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STORY: Former U.S. president Donald Trump lost his bid to delay his pending civil lawsuit for fraud in New York. That means he will most likely go to court on Monday, October 2nd over claims he fraudulently overvalued his assets and properties – including his sprawling Mar-a-Lago estate – to get better terms on loans. A five-judge panel on a New York appeals court on Thursday dismissed a motion Trump filed against trial judge Arthur Engoron in a lawsuit targeting the judge, that sought to postpone the trial. Their rejection also came after Engoron ruled Trump was liable for fraud on Tuesday. The judge said there was “conclusive evidence” that Trump overstated his fortune by as much as $2.2 billion, in his partial summary judgement for the case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Trump’s lawyers accused Engoron of ignoring a previous court order which, according to Trump, required gutting James’ case because many of her claims were too old, but Engoron said on Tuesday he believed the previous ruling from an appeals court had little effect on the case itself. Letitia James has probed Trump for years. The state attorney general sued Trump last November, seeking at least $250 million in penalties, bans on some of Trump’s children from running businesses in New York, and a commercial-estate ban against Trump and the Trump Organization. Late Wednesday, the attorney general’s office disclosed lists of witnesses, potentially numbering in the hundreds. Donald Trump and his adult sons appear on both lists. As do former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg and controller Jeffrey McConney. The list also includes Trump’s onetime personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, and his daughter Ivanka Trump, who was previously dismissed as a defendant in June. Lawyers for Trump and other defendants did not respond to a request for comment, nor did the attorney general’s office. The New York civil fraud case is unrelated to four criminal indictments that Trump faces, including one for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all his legal woes, and has called himself the victim of a Democratic witch hunt.

President Joe Biden issued a dire warning Thursday that Donald Trump and his "extremist" MAGA allies are a serious threat to American democracy. And he urged Americans not to 'sit on the sidelines,' but instead engage to save the nation. (Sept. 28)

The New York attorney general's $250 million civil trial against the former president will proceed on Monday as planned.

Republican presidential candidates held another debate Thursday night, but GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, up by over 30 points in Iowa and New Hampshire, wasn't there. CBS News reporter Musadiq Bidar has more.

GOP voters are reacting to the second Republican primary debate held Thursday night without the Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump. CBS News political reporter Cara Korte shares what she heard from voters at a Libertarian watch party in New Hampshire.

STORY: Donald Trump spent Wednesday (September 27) night courting blue collar voters in Michigan. Instead of joining what turned out to be a chaotic second Republican presidential debate in California. For a man who wasn't there, Trump’s presence remained heavy in the room as his seven Republican rivals used the debate to attack him. Among them, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis called out Trump for being “missing in action” and for adding trillions of dollars to the national debt, saying: “He should be on this stage tonight. He owes it to you to defend his record.” This comes after months of avoiding direct conflict with the former president, as DeSantis’ poll numbers plunged from previously being a viable Trump alternative. Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who is a frequent Trump critic, accused Trump of being “afraid”, calling him “Donald Duck” for “ducking” the debate. Mike Pence, who was Trump’s vice president, offered a mild critique of his desire to centralize power in the federal government. While former United Nations envoy Nikki Haley, who was also once South Carolina governor, said Trump’s trade-focused approach to China was wrong. The Republican rivals also hit out at Democratic President Joe Biden - and, even more so, at one another. But as the debate ended, none of the seven candidates on stage appeared to have secured any sort of breakout moment that could loosen Trump's grip on the primary contest. The former President’s four criminal indictments went virtually unmentioned during the two-hour broadcast. Trump leads his nearest rival for the nomination by 37 percentage points in a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll. Minutes before the debate kicked off, Trump delivered a speech to striking autoworkers in the battleground state of Michigan. Telling them their pay talks with America’s three biggest carmakers didn’t matter, because Biden’s push for electric vehicles was about to kill all their jobs. “Biden's mandate isn't a government regulation it's a government assassination of your jobs and of your industry. The auto industry is being assassinated and it makes no difference what you get.” Wednesday marked the second time Trump has shunned the GOP debate this election cycle. “Do me a favor. Just get your union guys, your leaders, to endorse me and I'll take care of the rest.” Trump's decision signals a focus on beating Biden - rather than the Republican contenders who trail him badly in the polls.

STORY: Trump accused President Joe Biden's push to promote electric vehicle production of killing jobs across the industry, saying, "The auto industry is being assassinated and it makes no difference what you get." Choosing to skip the second Republican presidential debate scheduled on the same night, Trump repeatedly called for the United Auto Workers union and its leader Shawn Fain to endorse him for next year's presidential election. "Endorse Trump and you can take a nice two-month vacation, come back and you guys are going to be better than you ever were. Because the other way you won't have a vacation, Shawn. And in a short period of time, you're not going to have a union, you're not going to have jobs, you're not going to have anything." To date, the UAW has declined to support either presidential candidate. With Biden joining a picket line on Tuesday to show solidarity with the United Auto Workers union members against the United States' top three carmakers, it highlights the importance both Trump and Biden place on securing support from working-class voters in battleground states such as Michigan in next year's presidential race.

Former President Donald Trump loomed large over the second Republican primary debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, even as he skipped the contest to deliver a speech outside Detroit. CBS News' Ed O'Keefe and Fin Gómez have more.

In a statement released after the second Republican presidential debate, Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita called the event "boring and inconsequential." LaCivita speaks with CBS News political director Fin Gómez about his takeaways of the night.

Donald Trump was in electoral battleground Michigan Wednesday night working to win over blue collar voters by lambasting President Joe Biden and his push for electric cars in the midst of an autoworkers’ strike. (Sept. 27)

Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sat down with Norah O'Donnell to make the first public response to former President Donald Trump's shocking recent comments, which suggested that Milley deserved execution for communications the general had with China during the final months of the Trump administration.

Former President Donald Trump is passing up the opportunity to go toe-to-toe with his competition for a second time at Wednesday's Republican presidential debate in California. Republican National Committee spokesperson Madison Gesiotto Gilbert joins "America Decides" to preview the second primary debate.

Seven leading Republican presidential candidates, excluding Trump, will go head-to-head once again Wednesday night in Simi Valley, California.