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Trump and Harris polls tighten with days to go as former president sues CBS News for $10bn: 2024 election live updates

Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are out on the campaign trail in Nevada and Arizona this evening as the former files lawsuit against CBS News

Donald Trump, dressed as a garbage man, says he will protect women ‘whether they like it or not’

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Donald Trump is suing CBS News for $10bn alleging that the 60 Minutes interview with his rival Kamala Harris was deceptively edited to unlawfully influence the 2024 presidential election.

Thursday’s long-shot claim, filed less than a week before Election Day, follows his obsessive attacks on CBS and threats to revoke its license.

With five days of campaigning to go in the 2024 race, Harris and Trump are making their final pitches to voters, spending Thursday at rallies across the crucial Sun Belt states of Arizona and Nevada.

The Democratic presidential nominee hit back at her Republican rival after he vowed to “protect” women “whether the women like it or not” at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Wednesday.

“Donald Trump thinks he should get to make decisions about what you do with your body. Whether you like it or not,” Harris posted on X.

In a bizarre stunt prior to that speech, Trump had posed in a garbage truck dressed as a sanitation worker in an attempt to troll Harris and Joe Biden after the latter allegedly called MAGA voters “garbage” in anger over comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s already-notorious Madison Square Garden joke about Puerto Rico.

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Trump claims he doesn’t want to ‘end Obamacare’

Trump lambasted Harris for saying that he wants to “end Obamacare,” which he and Congressional Republicans attempted to do several times during his presidency.

“We've come up with something better that will be great, and everybody wants that because Obamacare sort of sucks. It's too expensive for the people,” Trump said.

Gustaf Kilander31 October 2024 19:46
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Trump calls electric vehicle initiatives ‘gestapo stuff’

Gustaf Kilander31 October 2024 19:39
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Jack Smith responds to Trump’s latest motion to dismiss election interference case

Just in: Jack Smith responds to Trump’s latest motion to dismiss his election interference case on grounds that the special counsel is illegally appointed/funded.

Smith argues that Trump failed to make a timely request — he could’ve argued this ages ago — and that he’s relying on “deeply flawed” arguments that aren’t backed by case law or precedent.

Alex Woodward31 October 2024 19:35
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Trump blasts Biden for ‘garbage’ comments

The former president responded to Biden seemingly calling Trump supporters “garbage.”

“Two days ago, Joe Biden called our supporters garbage, you’re garbage. He called you garbage. He called all of us garbage,” Trump said in New Mexico. “I remember the word ‘deplorable.’ You remember the word. How did that work out Hillary? Not too good. But they mean it, even though, without question, my supporters are of far higher quality, and I think much smarter than crooked Joe or lyin’ Kamala.”

“For the past nine years, Kamala and her party have called us racist bigots, fascists, deplorables, irredeemable Nazis, and they called me Hitler. I'm Hitler. That's what they say,” he added. “They bullied you, they've demeaned you, they've demonized us. They've censored us, de-platformed us, and weaponized the power of our government against their political opponent – me.”

Gustaf Kilander31 October 2024 19:27
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VIDEO: Trump mocks Harris and Biden phone call in new 'garbage' dig

Trump mocks Harris and Biden phone call in new 'garbage' dig
Noopur Jambhekar31 October 2024 19:20
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Trump says US is ‘picking up’ China’s ‘garbage'

Trump claimed that the US is “picking up” China’s “garbage” as he blasted green policies.

“We're out there nice clean air, but the air from China blows over our country every three and a half to four days, and when they dump their garbage into the ocean, it floats on by in the Pacific, it floats on by Los Angeles. It's a lovely sight to see,” Trump said.

Gustaf Kilander31 October 2024 19:20
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Crowd chants ‘God bless Trump’ amid apparent medical emergency

As a doctor appeared to deal with a medical emergency in the crowd, the audience chanted “USA” and “God Bless Trump.”

The former president then requested that his team play God Bless America, but the team played Trump’s intro song God Bless the USA instead.

Gustaf Kilander31 October 2024 19:00
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Trump plays video of mother blaming Harris for death of 12-year-old daughter

Trump played a video showing a mother speaking about the murder of her 12-year-old daughter, blaming Kamala Harris and Democratic border policies.

“There are hundreds and even thousands of cases like that, and it's people coming into this country that are horrible people, horrible people, I don't like saying that, but they're horrible people,” Trump said. “And they come in totally unvetted, totally unchecked through this ridiculous open border policy that she and the radical left have.”

Gustaf Kilander31 October 2024 18:57
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Trump claims about winning New Mexico twice fact checked: ‘Just so much wild lying'

Gustaf Kilander31 October 2024 18:52
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Trump conducts impromptu ‘poll’

Trump conducted an impromptu “poll” during his New Mexico rally about whether Hispanic people prefer the term Latino.

The crowd at the rally strongly showed their preference for the term Hispanic.

Trump appeared to attempt to improve his relationship with Hispanic voters, showering them with praise, after several speakers at his Sunday event at Madison Square Garden made denigrating comments about the group, including one calling Puerto Rico an “island of floating garbage.”

Gustaf Kilander31 October 2024 18:47

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