Trump blasts Harris for ‘partying’ with celebrities as war, chaos unfolds
Former President Donald Trump held a rally in Michigan on Friday night where he slammed Vice President Kamala Harris for “partying” while tension in the Middle East boiled over.
Trump spoke in Traverse City, as Israeli fighter jets were bombarding Iranian military targets and Harris was at a rally in Houston with Beyonce.
“You know where she is tonight?” Trump asked the crowd. “She’s out partying. So Israel is attacking. We’ve got a war going on, and she’s out partying. At least we’re working to make America great again. That’s what we’re doing. Kamala, Kamala, she’s the worst president in the history of our country.”
Israel launched its largest ever attack on Iran Friday in a wave of retaliatory airstrikes after the Islamic Republic fired a barrage of missiles toward Israelis earlier this month.
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Additionally, the Trump campaign put out a press release with a photo of Trump in Austin earlier in the day when he highlighted “the tragic human cost of Kamala’s border invasion” and was joined by the mother of Jocelyn Nungary, whose daughter was murdered allegedly by illegal immigrants.
“Kamala, meanwhile, will be partying with celebrities in Houston as she makes another desperate attempt to salvage her flailing campaign,” the campaign said. “Don’t expect her to apologize to the families of Jocelyn Nungaray or any of the other American citizens victimized by illegals she imported into our communities — she couldn’t care less. In Kamala’s America, illegal immigrants are the priority as Americans are relegated to the second tier in their own country. The split screen tells you all you need to know.”
Harris was campaigning in Houston, Texas on Friday night at a rally where an estimated 30,000 people showed up to hear from the presidential candidate as well as music superstar Beyonce.
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Beyoncé, whose hit song “Freedom” has been adopted by the vice president as her campaign trail anthem, spoke ahead of Harris and introduced her at the event, which leaned heavily into reproductive rights.
“It’s time for America to sing a new song,” Beyoncé said as she formally endorsed the vice president in her White House race against former President Trump. “Ladies and gentlemen, please give a big, loud, Texas welcome to the next President of the United States, Vice President Kamala Harris.”
And she emphasized that “I’m not here as a celebrity, I’m not here as a politician, I’m here as a mother. A mother who cares deeply about the world my children and all of our children live in. A world where we have the freedom to control our bodies.”
Trump added during his rally that “Kamala is also in total freefall with the Arab and Muslim population in Michigan. She’s in a freefall. She sent their jobs overseas, brought crime to their cities and tonight in the Middle East, it’s like a tinderbox. It’s ready to explode. People are being killed at levels that we’ve never seen before and that’s taking place right now. In Michigan she is in literally a freefall. They’ve had it with her. Nobody’s in charge. Joe Biden is asleep. Kamala is at a dance party with Beyonce.”
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Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris campaign for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
“During his low-energy speech in Michigan tonight, @realDonaldTrump, Arrived 3 hours late and spoke to a dwindling crowd, Insulted Detroit, Attacked Beyoncé, said his handlers tell him women don’t like him,” Harris spokesperson Sarafina Chitika posted on X on Friday night.
Fetterman on the enthusiasm for Trump in key battleground state: ‘It’s astonishing’
Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman opened up about the state of the presidential race in his key battleground state and called former President Trump’s support there “astonishing” while predicting that Elon Musk’s endorsement is “going to really matter.”
“There’s a difference between not understanding, but also acknowledging that it exists,” Fetterman told the New York Times in an interview published Saturday morning when asked about enthusiasm for Trump in Pennsylvania. “And anybody who spends time driving around, and you can see the intensity. It’s astonishing.”
Fetterman continued, “I was doing an event in Indiana County. Very, very red. And there was a superstore of Trump stuff, and it was a hundred feet long. [There were] dozens of T-shirts and hats and bumper stickers and all kinds of, I mean, it’s like, Where does this all come from? It’s the kind of thing that has taken on its own life. And it’s like something very special exists there. And that doesn’t mean that I admire it. It’s just — it’s real.”
Fetterman said he believes Musk, who endorsed Trump and appeared with him at a rally at the site of the first assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, will be appealing to voters in Pennsylvania.
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“And now [Elon] Musk is joining him,” Fetterman said. “I mean, to a lot of people, that’s Tony Stark. That’s the world’s richest guy. And he’s obviously, and undeniably, a brilliant guy, and he’s saying, Hey, that’s my guy for president. That’s going to really matter.”
Fetterman said he was “alarmed” when Musk began showing up on the campaign trail for Trump and said he’s a “bigger star than Trump” in “some sense.”
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“Endorsements, they’re really not meaningful often, but this one is, I think,” Fetterman said. “That has me concerned.”
Fetterman told the New York Times that he does not believe the 2024 election will come down to “a certain policy” but will instead come down to the “stark choice” between Harris and Trump.
“It’s visceral,” Fetterman said. “And that’s why the people that are left that haven’t made up their decision are going, you know, what do I want for the next four years? And I do believe enough people will choose Harris. But it’s going to be much, much closer than anyone would want.”
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The Real Clear Politics average of polling in Pennsylvania shows Trump narrowly leading Harris by less than a percentage point.
Political eyes are locked on Pennsylvania as the state that will likely determine the outcome of the election. Trump and Harris have both repeatedly zigzagged the state campaigning in recent weeks, while voter registration for the state released this week shows sizable shifts benefiting the GOP in the final stretch of the election cycle.
Israel warns Iran ‘will pay a heavy price’ if it begins a new round of escalation
JERUSALEM—After Israel’s daring aerial military strikes in Iran early Saturday, the Jewish state announced that it is prepared to continue to go on the “offense” against the world’s worst state-sponsor of terrorism, the Islamic Republic of Iran, if Tehran responds.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said, “If the regime in Iran were to make the mistake of beginning a new round of escalation – we will be obligated to respond. Our message is clear: All those who threaten the State of Israel and seek to drag the region into a wider escalation — will pay a heavy price.”
He added, “We demonstrated today that we have both the capability and the resolve to act decisively — and we are prepared — on offense and defense — to defend the State of Israel and the people of Israel.”
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Israel dubbed its Saturday mission “Days of Repentance” as a response to Iran’s launch of its barrage of around 200 ballistic missiles on October 1 into the Holy Land. Iran said it attacked Israel as retaliation for the IDF’s elimination of the Tehran-backed global Hezbollah terrorist, Hassan Nasrallah, in Beirut.
Pressure on Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from the Biden-Harris administration seems to have paid off on Jerusalem limiting its historic attack on Iran to purely military installations. Israel avoided knocking out Iran’s illicit nuclear weapons sites and its vast oil production enterprises.
“Israel opted for the least-aggressive response against the Islamic Republic by conducting precise strikes on military targets,” noted Lisa Daftari, an Iran expert and editor-in-chief of The Foreign Desk.
Daftari told Fox News Digita, “This approach raises questions about whether the U.S. influenced Israel to adopt a more restrained response, possibly to prevent further escalation. One could argue these strikes successfully reestablished deterrence, while it can also be said that Israel missed an opportunity to target more crucial sites. Many factors, including the timing, target selection, and strike intensity, were complicated by a U.S. leak and our upcoming elections. Despite these pressures, Israel appears prepared to change its approach if the Islamic Republic decides to escalate further.”
On Saturday, Secretary of Defense Austin issued a statement on X noting that he had spoken with his Israeli counterpart where he “reaffirmed the ironclad commitment of the United States to Israel’s security and right to self-defense. I made it clear that the United States maintains an enhanced force posture to defend U.S. personnel, Israel, and partners across the region in the face of threats from Iran and Iran-backed terrorist organizations and is determined to prevent any actor from exploiting tensions or expanding the conflict in the region.”
A senior U.S. official said on Friday that “Israel conducted precision airstrikes against multiple military targets across Iran and outside populated areas.” The official added that the United States played no role in the mission and the “President and his national security team, of course, worked with the Israelis over recent weeks to encourage Israel to conduct it, to conduct a response that was targeted and proportional. A lower risk of civilian harm. And that appears to have been precisely what transpired this evening.”
Mardo Soghom, the Chief Editor of Iran International English website, told Fox News Digital, “The regime and its media are downplaying the attack. They are saying it was ineffective, and the air defenses are wonderful. They claim Israel’s attack had minimal damage. Some of the regime’s hardliners are openly urging a counter-attack. Iran’s foreign ministry is saying its right of response is still reserved.”
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He chalked up the foreign ministry response to cliché-like diplomatic language and noted that “No one witnessed the S-300” air defense system being fired, suggesting that Israel’s bypassed Iran’s vaunted Russian-made counter-missile apparatus.
“My analysis is the U.S. and Israel seem to have put Iran in a bind. The U.S. has warned Iran not to respond, so if Iran responds, it could warrant a U.S. response,” said the Iran expert Soghom.
Israeli counterstrikes reportedly killed four Iranian soldiers, one of whom was an officer, according to the regime-controlled media. It is unclear whether Tehran will up the ante and launch new missile attacks against the Jewish state.
Fox News Digital approached an IDF spokesman about an Israeli news report saying Israel was preparing for retaliatory Iranian ballistic missile strikes. The IDF spokesman said, “It’s not anything special. We are always preparing.”
Axios reported that Israel issued a pre-attack warning to Iran’s regime. “The Israelis made it clear to the Iranians in advance what they are going to attack in general and what they are not going to attack,” a source told Axios. The IDF did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital on the report.
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, leader of one of Israel’s main opposition party’s posted criticism of the attack on X, saying it was a wasted opportunity. A translation of his post read in part, “The decision not to attack strategic and economic targets in Iran was wrong. We could and should have exacted a much heavier price from Iran.”
The Times of Israel reported that former Defense Minister and leader of the Yisrael Beytenu party, Avigdor Liberman, said Israel failed to “exact a real price” from the Islamic Republic, and criticized the government for its “showmanship.”
Meet Harris’ billionaire bestie, the tech widow behind liberal magazine’s ‘hit piece’ on Trump
The Atlantic has faced intense scrutiny in recent days for an unflattering report about former President Trump that has been declared everything from “false” to a “hit piece” by critics and even those involved with the story, and a look at the high-powered owner of the liberal publication reveals a “genuine friendship” with Vice President Kamala Harris.
Billionaire philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple visionary Steve Jobs and one of the wealthiest people on earth, owns the Emerson Collective, which purchased a majority of The Atlantic in 2017.
Powell Jobs and Harris are both 60-year-old women who rose to prominence in liberal Northern California, but they have much more in common. The New York Times reported last month that Powell Jobs, who is reportedly worth north of $11 billion, is one of Harris’ “most essential confidantes” who has shelled out cash and provided counsel in order to help expand the vice president’s public profile.
“Now, in this year’s presidential race, the wealthiest woman in Silicon Valley has emerged as a powerful player behind the scenes. She has quietly contributed millions of dollars to an organization backing Ms. Harris, according to three people briefed on the gifts,” the Times reported.
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“She played a hidden but key role in helping usher Mr. Biden out of the race, which cleared the way for a Harris run,” the Times continued. “Powell Jobs, who is so close to the vice president that her staff refers to her simply as ‘L.P.J.,’ is positioned to have extraordinary influence, or at least access, in a potential Harris administration.”
The Times noted that three dozen sources with “insight into their bond” believe Harris and Powell Jobs have a “genuine friendship built on a shared political philosophy, an interest in art and culture and their mutual trials as women in the public spotlight.”
When Harris was sworn into office as a United States Senator in 2017, she summoned Powell Jobs to hop into a photo alongside her family. “My extended family is here,” Harris said as she waved in Powell Jobs and other close friends, the Times reported.
Harris and Powell Jobs have gone on personal trips together, sometimes on the philanthropist’s private plane, according to the Times. Powell Jobs attended Harris’ 2014 wedding to Doug Emhoff, and Emhoff attended the wedding of Powell Jobs’ son in Hawaii earlier this year. Powell Jobs has also visited the Biden-Harris White House at least nine times, according to the Times.
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She also attended the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where she regularly sat in an exclusive box for Harris’ friends and family.
Powell Jobs, who was married to Steve Jobs from 1991 until his death in 2011 and paid roughly $70 million for the most expensive home in San Francisco earlier this year, has also opened her wallet to help elect Harris while urging others to do the same.
Powell Jobs has reportedly been urging other influential women and megadonors to support Harris, although the Times noted she likes to make “undisclosed contributions” and she has “donated millions to Future Forward’s dark-money vehicle” as friends have pondered whether she would seek a formal role in the administration if her friend prevails.
Many of her donations are undisclosed, but Powell Jobs has openly donated to a plethora of high-profile Democrats over the years, including Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Barbara Boxer, Andrew Cuomo, Gavin Newsom, Beto O’Rourke, Kirsten Gillibrand, Tammy Duckworth, Dianne Feinstein, Elizabeth Warren, Kathleen Hochul, Cory Booker, Andrew Gillum, Adam Schiff, and Nancy Pelosi, in addition to Harris and groups such as Planned Parenthood, according to Open Secrets.
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Fortune also put a recent spotlight on the close friendship between Powell Jobs and Harris last month with a piece that called the Atlantic honcho one of the vice president’s “biggest bankrollers.”
“Not only has Powell Jobs consistently donated to Democrats, but she’s also taken a special interest in her friend Harris. In 2023, Powell Jobs made three donations to the Biden and Harris reelection campaigns, amounting to nearly $1 million,” Fortune reported.
Powell Jobs has posted on X in support of liberal causes such as a pathway to citizenship for immigrants, various climate change initiatives and LGBTQ+ Pride, although she has been silent on the platform since it was purchased by fellow billionaire Elon Musk.
In 2017, Powell Jobs brought then-Senator Harris along for an on-stage interview with journalist Kara Swisher at the Code Conference. Swisher asked the friends if one of them would run for president in 2020, Powell Jobs said, “One of us should… I vote for her,” while pointing to Harris.
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Seven years later, as speculation builds that Powell Jobs could be either directly involved or at least extremely influential behind-the-scenes in a potential Harris White House, her liberal news organization has found itself the center of attention with a brutal story about Trump that’s been both widely disseminated and scrutinized.
The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg penned a lengthy report published Tuesday about Trump’s interaction with the family of 20-year-old Vanessa Guillén, the daughter of Mexican immigrants who was murdered in April 2020 by a fellow soldier at Fort Hood.
After her remains were discovered two months later, Trump consoled Guillén’s family at the White House and offered to provide financial assistance to cover the funeral costs. But Goldberg reported Trump became enraged when he got the bill, refusing to pay it, saying, “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f—ing Mexican!”
According to the report, Natalie Khawam, Guillén’s family attorney, told Goldberg the family did not receive money from Trump and that the costs were ultimately covered in part by the Army and donations.
Khawam has since accused The Atlantic’s Goldberg of lying. Guillén’s sister, Mayra Guillén, also blasted The Atlantic report and voiced her support for Trump.
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NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck, a conservative media watchdog, criticized The Atlantic as a “political laundering operation for Laurene Powell Jobs and her fellow liberal elites” to push their talking points.
“She has a vapid editor-in-chief in Jeffrey Goldberg who not only shares her worldview, but has shown himself to be the ultimate pinprick showing a ruthless arrogance,” Houck told Fox News Digital.
“If Laurene Powell Jobs told him to write a story about how Trump is good, he’d comply because that’s his role in the world,” Houck added. “The Atlantic is where White liberals go to feel like they’re still in charge and can claim they think more deeply and care more than the rubes out in real America.”
Goldberg’s Atlantic piece laid out another explosive claim in the piece that Trump had once said, “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had. People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders,” citing two unnamed sources who allegedly heard him say it in the White House.
A spokesman for Trump called the claim “absolutely false,” telling The Atlantic, “President Trump never said this.”
The Atlantic firmly pushed back on the notion that Powell Jobs was involved in the Goldberg piece, or any editorial decisions.
“There is a strict firewall between The Atlantic’s newsroom and our business side and ownership. The editorial team operates with complete independence. Our ownership does not and has never influenced what we report or publish,” The Atlantic senior vice president of communications Anna Bross told Fox News Digital.
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Fox News contributor Joe Concha said The Atlantic’s attempt to harm Trump days before the election “has no legs.”
“It was widely disputed, including by the family involved, and this reporter has a history of engaging in Democratic activism. Remember, remember, Jeffrey Goldberg is the same so-called journalist who pushed the ‘suckers and losers’ hoax. That was in 2020, and at the time he promised more corroboration of this alleged comment by Trump would be brought forth… we’re still waiting,” Concha told Fox News Digital.
“Voters have been hearing for nine years that Trump is Hitler,” Concha added. “And, therefore, these stories don’t move the needle one bit.”
But despite the denials and harsh rebuttals, The Atlantic’s attempted takedown of Trump provided CNN and MSNBC with talking points for much of the week.
The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Emerson Collective did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Political analyst makes his prediction for 2024 election: ‘Firing on all cylinders’
Republican political analyst Ford O’Connell said recent decisions by major newspapers to refrain from endorsing presidential candidates, including the liberal-leaning Washington Post, show the race is “slipping away” from Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Trump is firing on all cylinders and he’s outworking Kamala Harris at every turn on the campaign trail,” O’Connell said on “Fox & Friends Weekend.”
“And frankly, he’s going up in all the polls,” O’Connell added.
The GOP strategist pointed out that Trump is leading in the Real Clear Politics average of polls in all seven key battleground states, with his strongest polling in sun belt states including North Carolina, Georgia and Arizona.
“Obviously, he’s going to have to pick off one of the blue wall states, whether it’s Pennsylvania, Michigan or Wisconsin. Right now, it appears that Harris is leading in the early vote in Pennsylvania. But let me tell you, it’s going to be really, really close in all three of those states. But I do think the momentum is on Trump’s side.”
Former Republican
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie argued with the liberal hosts of ABC’s “The View” on Friday’s show after he insisted that Vice President Harris still had more work to do to convince voters to support her. There are just 11 days until Election Day.
Christie suggested that undecided voters still didn’t “know” Harris and that she had failed to distinguish herself from President Biden and his policies.
“Ten days ago I would’ve told you that she’s going to win. And I think she’s had a bad ten days,” he began.
“There’s advantages and disadvantages to coming into the race this late. The advantage is she didn’t have to go through all the primaries and go through all of that that goes on that wears you down a bit. But the disadvantage is people don’t know her,” he said.
“She’s been vice president for four years!” co-host Sunny Hostin cut in. “How could they not know her?”
Christie defended his comment by saying that the job of vice-president keeps you out of “focus” from the public, before co-host Joy Behar also interrupted.
“Why do they keep accusing her of doing nothing when she was vice president?” Behar exclaimed. “What did Mike Pence do?”
Christie went on to say that Harris needs to make clear to voters what she would do differently from President Biden, after she’s struggled to answer this question in multiple interviews.
This is an excerpt from an article by Kristine Parks.
Latino voters – a longstanding Democratic voting bloc – appear more likely to cast their ballot for former President Trump than Vice President Harris this election cycle, a recent poll shows.
A new USA Today/Suffolk University poll taken among Latinos between October 14-18 saw Trump boasting an 11-point lead at 49% compared to Harris’ 38% with a +/-9% margin of error.
Despite Latino voters trending toward Democratic candidates in the past, Goya Foods CEO Bob Unanue isn’t surprised.
“We are the No. 1 exploited community in the world,” he told Fox News on Tuesday.
“The biggest industry that has flourished under this administration, under Kamala, has been drugs and human trafficking. Last year, Tara Lee Rodas testified that the U.S. is the middleman in this hundreds of billion-dollar business. She said there were 85,000 children missing…”
“From 85,000, this year, they raised the amount of children lost or sold to 325,000 children. The Hispanic community, the Latino community is fed up with being exploited. They’re fed up with high prices, and that’s why you’re seeing this community go head over heels toward Donald J. Trump.”
Unanue, who leads America’s largest Hispanic-owned food company that produces and distributes items in the U.S. as well as Spanish-speaking countries, has been critical of the Biden-Harris administration on multiple occasions — slamming their job performance on the economy and immigration, two prevailing issues this election cycle.
This is an excerpt from an article by Taylor Penley.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO Dana White are just some of the names expected to speak at former President Trump’s much-anticipated rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden (MSG) on Sunday.
“The World’s Most Famous Arena” is expected to be packed with Trump supporters as the Republican nominee returns to his “deep blue” home state as his campaign enters its final days with increasing momentum. MSG is a 19,500-seat venue.
The Trump campaign says the program includes political icons, celebrities, musical artists, and friends and family of former President Trump who will all discuss how he is “the best choice to fix everything that Kamala Harris broke.”
“This epic event, in the heart of President Trump’s home city, will be a showcase of the historic political movement that President Trump has built in the final days of the campaign,” the campaign said in a press release.
Musk has already hit the campaign trail for Trump, delivering a memorable speech in Butler, Pennsylvania, earlier this month, when the former president returned to the same site where an assassination attempt was made on his life on July 13.
White, who has been a close friend of Trump for years and played a role in him reestablishing the mixed martial arts company in the early 2000s, introduced the former president at this year’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, telling the crowd the stakes have never been higher.
Other notable attendees this Sunday include former Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, political commentator Tucker Carlson and former Democrat presidential nominee turned Republican Tulsi Gabbard.
High-profile names from the political world include Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance, Speaker Mike Johnson, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla.
Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump as well as the former president’s sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. will also feature.
From the music world, Death Row Records founder Michael Harris Jr. is set to appear, as will singer Lee Greenwood and opera singer Christopher Macchio.
This is an excerpt from an article by Michael Dorgan.
The Harris-Walz campaign rolled out a new TV and digital ad on Saturday linking former President Trump to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and other acts of anti-Asian hate.
In the 30-second ad, titled, “Our America,” the Harris campaign accuses Trump of having an “outdated vision of America” that “has no place” for Asian Americans. The ad features symbols of American freedom, including the Constitution, purportedly “under attack by Trump and his extremist allies,” the Harris campaign said in a news release.
The ad “alludes to moments when Asian Americans were denied their civil rights – such as the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin in Detroit,” the campaign said.
It concludes with a call to action to defend democracy by voting for Harris.
“The choice for Asian American voters in this election couldn’t be clearer. While Trump surrounds himself with loyalists to emulate the dictators he admires and intends to wield unchecked power to serve himself, Vice President Kamala Harris has only ever had one client: the people,” said Harris-Walz 2024 Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander spokesperson Andrew Peng. “This November, we have the power to protect our freedoms and elect a president who believes in the aspirations of our communities – and will never view us as ‘other.’”
Early voting has hit record levels in battleground Georgia, where elections officials say the vote count has already exceeded more than half of 2020’s total turnout.
“So over 50% of the turnout for 2020 has already voted in Georgia,” said Gabriel Sterling, the chief operating officer for the secretary of state’s office. “So for people like Joe Biden & Stacey Abrams, you were wrong saying we had voter suppression here. It’s easy to register & vote in Georgia…and really hard to even try to cheat. Great job by our voters & counties.”
More than 2.6 million people in the Peach State have voted early, according to Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office. The total vote count in the 2020 election was barely under 5 million. former President Trump narrowly lost the state to President Biden by a margin of just 11,779 votes.
Gov. Brian Kemp signed an overhaul of Georgia’s election rules into law in 2021, after Trump made unproven claims of widespread voter fraud that purportedly cost him the state’s 16 electoral votes in the last presidential election. Republicans said that new restrictions on absentee and mail-in voting, expanded voter ID requirements and prohibitions on non-poll workers from providing food and drink to voters waiting in line at poll centers were necessary to preserve election integrity.
Democrats lambasted the changes, accusing GOP lawmakers of failing to back their claims about voter fraud with evidence and using the issue as a cover to suppress votes in minority communities.
Earlier this week, Raffensperger told Fox News Digital that early votes could top 4 million by Election Day.
Early voting in Georgia runs through Nov. 1.
Joe Rogan and former President Trump discussed the Republican nominee’s growing popularity with young voters, with Rogan noting how America’s youth is “rejecting a lot of this woke bulls–t.”
“Young people are tired of being yelled at and scolded. They’re tired of these people that they think are mentally ill telling them what the moral standards of society should be today, and people are upset,” observed Rogan.
“The rebels are Republicans now,” he continued. “Like, you want to be a rebel? You want to be punk rock? You want to, like, buck the system? You’re a conservative now. That’s how crazy – and then the liberals are now pro-silencing criticism. They’re pro-censorship online. They talking about regulating free speech and then regulating the First Amendment. It’s bananas to watch.”
“Joe, they come after their political opponents,” Trump said. “I’ve been investigated more than Alfonse Capone.”
“Well, the do,” agreed Rogan.
Trump went on to say that he could have put “crooked” Hillary Clinton in jail, but didn’t.
“I respected that you didn’t,” said Rogan. “Because what you said was it would be bad for the country.”
“No, I can’t. I couldn’t even imagine – You have, first of all, a secretary of state but more importantly, the wife of the president of the United States of America going into jail?” said Trump.
Vice President Harris told a cheering crowd of 30,000 in Houston that she will fight for “reproductive freedom” and accused pro-life Republicans of hypocrisy on the abortion issue.
“These same people who have argued that these Trump abortion bans are investments in women and children, do look at their record. They tend to be in states with the highest rates of maternal mortality in the country,” Harris said.
“For decades, these extremist leaders, who have neglected prenatal care, maternity care and post-partum care and who now, after continuously failing to support women and children, are claiming to care about women and children – well, I have a question for them. Where have you been?”
Harris claimed Republicans who oppose abortion have also opposed expanding the child tax credit, blocked Democratic proposals that would have lowered child care costs for working parents and advocated for cuts to entitlement programs like WIC and SNAP for poor families.
“The hypocrisy abounds,” she said.
The number one podcaster in America loves the fact that former President Trump has teamed up with independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
During a three-hour conversation on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the titular host asked Trump whether he is “completely committed” to having RFK Jr. serve in his administration.
“Oh, I am,” Trump said. “But the only thing I want to be a little careful about with him is the environmental. Because, you know, he doesn’t like oil. I love oil and gas.”
Trump said that Kennedy would be directed to “focus on health, do whatever you want.” He also revealed that “big Pharma” has exerted pressure on him to disassociate from Kennedy.
Kennedy is a leading voice in spreading skepticism about vaccines, conflicting with most doctors and scientists who say the benefits of inoculations outweigh rare potential side effects.
He has also claimed pharmaceutical companies conspire to prevent health improvements because they profit from selling drugs to people with chronic illness.
The Associated Press contributed to this update.
The U.S. government is investigating unauthorized access to commercial telecommunications infrastructure by Chinese hackers, targets of which include the Trump and Harris campaigns.
The campaigns have been informed of the potential breach of cellphones used by former President Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, and members of Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
“After the FBI identified specific malicious activity targeting the sector, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) immediately notified affected companies, rendered technical assistance, and rapidly shared information to assist other potential victims,” the FBI and CISA told Fox News Digital in a joint statement.
The FBI and CISA said the investigation was ongoing and “we encourage any organization that believes it might be a victim to engage its local FBI field office or CISA. Agencies across the U.S. Government are collaborating to aggressively mitigate this threat and are coordinating with our industry partners to strengthen cyber defenses across the commercial communications sector.”
The hackers are believed to be connected to the Chinese government’s intelligence services, The Journal reported.
“We are aware that a highly sophisticated nation-state actor has reportedly targeted several U.S. telecommunications providers to gather intelligence,” telecommunications company Verizon said in a statement. “Along with federal law enforcement, industry peers and third-party cyber experts, we are working to confirm, assess and remediate any potential impact. Verizon is committed to assisting law enforcement in this investigation. Since this is an active investigation, we have no additional comment at this time.”
The anonymous officials said that investigators are working to find out if any data was stolen from the campaigns, adding that other people in the U.S. government may have been targeted by the attackers.
This is an excerpt from an article by Brie Stimson, David Spunt and Jake Gibson.
Former President Trump accused his opponent Vice President Kamala Harris
of “running a hate campaign” against him Friday at a rally in Traverse City, Michigan.
The Republican nominee took aim at Harris after she and other Democrats have repeatedly called him a “fascist” on the campaign trail.
“You know, I think they’re calling me a dictator,” Trump said. “So they started off where I was a dictator. None of it worked. Then they went to: ‘He’s an evil genius.’ That didn’t work. Then they went: ‘He’s a dumb son of a bitch.’ That didn’t work. That didn’t last too long. Then they went back to the dictator stuff,” Trump said.
“Those poor people, those poor lost souls – they’re like lost souls. They’re radical left lunatics, Democrats. And they all suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome at a level.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., released a relatively rare joint statement on Friday, demanding Harris cease using “dangerous rhetoric” and reminding her of the two recent assassination attempts against Trump.
But Harris has so far ignored her GOP critics and continues to warn of “the danger and the threat that Donald Trump poses to America and the fact that he is unfit to serve” on the campaign trail.
Fox News Digital’s Julia Johnson contributed to this update.
The co-founder of Death Row Records, one of the most recognizable and influential record labels in the music industry, spoke to Fox News Digital about why he recently decided to endorse former President Trump over VP Kamala Harris.
“It’s about his track record,” Michael “Harry-O” Harris told Fox News Digital about his decision to endorse Trump, who granted Harris clemency from a 33-year prison sentence that had seven years remaining on it as one of his last actions as president.
“The former president, while president, enacted some initiatives that speaks to my community specifically and other people as well.”
Harris cited several examples of policies from the first Trump administration that he feels are in line with the goals of his organization, Community First Action, including permanent funding for HBCUs, opportunity zones promoting investment in low income neighborhoods, the First Step Act, and bipartisan legislation combating sickle cell anemia.
Polls have increasingly shown that Trump has made significant inroads with the Black community and is expected by many to earn a historically strong share of those votes in November. Harris told Fox News Digital he believes it is due in part to voters trusting that Trump will keep his word, and a lack of movement from the Biden-Harris administration.
“People have more confidence that he will keep his word and I think it’s kind of based on some of the same research that we did, that when somebody doesn’t campaign on something but actually enacted laws . . . that wants to double down on what he did in the first administration,” Harris said.
“I haven’t heard that from the other side as much. I mean, what I’ve heard, I believe, frankly, came a little bit too late, too little, too late. And so, when it comes to a balancing act, and you have to make a decision, the critical decision that could affect your life and the life of your family, you have to go based on facts, and the facts are that for the last three and a half years, the previous, the present administration hasn’t really focused on our community.”
This is an excerpt from an article by Andrew Mark Miller.
Vice President Kamala Harris is far and away the frontrunner in the battle for campaign cash, an important indicator in presidential politics.
According to the latest figures the two major party presidential campaigns filed with the Federal Election Commission, Harris hauled in $97 million during the first half of October.
That far outpaced the $16 million former President Trump’s campaign said it raised during the first half of this month.
Both campaigns use a number of affiliated fundraisings committees to raise money. And when those are included, Trump narrowed the gap, but trailed $176 million to $97 million during the first two weeks of this month.
The new filings also spotlight that the Harris campaign continues to vastly outspend the Trump campaign.
During the first 16 days of October, the Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign outspent Trump $166 million to $99 million, with paid media the top expenditure for both campaigns.
However, Harris finished the reporting period with more cash in her coffers. As of Oct. 16, she had $119 million cash on hand, while Trump had $36 million. When joint fundraising committees are also included, Harris holds a $240 million to $168 million cash-on-hand advantage.
This is an excerpt from an article by Paul Steinhauser.
Two major national polls conducted Sunday through Wednesday and released Friday indicate Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump are in a dead heat.
Grabbing headlines first is a New York Times/Siena College survey indicating the Democratic Party and GOP presidential nominees are tied at 48%.
That’s a switch from a previous poll, earlier this month, when Harris held a slight three-point edge.
A CNN survey had the candidates deadlocked at 47% among likely voters nationwide. Its previous poll from late September indicated the vice president had a razor-thin one-point margin.
There were warning signs in the two surveys for both candidates, however.
Harris lost her favorability advantage over Trump in both polls.
After replacing President Biden atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket in July, the vice president’s favorable ratings soared. But they’ve steadily eroded over the past month.
Another red flag for Harris are polls indicating her support among Black voters is below Biden’s levels in the 2020 election.
For Trump, his support among White voters is on par with his standing in the 2020 election, when he lost the White House to Biden.
And the former president still faces a healthy deficit to the vice president when it comes to being trustworthy and caring about people.
While national polls are closely watched, the race for the White House is not based on the national popular vote. It’s a battle for the states and their electoral votes.
And the latest surveys in the seven crucial battleground states whose razor-thin margins decided Biden’s 2020 victory over Trump and will likely determine whether Harris or Trump wins the 2024 election, are mostly within the margin of error.
The latest Fox News national poll indicated Trump had a two-point edge, but Harris had a 6-point advantage among respondents questioned in all seven battleground states.
This is an excerpt from an article by Paul Steinhauser.
With 10 days until Election Day, two new major national polls indicate Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump are in a dead heat in the race to succeed President Biden in the White House.
With the clock quickly ticking, the two nominees and their running mates are fanning out across the key battleground states this weekend.
Trump starts Saturday with a rally in Novi, Michigan, in suburban Detroit. Later in the day, he’ll campaign in another of the crucial swing states — Pennsylvania — as he holds a rally in State College, home to Penn State University.
Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice presidential nominee, starts his day in Atlanta before holding campaign events in Erie and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Top Trump surrogates Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who ended his long-shot White House run and endorsed Trump, and former Democratic presidential candidate and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who days ago switched from an independent to a Republican, will team up for Trump in swing state North Carolina. And Elon Musk, the Tesla and Space X magnate who’s the world’s richest person, stumps for Trump in Pennsylvania.
Harris on Saturday will team up with former first lady Michelle Obama, arguably the most popular Democrat in the country, at a get-out-the-vote rally in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The stop comes two days after the vice president shared the stage in suburban Atlanta with former President Obama.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, makes two stops in battleground Arizona Saturday, first in Window Rock and later in Phoenix.
In a sign of just how important a role Pennsylvania is playing with its 19 electoral votes up for grabs, first lady Jill Biden campaigns for Harris in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, while progressive champion Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a two-time runner-up for the Democratic nomination, stumps for Harris in Erie.
This is an excerpt from an article by Paul Steinhauser.
CEO says longstanding Dem voting bloc now going ‘head over heels’ for Trump
Latino voters – a longstanding Democratic voting bloc – appear more likely to cast their ballot for former President Trump than Vice President Harris this election cycle, a recent poll shows.
A new USA Today/Suffolk University poll taken among Latinos between October 14-18 saw Trump boasting an 11-point lead at 49% compared to Harris’ 38% with a +/-9% margin of error.
Despite Latino voters trending toward Democratic candidates in the past, Goya Foods CEO Bob Unanue isn’t surprised.
“We are the No. 1 exploited community in the world,” he told Fox News on Tuesday.
GOYA CEO REVEALS WHY THE PRICE OF THIS GROCERY STAPLE HAS SKYROCKETED UNDER BIDEN
“The biggest industry that has flourished under this administration, under Kamala, has been drugs and human trafficking. Last year, Tara Lee Rodas testified that the U.S. is the middleman in this hundreds of billion-dollar business. She said there were 85,000 children missing…”
From 85,000, this year, they raised the amount of children lost or sold to 325,000 children. The Hispanic community, the Latino community is fed up with being exploited. They’re fed up with high prices, and that’s why you’re seeing this community go head over heels toward Donald J. Trump.”
Unanue, who leads America’s largest Hispanic-owned food company that produces and distributes items in the U.S. as well as Spanish-speaking countries, has been critical of the Biden-Harris administration on multiple occasions — slamming their job performance on the economy and immigration, two prevailing issues this election cycle.
GOYA FOODS CEO ACCUSES BIDEN-HARRIS POLICIES OF ‘DRIVING’ PEOPLE INTO ‘POVERTY’: ‘FROM BAD TO WORSE’
“Fox & Friends First” co-host Todd Piro questioned Unanue on speculations that Latino voters could pivot back to the Democratic side of the aisle with just two weeks left until they make their final decision.
“[We are] hard-working people, and we’re letting people into this country to not just take jobs away and move us into poverty by paying for these people who are not working, but we have an unsafe community. We’re not strong around the world, and we’re losing this country. There’s people who have come to this country, risked all for everything, and only to find that it’s becoming the land of exploitation,” he said.
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