Trump and Harris campaign in Pennsylvania; Arrested rally suspect insists he works ‘closely’ with ex-president: 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.
This comes as the armed suspect arrested at a Trump rally in California on Saturday has insisted that he’s been “embedded with the Trump people on countless occasions.”
Vem Miller told The Independent that he’s not a would-be presidential assassin, but merely “an artist.”
He added that he has been to Trump rallies in the past and that he tells officers that he works “closely with the Trump campaign and individuals within the Trump campaign.”
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.
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Mindy Robertson, the business partner and good friend of Vem Miller, the armed man apprehended at Donald Trump’s rally in Coachella, California, says there is no way he was there with the intention of killing the former president.
She writes on X: “The man they just arrested for supposedly ‘trying to kill’ Trump in Coachella....is my good friend and business partner for America Happens, Vem Miller.
“Vem had just exposed a huge Deep State cover-up involving the Feds and the Bundy Ranch scandal. So I firmly believe this is 100% some kind of set-up in retribution for exposing it. That, or Trump's security team is a bunch of dipshits trying to make up for how badly they failed in Pennsylvania with any kind of "win" they can get, fake or not.
“There isn't a universe his intention was to kill Trump, he's worked too hard in this movement to expose the Deep State and all the people against him.”
Read the rest of her post below:
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Meanwhile, in Prescott Valley, Arizona...
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Recent polling has the former president ahead in the state but there are still three weeks until election day.
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Kamala Harris tells the crowd at Eastern Carolina University in Greenville: “I'm gonna tell you, it's gonna be a tight race. Until the very end. And we are running as the underdog. So we have some hard work ahead of us ... [but] with your help in 23 days, we will win.”
The vice president also gets in a dig at Donald Trump: “Why does his staff want him to hide away? One must question -- are they afraid that people will see that he is too weak and unstable to lead America? Is that what’s going on?”
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