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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are still virtually tied in the seven key battleground states according to the latest Washington Post/Schar School poll. Harris has a narrow lead in the Blue Wall state of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, as well as in Georgia. Trump is ahead in Arizona and North Carolina, while they are tied in Nevada.
The former president spent Sunday working the fry cooker at a branch of McDonald’s – the latest bizarre moment in a campaign that has increasingly become a tour of personal vendettas and aimless grudges, despite his aides’ best efforts to keep him on track.
The Republican presidential nominee has become obsessed with the fact that his Democratic opponent worked in one of its restaurants when she was a student.
CBS News has meanwhile hit back at the former president over his repeated false claims that its show 60 Minutes edited its recent interview with Harris to make her answers appear more favorable.
In a statement, the show insisted its episodes are cut to be “clear, accurate and on point” and never “deceitful”.
Harris meanwhile spent the weekend celebrating her 60th birthday while Trump raised eyebrows with a crude anecdote about golfer Arnold Palmer’s manhood.
Trump serves disturbing message through McDonald’s drive-thru window about whether he’ll accept election result
CNN host gets into awkward argument with top Republican about Trump’s bizarre Arnold Palmer comment
‘But don’t call them weird’: Trump raises eyebrows after crude 12-minute anecdote about Arnold Palmer’s manhood
Trump boosts a hard-right Christian worldview that paints the election as 'spiritual warfare'
Josh Shapiro calls on cops to look into Elon Musk’s $1 million giveaways in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Sunday that Elon Musk’s plans to give $1 million to registered voters who sign his super PAC’s petition is “deeply concerning” and should be looked into by law enforcement.
“I think there are real questions with how he is spending money in this race, how the dark money is flowing, not just into Pennsylvania, but apparently now into the pockets of Pennsylvanians,” Shapiro said in an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. “That is deeply concerning.”
“I think it’s something that law enforcement could take a look at,” he added. “I’m not the attorney general anymore of Pennsylvania. I’m the governor, but it does raise some serious questions.”
Read more:
Josh Shapiro calls on cops to look at Musk’s $1 million giveaways in Pennsylvania
Elon Musk announced a plan to give away $1 million to those who sign his PAC petition backing the Constitution
Trump has been mocked online after appearing to call anchor Sage Steele, “Pagie” at the start of his town hall on Sunday afternoon.
Trump to Sage Steele: “Let’s have a little fun, Paige” pic.twitter.com/vjkYVxYwJX
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 20, 2024
Elon Musk and Marjorie Taylor Greene risk Dominion’s wrath
More than a year after the company reached a record-breaking settlement with Fox News over similar claims, Elon Musk promoted a debunked conspiracy theory that suggested Dominion Voting Systems had manipulated the outcome of the 2020 election.
The Twitter CEO — who has been joined by Marjorie Taylor Greene in making false assertions about the company in recent days — could be risking a legal fight with the company that successfully forced Fox News into a multimillion-dollar settlement after the 2020 election.
Read more from Alex Woodward:
Elon Musk and Marjorie Taylor Greene revive voting machine conspiracy theories
Fox News reached a mammoth settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over the company’s defamation claims
Trump’s busy day continues as he watches the Steelers take on the New York Jets in Pittsburg.
🚨 PRESIDENT TRUMP IS HERE AT THE STEELERS GAME!
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 21, 2024
LFG!!! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/gKghprCjia
GOP Senate candidate has long claimed he was shot in Afghanistan. People are now questioning his story
A key Senate race in Montana has long been viewed as Republicans’ best chance to unseat a Democratic incumbent this year. But a last-minute scandal may be brewing, as the Republican candidate in the race is now being accused of lying about being wounded in combat.
Matthew Brown has more:
GOP Senate candidate has claimed he was shot at war. People are questioning his story
A former Park Service ranger says U.S. Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy of Montana has been lying about a bullet wound that the candidate said came from fighting in Afghanistan
Tim Walz collects $2 million in Boston
Tim Walz collected $2.4 million for Kamala Harris’s joint fundraising committee in Boston on Sunday.
“We don’t stop in here to treat you like an ATM. What we understand is that the folks here can help,” Walz told the crowd.
“We need to win the ‘Blue Wall’ states. We need to be able to be down in Georgia. We need to be across this country. And the help you give us opens up 50 offices across Michigan.”
CNN host gets into awkward argument with top Republican about Trump’s bizarre Arnold Palmer comment
CNN anchor Jake Tapper got into an awkward argument with Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson about the odd comments that Donald Trump made about former professional golfer Arnold Palmer during a rally on Saturday.
With just days to go before the election on 7 November, Trump used a campaign rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Palmer’s birthplace to speak for 12 minutes about Palmer’s manhood.
Watch Johnson attempt to explain that moment on CNN:
CNN host argues with top Republican about Trump’s bizarre Arnold Palmer comment
Trump told a 12 minute anecdote during a recent rally about seeing the golfer in the showers
Marjorie Taylor Greene says Covid vaccines may be responsible for ‘all time high’ cancer rates
Far-right Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said COVID-19 vaccines should be investigated in light of “all time high” in cancer rates, despite it being a debunked claim.
Greene’s latest suggestion that “we must investigate” COVID-19 vaccines to find answers for cancer rates is not based on any legitimate evidence, as COVID-19 vaccines have never been shown to cause cancer.
Read more from Katie Hawkinson:
MTG says Covid vaccines may be responsible for ‘all time high’ cancer rates
There is no evidence to suggest COVID-19 vaccines cause cancer
Trump serves disturbing message through McDonald’s drive-thru window about whether he’ll accept election result
Donald Trump’s McDonald’s visit was served with a dash of his favorite topic: election denialism.
The former president created a kind of strange spectacle on Sunday as he stoked fears about election fraud while wearing an apron through the restaurant’s drive-thru window. The scene that played out in the Feasterville neighborhood of the Lower Southampton Township, where the former president and his campaign took over a McDonald’s franchise restaurant owned by one of his supporters.
Trump serves disturbing message through McDonald’s drive-thru window
Ex-president once again raises notion that election could be tainted by fraud his campaign failed to prove existed in 2020
Trump town hall begins in Lancaster
Donald Trump’s town hall event is now live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where supporters were lined up for hours to see him speak. Kamala Harris, his opponent, is in Georgia today campaigning as well.
Watch Trump’s event here:
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