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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“It's the enemy from within, all the scum that we have to deal with that hate our country. That's a bigger enemy than China and Russia,” he said.
“Every day Americans ... are living in fear, all because Kamala Harris decided to empty the slums and prison cells of Caracas and many other places,” Trump said.
He added: “Prison populations all over the world are down. Crime all over the world is down because they take the world's criminals, gang members, drug dealers, and they deposit them into the United States, bus after bus after bus.”
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“To everyone here in Colorado and all across our nation, I make this pledge and vow to you. November 5, 2024, will be Liberation Day in America,” the former president said. “I will rescue Aurora and every town that has been invaded and conquered. These towns have been conquered. Explain that to your governor, he doesn't have a clue.”
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“That's why I'm here ... I'm not here for my health,” Trump said.
“I could be with the beautiful beaches all over the world. I could be in Monte Carlo. I could be all over the world ... And where am I? I'm right now in Aurora, and that's where I want to be,” he added.
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The Maga firebrand from Georgia has doubled down on her conspiracy, leading even her fellow party members to speculate that she “needs [her] head examined.”
Greene claimed online last week that “they” can control the weather after Hurricane Helene killed more than two dozen people in her state and more than 230 in total. On Wednesday she doubled down, clarifying that she was referring to governmental organizations including NOAA.
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Trump pushes claim rejected by police that Aurora apartment complexes has been taken over by gangs
Trump said during his Friday rally in Aurora that he was in the city to “call the attention of the world ... to one of the most egregious betrayals that any leader in any nation has ever inflicted on its own people.”
“We are being led by stupid people, we cannot take it anymore,” he added.
“Kamala has imported an army of illegal alien gang members and migrant criminals from the dungeons of the Third World,” the former president argued.
“From prisons and jails, insane asylums and mental institutions, and she has had them resettled beautifully into your community to pray upon innocent American citizens,” he added. “That's what they're doing. And in no place is it more evident than right here. Because in Aurora, multiple apartment complexes have been taken over by the savage Venezuela prison gang known as Tren de Aragua.”
Police in the Denver suburb have rejected the claim that apartment complexes have been taken over.
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But Trump may be losing his grip on older generations of voters, with the latest New York Times polls showing the two candidates split by a hairline — and Harris ahead by 3 points.
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