Kamala Harris praises labor unions in Detroit campaign speech, slams President Trump as ‘union buster’
Kamala Harris spoke at a rally in Detroit, Michigan, vying for support from working-class voters and union members who have long formed the Democratic Party’s base. During her speech, she gave a shoutout to the United Auto Workers union and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, telling the audience that “collective bargaining benefits everyone.”
Labor unions overwhelmingly support Ms. Harris, but the Teamsters union and the International Association of Fire Fighters have both refused to endorse her in this election, giving her the cold shoulder.
In her speech, Harris praised President Trump’s support for right-to-work laws and criticized the anti-labor policies of his first-term administration.
“This is a guy who has been a union buster his whole life,” Harris said. “As president, he didn’t lift a finger to save the pensions of millions of American workers.”
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President Trump wanted to deny wildfire aid to California because it is a Democratic state.
2018 set records as California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire season. More than 40 acres were burned. The fire destroyed the Paradise countryside, destroyed homes across the state and killed 100 people.
But then-President Donald Trump was reluctant to approve federal disaster aid because he did not consider California a pro-Trump state, a former Trump aide told Politico’s E&E News on Wednesday. Ta.
Her former aide, Mark Harvey, is the National Security Council’s senior director for resilience policy and has recently endorsed Kamala Harris.
Mr. Harvey told E&E News that Mr. Trump changed his mind about providing federal relief to California because Mr. This was after showing poll results proving that there are Trump supporters, he said.
“We even looked at how many votes he got in the affected areas…to show him that these are the people who voted for you,” Harvey told the news outlet.
Joe Biden and California Governor Gavin Newsom responded to the news article, with Newsom saying, “Electing @realDonaldTrump gives us a glimpse of the future.”
You can help people in need not only if they vote for you.
It’s the most basic part of being president, but this man knows nothing about it. https://t.co/FuPHwtlZuu
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 3, 2024
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Notably, Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp held a joint press conference with President Trump to pressure him to change the 2020 election results in the state, and in the years since. Despite openly attacking the state, they are campaigning to support President Trump’s victory. Kemp refused, saying he needed to follow the law.
As recently as August of this year, President Trump publicly slandered Kemp, saying, “Kemp is a very bad person for the Republican Party,” and ranting about his past lack of support for Trump. had attacked Kemp’s wife, who had publicly announced that she would not resign. To vote for Trump.
At the time, Kemp fired back at Trump, asking him to “keep his family out of this issue” and refrain from making “petty personal insults.”
My focus is on winning this November and saving the country from Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party, not on making petty personal insults, attacking fellow Republicans, or dwelling on the past. do not have.
Mr. President, please do the same and keep my family out of it. pic.twitter.com/m8y6CSuZKY
— Brian Kemp (@BrianKempGA) August 3, 2024
But today, with Georgia emerging as a key battleground state and the center of legal disputes over vote counting and election integrity, Kemp is showing up to help Trump win.
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President Trump and Republican Georgia Governor Brian Kemp held a very brief joint press conference after surveying Georgia’s damage from Hurricane Helen.
It was the first joint event between Trump and Kemp since 2020, amid public tensions.
Former President Trump spoke with Georgia Governor Brian Kemp at a Helen Recovery press conference.
President Trump’s prepared speech penetrated the focus of the storm, but his answer to the shouted “Q” turned political, attacking Biden’s response to the storm, attacking immigration, and talking about poll numbers. . https://t.co/KiwtcQQgNh pic.twitter.com/8b2VIwyDE8
— Stephen Fowler (@stphnfwlr) October 4, 2024
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The National Rifle Association announced today that it will hold a pro-gun rally in Savannah, Georgia ahead of the 2024 election.
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It will be held in Savannah, Georgia on October 22 and will highlight the importance of Second Amendment rights and the stakes in the 2024 election.
President @realDonaldTrump will speak as the special guest keynote speaker at the NRA’s second annual event, “Defend the 2.”
Full event… pic.twitter.com/3vDg0ijgHJ
— NRA (@NRA) October 4, 2024
Donald Trump will be the keynote speaker at the event, and gun rights figures will also be in attendance. The NRA, a major supporter of Trump in the 2016 presidential election, has struggled in recent years with legal battles and internal scandals, leading to the resignation of longtime leader Wayne LaPierre in January.
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A busy day so far…
This is what it looked like on Friday.
President Joe Biden appeared at a White House press conference today. Asked about the November election, he said: “I am confident it will be free and fair.” Given President Trump’s rhetoric, I don’t know if it will lead to peace.
Biden also debunked Marco Rubio’s claim that the strong jobs report is fake, saying, “Anything MAGA Republicans don’t like, we call it fake.” The September employment report was unexpectedly strong, defying concerns of an economic slowdown. The country added 254,000 jobs last month.
Speaking in Georgia this afternoon, J.D. Vance told undocumented immigrants, “You have four months to go home and pack your bags.” He also dodged a reporter’s question about whether the 2020 election was “rigged.”
Kamala Harris was in Michigan and held her first rally in Detroit, calling Donald Trump a “union buster” while praising collective bargaining that benefits workers.
President Donald Trump will return to Butler, Pennsylvania, tomorrow for a rally following the assassination attempt, and will be joined by the family of the man killed by the gunman, as well as dozens of rally attendees, first responders, and elected officials. Announced.
Far-right Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote an X post claiming that an anonymous entity controls the weather. “Yes, they can control the weather,” she said in the post. “It’s ridiculous for someone to lie and say it’s impossible.” There’s no word on who “they” refers to.
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A Latino voter registration group told the New York Times that conservative activists were tailing and filming them and accusing them of unpopular voting.
Groups like Phoenix’s Poder Latinx say they’re seeing increasing conflicts among their members when registering voters at places like the Department of Motor Vehicles.
The New York Times reported that “some said they were increasingly concerned about safety and intimidation.” “Some participants have asked us to delete our public social media profiles and avoid posting photos that show our location in real time.”In recent days, many election activists have weighed in on the debate over the stolen election. I’m going out prepared.”
The tense environment comes as Republicans continue to push unsubstantiated claims that non-citizens vote in large numbers in U.S. elections, leading Trump and his allies to argue that Trump lost in November. In this case, the aim is to undermine the election results.
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Did JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon support President Trump, as he claimed on Truth Social? That would be news to Dimon.
“Jamie Dimon doesn’t endorse anyone. He doesn’t endorse any candidates,” Dimon spokesman Joe Evangelisti told CNBC.
Trump still has a post on Truth Social that was posted an hour ago claiming support for Dimon, but Trump told NBC News he was not aware of the post and did not make it his own. It seems like he said it wasn’t what he posted.
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Thousands of Ohio voters’ ballots are likely to be rejected due to stricter voter ID laws enacted last year, Cleveland.com reports.
Local newspapers reported that the law has significantly increased the rejection rate of provisional ballots in the state. In the 10 years before the new ID law was enacted, about 0.6% of these ballots were rejected because of ID. But in elections held after the law was approved in 2023, that percentage increased to 8.2%.
Even the bill’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Thomas Hall, said he thought the large increase was a concern.
“I think this is a problem,” he told the outlet. “We don’t want people to be unable to vote because of this bill.”
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Joe Biden, at a White House press conference, responded to a question about Sen. Marco Rubio’s earlier comments on social media that the latest jobs report, which was good news for the president, was a fabrication.
“Today we received another report of false hiring from the Biden-Harris administration,” Rubio, a Florida Republican and former presidential candidate, told X.
A new fake jobs report was released today by the Biden-Harris administration.
16 of the past 17 reports were revised down significantly after the media facilitated false headlines.
But all the fake numbers in the world won’t fool people dealing with Biden-Harris…
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) October 4, 2024
“Anything that MAGA Republicans don’t like, they call fake. Job numbers are job numbers, and they’re real,” Biden said.
He was referring to the “Make America Great Again (Maga)” slogan of Donald Trump and his hard-right supporters like Rubio.
U.S. employers added 254,000 jobs last month in the penultimate jobs report before the U.S. election, defying concerns about a slowing labor market.
Job creation unexpectedly accelerated in September, with the headline unemployment rate falling to 4.1% from 4.2% in August.
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At a donor event in August, Donald Trump delivered an apocalyptic message about Kamala Harris’ possible presidential bid and spoke obscenely about immigrants. David Smith of the Guardian reports:
Donald Trump went on a nasty rant about illegal immigration and predicted at a private fundraising dinner this summer that this “might be the last election ever” if Kamala Harris wins.
The Guardian obtained a 12-minute recording of the Republican presidential candidate’s speech at a dinner held on August 10 in Aspen, Colorado. Attendees at the dinner were asked to donate between $25,000 and $500,000 per couple.
Trump devoted much of his speech to border security and immigration, repeating the xenophobic rhetoric now familiar at his rallies. “Far-left lunatics want to take people out of prisons, mental institutions and psychiatric hospitals,” he claimed without evidence, adding that the U.S. is harboring “a record number of terrorists.” .
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