Donald Trump once again calls Democrats ‘the enemy from within’
At a rally in New York City, Donald Trump referenced a report that stated the US would not win if a war were to break out against China.
“I said to myself, assuming that’s true, how stupid are you to put out a report like that?” Trump said, possibly referring to a report by The Brookings Institution. “You don’t put out reports like that, and it’s not true. We would kick their ass.”
Later, he once again called Democrats “the enemy from within.”
“They’ve done very bad things to this country,” he said. “They are indeed the enemy from within, but this is who we’re fighting. These are the people who are doing such harm to our country with their open border policies, record-setting inflation, the green new scam, and everything else that they’re doing.”
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Kamala Harris campaigned “neighborhood-to-neighborhood” in Philadelphia and stopped at a Puerto Rican restaurant before delivering her remarks in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
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Donald Trump delivered a speech in front of thousands of people who traveled to Madison Square Garden in New York City at a campaign rally. He mostly repeated some of the issues he aims to tackle if he were to be elected, including immigration, the war between Israel and Hamas, and crime.
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Kamala Harris addressed a boisterous crowd in North Philadelphia, promising supporters that she would win a seemingly deadlocked presidential race with just nine days left before election day.
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Donald Trump’s warm-up speakers at the Madison Square Garden rally were crude and xenophobic at times, seemingly in an attempt to double down on Trump’s rhetoric and to play to the hardcore fans here.
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Kamala Harris shared her plan to create a task force in Puerto Rico geared toward improving the economy in the cash-strapped island. The message came in tandem with offensive remarks by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” during Donald Trump’s rally.
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In an interview on CNN’s State of the Union this morning, JD Vance and host Jake Tapper had a heated exchange over statements former Trump administration officials have made calling the ex-president a fascist.
Donald Trump will also be visiting several battleground states ahead of Election Day.
His schedule includes a visit to Atlanta, Georgia, on Monday and a rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday.
Trump is also slated to travel to Wisconsin and Nevada this week.
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Kamala Harris addressed a boisterous crowd in North Philadelphia on Sunday, promising supporters that she would win a seemingly deadlocked presidential race with just nine days left before election day.
“Nine days left in one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime, and we know this is going to be a tight race until the very end,” the vice-president told hundreds of supporters. “And make no mistake: we will win.”
Echoing a message that she has hammered at every campaign stop in recent weeks, Harris framed the election as a choice between “two extremely different visions for our nation”. Harris accused Donald Trump of waging a selfish campaign of vengeance while she and her supporters work toward a better future for all Americans.
“We have an opportunity before us to turn the page on the fear and the divisiveness that have characterized our politics for a decade because of Donald Trump,” Harris said. “We have the ability to turn the page on that same old tired playbook because we are exhausted with it, and we are ready to chart a new way forward.”
Harris took the stage after visiting a predominantly Black church and a barbershop in western Philadelphia, underscoring how important the city will be in her electoral strategy. Harris’ ability to turn out Democrats in Philadelphia will be key to winning Pennsylvania, which could serve as the tipping point state in the electoral college.
“There is too much on the line, and we must not wake up the day after the election and have any regrets about what we could have done in these next nine days,” Harris said. “The election is here, and the choice, Philly, is truly in your hands. The path to victory runs right through all of the leaders who are here.”
Here’s more on the rally in Philadelphia:
Vice President Kamala Harris called Donald Trump “increasingly unstable and unhinged” after delivering his remarks at a rally in New York City.
With about a week left for the elections, Harris will be stopping at several battleground states for a final push of support. She will campaign in Reno, Nevada, on Thursday, the same day Harris is scheduled to host a concert and rally with the norteño band Los Tigres del Norte in Phoenix, Arizona.
Meanwhile, her running mate Tim Walz will be in Manitowoc and Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Monday.
Donald Trump is increasingly unstable and unhinged.
He is seeking unchecked power in his second term, he has promised retribution and jail time for his political opponents, and he has violated his oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 28, 2024
Puerto Rican leaders are infuriated over Tony Hinchcliffe’s comments about the U.S. territory, calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” during Donald Trump’s rally in New York City.
Puerto Rico’s resident commissioner, Jenniffer González-Colón, called the remarks “despicable, inappropriate and disgusting.”
New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortés asked her Puerto Rican followers to share the clip with their families.
Organizing ask: I need every Boricua on here to take that rally clip and drop it in your family WhatsApps and group chats. 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
ESPECIALLY if you have family in these states. And give them the link to while you’re at it.
Ya tu sabes ⬇️ https://t.co/QYmwMIGT9E
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 27, 2024
Donald Trump has finished delivering his remarks in New York’s Madison Square Garden.
He called Election Day “the most important day in the history of our country.”
“We will make America powerful again. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America healthy again. We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again, and we will make America great again,” he concluded.
Former president Donald Trump is over an hour into his speech at a rally in Madison Square Garden.
He has so far promised to cut taxes, raise wages, end the war in Ukraine and the war in the Middle East, rebuild the military, and remove critical race theory from schools.
He also proposed a bill to impose a one-year jail sentence for anyone who burns the American flag.
At his rally in New York, Donald Trump congratulated his wife, Melania Trump, on the release of her new memoir.
“I was nervous when I read it,” he confessed. “I said, ‘I wonder if she said some bad stuff about me.’ I was very nervous, but she’s great.”
He thanked several of the speakers who took the stage before him, as well as the chief executive officer of Madison Square Garden Sports and Madison Square Garden Entertainment, James Dolan, for providing the venue.
Donald Trump once again calls Democrats ‘the enemy from within’
At a rally in New York City, Donald Trump referenced a report that stated the US would not win if a war were to break out against China.
“I said to myself, assuming that’s true, how stupid are you to put out a report like that?” Trump said, possibly referring to a report by The Brookings Institution. “You don’t put out reports like that, and it’s not true. We would kick their ass.”
Later, he once again called Democrats “the enemy from within.”
“They’ve done very bad things to this country,” he said. “They are indeed the enemy from within, but this is who we’re fighting. These are the people who are doing such harm to our country with their open border policies, record-setting inflation, the green new scam, and everything else that they’re doing.”
Donald Trump called Vice President Kamala Harris “grossly incompetent” and a candidate with “a very low IQ.”
“She’s unfit for office. Everyone knows it,” he said. “No one respects her, no one trusts her, no one takes her seriously.”
He later repeated misleading criticism of the Biden administration’s hurricane response in North Carolina, where Hurricane Helene ravaged the state, and then boasted about not using a teleprompter.