Harris leads in two key swing states, new poll shows as Trump’s Brooklyn campaign stop is canceled: Live
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.
Highlights from Trump’s New York rally
Good morning!
Here are some of the most eyebrow-raising moments from Donald Trump’s rally in Uniondale on Long Island last night, at which the Republican presidential nominee claimed he was “going to bring back religion” to thank God for saving his life twice, indulged his narcissism by suggesting he was a bigger star than Elvis Presley, attacked “radical left” Kamala Harris over her rhetoric (sigh), rehashed his 2020 election denials, pledged to visit poor old Springfield, Ohio, and stumbled over his lines – frequently.
His warm-up man was Rudy Giuliani, incidentally.
Melania Trump defends nude modeling career
Melania Trump has taken the media to task over its interest in her past nude modeling career in the latest video promoting her new memoir Melania.
“Why do I stand proudly behind my nude modelling work?” the former first lady and wife of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, 54, asks in the video posted on X and Instagram.
“The more pressing question is why has the media chosen to scrutinize my celebration of the human form in a fashion photo shoot?”
Joe Sommerlad reports.
Melania Trump defends nude modeling career in latest video promoting new memoir
Former first lady describes her early work as a ‘celebration of the human form’ akin to classical paintings and sculptures
Feature: The anti-abortion and anti-IVF campaigners who feel betrayed by Trump
Eric Garcia writes:
Trump has tried to walk a tightrope on both abortion and IVF. He knows that such hardline stances are unpopular with the wider American populace, and he fears what that could do at the ballot box — especially when even deep red states like Kansas ended up voting against abortion bans in recent referenda. His position is endlessly confused: He recently said that Florida’s six-week ban on abortion is “too short”, before he backtracked and said he would vote against a proposed constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights that will be on the ballot in his home state in November.
It’s not just progressives and those who fight for reproductive rights who are worried. For many conservative anti-abortion activists, Trump’s waffling feels like a confirmation of their worst fears.
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‘He’s listening to swampy people’: Anti-abortion campaigners feel betrayed by Trump
Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life of America, tell Eric Garcia that Trump’s recent claims to support IVF set off alarm bells for them
Trump mixed up an Afghan airbase with an oil-rich region of Alaska
Donald Trump has been roasted after he bizarrely mixed up an Alaskan wildlife refuge and an Afghanistan airbase during a town hall in Michigan.
The former president appeared on stage in Flint on Tuesday for the event which was moderated by his former White House press secretary and current Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
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Trump roasted for mixing up Afghan airbase with oil-rich region of Alaska
Former president confused Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield during a Flint, Michigan, town hall
Vance once penned a blog post slamming Republicans for anti-immigrant stance — oh how times have changed...
JD Vance once penned a furious blog post sharing his disdain for the Republican party’s hostility toward immigrants – then urged his professor to delete it years later as he sought to enter politics.
As a 28-year-old Yale law student back in November 2012, the Ohio senator wrote an article titled: “A Blueprint for the GOP.”
In it, the more youthful and progressive Vance slammed Republicans for being “tone deaf” on immigration and “openly hostile to non-whites.”
Now, more than a decade later, as Donald Trump’s running mate, he has been accused of amplifying this same anti-immigrant rhetoric – most recently pushing false claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.
James Liddell has the story.
JD Vance penned 2012 blog slamming ‘tone deaf’ Republicans for alienating migrants
Four years after penning the 2012 post, Vance asked his Yale college professor to delete it
Fake story claiming Kamala Harris was involved in a hit-and-run was created by Russian troll farm: Microsoft
A Russian troll farm was behind false claims Kamala Harris was involved in a 2011 hit-and-run accident and other inflammatory stories that spread online, according to a report from the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center.
A Kremlin-aligned group, dubbed Storm-1516 in the report, created a fake San Francisco-area website in August to publish a video featuring a paid actor talking about the alleged incident.
In the video, a young Black woman claimed she “cannot remain silent anymore.”
Russian troll farm created fake story claiming Harris involved in hit-and-run
Claims spread using fake San Francisco-area website
Jimmy Kimmel brings up Trump’s glowing past comments about Diddy
Jimmy Kimmel has reminded Donald Trump of the glowing comments he previously made about Sean “Diddy” Combs, who was arrested by federal agents in New York on Monday following months of civil lawsuits accusing him of sex trafficking, sexual abuse and rape.
After the judge denied the rapper bail on Tuesday, the Jimmy Kimmel Live host said: “in the meantime, he’s getting his character referenes lined up.”
Myriam Page has the story.
‘He’s a good friend’: Jimmy Kimmel brings up Trump’s glowing past Diddy comments
The late night comedy show host joked that the troubled rapper is ‘getting his character references lined up’ after he was denied bail on Tuesday
PREMIUM: I traveled with Tim Walz after the second attempted Trump assassination. Here’s how he reacted
Flying with Harris’s running-mate — and trailing him from campaign event to campaign event, all while trying to get a reaction to breaking news — can be a surreal affair, as Andrew Feinberg reports.
I traveled with Walz after the second attempted Trump shooting. Here’s how he reacted
Flying with Harris’s running-mate — and trailing him from campaign event to campaign event, all while trying to get a reaction to breaking news — can be a surreal affair
Latest poll updates: Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump?
Alicja Hagopian looks at the latest numbers.
Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates from the 2024 election
Here’s what the latest polls say about the 2024 presidential election, from The Independent’s data correspondent
Kentucky rape survivor hits out at Trump for overturning Roe in powerful new Harris ad
Kentucky rape survivor Hadley Duvall narrates a new ad for the Harris campaign in which she severely criticizes former President Donald Trump for the overturning of Roe v Wade.
During his term in the White House, Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices who voted for the overturning of the landmark 1973 ruling which made abortion a constitutionally protected right. It was overturned in the summer of 2022.
In the ad, Duvall speaks about how she was abused by her stepfather from the age of five, and how he impregnated her at the age of 12 before Roe was overturned.
Duvall said this meant she “had options.”
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