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On Sunday afternoon, when Donald Trump held a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City, comedian and podcaster Tony Hinchcliffe opened the big show with a string of racist jokes. He referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean,” made a crude remark about Latinos and sex, and joked about carving watermelons with a Black person for Halloween.

At a Sunday campaign rally, former President Donald Trump promised, if re-elected, to let anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and failed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “go wild on health.” Kennedy has previously signaled his desire to join a second Trump administration, after dropping out of the race and endorsing Trump—who himself has wild ideas about health—in August. Trump tonight on RFK Jr:“I'm gonna let him go wild on health.

The number of completed ballots returned by Colorado voters for the Nov. 5 election eclipsed 1 million over the weekend, state election officials said Monday. Democrats claim an edge of 2.4 percentage points over registered Republicans in the number of ballots submitted so far, but GOP voters — a smaller group — have turned out at a slightly higher rate. With 1,059,861 ballots were received by clerk’s offices across the state’s 64 counties as of 11:59 p.m.

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Colin Allred has the packed soccer stadium hanging on his every word. It’s a Friday night under the lights here in Houston and the high-energy crowd is taking a break from what feels like a giant block party to hear from a string of health care providers, families who availed themselves of those doctors and nurses for abortions.

Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe was supposed to be one of over a dozen warm-up acts for Donald Trump’s campaign rally on Sunday in Madison Square Garden. He ended up stealing the show with a raft of racist jokes targeting Latinos, Black Americans, Jews, and Muslims that drew swift condemnation from Democrats and Republicans alike. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] But the Puerto Rican community may ultimately be the most mobilized by Hinchcliffe’s set, after he made a series of incendiary comments about the U.

A new YouGov survey shows Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump nationally among likely voters, 51% to 47%. Among respondents who say they will definitely vote, Harris leads 52% to 46%.