Harris rallies with Cheney at birthplace of the GOP after Trump doubled down on election lies: Live
While Republican nominee campaigns in Saginaw, Michigan, Kamala Harris headed to the birthplace of the GOP to campaign with anti-Trump conservative Liz Cheney
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At a rally in Saginaw, Michigan, on Thursday, Donald Trump continued to repeat lies about the 2020 election, just a day after the release of a court filing by Special Counsel Jack Smith that outlineda sprawling criminal case against the Republican presidential nominee over his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
Smith’s latest filing in a Washington DC federal court was unsealed by Judge Tanya Chutkan on Wednesday and detailed the former president’s alleged “increasingly desperate efforts” to cling to power with “knowingly false claims of election fraud”.
Responding on Truth Social, Trump furiously – and baselessly – claimed the allegations are an “obvious attempt by the Harris-Biden regime to undermine and Weaponize American Democracy, and INTERFERE IN THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.”
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris visited birthplace of the GOP to campaign with anti-Trump Republican Liz Cheney.
The vice president was joined by the former Wyoming representative in Ripon, Wisconsin, where political meetings in 1854 led to the formation of what became the Republican Party.
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Cheney says Harris will inspire children — ‘especially our little girls'
Cheney says: “I know that a President Harris will be able to unite this nation. I know that she will be a president who will defend the rule of law, and I know that she will be a president who can inspire all of our children — and if I might say so — especially our little girls.”
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Cheney says: “Our president has a particular solemn obligation to ensure and guarantee the peaceful transfer of power. Since the beginning of the republic, every president in our history has fulfilled that duty, every president until Donald Trump.”
‘I was a Republican even before Donald Trump started spray tanning’
Liz Cheney walks out to “Change” by Taylor Swift while campaigning for Kamala Harris in Wisconsin.
The crowd chants: “Thank you, Liz!”
“I was a Republican even before Donald Trump started spray tanning,” says Cheney.
“I have never voted for a Democrat. But this year, I am proudly casting my vote for VP Kamala Harris,” Cheney says. She “is standing in the breach at a critical moment in our nation’s history. She’s working to unite reasonable people from all across the political spectrum.”
She adds that putting patriotism ahead of partisanship is not an aspiration, it is our duty.
Crowd chants ‘Thank you, Liz’ as Cheney takes stage in Wisconsin
Watch LIVE: Harris and Cheney at Ripon College in Wisconsin
Trump’s attorneys say Jack Smith’s superseding stretches statutes ‘beyond their breaking point'
As part of their motion to dismiss the federal election interference case, Donald Trump’s legal team is arguing that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s superseding indictment stretches statutes “beyond their breaking point based on false claims that President Trump is somehow responsible for events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021”.
Like the former president, they point the finger at former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
His attorneys pointed to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Fischer, arguing that the ruling “requires the dismissal of Counts Two and Three of the Superseding Indictment, and its logic fatally undermines Counts One and Four as well.”
They further say that Smith “exaggerated” Trump’s interactions with then-vice president Mike Pence, and then “falsely” alleged that Trump tried to leverage the attack on the Capitol to stay in office: “These false allegations do not render President Trump factually or legally responsible, let alone criminally culpable, for the actions of others. Absent direct calls to imminent lawless action, which the Office does not come close to alleging, bedrock First Amendment principles permit public speakers, including President Trump on January 6, to speak their mind without fear of criminal prosecution for the unlawful acts of others.”
Today Judge Tanya Chutkan gave Trump until November 7 to respond to Smith’s evidentiary filing, made public yesterday.
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