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Kamala Harris was interviewed by Bret Baier of Fox News, hours after Donald Trump doubled down on remarks calling Democrats ‘enemy within’ in pre-recorded town hall on same network
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Kamala Harris sparred with anchor Bret Baier in her first Fox News appearance on Wednesday evening.
Harris and Baier kicked off the interview with a back-and-forth over immigration.
“How many illegal immigrants would you estimate your administration has released into the country over the last three and a half years? “ Baier asked.
“Well, I’m glad you raised the issue of immigration, because I agree with you,” Harris responded. “It is a topic of discussion that people want to rightly have.”
Baier then interrupted, asking for “just a number.”
“Brett, let’s just get to the point,” Harris responded. The two continued to go back and forth, with Harris at one point interjecting: “ You have to let me finish.”
Earlier on Wednesday, Harris held a campaign event in Pennsylvania where she made an appeal to center-right voters to back her over Donald Trump to defend the Constitution.
By contrast, earlier in the day, Trump doubled down on comments he made at the weekend in which he referred to Democrats as “enemies from within” and that the military could be called upon to handle any unrest from “radical left lunatics”.
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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is speaking at Donald Trump’s rally in her home state of Georgia this evening.
The former president is scheduled to take the stage in Atlanta at 7:30 local time.
Greene told voters that this election is about the “federal government versus you.”
“It’s not white versus Black,” Greene said. “It’s not the right versus the left. It’s not man versus woman. It’s not rich versus poor. It is the federal government versus you.”
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Why is Trump willing to pay a fortune to host a rally at Madison Square Garden?
Donald Trump is reportedly fixated on hosting a rally at New York City’s famous Madison Square Garden arena, despite most political experts believing the Empire State and even Trump’s hometown of New York City are squarely in the blue column for 2024.
“I’m gonna fill the Garden,” he reportedly boasted in recent days to a confidant, who spoke anonymously to The Bulwark.
The Trump ally added that the Republican “has just been obsessed with this for at least a year. This is his campaign. So it’s happening.”
The Independent has contacted the Trump campaign for comment.
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Harris talks about participation and Trump’s campaign being about ‘fear'
Kamala Harris to Charlamagne tha God on the importance of voter participation: “You can't let anybody take you out of the game by not voting. The solutions are not gonna just happen overnight ... the things that we want and are prepared to fight for won't happen if we're not active and don't participate.”
Harris says Trump is about fear: “He is running full-time on a campaign that is about instilling fear not about hope.. Look what he did and saying that those legal immigrants in Springfield Ohio were eating their pets.”
Charlamagne asks why Harris allows him to call her the border czar when that wasn’t her role.
Harris: “If I respond to every name he called me, I wouldn't be focused on the things that actually help the American people. And that's my focus.”
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Harris asked about reparations
A caller into Kamala Harris’s audio town hall asked the vice president about her stance on reparations.
Harris responded: “It has to be studied. There's no question about that. I've been very clear about that position.”
She then pivoted to her plans for home ownership, small businesses, healthcare, and homecare that she believes would be especially impactful to the Black community.
Harris town hall being simulcast on two of three main news networks
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