCain, endorsed Joseph R. Biden Jr. over Mr. Trump in the 2020 presidential election, citing Mr. Biden’s “character and integrity.”

And Meghan McCain, the couple’s eldest daughter and a self-described conservative , effusively praised the Democratic National Convention last month, writing on social media that perhaps Republicans should “just forfeit because I DO NOT KNOW HOW YOU CAN COMPETE WITH THIS.”

Still, Mr. McCain is the first member of the family known to have joined the Democratic Party.

Maggie Astor contributed reporting.

Andrew Duehren and Nicholas Nehamas

Reporting from Washington

Harris, proposing a tax break, makes a play for small-business owners.

Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday is set to propose expanding a tax break for start-ups, one of a series of policy ideas her campaign is rolling out this week aimed at helping entrepreneurs and small businesses.

The plan, which Ms. Harris will announce during a speech in New Hampshire, would allow new companies to deduct up to $50,000 in start-up expenses, a campaign official said. The move would increase by tenfold a $5,000 deduction that companies can now claim for expenses, like advertising and salaries, that they incurred before they started operating.

The goal of the proposed expansion is to help start 25 million small businesses if Ms. Harris is elected. In New Hampshire, she will also discuss creating a new fund to help small businesses expand, easing regulations and simplifying the taxes small businesses owe by creating a universally available deduction, the campaign official said, without offering additional details. The official revealed the plan on the condition of anonymity to freely share details of a policy proposal not yet released publicly.

Owners of so-called pass-through businesses, the structure for the vast majority of corporations in the United States, already enjoy access to a generous deduction that many progressives view as overwhelmingly benefiting the wealthy.

Since taking over the top of the Democratic ticket, Ms. Harris and her advisers have subtly sought to take a friendlier approach to the business community than President Biden did. Ms. Harris has closer relationships in Silicon Valley, which she once represented as a senator from California, and on Wall Street than Mr. Biden does. Her donors are encouraging her to emphasize the virtue of entrepreneurship and to abandon some of Mr. Biden’s most liberal ideas.

At the same time, Ms. Harris’s campaign has released four new advertisements since the party’s national convention that portray her as an ally of the middle class and former President Donald J. Trump as a friend to billionaires and big corporations. Voters express more trust in Mr. Trump’s handling of the economy than Ms. Harris, with many listing inflation as one of their top concerns heading into November.

The ads represent an effort to turn a weakness for Democrats into a strength. The latest ad argues that big businesses are responsible for rising prices and that Ms. Harris’s plans will fight inflationary corporate greed , though economists say that a variety of global economic factors are responsible for higher prices.

If Ms. Harris wins in November, taxes will be a central issue in her first year in office. Washington is gearing up for a major legislative battle next year over the expiration of many of the tax cuts Mr. Trump signed into law in 2017 .

Ms. Harris has effectively pledged to preserve those tax cuts for households making less than $400,000 a year, while also proposing a series of additional tax cuts of her own. Her campaign has also said she supports the roughly $5 trillion in tax increases included in the budget Mr. Biden released this spring.

Ms. Harris’s visit to New Hampshire will take her to political terrain that should feel far friendlier than it did when Mr. Biden topped the ticket. After the president’s disastrous debate performance, Democrats in New Hampshire and other reliably blue states — including Minnesota, New Mexico and Virginia — had started ringing alarm bells that Mr. Trump could be newly competitive. In 2020, Mr. Biden won New Hampshire by seven percentage points .

But those fears have largely dissipated since Ms. Harris replaced him on the ballot. Recent polls have had her up by roughly five points in New Hampshire.

The Harris campaign has also built a commanding advantage in its New Hampshire ground game. It has 17 offices around the state and over 100 staff members, far more than Mr. Trump.

And her appearance should provide the benefit of drawing news coverage in neighboring Maine, where the former president is seeking to win an Electoral College vote. Maine is one of two states that can divide their Electoral College votes between candidates, and Mr. Trump earned one vote in 2016 and another in 2020 based on strong support in one large voting district.

On Tuesday, Mr. Trump claimed on social media that Ms. Harris’s trip to New Hampshire reflected weakness, saying that the vice president knows “there are problems for her campaign” there because of the high cost of living.

Maggie Astor

The Harris campaign has taken a much feistier tone than the Biden campaign, leaning into memes and mockery. Case in point: the new banner image atop an official campaign account on X. It’s a screenshot of Trump asking on his social media site during Harris’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, “IS SHE TALKING ABOUT ME?”

A judge orders Trump to stop using Isaac Hayes’s song ‘Hold On, I’m Coming’ at his rallies.

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign to stop using the song “Hold On, I’m Coming,” by Isaac Hayes, at campaign events in response to a lawsuit from the artist’s estate.

The judge, Thomas Thrash Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, issued a temporary injunction blocking further use of the song “without proper license.” However, Judge Thrash did not grant the estate’s request to order Mr. Trump’s campaign to take down recordings of past events in which it had used the song.

Mr. Trump regularly used the song as his exit music for much of the past year, including at the Republican National Convention in July and as recently as a rally in Bozeman, Mont., on Aug. 9. He has since returned to using the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.,” which he used to close out his rallies during his 2020 campaign. (The Village People have also previously objected to Mr. Trump’s use of their music.)

“We are very pleased with the court’s decision,” a lawyer for the Hayes estate, James L. Walker Jr., said. “Donald Trump has been told he cannot use the music of Isaac Hayes without a license. That was our No. 1 goal. Now we work on the underlying trial and case.”

Ronald Coleman, a lawyer for Mr. Trump, said after the ruling: “The campaign had already agreed to cease further use. We’re very gratified that the court recognized the First Amendment issues at stake and didn’t order a takedown of existing videos.”

Mr. Hayes, who died in 2008, wrote the song with David Porter, and it was recorded by the duo Sam & Dave.

Many other artists have objected to Mr. Trump’s use of their music, including at least three over the past month.

The Foo Fighters said in late August that they had not authorized the use of their song “My Hero” to welcome Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to a rally stage in Arizona to endorse Mr. Trump. A representative for Abba said it also had not granted a license for use of its music. And after “My Heart Will Go On” played at the Montana rally, a post on Celine Dion’s Instagram page said that the usage was unauthorized and that the singer did not endorse it. The post added, “And really, that song?”

Michael Gold contributed reporting.

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

The suspicious devices that prompted Trump aides to evacuate their office last week were found to be part of a prank.

Watergate this was not.

Last week, the Trump campaign and Republican National Committee offices in West Palm Beach, Fla., were abuzz with talk of listening devices and espionage, possibly by a foreign government. The police were called and the offices were closed for a forensic search.

The reality was more Charlie Chaplin than John le Carré.

A plastic prank device that can be purchased on Amazon for $13.97 was the cause of the problem.

A police report from the West Palm Beach police department, obtained by The New York Times, detailed the incident. Devices were found on Thursday after people heard beeping under a staff member’s desk at the Trump campaign offices. When Trump officials searched, they found additional devices, for a total of three.

“FOUND POTENTIAL LISTENING DEVICES // HEARD BEEPING BY DESKS // INTERNAL SECURITY ALSO FOUND DEVICE,” the police report reads. The person making the report, according to the document, “THINKS THEY HAVE FOUND LISTENING DEVICES ‘BUGS; IN THE OFFICE.’”

Despite the police presence, officials determined quickly that the devices were likely a prank. No one has owned up to the prank, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

A Trump spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The police report said that “about fifty employees evacuated the suites.” The security official who works for the offices in the building told the police he believed “the devices were part of a prank. The suites were canvassed for any additional devices and evidence yielding negative results,” according to the document.

The campaign faced an email hacking earlier this summer, which officials have blamed on Iranians. The F.B.I. has confirmed that Iran attempted to hack both the Trump campaign and President Biden’s former campaign.

Because of that, the Trump team has been operating with a heightened sense of paranoia.

At the kickoff of the Harris campaign’s reproductive-rights bus tour, Anya Cook, a resident of Florida, told a story that she also told at the Democratic National Convention: She was sent home from an emergency room while experiencing serious pregnancy complications, miscarried in a public bathroom and ended up almost dying from blood loss. Quoting former President Donald J. Trump’s words about appointing three of the justices who overturned Roe v. Wade, she says, “He is ‘proudly the person responsible’ for what I and so many women across the country have gone through.”

Surrogates for Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign are in Palm Beach, Fla., for the start of a bus tour focused on reproductive rights. Speakers so far have included former Representative Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, who is challenging Senator Rick Scott of Florida; Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida; and Ana Navarro, an anti-Trump Republican strategist and commentator who described her own experience receiving an abortion in a medical emergency.

“I’m not sure today in Florida I could get the treatment I desperately needed,” Navarro said, noting that many doctors had expressed fear over applying the medical-emergency exemptions in state abortion bans out of fear that prosecutors will interpret them differently.

Former President Donald J. Trump claimed falsely in a social media post that “there was no conflict” during his visit to Arlington National Cemetery last week, calling it “a made up story” by Vice President Kamala Harris. Cemetery officials and the Army have confirmed a confrontation between a Trump campaign official and a cemetery employee who was trying to enforce a prohibition on election-related activities; the Army said the campaign official physically pushed the employee.

A spokesman for his campaign previously acknowledged the confrontation in a statement claiming that the cemetery employee had tried to “physically block” members of Trump’s team and describing the employee as “clearly suffering from a mental health episode.” The spokesman, Steven Cheung, said the campaign was prepared to release footage supporting its account, but it has not done so.

Theodore Schleifer

Pete Buttigieg, who developed a successful fund-raising network in the tech industry and the Bay Area during his 2020 presidential run, is set to relive some of those good times tomorrow on behalf of Kamala Harris. On Wednesday, Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, will host five separate fund-raisers on her behalf in Northern California — two in Atherton, one in Palo Alto, one in San Francisco and one in Napa Valley, according to invites I’ve seen.

Reid J. Epstein

Reporting on the Harris campaign from Washington

The Harris operation will send $24.5 million to groups supporting down-ballot Democrats.

The fund-raising apparatus of Vice President Kamala Harris will direct $24.5 million to organizations dedicated to electing down-ballot Democratic candidates, Ms. Harris’s campaign chief said on Tuesday.

The Harris campaign will send $10 million each to the House and Senate Democratic campaign arms, $2.5 million to the body that helps elect state legislative Democrats and $1 million each to the Democratic Governors Association and the Democratic attorneys general campaign arm, it said.

The campaign did not say which of its fund-raising vehicles — Harris for President, the Democratic National Committee or the campaign’s joint fund-raising committees it operates with state Democratic parties — would be tapped to send the money to the down-ballot groups.

The cash transfers reflect Ms. Harris’s surge of financial support, and represent an increased focus among Democrats on down-ballot races. The party was wiped out in local contests during Barack Obama’s presidency, and then Republicans drew legislative districts to their own advantage after the 2010 census and reapportionment.

Since then, Democrats have sought to direct more money to state-level races. Last year, more than $40 million was spent on an election for a single seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

The most expensive nonpresidential races in 2024 will be the contests that determine control of the Senate — elections in Arizona, Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — but many millions more will be directed toward competitive House districts.

The party’s state legislative campaign arm intends to spend $10 million on key races, a fraction of Democratic investment in just one of the most competitive Senate contests. There are few expensive races for governor this year beyond the election to replace Gov. Roy Cooper, Democrat of North Carolina.

“The vice president believes that this race is about mobilizing the entire country, in races at every level, to fight for our freedoms and our economic opportunity,” said Jen O’Malley Dillon, Ms. Harris’s campaign chair. “Democrats win when we fight together.”

Ms. Harris’s running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, was until last month the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association.

The Harris campaign has been swimming in cash since the vice president replaced President Biden as the party’s presidential nominee. It said it raised $82 million during the week of the Democratic National Convention, and $540 million over the first month Ms. Harris was a candidate.

Two new ads supporting Vice President Kamala Harris have begun airing. Harris’s campaign released an ad on Tuesday promoting her proposal to ban price gouging. And an independent group, Republican Voters Against Trump, released a montage of former Trump voters endorsing Harris that will run in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Nebraska’s Second Congressional District as part of an $11.5 million campaign.

These former Trump voters are voting for Kamala Harris in 2024. This ad is running now in AZ, MI, NE, PA, and WI as part of our new $11.5 million swing state ad blitz. pic.twitter.com/1xrGhOu9qg — Republican Voters Against Trump (@AccountableGOP) September 3, 2024

Nicholas Nehamas

The ad on the economy accuses former President Donald Trump of favoring corporations over the middle class, and uses far more aggressive language than what President Biden had used. Many of Biden's allies had urged him to attack big business in stronger terms.

In 2017, JD Vance championed a report on families from the architects of Project 2025.

Years before he became the Republican vice-presidential nominee, JD Vance endorsed a little-noticed 2017 report by the Heritage Foundation that proposed a sweeping conservative agenda to restrict sexual and reproductive freedoms and remake American families.

In a series of 29 separate essays, conservative commentators, policy experts, community leaders and Christian clergy members opposed the spread of in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments, describing those treatments as harmful to women. They praised the rapidly expanding number of state laws restricting abortion rights and access, saying that the procedure should become “unthinkable” in America. And they cited hunger as a “great motivation” for Americans to find work.

Mr. Vance, then known as the author of a best-selling memoir, became a champion of the project. He wrote the introduction and praised the volume as “admirable,” and was the keynote speaker at the public release of the report at Heritage’s offices in Washington.

The report was released just months after Donald J. Trump became president, as social conservatives were laying the foundation for an aggressive agenda restricting sexual freedom and reproductive rights. Those policies became a hallmark of the Trump administration and Mr. Vance’s political career.

Taken together, the pieces in the report amount to an effort to instruct Americans on what their families should be, when to grow them and the best way to raise their children. Authors argued in the 2017 report that women should become pregnant at younger ages and that a two-parent, heterosexual household was the “ideal” environment for children.

“The ideal situation for any child is growing up with the mother and father who brought that child into the world,” wrote Katrina Trinko, a conservative journalist, in an essay detailing the “tragedy” of babies born to single mothers.

Although Mr. Vance did not address in detail the specific issues of fertility treatments, abortion rights or marriage, the broad vision expressed in the report comports with some of the views he has expressed about American families.

He has been an ardent opponent of abortion rights , saying he wanted to protect life “from the date of conception.” During his Senate race in 2022, he promised to oppose legislation codifying the right to marriage for same-sex couples. He has stressed the importance of having children, saying not doing so “makes people more sociopathic.”

And in a comment that prompted a wave of outrage among liberal and independent women, he criticized prominent Democrats as “childless cat ladies” — a claim he later dismissed as a “sarcastic remark.”

Mr. Vance’s campaign neither defended nor disavowed the opinions expressed in the report, saying he had no role in editing the essays and “did not have any input on the commentary.”

“Senator Vance has long made clear that he supports I.V.F. and does not agree with every opinion in this seven-year-old report, which features a range of unique views from dozens of conservative thinkers,” said Luke Schroeder, a spokesman for Mr. Vance. “It’s bizarre that The New York Times is writing an entire piece attacking Senator Vance for the views of other individuals.”

The Heritage Foundation also said Mr. Vance had no involvement with the policy ideas included in the report, but declined to offer an opinion on the content.

“Senator Vance had no role in producing or approving the contents of the 2017 Index of Culture and Opportunity, outside of writing the introduction,” said Noah Weinrich, a spokesman for the organization.

In his introduction, Mr. Vance argued that economic struggles were inextricable from what he saw as cultural decay, suggesting that fixing the state of American life required not just proposals about trade, jobs and education but an embrace of conservative social values that would define the nation’s families.

“Culture, in other words, must serve as the beginning of a conversation, not the end of one, and proper conversation about culture will never be used as a weapon against those whom Christ described as ‘the least of these,’” he wrote in the foundation’s Index of Culture and Opportunity report. “It will be a needed antidote to a simplistic political discourse.”

One of the essays takes a deeply skeptical view of in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments, arguing that they cause women to be “lured into the belief that they can have children whenever they are finally ready.”

The piece casts women as turning to fertility treatments as “magic pills” to delay motherhood for professional advancement rather than as expensive last resorts for couples desperate to have a child. It also refers to egg-freezing, the medical procedure through which eggs are harvested, frozen and stored for later use, as a “scheme.”

“We need to stop practices that may bring harm to others: the children born from high-tech pregnancies as well as the women who are exploited for their healthy reproductive capacities,” writes Jennifer Lahl, an anti-abortion advocate, who founded the Center for Bioethics and Culture, a group that questions the use of fertility treatments.

Mr. Trump said on the campaign trail last week that he wants to make I.V.F. treatment free for all Americans, a proposal that faces a steep — if not impossible — climb through Congress and the federal government to becoming law. Mr. Vance, who has expressed support for I.V.F., defended that position on the trail but offered no specifics on how Mr. Trump would fund his plan.

Another set of pieces reiterate long-held conservative economic views, including eliminating regulations on businesses, cutting federal spending, expanding charter schools, increasing work requirements for welfare programs and voicing opposition to programs that offer government assistance for Americans to buy or rent homes.

“The private market has proved more than capable of providing a wide array of housing types that are affordable for many income levels — and could do even better for those of lower incomes absent overly restrictive zoning and other regulatory impediments,” wrote Howard Husock, a conservative housing policy expert.

In a separate piece, Cal Thomas, a conservative commentator, calls welfare programs the “ultimate poison” that create poverty by discouraging work.

“The threat of an empty stomach is a great motivator for people who are able to work to find work,” Mr. Thomas wrote . “For many, human nature would rather get a check from the government without working for it than earn a check from a job.”

The report was published as Mr. Vance was dipping his toe into politics and was famous for his memoir. His beliefs on specific issues were relatively unknown, and his endorsement of the Heritage report offered an early declaration of his socially conservative values.

“Two of the biggest factors driving regional differences in upward mobility are the prevalence of single-parent families and concentrated poverty, indicating that both family and neighborhood structure matter in the lives of our nation’s working class,” he wrote in the introduction.

In recent weeks, Mr. Trump has gone out of his way to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation and the group’s Project 2025 effort, a policy blueprint for the next Republican administration that has become a major Democratic attack line.

Mr. Vance’s participation in the foundation’s Index of Culture and Opportunity report offers a reminder of the yearslong ties between him and the conservative think tank — connections that deepened in the years that followed.

In June, Mr. Vance announced that he wrote the foreword to a new book by the Heritage Foundation’s president, Kevin D. Roberts , Project 2025’s principal architect. Publication of that book has since been delayed until after the election.

River Akira Davis

Reporting from Tokyo

Harris says U.S. Steel should stay American-owned.

Vice President Kamala Harris said U.S. Steel should stay in the hands of American owners, dealing another blow to the Japanese manufacturer Nippon Steel’s $15 billion proposal to acquire the storied American steel maker.

“U.S. Steel should remain American-owned and American-operated,” Ms. Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, said during a campaign stop in Pittsburgh on Monday, prompting cheers from the audience.

Since it was announced in December, the bid by Tokyo-based Nippon Steel to acquire U.S. Steel has been opposed by the United Steelworkers union, which is based in Pittsburgh.

The union said that a foreign corporation’s purchase of an American steel company would pose threats to national security. It has also questioned commitments made by Nippon Steel, including vows not to lay off employees or close plants.

Over the past eight months, politicians have joined the opposition, with both President Biden and Donald J. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, signaling their disapproval of foreign ownership of U.S. Steel.

Union officials and Nippon Steel executives have been waiting to see what Ms. Harris’s stance would be. The United Steelworkers welcomed her statement, saying it would help safeguard national security and union jobs.

Nippon Steel said it remained confident that the merger would put U.S. Steel and the American steel industry on stronger footing. “We believe that a fair and objective regulatory review process will support this outcome,” it said.

Nippon Steel has been betting that discussions will continue past the November presidential election, after which unions would potentially have less political sway.

In the United States, the president can block certain cross-border transactions on national security grounds. The question is whether an acquisition led by Japan — a close ally of the United States — could be deemed a threat.

Nippon Steel has gone to considerable lengths to show that the merger would be good for both companies and their employees, as well as for the United States and Japan.

The Japanese steel maker has promised billions of dollars in additional investment in U.S. Steel’s facilities. In July, it said it would withdraw from a longstanding joint venture in China that might have drawn suspicion from U.S. regulators.

A powerful interagency panel, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, has been looking into the national security implications of Nippon Steel’s proposal. For cases that require a full investigation, the committee makes a recommendation to the president, who has the final say.

Nicholas Nehamas contributed reporting from Washington.

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