Donald Trump criticized Kamala Harris and other Democrats in a sharp, sometimes vitriolic speech Thursday as he headlined the annual Al Smith Charity Dinner in New York. The Republican candidate repeatedly criticized his Democratic rival for breaking with presidential campaign tradition of skipping events as he prioritized campaigning in the battleground state of Wisconsin rather than the Democratic safe state of New York. did. Harris recorded a video that was played in his place.
Trump questioned Harris’ mental health, President Joe Biden commented on Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff’s affair during his previous marriage and joked about transgender people. The dinner was hosted by comedian Jim Gaffigan, who plays Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz on “Saturday Night Live.”
In pre-recorded remarks, Harris featured comedian and actor Molly Shannon, the long-running Saturday Night Live character Mary Katherine Gallagher, the clumsy Catholic school student. was reenacted, but mocked President Trump’s lie about the results of the presidential election as a crime. Speaking about the 2020 election, he said in Michigan that mocking Catholics in a video is “like criticizing Detroit in Detroit.”
Here’s what else happened Thursday.
Kamala Harris Election News
Polls show that Harris continues to lead Trump among likely black voters in battleground states. The poll, conducted by the Howard University Public Opinion Initiative from October 2 to October 8, surveyed 981 likely black voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. It was done. While 84% of respondents said they planned to vote for vice president, only 8% said they would support Trump in November’s presidential election, and another 8% were undecided.
With three weeks left, Harris is focused on strengthening support in the “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to avoid a repeat of Hillary Clinton’s collapse in the state eight years ago. spending most of the day. Her schedule reflects Democratic candidates’ focus on the most likely path to defeating President Trump. Harris traveled to Milwaukee on Thursday to seek support from college voters. She stopped by a business class at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, held a student rally at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, and ended the day with a rally in Green Bay.
The Democratic governors of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin embarked on a quickly organized bus tour this week, giving Ms. Harris a run for her money in must-win states where some Democrats worry she is struggling. ran through the autumn landscape to emphasize the urgency of the lawsuit. Gretchen Whitmer, Josh Shapiro and Tony Evers descended on Flint on Thursday afternoon, along with National Democratic Party Chairman Jamie Harrison.
Harris and Walz are scheduled to attend church in battleground states of Georgia and Michigan on Sunday. Harris will also sit in on an interview with the Rev. Al Sharpton that will air on his MSNBC show Sunday night, according to a Harris campaign official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss schedule details that have not yet been officially announced. It’s planned.
Donald Trump Presidential Election News
Donald Trump’s transition team is reportedly creating a blacklist of senior officials who could be expelled from future administrations, particularly in Project 2025, the US government’s sweeping reform plan. The focus is on the people involved. The former president’s eldest son, Donald Jr., spearheaded the creation of a list of banned officials, Politico reported, citing former officials from the first Trump administration.
Mr. Trump and his wife, Melania, attended the Al Smith event, but Melania has not attended many campaign events. White tie dinners raise millions of dollars for Catholic charities and traditionally involve candidates of both parties in a light-hearted rant, poking fun at themselves and showing that they can get along for the night, or at least pretend they can. It has provided opportunities. The final stage of the election.
Gaffigan addressed allegations that the Trump Organization discriminated against black renters in its buildings in the 1970s. “If Vice President Harris wins this election, she will not only be the first female president, but she will also be the first Black woman to occupy the White House, which was President Trump’s home,” Gaffigan said. “Obviously you’re not going to rent to her. I mean, that’s never going to happen. Maybe if Doug would sign.”
Elsewhere on the campaign trail, a Nevada man was arrested with a gun at a security checkpoint outside a Trump rally in the Southern California desert, and the sheriff blamed his arrest on thwarting an assassination attempt. A lawsuit was filed on behalf of the sheriff’s personal reputation, alleging that he had made a false finding. Profit.
Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance falsely told reporters on Wednesday that there were “serious problems” in the 2020 election, claiming then-President Donald Trump did not actually lose the race. He suggested that it may have been. “Did Donald Trump lose the election? Not by the words I use,” Vance said in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. “But, look, I don’t really care whether you agree or disagree with me on this issue.”
More election news:
Nevada Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen and Republican challenger Sam Brown painted each other as extremists Thursday night in a presidential battleground state where the election could decide control of both the White House and the Senate. Ta. The race is between Rosen, a first-term senator who is seen as a political consensus builder, and Brown, a retired Army captain who carries scars from battlefield injuries and is backed by President Trump.
After former President Donald Trump repeatedly threatened to use his executive powers to seize control of major metropolitan centers, Democratic leaders in U.S. cities have warned that if Donald Trump returns to the White House, Preparations are underway to protect local communities. President Trump has proposed deploying the military to major cities, mostly run by Democrats, to deal with protesters and quell criminal organizations. He threatened to send in large numbers of federal immigration agents to carry out mass deportations of illegal aliens.
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