Trump raves about Elvis at New York rally as new poll shows Harris leading in two key swing states: Live
Donald Trump indulges narcissism at Long Island event while latest survey places Kamala Harris comfortably ahead in Pennsylvania and Michigan and narrowly in front in Wisconsin
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Donald Trump delivered his latest rally in Uniondale on Long Island, New York, on Wednesday, pledging to “bring back religion” to thank God for saving his life, suggesting he was a bigger star than Elvis Presley, joking that he has not read his wife Melania Trump’s new memoir and asking New Yorkers to vote for him by saying: “What the hell do you have to lose?”
The Republican nominee also pledged to visit Springfield, Ohio, after he and running mate JD Vance spread a bogus story about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating residents’ pets, inspiring a spate of bomb threats.
Before Trump’s event began, local police were forced to shut down false claims that a car filled with explosives had been found close to the Nassau Coliseum where the candidate was speaking.
Meanwhile, a fresh poll from Quinnipiac University has placed his Democratic rival Kamala Harris ahead in two key swing states – Pennsylvania and Michigan – and more narrowly ahead in another, Wisconsin.
Elsewhere, Trump has accused Harris of colluding with Iran to spy on his campaign after the FBI revealed Tehran-backed hackers had attempted to pass stolen material onto the Democratic ticket.
Watch: Nigel Farage says there’s some truth in Trump’s claim Haitian migrants are eating pets
Oh well if the Pied Piper of Brexit says it...
Farage says there’s some truth in Trump’s claim Haitian migrants are eating pets
Nigel Farage believes there is some truth in Donald Trump’s claim that Haitian migrants are eating pets in Ohio. The former US president made the claim during a live ABC debate with Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this month. The Reform MP said he believes there is some truth to Trump’s comments. Appearing on LBC on Thursday (19 September), Mr Farage said: “Whenever he says something like this that is absoluley crackers in the end there is always some truth in it. “I’ll have a tenner with you that within the next month we find some evidence of it.”
Trump now boasts he pulls in bigger crowds than Elvis – despite not having a guitar
James Liddell has more on Trump again claiming he’s bigger than the King by, you guessed it, obsessing insanely over crowd sizes.
Trump now boasts he pulls in bigger crowds than Elvis – despite not having a guitar
‘I’m the greatest of all time, maybe greater even than Elvis,’ the former president claimed
Mystery as Trump rally attendees report bizarre eye burning symptoms post-event
Several people who attended Trump’s rally in Tuscon, Arizona, last week have since reported suffering bizarre eye burning symptoms in the event’s aftermath.
Six rallygoers who were all sat in the section directly behind the former president during the gathering on Thursday September 12 told News 4 that they subsequently had to seek medical attention after experiencing eye irritation.
Myriam Page reports.
Mystery as Trump rally attendees report bizarre eye burning symptoms post-event
One rallygoer said medical staff told her that her symptoms seemed to suggest she’d been ‘sprayed with something’
‘Crypto president’ Trump buys cheeseburger with bitcoin in NYC campaign stop
This was the Republican presidential nominee yesterday, attempting to promote his new World Liberty Financial venture by buying himself a burger with a digital coin – he’s certainly come a long way since declaring cryptocurrency “a scam”, “not money” and “based on thin air” in 2019.
New mugshot shows Trump’s suspected would-be assassin half-smiling at camera
Madeline Sherratt has the latest on Ryan Wesley Routh.
New mugshot shows Trump’s suspected would-be assassin half-smiling at camera
Routh, 58, is seen staring into the camera with a half-smile across his face
More than 100 former Republican officials back Harris over Trump in damning letter
A group of more than 100 prominent former officials who served in Republican administrations have endorsed Kamala Harris in a scathing letter that claims Donald Trump is “unfit to serve again as president, or indeed in any office of public trust.”
The letter, obtained by The New York Times, counts signatories including former defense secretaries Chuck Hagel and William Cohen, former CIA directors Michael Hayden and William Webster and former Trump administration officials Miles Taylor and Olivia Troye, among others.
The signatories admit they probably disagree with Harris on a number of issues but argue that Trump’s affinity for strongmen and behavior on January 6 disqualifies him from serving again.
“As president, he promoted daily chaos in government, praised our enemies and undermined our allies, politicized the military and disparaged our veterans, prioritized his personal interest above American interests, and betrayed our values, democracy, and this country’s founding documents,” the letter reads.
Josh Marcus has more.
More than 100 ex-Republican officials back Harris over Trump in damning letter
Signatories include former cabinet secretaries, intelligence leaders, and members of Congress
House Speaker rebuked as his Trump-bait funding bill fails to pass Republican-controlled House
Mike Johnson pushed ahead with his doomed bid to avert a government shutdown on Wednesday, despite clear signs that the legislation was unpalatable to both conservatives in his own party as well as the Democrats who control the upper chamber of Congress.
The House voted early yesterday evening on a continuing resolution to keep the government open, laden with giveaways to the conservative right.
Those included spending cuts and a piece of legislation stapled to the broader package aimed at preventing non-citizens from voting in federal elections – something that is already illegal.
Johnson of course, admitted this in a recent interview and has evaded acknowledging that Donald Trump’s claims of massive numbers of undocumented immigrants voting are false.
“This is the play we’re running,” the Speaker told The Hill this week. “I’ll be working around the clock to try to get it done.”
His failure was evident as the vote occurred shortly before 7pm last night. The yeas trailed the nays by 18 votes, with two members voting present.
Johnson said afterwards he was “disappointed” with the outcome but refused to criticize his own strategy – and was given a surprisingly hard time about it by Sean Hannity on Fox.
Here’s John Bowden with a full report.
Mike Johnson rebuked as his Trump-bait funding bill fails to pass GOP House
The Speaker is trying to pander to Trump and the far right of his party. In doing so, he might actually end up having to do a deal with Democrats — again
Trump says audience ‘went crazy’ for him at his debate with Harris... but there was no audience
Here’s Myriam Page with more on the candidate’s bizarre comment to Greg Gutfeld last night about the wild reaction he misremembers receiving from the entirely non-existent crowd in Philadelphia last Tuesday.
There’s exhaustion and understandable forgetfulness and then there’s complete divorce from reality and cognitive decline.
Trump claims audience ‘went crazy’ at debate with Harris – but there was no audience
Former president often claims his crowd sizes are huge – even wildly claiming he drew in a bigger crowd than Martin Luther King Jr during the March on Washington – but this time, he appeared to go even further by claiming there was one at all
Josh Shapiro suffers embarrassing fail when promoting new canned cocktails law – as he forgets his ID
Pennsylvania’s Governor suffered an embarrassing fail when he tried to promote a new state law allowing customers to buy canned alcoholic cocktails from convenience stores – but forgot his ID.
The 51-year-old – who had been in the running to join Kamala Harris on the Democratic party ticket before Tim Walz was selected as her running mate – paid a visit to Duncannon Rutter’s gas station in Central Pennsylvania this week.
Under the new bipartisan liquor legislation, signed last month, the sale of canned cocktails has been expanded up to 12.5 per cent ABV, meaning that convenience stores, grocery stores, gas stations and hotels can now sell the drinks to customers to consume off premises.
But, Shapiro found himself being possibly one of the first consumers in the state to be denied a canned alcoholic cocktail under the new law.
Rhian Lubin has this one.
Shapiro suffers embarrassing fail when promoting new drinks law – as he forgets ID
Pennsylvania governor left the store empty handed after trying to purchase cans of Surfside tea and vodka
Police force gifts Trump signed handcuffs used to arrest assassination attempt suspect
The Martin County deputies who detained the suspect in the second assassination attempt against Trump on Sunday have signed the handcuffs used in the arrest and gifted them to the candidate.
Here’s Gustaf Kilander on this ridiculous gesture.
Police force gifts Trump signed handcuffs used on assassination attempt suspect
Sheriff says arrest of suspect Ryan Wesley Routh was ‘as rewarding as anything I’ve ever done’
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