Election 2024 live updates on Trump vs. Harris and his 8-day campaign rally leading up to Election Day

The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office is suing to prevent a political action committee run by billionaire Elon Musk from giving $1 million to registered voters in swing states.

Some legal experts have questioned the legality of the gift.

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Vice President Kamala Harrisresponding to the former President Donald Trump’s claims about his IQsaid he would take a cognitive test — and “would challenge him to take the same.”

“That’s what he’s done, and I think he’s very unstable and weak and using name calling because he really doesn’t have a plan for the American people,” Harris said in an interview with the anchor and the “CBS Evening News”. managing editor Norah O’Donnell conducted the campaign trail in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

The vice president pointed to several Trump associates who have spoken out against him in recent weeks as evidence that he is “unfit to be president of the United States.”

“Don’t take it from me, listen to the people who know him best,” Harris said. “Former chief of staff. Most recently, 4-star Marine general John Kelly. Listen to the two former secretaries of defense who worked for him, listen to the national security adviser, listen to the vice president, who has everything, in other words, say he’s not fit to be president again, don’t be president again. and dangerous.”

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Thousands of people from around the New York area and other parts of the country descended on Madison Square Garden in New York City on Saturday afternoon for a rally of former President Donald Trump’s campaign.

Trump vowed to win New York, saying it would be an “honor” to win his home state. But his remarks were overshadowed by his earlier violent and offensive speeches, which included racist jokes about Puerto Ricans and blacks as well as prominent Democrats.

In the lead-up to Trump, the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, played by Kill Tony, called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” made crude jokes about Hispanics and birth control, concluded that Jews are cheap and Palestinians “. rock-throwers” and made racist comments about black people in the audience eating watermelon.

The comments were widely condemned, with the Trump campaign saying the joke about Puerto Rico “does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.” Republican Rep. Anthony D’Esposito of Nassau County, who is of Puerto Rican descent and attended the rally, posted on social media after the rally that he was “proud to be Puerto Rican” and “the only thing that is ‘trash’ is a bad. comedy group.”

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With more than a week until Election Day, Puerto Rico has been in the spotlight by both campaigns. Vice President Harris announced plans to help the island – leading to the endorsement of Bad Bunny – when Puerto Rico was called a “floating island of garbage” by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who spoke at a rally for former President Donald Trump in New York City.

In an effort to court Puerto Rican voters on the US mainland, Harris on Sunday posted a video on his social media platform promising to create a Puerto Rico task force to create jobs, cut red tape to ensure disaster recovery funds are used quickly and efficiently and work together with leaders across the island to ensure Puerto Ricans have access to reliable and affordable electricity.

Musician and reggaeton singer Bad Bunny, a global superstar from Puerto Rico, shared a video of the vice president on his Instagram account with 45 million followers and then sent a clipped part of the video in which Harris slammed Trump for his response to Hurricane Maria, which devastated the island in 2017.

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