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Caroline Giuliani says Donald Trump ‘destroys everything he touches’ as vice presidential nominees prepare to square up at crucial showdown in New York
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Donald Trump has been attacked by the daughter of his former personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who argues the Republican presidential nominee “destroys everything he touches” in an article for Vanity Fair in which she implores voters to support Democrat Kamala Harris instead.
“Watching my dad’s life crumble since he joined forces with Trump has been extraordinarily painful, both on a personal level and because his demise feels linked to a dark force that threatens to once again consume America,” Carolina Giuliani writes.
“It dawned on me that I’ve been grieving the loss of my dad to Trump. I cannot bear to lose our country to him too.”
Harris’s running mate Tim Walz will meanwhile square up to Trump’s vice presidential pick JD Vance on the debate stage on Tuesday evening in what promises to be a hugely consequential and fiery encounter in New York.
For his part, Trump has continued to try to attack Harris and Joe Biden over the federal response to Hurricane Helene, which has wrought havoc in states like Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, having visited Valdosta in the Peach State on Monday.
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Republicans like Minnesota congressman Tom Emmer have been bragging ahead of tonight’s showdown that JD Vance will “wipe the floor with Tim Walz”, calling his state governor “a total fraud” who will try to deploy his “Minnesota nice” persona to fend off attacks about Kamala Harris’s “open-border and soft-on-crime” policy positions.
Big talk, but rather at odds with what Trump himself had to say to Kellyanne Conway on Fox Nation yesterday…
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Caroline Giuliani says Trump ‘destroys everything he touches'
Rudy Giuliani’s daughter has issued a stark warning about a second Donald Trump presidency, using her own father’s “implosion” as an example of what happens when someone is caught up in the former president’s “destructive trail”.
Giuliani has gone from a revered prosecutor and New York mayor that led the city through the devastation of the 9/11 attacks to a bankrupt and disbarred attorney since becoming one of Trump’s staunchest allies.
This fall from grace exemplifies how Trump “destroys everything he touches”, according to Caroline Giuliani.
“Watching my dad’s life crumble since he joined forces with Trump has been extraordinarily painful, both on a personal level and because his demise feels linked to a dark force that threatens to once again consume America,” the 35-year-old wrote inVanity Fair on Monday.
Family members of prominent Republicans including Dick Cheney, John McCain and Trump himself have also endorsed Kamala Harris or warned against the prospect of another Trump turn in the White House.
Kelly Rissman reports.
Giuliani’s daughter says she ‘lost her dad’ to Trump, begs people to vote for Harris
‘After months of feeling the type of sorrow that comes from the death of a loved one, it dawned on me that I’ve been grieving the loss of my dad to Trump. I cannot bear to lose our country to him too,’ the former mayor’s daughter wrote
When is the VP debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance?
Harris’s running mate will square up to Trump’s vice presidential pick on the debate stage on Tuesday evening in what promises to be a hugely consequential and fiery encounter in New York.
Vance has previously attacked Walz’s military record, claiming the Minnesota Governor dodged deployment to Iraq, while the latter has questioned his rival’s background, pointing out that the Ohio Senator is a Yale graduate who palled around with “Silicon Valley billionaires” while writing a bestseller about his “hillbilly” roots.
The 90-minute debate will begin at 9pm (Eastern time) on CBS on October 1.
It will be moderated by CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell and Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan.
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Trump continues to attack Biden administration over Hurricane Helene reponse
Trump has continued to try to attack Harris and Joe Biden over the federal response to Hurricane Helene, which has wrought havoc in states like Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, having visited Valdosta in the Peach State on Monday and accused the Vice President of “staging” photos of herself liaising with governors by phone on disaster relief efforts.
He has since posted the following on Truth Social, pledging to get his new pal Elon Musk on the case.
President Biden has meanwhile angrily hit back at Trump’s false accusation on Monday that he and North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper have been ignoring the devastation wrought by the storm, which has killed over 100 people and left hundreds missing and unaccounted for in the Tar Heel state.
The Republican presidential nominee had told his followers on social media yesterday that he “[didn’t] like the reports” he was allegedly getting about the federal and state governments “going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas” hit by the hurricane.
Asked to respond as he addressed reporters after receiving a briefing from Cooper and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrator Deanne Criswell in the Oval Office, Biden interjected, cutting off a question from The Independent to denounce Trump’s baseless statements.
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