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Kamala Harris gave an interview to Fox News anchor Bret Baier shortly after a campaign event in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, flanked by more than 100 Republicans to appeal to center-right voters. He urged people to support him over President Trump. Defend the Constitution.
By contrast, President Trump earlier in the day called Democrats the “enemy from within” and said over the weekend that the military might be called in to deal with the mayhem by “radical left-wing lunatics.” He reinforced his statement.
When confronted with comments from Fox News’ Harris Faulkner during a town hall for supporters, the former president added that his opponents were “sick” and “evil.”
Harris said Trump’s comments are evidence that he is “increasingly unstable and unfree” and “seeking unchecked power.”
On Tuesday, Democrats held an hour-long sit-in in Detroit with Charlamagne Tha God, during which she declared she would win in November and agreed with the host who called President Trump’s platform “fascist.” .
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Full text: Jimmy Carter will cast his 2024 ballot by mail
Jimmy Carter voted in the 2024 election on Wednesday.
The Carter Center confirmed in a statement that the former president voted by mail. It happened just two weeks after Carter celebrated her 100th birthday on October 1 at her home in Plains, Georgia, where she is receiving hospice care.
His son, Chip Carter, said before the family gathering that his father had this election very much in mind.
“He’s fine,” Chip Carter told The Associated Press. “Two months ago, I asked him if he was going to live to be 100 years old, and he said, ‘No, I’m going to live to vote for Kamala Harris.’
The Carter Center said in a brief statement that it had no further details to share.
Registered voters in Georgia have cast their ballots in record numbers since early voting began on Monday. Nearly 460,000 people had cast in-person or absentee ballots by Tuesday afternoon, according to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
Carter’s vote should be counted even if he is no longer alive by Election Day on November 5th.
Robert Sinners, a spokesman for the Secretary of State’s Office, noted that Georgia election rules state that if an absentee ballot is received by a local election board, it “will be deemed to have been cast on the spot.” .
Oliver O’ConnellOctober 16, 2024 22:30
Full text: Trump-appointed judge blocks mass voter purge in Alabama
Alabama’s Republican Secretary of State Wes Allen argued that these voters were ineligible to vote because they had been “issued non-citizen identification numbers.”
But the lawsuit reveals that citizens eligible to vote were also on that list…
Andrew Woodward explains how this aligns with widespread attempts at voter suppression.
Oliver O’ConnellOctober 16, 2024 22:15
Fani Willis asks court to reinstate six charges against Trump in Fulton County case
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is asking the Georgia Court of Appeals to reinstate six charges against Donald Trump and co-defendants in Georgia’s sprawling 2020 election interference case. This includes three charges against Trump himself.
Oliver O’ConnellOctober 16, 2024 22:13
Video: Sen. Markwayne Mullin strongly insists on President Trump’s ‘enemy within’ comment
Oliver O’ConnellOctober 16, 2024 22:00
ICYMI: President Trump: “Only a stupid person would put an older person in top federal office” – He’s 78 years old
Donald Trump said “only a stupid person” would put an older person in a Supreme Court position, but apparently the 78-year-old man he’s running for the top spot in the executive branch You seem to have forgotten that.
President Trump made the remarks in an interview with Bloomberg while in Chicago on Tuesday.
Oliver O’ConnellOctober 16, 2024 21:50
Video: Latino Republican asks President Trump if he really believes Haitian immigrants are eating pets
Recorded this afternoon at Univision City Hall in Florida, Donald Trump was asked in Springfield, Ohio if he really believed Haitian immigrants were eating people’s pets.
The former president did not acknowledge that he falsely accused people in Ohio of eating dogs and cats.
I just said what was reported and what was reported, and I also ate other things that I shouldn’t have. But this — all I’m doing is reporting. I haven’t been. I’ve been there, I’m going to go, and we’re going to investigate, and I’ll give you a full report once I’ve investigated, but it was in the newspapers and reported pretty extensively.
Trump also said they are “eating other things they shouldn’t be eating.”
Oliver O’ConnellOctober 16, 2024 21:45
‘Exhausted’ President Trump has slurred speech and is ‘becoming more erratic by the day,’ Morning Joe warns
While discussing former President Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania town hall on Tuesday where he danced on stage for 39 minutes instead of answering questions, panelists on MSNBC’s Morning Joe said the event said it was a sign of Trump’s advanced age.
Speaking with show co-host Willie Geist, Joe Scarborough said President Trump “slurred a lot of his words…Even in his speech last night, he just didn’t slur his words. I think it was a ‘rebellion’.”
Michelle Del Rey and Greg Evans report.
Oliver O’ConnellOctober 16, 2024 21:38
Harris campaigned with Republican leaders across Pennsylvania.
This afternoon, Kamala Harris campaigned with more than 100 Republican leaders from across the country supporting her candidacy in the face of the prospect of a second Donald Trump administration.
“We are joined today by more than 100 Republican leaders from all over Pennsylvania and across the country who are supporting my candidacy, and I am honored to have their support…We are here today. “Because we share a core belief: we need to protect our country. The party is over.” He spoke to a crowd at Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania.
“We know that the Constitution is not a relic of the past, but we are still in a country where citizens can speak freely and even criticize the president without fear of being imprisoned or targeted by the military. We will decide,” Harris continued.
“Donald Trump lost the 2020 election,” Harris reminded the audience, after pointing out that Trump had violated his oath to the U.S. Constitution.
Continuing, she says: “He considers all Americans who do not support him or do not do his will to be enemies of our country. He has also said that as commander in chief he will use our military to go after them. . Honestly, understand that…Trump is becoming more and more unstable and less free to act.”
The vice president then appealed directly to constitutional and pro-rule-of-law Republicans, saying, “There is a place for you in this campaign…I want you to be president for all Americans.” I swear,” he said.
“Nobody knows a good idea…For America to be the strongest democracy in the world, we need a healthy two-party system,” she said, adding Republicans to her Cabinet and promoting bipartisan policies. He reiterated his promise to form an advisor on the matter. Solutions to advise her.
“There is a fundamental choice in this election…a leadership that unites people and builds consensus…and on the other hand, we guarantee that he will sit in the Oval Office and plot revenge and stew over his ideas.” It’s the choice of the person you think can do it.”My own frustration,” Harris said, concluding her appeal to voters to unite in defense of the Constitution.
Oliver O’ConnellOctober 16, 2024 21:25
Video: Kamala Harris responds with two words to President Trump calling himself ‘father of IVF’
Kamala Harris’ two-word response after President Trump calls himself the ‘father of IVF’
Kamala Harris had a two-word response to Donald Trump calling himself the “father of IVF.” President Trump made the comments during an all-female Fox News town hall that aired on Wednesday, Oct. 16. “It’s very strange,” Harris said Wednesday when asked about President Trump’s comments as she left Detroit for a campaign visit to Pennsylvania. She added: “If what he meant was taking responsibility, then he should take responsibility for the fact that one in three American women lives in President Trump’s anti-abortion states. ” he added.
Oliver O’ConnellOctober 16, 2024 21:20
Video: Vance asks if Trump lost the 2020 election
“Not by the words I use.”
Oliver O’ConnellOctober 16, 2024 21:13