Harris ‘fully expects’ Trump to declare victory before final vote counts: Election 2024 live updates
Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris campaigned in western battleground states on Thursday and will both be in Milwaukee on Friday
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Your support makes all the difference.A Harris campaign official has said they “fully expect” former President Donald Trump 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.”
With four days of campaigning to go in the 2024 race, Harris and Trump are making their final pitches, spending Friday hosting competing rallies in Wisconsin where they will attempt to appeal to “blue wall” voters.
Having already addressed two gatherings of his supporters on Thursday, the former president ended his day in a sit-down interview with Tucker Carlson on stage in Glendale, Arizona, at which he shockingly fantasized about former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney being shot at.
Cheney has since hit back at Trump, calling him “a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.”
Vice President Harris closed out Thursday with a rally in Las Vegas in which singer and actor Jennifer Lopez emotionally endorsed her.
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Watch: Trump baselessly sows doubt on election results in Arizona
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Meanwhile in Las Vegas... it’s JLo and Kamala Harris
Watch live: Jennifer Lopez joins Kamala Harris at Las Vegas rally
Watch live as singer Jennifer Lopez joins Vice President Kamala Harris at a rally in Las Vegas on Thursday (31 October).
Trump finally takes to stage before packed venue
His answer to the first question is hardly inspiring...
House GOP demands investigation of Biden White House five days before election
Republican Rep James Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, has leapt onto the Associated Press report that the White House press shop altered the transcript of President Joe Biden’s call where he appeared to call Trump’s supporters “garbage”.
Comer demands that the White House must immediately turn over the emails and communications, and make federal employees available to the committee.
Tucker Carlson in public at odds with Tucker Carlson in private
Good recall from journalist Aaron Rupar on how Tucker Carlson’s private text messages differ from what he says publicly, case in point, tonight in Arizona:
Here’s Joe Sommerlad reporting on what we learned from Carlson’s texts in Dominion lawsuit back in April 2023:
What the Tucker Carlson Dominion texts said about Trump
Conservative commentator hates former president ‘passionately’, lawsuit filing revealed
Watch LIVE: Harris campaigns with Jennifer Lopez in Las Vegas
Trump asked RFK Jr, known for anti-vax views, to restore ‘evidence based’ science and medicine
Robert F Kennedy Jr told the crowd at the Trump and Tucker Carlson event in Arizona: “As soon as Donald Trump started talking about giving me the power...He asked me to restore the tradition of gold standard, empirically based, evidence-based science and medicine in our regulatory agencies.”
Here’s more from Gustaf Kilander:
RFK Jr, known for his anti-vax views, says Trump promised him control of the CDC
Trump said during Madison Square Garden rally that he would let Kennedy Jr ‘go wild’ on health, food, and medicines
Elon Musk blows off court hearing on $1m voter sweepstakes
Elon Musk was a no-show at a mandatory court appearance in Philadelphia on Thursday, after a judge ordered the billionaire and representatives of his Donald Trump-supporting political action committee to a hearing over a lawsuit targeting his $1 million sweepstakes to Pennsylvania voters.
Alex Woodward reports.
Elon Musk blows off court hearing on $1 million voter sweepstakes
The billionaire posted on X while he was scheduled to be in court over a lawsuit targeting his prize scheme
Watch LIVE: Tucker Carlson finally takes stage for Arizona event with Trump
Watch: RFK Jr sows seeds of electoral interference at Arizona rally
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