Page 386 - Donald Trump

Musk holds first solo event in support of Trump in Philadelphia suburbs

Elon Musk held his first solo event in support of Donald Trump for president on Thursday, encouraging voters in the Philadelphia suburbs to register to cast their ballots and vote early, though some attendees shouted back, Why? The America PAC event at Ridley High School's auditorium in Folsom featured the world's richest man speaking onstage in front of a large U.S. flag for roughly 15 minutes before taking questions from the crowd, many of whom wore Make America Great Again hats. The event was billed as a call to action to vote early in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania, where Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris are fiercely contesting the election. Some in the crowd questioned Musk's entreaties to vote early, reflecting the possibility that Republicans are still persuading their supporters to embrace early voting after Trump spent years demonizing the method. The crowd rose to its feet and took cellphone videos as Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla

TikTok allowed disinformation in political ads despite ban: Global Witness

Just weeks before the U.S. presidential election, TikTok approved advertisements that contained election disinformation even though it has a ban on political ads, according to a report published Thursday by the nonprofit Global Witness. The technology and environmental watchdog group submitted ads that it designed to test how well systems at social media companies work in detecting different types of election misinformation. The group, which did a similar investigation two years ago, did find that the companies especially Facebook have improved their content-moderation systems since then. But it called out TikTok for approving four of the eight ads submitted for review that contained falsehoods about the election. That's despite the platform's ban on all political ads in place since 2019. The ads never appeared on TikTok because Global Witness pulled them before they went online. Four ads were incorrectly approved during the first stage of moderation, but did not run on our ...

Governors rally for Kamala Harris amid concerns over 'blue wall' states

The Democratic governors of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin this week embarked on a swiftly organized bus tour, rolling through the autumn landscape to press the urgency of the case for Vice President Kamala Harris in must-win states where some Democrats worry that she's struggling. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers all descended on Flint Thursday afternoon, joined by the chairman of the national Democratic Party, Jaime Harrison. In a joint interview with The Associated Press, all three acknowledged the enormity of the stakes but dismissed any suggestion that their effort reflected anything other than the need to have all hands engaged in the fight. All three of us know what it's like to compete and win really tough, close races, said Shapiro. So I think the more we can get out there and not only thank volunteers for being here today, we can also maybe calm some nerves too. Despite these reassurances, some Michigan ...

Rupee hovers near 84 against dollar on dip in peers, tepid local equities

Meanwhile, inflows related to Hyundai Motor India's IPO undershot market expectations, with traders pointing to muted overnight dollar-rupee swap rates that signalled muted inflows

Vance says 'no' when asked whether Donald Trump lost 2020 election

In the months since he became Donald Trump 's running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance has repeatedly deflected questions about whether the Republican presidential nominee lost the 2020 election, saying he was focused on the future. During a rally in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, where Vance was asked by a reporter about his lack of straight answers so far, he was more declarative. What message do you think it sends to independent voters when you do not directly answer the question Did Donald Trump lose in 2020?' the reporter asked, eliciting boos from the crowd before Vance responded, saying he has answered the question a million times." No. I think there were serious problems in 2020, Vance said. So, did Donald Trump lose the election? Not by the words that I would use, OK? The answer was the most specific Vance has been on the subject, and a departure from the series of evasions he has offered about the election Trump continues to say without evidence was decided fraudulently in favor of .

US elections: Harris vows to be different than Biden in fiery Fox interview

Vice president said she and Biden had offered legislation to address the immigration system within hours of taking office

'Trump trade' boosts dollar, Asian stocks await China housing policy news

Global bonds rallied after a surprisingly large drop in British inflation and as the European Central Bank is expected to announce its first back-to-back rate cut in 13 years

Harris calls on Republicans to put 'country first' as Trump woos Latinos

Surrounded by more than 100 former Republican office holders and officials, Democrat Kamala Harris urged GOP voters on Wednesday to put country first and abandon Donald Trump. The Democratic presidential candidate made her case to Republican voters that the patriotic choice was her party in next month's election because Trump is unstable and unhinged" and would eviscerate democratic norms if given a second White House term. America must heed this warning," said Harris, speaking at a rally near where Gen. George Washington led hundreds of troops across the Delaware River to a major victory in the Revolutionary War. Joined by the former lawmakers and government officials for a rally in the Philadelphia suburbs, Harris said, Anyone who tramples on our democratic values as Donald Trump has, anyone who has called for the termination' of the Constitution of the United States as Donald Trump has, must never again stand behind the seal of the president of the United States." The rally was

Judge in Trump case orders release of info from Pence documents probe

The federal judge overseeing the election interference case against Donald Trump directed prosecutors Wednesday to search for and provide to the former president's lawyers any Justice Department information related to a separate investigation into Mike Pence's handling of classified documents. Trump's lawyers had argued that that information could be relevant to their defense to the extent it shows that Pence, Trump's vice president, had an incentive to curry favor with authorities and implicate Trump while facing his own investigation into the retention of classified documents in his Indiana home. Special counsel Jack Smith's team has said it had no involvement in the Pence investigation and has no discoverable information on the case "beyond what has been publicly reported. But U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered Smith's team to look for and produce any additional records on the investigation, noting that defense lawyers are entitled to cite evidence of a witness's uncharged

Trump's reply similar to Harris when asked to say 3 nice things about her

Donald Trump on Wednesday was asked to name three virtues of his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris, a week after Harris was asked to do the same for the Republican nominee. His answer sounded a lot like hers. That's a very hard question," Trump said at the end of a town hall-style event hosted by Univision, the nation's largest Spanish-language network. That's the toughest question. The other ones are easy. Trump first said Harris had harmed our country horribly before complimenting what he said was her ability to survive. Then came the jab. Because she was out of the race, Trump said, referring to Harris' early departure from the 2020 Democratic presidential nominating campaign and her replacement this summer of President Joe Biden atop the 2024 ticket. And all of a sudden she's running for president. He also noted that she seems to have some pretty long-time friendships and that she seems to have a nice way about her. I like the way, you know, some of her statements, some of h

US elections: Elon Musk commits $70 million to boost Donald Trump

Elon Musk, a tech mogul who is the world's richest person, plunged more than USD 70 million into helping Donald Trump and other Republicans win in November's election, making him one of the biggest donors to GOP causes this campaign season, according to campaign finance disclosures released this week. Musk made the donated over the summer to America PAC, a super political action committee he launched in May to aid Trump in his bid to return to the White House. It quickly became a central player in Trump's election effort. The America PAC is just aiming for common sense, centrist values, the Space X and Tesla founder said Tuesday on his social media platform X, shortly after the sum of money he contributed was made public in a campaign finance filing. Super PACs like Musk's America PAC can raise and spend unlimited sums of money but are typically are forbidden from coordinating their efforts with the candidates they support. A recent opinion by the Federal Election Commission, which

Despite old age, Donald Trump refuses to share health details in public

If he wins next month's election, Donald Trump would be the oldest person in US history to be elected president. Yet the 78-year-old Republican nominee refuses to disclose new details about his physical or mental well-being, breaking decades of precedent. There have been limited snapshots of Trump's health over the last year. After he survived an attempted assassination in July, Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, a staunch supporter who served as his White House physician, wrote a memo describing a gunshot wound to Trump's right ear. And last November, Trump's personal physician, Dr Bruce Aronwald, wrote a letter describing him as being in excellent health with exceptional cognitive exams. He noted that cardiovascular studies are all normal and cancer screening tests were negative. Trump had also reduced his weight. But those communications didn't address more fundamental questions about Trump's health, including his blood pressure, exact weight or whether he has continued using previously .

'Reparations for black Americans deserve review,' says Kamala Harris

Issue of reparations for Black Americans has gained momentum with California in 2023 becoming first state to put a potential dollar value on multi-generational inequality as a direct result of slavery

Silicon valley's Andreessen, Horowitz give millions to pro-Trump PAC

This super PAC raised $27.8 million, spent $22.6 million, and entered the final weeks of the campaign with $43.6 million cash on hand

'States will undo abortion laws that are too tough,' says Donald Trump

Trump didn't specify which states he was speaking about, but cited Ohio as an example of a GOP-led state that voted to expand abortion rights in a recent ballot measure

US elections: Musk's $75 million gift cements role as a top Trump donor

Musk was America PAC's only donor, making seven separate contributions between July 3 and Sept. 5, according to its latest filing with the Federal Election Commission

Trump says it would be 'smart thing' if he spoke to Putin, doesn't confirm

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday refused to say whether he's spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin since leaving office, as reported in journalist Bob Woodward's latest book. But if the two did speak, Trump said, it would be a smart thing for the United States. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, was pressed on his communication with the Russian president during a wide-ranging and sometimes contentious interview with Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait at the Economic Club of Chicago. Woodward reports in his book War that Trump has had as many as seven private phone calls with Putin since leaving the White House and secretly sent the Russian president COVID-19 test machines during the height of the pandemic. A Trump campaign spokesperson previously denied the report. During Tuesday's interview, Micklethwait posed the question to Trump directly: "Can you say yes or no whether you have talked to Vladimir Putin since you stopped being president? I don'

Harris will cut her own path as President with fresh perspective: Biden

President Joe Biden on Tuesday said Kamala Harris would cut her own path once she wins the 2024 election, allowing for more daylight between him and his vice president as she works to win over skeptical voters three weeks before Election Day. Kamala will take the country in her own direction, and that's one of the most important differences in this election, he said. Kamala's perspective on our problems will be fresh and new. Donald Trump's perspective old and failed and quite frankly, thoroughly totally dishonest. Biden's comments may give Harris more license to stake out her own political and policy stances in the critical closing phase of the presidential race, and appear to go further to distance the two than Harris has herself. The vice president's aides have privately expressed some frustration that the 81-year-old president has been too focused on his own legacy and not the race to succeed him. But Harris has of late faced increasing pressure to articulate how she'd govern .

Two shot during Trump assassination attempt say secret service failed them

Two men who were shot during the first assassination attempt on Donald Trump this summer say the US Secret Service was negligent in protecting the former president and other bystanders at the campaign rally in Pennsylvania. David Dutch, 57, an ex-Marine, and James Copenhaver, 74, a retired liquor store manager, told NBC News in an exclusive interview Monday they were excited to be sitting in the bleachers behind the Republican nominee at the fairgrounds in Butler on July 13 when gunshots rang out and they were hit. Another man, Corey Comperatore, 50, was killed in the shooting while shielding his family. Trump was wounded in the ear. The interview with the two Pennsylvania men who were critically injured marked their first public statements since 20-year-old shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, opened fire in July from an unsecured rooftop nearby before he was fatally shot by sharpshooters. It was like getting hit with a sledgehammer right in the chest, sai

US elections 2024: Harris, Trump campaign in battleground Pennsylvania

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump took their fight for Pennsylvania to opposite ends of the state Monday, with Harris speaking in the northwest corner in Erie and Trump in the southeastern suburbs of Philadelphia. Democrat Harris and Republican Trump have been making regular appearances in what is the country's largest battleground state it will be Harris' tenth visit to Pennsylvania this campaign season, and just last week Trump made stops in both Scranton and Reading. Harris at an evening campaign rally planned to raise Trump's comments over the weekend suggesting that the U.S. military be used to deal with the enemy from within, according to a senior Harris campaign official. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the remarks ahead of a campaign rally in Erie, said Harris will hammer home the idea that Trump sees Americans who disagree with him as enemies. She'll argue that the comments made in a Fox News Sunday Morning ...