Kamala Harris was interviewed by Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Wednesday, shortly after a campaign event at Washington Crossing in Pennsylvania, where – flanked by more than 100 Republican lawmakers – she made an appeal to center-right voters to support her from Donald Trump. defend the Constitution.
In contrast, earlier in the day, Trump doubled down on comments he made over the weekend in which he called Democrats the “enemy from within” and that the military could be called upon to deal with any riots from “radical leftists”.
When confronted by Fox News’ Harris Faulkner’s comments during a town hall of his supporters, the former president added that his opponents were “sick” and “evil”.
Harris said Trump’s remarks were evidence that he was “increasingly unstable and weak” and “coming out of unchecked power”.
On Tuesday, the Democrat joined Charlamagne Tha God for an hour-long sit-down in Detroit where he announced his victory in November and agreed with the host when he called Trump’s policy platform “fascist.”
JD Vance claims his mother got health insurance under Trump … but through Obamacare
In an effort to boost Donald Trump’s record on health care, JD Vance said his family members got private insurance for the first time under the former president’s administration.
But he failed to mention an important fact – that through the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare – the same legislation that Trump is trying to repeal.
Oliver O’ConnellOctober 16, 2024 10:50 p.m
Watch: Former Trump voters explain their support for Kamala Harris
Oliver O’ConnellOctober 16, 2024 10:40 p.m
Full story: Jimmy Carter sends 2024 ballot by mail
Jimmy Carter voted in the 2024 election Wednesday.
The former president voted by mail, the Carter Center confirmed in a statement. It comes nearly two weeks after Carter celebrated his 100th birthday on October 1 at his home in Plains, Georgia, where he lives in hospice care.
Chip Carter’s son said before the family gathering that his father had this election very much on his mind.
“He’s plugged in,” Chip Carter told The Associated Press. “I asked him two months ago if he was trying to live to be 100, and he said, ‘No, I’m trying to live to vote for Kamala Harris.'”
The Carter Center’s brief statement said it had no further details to share.
Georgia’s registered voters have reached record numbers since early voting began Monday. Nearly 460,000 had voted in person or voted absent by Tuesday afternoon, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said.
Carter’s vote should count even if he is no longer alive on Election Day on November 5.
Robert Sinners, a spokesman for the secretary of state’s office, noted that Georgia’s election rules state that when an absentee ballot is received by a local election official “it shall be deemed to have been voted then.”
Oliver O’ConnellOctober 16, 2024 10:30 p.m
Full story: Trump-appointed judge blocks Alabama’s mass voter purge
Republican Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen said the voters were “issued non-citizen identification numbers,” and therefore ineligible to vote.
But the lawsuit found that citizens eligible to vote were also included on the list…
Andrew Woodward explain how this fits with more efforts in voter suppression.
Oliver O’ConnellOctober 16, 2024 10:15 p.m
Fani Willis asked the court to reinstate six charges against Trump in the Fulton County case
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis asked a Georgia appeals court to throw out six charges against Donald Trump and his associates in the 2020 Georgia election meddling case. These include three charges against Trump himself.
Oliver O’ConnellOctober 16, 2024 10:13 p.m
Watch: Sen. Markwayne Mullin pushes back on Trump’s ‘enemy’ comments
Oliver O’Connell16 October 2024 22:00
ICYMI: Trump says ‘only idiots make old people’ top federal role – age 78
Donald Trump has said “only idiots put old people” in positions on the Supreme Court – apparently forgetting that it is a 78-year-old man who is running for the highest position in the executive branch.
Trump made the comments during an interview with Bloomberg while in Chicago on Tuesday.
Oliver O’Connell16 October 2024 21:50
Watch: Latino Republican asks Trump if he really believes Haitian immigrants eat pets
In a Univision town hall taped in Florida this afternoon, Donald Trump was asked if he believed that Haitian migrants ate people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio.
The former president refused to admit that he wrongly accused people of eating dogs and cats in Ohio:
I only say what is reported, what has been reported, and eat other things, which is not supposed to be. But this – all I just report. I have not- I was there, I will be there, and we will take a look, and I will give a full report when I do, but that has been in the newspaper and reported quite widely.
Trump later said he “ate something else he shouldn’t”.
Oliver O’ConnellOctober 16, 2024 9:45 p.m
‘Tired’ of Trump slurring his words and ‘getting more erratic every day’, warns ‘Morning Joe’
While discussing former president Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania town hall on Tuesday, which included him dancing on stage for 39 minutes instead of answering questions, a panelist on MSNBC Morning Joe said this event is a sign of Trump’s advanced age.
Speaking to the show’s co-host Willie Geist, Joe Scarborough said that Trump “said a lot of words … Even in that speech last night, I felt it was ‘rebellion’, just saying words.
Michelle Del Rey and Greg Evans report.
Oliver O’ConnellOctober 16, 2024 9:38 p.m
Harris campaigned with Republican leaders from Pennsylvania
This afternoon Kamala Harris campaigned with more than 100 Republican leaders from across the country who are supporting her candidacy as she faces the prospect of a second term in office for Donald Trump.
“I am joined today by more than 100 Republican leaders from across Pennsylvania and across our country who support my candidacy, and I am deeply honored for their support … we are here today because we share a core belief: we must put the country through party,” he told the crowd at Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, where George Washington crossed the Delaware River during the Revolutionary War.
“We know the Constitution is not a relic of the past, but it defines that we are a country where people can speak freely and even criticize the president without fear of being thrown in jail or targeted by the military,” Harris continued.
After noting that Trump violated the oath of the United States Constitution, Harris warned the crowd: “Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.”
Continuing, he said: “He considers Americans who do not support him or submit to his will to be enemies of our country. Moreover, he said that as commander-in-chief he will use the military to go after him. Honestly, let it sink in … Trump added no stable and weak.
The vice president then made a direct appeal to the pro-Constitution and pro-rule of law Republicans: “There is a place for you in this campaign … I promise you to be president for all Americans.”
“No one has a good idea … for America to be the strongest democracy in the world, we have to have a healthy two-party system,” he said, vowing to have Republicans in his cabinet and create bipartisan advisers. solution to advise him.
“There is a fundamental choice in this election … the leadership that brings people together, that builds consensus … and on the other hand, the choice of people I can guarantee will sit in the Oval Office planning retribution, stew in their own grievances,” he said. Harris previously wrapped up his pitch for voters to come together to stand up for the Constitution.
Oliver O’ConnellOctober 16, 2024 9:25 p.m