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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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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.
Watch: Harris speaks to reporters before traveling to Atlanta
More than 230 doctors say Trump is too unstable to serve
More than 230 psychiatrists and mental health professionals have signed on to an open letter declaring Donald Trump to be far too mentally unstable to be president as part of a new ad campaign from conservative lawyer George Conway’s Anti-Psychopath PAC.
Andrew Feinberg has the story.
More than 230 doctors say Trump is too unstable to be president in open letter
Letter states that the Republican candidate ‘appears to be showing signs of cognitive decline that urgently call for a full neurological workup’
Watch: Harris campaign deploying celebrity advantage over GOP
Full story: Trump says he would fire ‘mean’ special counsel Jack Smith ‘within seconds’ of taking office
Donald Trump said he would “fire” special counsel Jack Smith within “two seconds” of his first day in office, if elected, suggesting that the Republican presidential nominee intends to force law enforcement agencies and the courts to drop two federal cases against him.
Right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt asked Trump on Thursday whether he would pardon himself or “fire” the special counsel appointed to oversee the criminal cases against the former president.
“Oh, it’s so easy. It’s so easy. He’s a crooked person … I would fire him within two seconds,” Trump said.
Alex Woodward reports.
Trump says he would ‘fire’ Jack Smith ‘within seconds’ of taking office
Trump doesn’t believe he will be impeached a third time if he forces the special counsel off his federal criminal cases
Watch: Trump continues to pledge to revive archaic ‘alien’ law
Trump continues pledge to revive centuries-old archaic ‘alien’ law
Donald Trump continued his pledge that the United States should “go back to 1798” and invoke an archaic law to deal with immigrants who commit crimes. Speaking in Georgia on Wednesday (23 October), the former president again threatened to use part of the Alien and Sedition Acts. The legislation limited civil liberties; it tightened restrictions on foreign-born Americans and limited speech critical of the government. All but one of the four laws — the Alien Enemies Act — were eliminated by previous lawmakers. Mr Trump then declared his support to introduce “the death penalty for any migrant that kills an American citizen or law enforcement officer.”
Another day, another pointless fib...
Donald Trump‘s claim that his youngest daughter Tiffany Trump graduated at the very top of her law school class is raising eyebrows — given the school doesn’t rank its students and she doesn’t appear on the honors list.
James Liddell has the story.
Trump’s claim Tiffany graduated top of her class at Georgetown raises eyebrows
Former president boasted that his daughter was ‘number one’ in her Georgetown Law class in 2020, but the university says it ‘doesn’t rank students’
Watch: Morning Joe breaks down how Trump economic plan would ‘tank economy'
Steve Rattner takes a look at how Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s economic plans stack up after 23 Nobel Prize-winning economists slam the Republican candidate’s policies, predicting higher prices and larger deficits.
New poll shows Trump inching past Harris
A new poll has found that former President Donald Trump has a small lead over Vice President Kamala Harris, less than two weeks ahead of November’s election.
A national Wall Street Journal poll found Trump leads Harris 47 to 45 percent. In August, the same pollster found that Harris was ahead by two points. The poll results included third-party and independent candidates. However, both Trump’s and Harris’s poll leads have been within the margin of error.
Gustaf Kilander reports (but make sure you also check out Alicja Hagopian’s polls explainer here):
New poll shows Trump inching past Harris less than two weeks from election day
Harris receives worst job performance rating as vice president since July, with 42 percent approving and 54 percent disapproving of how she does the job
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