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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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Harris campaign publishes ad referencing Trump comedian’s ‘island of garbage’ joke

Gustaf Kilander31 October 2024 18:20
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Live: Trump holds New Mexico rally on Halloween

Gustaf Kilander31 October 2024 18:01
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Former Trump attorney has law license suspended for 2020 plot

Kenneth Chesebro’s law license in New York has been suspended over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

The attorney, who helped put together the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot, pleaded guilty in October last year to being part of a conspiracy in the Georgia election subversion case.

In June of this year, Chesebro was charged with forgery in Wisconsin by the state’s attorney general.

Gustaf Kilander31 October 2024 18:00
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Jesse Watters tells his wife that secretly voting for Kamala Harris would be like ‘having an affair’

Fox News host Jesse Watters said during a segment of The Five that if his wife secretly voted for Vice President Kamala Harris, it would be “like having an affair.”

The panel was discussing a recent Harris campaign ad voiced by actress Jessica Roberts, suggesting to women that they can vote for the VP without telling their Trump-backing husbands.

Watters admitted in 2018 that his relationship with his now-wife Emma DiGiovine began as an affair during his first marriage. DiGiovine was a producer on his show at the time, according to Mediaite. The affair led to Watters’s first wife filing for divorce.

Jesse Watters says secretly voting for Kamala Harris would be like ‘having an affair’

Fox News host says vote for Harris ‘violates the sanctity of our marriage. What else is she keeping from me? What is she lying about?’

Gustaf Kilander31 October 2024 17:40
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Walz says women voters will ‘send a loud and clear message to Donald Trump'

Tim Walz said on Thursday that women voters will “send a loud and clear message to Donald Trump ... whether he likes it or not.”

The Harris campaign has seized on comments from Trump on Wednesday night saying that he would protect women whether they “like it or not.”

Gustaf Kilander31 October 2024 17:20
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Liz Cheney calls Charlie Kirk a ‘twit’ as he slams Harris campaign over ad aimed at women

Former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who has endorsed Harris, called rightwing activist Charlie Kirk a “twit as he lambasted the Democrat’s campaign for urging women to vote for the vice president without telling their husbands.

Gustaf Kilander31 October 2024 17:00
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Two-thirds of Americans are anxious about the election, new poll finds

Most Americans are anxious and frustrated right now but also gripped by the campaign for the White House as it enters its final days, according to a new poll.

While Democrats and Republicans largely have similar emotions about the upcoming showdown, the former are more likely to be anxious compared to their conservative counterparts, according to the AP-NORC poll.

Gustaf Kilander has more.

Two-thirds of Americans are anxious about the election, new poll finds

Democrats more likely to be anxious than Republicans and independents, according to survey

Joe Sommerlad31 October 2024 16:40
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‘I went trick-or-treating with the Bidens. The scariest thing there was the president’

Our White House correspondent Andrew Feinberg just returned from a Halloween visit at the White House – and a tough talk with some anxious Democratic operatives.

I went trick-or-treating with the Bidens. The scariest thing there was the president

On Halloween, the president reminded Democrats how terrifying a gaffe can be

Joe Sommerlad31 October 2024 16:25
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Jake Paul endorses Trump

You probably already know whether this matters to you but, if not, here’s the social media personality and boxer explaining himself – and admitting to being nervous about what his decision might mean for his career if it doesn’t pay off.

Jake Paul admits he’s ‘nervous’ as he reveals presidential endorsement in new video

Jake Paul admits he’s “nervous” as he reveals his presidential endorsement in a 20-minute video. The YouTube star and boxer posted a video on X, on Thursday (31 October), revealing who he has chosen to support in the US presidential election. The 27-year-old said: “I am nervous and scared to make this video because of what it means in terms of my career and life and people coming after me.” Paul continues: “I don’t know everything but these are my opinions. “Please vote, for the love of God, go exercise your right to vote.” Watch the video above to find out his decision.

Joe Sommerlad31 October 2024 16:10
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Mike Johnson denies saying what he was caught on camera saying

“They” are always “taking things out of context” aren’t they?

I think this reading from Harris’s spokesperson is a lot closer to the truth.

But you can judge for yourself about the House Speaker’s comments on “taking a blowtorch” to the Affordable Care Act by checking the tape below.

In the same interview with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo this morning, Johnson also insists that this time there really will be a “red wave” on Election Day, which emphatically did not materialise during the 2022 midterms, despite much hype.

Joe Sommerlad31 October 2024 15:55

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