Trump fires back at Harris after she shares medical report finding ‘mental resilience’ to be president: Live
Harris is releasing her medical information in a challenge to Donald Trump, whose health and age are coming under increased scrutiny
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Kamala Harris has released a health summary from her White House physician, stating that she “possesses the physical and mental resiliency required to successfully execute the duties of the presidency.”
In the summary released on Saturday morning, the vice president’s physician Joshua Simmons writes that she is in “excellent health.”
Harris is releasing her medical information in a challenge to Donald Trump, whose health and age are coming under increased scrutiny.
Former Trump ally Chris Christie is the latest to sound the alarm over Trump’s competency to serve, saying that he has seen a “significant” mental decline in the former president.
On Friday, Trump espoused more anti-immigration rhetoric at his rallies in Reno, Nevada, and Aurora, Colorado, calling for the death penalty for migrants who kill American citizens and saying he would enact the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
Mike Coffman, Aurora’s Republican mayor, hit out at the comments and insisted neither the city nor state has “not been ‘taken over’ or ‘invaded’ or ‘occupied’ by migrant gangs.”
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Nevada is a swing state, recent polling shows Trump is essentially tied with Vice President Kamala Harris
Fox News to host town hall with Trump to be broadcast on October 16
Harris Faulkner of Fox News will host a town hall with former President Donald Trump to be recorded on October 15 and broadcast the following day.
The event will take place in Cumming, Georgia, with the audience being “entirely composed of women,” Fox News said in a press release.
“Women constitute the largest group of registered and active voters in the United States, so it is paramount that female voters understand where the presidential candidates stand on the issues that matter to them most,” Faulkner said in a statement. “I am looking forward to providing our viewers with an opportunity to learn more about where former President Trump stands on these topics.”
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Bill Clinton to campaign for Harris in Georgia and North Carolina
Former President Bill Clinton will campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris in battleground states, with swings through Georgia and North Carolina, according to CNN.
Clinton is set to attempt to increase Harris’s support among rural voters, a subset of voters that the vice president has been struggling to attract.
President Joe Biden became the first Democratic nominee in 2020 to win Georgia since Clinton managed to eke out a win in 1992.
Clinton will focus on counties previously won by former President Donald Trump and is set to appear at local fairs and porch rallies with at most a few hundred attendees at a time.
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The Harris campaign has released a new ad focusing on Trump’s disparaging comments about Detriot to run during Lions games.
The vice president is set to visit the city on Tuesday.
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