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Cardi B give passionate speech at Harris rally in Milwaukee as Trump suffers mic problems at nearby event: Live

Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are holding rallies in Milwaukee in the crucial state of Wisconsin this evening

Cardi B gives passionate speech attacking Trump’s record on women at Harris rally

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The final poll from The Times and YouGov finds that Kamala Harris is set to narrowly win enough swing states to take the White House.

“We find that Kamala Harris very narrowly wins enough of those states to become America’s first female president,” Times US Assistant Editor David Charter said on Friday.

This comes as a Harris campaign official has said they “fully expect” former President Donald Trump to declare victory before all votes have been counted.

“It won’t work,” the official said during a press call.

“He did this before. It failed,” they added. “If he does it again, it will fail.”

With four days of campaigning to go in the 2024 race, Harris and Trump are making their final pitches, spending Friday evening hosting competing rallies in Wisconsin where they will attempt to appeal to “blue wall” voters.

Having already addressed two gatherings of his supporters on Thursday, the former president ended his day in a sit-down interview with Tucker Carlson on stage in Glendale, Arizona, at which he shockingly fantasized about former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney being shot at.

Cheney has since hit back at Trump, calling him “a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.”

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Trump campaign files FEC complaint against Harris campaign and The Washington Post

The Trump campaign has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission accusing the Harris campaign and The Washington Post of making “in-kind contributions” by paying platforms to boost articles that portray the former president in a negative light.

“The Post’s own articles support a reasonable inference that the Harris team provided information about the content of communications that is material to The Washington Post’s communications, providing reason to believe the conduct prong is satisfied,” an attorney for the Trump campaign wrote in a letter to the FEC. “Thus, there is reason to believe The Washington Post has made coordinated communications, which constitute illegal corporate in-kind contributions to Harris for President, and that Harris for President has accepted such contributions.”

Gustaf Kilander1 November 2024 18:20
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JD Vance claims teens become trans to bolster chances of getting into Ivy League schools

JD Vance claimed during an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan that teenagers become “trans” to better their chances of getting into Ivy League schools.

In the three-hour episode of The Joe Rogan Experience that was released on Thursday, the Ohio senator and Republican vice presidential nominee also claimed that some women “celebrate” their abortions and that studies show that “testosterone levels in young men” are connected to “conservative politics.”

Vance spent significant amounts of time criticizing transgender and nonbinary people, and added that he believed he and former President Donald Trump are likely to win the “normal gay guy vote.”

JD Vance claims teens become trans to get into Ivy League schools

Republican vice presidential nominee claims being in ‘poor health and overweight’ makes you more ‘politically liberal’

Gustaf Kilander1 November 2024 18:00
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GOP congressman ‘a little lost’ over Trump’s Cheney remarks

GOP congressman Tim Burchett expressed confusion over Donald Trump’s recent remarks that about Liz Cheney, during which he shockingly fantasized about her being shot at.

Speaking on CNN on Friday, he said the former president’s comments had him “a little lost.”

Mike Bedigan1 November 2024 17:45
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43ft nude Trump statue pops up again in swing state – and local GOP leader isn’t happy

A 43-foot tall nude effigy to Donald Trump has popped up once again just days before Election Day – this time along a busy highway in swing state Pennsylvania.

The giant statue of the former president appeared on Thursday along Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia where it caught the attention of locals, police – and Philadelphia’s Republican party leader.

Read more here:

43ft nude Trump statue pops up again in swing state and local GOP leader isn’t happy

The giant nude figure has previously sprung up in Las Vegas, Detroit, and Phoenix

Mike Bedigan1 November 2024 17:30
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Watch: Trump repeats threats agains Liz Cheney

Trump repeats threats agains Liz Cheney
Mike Bedigan1 November 2024 17:15
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Trump’s record of leaking intelligence and doubts over his new team have allies worried, experts say

With days to go until America decides who will become the next president, there are concerns among some US allies over one of the most important aspects of their alliance with the world’s most powerful nation — intelligence-sharing.

While a Kamala Harris presidency is expected to fit into a more predictable pattern of intelligence-handling, security experts say some US allies have more “anxiety” about the alternative: Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

The Independent spoke to experts in intelligence, national security, and foreign policy from the UK, Australia, and Canada on the implications of a second Trump term. They all agreed the stakes couldn’t be higher — and suggested the Republican candidate’s track record when it comes to leaking secret intelligence is one of their causes for concern.

Trump’s record of leaking intelligence and doubts over new team have allies worried

As the presidential race narrows, Rhian Lubin speaks to experts in intelligence, national security, and foreign policy from the UK, Australia, and Canada on the implications of a Trump second term

Rhian Lubin1 November 2024 17:00
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‘Stupid b***ard’ and ‘sleazebag’: Trump launches profanity-laden attacks on Biden and Harris in sitdown with Carlson

Former President Donald Trump launched a profanity-laden attack on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, calling the president a “stupid bastard” and the vice president a “sleazebag.”

“When Biden got up with a red background, the pink background, and he looked like the devil. he looked so stupid, right?” Trump said. “And he said, ‘We will stop MAGA’ ... I said, ‘Listen, you stupid b***ard’. ... Maga means ... I think if you asked him, what does it mean, he does he doesn’t know what Maga means. Make America Great Again, that’s what MAGA means.”

Trump launches profanity-laden attacks on Biden and Harris in sitdown with Carlson

Former president slams Democratic rival for suggestion attendees leave his rallies out of exhaustion and boredom

Gustaf Kilander1 November 2024 16:40
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Harris ahead in national polls while Trump leads several battlegrounds, forecast shows

Nate Silver’s presidential election forecast shows Kamala Harris ahead in the national polls by just over one percentage point with just a few days to go until Election Day.

But Donald Trump is narrowly ahead in several battleground states, including Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, while Harris has small leads in Michigan and Wisconsin.

Gustaf Kilander1 November 2024 16:20
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Taylor Swift and Beyonce are the latest musicians to shun Donald Trump - but who else has rejected him?

Musicians and Donald Trump have a fraught relationship. From ordering him to stop playing their music to calling out his politics, some of the highest-profile artists in the world have aligned themselves against the former president, who is campaigning in the 2024 election against Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

While several prominent singers have been calling out Trump as long ago as 1989, when he was a promoter for the Rolling Stones (Keith Richards was not a fan), his time as president prompted many more to criticise him at shows, write protest songs about him, or mock him from their social media accounts.

From his 2016 presidential campaign to his bid in the 2024 election, here’s an extensive timeline of some of the most notable moments involving Trump and the music industry.

A complete timeline of the musicians who rejected Trump

Few former presidents have inspired such strong reactions from some of the biggest names in the music industry

Roisin O'Connor1 November 2024 16:00
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VOICES: Jeff Bezos needs to choose: be a Trump puppet or a courageous newspaper owner

The dog that didn’t bark was one of Sherlock Holmes’s most famous three-pipe mysteries. There is, by contrast, no great puzzle about the newspaper that didn’t endorse. Jeff Bezos decreed it. And when you’re in the top three richest in the world, people tend to do what you ask them to do.

Thus we have one of the world’s great news organisations, The Washington Post (hereinafter the WashPo), now not telling its readers which candidate it considers would make the best next US president. Its voice has been silenced – by its owner.

Jeff Bezos needs to choose: be a Trump puppet or a courageous newspaper owner

When Bezos ordered The Washington Post to endorse neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris for the American presidency, he betrayed a great tradition of his newspaper, says Alan Rusbridger. And losing your bottle when it matters means losing readers, too

Alan Rusbridger1 November 2024 15:40

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