US elections live: Trump jokes about Access Hollywood tape in final campaign push; Harris heads to Pennsylvania

John Mitnick — former Homeland Security general counsel who was appointed and fired by Trump, and a former official at Raytheon and the Heritage Foundation — warned fellow conservatives that the former president is “reckless, angry, vengeful, and narcissistic, and he has no respect for the Constitution or the rule of law.”

“He is not a conservative; rather, he is a would-be autocrat and fascist motivated exclusively by his personal self-interest,” he wrote in a thread on X on Sunday. “If you think he cares about you or your family, I assure you that he does not. He cares only about himself.”

He urged support for Kamala Harris and said, “It’s time to close the book on Trump” and “rebuild” the Republican Party.

The “one thing” that former president Donald Trump needs to win the 2024 election is his former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, according to the hosts of Fox & Friends.

The former South Carolina governor ran against Trump in the Republican primary arguing that it was time for fresh leadership in the party, but has since endorsed him and spoke in support of him at the Republican National Convention.

On Monday morning, Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade noted the importance of winning over the voters who backed Haley in the primary, so that they don’t instead throw their support behind Vice President Kamala Harris.

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Young people are using the social video app to champion the practise of “cancelling out” the votes of conservative parents by proudly using their own ballots to back Harris.

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Reflecting on the end of the campaign, Trump said, “I won't be doing this anymore with North Carolina, and I won't be doing this anymore ... after today.”

“I'm just thinking, as I'm going through this, that this will be our final moment, but ... the more exciting moment is going to begin,” he added. “These moments of hundreds and hundreds of the most incredible rallies any country, no country has ever seen anything like that. But these moments that we've had together, these really were just to create what we hopefully will create tomorrow, which is we're going to make America great again.”

Trump’s longest-serving Chief of Staff John Kelly has said that the former president fits the description of a “fascist.”

Trump responded on Monday, saying that he should have been fired and calling him a “disaster.”

The former president also said former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley “should have been fired.”

“All those generals – Kelly should have been, Kelly was such a disaster. Some people are good, some people are not good, some people are stupid,” Trump said.

Trump joked on Monday that Biden “probably” voted for him because of what the former president said is his dislike for Kamala Harris.

“He actually hates my guts, but he likes Trump more than he likes Kamala,” he said.

“He just got 14 million votes,” Trump said in reference to the Democratic primary.

Trump responded to a member of the audience who suggested that Biden voted for him.

“That's one of the ladies from North Carolina. She said he voted for me – probably did,” Trump said.

Trump once again made the false claim that FEMA funds were allocated to help undocumented migrants.

“FEMA did a horrible job. The administration – they're still not there. You know why? Because they've spent all their money on bringing in murderers and a lot of people,” Trump said on Monday in Raleigh, North Carolina, speaking about hurricanes striking Florida, North Carolina, and other states. “They spent all their money on bringing in illegal migrants. They've also taken a lot of your jobs, especially jobs from the Black population.”

Trump appeared to reference the infamous Access Hollywood tape which was published late in the 2016 campaign in which he said he could grab women by their genitals because of his fame.

Discussing Elon Musk’s and SpaceX’s rocket boosters, Trump said, “And those two big arms, you saw the arms, they grab that thing like you grab your beautiful baby ... Years ago, I would have said something else, but I've learned.”

He added: “I would have been a little bit more risque.”

Trump made similar comments over the weekend:

“Then you see those arms, like you grab your beautiful baby, your beautiful child … In the old days, I would have said like you grab your — girlfriend,” Trump said over the weekend.

“Now I don’t say that anymore. I say, like you grabbed your child. And those big arms came in and they grabbed that sucker and they held it in place like you grabbed your child. And I said, ‘That’s unbelievable’,” he added.