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Kamala Harris made her pitch to swing state voters to keep Donald Trump out of the White House in Madison, Wisconsin on Friday following her event with Oprah Winfrey.
“In many ways, you’ve heard me say before, he is an unserious man,” Harris told the crowd on Friday.
“But the consequences of putting him back in the White House are extremely serious. Just Google Project 2025,” she added.
Meanwhile, the Harris campaign has released a new ad seeking to tie Trump to embattled North Carolina Lt Gov Mark Robinson, engulfed in a scandal relating to online posts on a porn forum.
There are reports that Robinson will not be attending a Trump rally organized in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Saturday, suggesting the former president’s campaign team may be trying to distance him from the scandal.
Harris told Oprah on Thursday night that she would shoot an intruder in her home as the vice president addressed gun violence, the cost of living, reproductive rights, and immigration.
Also on Friday, Harris held a rally focused on reproductive rights in Atlanta, Georgia. Trump held a fundraiser in Miami, Florida.
Despite warning from local officials, Georgia’s GOP-led elections board OKs controversial voting change
The Republican-controlled Georgia State Election Board has given the green light to a controversial voting measure that local officials warned against.
The new rule requires local precincts to hand count the upcoming November election results and match them to the machine counts before certifying them.
Gustaf Kilander has the details.
Elections board OKs controversial voting change that local officials warned against
New rule requires local precincts to hand count November election results and match them to machine counts before certifying them
Jimmy Kimmel heckles Trump over crowd sizes
Jimmy Kimmel has ridiculed Donald Trump over his obsession with crowd sizes.
During his latest rally in Uniondale, Long Island, the former president boasted that he draws bigger crowds than Elvis Presley.
“So I call up my wife, and I’d say, ‘Baby, who can draw crowds like me’,” Trump told attendees. “Nobody, nobody can. I’m the greatest of all time, maybe greater even than Elivs. Elvis had a guitar. I don’t have the privilege of a guitar.”
Finishing Trump’s thought on the latest episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the late-night host joked: “Thanks to my tiny baby hands, I am unable to play the guitar.”
Inga Parkel has more.
Jimmy Kimmel heckles Trump over crowd sizes and ‘tiny baby hands’
Trump recently boasted that nobody ‘can draw crowds like me’
Watch: Crowd cheers Harris as she mentions debate — and says she’s trying to get another one
Rep Jasmine Crockett is back at it with her famous one-liners
Texas Democrat Jasmine Crockett defended Kamala Harris after the head of the Federal Communications Commission criticized the Biden-Harris administration’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
Kelly Rissman reports on what she had to say.
‘Simple-minded, underqualified white man’: Rep Crockett fires off another one-liners
‘This election is the best example of why y’all are so afraid of diversity, equity and inclusion,’ Rep Crockett slammed
Watch: Harris notes multiple ironies about Republicans blocking bill guaranteeing access to IVF
ICYMI: Stunning report details North Carolina Republican candidate’s posts about self on porn forum
North Carolina’s Republican candidate for governor, Mark Robinson, referred to himself as a “black Nazi” and said “slavery is good,” among other shocking remarks, on a porn forum, according to reporting from CNN’s KFile.
Earlier on Thursday, independent journalist Bryan Anderson had said that Robinson’s campaign was bearing down a negative story about to break. A few hours later, CNN’s KFile reported that he had an account on a porn site called “Nude Africa” where the anti-transgender conservative admitted that “I like watching tranny on girl porn!”
The social conservative, who has taken a stance against promiscuity in the past, wrote: “yeah, I’m a perv too,” and reportedly said on the same site when told that a celebrity had had an abortion: “I don’t care. I just wanna see the tape!”
Robinson denies the allegations and told CNN that the account they had found on the porn site was not his.
Eric Garcia and John Bowden report.
‘Black Nazi’ and ‘perv’: Republican candidate’s stunning posts about self on forum
Harris team wasted no time in tweeting about Trump’s warm relationship with Robinson
Harris calls out hypocrites over care for women and children in remarks on reproductive rights
Citing a lack of resources of prenatal resources for women in southern states, Harris says: “These hypocrites want to start talking about this is in the best interest of women and children. Well, where have you been? Where have you been when it comes to taking care of the women and children of America?”
Matt Gaetz: New court filings accuse congressman of attending drug-fueled sex party with teen
Rep. Matt Gaetz, the MAGA-fied Florida Republican, attended a drugged-up sex party with a 17-year-old girl he has long claimed not to know, according to three eyewitnesses cited in court papers filed late Thursday night.
They said the underage teen showed up in her mom’s car for the July 15, 2017, gathering, which was held at lobbyist Chris Dorworth’s Lake Mary home, NOTUS reported. A high school junior at the time, the girl was provided for the enjoyment of Gaetz and the other attendees who were there to “engage in sexual activities,” while indulging in “alcohol, cocaine, ecstasy … and marijuana,” the court filings said.
Justin Rohrlich reports.
Matt Gaetz accused in new court filings of attending drug-fueled sex party with teen
The sworn affidavits contain details that previously only existed as rumors, according to a new report
‘Amber was not a statistic’: Mother of woman who died after delayed abortion care speaks out at Harris-Oprah event
The mother of a woman who died after waiting 20 hours for emergency medical care for an infection caused by an abortion pill complication shared her daughter’s heartbreaking final moments at a Thursday evening rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in Michigan.
“Initially I did not want the public to know my pain,” Amber Nicole Thurman’s mother, Shanette Williams, told the audience at the Unite America rally, where Harris was joined by Oprah Winfrey. “I wanted to go through it in silence, but I realized that it was selfish.
Madeline Sherratt reports.
Mother of woman who died after abortion care delay speaks out at Harris rally
‘You’re looking at a mother that is broken’ she told the Harris-Oprah audience
Watch LIVE: Harris delivers remarks at a campaign event in Atlanta
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