Election 2024 live updates: Trump slams Harris as a ‘cognitive mess’; Cheney urges pro-life voters to back Democrat
Polls tighten in key swing states as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump set to end busy day of campaigning with events in Waukesha County, Wisconsin and Concord, North Carolina respectively
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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 states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, as well as in Georgia. Trump is ahead in Arizona and North Carolina, while they are tied in Nevada.
Trump visited Swannanoa, North Carolina, which was devastated by floods from Hurricane Helene, and repeated the baseless conspiracy theory that Federal Emergency Management Agency money had instead been sent to “illegal migrants”. He reiterated the accusation later at a rally in Greenville and called Harris a “cognitive mess”.
Harris joined former Republican Rep Liz Cheney on Monday for a tour of suburban districts in three states that could swing the election to her by encouraging GOP voters, unhappy with Trump, to vote for the Democratic ticket instead.
Cheney, who has opposed abortion in the past and praised the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v Wade argued it is OK to vote for Harris even if you oppose abortion, as women are not getting the care they need and that has to change.
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 Musk’s $1m giveaways in Pennsylvania
The swing state’s governor, who almost became Harris’s running mate, has said Elon’s free money offer is “deeply concerning” and should be looked into by law enforcement.
Andrea Cavalier has 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
SNL mocks Harris’s Fox News interview and Trump’s dance-a-thon town hall
Alec Baldwin returned to Saturday Night Live – this time as Bret Baier, not Trump – to send up the latter’s hostile interview with the Democrat last week.
Katie Hawkinson was watching.
SNL mocks Trump’s dance-a-thon town hall and Harris’s Fox News interview
Alec Baldwin starred as Fox News’s Bret Baier in this week’s Cold Open sketch
Harris: Trump’s conduct ‘demeans the office’ of president
Speaking to the Reverend Al Sharpton yesterday, the Democrat was asked about her rival calling her a “s*** vice president” the night before, to which she had this to say:
CNN host gets into awkward argument with top Republican about Trump’s bizarre Arnold Palmer comment
“Is this really the closing message you want voters to hear from Donald Trump – stories about Arnold Palmer’s penis?” an incredulous Jake Tapper asked House speaker Mike Johnson on State of the Union yesterday.
Greg Evans has Johnson’s answer.
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
Obama on Trump: ‘Dude, you were president for four years!’
The 44th president took his swing state tour on behalf of Kamala Harris to Las Vegas yesterday, where he wasted no time in taking Trump to task for his many failures of leadership.
Two other Black superstars speaking up for Kamala in key states over the weekend were Lizzo and Usher, the former cheering her on in Michigan and the latter in Georgia.
Harris spends 60th birthday preaching compassion to Black churchgoers as Trump unexpectedly reaches out
Kamala Harris spent Sunday, her 60th birthday, in the company of Black churchgoers at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, where she read the parable of the Good Samaritan and urged her audience to sow compassion and respect in their daily lives and do more than just “preach the values”.
Unexpectedly, Donald Trump appears to have been listening, briefly putting aside election hostilities to wish her a happy birthday in the spirit of brotherhood.
Here’s more on the Democratic nominee’s trip to church.
Harris tells Black churchgoers that people must show compassion and respect in their lives
Kamala Harris has told the congregation of a large Black church in suburban Atlanta that people must show compassion and respect in their daily lives and do more than just “preach the values.”
CBS News finally hits back at Trump’s false 60 Minutes claims
The broadcaster has at last come back at the former president over his repeated false claims that its show 60 Minutes edited its recent interview with Kamala Harris to make her answers appear more favorable.
In a statement issued to another CBS program, Face the Nation, on Sunday morning, the network declared: “Former president Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our October 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false.
“When we edit any interview, whether a politician, an athlete, or movie star, we strive to be clear, accurate and on point.
“The portion of her answer on 60 Minutes was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide ranging 21-minute-long segment.”
It also reiterated its offer to Trump to sit down for his own Q&A after he backed out of an initial agreement to appear.
“Our long-standing invitation to former president Trump remains open.
“If he would like to discuss the issues facing the nation and the Harris interview, we would be happy to have him on 60 Minutes.”
Here’s more from James Liddell.
60 Minutes responds to Trump’s accusation it ‘deceitfully edited’ Harris interview
CBS News called Trump’s claim ‘false’ and pointed out again that he had pulled out of his own 60 Minutes interview
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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