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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
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Trump boosts a hard-right Christian worldview that paints the election as 'spiritual warfare'
Watch: Trump attempts to troll Kamala Harris with McDonald’s stunt
Here’s our video report on the Republican’s surreal Sunday gig.
Donald Trump tries to troll Kama Harris by serving up fries at McDonald’s
Donald Trump tried to troll rival Kamala Harris as he served up french fries at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania. The former US president staged an impromptu news conference, answering questions from journalists at the drive-thru window on Sunday (20 October). After an employee showed Trump how to dunk baskets of fries in the oil, the former president took his turn and even helped fill some takeout bags after a bit. Trump said: “It requires great expertise, actually, to do it right and to do it fast.” The visit came as he dug into his claim — one that’s spreading without offering evidence — that Harris never worked at the fast-food chain while in college.
Donald Trump serves up disturbing message with fries at Pennsylvania McDonald’s
Good morning!
Donald Trump spent one of the final Sundays of the election cycle working the fry cooker at a Pennsylvania 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 is known for his love of the fast-food franchise but has become obsessed with the fact that his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris worked in one of its restaurants when she was a student, a detail he griped about during his stunt appearance in Lower Southampton.
The roughly hour-long photo opp closed down the branch in question entirely.
During the visit, Trump had an apron tied behind his back by a McDonald’s cashier before he recieved a short demonstration on how to work the fry station before sticking his head through the drive-thru window.
The former president proceeded to hand out a number of orders, chatting to supporters who were picking up their meals.
But as he took a question from a reporter through the window, Trump again resorted to baseless suggestions that the upcoming presidential election could be tainted by fraud, a charge he and running mate JD Vance have repeated about the 2020 vote.
“Will you accept the results of the election?” the journalist asked.
“Yeah, sure, if it’s a fair election,” came the ominious answer.
Here’s more on an odd afternoon from John Bowden.
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
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Can Harris beat Trump? Latest poll updates
Vice President Kamala Harris will go head-to-head with Donald Trump in less than three weeks as Americans cast their votes in the 2024 election.
The race has only become tighter, with Harris just one point ahead of Trump in a new poll. The outcome of the election is anyone’s game.
See the latest poll results:
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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.”
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