Election 2024 live: Beyonce takes stage with Harris; Trump leaves Michigan rally-goers waiting three hours
Trump and Harris campaign in Texas with pop superstar Beyoncé staring with VP, after Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen and other celebrities stumped for her in Georgia
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Kamala Harris appeared alongside pop superstar Beyonce and country music veteran Willie Nelson in Houston, Texas, for a rally focused on the future of reproductive rights.
The Democrat held a start-studded rally in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday where she was joined by Barack Obama, Samuel L. Jackson, Spike Lee, Tyler Perry and Bruce Springsteen, the latter serenading her supporters and denouncing Donald Trump as an “American tyrant”.
Meanwhile on Friday, Trump told supporters waiting for his rally in Traverse City, Michigan, he would be “two hours” late, despite having already kept them waiting for over an hour.
The former president delivered the news via video from his plane, that was projected at the site of the rally – explaining that he had been busy recording a podcast with Joe Rogan. He had been due to speak at around 7.30pm local time in Michigan.
“We’re stepping on the gas, but it’s all about winning so we had to spend some time with people, a lot of people actually... we’re gonna have a good time tonight. See you soon,” he said.
Scores of people were seen leaving the venue following the announcement.
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Biden apologizes for Native American boarding school policy he calls ‘blot’ on US history
President Joe Biden on Friday offered a formal apology to Native Americans for the US government’s attempt to erase tribal culture via a system of boarding schools that separated native children from their parents for decades, calling the long-discarded policy “a sin on our soul.”
Andrew Feinberg reports on the president’s apology on behalf of the United States.
Biden apologizes for forced Native American boarding school policy
Biden’s visit could be a boost to Vice President Kamala Harris in a state where Native Americans are a key voting bloc
Harris endorsed by largest Teamsters union in Texas
The largest Teamsters union in Texas, Local 988, has endorsed Kamala Harris before her rally in Houston this evening.
The Hill obtained a letter in which the union, based in Houston, said it surveyed more than 8,000 members before endorsing the vice president.
It cited the Biden administration’s protection of union pensions and Harris’s pledge if elected to sign the PRO Act, pro-labor legislation.
“There’s no doubt that politics can get bitter, complicated, and confusing,” Local 988 president Robert Mele said in a statement. “But Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have a proven track record of supporting workers throughout their careers.”
“As organizing continues to gain momentum, the Teamsters need elected officials who will fight for us, not against us. Kamala Harris is that candidate,” he added.
Harris to warn Trump will ban abortion nationwide in Houston remarks
Trump grumbles about Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize
With 11 days to go until Election Day, Donald Trump can’t stop obsessing about former President Barack Obama having been awarded a Nobel Prize in 2009, a little more than eight months after taking office.
At a campaign stop in Las Vegas on Thursday, the former president bombarded the audience with false claims about, among other things, hordes of undocumented “animals” entering the United States, widespread voter fraud, and the size of the crowd there to see him at the UNLV Thomas & Mack Center, insisting there were 29,000 people inside the 19,522-capacity arena.
Must’ve been cramped!
Justin Rohrlich reports.
Trump grumbles about Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize — and claims he deserved it more
Speaking to a crowd in Las Vegas, the former president also insisted there were 29,000 people inside the 19,522-capacity arena.
Gaza, the voting gender gap, and whether Harris can really win over Republicans
John Bowden writes:
Will Kamala Harris lose Michigan because of her refusal to separate herself from Joe Biden on Gaza? Will she win enough Republicans elsewhere? Will women be Donald Trump’s downfall?
We’ll know the answers in two weeks. Welcome to the final stretch.
Read on...
Gaza, the voting gender gap, and whether Harris can really win over Republicans
Harris is trying to put together a disparate coalition of voters through the minefield of 2024’s gender divisions and Israel’s war in the Middle East
Harris condemns Trump for calling America ‘the trash can of the world’
Vice President Kamala Harris criticized Donald Trump for belittling the United States by calling it “the trash can of the world” saying Americans deserve better.
“It’s just another example of how he really belittles our country,” Harris said on Friday.
“This is someone who is a former president of the United States who has a bully pulpit, and this is how he uses it, to tell the rest of the world that somehow the United States of America is trash.”
“The President of the United States should be someone who elevates discourse and talks about the best of who we are and invests in the best of who we are, not someone like Donald Trump constantly demeaning and belittling who the American people are. America deserves better.”
COMMENT: This election, I’m keeping my vote a secret from my five kids. Here’s why
Megan Thompson writes:
When I hit the voting booths this November, I’ll have my five kids in tow. They may learn the importance of casting a vote, but if they ask who I’m voting for, I simply won’t tell them.
Continue reading...
I’ll never tell my five kids who I vote for. This is why
My husband is a cyber security expert who advises both Democrat and Republican lawmakers on technology issues. I was a fact-checker for a national newspaper
Bill Clinton called Kari Lake ‘attractive’, here’s her savage comeback
Arizona US Senate candidate Kari Lake had a sharp response on Thursday after former president Bill Clinton called her an “attractive” but substance-free backer of Donald Trump.
Josh Marcus has the story.
Kari Lake has savage comeback after Bill Clinton calls her attractive
Arizona US Senate candidate and prominent election-denier referenced the former president’s infamous affair with then-White House intern Monica Lewinsky
Washington Post declines to endorse a candidate for president for first time in 36 years
The Washington Post editorial board will not be endorsing a candidate for president this year, nor will it do so in any future election, publisher and CEO Will Lewis announced on Friday.
The decision generated backlash from many who expected the Post to endorse Harris, who is locked in a statistical dead heat with Donald Trump, according to national polls — especially after its endorsement of Joe Biden in 2020 that called on voters to “expel the worst president of modern times.”
An endorsement of Harris was reportedly spiked by owner Jeff Bezos, as Justin Rohrlich reports.
Washington Post declines to endorse a candidate for president
The order to stay neutral reportedly came from billionaire owner Jeff Bezos
Watch: Painful moment JD Vance begins shout out to scandal-tainted North Carolina Lt Gov
This is really, really, really awkward given the Trump campaign has been distancing itself from scandal-tainted Lt Gov Mark Robinson for weeks now.
If you can’t remember why, here’s a refresher:
‘Black Nazi’ and ‘perv’: Republican candidate’s stunning posts about self on forum
Harris team wasted no time in tweeting about Trump’s warm relationship with Robinson
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