Trump melts down over faulty mic at Milwaukee rally while Cardi B gives passionate speech at Harris event: Live
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris held dueling rallies in Milwaukee in the crucial state of Wisconsin on Friday evening
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Your support makes all the difference.With three days of campaigning to go in the 2024 race, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are making their final pitches in all of the key battleground states.
They both spent Friday evening hosting competing rallies in Wisconsin where they attempted to shore up support from voters in one of the “blue wall” states that could seal the deal for the Democratic Party on November 5.
Harris was joined by comedian Keegan-Michael Key and rapper Cardi B as well as a host of musical guests. Trump, whose speech was troubled by mic issues, was accompanied by Robert F Kennedy Jr and Republican lawmakers.
The final poll from The Times and YouGov finds that the vice president is set to narrowly win enough swing states to take the White House.
“We find that Kamala Harris very narrowly wins enough of those states to become America’s first female president,” Times US Assistant Editor David Charter said on Friday.
However, a Harris campaign official said they “fully expect” the former president to declare victory before all votes have been counted.
“It won’t work,” the official said during a press call.
“He did this before. It failed,” they added. “If he does it again, it will fail.”
Republican Party has already raised $90m to help fund post-election legal fights
Marjorie Taylor Greene does pull ups to prove Trump hangs out with ‘strong, intelligent women’
Arizona county that will play major role in deciding election is desperately searching for more vote counters
Harris’s one-word response to Trump’s declaration that he wants RKF Jr to work on ‘women’s health’
Barron Trump, his bestie Bo and the bro podcasters: The unofficial Gen Z Trump campaign recruits
Trump’s claim he will put RFK Jr in charge of women’s health sparks concern
The Republican said twice yesterday that the conspiracy-minded vaccine-sceptic will be given responsibility for women’s health in his prospective future administration.
This was Harris’s pithy response to that nightmare scenario.
This meme is also reason enough not to appoint the former independent candidate to anything.
But RFK Jr may not even be the weirdest member of Trump’s hypothetical next Cabinet…
Trump: ‘Nothing is more dangerous than to give immense power to a weak and not very smart person’
I suppose even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
The Republican presidential nominee said the above during his first engagement on Thursday in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which also contained more not-particularly-subtle projection as he claimed it was Kamala, not he, that is exhausted and, bafflingly, called her “a cracker”.
There was also another musical interlude as a member of the crowd received medical attention.
JD Vance and Joe Rogan gush over Trump as deputy says they can win ‘normal gay guy vote’
Before we recap the Republican’s other big event yesterday, here’s a look at his number two’s sitdown with Rogan.
Amusingly, the pair gushed that Trump looks better now than he did in 2016, only for the man himself to repay Vance for the compliment with this crushing remark in Albuquerque.
The Ohio Senator otherwise claimed the Republican ticket could pick up “the normal gay guy vote” and scaremongered about the imposition of Sharia law in Tim Walz’s Minnesota, which is, needless to say, not something that is actually happening.
Here’s Oliver O’Connell’s report.
Trump praises Elon Musk ‘in terms of computer’, threatens to shut down two major news networks and calls US cities ‘dirty and smelly’
Before his sit down with Tucker, Trump was in Henderson, Nevada, yesterday afternoon, where his rolling river of bile saw him utter the immortal words of Elon Musk: “In terms of computer, I would say he’s probably about as good as you get.”
He also threatened to shut down both ABC and CBS (imagine the lawsuits), twice declared himself the “father of IVF”, said Democrats are opposed to windows (?!), described all of America’s cities as dirty and smelly and attempted to put aside concerns about his authoritarian instincts by saying: “I am the least threat.”
Well, I’m convinced!
Kamala Harris mocks Trump’s crowd size obsessions as she’s joined by J Lo at Vegas rally
Over in Nevada, the Democrat was doing some normal campaigning in the course of which she ridiculed Trump’s crowd size mania and called out her opponent’s closing message to the American people of “hate and division”.
She was joined by pop superstar and actress Jennifer Lopez, who delivered an emotional and scathing takedown of Trump campaign’s “floating garbage island” comments about Puerto Rico.
Maira Butt has more.
Jennifer Lopez delivers scathing takedown of Trump campaign’s garbage truck comments
Star, who is Puerto Rican, said ‘every Latino in this country’ was offended by the remarks
Donald Trump fantasises about shooting of Liz Cheney in deranged Tucker Carlson live interview
Good morning!
Let’s start with a look back at Donald Trump’s final event of Thursday, a 90-minute sitdown with Tucker Carlson, in which the Republican presidential nominee fantasised about the shooting of former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, a truly shocking moment.
Remember the post-Butler “new tone” we were promised in July?
In truth that was just one of several nasty attacks by Trump on his enemies, with personal insults dished out about Joe Biden, Adam Schiff and Hillary Clinton as Carlson sat there, variously chuckling obsequiously or blankly moon-faced.
We were also treated to warnings about election “cheating”, insane rants about crowd size, “the enemy within” and non-existent forced sex change operations.
Incredibly disturbing that this man, a twice-impeached convicted felon openly indulging violent revenge fantasises rather than offering coherent policy platforms for making people’s lives better, should be this close to the White House but here we are with four days to go.
James Liddell has this report.
Trump conjures up violent fantasy about Liz Cheney being shot at
‘Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her,’ Trump said of his most prominent GOP critic
Final Marist poll of Blue Wall, shows Harris leading
The final Marist polls from the Blue Wall states has some good news for Kamala Harris.
The vice president is up 51/48 in Michigan against Donald Trump; 50/48 in Pennsylvania; and 50/48 in Wisconsin.
Marist last polled these states in September. Pennsylvania was tied, and Harris was up 50/49 in Wisconsin and 52/47 in Michigan.
There is also good news for the Democratic candidates in the three Senate races in those states.
With Election Day drawing near, Republican Larry Hogan believes he can convince Democrats to vote for him
John Bowden reports from Odenton, Maryland:
Thursday was the perfect weather to do some last-minute voter canvassing. Larry Hogan said he might just do that.
Maryland’s former two-term governor is in the home stretch of a Senate campaign which began only in February — a run, he says, that was born out of frustration over the inaction just a short drive away in Washington, particularly as the Senate this year failed to reach a compromise (once again) on border security and immigration reform.
He was outside of the Odenton library on Thursday with less than a week to go in the election, revving up a small crowd of volunteers who were greeting early voters. Hogan spoke to a handful of supporters and journalists on scene and projected confidence, remarking that in every race he’d run, “everyone has always counted us out, and we’ve always come out on top”.
A line for early voting stretched out the door and around the corner of the library behind him as he spoke.
Read on...
The Senate race where a Republican is winning over Democrats
Nowhere else in the country sees a Republican candidate running competitively in a blue state with the backing of many Democrats. But this is no ordinary race — and Hogan is no ordinary politician
New poll: Two-thirds of Americans are anxious about the election
Most Americans are anxious and frustrated, but also interested in the campaign for the White House as it enters its final days, according to a new poll.
While Democrats and Republicans largely have similar emotions about the upcoming showdown, Democrats are more likely to be anxious compared to their conservative counterparts, according to the AP-NORC poll.
Independents are equally frustrated but less excited, interested, and anxious.
Gustaf Kilander looks at the numbers.
Two-thirds of Americans are anxious about the election, new poll finds
Democrats more likely to be anxious than Republicans and independents, according to survey
George W Bush reveals his decision on 2024 endorsement
Former president George W Bush will not make a presidential endorsement in the 2024 race for the White House, according to his office.
The 43rd president will not join his former vice president Dick Cheney, who said last week that he would vote for Democrat Kamala Harris over Republican Donald Trump.
Here’s Graeme Massie with what the former president decided:
George W Bush reveals his decision on 2024 endorsement after Cheney snubbed Trump
The 43rd president will not join his former vice president Dick Cheney, who said last week that he would vote for Democrat Kamala Harris
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