Harris readies for key interview with Fox News as she takes to conservative airwaves in latest media push: Live
Kamala Harris was interviewed by Bret Baier of Fox News, hours after Donald Trump doubled down on remarks calling Democrats ‘enemy within’ in pre-recorded town hall on same network
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Kamala Harris was interviewed by Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Wednesday, shortly after a campaign event at Washington Crossing in Pennsylvania, where — flanked by more than 100 Republican lawmakers — she made an appeal to center-right voters to back her over Donald Trump to defend the Constitution.
By contrast, earlier in the day, Trump doubled down on comments he made at the weekend in which he referred to Democrats as “enemies from within” and that the military could be called upon to handle any unrest from “radical left lunatics”.
When confronted with his comments by Harris Faulkner of Fox News during a town hall of his supporters, the former president added that his opponents are “sick” and “evil”.
Harris has said that Trump’s remarks are evidence that he is “increasingly unstable and unhinged” and ”out for unchecked power”.
On Tuesday, the Democrat joined Charlamagne Tha God for an hour-long sitdown in Detroit in which she declared she is going to win in November and agreed with the host when he called Trump’s policy platform “fascist”.
Watch: Harris responds to Trump claiming to be ‘father of IVF’
As his campaign gets more chaotic, Republicans think Trump needs to stop focusing on his ‘obsessions’
Republicans are becoming increasingly concerned that Donald Trump is spending more time airing personal grievances and obsessions than talking about Kamala Harris’s policies.
Polling suggests that Trump has an advantage over Harris in many key policy areas, such as the economy, but Marc Short, former chief of staff to Mike Pence during his time as vice president, said he needs to remind voters of his positions.
“[Trump] can make an appeal that gets away from personality and appeals to people who may not like him but do like his policies,” he told the Washington Post.
Gustaf Kilander has the full story.
Republicans think Trump needs to stop focusing on his ‘obsessions’
Trump’s campaign is coming to a free-wheeling, often bizarre, endgame
Armed suspect arrested at Trump rally suing police for defamation
Vem Miller, who was detained and released on bail after being stopped outside Donald Trump’s rally in Coachella at the weekend, is suing police for defamation, among other things, over “deliberate and wrongful conduct and compromised police protocol violating Miller’s constitutional rights for the purpose of promoting and engaging in a meritless and gratuitous sensational story.”
Miller was found with a shotgun, handgun, and fake event passes, police said on Sunday, with the local sheriff going as far as to say a possible assassination attempt on the former president had been thwarted.
He insists he’s absolutely not a would-be assassin, as he toldThe Independent’s Justin Rohrlich:
Armed suspect at Trump rally insists he’s ‘an artist’ — not a would-be assassin
Exclusive: “The pen is always mightier than the sword, which is what I live by,” Vem Miller told The Independent
Trump-backed crypto project sells just 3% of target
A new cryptocurrency backed by Donald Trump has sold just 3 per cent of its allocated tokens following its launch on Tuesday.
The Republican presidential candidate, who claims he will be the first “crypto president”, publicly supported the World Liberty Financial project on X (formerly Twitter) shortly after its WLFI token went on sale.
Despite the endorsement, only $11 million of the $300 million sales target has been reached at the time of writing – 24 hours after the project launched to the public. The website also crashed soon after going live, though it has since been restored.
Anthony Cuthbertson reports.
Trump-backed crypto project sells just 3% of target
World Liberty Financial website also crashed shortly after launch
Trump says he likes Zuckerberg more now
Donald Trump has said he likes Mark Zuckerberg “much better now” that he is “staying out of the election.”
He also told Barstool Sports’s podcast Bussin’ With The Boys that the founder of Facebook had called him after he was shot “and he said ‘that was so brave,’ which was nice.”
Rhian Lubin has the story.
Trump says he likes Zuckerberg more now that he’s ‘staying out of the election’
Trump, who has referred to Facebook as an ‘enemy of the people,’ appears to be warming to Zuckerberg
Watch: Awkward moment where Trump rant is interrupted for commercial break
Trump sits for edited town hall before friendly audience, while Harris interview will be unedited and ‘live to tape'
The Independent’s Eric Garcia was present at Donald Trump’s women-focused Fox News town hall when it was taped on Tuesday — he confirms that only Republican friends were invited to attend.
Trump held a “town hall” to talk women’s issues, but only GOP backers were there
Eric Garcia reports from Georgia on how Fox News created a safe space for Donald Trump as he seeks to court female voters
Meanwhile, Matt Gertz of Media Matters for America contrasts this, and the fact the event was edited for time and includes commercial breaks with Kamala Harris’s upcoming interview with Bret Baier tonight on the same network, which will air unedited and with no breaks.
Here’s Ariana Baio reporting on how Baier is batting away criticism from MAGA supporters over his interview with Harris.
Fox News host shuts down MAGA supporters fuming over his Harris interview
Vice president has embarked on a media blitz, appearing on a wide variety of TV and radio shows as well as podcasts,
Anti-Trump conservative group tears into make-up of Fox News town hall audience
Judging by the ecstatic clapping and whooping from the audience at the Fox News town hall, it doesn’t seem like this is a cross-section of women voters, allowing Donald Trump to repeat his talking points and falsehoods.
Anti-Trump conservative group The Lincoln Project tweeted: “Donald Trump can’t even pack a room of people that aren’t rabid loyalists anymore. The “fair and balanced” audience in his women’s town hall today are all Trump supporters. The only thing these women are undecided about is if he should be dictator for four years or life.”
Trump reels off usual talking points in town hall focused on women
Regular readers of this blog will find Donald Trump’s responses to questions on issues of concern to women voters at the Fox News town hall recorded yesterday strikingly familiar.
As journalist Aaron Rupar notes: “It's really notable that he has about three or four talking points he loves and he uses them over and over, regardless of whatever question he's asked.”
Similarly, Trump doesn’t have any specifics on the affordability crisis.
Abortion rights group sues after Florida orders TV stations to stop airing ad
A group campaigning for a Florida abortion-right ballot measure sued state officials Wednesday over their order to TV stations to stop airing one ad produced by the group, Floridians Protecting Freedom.
The state’s health department, part of the administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, told TV stations earlier this month to stop airing the commercial, asserting that it was false and dangerous and that keeping it running could result in criminal proceedings.
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Abortion rights group sues after Florida orders TV stations to stop airing ad
A group campaigning for a Florida abortion-rights measure is suing state officials over their order to TV stations to stop airing one ad
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