On Thursday, agents of top Democratic politicians were unleashed on the campaign trail. The Harris campaign announced that Bill Clinton will be campaigning for Harris in southern battleground states starting this weekend, while Barack Obama will be campaigning for her in Pennsylvania, the battleground state with the most electoral votes. Started touring the state.
Obama, who attended the University of Pittsburgh, tried to encourage young people to ask their friends and relatives to vote. He said Trump views power as a “means to an end” and is taking aim at his “notion of planning” on health care.
“The good news is that Kamala Harris has an actual plan,” President Obama said.
“They have to unleash the Kraken,” veteran Democratic campaign strategist James Carville told the New York Times, adding that the Harris campaign should use Obama and other surrogates “more aggressively.” he added.
Meanwhile, inflation slowed to a three-year low in September as price increases continued to retreat from their highest levels in a generation. With concerns about the rising cost of living at the center of the presidential campaign, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its final monthly inflation numbers before voters head to the polls.
Here’s what else happened Thursday.
President Obama questioned the reluctance of black men to vote for Harris. Speaking at an event in Pennsylvania before giving a campaign speech at the University of Pittsburgh, he said, “The kind of vibrancy and turnout we saw when I was running for office is showing up in every facet of our neighborhoods and communities.” Now, I would also like to say that it seems to be more pronounced with the Brothers, “and you come up with all kinds of reasons and excuses. In a September NAACP poll, more than a quarter of black men under 50 said they would vote for Donald Trump.
President Trump disparaged Detroit, Michigan, comparing it to a developing country. He said, referring to the city’s recent history of economic decline after its heyday as the home of American auto production. Detroit is a less developed region than other parts of China. ” Later in his speech, he said of Harris: “If she were president, our entire country would end up like Detroit. We’d have a mess on our hands.”
Harris held events in Nevada and Arizona. The Democratic candidate spoke at City Hall in Las Vegas, sponsored by Spanish-language broadcaster Univision. She was asked about President Trump’s claims that the administration wasn’t doing enough to help people after Hurricane Helen and whether people in the path of Hurricane Milton would receive assistance. , this shows that President Trump’s message is permeating some potential voters. “I have to emphasize that this is not the time for people to play politics,” Harris responded.
Later, at a campaign event in Phoenix, Harris called on Arizonans to vote yes on Proposition 139, which protects abortion rights. “I can’t believe they documented it,” Harris said, speaking about Project 2025, to sustained loud boos from the crowd. “They’ve lost their minds.” The battleground state has 11 electoral votes.
A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday showed Ms. Harris trailing President Trump by 2 and 3 points in Wisconsin and Michigan, respectively, which along with Pennsylvania are the states Democrats are leading with. It’s called the “Blue Wall.”
The Federal Communications Commission, America’s top broadcast regulator, has called for CBS to be stripped of its license after the former president aired edited responses to a prime-time interview with Harris. denounced. He called the network a “threat to democracy” and also targeted other broadcasters for having their licenses revoked.
As reported this week in a book by veteran US political journalist Bob Woodward, President Trump offered President Vladimir Putin a coronavirus test when coronavirus tests were in short supply during the early stages of the pandemic. The Kremlin admitted that it sent the
The legal battle between Georgia’s Trump-leaning state election board and the Fulton County elections office continues to rage, with a parade of 2020 post-election redux lawsuits expected in November. It is seen as a preliminary battle. Fulton County filed a lawsuit Monday to prevent the commission from placing 2020 election deniers on its November election monitoring team. In response, state commission members voted to subpoena broad records from the 2020 election in Fulton County.
