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Donald Trump indulges narcissism at Long Island event while latest survey places Kamala Harris comfortably ahead in Pennsylvania and Michigan and narrowly in front in Wisconsin
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Donald Trump delivered his latest rally in Uniondale on Long Island, New York, on Wednesday, pledging to “bring back religion” to thank God for saving his life, and asking New Yorkers to vote for him by saying: “What the hell do you have to lose?”
The Republican nominee also pledged to visit Springfield, Ohio, after he and running mate JD Vance spread a bogus story about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating residents’ pets, inspiring a spate of bomb threats.
Trump has made several stops in New York over the past two days including a visit to cryptocurrency-themed bar PubKey in the West Village, and an appearance on Fox News show Gutfeld! A visit to a kosher deli in Brooklyn was canceled after the sudden death of the owner.
Meanwhile, a fresh poll from Quinnipiac University has placed his Democratic rival Kamala Harris ahead in two key swing states – Pennsylvania and Michigan – and more narrowly ahead in another, Wisconsin.
Elsewhere, Trump has accused Harris of colluding with Iran to spy on his campaign after the FBI revealed Tehran-backed hackers had attempted to pass stolen material onto the Democratic ticket.
Bartiromo peddles wild conspiracy about Trump shooting attempt and Diddy’s arrest
Fox News host Maria Bartiromo has peddled a wild, baseless conspiracy theory that connects the arrest of Sean “Diddy” Combs with the latest attempt on Donald Trump’s life.
The 54-year-old hip-hop mogul was arrested on Monday and is now being held in a notorious Brooklyn jail awaiting trial on sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
His arrest came just over 24 hours after suspected gunman Ryan Wesley Routh is accused of aiming an assault rifle through the fence of Trump’s West Palm Beach golf resort while the former president enjoyed a round on the course.
James Liddell reports.
Fox News host peddles wild conspiracy about Trump shooting attempt and Diddy’s arrest
Maria Bartiromo wildly claimed Diddy was only arrested to distract from the alleged assassination attempt and take it ‘off the front page’
IRAN, IRAN, IRAN: Trump rages at Iranian hack revelations asking when Harris will go before grand jury
This summer, Iranian hackers sent materials stolen from the Trump campaign to people associated with the Biden campaign as well as media outlets, according to US law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
“There is currently no information indicating those recipients replied,” the agencies added.
Donald Trump has seized on this revelation, telling a rally on Long Island last night that Presiden Joe Biden was “working with Iran” and then this morning, posting on Truth Social:
“WHEN DOES KAMALA AND HER CAMPAIGN GO BEFORE A GRAND JURY ON IRAN, IRAN, IRAN? MY CAMPAIGN WHEN THROUGH HELL ON THE RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX. THE BIG DIFFERENCE IS THAT THE IRAN/KAMALA CAMPAIGN CORRUPTION CASE IS REAL!”
His campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said yesterday in a statement: “This is further proof the Iranians are actively interfering in the election to help Kamala Harris and Joe Biden because they know President Trump will restore his tough sanctions and stand against their reign of terror. Kamala and Biden must come clean on whether they used the hacked material given to them by the Iranians to hurt President Trump. What did they know and when did they know it?”
Here’s Josh Marcus’s full report on the hack:
FBI says Biden campaign unwittingly received stolen Trump materials from Iran hackers
Intelligence agencies said they had ‘no information’ indicating Biden allies repled to hackers
Farage defends Trump’s claim that God helped him survive assassination attempt
Nigel Farage clashed with Richard Madeley over his loyalty to Donald Trump after the former president peddled a conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants are eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio, and God “spared his life” from two failed assassination attempts. “Whenever Donald Trump makes a comment that is ridiculed, it always turns out to be true,” the Reform UK MP said on Good Morning Britain on Thursday, 19 September. Farage told Madeley: “Your line of attacking those who believe that there are sometimes divine interventions that actually, there are people out there that believe in God, and believe that sometimes they get spared... I find that line of yours very cynical.”
Weekly applications for US jobless benefits fall to the lowest level in 4 months
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to their lowest level in four months last week.
Jobless claims slid by 12,000, to 219,000, for the week of Sept. 14, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s fewer than economists’ expectations for 230,000 new filings.
Weekly filings for unemployment benefits, considered largely representative of layoffs, had risen moderately since May before this week’s decline. Though still at historically healthy levels, the recent increase signaled that high interest rates may finally be taking a toll on the labor market.
In response to weakening employment data and receding consumer prices, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut its benchmark interest rate by a half of a percentage point as the central bank shifts its focus from taming inflation toward supporting the job market. The Fed’s goal is to achieve a rare “soft landing,” whereby it curbs inflation without causing a recession.
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Weekly applications for US jobless benefits fall to the lowest level in 4 months
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to their lowest level in four months last week
Watch: Kellyanne Conway says election will come down to ‘not just enraging voters but engaging them'
Vance boasts he’ll keep calling Springfield Haitians ‘illegal aliens’ even though he knows they aren’t
Sounding totally like someone who voters should trust, JD Vance has said he will continue to call Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio “illegal” aliens despite knowing that they’re here legally.
Gustaf Kilander has the story.
JD Vance boasts he’ll keep calling Haitians ‘illegal aliens’
‘If Kamala Harris waves the wand illegally and says these people are now here legally, I’m still going to call them an illegal alien,’ Republican vice presidential hopeful says
Harris to meet Zelensky next week, report says
Per CNN:
Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington, DC, next week, according to three sources familiar with the planning.
The meeting comes amid concerns over the impact the American election results will have on the Russia-Ukraine war and US policy toward Ukraine as it seeks additional resources.
Asked Wednesday whether Harris will meet with Zelensky next week, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby suggested she might if the opportunity presented itself.
Harris has met face to face with the Ukrainian president on a couple of occasions as well as spoken to him by phone. Donald Trump said he would “probably” meet with Zelensky next week — which would be their first in-person meeting since Trump left office and since and the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
Harris will also join President Joe Biden on Monday for a meeting with Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the president of the United Arab Emirates, at the White House to discuss ongoing tensions in the Middle East, the crisis in Sudan and other bilateral and regional matters.
Watch: Hillary Clinton weighs in on election as ‘contest between freedom and oppression'
Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton has weighed in on the state of the 2024 election during an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, calling it: “A contest between freedom and oppression, democracy and autocracy, bringing people together and further dividing us.”
She added: “And that's what has to be communicated every single day between now and the election."
Regarding Donald Trump, she said: “Now the stakes are even higher because he has a record. We have seen him try to abuse power... And in addition to that, he's told us what he's going to do.”
Producers edited The Apprentice to stop Trump ‘from looking moronic’
I’m not sure they entirely succeeded.
Gustaf Kilander has more.
Producers edited The Apprentice to stop Trump from looking like a ‘complete moron’
‘That quality that was really bad for him in business was solid gold on the show,’ author says
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