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Trump falsely claims the US just experienced its highest inflation period ever as he address PA town hall: live

Donald Trump is speaking at a town hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania, while Kamala Harris heads to Erie

Donald Trump tells Fox he would call in troops against US citizens

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Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are heading to Pennsylvania Monday as they battle it out for the key swing state.

The former president is holding a town hall event in Oaks at 6 p.m. while Harris is set to speak in Erie later in the evening.

Their campaign stops come as the armed suspect arrested at a Trump rally in California on Saturday has insisted that he’s been “embedded with the Trump people on countless occasions.”

Vem Miller told The Independent that he’s not a would-be presidential assassin, but merely “an artist.”

He added that he has been to Trump rallies in the past and that he tells officers that he works “closely with the Trump campaign and individuals within the Trump campaign.”

Meanwhile, Fox News has revealed that Harris has agreed to sit for an interview with the network to be broadcast on Wednesday.

The interview will be conducted by chief political anchor Bret Baier and is set to be recorded near Pennsylvania shortly before airing.

Fox News said the vice president is expected to sit for about half an hour of questions. It will be Harris’s first formal interview with the conservative network.

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WATCH: 'I'll be the first to let you know': Trump hits out at media boasting his ‘ranting and raving’

'I'll be the first to let you know': Trump hits out at media boasting his ‘ranting and raving’
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Harris says it’s not her ‘experience’ that Black men are leaving Democrats for Trump

Gustaf Kilander14 October 2024 21:30
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Trump accused of ‘mimicking’ infamous Nazi rally with Madison Square Garden event

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville claimed that Donald Trump’s forthcoming rally at Madison Square Garden is mimicking a pro-Adolf Hitler Nazi event held at the venue more than 80 years ago.

With just 22 days to go until Americans head to polling stations to cast their ballots, the 79-year-old appeared on Sunday’s episode of MSNBC’s Inside with Jen Psaki.

Carville claimed that Trump’s volatile language is reminiscent of rhetoric used during the Third Reich, as he urged the Harris campaign to switch up its attack lines from Trump being “weird” to downright “scary.”

“I did not realize when I said that that he would actually go on television and say, I’m going to use the military to round up my political enemies,” Carville said.

Trump accused of ‘mimicking’ infamous Nazi rally with Madison Square Garden event

James Carville took a swipe at Trump following the former president’s comments about deploying the National Guard to handle ‘radical left lunatics’ on Election Day

James Liddell14 October 2024 21:00
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Abortion most important issue for women under 30, survey shows

Abortion has become the most important issue for women under 30 since Vice President Kamala Harris entered the race for the White House, according to a new survey.

The KFF Survey of Women Voters found that reproductive rights have become the top issue, beating out inflation, which took the top spot earlier this summer.

Thirty-nine percent of women now list abortion as their top issue – double the number who said so in June.

Gustaf Kilander14 October 2024 20:30
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‘New York is reeling’: Trump campaign officially announces Madison Square Garden

The Trump campaign has issued its official announcement of the upcoming rally for the former president in Madison Square Garden in Manhattan.

Trump is set to deliver remarks at the stadium at 5pm on Sunday, October 27.

The Garden has a capacity of 19,500, while Trump’s average rally crowd size is about 5,600, according to the Ash Center.

“New York is reeling from the harmful effects of the dangerously liberal policies championed by Kamala Harris and Democrats like Eric Adams,” the Trump campaign said of the vice president and the New York mayor.

Trump is heading to New York, a state he’s sure to lose, as he at times treats the campaign as a national race rather than a battle for roughly seven swing states.

The Trump campaign said the former president’s “message to New York City is simple and built on his winning record: If you want to return to the strongest economy in over 60 years, rising wages, quality jobs, strong borders, and safer neighborhoods, then vote for the Trump-Vance ticket.”

Gustaf Kilander14 October 2024 20:00
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Trump slammed for suggesting woman heckler should ‘get knocked out’ at Coachella rally

Weeks after Donald Trump vowed to be a “protector” of women, he suggested a woman heckling him should get “the hell knocked out of her.”

The Republican nominee paused his October 12 rally in Coachella Valley, California, to address the woman in the crowd.

“This election is your chance to send a message,” the former president said, before turning around to the crowd apparently booing at a heckler. The boos turned to cheers when the heckler was seemingly escorted out of the California arena.

Trump then swung back to the microphone and said: “Back home to mommy. She goes back home to mommy. ‘Was that you darling?’ And then she gets the hell knocked out of her.”

Trump slammed for suggesting woman heckler should ‘get knocked out’ at rally

‘What happened to Trump being the protector of women?’ one X user wondered

Kelly Rissman14 October 2024 19:30
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Trump says immigrants who commit murder have ‘bad genes’ in ‘racist’ slam of migrants

Former President Donald Trump is claiming migrants who commit murder are predisposed to doing so because of “their genes.”

Trump made the comments while speaking on The Hugh Hewitt Show on Monday, claiming that 13,000 migrants who have entered the US are “murderers.”

“How about allowing people to come through an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers? Many of them murdered far more than one person,” Trump told the show’s host. “And they’re now happily living in the United States. You know, now a murderer — I believe this: it’s in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now. Then you had 425,000 people come into our country that shouldn’t be here that are criminals.”

Trump says immigrants who commit murder have ‘bad genes’ in ‘racist’ slam of migrants

Former president has previously said migrants were ‘poisoning the blood’ of America

Michelle Del Rey14 October 2024 19:00
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Harris to take part on first-ever formal Fox News interview

Fox News revealed on Monday that Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to sit for an interview with the network to be broadcast on Wednesday.

The interview will be conducted by chief political anchor Bret Baier and is set to be recorded near Pennsylvania shortly before airing.

Fox News said the vice president is expected to sit for about half an hour of questions.

It will be Harris’s first formal interview with the conservative network.

Gustaf Kilander14 October 2024 18:30
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What is a sovereign citizen? The anti-government group linked to armed suspect at Trump rally

As Vem Miller was arrested outside a Donald Trump rally in California on Saturday, authorities said they noticed something peculiar about his license plate: it was “obviously fake.”

The 49-year-old Las Vegas resident was pulled over about half a mile from the Coachella Valley campaign event armed with an unregistered shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine.

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said at a press conference that his deputies had “probably” just thwarted a third assassination attempt on Trump in as many months, though the Secret Service has since said that Trump “was not in any danger.”

What is a sovereign citizen? The far-right group linked to Trump rally gun suspect

Suspect who allegedly brought loaded weapon and false ID documents to Trump rally is accused of having radical, far-right ties

James Liddell14 October 2024 18:00
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Trump’s niece says Musk now ‘owns’ ex-president: ‘He’s always been up for sale’

Mary Trump is accusing her estranged uncle of having a “new owner” because of his increasingly close relationship with tech billionaire Elon Musk.

“Donald Trump has always been for sale,” she wrote in a Substack post this weekend.

“Given this decades-long pattern, it’s not surprising that the world’s richest fascist, South African jumping bean Elon Musk, would also be interested in purchasing a few shares in a man who is willing to sell whatever he can get his hands on — whether it’s steaks or American national security — because he values money more than anything.”

Josh Marcus has more.

Trump’s niece says Musk now ‘owns’ ex-president: ‘He’s always been up for sale’

Trump has promised Musk major role in overseeing government spending in any future Trump administration

Joe Sommerlad14 October 2024 17:30

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