Election 2024 live updates: Trump to appear on Joe Rogan podcast; Obama slams ‘whining’ ex-president on campaign trail
Kamala Harris is in Washington, DC, recording TV interviews and narrowly leads Donald Trump in national polling with two weeks until Election Day.
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Kamala Harris will appear on NBC Nightly News this evening in an interview recorded in Washington, DC, this afternoon. The vice president also taped an interview with Telemundo.
Donald Trump called her “lazy as hell” for what he perceived as her absence from the campaign trail during a surreal roundtable in pursuit of the Latino vote at his golf club in Miami.
The rambling, lie-filled session concluded with a group prayer during which people laid their hands on the former president before the traditional playout music, “YMCA”.
It is reported that on Friday, the former president will sit down for an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan. The Harris team is said to be in talks for her to appear on the show.
On the campaign trail, former president Barack Obama joined her vice presidential nominee Tim Walz in Wisconsin at a raucous get-out-the-vote rally in which the former president slammed Trump for his “whining”. The Minnesota governor also mocked Trump’s “running mate” Elon Musk for jumping around on stage “like a dipsh*t”.
Later this evening Obama will appear with rapper Eminem in Detroit, Michigan, and on Thursday, he will join rock legend Bruce Springsteen and Vice President Harris in Atlanta.
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Trump confidant and far-right agitator Laura Loomer has claimed that she’s “blacker” than Vice President Kamala Harris.
Loomer joins the growing number of conservatives, including former president Donald Trump, who have questioned the vice president’s race. Harris’s mother was Indian and her father is Jamaican. The Democratic presidential nominee has long talked about being Black in America and what her race means to her.
On October 18, Loomer appeared on Rumble on her program Loomer Unleashed, during which she claimed that Harris had “rolled out more of her fake accents.”
Gustaf Kilander reports.
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Full story: Eminem ‘to introduce Obama’ at Harris rally in Detroit
Eminem is reportedly set to introduce former US president Barack Obama at a presidential campaign rally in his hometown of Detroit tonight (22 October), after Donald Trump made a number of disparaging remarks about the city.
The Grammy Award-winning rapper’s stance on Trump goes back years, as he has previously hit out at the Republican nominee in a viral, blistering critique at the 2017 BET Hip Hop Awards.
Roisin O’Connor reports.
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AOC calls out Trump and Musk for ‘laughing at’ working people
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John Bowden writes:
In Greenville, it was Trumpmania — minus the mania.
Donald Trump’s “Get out the Vote” rally on the campus of East Carolina University (ECU) was the portrait of a fading spectacle. His visit to campus coincided with the beginning of homecoming week at ECU — in addition to the nearly 30,000 students at the school, thousands of purple-clad alumni are in town as well to soak in some of their old college-era glory.
The Independent saw very few of them on Monday.
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As Trump courts Latino vote, Harris pushes policy proposals for community
As Donald Trump attempts to win over the Latino vote at a roundtable in Doral, Florida, by droning on with half-truths about electric trucks, bunny-killing solar panels, migrants, the Congo, and projecting criticisms of himself onto Kamala Harris, the vice president has released a five-point plan to deliver change for Latino men and their families.
Harris says: “Donald Trump has disrespected and insulted Latino men and communities. As president, I will invest in them.”
The Harris-Walz policy platform states that there will be new training opportunities; financial help to start small businesses and for first-time home buyers; expansion of the child tax credit for 18 million Latino children; and cover the costs of long-term homecare for aging parents through Medicare.
NC residents bemoan Trump visit that clogged up their hurricane-devastated city
Asheville residents took to social media to share their outrage and the problems created during a visit by former President Donald Trump to the hurricane-ravaged North Carolina town.
The former president was in town Monday to tour the damage - and show off his fry cook pin he got for working at McDonald’s a day earlier. But it came with problems and headaches for residents as they are still trying to recover from the damage from Hurricane Helene that caused at least 95 deaths in the state.
Gustaf Kilander reports.
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Bruce Springsteen to join Harris and Obama for Atlanta rally and battleground tour
Rock legend Bruce Springsteen will join Vice President Kamala Harris’s first joint rally with former President Barack Obama in Atlanta on Thursday, kicking off a series of concerts in battleground states — including Philadelphia on Monday, also with Obama.
The concert is part of new efforts by Democrats to encourage early voting in Georgia where 1.6 million people have already cast their ballots.
Springsteen, a lifelong Democrat and friend of Obama, released a video early this month endorsing Harris.
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