Happening now, breaking news. Kamala Harris is defending Liz Cheney as a quote,

true patriot after Donald Trump took his violent rhetoric to a new extreme, suggesting the former

Republican Congresswoman should be fired upon. We're also taking a closer look at the

massive gender gap in this year's presidential campaign.

What sources close to Trump are now telling CNN about the former president's laser focus on appealing to young men,

potentially at the expense of more reliable female voters.

Also this hour, we'll check in with CNN's John King on the fifth

and final leg of his battleground tour. John is now in Pennsylvania, a crucial swing

state for both presidential campaigns. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States

and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in the Situation Room.

This is CNN Breaking News.

We begin our coverage tonight with the fallout from Donald Trump's latest attack on Liz Cheney, the former Republican

representative, turned Harris supporter. CNN journalists are covering both campaigns in

Battleground, Wisconsin right now, one of the handful of states that will decide this historic

race. First, let's bring in CNN's Kristen Holmes. She's following the Trump campaign for us in Milwaukee right now.

Kristen Trump has been responding to questions about his ugly, cheney comments throughout the day.

Yeah, Wolf, that's right.

And one of the things that's so surprising about this is when is the last time you heard Donald Trump actually try to clean up his own remarks?

Generally, he says something and then lets his campaign deal with the fallout.

But this clearly has an impact that his campaign, and he think could potentially touch voters

who are heading to the polls in just a matter of days.

In some states, already there.

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