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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Also this weekend, Trump claimed a major threat to America comes from what he termed “the enemy from within”, whom he characterized as “sick people, radical left lunatics”, a term he often applies to Democratic opponents.
The Republican told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures that they – US citizens – “should be easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military”.
John Bowden has this on the vengeance-minded Republican’s latest public flirtation with authoritarianism.
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Harris medical report finds ‘mental resiliency’ to be president
In case you missed this one over the weekend, a medical report on the health of Vice President Kamala Harris was released with less than a month to go before the presidential election finding her to be in “excellent health” and possession of “the physical and mental resiliency” required to serve as president.
Dr Joshua Simmons, a US Army colonel and physician to the VP, wrote that Harris, 59, maintains a healthy, active lifestyle and that her most recent physical last April was “unremarkable.”
She “possesses the physical and mental resiliency required to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency, to include those as Chief Executive, Head of State and Commander in Chief,” he wrote in the two-page letter.
The Harris-Walz campaign hopes the release of the letter will draw a contrast with Trump, 78, who has released only limited information about his health over the years.
Oliver O’Connell reports.
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As for the Republican, his remarks in Arizona yesterday included a pledge to hire a further 10,000 Customs and Border Protection agents and an astonishing piece of projection, even by his standards.
He also falsely claimed the western state’s towns are being “invaded and conquered” by migrants (desperate stuff) and took time to proclaim the wonders of Tivo.
A night earlier, in Coachella, he threatened to withhold federal aid from deep blue California and flubbed badly on inflation.
But perhaps his flat-out weirdest moment of the weekend was when he made the bizarre claim that Democrats want to ban cows.
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Speaking in Greenville, North Carolina, yesterday, the Democrat invoked Mark Milley, the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, to attack her opponent, also noting his resistence to transparency, suggesting his handlers know he is “weak and unstable” and are trying to keep him from self-inflicted disasters.
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Over in the Republican’s social media swamp, he has been trashing the Vice President with false claims about her recent media appearances, claiming she was “slow and lethargic” answering questions and challenging her to a cognitive test.
“Her actions have led many to believe that there could be something very wrong with her,” he declares – citing no evidence, as usual.
That comes after she released her latest medical report indicating she was in robust health (more on which shortly) and after he admitted to “ranting and raving” himself during his Sunday rally in Prescott Valley, Arizona.
Trump has also accused Harris of inflicting “violence and terror” on the public and “import[ing] criminal gangs to OCCUPY America” – an appalling and dangerous lie.
He also found time overnight to scaremonger about the “weaponization” of the Department of Justice to interfere in the election, an avenue it is widely feared he might be interested in traversing himself if he regains the White House.
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Good morning!
If you’re just joining us, Donald Trump was allegedly the target of a third assassination attempt on Saturday evening, California police have said, after arresting an armed man outside of a Trump rally in Coachella Valley.
A Las Vegas man named Vem Miller, 49, was apprehended, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office, but has since denied wrongdoing and claimed he is “an artist” and a non-violent Trump supporter.
Josh Marcus has the latest.
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Mike Bedigan writes:
Among the hordes of Donald Trump supporters in attendance at campaign rallies is a group that the former president fondly refers to as “those beautiful ladies from North Carolina.”
The women, often pictured smiling bigly and in their Sunday best, are all members of the same evangelical church.
The Word of Faith Fellowship, in Spindale, was established in 1979, and according to its website its members “strive to live righteous, godly lives.”
But they have also been accused of using foreigners, including teenagers, for unpaid labor.
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