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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‘Third suspected Trump assassination attempt' stopped at Coachella rally
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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Inside the secretive church that’s become Trump’s biggest female fan group
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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Inside the secretive church that’s become Trump’s biggest female fan group
Members of the Word of Faith Fellowship have attended over 250 rallies in support of the former president — but the church has been accused of engaging in unpaid labor of foreigners, including children, writes Mike Bedigan
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Ariana Baio has the details.
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The former first lady, whose book Melania was released this week, appeared on Some Future Day podcast where she revealed her skepticism about there being “so many rules” for the American people.
“Trust, it’s [an] interesting word,” she said.
Rachel Sharp reports.
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Donald Trump’s running mate has struggled to shake off the backlash for calling Kamala Harris and other Democrats “childless cat ladies” in a resurfaced interview with Tucker Carlson from 2021.
Now, in a new interview with The New York Times published on Saturday, the VP candidate was confronted once again about his past sexist comments less than one month out from the election.
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The former New Jersey governor told The New York Times opinion journalist Frank Bruni that the Trump he saw during his first White House bid in 2016 appears to be very different to the man running for a third time today.
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The first image posted was arresting, an ethereal watercolor rendering of just Melania Trump’s eyes – specifically identified as cobalt blue – staring out intently from her’s personal Instagram page.
The design, the accompanying December 2021 announcement explained, was the inaugural in Melania’s new line of cryptocurrency digital artwork – NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, essentially online collectibles meant to hold value.
And alongside that intense ocular image, significantly, was the Instagram account’s first mention of MelaniaTrump.com.
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Brand Melania: The former first lady’s book sets the stage for a big revamp
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Would-be assassin or Trump-supporting ‘sovereign citizen’? What we know about suspect Vem Miller
Police arrested a man they said was armed with multiple weapons and inconsistent identification documents just outside a Donald Trump rally on Saturday in Coachella Valley, California, in what officials are describing as a thwarted third assassination attempt against the former president.
However, the suspect – described as a “sovereign citizen” – is believed to be a Trump fan and told a news outlet he didn’t mean the Republican candidate any harm.
Here’s everything we know about suspect Vem Miller, 49, who has denied wrongdoing.
What we know about Vem Miller, man arrested with guns at Trump rally
Local law enforcement described Miller as a ‘lunatic’ sovereign citizen plotting to kill Donald Trump – but he has reportedly denied meaning the former president any harm
Are Pennsylvania and Arizona already in the bag for the Harris and Trump campaigns?
With just over three weeks until election day, a new pair of polls from the key battleground states of Arizona and Pennsylvania tell very different stories for both the Harris and Trump campaigns.
The New York Times/Philadelphia Inquirer/Siena College polls show Donald Trump holding a six-point lead in Arizona. At the same time, Kamala Harris has a four-point lead in Pennsylvania when using unrounded figures.
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