Trump to hold New York rally as Teamsters decline to endorse either candidate in 2024 election: Live updates
Former president to speak in Democrat-stronghold of New York as polls show key swing states trending toward Kamala Harris
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Donald Trump will host a rally in suburban New York on Wednesday evening making a pitch to reverse a tax policy he signed into law in 2017 that has a bigger impact on higher tax states.
The former president will speak at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, Long Island, at 7pm, just three days after a second assassination attempt against him. Earlier in the day there was a brief security scare regarding a false report of an explosive device near the site that was quickly dismissed by law enforcement as having no factual basis.
"There is no validity to the report," a Nassau County PD spokesman told The Independent.
Trump’s decision to host a rally in New York is curious given that the election will almost certainly come down to voters in a handful of swing states. New polling from Quinnipiac shows Kamala Harris leading Trump by six points in Pennsylvania and five in Michigan — outside the margin of error.
Meanwhile, the influential Teamsters Union has said it would not offer an endorsement in this year’s presidential race — the first time it has declined to do so since 1996 — even after internal polling showed 58 per cent of members backed Trump and only 31 per cent Harris.
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Harris releases statement on Fed interest rate cut
The Harris-Walz campaign released the following statement from Vice President Kamala Harris following the Federal Reserve’s decision to slash interest rates by 0.5% — the first cut in four years.
“While this announcement is welcome news for Americans who have borne the brunt of high prices, my focus is on the work ahead to keep bringing prices down. I know prices are still too high for many middle class and working families, and my top priority as President will be to lower the costs of everyday needs like health care, housing, and groceries. That is why I am proposing plans to cut taxes for more than 100 million working and middle-class Americans, pass the first-ever federal ban on corporate price gouging on food and groceries, and make housing more affordable by building 3 million new homes and giving more Americans down payment assistance. But we also need to go further to create an opportunity economy where, with hard work and ambition, everyone has a chance to compete and a chance to succeed – from buying a home to starting a business and building wealth.
“This is the opposite of what Donald Trump would do as President. While proposing more tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations, his plan would increase costs on families by nearly $4,000 a year by slapping a Trump Tax on goods families rely on, like gas, food and clothing. He wants to repeal the law I cast the tie-breaking vote to pass that caps the costs of prescription drugs for seniors, including insulin at $35. He would end the Affordable Care Act and erase the progress we have made to lower premiums for millions of Americans by hundreds of dollars a year. Sixteen Nobel Prize winning economists say his plan would increase inflation, and a Moody’s report found it would cause a recession by the middle of next year.
“This election is about whether we are going to finally build an opportunity economy that gives every American a shot not just to get by, but to get ahead. As President, that will be my priority every day.”
Fed cuts interest rates for first time in years. Here’s what that means for you
The Federal Reserve has broken a four-year run and cut its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point to 4.75-5.0 percent.
This significant move signals that the US central bank believes it is winning the war on inflation and will now focus on preventing the job market from weakening.
One immediate effect should be lower borrowing costs for both consumers and businesses in the run-up to November’s presidential election.
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Full story: Melania Trump defends nude modeling career in latest video promoting new memoir
Melania Trump has taken the media to task over its interest in her past nude modeling career in the latest video promoting her new memoir Melania.
“Why do I stand proudly behind my nude modelling work?” the former first lady and wife of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, 54, asks in the video posted on X and Instagram.
“The more pressing question is why has the media chosen to scrutinize my celebration of the human form in a fashion photo shoot?”
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ICYMI: Kerstin Emhoff defends Kamala Harris after attack by Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Kerstin Emhoff, the first wife of Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, has jumped to the defense of Vice President Kamala Harris following a low-blow attack from Sarah Huckabee Sanders, governor of Arkansas, who has joined the ranks of in the Republican Party of those who feel the need to disparage women who have not had biological children of their own.
Emhoff is the mother of Cole and Ella Emhoff and Harris has been their stepmother or “Mamala” since 2014.
The anti-abortion and anti-IVF campaigners who feel betrayed by Trump
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On Tuesday, Democrats held a vote to enshrine protections for IVF and mandate insurance coverage for the treatment. Unsurprisingly, Republicans blocked the legislation, with only Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine joining Democrats to vote for the bill.
Former president Donald Trump had only just promised that a second Trump administration would mean free IVF for all Americans. Yet, even Trump’s running mate JD Vance failed to show up to work that day to vote on the legislation.
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Trump says GOP should shutdown government without SAVE Act being attached to continuing resolution
Donald Trump has weighed in on the Republican plan to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month with a continuing resolution to extend funding for six months until March 2025.
The former president says GOP lawmakers should not agree to keep the government funded if it doesn't include the SAVE Act — which would require documentary proof of US citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. It is already illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections and there are virtually no record of it being a problem.
Speaker Mike Johnson does not have the votes to pass a continuing resolution with the SAVE Act attached in the House and it would then die in the Senate.
Does he allow the government to shut down on September 30, or will he defy Trump and pass a clean continuing resolution?
Here’s what the former president wrote on Truth Social this afternoon:
If Republicans don’t get the SAVE Act, and every ounce of it, they should not agree to a Continuing Resolution in any way, shape, or form. Democrats are registering Illegal Voters by the TENS OF THOUSANDS, as we speak - They will be voting in the 2024 Presidential Election, and they shouldn’t be allowed to. Only American Citizens should be voting in our Most Important Election in History, or any Election! A Vote must happen BEFORE the Election, not AFTER the Election when it is too late. BE SMART, REPUBLICANS, YOU’VE BEEN PUSHED AROUND LONG ENOUGH BY THE DEMOCRATS. DON’T LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN. Remember, this is Biden/Harris’ fault, not yours!
Donald Trump sends message to anyone who leaves his rallies early
Donald Trump has sent a direct message to anyone who leaves his rallies early. The former president made his comments in response to Vice President Kamala Harris’s claims people leave early “out of boredom”. Att the Michigan town hall with Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday (17 September), Trump said: “I don’t think I’ve ever said this before. So we do these rallies. They’re massive rallies. Everybody loves, everybody stays till the end. “By the way, you know, when she said that, well, your rallies people leave. Honestly, nobody does. And if I saw them leaving, I’d say, and ladies and gentlemen make America great again and I’d get the hell out, ok?”
HOWEVER... the Teamsters Union has announced it will not be endorsing a presidential candidate
Despite 58 per cent of Teamsters Union members saying they back Donald Trump in this November’s election and 31 per cent opting for Kamala Harris in the latest survey, the executive board found “no definitive support among members for either party’s nominee”.
The union will therefore not endorse either candidate.
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