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Former president followed rambling Los Angeles press conference with Nevada rally
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Donald Trump doubled down on his outlandish conspiracies about Tuesday’s presidential debate — that he won, that the polls are up, and that Kamala Harris was fed the questions and wore an earpiece — none of which are true.
Earlier, he also continued to peddle falsehoods about Haitian migrants in Ohio during a rambling, low-energy press conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
Trump falsely claimed during the debate on Tuesday that the Haitian community in Springfield (who are there legally, and at the town’s invitation) were stealing and eating domestic pets. Both the mayor and governor have denied this is happening.
Meanwhile, questions have been raised about the proximity and access to Trump granted to far right-wing instigator Laura Loomer, which has unsettled a number of Trump allies given her history of racist and conspiratorial comments.
Trump stressed on Truth Social that she is not part of the campaign.
Meanwhile, Harris urged Trump to return to the debate stage despite his announcement on Thursday that he would not face her again.
On Friday, the vice president sat for her first solo interview since becoming the party’s nominee, pitching herself as “a new generation of leadership”.
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Whoopi Goldberg tells JD Vance to ‘shut up’ for calling Taylor Swift ‘disconnected’
Whoopi Goldberg has told vice presidential nominee JD Vance to “shut up” after he criticised Taylor Swift for endorsing Kamala Harris.
Swift endorsed Harris following Tuesday’s (10 September) chaotic election debate where Donald Trump bizarrely claimed that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were “eating dogs”.
The day afterwards, Vance appeared on Fox News to lament Swift and her politics, adding that the 34-year-old pop star is “disconnected” from American society.
The Ohio senator said: “We admire Taylor Swift’s music, but I don’t think most Americans, whether they like her music or are fans of hers or not, are going to be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is fundamentally disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans.”
Whoopi Goldberg tells JD Vance to ‘shut up’ for calling Taylor Swift ‘disconnected’
‘The View’ host had some choice words for Vance after he called out Swift for endorsing Kamala Harris
Biden says ‘next Black job to be filled is as president of the United States’
Biden says Trump’s attacks on Haitian community ‘have to stop'
Can Kamala Harris win Pennsylvania? Just ask the mayor of Scranton
When Paige Cognetti first ran to become mayor of Scranton, she was told she couldn’t win because she did not have an Irish last name. She also had to overcome the fact that no woman had held the position in the city’s history.
Her victory in a special election in 2019, and again two years later, was seen by many as a sign of shifting tides.
“There were a lot of factors against me,” she says over coffee at Abe’s Deli, in the center of the town. “But I think it was pretty clear that the city needed a change candidate,” she adds.
Kamala Harris visits the area on Friday to try to win over the same kind of voters that helped Cognetti win in this key city in the swing state of Pennsylvania. Donald Trump was also there last month. It is no exaggeration to say that her path to the White House runs through these streets.
Can Kamala Harris win Pennsylvania? Just ask the mayor of Scranton
Kamala Harris campaigns near Joe Biden’s hometown on Friday, as some question whether she can repeat the president’s success here, Richard Hall writes.
Live: Trump holds a news conference at Los Angeles golf club
Rove continues to rebuke ‘ill-prepared’ Trump
After writing a scathing op-ed in The Wall Street Journal earlier this week lambasting the Republican nominee for his lacklustre performance against Harris, former Bush Jr White House official Karl Rove has taken to Fox Business to repeat his attacks.
Marianne Williamson denies backing Trump over ‘pet-eating’ smear
The eccentric spiritual guru/on-off Democratic presidential candidate has denied backing Trump’s claim that Haitian immigrants are eating Ohio’s pets after saying the unverified reports should not be dismissed out of hand and that “voodoo is real”.
Katie Hawkinson reports.
Marianne Williamson denies backing Trump over ‘eating pets’ smear against immigrants
Some academics argue the term ‘voodoo’ is rooted in anti-Black racism
Relative of California Governor’s wife hosting fundraiser for Trump on Friday
A billionaire relative of Democrat Gavin Newsom’s wife is reportedly hosting a fundraiser for Donald Trump during his visit to the Golden State today.
AI developer and Silicon Valley CEO Tom Siebel, a second cousin once removed of Jennifer Siebel Newsom, will welcome the Republican nominee to his home in the Bay Area community of Woodside on Friday, according to The Los Angeles Times.
The development will come as something of an embarrassment to Governor Newsom, who relished Harris “cleaning Trump’s clock” on the debate stage earlier this week.
The situtation has some parallels with that of Tim Walz, the Vice President’s running mate, who has his own cabal of inconvenient conservative relatives to contend with.
Harris pressures Trump to return to debate stage: ‘We owe it to the voters’
While the Republican presidential nominee AKA “Chicken Man” may have backed out of facing his new rival again after the thrashing she gave him on Tuesday, the Vice President has wisely kept up the pressure on him not to be a coward, saying the following at her rally in Charlotte last night and repeating the challenge on social media.
Joe Manchin praises Harris’s position on fracking in the debate
The independent senator from West Virginia, a former Democrat who has so often been a thorn in the side of the Biden administration, has praised Kamala Harris’s debate performance, saying he was particularly impressed with her stance on domestic energy production.
Eric Garcia reports.
Joe Manchin is really happy about one of Kamala Harris’s answers at the debate
The cantankerous conservative independent senator tells The Independent he was ‘tickled to death’ by Harris’s response on fracking and energy
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