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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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Democrats call for DOJ probe of Jared Kushner for acting as unregistered foreign agent
Democratic Rep Jamie Raskin, ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and Senator Ron Wyden, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, have called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) by Jared Kushner, son-in-law and former senior White House advisor to ex-President Donald Trump.
In a statement released today, they say that as part of investigations launched last Congress by House and Senate Democrats, Senate investigators have uncovered that since the end of the Trump administration through mid-2024, Kushner’s firm Affinity Partners has received as much as $157m in fees from foreign clients. This includes $87m from the Saudi government.
In that time, the firm has generated no return on investment, paid zero earnings to investors, and invested only a small fraction of the funds it received from the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
They argue that public reports indicate that Kushner remained politically active throughout that time period, particularly on matters of US foreign policy related to the Middle East.
“While on the Saudi government’s payroll, Mr Kushner is simultaneously serving as a political consultant to former President Trump and acting as a shadow diplomat and political advisor to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and other foreign principals. Despite being engaged in plainly political activities, Mr Kushner has not made FARA disclosures to DOJ related to the millions of dollars he receives annually by entities owned and controlled by the governments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar,” Raskin and Wyden wrote.
“The scale of these undisclosed foreign payments to Mr Kushner coupled with the national security implications of his apparent ongoing efforts to sell political influence to the highest foreign bidder are unprecedented and demand action from DOJ.”
Individuals acting on behalf of foreign entities must register with the DOJ or will have violated federal law.
The lawmakers included a list of political activities engaged in by Kushner during the time he was being paid:
- Advising the Saudi Crown Prince on US foreign policy;
- Advising former President Trump and his presidential campaign;
- Selling geopolitical advisory and political advocacy services to foreign government clients through his private equity fund;
- Arranging meetings on foreign policy with the Qatari prime minister on US soil;
- Engaging in political fundraising in support of Trump’s campaign; and
- Influencing members of Congress on domestic and foreign policy.
Watch these House races if you want to know if Trump or Harris will win
Eric Garcia writes:
A new batch of polls for the swing states from various outlets dropped on Wednesday evening, to mixed reactions.
Some Democrats and even some Republicans have taken to discarding polls overall and looking at early voting numbers instead, since people in swing states like Nevada, Georgia, North Carolina and Wisconsin have already begun to cast their ballots. But this is an imprecise science, since it only reveals party registration. Plenty of registered Republicans may not pull the lever for Trump, and vice versa.
Uncertainty is probably the worst part of the final days before an election, especially in a coin-flip election. Voters want certainty, even if it is a result they would not like, as it gives them a chance to gird themselves.
But while The Independent can’t necessarily offer a crystal ball, Inside Washington might be able to offer one early indicator of how the races will swing.
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Want to know if Trump or Harris will win? Watch these House races
The districts that will tell us who’s most likely to win out as president of the United States in November
Trump denies proposes national sales tax — still fails to understand how tariffs work
Donald Trump still fails to understand or admit that tariffs on imported goods mean higher prices for American consumers buying imported goods and businesses that rely on imported components.
These higher prices are framed as a national sales tax by Democrats.
Here’s what the former president wrote on Truth Social this afternoon:
I am NOT proposing a National Sales Tax, as the Democrats say in their Advertisements against me. Dems know what they are saying is a blatant lie. I am proposing tariffs on other countries that take advantage of us, hardly a NST. These tariffs are paid for by the abusing country, NOT THE AMERICAN CONSUMER. They do not cause inflation, and will MAKE AMERICA RICH AGAIN!
‘Did you just ‘whatever’ the Holocaust?’: ‘Daily Show’ skewers ‘Fox & Friends’
The Daily Show tore into Fox News anchor Brian Kilmeade on Wednesday, after the broadcaster tried to defend Donald Trump in the wake of reporting that he allegedly praised Adolf Hitler in the White House.
“He obviously has frustration, and I could absolutely see him going out, ‘You know what? It would be great to have German generals [that] actually do what we asked them to do,’” Kilmeade told panelists on Fox & Friends. “Knowing that, maybe not fully being cognizant of the third rail of German generals were Nazis and whatever. But he was frustrated with the slowdown.”
“Did you just ‘whatever’ the Holocaust?” Daily Show host Michael Kosta asked during a segment on the controversy.
Josh Marcus reports.
‘Daily Show’ skewers ‘Fox & Friends’ for defending Trump’s Hitler remarks
The former president has denied praising Hitler
Watch: Howard Kurtz vouches for Kelly over Trump’s Hitler comments before trying to explain them away
Trump claims Pennsylvania has 500,000 fracking jobs — is there any truth to that?
Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that Pennsylvania has 500,000 fracking jobs, but reports indicate that the figure is closer to a tenth of that.
Gustaf Kilander looks at the numbers.
Trump claims Pennsylvania has 500K fracking jobs - the figure is a tenth of that
Researcher says ‘fracking is not a major driver of employment in Pennsylvania and Appalachia’
Watch: CNN pollster says 60% chance Harris or Trump could sweep battlegrounds
Explained: A convicted felon, such as Trump, wins the presidency — what happens next?
Earlier this year, Donald Trump made history by becoming the first former president ever convicted of a crime.
Now, with Election Day looming and the Republican neck-and-neck with Kamala Harris in the polls, he could make history again: by becoming the first convicted felon elected to the nation’s highest office.
Joe Sommerlad explains what could happen next.
What happens if a convicted felon – like Trump – wins the presidency?
With Election Day looming and the polls neck-and-neck, Trump could soon make history as the first president to run the country from a prison cell
Biden to apologize for 150-year Indian boarding school policy
President Joe Biden is expected to formally apologize on Friday for the country’s role in the Indian boarding school system, which devastated the lives of generations of Indigenous children and their ancestors.
“I would never have guessed in a million years that something like this would happen,” said Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland, a member of the Pueblo of Laguna. “It’s a big deal to me. I’m sure it will be a big deal to all of Indian Country.”
Shortly after becoming the first Native American to lead the Interior, Haaland launched an investigation into the boarding school system, which found that at least 18,000 children, some as young as 4, were taken from their parents and forced to attend schools that sought to assimilate them, in an effort to dispossess their tribal nations of land. It also documented nearly 1,000 deaths and 74 gravesites associated with the more than 500 schools.
No president has ever formally apologized for the forced removal of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children — an element of genocide as defined by the United Nations — or any other aspect of the US government’s decimation of Indigenous peoples.
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President Biden to apologize for 150-year Indian boarding school policy
President Joe Biden is preparing to issue an historic apology during his first diplomatic visit to a tribal nation as president on Friday
More than 2.1 million people have voted early in Georgia
Georgia’s secretary of state says more than 2.125 million people have voted early in the state, as of this afternoon.
On day ten of Early Voting in previous years, 730,706 (2018), 1,328,199 (2020), and 1,139,770 (2022) voters had turned out for in-person Early Voting.
“Georgia voters know we’ve made it easy to cast a ballot. It’s really that simple,” said Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
“Over the past four years we’ve worked tirelessly to prepare for this election by adding Early Voting days and investing in infrastructure, only to be rewarded with the lies of Jim Crow 2.0 and a missed All-Star Game. We’re battled tested and ready, despite the critics.”
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