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Donald Trump said it’s “too late” for another debate against Kamala Harris at his campaign rally in Wilmington, North Carolina on Saturday afternoon.
“The problem with another debate is that it’s just too late,” Trump told his supporters. “Voting has already started.”
“She’s had her chance to do it with Fox,” he continued, referring to Fox News’s past offer to host a debate in early- to mid-October.
On Saturday morning, Harris accepted CNN’s invitation for a second presidential debate on October 23. Senator JD Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz are set to face off in the first 2024 vice presidential debate on October 1.
“Vice President Harris is ready for another opportunity to share a stage with Donald Trump,” campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon told CNN. “Donald Trump should have no problem agreeing to this debate.”
North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson, a Republican was originally slated to attend the rally. However, he will no longer make an appearance after a bombshell report from CNN revealed he referred to himself as a “black Nazi” and said “slavery is good,” among other shocking remarks, on a porn forum. The 56-year-old has denied making the comments.
Trump did not mention Robinson at his North Carolina rally.
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Harris blames death of young mother on ‘Trump abortion bans’: ‘Doctors only kick in when you’re about to die’
Kamala Harris slammed Donald Trump on abortion rights during a rally in Madison, Wisconsin on Friday night, bringing up the example of a Georgia woman who died of sepsis after her care was delayed.
“Women are being denied care during miscarriages, some only being treated once they develop sepsis,” Harris said.
“And we know that women have died because of Trump abortion bans. I was with a mother and the two sisters of a woman who died because of Trump abortion bans just last night,” she said about the event on Thursday night hosted by Oprah Winfrey.
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Trump hits out at former ally Howard Stern for ‘going woke’
Donald Trump has gone after Howard Stern for turning on the former president in recent years, something Trump has blamed on the radio show host becoming “woke.”
Trump appeared on the Fox News late-night show Gutfeld! on Wednesday evening where he was shown a clip of the radio host and several other celebrities lambasting the former president.
“I don’t hate the guy,” Stern said of Trump. “I hate the people who vote for him. I think they’re stupid. I do. I’ll be honest with you, I have no respect for you.”
Gustaf Kilander has the story.
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Supreme Court leaves Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein off Nevada ballot
The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Nevada’s Green Party seeking to include presidential candidate Jill Stein on the ballot in the battleground state.
The court’s order Friday, without any noted dissents, allows ballot preparation and printing to proceed in Nevada without Stein and other Green Party candidates included.
The outcome is a victory for Democrats who had challenged the Greens’ inclusion on the ballot in a state with a history of extremely close statewide races. In 2020, President Joe Biden outpaced former President Donald Trump by fewer than 35,000 votes in the state.
The state’s Democratic party had sued to kick Stein off the ballot after the Green party submitted enough signatures to include her. A lower state court ruled in her favor, but the state Supreme Court decided the petition forms were faulty.
The Green party was represented at the Supreme Court by Jay Sekulow, a Trump ally who was part of the president’s legal team during his first impeachment trial.
Across the country, a network of Republican political operatives, lawyers and their allies is trying to shape November’s election in ways that favor Trump. Their goal is to prop up third-party candidates, including Stein and Cornel West who offer liberal voters an alternative that could siphon away support from Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee.
Trump once praised North Carolina’s self-proclaimed ‘Nazi’ candidate. Now he’s scrambling to distance himself
The Trump campaign is increasingly worried that the scandals plaguing the campaign of North Carolina Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson might damage their prospects in the key battleground state.
The last Democrat to win the state on the presidential level was former President Barack Obama in 2008 and it’s likely a must-win for Trump if he wants to return to the White House in January next year.
CNN reported on Thursday that Robinson made a number of bizarre comments on a porn forum between 2008 and 2012, including calling himself a “perv,” a “Black NAZI!” and sharing his support for reinstating slavery, saying that he “would certainly buy a few.”
“This is an issue that has to do with Robinson’s campaign and not President Trump’s campaign,” a Trump official told Axios on Thursday.
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‘Donald Trump is the architect’: Harris slams Trump on abortion rights
Kamala Harris slammed Donald Trump on abortion rights, bringing up the example of a Georgia woman who died of sepsis after her care was delayed.
“Women are being denied care during miscarriages, some only being treated once they develop sepsis,” she said.
“And we know that women have died because of Trump abortion bans. I was with a mother and the two sisters of a woman who died because of Trump abortion bans just last night,” she said about the event on Thursday night hosted by Oprah Winfrey.
“Her mother said the worst thing among the pain that she's experiencing is when she heard and reflects on what she was told that it was preventable,” Harris said. “And you know when that decision came down just over two years ago. We predicted this would happen, and it's preventable.”
“You know, the young woman, she was a vibrant, 28-year-old young woman with a mother of a six-year-old son. Her name Amber Nicole Thurman – I promised her mother I will say her name every time,” Harris added.
The vice president went on to outline how Amber was a medical assistant who had just learned that she was accepted to nursing school.
“She had her whole future planned out, and her sisters and her mother were describing her to me, and they said, ‘you know, she had such light, and she had ambition and she had drive, and she was so proud that she had worked so hard, and she was finally gaining independence that she found an apartment in a safe community’,” the vice president said.
“It had a little pool where her son could play, and she was so proud. She was so proud and so hopeful,” Harris said.
Thurman then found out that she was pregnant, and decided to have an abortion.
“But because of the Trump abortion ban in Georgia, she was forced to travel out of state to receive the health care that she needed,” Harris said on Friday.
The 28-year-old then discovered that she needed further care after coming back to Georgia, where she went to a hospital.
“But under the Trump abortion ban, her doctors could have faced up to a decade in prison for providing Amber the care she needed. And so she waited for 20 excruciating hours,” Harris recalled on Friday. “She waited as she deteriorated, then she reached such a critical state, that the doctors finally operated, and it was too late, and she died of sepsis.“
Medical experts have found that her death was preventable, Harris argued.
“So understand what a law like this means, these kinds of laws under Trump abortion bans, it means doctors may have to wait until the patient is at death's door before they take any action,” the vice president said.
“Nobody wants that. What is he talking about?” she said of Trump, who has claimed there was a clamor for abortion access decisions to be returned to the states.
“Are we saying we're going to craft public health policy so that doctors only kick in when you're about to die?” Harris asked. “This is one example of what is happening around our country right now, and this is a health care crisis, and Donald Trump is the architect.”
“When Congress passes the bill to restore reproductive freedom. As President of the United States, I will proudly sign it into law,” Harris concluded.
‘Pure’ Donald Trump endorsed by Lady Gaga’s father
Joe Germanotta, the father of Lady Gaga, endorsed Donald Trump for president during an appearance on Fox News on Thursday morning.
The Upper West Side restaurateur, who owns Joanne Trattoria, said Trump and Kamala Harris “are two vastly different people, one of them is pure, and he’s a patriot.”
“And the other ... is just going to say whatever she needs to say to get elected,” he added. “That’s basically what I hear.”
A recent AP/NORC poll shows most Americans believe the opposite.
Gustaf Kilander reports.
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Three Trump-backed Republican members have been the majority on the board since May. They passed the measure despite being told by Republican Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr that the board would illegally be seizing the power of the state legislature, board Chair John Fervier said, according to USA Today.
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