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.
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Trump indicates he hasn’t read Melania’s new book
Trump indicated that he hasn’t read Melania’s new book, saying that he’s “so busy.”
“People love our First Lady. Go out and get a book. She just wrote a book. I hope she said good things about... I don't know. I didn't... so busy. She just wrote a book called Melania. Go out and buy it, and if she says bad things about me, I'll call you all up and I'll say, don't buy it,” Trump said.
Trump make outrageous claim about New York subway
Trump claimed that parents dropping off their kids at the New York subway have a 75 percent chance of never seeing them again.
“My parents would drop me off at a subway, and I'd go to Union Turnpike, or I'd go to wherever – they had no fear that I was going to be disappearing,” Trump said.
“If you do that today, you have about a 75 percent chance and you'll never see your child again,” he claimed. “What the hell has happened here?”
“We will renovate the New York subway so that the greatest city in the world finally has again the greatest transit system anywhere in the world,” the former president said. “You have the basics. We have to clean it. We have to take care of it. We have to give it a little love, and we have to get the criminals the hell out of there.”
JD Vance boasts he’ll keep calling Springfield Haitians ‘illegal aliens’ even though he knows they aren’t
JD Vance has suggested that he will continue to call Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio “illegal” aliens despite knowing that they’re here legally.
During a campaign event in Raleigh, North Carolina on Wednesday, Vance was asked by Politico what would happen to migrants in the country under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program, such as many of those in Springfield, during a possible second Trump administration. The Republican vice presidential nominee was also asked how the administration would go about deporting migrants in the country legally.
“The media loves to say that the Haitian migrants hundreds of thousands of them, by the way, 20,000 in Springfield, but hundreds of thousands of them all across the country, they are here legally,” Vance said. “And what they mean is that Kamala Harris used two separate programs, mass parole and temporary protective status ... to wave a wand and to say, ‘We’re not going to deport those people here.’”
JD Vance boasts he’ll keep calling Haitians ‘illegal aliens’
‘If Kamala Harris waves the wand illegally and says these people are now here legally, I’m still going to call them an illegal alien,’ Republican vice presidential hopeful says
‘Stop claiming your opponents will turn America into a dictatorship'
Trump calls would-be assassin ‘radical left mobster'
Addressing the second assassination attempt on his life in the last few months, Trump called the suspect Ryan Wesley Routh a “radical left mobster.”
“As you know, three days ago, there was yet another assassination attempt on my life,” he said. “It was the second one in eight weeks by a violent radical left mobster, this evil would-be assassin, got within a few hundred yards of where I stood. But thankfully, our outstanding Secret Service agents ... spotted the barrel of his rifle in the bushes.”
‘We are going to win New York’: Trump speaks on Long Island
Trump is speaking at a rally in Uniondale, New York on Long Island.
“I'm thrilled to be back in the state I love with thousands of proud, patriotic New Yorkers who are really the heart and soul of America. We know that,” he said.
“And the reason I'm here ... hasn't been done in many decades. It hasn't been done for a long time, but we are going to win New York,” Trump added.
The last time a Republican won the Empire State was in 1984 when Ronald Reagan won the state.
Speaker Mike Johnson rebuked as his Trump-bait funding bill fails to pass Republican-controlled House
Speaker Mike Johnson pushed forward 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 Democrats who control the upper chamber of Congress.
The House voted early Wednesday 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.”
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
Authors claim producers had to heavily edit The Apprentice to stop Trump from looking like a ‘complete moron’
Donald Trump was so bad at picking who to fire during his stint hosting The Apprentice that the producers of the show would retroactively edit the show to make him look better.
“Our job then was to reverse-engineer the show and to make him not look like a complete moron,” a member of the production team told the authors of new book Lucky Loser, New York Times journalists Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig.
The producers of the program would have to go back and edit the show to make the person who Trump chose to fire look bad, even if they had performed quite well during the tasks at hand.
Gustaf Kilander reports.
Producers edited The Apprentice to stop Trump from looking like a ‘complete moron’
‘That quality that was really bad for him in business was solid gold on the show,’ author says
Watch: Republicans respond as Trump floats prospect of government shutdown
CNN’s Manu Raju spoke with Republicans on Capitol Hill about the prospect of a government shutdown, should Donald Trump’s SAVE Act not get attacked to a continuing resolution to keep funding flowing until March 2025.
Full story: Doug Emhoff’s ex-wife leaps to Kamala Harris’s defense after another attack on childless women
The ex-wife of Kamala Harris’s husband has yet again defended the vice president on social media after she was attacked for not having biological children.
Kerstin Emhoff rushed to Harris’s defense after Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders appeared to sneer at the Democratic presidential candidate for not having biological children at a town hall event in Flint, Michigan with Donald Trump on Tuesday.
Katie Hawkinson reports.
Emhoff’s ex-wife defends Harris after Huckabee ‘childless’ attack
Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Harris doesn’t ‘have anything keeping her humble’ because she does not have biological kids
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