PRESIDENTIAL: With Game Four of the World Series about to start, it was Kamala Harris who knocked it out of the park last night. Speaking on the Ellipse in front of the White House where Donald Trump inspired the January 6^th insurrection,  Harris ticked through an agenda of plans including restoring abortion rights, expanding the child tax credit, building affordable housing, and Medicare payment for elderly care. 

  Using her new line she said, “On Day One, if elected, Donald Trump would walk into that office with an enemies list. When elected, I will walk in, with a to-do list.”

  Harris was looking not to demean Trump voters but to separate them from him. “I pledge to seek common ground and common-sense solutions to make your lives better,” her crowd last night. “I am not looking to score political points. I am looking to make progress.”

  She still had some pointed barbs for Trump saying that when Americans wrested freedom from a tyrant, “They did not struggle, sacrifice and lay down their lives, only to see us cede our fundamental freedoms, only to see us submit to the will of another petty tyrant.” She went on, “The United States of America is not a vessel for the schemes of wannabe dictators. The United States of America is the greatest idea humanity ever devised.”

TRUMP LOVE: An hour into a rambling press conference in which he was expected to say something … anything … apologetic about his hateful, racist, antisemitic Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden, Donald Trump described it as a “love fest.”

  “Politicians that have been doing this for a long time, 30 and 40 years, said there’s never been an event so beautiful, it was like a love fest, an absolute love fest.”

  To recap, the warmup comedian on Sunday said Puerto Rico is an island of garbage. He made a joke about Blacks and watermelon and said Jews don’t want to part with money. One speaker said Vice President Kamala Harris is the “antichrist” and another said Harris “and her pimp handlers will destroy the country.”  Conservative media host Tucker Carlson referred to Harris as “Samoan/Malaysian low IQ.”

  And yet Trump said “That was love in the room and it was love for our country.”

GARBAGE CLEANUP: President Biden punched a hole in the Harris ship attempting to denounce the Trump camp for the Puerto Rico joke. Puerto Ricans are “good, decent honorable people,” Biden said, then “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his, his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”

  The Trump campaign immediately seized on that as comparable to Hillary Clinton calling Trump supporters “deplorables.”

  The White House said that’s not what Biden meant and released a transcript that showed the President was saying “his supporter’s” demonization, meaning that Hinchcliffe’s demonization was garbage.

THE WAR ROOM: An Israeli airstrike on a multistory building in northern Gaza killed more than 90 people, including 25 children, according to Palestinian authorities.

 The US called Tuesday’s strike “horrifying.” Israel’s military said it was targeting a “suspected terrorist” and is “trying to understand” why so many people were in the area at the time. It’s always a mystery why they are certain their targets are in the building but don’t know why there are also noncombatants.

THE BOYS OF SUMMER: The New York Yankees crushed the Los Angeles Dodgers 11-4 last night to stay alive in the World Series. Game five that’s now 3-1 for the Dodgers is tonight in New York.

  The Yankees were trailing 2-1 in the third inning when Yankee shortstop hit a grand slam and the New Yorkers were never behind again.

  Two fans were ejected in the first inning when Dodgers’ right fielder Mookie Betts reached above the wall to snag a fly ball and the two men actually pried the ball out of his glove letting it drop back to the field. The play was called an out.

  The prime offender was identified as Austin Capobianco, 38, of Connecticut, a season ticket holder.

THE OBIT PAGE: The offbeat and funny actress Teri Garr, who was a star in the movies “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” winning an Oscar nomination for the latter, died yesterday at home in Los Angeles. She was 79. The cause was given as complications of multiple sclerosis.

  The Blonde and sassy Garr  had great comic timing playing against male actors who were much bigger stars. In “Tootsie” she was a neglected friend-turned-girlfriend of an actor played by Dustin Hoffman who was posing as a woman to get better roles. In “Oh God,”  she put up with a husband played by John Denver who told everyone he was hanging out with God in the personage of George Burns.

  Garr was funny even in talking about her 2002 diagnosis with MS. In a CNN interview she said “When I was jogging, I would get this horrible pain in my arm like a knife stabbing. And I thought, well, I’m in Central Park — well, maybe it is a knife stabbing.”

THE SPIN RACK: Following the lead of The Los Angeles Times and Washington Post, the Gannett company said its flagship USA Today and 200 publications will not endorse a candidate for president. … A 70-year-old man holed up in an Atlanta hotel room fired 15 shots through the walls at police before he surrendered. — Gisele Bündchen, the Brazilian model and ex-wife of former NFL quarterback Tom Brady is expecting a baby with her Jiu-Jitsu instructor and boyfriend, Joaquim Valente. Brady and Bündchen have two children together, Ben, 14, and Vivian, 11.

BELOW THE FOLD: The Starbucks coffee chain is in a panic about falling sales and profits. One of the problems they cite is long lines caused by customers ordering “Frankendrinks,” you know, the hipster in front of you who says, “I’ll have a double half-cap pumpkin spice oat milk latte with a shot of hazelnut.”

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