Election 2024 live: Harris to host star-studded Georgia rally; Trump campaigns in Nevada, Arizona
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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Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance — who you might have noticed doesn’t get mentioned at all by his running mate during campaign stops, in favour of Elon Musk — suggested that former President Donald Trump has a 60 percent chance of winning the November election during an appearance on a podcast - despite the Ohio senator having no background in oddsmaking.
Vance was a guest on the Tuesday episode of comedian Theo Von’s podcast This Past Weekend.
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Noted oddsmaker JD Vance says Trump has a 60% chance to win the election
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Kamala Harris to give closing election speech at spot where Trump riled up crowd before Jan 6 attack
Vice President Kamala Harrisplans to give a major campaign speech this coming Tuesday at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., the park just outside the White House where Donald Trump in 2021 called on his supporters to march on Congress in the moments leading up to the January 6 insurrection.
Campaign officials said the speech, a week before election day, will serve as a “closing argument,” where Harris, a former prosecutor, will make her final case against Donald Trump before a “jury” of the American people.
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Kamala Harris to give closing election speech at spot where Trump riled Jan 6 rioters
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Harris calls herself a ‘nerd’ as she describes her ‘weaknesses'
Kamala Harris called herself “kind of a nerd” after she was asked what her weaknesses were during the CNN Town Hall.
“I may not be quick to have the answer as soon as you ask it about a specific policy issue sometimes because I'm going to want to research it, I'm going to want to study it. I'm kind of a nerd sometimes, I confess,” she said.
“And some might call that a weakness, especially if you're, you know, in an interview, or just kind of, you know, being asked a certain question and just expected to have the right answer right away. But that's how I that's how I work.”
Harris blasts Trump’s ‘clearly admiring comparison’ to Hitler
Answering further questions from audience members in Pennsylvania, Kamala Harris said: “The American people deserve to have a president who encourages healthy debate, works across the aisle, not afraid of good ideas, wherever they come from...
“...but also maintains certain standards about how we think about the role and the responsibility, and certainly not comparing oneself in a clearly admiring way to Hitler.”
Harris: ‘John Kelly just put out a 911 call to the American people’ - watch
In pictures: Harris takes questions CNN Town Hall in Pennsylvania
Harris responds to direct question about whether she thinks Trump is a fascist
Kamala Harris was directly asked whether she thought Donald Trump was a “fascist.”
CNN’ anchor and host of the Pennsylvania Town Hall, Anderson Cooper, said: “Let me ask you tonight, do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?”
“Yes, I do,” Harris replied. “Yes I do. And I also believe that the people who know him best on this subject should be trusted.”
Kamala Harris opens Pennsylvania Town Hall with remarks about John Kelly revelations
Kamala Harris opened a Pennsylvania Town Hall with remarks about John Kelly revelations about Donald Trump’s remarks in the White House, saying that the former GOP chief of staff had put out a “911 call to the American people.”
“Today, we learned that John Kelly, a four star marine general who was his longest serving Chief of Staff, gave an interview recently, in the last two weeks of this election, talking about how dangerous Donald Trump is,” she said.
“And I think one has to think about why would someone who served with him, who is not political, a Four Star Marine General. Why is he telling the American people now?
“And frankly, I think of it as is he’s just putting out a 911 call to the American people understand what could happen if Donald Trump were back in the White House.”
RFK Jr joins Trump on stage in Georgia
Former independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy made a surprise appearance with Donald Trump at a rally in Georgia.
The former president spoke about national health issues, before introducing RFK Jr as “the man who is going to help us get it all straightened out.”
In his brief remarks, RFK said: “Don’t you want a president who’s going to get the corruption out of Washington DC.”
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