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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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Trump doubles down on outlandish claims about Haitian migrants
Donald Trump doubled down on his outlandish claims against Haitian migrants in Ohio during a low-energy press conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
“Over the past three and a half years, Kamala has resettled half a million illegal migrants from Haiti into American communities,” Trump claimed on Friday afternoon. “They’re doing it right now in Springfield, Ohio, 20,000 illegal Haitian migrants have descended upon a town of 58,000 people, destroying their way of life.”
“They’ve destroyed the place, and people don’t like to talk about it, because even the town doesn’t like to talk about it because it sounds so bad for the town,” he added.
Trump falsely claimed during the debate on Tuesday that Haitian migrants in Springfield were stealing and eating domestic pets.
Trump drags new animal into his debunked claims Haitian migrants are eating pets in Ohio
First it was cats and dogs. Then it was ducks.
And now, Donald Trump has dragged another animal into his wild, debunked conspiracy that Haitian migrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio: geese.
“A recording of 911 calls show that residents are reporting that the migrants are walking off with the town’s geese,” Trump told a crowd at a Tuscon, Arizona, rally.
“They’re taking the geese. You know where the geese are? In the park, in the lake. And even walking off with their pets.”
Trump drags new animal into false claims Haitian migrants are eating pets in Ohio
Local authorities had already debunked the lies even before Trump first made the claims on the debate stage
‘I hope you call me the border president'
Trump claimed during his press conference that Kamala Harris wants to “dismember” ICE, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
“I wanted to thank ICE while I'm at it, because ICE has been unbelievable. Border Patrol has been unbelievable. And she wants to get rid of ICE, she wants to dismember ice, she wants to take them out. And if you didn't have ICE, you'd have a problem,” Trump said.
The former president claimed that he solved the border issue in 2016, when he was not in office, and that he won the election because of it.
“I'm the border president. I solved it in 2016 [and] probably got elected because of that in 2016 and really there was nothing to do in 2020 I said to my people, ‘I want to talk about the border. What a job I did. They said, Sir, nobody cares. You did it,’” Trump argued.
“I hope you call me the border president,” he added.
Trump says Harris ‘destroyed’ California
Trump claimed during the press conference that Kamala Harris “destroyed the state” of California.
“She destroyed the state. When you look at the kind of destruction taken place, man-made or woman-made destruction,” he said. “It's things that should have never happened, but we're not going to let that happen with four more years of her in the White House.”
Trump opens press conference by claiming people are leaving California
Trump began his press conference in California by bashing Kamala Harris and the state’s governor Gavin Newsom.
“I'm here today in California with a very simple message for the American people, we cannot allow comrade Kamala Harris and the communist left to do to America what they did to California,” Trump said. “The state of California is a mess with people leaving, and nothing is going to stop them. They're going to other states. Some are going to other countries.”
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.”
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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.
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