Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will participate in dueling town hall events this week with voters as Election Day draws closer. Harris is expected to be in Detroit on Tuesday for a town hall event hosted by Charlamagne Tha God aimed at reaching Black voters in the area and across battleground states. Trump, meanwhile, will join Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner for an event in the city of Cumming, Georgia, which will reportedly be taped on Tuesday and air on Wednesday. Last week, Trump trash-talked Detroit while speaking there for nearly three hours, saying, “Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if [Harris] is your president.” See previous election coverage here , and read the latest updates on the 2024 race below.
“Donald Trump squandered the greatest opportunity he had in his life to be a consequential leader, to shape the direction of our nation and bend it toward something positive,” she said.
In comparison, electing Harris to the White House could have “seismic” impacts on the lives of “little girls and little Black boys,” she said.
“I think what’s grating on his nerves the most is that this [next] defeat may come at the hands of a woman of color,” she said. “He reserves his most vitriolic attacks for women of color. To lose to a woman of color would be devastating to his ego.”
Check out the full interview here .
His visit to the battleground state will closely follow similar visits by Harris and Trump. Trump held a rally in central Arizona on Sunday and Harris spent parts of two days in the Phoenix area late last week.
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Walz To Spearhead Rural Push For Harris Campaign
Walz is headed to a family farm in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday afternoon to discuss the Harris campaign’s plans for rural America. Walz, who grew up in a small town in Nebraska and represented a rural southern Minnesota seat in the House, is slated to ding the Trump campaign, according to an excerpt of his prepared remarks provided by the Harris campaign. “Now, recently, there’s been a lot of talk of outsiders coming into rural communities, stealing jobs away, and making life worse for the people living there,” he plans to say. “Those outsiders’ names are Donald Trump and JD Vance.” Walz also has narrated a new radio ad that will air on rural radio stations across battleground states. “Now Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, they don't think like us,” Walz says in the one-minute spot . “They're in it for themselves.” Walz’s visit and radio ad are part of the Harris campaign’s broader push to reach rural voters. The campaign unveiled a new “plan for rural communities” on Tuesday that both reframes existing proposals to underscore their rural impact, such as the $6,000 child tax credit for parents of newborns and providing new assistance for first-time homebuyers and small-business startups, and adds new promises to increase the number of health care professionals in rural America and boost credit and market access for small farmers.Trump Cancels Planned Interview With CNBC’s ’Squawk Box,’ Host Says
Trump pulled out of a scheduled interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Joe Kernen, one of the show’s hosts, announced on air this morning. Sources told The Daily Beast the Trump campaign had initially greenlit an in-studio appearance by the former president later this week. Trump’s apparent decision to skip the CNBC sitdown follows his move to cancel a taped interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” earlier this month.Trump Defends Town Hall Where He Played Music Instead Of Answering Questions
Trump posted on Truth Social in defense of his Monday night town hall that took a strange turn about 30 minutes in, when he ordered staff to play music instead of continuing to answer questions from the crowd. Two people in the audience had fainted, causing disruptions while medical personnel attended to them. “I had a Town Hall in Pennsylvania last night. It was amazing! The Q and A was almost finished when people began fainting from the excitement and heat,” Trump wrote . “We started playing music while we waited, and just kept it going. So different, but it ended up being a GREAT EVENING!” For about 40 minutes, Trump stood onstage and swayed to music, with selections ranging from opera to Rufus Wainwright’s “Hallelujah” cover to Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U.” At times, he directed staff to turn up the music. At one point, he seemed ready to take more questions, but then asked for “YMCA” to play.Early Voting Starts In Georgia
Early in-person voting starts today in Georgia, a key battleground in the presidential race. Trump is scheduled to deliver remarks in Atlanta this evening, while second gentleman Doug Emhoff will make a campaign stop in Savannah to encourage Georgians to support Harris.This Could Have Been A Year Of A Federal Court Reckoning For Trump. Judges Had Other Ideas.
Voters will head to the polls without getting an up-or-down jury verdict in two of the most serious cases facing the former president, The Associated Press writes. Read the full story here .Trump Freaks Out Over 'Dangerous' Detail In Harris' Medical Report
In a series of posts on his Truth Social platform posted just before 1 a.m. ET, Trump said Harris suffers from “deeply serious conditions that clearly impact her functioning" because her physician listed seasonal allergies in a memo detailing the vice president's current health status and medical history. "I have just seen Kamala’s Report, and it is not good," Trump said. Read more on his wild claims here .Reuters: Harris May Make Appearance On Joe Rogan Podcast
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s nominee for president, may make an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, an ultra-popular but right-leaning podcast hosted by the stand-up comedian, Reuters reported on Monday night . Harris has gone on a media blitz in recent weeks, and her campaign has increasingly ventured into purportedly unfriendly political territory. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, her running mate, has appeared on Fox News Sunday two weekends in a row and Harris is set to record an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Wednesday . Representatives for Harris and Rogan met this week, two sources told Reuters. Rogan’s podcast is the most popular in the United States, and its audience skews male and young. While Rogan has occasionally been complimentary of Trump and was especially skeptical of President Joe Biden, he’s also hosted progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Rogan said in 2022 he was “not a Trump supporter.” When Rogan implied he would support the candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – who has since dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump – it sparked a war of words between Rogan and leading MAGA figures . It also appears Trump may soon make an appearance on Rogan’s podcast. “I think I’m doing it,” he said when asked about appearing on Rogan on the podcast Full Send on Monday. Trump has never previously appeared on the show.Walz: Trump ‘Crossed A Line’ By Suggesting Military Could Be Used Against His Political Enemies
While campaigning in Wisconsin on Monday, Walz sharply criticized Trump for recently saying the military could be used against his political opponents, which he describes as “the enemy within,” on Election Day. “He crossed a line that I have to tell you, in my lifetime, I would have never imagined, because we know our history,” Walz said at a campaign stop in Eau Claire. “Donald Trump over the weekend was talking about using the U.S. Army against people who disagree with him. Just so you’re clear about that, that’s you.” “He called it the ‘enemy within,’" Walz continued. "And to Donald Trump, anybody who doesn’t agree with him is the enemy. I tell you that not to make you fearful or anything, I tell you that because we need to whip his butt and put this guy behind us.”Trump's Town Hall Takes Strange Musical Twist
The Republican presidential nominee turned a town hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania, into a concert, singing along and dancing for nearly 40 minutes while his favorite music hits played on stage. “Turn it up. Great song,” Trump told supporters at a cavernous expo center in suburban Philadelphia as Jeff Buckley’s "Hallelujah" blared from the speakers. “How about this, we’ll play 'YMCA,'” he said at another point to cheering supporters as the Village People song, a Trump crowd favorite, started up. Trump initially took several questions from attendees in the audience but seemed to grow bored with the format after two people fainted in the audience and caused lengthy interruptions in the program. “Let’s not do any more questions. Let’s just listen to music,” Trump said.Harris Plays Clips Of Trump At Her Rally, Highlighting His 'Dangerous' Remarks On 'The Enemy Within'
Harris focused the end of her rally on “the even higher stakes” of the 2024 election, hammering Trump on his recent call for the military to potentially “handle” his political enemies on Election Day. Harris stopped speaking to play a compilation of comments from Trump describing his political opponents as “the enemy within.” Harris' campaign has also highlighted these comments in a new video ad . “He considers anyone who doesn't support him or who will not bend to his will an enemy of our country,” she said. “He is saying he would use the military to go after them. Think about this. And we know who he would target, because he has attacked them before. Journalists whose stories he doesn’t like. Election officials who refuse to cheat by filling extra votes and finding extra votes for him. Judges who insist on following the law instead of bending to his will. This is among the reasons I believe so strongly that a second Trump term would be a huge risk for America, and dangerous.” “Donald Trump is increasingly unstable and unhinged,” Harris continued. “And he is out for unchecked power. That’s what he’s looking for. He wants to send the military after American citizens.”John Fetterman Introduces Harris At Erie Rally: ‘You Win Erie… You’re The Next President’
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman introduced Harris at her rally in Erie, Pennsylvania.“You win Erie, you win Pennsylvania, and you’re the next president,” he said. “That's what happened in 2020. Joe Biden showed up, and he smoked that clown and sent him home.” Fetterman also called out Vance for his criticism of Harris’ recent stop at a Sheetz, the convenience store beloved by many Pennsylvanians. “JD Vance said he doesn't want to go to Sheetz,” Fetterman said. “What's wrong with these people?”Harris, Trump Both Campaigning In Pennsylvania Tonight
Harris and Trump are both holding campaign events in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state.Cruz Claims He’s Not Getting A Dime From McConnell Super PAC
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz claimed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s super PAC has spent nothing to help him in what’s looking like a close race between Cruz and Democrat Colin Allred. “Not a penny. So Mitch McConnell runs the largest Republican super PAC in the county, it has $400 million. But that super PAC is used to reward the Republican senators who obey him and to punish those who dare to stand up to him,” Cruz said on Fox News, blasting McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund. Cruz also complained that McConnell abandoned him in his 2018 race against Democrat Beto O’Rourke. “I won anyway, but barely — less than three points,” Cruz said. A leaked intern SLF memo found just a point separating Allred and Cruz, whose favorability is also underwater, according to the memo obtained by Politico . Watch the full Fox News clip here.New Harris Ad ‘Enemy Within’ To Highlight Dangers Of Trump Presidency
Vice President Kamala Harris released a new television ad Monday, " Enemy Within ," to underscore former President Donald Trump’s authoritarian impulses in the final three weeks of the campaign. The 30-second video shows footage of Trump talking in recent weeks about domestic political opponents as the “enemy within,” whom he has said are more dangerous than Russia or China. The spot also features Trump’s comments on Sunday, saying that the left’s civil unrest around the election should be “easily handled” by the national guard or “if really necessary, by the military.” To hammer the point home, former Trump national security aides Olivia Troye and Kevin Carroll attest to his desire to use violence against protesters and his disregard for the rule of law. “The second term would be worse,” Carroll says. “There will be no one to stop his worst instincts. Unchecked power. No guardrails.” Harris plans to emphasize these themes at a rally on Monday night in Erie, Pennsylvania. The focus on the dangers Trump poses to the country marks a change from the more upbeat, early party of Harris’s campaign, when she preferred mocking Trump in order to diminish him. Watch the full ad here.Omarosa Endorses Harris Over Ex-Boss Trump: ‘I Have No Reservation’
Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former Trump senior advisor and onetime “Apprentice” reality show contestant, said she is “100 percent endorsing Kamala Harris for president” in an interview with Variety. “I hope that Kamala Harris will usher in a new generation of young political leaders,” she said in an interview published Monday that criticized her former boss as having gone “to the dark side," leaving her with "no reservation."“Donald Trump squandered the greatest opportunity he had in his life to be a consequential leader, to shape the direction of our nation and bend it toward something positive,” she said.
In comparison, electing Harris to the White House could have “seismic” impacts on the lives of “little girls and little Black boys,” she said.
“I think what’s grating on his nerves the most is that this [next] defeat may come at the hands of a woman of color,” she said. “He reserves his most vitriolic attacks for women of color. To lose to a woman of color would be devastating to his ego.”
Check out the full interview here .
Obama To Campaign For Harris In Arizona This Week
Former President Barack Obama will travel to Tucson, Arizona on Friday to campaign for Harris. Obama will attend a “Get-Out-The-Vote rally” that’s scheduled to take place between 2-7:30 pm MST., according to information released by the Arizona Democratic Party. The exact location was not immediately released.His visit to the battleground state will closely follow similar visits by Harris and Trump. Trump held a rally in central Arizona on Sunday and Harris spent parts of two days in the Phoenix area late last week.
