Harris vows action on border, healthcare and prices and hits ‘petty tyrant’ Trump in closing argument speech: Live

It appears that Donald Trump is already lining up a scapegoat if he loses the election - chair of the Republican National Committee Michael Whatley.

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With just one week to go before Election Day... can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump to the White House?

Bad Bunny posted a reel to Instagram in which he made reference to a racist joke about Puerto Rico made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe.

The rapper, who is from Puerto Rico, shared a video which celebrated the culture of his country – but captioned it “garbage.”

At Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in New York on Sunday, Hinchcliffe’s described Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage,” prompting a fierce backlash.

Commentators pointed out that Donald Trump looked and sounded “exhuasted” during his remarks in Mar-a-Lago, to which he was over an hour late.

Trump once again accused Harris of running a “campaign of hate” as he continues to face fallout from his alleged remarks about Adolf Hitler, and his rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, in which comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made racist remarks about Puerto Ricans.

“Kamala will keep this misery as long as she can because that’s the only way she can get elected,” he told supporters at Mar-a-Lago.

Donald Trump kicked off his remarks at Mar-a-Lago by telling his supporters that things were going “very well” before launching into a typical attack on his Democratic rival.

The former president accused Kamala Harris of causing “war and chaos all over the world” and said that “bloodshed and squalor to our cities is common.”

“Everything is blowing up or getting ready to blow up,” he said. “No other person has caused so much destruction and death.”

“I’m running on a plan to save Amercia – we have no choice, it’s the greatest there is.”

A mysterious bronze-colored, tiki torch statue has popped up in Washington DC in a “tribute” to Donald Trump’s infamous comments calling white nationalists who marched through Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 “very fine people.”

The satirical effigy – which sits only a few blocks from the White House on Freedom Plaza – was erected on Monday and depicts a large hand clutching a tiki torch, a symbol that has become negatively associated with white supremacy in the US.

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If you missed this weird Trump fever dream from last night’s Atlanta gathering in which he joked about MTG meeting a violent end in an exploding vehicle, James Liddell has the details.

Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon wasted no time in getting back to work and immediately bashed Vice President Kamala Harris as a “fascist” in his return to the airwaves Tuesday after his release from federal prison.

“The four months in federal prison not only didn’t break me, but it empowered me,” the 70-year-old told his “War Room” podcast listeners hours after his release.

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An advertising company removed a large billboard along an Ohio highway presenting a fake image of the Democratic presidential nominee about to engage in a sex act surrounded by text that reads: “Kamala can’t talk right now. She’s at a baby shower.”

It had been posted along a highway on Friday in Licking County but was removed on Sunday, Kennedy Outdoor Advertising told The Newark Advocate.

A spokesperson told the outlet the billboard was taken down “once it was brought to our attention how vulgar the advertisement actually was.”

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