Election 2024 live: Spike Lee and Samuel L Jackson join Harris rally, while Trump calls US ‘garbage can for the world’
Kamala Harris in Georgia with Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen on Thursday while Donald Trump heads west to Arizona and Nevada
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Kamala Harris is hosting the first of a series of get-out-the-vote events in key swing states, being joined tonight in Atlanta, Georgia by Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen, Samuel L Jackson, Tyler Perry, and Spike Lee.
Tomorrow in Houston, Texas, superstar Beyoncé will lend her support to the campaign as the vice president focuses on the future of reproductive rights. Obama and Springsteen will also appear in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
On Wednesday night Harris said she believes that Donald Trump is a “fascist” in a CNN town hall in Pennsylvania, again warning of the threat the Republican poses to the country’s future.
The former president is currently facing a fresh storm of criticism over a report alleging that he once said he needed “the kind of generals that Adolf Hitler had”, with John Kelly, his former chief of staff, saying he praised Hitler on multiple occasions.
Trump has nevertheless taken a narrow lead over Harris in a new Wall Street Journal poll with less than two weeks until Election Day, getting 47 percent of the vote in the latest survey, with Harris two points behind.
In a rally in Tempe, Arizona, this evening Trump referred to the US as the “garbage can for the world” when speaking about immigration.
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Boebert claims ‘Morning Joe' host’s rhetoric is ‘getting Republicans shot’
Far-right lawmaker Lauren Boebert has claimed that an MSNBC journalist is using rhetoric that “is getting Republicans shot.”
Representative Boebert of Colorado posted a clip of ‘Morning Joe’ host Mika Brzezinski telling viewers that Donald Trump is “killing” women over his stance on reproductive rights.
Katie Hawkinson reports.
Lauren Boebert claims Morning Joe host’s rhetoric is ‘getting Republicans shot’
Mika Brzezinski said Donald Trump is ‘killing’ women on MSNBC’s Morning Joe
Watch: Samuel L Jackson says he’s proud to support Kamala Harris as next president
Small-town mayor candidate who runs Trump Town USA merchandise store accused of assaulting ex-employees
A candidate for mayor in a small Virginia town was arrested at the Trump Town USA store he owns less than two weeks before the election.
Donald “Whitey” Taylor, a 74-year-old running for mayor in the 250-person town of Boones Mill, was arrested on Tuesday and now faces four misdemeanor charges: three counts of assault and battery and one count of indecent exposure, court records show. He owns a store that sells pro-Trump merchandise.
Kelly Rissman has the story.
Virginia mayor candidate who runs Trump merch store accused of assaulting ex-staff
Donald “Whitey” Taylor was arrested at the Trump Town USA store in Boones Mill
Watch: Trump rolls out new trash-talking of America, calling it ‘garbage can for the world’
No taxes! For anyone! Trump again tries to woo support for economic plan
Former President Donald Trump has again suggested his wildest tax reform plan - fully removing federal income taxes and saying that the lost revenue can be replaced by funds received from tariffs.
Appearing at a barbershop in the Bronx on Monday in a segment broadcast on Fox News, Trump was asked when the country could end all federal taxes. The former president suggested returning to the policies of the 1800s.
“It had all tariffs — it didn’t have an income tax,” Trump said. “Now we have income taxes, and we have people that are dying. They’re paying tax, and they don’t have the money to pay the tax.”
Similarly, in June, Trump suggested that federal income taxes be replaced by funds obtained via tariffs, something he has not explained further.
Gustaf Kilander digs into what the Republican nominee is getting at...
Trump again pushes no taxes - for anyone - in latest pitch to woo economic support
‘Plotting’ and ‘strategizing’ for next Congress ‘has been going for several months,’ Republican congressional aide says
Trump asks judge to dismiss federal Jan 6 case
Donald Trump has asked Judge Tanya Chutkan for leave to file a motion to dismiss the federal January 6 case brought against him, accusing Special Counsel Jack Smith of being unlawfully appointed and spending $36m on the Trump cases to date.
Not only do Trump’s attorneys want Chutkan to dismiss the case on the grounds of Smith’s appointment, but they also want an injunction “against additional spending” to “prevent ongoing irreparable harm and to ensure complete relief for the Appropriations Clause violation.”
Former first son says his Republican dad would’ve voted Trump — his sister has other ideas
The son of late president Gerald Ford has said that his father would have backed fellow Republican Donald Trump in the election after his sister proudly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.
Susan Ford Bales, Ford’s daughter, issued a statement earlier this week announcing her backing of Harris.
Gustaf Kilander has the story.
Former first son says his dad would’ve voted Trump after sister endorses Harris
Jack Ford says father was ‘lifelong member of the Republican Party who would typically not vote for a Democrat as president and certainly not Kamala Harris’
In rambling speech to young conservatives, Trump claims he ‘stopped wars with France’
Can we assume he meant trade wars?
Who even knows at this point?
Here’s Josh Marcus to try and make sense of the former president’s remarks.
Trump claims he ‘stopped wars with France’ in rambling speech to young conservatives
Republican candidate also called French president Emmanuel Macron a ‘wiseguy’
Trump speaking soon in Tempe, Arizona
The Mullett Arena at Arizona State University was slow to fill up according to reporters on site.
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