LIVE: Donald Trump roasts Harris at charity dinner in New York

This year’s 79th Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner will take place at the New York Hilton Midtown. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump were both invited, but Harris is not expected to attend. The comedian Jim Gaffigan is hosting. Democrats are feeling a chilly autumn wind in the presidential race. Kamala Harris’s campaign has stalled. She needs a ten-day surge to take back control of the race. READ MORE: Why ten days? Because most Americans in most states now vote by post so unlike the old rules when a campaign wanted to peak on election day, the new calendar dictates an earlier crescendo; on or around October 27. (Swing voters tend to hold off posting their ballot until the last two weekends before election day on November 5.) That gives Harris just over a week. Read the best of our journalism: Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: Find us on Facebook: Find us on Twitter: Find us on Instagram: #livestream #trump #maga #newyork