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With one week left in the 2024 US presidential election cycle, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are making their final pitches to voters across the country, especially in battleground states.
President Trump will host another press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, followed by a “closing argument” at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., where the vice president delivered his infamous “Fight like Hell” speech on January 6, 2021. ” is scheduled to be held.
On Monday in Atlanta, Georgia, the Republican continued to spout hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric, denying he was a Nazi, and calling former first lady Michelle Obama “mean” in her recent criticism and criticism. , strongly criticized him. In doing so, she ominously warned that she had made a “big mistake.”
Meanwhile, in Philadelphia, Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen stumbled in their support of Harris, and the 44th president attended his Republican successor’s Madison Square Garden rally in New York and comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racial comments about Puerto Rico. It took aim at discriminatory jokes.
In a potential setback for Democrats, it turns out he got hot on the microphone over the weekend when he discussed the race with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and admitted that “we need to shift our position among men.” That’s what I did.
Video: JD Vance defends comedian’s racist joke at MSG rally
Mike BediganOctober 29, 2024 17:15
Trump should be reprimanded for ‘use of the F-word’ by Harris, who has been called out in public 1,787 times this year
Former President Donald Trump said Kamala Harris should be “reprimanded” for badmouthing her, which she has done more than 1,700 times in public this year alone.
Harris was caught using the S-word in Michigan last weekend during a hot mic moment in which she bemoaned Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s struggles with male voters.
Mike BediganOctober 29, 2024 17:00
In photo: President Trump speaks at a press conference at Mar-a-Lago.
Mike BediganOctober 29, 2024 16:47
President Trump calls controversial MSG rally ‘absolute love fest’
After speaking at Mar-a-Lago, Trump called Sunday’s controversial rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden “a true celebration of love.”
“The love in that room was breathtaking, and it could have been filled again and again with people who couldn’t get in,” he told supporters at a news conference Tuesday.
“It was truly a celebration of love and it was an honor to be a part of it.”
The event has been heavily criticized after racist comments by speakers, including comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who targeted blacks and Jews and described Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”
This comes as President Trump continues to face backlash for his comments praising Adolf Hitler. On Sunday, some media outlets pointed out that a Nazi rally had been held at MSG in 1939.
“[The Democrats] You said “Nazis used Madison Square Garden in 1939″…but what a terrible thing to say when you know they used MSG many times, many times. people have used it, but no one has had crowds like that,” Trump said.
Mike BediganOctober 29, 2024 16:37
President Trump claims he was out of town for “58 consecutive days” during election campaign
As the presidential election draws to a close, Donald Trump boasts that he didn’t take a day off during his campaign for almost two months.
“This is a long, hard campaign. I’ve been on the road and campaigning for 58 straight days and haven’t taken a day off. I’m proud of that,” he told supporters at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday. told.
“And I’m not going to take it off. I’ll never take it off.”
The former president also criticized Kamala Harris again for taking several days off during the campaign, adding: “How on earth do you take time off? You have to work!”
Mike BediganOctober 29, 2024 16:25
President Trump has already chosen a scapegoat if the election doesn’t go his way.
Donald Trump appears to have already set up Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley as a scapegoat if he loses the election.
Read more here Leanne Rubin:
Mike BediganOctober 29, 2024 16:15
Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates
One week left until Election Day…Will Kamala Harris defeat Donald Trump and take the White House?
Mike BediganOctober 29, 2024 16:05
Bad Bunny posts a post celebrating Puerto Rican culture on Instagram following remarks at Trump rally
Bad Bunny posted a reel on Instagram referencing comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist jokes about Puerto Rico.
The Puerto Rican rapper shared a video celebrating his country’s culture, but captioned it as “trash.”
At President Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in New York on Sunday, Hinchcliffe sparked a fierce backlash when he described Puerto Rico as a “floating island of trash.”
Mike BediganOctober 29, 2024 15:55
Trump appears ‘very tired’ at Mar-a-Lago press conference
Commentators noted that Donald Trump looked and sounded “excited” during his remarks at Mar-a-Lago, where he was more than an hour late.
Mike BediganOctober 29, 2024 15:45
Trump says ‘misery’ is the only way Harris will be elected
Trump continues to face fallout from Harris’ comments about Adolf Hitler and comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist comments about Puerto Ricans at a rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. and again accused Harris of waging a “campaign of hate.”
“Kamala will continue this misery for as long as she can because that’s the only way she’ll get elected,” he told supporters at Mar-a-Lago.
Mike BediganOctober 29, 2024 15:35
