Trump and Harris campaign in Pennsylvania as Election Day looms; Vice President books first-ever Fox News interview: Live
Donald Trump set to hold town hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania while Kamala Harris heads to Erie
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Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are heading to Pennsylvania on Monday as they battle it out for the key swing state.
The former president will hold a town hall event in Oaks at 6pm while Harris heads to Erie to visit a small business to speak to Black men before holding a rally at 7.35pm.
Meanwhile, Fox News has revealed that Harris has agreed to sit for an interview with the network to be broadcast on Wednesday.
The interview will be conducted by chief political anchor Bret Baier and is set to be recorded near Pennsylvania shortly before airing.
Fox News said the vice president is expected to sit for about half an hour of questions. It will be Harris’s first formal interview with the conservative network.
This comes after Trump challenged his election rival to take a cognitive test.
The call came in response to Harris releasing her latest medical report in a challenge to the Republican over the weekend, whose health remains under scrutiny, not least because of his tendency to engage in long, rambling, and occasionally incoherent speeches.
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Trump is set to deliver remarks at the stadium at 5pm on Sunday, October 27.
The Garden has a capacity of 19,500, while Trump’s average rally crowd size is about 5,600, according to the Ash Center.
“New York is reeling from the harmful effects of the dangerously liberal policies championed by Kamala Harris and Democrats like Eric Adams,” the Trump campaign said of the vice president and the New York mayor.
Trump is heading to New York, a state he’s sure to lose, as he at times treats the campaign as a national race rather than a battle for roughly seven swing states.
The Trump campaign said the former president’s “message to New York City is simple and built on his winning record: If you want to return to the strongest economy in over 60 years, rising wages, quality jobs, strong borders, and safer neighborhoods, then vote for the Trump-Vance ticket.”
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“This election is your chance to send a message,” the former president said, before turning around to the crowd apparently booing at a heckler. The boos turned to cheers when the heckler was seemingly escorted out of the California arena.
Trump then swung back to the microphone and said: “Back home to mommy. She goes back home to mommy. ‘Was that you darling?’ And then she gets the hell knocked out of her.”
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“How about allowing people to come through an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers? Many of them murdered far more than one person,” Trump told the show’s host. “And they’re now happily living in the United States. You know, now a murderer — I believe this: it’s in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now. Then you had 425,000 people come into our country that shouldn’t be here that are criminals.”
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The 49-year-old Las Vegas resident was pulled over about half a mile from the Coachella Valley campaign event armed with an unregistered shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine.
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“Donald Trump has always been for sale,” she wrote in a Substack post this weekend.
“Given this decades-long pattern, it’s not surprising that the world’s richest fascist, South African jumping bean Elon Musk, would also be interested in purchasing a few shares in a man who is willing to sell whatever he can get his hands on — whether it’s steaks or American national security — because he values money more than anything.”
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