Trump says he can reverse Biden-Harris policies — and keep more cash in pockets
Former President Trump vowed Saturday to slash U.S. energy costs in half if re-elected, seizing on oil and gas policies to draw a sharp contrast with Kamala Harris in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania.
Speaking to voters at a rally in State College, Trump vowed to lift the U.S. pause on U.S. liquefied natural gas export terminals, embrace fracking and otherwise undo what he described as the “disastrous” energy policies enacted under the Biden administration.
“Starting on day one of my new administration, I will end Kamala Harris’ war on Pennsylvania energy,” Trump told the crowd. “And we will frack, frack, frack.”
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Fracking, the process of using pressurized fluids to extract natural gas from shale rock, is a controversial technology and one Harris previously pledged to ban when seeking the presidency in 2019.
But fracking is necessary to access the vast gas resources tucked away in Pennsylvania. The state is not only a pivotal battleground state with 19 electoral votes. It’s also the second-largest natural gas producer in the U.S.
Although Harris has repeatedly reiterated her support for fracking on the campaign trail this election cycle, some Republicans and gas groups have sought further assurances from the campaign as Election Day draws closer, citing the four years of mixed messaging they saw under Biden.
In the absence of that clarity, Trump has attempted to fill in the blanks on Harris’ policies himself.
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Harris, he said Saturday, has been against fracking “her whole life.” She’s been against “anything having to do with anything underground,” Trump told the audience.
“She’ll build a windmill,” he said, “to kill all your birds.”
Trump blamed Harris for what he views as the Biden administration’s failures on U.S. oil and gas production, including its outsize focus on electric vehicle manufacturing and production, the shuttering of aging power plants and the spike in energy prices, which increased by as much as 50% in the Keystone State.
He described the U.S. natural gas export pause, ordered by President Biden in January, as “Kamala’s ban.”
During a second term, Trump pledged, all that would change.
“Your energy prices will be cut in half within 12 months from Jan. 20, which is when we would take over,” he told the packed stands of supporters, who responded with roars of applause.
Some had been lined up outside the central Pennsylvania arena for hours to hear Trump speak, long before the doors opened at noon, almost six hours before he eventually danced his way onstage.
Several attendees said they’d been waiting since dawn to see Trump, and the promises made by the former commander in chief did not seem to disappoint them, if their cheers were any indication.
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“We’re going to fix it very fast,” Trump told the audience. “Kamala broke it, and I will fix it.”
Democrats, he said, “waged a war on your commonwealth like never before.”
“They annihilated your steel mills, decimated your coal jobs, assaulted your oil and gas jobs and sold off your manufacturing jobs to China and other foreign nations all over the world.
“You’re going to come back under the Trump administration.”
Trump vowed to remedy what he described as the “disgusting failures” of the Biden administration in the energy sector and beyond.
“This will be America’s golden age,” he said, “and every problem facing us will be solved.”
Biden unloads on Trump in combative campaign speech: ‘I’ve never been this direct’
President Biden took aim at former President Trump at a campaign event in Pennsylvania Saturday, using his remarks to cast his predecessor as an anti-labor leader who, if re-elected, would renege on some of the union’s hardest-fought gains.
Speaking at an event in Pittsburgh, Biden repeatedly described Trump as a “loser” who doesn’t care about union workers and would gladly do away with benefits like health care and pension plans if he won the presidency a second time.
“Donald Trump is a loser,” Biden told the audience. “He’s a loser of a candidate, and he’s a loser of a man.
“I’ve never been this direct,” Biden added. “But I tell you what, [Trump] is about making sure you push people down. He thinks the way you get ahead is to push people down.”
His remarks were tailored specifically to union workers in Philadelphia, a group that has until recently been a reliable bedrock of support for Democratic candidates. But labor politics have shifted in recent years, especially in Rust Belt states, to favor Trump, many workers citing his accessible rhetoric and appeal to working-class voters.
Some longtime unions have altogether declined to endorse a presidential candidate in 2024, citing the split ideology among their members.
Many also remain lukewarm about Harris’ campaign, viewing her as doing little to win their vote in the months since entering the presidential race.
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Biden’s speech Saturday attempted to rectify that, even as most of his remarks were focused on criticizing the former president, whom he noted has tried “51 times” to eliminate health care coverage for union employees.
“The last thing we need is for Trump to get elected, to take away all the things we’ve done,” he said. “How many of you have pensions now? How many of your families have pensions?” Biden asked.
Trump, he said, “opposes it.”
He also made an indirect swipe at Tesla founder and Trump ally Elon Musk, criticizing an unnamed “illegal worker” who has used his funds and public persona to stump on behalf of the former president.
“Turns out the wealthiest man in the world, now [Trump’s] ally, was an illegal worker here,” Biden told the audience, though he stopped short of mentioning Musk by name.
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The Biden administration did not immediately respond to a request from Fox News Digital for clarification about the president’s remark.
Musk is one of Trump’s highest-profile supporters and has donated more than $118 million to a super PAC supporting his re-election.
The unsparing criticism in the speech was something new from Biden, now a lame-duck candidate in his final two months of the presidency.
And that knowledge may have invigorated the outgoing president, whose voice got louder and stronger as his speech continued.
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“There is more to do, and Kamala is going to make it happen,” Biden said, imploring the crowd once again to vote in the Nov. 5 election.
“I can think of no man who has thought less of the American worker,” Biden said of Trump. He is a man with “no character,” and who “doesn’t give a d— about union members.”
Volleyball player alleges school pressured team to compete against transgender opponent
Players on the University of Nevada, Reno women’s volleyball team held a press conference Saturday to address their school’s reluctance to forfeit a match against a team with a transgender player.
Alongside former NCAA swimmer and OutKick contributor Riley Gaines, multiple players spoke about the situation on the day they were scheduled to face San Jose State. The program officially announced it would forfeit the match Friday due to not having enough players, but the players had told their athletic department they didn’t want to play San Jose State weeks earlier.
Wolf Pack team captain Sia Liilii broke down in tears from the minute she took the podium while she recounted her experience telling school officials she didn’t want to compete against a transgender player.
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“When the news broke, I was stunned, as many of my teammates were. This is not what we signed up for,” an emotional Liilii said.
Liilii referenced a statement the university released Oct. 13, assuring the program intends to face San Jose State despite players voting to forfeit.
“Our university had made a decision for us. They released a statement on our behalf saying we were going to play. We were not consulted, we were not given a voice and we did not agree,” Liilii said. “It hurt knowing our university was putting us in a position that could potentially hurt us. My teammates and I were very emotional, and I’m not sure, I cannot put into words how it feels to face something like this and knowing that we are all on our own.”
Nevada previously provided a statement to Fox News Digital confirming that the players had requested to forfeit the match but did not have authority to do so themselves.
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“A majority of the Wolf Pack women’s volleyball team issued a statement to the university informing it that the team had decided it was forfeiting the scheduled match with San José State University. While players are not authorized to forfeit the match, this decision is one that only the university and our department of athletics can officially make,” the statement said.
The university added that any player was free to sit the match out without consequences.
Liilii said Saturday that when her teammates approached school officials expressing their desire to forfeit the match, they were lectured about “not understanding science” and asked to reconsider their stance.
“We felt unsafe and dismissed,” Liilii said, sobbing. “We met with our school officials to give them our team’s new statement, but they wouldn’t even hear it. We were told that we weren’t educated enough and that we didn’t understand the science. We were told to reconsider our position.”
In addition to her university, Liilii also called out the Mountain West Conference and the NCAA, saying the institutions “are failing us.”
Nevada sophomore Masyn Navarro alleged her teammates have been told to “stay quiet” about the controversy during the press conference.
“It should not be this difficult to stand up for women. However, we will now take this opportunity to stand up as a team, as some of us have been told to stay quiet,” Navarro said.
Nevada freshman Kinsley Singleton said her teammates had multiple meetings in recent weeks and shared their fears of potential injury if they had to play against a transgender opponent.
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The program previously said it could not forfeit the match because it would be a violation of state law. Article I, Section 24 of the Nevada Constitution provides that “Equality of Rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by this state or any of its political subdivisions on account of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, ancestry or national origin.”
However, that constitution was revised in 2022 when Nevada voted to adopt the Equal Rights Amendment, which added gender identity to the list of protections.
Nevada state Sen. Pat Spearman, a Democrat from North Las Vegas who co-sponsored the bill to get it on the ballot, said the law has helped transgender people maintain their identity.
“As a state university, a forfeiture for reasons involving gender identity or expression could constitute per se discrimination and violate the Nevada Constitution,” the university’s statement said.
However, after the controversy got national attention, and it was announced the match was moved from Nevada to the Bay Area in California, the program finally announced an official forfeit once it became clear it wouldn’t have enough players to compete.
Nevada is the fifth team to forfeit a match against San Jose State, joining Southern Utah, Boise State, Wyoming and Utah State. The cancellations come with a San Jose State player involved in a lawsuit against the NCAA over being forced to compete with a transgender teammate who is still on the team.
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San Jose State player Brooke Slusser joined a lawsuit led by Gaines against the NCAA over its policies on gender identity. Slusser joined this lawsuit because she claims she has had to share a court, a locker room and even a room on overnight trips with teammate Blaire Fleming without having ever been told Fleming was a biological male.
San Jose State responded to the forfeit in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“Our athletes all comply with NCAA and Mountain West Conference policies, and they are eligible to play under the rules of those organizations. We will continue to take measures to prioritize the health and safety of our students while they pursue their earned opportunities to compete,” the statement said.
Nevada players, including Liilii and Sierra Bernard, wrote an op-ed for Fox News Digital Friday, praising former President Trump for his stance advocating for a ban on transgender athletes in women’s sports.
“President Trump has our back, and this election is more important than politics but about leaders who will be standing with women on and off the court, defending our right to compete safely and fairly,” the players wrote. “As proud female athletes, we will continue to fight for fairness on the court and in women’s sports. But it shouldn’t be a fight we have to take on alone.”
Vulnerable Senate Democrat suffers blow as major union makes endorsement
The firefighters’ union representing Pennsylvania’s largest city endorsed Republican businessman David McCormick in the hotly contested U.S. Senate race Thursday.
The president of IAFF Local 22, the union representing more than 4,500 firefighters and first responders in Philadelphia, said this election cycle was the first time they’d met with Sen. Bob Casey, Jr. over his 12 years in office.
“Dave McCormick possesses all the qualities that will catapult us forward,” union president Mike Bresnan said at a press conference announcing the endorsement.
“We are confident that Dave McCormick will show up when we need him. He is unequivocally the right choice for senator at this pivotal moment in our country’s history.”
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Speaking at the Northern Liberties-based union hall, McCormick said that first responders see first-hand how parts of Philadelphia and the country at-large are struggling and facing the repercussions of lax criminal justice policies.
“We’re here today to talk about exactly why these folks are voting for change, as opposed to the status quo,” he said.
“We have urban decay, skyrocketing murder rates. They’re making sections of this incredible city a terrifying place to raise children,” he said, as he stood only a mile or so from Kensington, the North Philadelphia neighborhood often dubbed “America’s largest open-air drug market.”
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He pointed to “Soros-funded prosecutors” in terms of progressive law enforcement policies, naming Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, a Democrat, as one who has “undermined the rule of law” in his work.
“[Casey] has essentially supported policies that have made the jobs of these [firefighters and first responders] a lot tougher. He supports liberal prosecutors like Larry Krasner. He refuses to stand up for a tough order and tough border policies and voted against a total of $800 million in funds for opioid and narcotic detection in the Senate.”
McCormick added that Casey also voted against Kate’s Law, a bill that would mandate minimum imprisonment for illegal immigrant felons, after a young woman was murdered by a Mexican national several years ago on a San Francisco pier.
The Republican nodded to the fact that the IAFF’s local in Philadelphia endorsed Casey in his re-election bid against former Hazleton mayor and U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pa., in 2018, appearing to suggest that the nod his way this year was groundbreaking.
McCormick concluded by criticizing Casey and others over the closure of the PYREX manufacturing plant in Charleroi, Washington County, Pa., where the company is based.
“He ignored the union workers there for weeks. He only spoke to them after he heard that I was standing with them in solidarity.”
Adding to the endorsement, Bresnan said Thursday that McCormick “is unequivocally the right choice for senator at this pivotal moment in our country’s history.”
A Casey campaign spokesperson said the senator enjoys support from law enforcement and firefighter groups.
“Senator Casey has a long and clear record of working alongside law enforcement and first responders and delivering hundreds of millions of dollars to support them – that’s why he has the backing of current and retired law enforcement and the Pennsylvania Professional Fire Fighters Association,” said Kate Smart. “While Senator Casey is working hard to keep Pennsylvanians safe, his opponent screwed over the pension funds of firefighters and police while charging them outrageous fees, contributing to cuts to their benefits.”
Still, Philadelphia, both the largest and bluest city in Pennsylvania, has received more attention from statewide Republicans in recent races.
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In 2022, Dr. Mehmet Oz visited Kensington to treat the drug addicts in the infamous neighborhood. Former President Donald Trump also stopped just outside the city limits in Trevose recently for his widely-covered “shift” at the local McDonald’s’ drive-thru.
Trump had held an event in Center City earlier in the campaign cycle to celebrate the release of new, branded footwear he was hawking.
The former president’s 2016 win was bolstered by votes in Philadelphia’s once-reliably moderate-Republican western and northern suburbs – an area that became disaffected with the right in 2020 in supporting Joe Biden and in 2022 in helping to elect Gov. Josh Shapiro.
Bill Maher calls for Harris to pull tried-and-true tactic to ‘earn cred’ with skeptics
Comedian Bill Maher encouraged Vice President Kamala Harris to target an extremist on the Democratic side on Friday during “Real Time,” referencing a “Sister Souljah moment.”
“It’s not too late for Kamala Harris to do what many have been calling for her to do since she became the candidate: have a Sister Souljah moment. And if you weren’t around in 1992, let me tell you what a Sister Souljah moment means. It’s when you earn cred with the middle of the road voters by standing up to an extremist in your own coalition,” he said, referencing when former President Clinton had denounced the rapper and activist’s remarks about race while he was running for president.
Maher, who supports the vice president and routinely criticizes former President Trump, has also criticized the far left. The comedian recently said Harris needed to convince undecided voters that she’s not part of the “worst excesses of the left.”
“After the L.A. riots in ’92, she said, if there are any good White people, I haven’t met them,” Maher explained. “But she also said if Black people kill Black people every day, why not have a week and kill White people? And Bill Clinton, looking for an easy target and also well aware that killing White people would decimate our Olympic snowboard team, rebuked Souljah and came out against taking a week to kill Whitey. And yes, that was seen as courageous. It was an easy win.”
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Maher explained that former President Obama also had a “Sister Souljah” moment when he denounced a reverend who “claimed the government purposefully engineered AIDS to kill minorities and spoke the words ‘Goddamn America.'”
Maher suggested Harris could make a speech about George Floyd’s murder in 2020, and asked White Americans to understand how the footage of the murder, would “affect you if that was the history of your race.”
“I think most Americans would be sympathetic,” Maher said. “And then admit that in 2020 the left got a little carried away.”
“Looting was rebranded as Justice shopping. We stopped arresting shoplifters. Anti-Racist Baby was a best seller. Corporations took DIY to ludicrous lengths. We opened our hearts to all who wanted to come here and then also our borders. Portland decriminalized all drugs and Seattle set up a no cop zone until they had to reverse course on both,” Maher said.
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“When Kamala says, ‘we’re not going back,’ the undecided voter thinks, No, I don’t want to get on the short bus back to Trump Town, but I also don’t want to go back to 2020. Please, God, don’t make me sit through another one of those corporate mandated sensitivity training sessions,” he said. “When the Harris campaign launched, they got great traction by calling Trump and Vance weird. That was good. Weird was working. People are tired of weird. And ever since Donald Trump decided to dominate our f—— lives, the Democrats argument has been we’ll restore normal. Well, if what you’re selling is let’s be normal again, here’s an idea. Be normal. America doesn’t need a revolution. It needs fixing,” Maher said.
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Maher said during the episode that it was a mistake for Harris to not go on Joe Rogan’s podcast. Maher also asked his guests, which included CNN’s Van Jones and Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, about Trump’s stint as a fry cook at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s.
“I think when you have somebody who is a world-famous superstar, who’s a billionaire, etc, etc, and they do something you don’t expect, it’s brilliant media,” Jones said, as Maher agreed. “And I think we got to acknowledge that this guy is beating the pants off of us with these so-called publicity stunts. It gets into everybody’s feeds. And people who are not looking at politics will look at that. I think we just have to have more fun ourselves.”
College football star flashes MAGA shirt after scoring touchdown on trick play
Texas Tech kicker Reese Burkhardt had a career moment Saturday when he scored a touchdown on a fake field goal, then gave a shoutout to former President Trump.
After taking a surprise pitch and racing around TCU defenders to get into the end zone in the second quarter, Burkhardt pulled his jersey up to reveal a shirt that said “Trump 24 MAGA.”
Texas Tech ended up losing a 35-34 heartbreaker to TCU, but Burkhardt has been the talk of the game. Trump supporters have praised the senior kicker, while liberals have criticized him and the program on social media.
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Burkhardt’s stunt is just the latest in a string of Trump shutouts at major sporting events.
During Game 1 of the World Series between the Dodgers and Yankees in Los Angeles Friday night, a woman sitting behind home plate appeared to be wearing a MAGA hat, sparking a flurry of reactions on the internet.
Meanwhile, some MAGA gear at sporting events has been met with resistance from security.
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On Sept. 28, the Arizona Cardinals apologized to a woman, Susan Rosene, who was told she had to remove a “Make America Great Again” hat to enter State Farm Stadium for the team’s game against the Los Angeles Rams.
In the spring and summer of 2021, a man was removed from MLB games at Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park and Citizens Bank Park for hanging banners from the stands that said “Trump Won! Save America!”
The man, Dion Cini, now a conservative political influencer on X, posted bodycam footage of his police escorts out of the stadiums multiple times.
On June 27 of that year, Cini posted images on X, then known as Twitter, of an alleged letter from MLB informing him he had been barred from MLB games until further notice.
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Cini commented on the incident involving Rosener in a previous interview with Fox News Digital.
“That’s just the country that we’ve become, and the fact that she did it and put it in a can is the reason why they asked her to do it, because they know that she would probably comply. And that basically sums up the whole state of America right now,” Cini said. “You’d have to kill me for me to take off my MAGA hat without force! I’ve never taken off my MAGA hat for anybody.”
Other banners have been seen in the past at Yankee Stadium supporting the former president.
Fans have also been supporting Trump at NFL and college football games and UFC events.
Liberals upset over Harris decision send clear message with just days to go in race
Some progressive Democrats are upset with Vice President Kamala Harris’ decision to lean on Liz Cheney in the weeks ahead of the election, suggesting the vice president should focus more on her Democratic base.
“The truth of the matter is that there are a hell of a lot more working-class people who could vote for Kamala Harris than there are conservative Republicans,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT., told the Associated Press.
Cheney, an anti-Trump Republican, has appeared on the campaign trail with Harris several times. Other progressive leaders, such as Sanders or Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have been “relegated to low-profile roles,” according to the AP.
“She has to start talking more to the needs of working-class people,” Sanders told the AP. “I wish this had taken place two months ago. It is what it is.”
“There’s been an odd disconnect between the campaign’s economic populist ad strategy and the event strategy that focuses almost exclusively on Liz Cheney kumbaya optics that depress the base right as voting begins and don’t provably win more swing voters than bread-and-butter issues,” Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, told the AP.
However, Green praised the Harris campaign for focusing their ads on grocery prices and economics.
Joseph Geevarghese, the executive director of the progressive group Our Revolution, told the AP that 10% of progressives might not vote for Harris and warned some might vote for Trump.
“We just want to raise a red flag. Don’t take the progressive movement for granted,” Geevarghese said. “There’s got to be an economic argument at the end of the day. That’s the No. 1 thing that matters to voters.”
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Sanders was pressed by Jake Tapper on Sunday about why Harris was out campaigning with Cheney, as opposed to himself.
“What does it say that Kamala Harris is starting this week with only 16 days left, campaigning with Liz Cheney, a very conservative former congresswoman, daughter of Dick Cheney, obviously, but she has not yet held a public campaign event with you, arguably the leader of the progressive movement in the United States?” Tapper asked.
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Sanders said that it had to do with “people really disgusted with Trump’s constant lying with his attempt to prevent the first peaceful transition of power” and his “undermining of American democracy.”
Sanders has campaigned for Harris but has not appeared with the vice president on the trail.
The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.