Biden not confident of peaceful 2024 election; Trump visits Georgia alongside Governor Brian Kemp: Live
President made surprise first appearance in White House briefing room to answer questions about today’s jobs report, November’s election, and prospects for Middle East peace
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President Joe Biden said he did not know if November’s election would be “peaceful” given Donald Trump’s “dangerous” rhetoric, in a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room
However, the president told reporters that he is confident the election will be “free and fair”.
Biden was also asked if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was delaying a diplomatic agreement regarding the Gaza conflict to influence the election. He said that no administration has helped Israel more than he has and Netanyahu should remember that.
The president also mocked MAGA Republicans for calling today’s positive jobs numbers “fake” and when asked if he had reconsidered dropping out of the presidential race, joked: “I’m back in.”
On the campaign trail, Trump and Georgia Governor Brian Kemp surveyed damage from Hurricane Helene on Friday afternoon. The two have been estranged since the governor refused to help the former president find more voters in his state in the 2020 election.
Trump will be joined by tech billionaire Elon Musk at his Saturday rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of his attempted assassination on July 13.
Kamala Harris is campaigning in Michigan focusing on labor and the economy having scored high-profile endorsements from Liz Cheney and Bruce Springsteen.
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Is Ted Cruz’s notorious Cancun scandal to blame for his tough re-election race?
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz is currently caught up in a tough re-election battle – something one top pollster believes is down to memories of his notorious Cancun scandal.
Cruz – a one-time Donald Trump enemy turned MAGA cheerleader and cable news favorite – faced backlash in February 2021 when he jetted off on holiday to a luxury beach resort in Cancun while his state was hammered by a winter storm that killed 246 Texans and left millions without power and running water.
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Walz to visit California and Washington
Governor Tim Walz will carry out a fundraising blitz through California and Washington on Sunday through to Tuesday.
He will make stops in San Diego, Montecito, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Sacramento, according to the campaign.
Governor Gavin Newsom will be hosting the Sacramento event.
Republicans court a skeptical Amish community in Pennsylvania
Richard Hall writes:
Daniel is a small business owner, he is deeply religious, and he lives in rural Pennsylvania. All of these things make him a prime target for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
There is one problem, however. Daniel is Amish, and the Amish do not tend to vote.
“My kingdom is not of this world,” he tells The Independent, using words attributed to Jesus in the Bible, when asked if he could ever be tempted to cast a ballot for either party. “That’s pretty much how we feel about it.”
That hasn’t stopped Republicans and MAGA activists from launching a campaign to turn the insular Amish community into Trump voters.
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Republicans are trying to convince a skeptical Amish community to vote for Trump
Republicans are trying to convince the Amish community to vote for Trump — but at the Bloomsburg Fair in Pennsylvania, Richard Hall discovers they face a difficult task
Marjorie Taylor Greene says ‘they’ control the weather
Is this the sequel to “Jewish Space Lasers”?
Controversial Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has claimed that a mysterious “they” can control the weather after Hurricane Helene killed more than two dozen people in her state and a total of 200 across the US.
Greene, a Republican from Georgia, made the post on X late Thursday night: “Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”
She did not elaborate on who “they” are.
Katie Hawkinson has the story.
Marjorie Taylor Greene says ‘they’ control the weather after Hurricane Helene
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Republican Liz Cheney mocks Donald Trump’s fake tan
Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney mocked Donald Trump “spray-tanning” as she campaigned for the first time for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. Cheney joined Harris onstage in Ripon, Wisconsin on Thursday (3 October). Cheney told crowds how her 10-year-old was sealing envelopes for Republican President Gerald Ford’s reelection campaign, and how she cast her first vote for Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1984. She said: “In other words, I was a Republican even before Donald Trump started spray-tanning.” Cheney’s joke was met with a round of applause and laughter.
Polls: Who’s ahead in Georgia and Michigan as Trump and Harris visit key states?
As Donald Trump and Kamala Harris campaign in the key battleground states of Georgia and Michigan, polling shows there is everything to play for.
According to the latest averages from FiveThirtyEight.com, Trump has a small lead in Georgia of 1.3 per cent over Harris, with the Republican gaining support from an average of 48.4 per cent of those surveyed compared to the Democrat’s 47.1 per cent.
In Michigan, the story is reversed with Harris leading by 1.6 per cent with 47.9 per cent of support from those polled to Trump’s 46.4 per cent.
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