Election 2024 live: Trump and Harris are neck and neck in latest national polls; Harris to host star-studded Georgia rally
Kamala Harris in Georgia with Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen on Thursday while Donald Trump heads west to Arizona and Nevada
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Kamala Harris said she believes that Donald Trump is a “fascist” in a CNN town hall in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, again warning of the threat the Republican poses to the country’s future.
The former president is currently facing a fresh storm of criticism over a report alleging that he once said he needed “the kind of generals that Adolf Hitler had.”
John Kelly, his former chief of staff, meanwhile told The New York Times that Trump praised Hitler on multiple occasions.
Harris told compere Anderson Cooper that Kelly’s revelations were a “911 call to the American people”, having said earlier that Trump is “increasingly unhinged and unstable”.
Trump has nevertheless taken a narrow lead over Harris in a new Wall Street Journal poll with less than two weeks to go until Election Day, getting 47 percent of the vote in the newspaper’s latest survey, with Harris two points behind.
Another poll from Marist places the candidates neck-and-neck in the swing states of Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina.
In a long-awaited boost to the Harris campaign, the vice president will be joined onstage in Houston on Friday by Beyoncé after campaigning with Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen tonight in Atlanta.
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Watch: ‘Trump’ sent to nursing home in new Eric Swalwell video
‘Donald Trump’ sent to nursing home in new Eric Swalwell video
A new video from Democrat Eric Swalwell's campaign depicted Donald Trump as an elderly relative whose family sends him to a nursing home. In the clip, an actor playing the former president references notable claims the Republican nominee has made, including his "eating cats and dogs" comments, as he interacts with family members. The fictional Mr Trump is then taken to a nursing home named “A Place For Trump" where he “can enjoy the things he loves, like eating cheeseburgers and rage-posting at 3am." A voiceover then says: "Let’s vote to put him in A Place For Trump, because we all know he belongs in a home, just not this one,” as a photo of the White House appears.
James Taylor to join Walz on campaign trail in North Carolina
Singer James Taylor will join vice presidential nominee Tim Walz on the campaign trail in Wilmington, North Carolina this evening, NBC News reports.
Taylor, a North Carolina-native, has endorsed the Kamala Harris and Tim Walz ticket.
‘Dad’ Trump will give ‘vigorous spankings to bad girls’... according to Tucker Carlson
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson whipped up a crowd of Donald Trump supporters with a bizarre speech comparing the former president to a dad coming home to punish his misbehaving children.
Here’s Ariana Baio’s report on this unsettling visual.
Bizarre Tucker Carlson speech compares Trump to ‘dad’ giving kids ‘vigorous spanking’
Former Fox host used ‘little girl’ metaphor to suggest the former president is what the country needs - then claimed it’s the Democrats who are the ‘weirdos’
Watch: Scaramucci explains why he doesn’t think Trump would incite violence if he loses
Former Trump staffer Anthony Scaramucci tells Dean Obdeidallah why he doesn’t think that Donald Trump would incite violence if he loses the 2024 election.
Warren Buffett reveals endorsement decision after fake claims about who he’s backing
The billionaire Warren Buffet has finally revealed his endorsement decision for next month’s election – but it’s not the one many would have guessed.
Madeline Sherratt has the story.
Warren Buffett finally reveals his endorsement decision in 2024 election
The 94-year-old philanthropist billionaire revealed the announcement on his company website in response to fake claims of who he is backing
Watch: Trump tells Hugh Hewitt he would fire Jack Smith in ‘two seconds'
Watch: Harris hails endorsements from GOP leaders, dings Trump for being ‘exhausted’
Kamala Harris hailed new endorsements from Republican Party leaders while speaking to the press this lunchtime: “I'm proud to announce that we've had some endorsements this morning…Two leaders of the Republican Party…The Mayor of Waukesha and former Representative Fred Upton.”
She also reiterated the claim that Donald Trump is “exhausted”, adding “the sad part about that is he’s trying to be President of the United States”.
Three decades serving as congressional Republican, and this GOP stalwart has voted for Harris
Fred Upton, a member of the Republican Party who represented Michigan in Congress for more than three decades, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president on Thursday, breaking from his party in defiance of Donald Trump.
Reflecting on the January 6 attack on the Capitol, Upton said Trump is “unfit to serve as commander in chief again” and has continued to engage in unacceptable “unhinged behavior”, in a statement obtained by the New York Times.
Ariana Baio reports.
Ex-GOP rep backs Harris saying Trump is unfit to serve as commander in chief again
Republican who served in Congress for more than three decades said he voted for Harris via absentee ballot
Watch: GOP mayor ‘terrified of Donald Trump’ declares support for Kamala Harris
Red city mayor ‘terrified of Donald Trump’ declares support for Kamala Harris
The mayor of a Republican stronghold declared his support for Democrat Kamala Harris for president, describing how he is terrified of Donald Trump. Waukesha mayor Shawn Reilly, who voted Republican for most of his life but has previously supported a third party and Joe Biden, endorsed the vice president in the 2024 race. Mr Reilly, who left the Republican party following the January 6 Capitol insurrection, said his choice was a “vote against Trump,” “He’s been convicted of felonies and this is not what the United States needs,” he explained.
Mailbox set on fire damaging ballots in crucial swing state Arizona
Phoenix Fire Department and law enforcement are investigating after a United States Postal Service mailbox was believed to have been set on fire overnight. Some 20 mail-in electoral ballots were damaged in addition to other mail awaiting collection.
ABC 15 Arizona reports:
Crews were called to the USPS Osborn Station, near 7th Avenue and Indian School Road, around 1:30 a.m. where a drove-up mail collection box was on fire.
Crews were able to quickly extinguish the blaze, but investigators were later seen going through pieces of mail that had been burned in the fire.
"Approximately 20 electoral ballots were damaged, along with additional miscellaneous mail," Phoenix Fire Department officials said. The Postal Inspector has since taken possession of the damaged ballots and mail.
What led to the fire is not yet known, but Phoenix Police Department says Phoenix Fire Department’s Arson Investigation Taskforce is performing a criminal investigation with postal inspectors and police.
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