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Trump veers away from swing states for his Madison Square Garden moment

Donald Trump is finally getting his Madison Square Garden moment. With just over a week to go before Election Day, the former president will take the stage at one of the country's most iconic venues, hosting a hometown rally to deliver his campaign's closing message against Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. Madison Square Garden is the centre of the universe," said Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller, noting the venue's storied history hosting events including the 1971 Fight of the Century." The rally is one of a series of detours Trump has made from battleground states, including a recent rally in Coachella, California best known for the famous music festival named after the town and one over the summer on the Jersey Shore. This summer he campaigned in the South Bronx. While some Democrats and TV pundits have questioned Trump's decision to hold what they dismiss as vanity events, the rally guarantees Trump what he most craves: the spotlight, wall-to-wall coverage a

Trump's lawyers urge court to uphold dismissal of classified documents case

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have urged a federal appeals court to uphold the dismissal of the classified documents case against him, saying a judge was correct in ruling that the prosecutor who brought the charges was illegally appointed. The case charging Trump with hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida had long been seen as legally perilous for the Republicans' White House nominee, but US District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed it in July after concluding that special counsel Jack Smith's appointment to the job was unlawful. The ruling brought an abrupt halt to the case, ensuring there would be no trial before the November presidential election. Another case brought by Smith, this one charging Trump with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election, was delayed by a Supreme Court opinion conferring broad immunity on former presidents. Smith's team has appealed the documents decision, calling the ruling by Cannon, who was nominated

US elections: Latest poll shows Trump, Harris tied at 48% for popular vote

The results of the poll are not encouraging for Harris as it comes just less than two weeks ahead of the elections

US Elections: Survey shows Trump taking narrow national lead over Harris

A poll conducted by Washington Post of those states released on Monday revealed Trump and Harris each with narrow leads within margin of error, Politico reported

Elon Musk sends more money to back Trump, giving $44 mn to super PAC

America PAC, which is focused on turning out voters in closely contested states that could decide the election, also disclosed spending more than $47 million in the first half of October

Progressives warn Harris must change closing message as election looms

Progressive Democrats warn Kamala Harris risks losing the support of a small but significant portion of her political base unless she changes her campaign's closing message and its messengers immediately. Specifically, several progressive leaders believe that the Democratic nominee has been too focused on winning over moderate Republicans in recent days at the expense of her own party's passionate liberals. And they say that Harris' closing message, which is increasingly centred on Republican Donald Trump and the threat he poses to US democracy, ignores the economic struggles of the nation's working class. Some far-left leaders are also irked that Harris has shared the stage in recent days with former House Republican leader Liz Cheney and billionaire businessman Mark Cuban while progressive icons like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been relegated to low-profile roles. The truth of the matter is that there are a hell of a lot more ...

Donald Trump says China's leader will bully Kamala Harris 'like a baby'

Donald Trump said Thursday that China's leader would handle Vice President Kamala Harris like a baby if she's elected to the White House, as the former president and his top allies increasingly have moved to infantilise the Democratic nominee. If somehow Kamala wins, she'd have to deal with Xi Jinping," conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt said of the Chinese president. How would he handle her? Trump replied, Like a baby. He'd take all the candy away very quickly, Trump continued. She wouldn't have any idea what happened. It would be like a grand chess master playing a beginner. Trump has built his political career around name-calling, inventing jeers for his opponents going back to his first run for president in 2016, when he slammed Republican primary rivals like Low Energy Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, and Little" Marco Rubio, the Florida senator. The former president also has a long history of belittling women. But Trump has unleashed a special array of personal of

Seeing everyone's concerns, intend to be all Americans' president: Harris

US goes into elections in less than two weeks with former US President Donald Trump running for a second term and Vice President Kamala Harris for her first term to the White House

Vivek Ramaswamy seeks single-day nationwide voting, opposes early voting

Entrepreneur-turned-politician Vivek Ramaswamy on Thursday opposed the provision of early voting and instead called for a single-day nationwide voting and making an identity card compulsory for voters' identification. I'll be honest with you. I don't love early voting. I never have. I believe we need single-day voting on Election Day as a national holiday with paper ballots and government-issued ID to match the voter file. That's what I believe. That's what Donald Trump believes, Ramaswamy said at an election rally in the battle ground state of Arizona that was addressed by Trump. Let me tell you something. You got to play by the rules we have in order to change the rules to what they should be. So I'm asking you, as Republicans, we may not like early voting. Get out there and do it anyway because we have an election to win and a country to save, he said. Our founding fathers, they made a sacrifice. There were 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence. What happened to them?

Voters trust Harris on key issues, but will that influence their vote?

If the presidential election hinged on abortion or climate change, Kamala Harris might be feeling pretty comfortable about her chances on November 5, based on the polls. The Democratic nominee is also competitive on economic issues against Republican Donald Trump. But Harris knows this is an extremely tight race and that it could well serve as a test of just how much policy matters to voters, and which policies ultimately matter the most. The vice president leads Trump on abortion, election integrity, climate change, taxes for the middle class and management of natural disasters, according to the latest survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs. She's essentially split with Trump on several specific economic issues such as jobs and the cost of groceries and gasoline. The two are basically even as well on crime and the situation in the Middle East. Trump has a slight advantage over Harris on tariffs, and a bigger edge on immigration. Despite Harris' advantage o

Harris, Trump shift to podcasts moving away from legacy media to campaign

Among the legacy news outlets that have come up empty in their efforts to interview Kamala Harris and Donald Trump during the general election campaign: NPR, The New York Times, PBS and The Washington Post. Yet Harris chose to meet with Alex Cooper for her Call Her Daddy podcast and talk a little Bay Area basketball with the fellows on All the Smoke. Trump rejected 60 Minutes, but has hung out with the bros on the Bussin' With the Boys and Flagrant. During this truncated campaign, some of the traditional giants of journalism are being pushed aside. The growing popularity of podcasts and their ability to help candidates in a tight race target a specific sliver of the electorate is a big reason why. There are certainly exceptions. Harris spoke to NBC News' Hallie Jackson on Tuesday and held a CNN town hall on Wednesday. But political columnist John Heilemann of Puck noticed what he called an ancient, dying beast railing against the diminishment of its status and stature in the new ...

Kamala Harris attacks Republican rival, says 'Trump unfit to be president'

Launching a scathing attack on her Republican rival former president Donald Trump, Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris on Wednesday charged that he is unfit to lead the country. Yesterday we learned that Donald Trump's former chief of staff, John Kelly, a retired four-star general, confirmed that while Donald Trump was president, he said he wanted generals like Adolf Hitler had, Harris told reporters at her official residence in the American Capital. Donald Trump said that because he does not want a military that is loyal to the United States Constitution. He wants a military that is loyal to him. He wants a military who will be loyal to him personally, one that will obey his orders even when he tells them to break the law or abandon their oath to the Constitution of the United States, she said. In just the past week, Donald Trump has repeatedly called his fellow Americans the enemy from within, and even said that he would use the United States military

Harris to make closing argument at Ellipse outside White House on Oct 29

Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the presidential nominee of the ruling Democratic party, plans to make a closing argument of the electrifying election campaign at the iconic Ellipse, the park just outside the White House on October 29, exactly a week ahead of the November 5 general elections. Expected to be attended by thousands of her supporters, Harris (60) plans to make a passionate appeal to the nation and urge her fellow countrymen to vote for a new vision and turn the page during her address from the historic Ellipse on Tuesday, October 29, multiple media reports said Wednesday. The oval-shaped park is near the White House South Lawn. In doing so, Harris is expected to draw the contrast between her campaign and that of her Republican rival former president Donald Trump, 78. This is the same place where Trump had addressed a rally on January 6, 2021. Following the rally, thousands of his supporters marched towards the Capitol Hill, resulting in one of the darkest moments i

Trump admired generals like Hitler, claims former chief of staff Kelly

Donald Trump's longest-serving chief of staff is warning that the Republican presidential nominee meets the definition of a fascist and that while in office, Trump suggested that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler did some good things". The comments from John Kelly, the retired Marine general who worked for Trump in the White House from 2017 to 2019, came in interviews with both The New York Times and The Atlantic. They build on a a growing series of warnings from former top Trump officials as the election enters its final weeks. Kelly has long been critical of Trump and previously accused him of calling veterans killed in combat suckers and losers. Still, his new warnings came just two weeks before Election Day, as Trump seeks a second term vowing to dramatically expand his use of the military at home and suggesting he would use force to go after Americans he considers enemies from within. He commented more than once that, You know, Hitler did some good things, too,' Kelly recalled to The ..

UK PM Starmer downplays Labour workers backing Harris in US election

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday sought to downplay Labour Party workers heading to the US to campaign for Kamala Harris in the US presidential race after her opponent Donald Trump accused the UK's governing party of "blatant foreign interference". The row was triggered by a now-deleted social media post by Labour's head of operations, Sofia Patel, calling on party colleagues to join her group on a campaign tour to the battleground states in the American election on November 5. The post triggered a backlash from the Republicans in America. However, under US law foreign nationals can legally volunteer in an election campaign in an unpaid capacity. The Labour Party has volunteers. [they] have gone over pretty much every election, said Starmer who is en route to the Pacific island country of Samoa for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). "They're doing it in their spare time. They're doing it as volunteers. They're staying I think with other volunteers

Around 21 million Americans have already voted in US presidential polls

Two weeks before the US presidential elections, as many as 21 million Americans have already cast their vote in the middle of an intense election campaign between the two candidates: Vice President Kamala Harris from the Democratic Party and the former president Donald Trump from the Republican Party. According to data from the Election Lab at the University of Florida, about 7.8 million votes have come in through early in-person methods while the remaining over 13.3 million votes have been cast through mail ballots. Unlike the Indian general elections, wherein campaigning stops 36 hours before the start of the voting, both campaigning and voting go parallel to each other at least for about four weeks. The US presidential elections are scheduled to be held on November 5. Political pundits say the winner would be decided on the results of the polls in seven battleground States: Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia. Early voting is a unique

Elon Musk's PAC spends just 3.6% of social media ad dollars on his X

Through Monday, Musk's America PAC spent about $201,000 on political ads on X, according to updated disclosures from the company, formerly known as Twitter

Ready if Trump tries to declare early win, not worried about sexism: Harris

Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday that her team is prepared to challenge Donald Trump if he tries to prematurely declare victory in the 2024 election but she's first focused on beating the Republican nominee. Harris spoke to NBC News just two weeks before Election Day, as part of a media blitz meant to deliver her closing argument before as many persuadable voters as possible. She said she was not concerned about the role sexism could play in the election, as she stands to be the first woman elected to the White House, and again defended President Joe Biden's fitness for office. Harris said the Democrats have the resources and the expertise should Trump try to subvert the election. This is a person, Donald Trump, who tried to undo the a free and fair election, who still denies the will of the people, who incited a violent mob to attack the United States Capitol and some 140 law enforcement officers were attacked. Some were killed. This is a very serious matter, she ...

McDonald's agreed to Donald Trump event but says it isn't endorsing him

McDonald's Corp. agreed to host former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania store over the weekend but said it isn't endorsing a candidate in the US presidential race. Trump staffed the fry station at a McDonald's in suburban Philadelphia on Sunday before answering questions through the drive-thru window. The restaurant was closed to the public for the Republican nominee's visit. In a message to employees obtained Monday by The Associated Press, McDonald's said the owner-operator of the location, Derek Giacomantonio reached out after he learned of Trump's desire to visit a Pennsylvania restaurant. McDonald's agreed to the event. "Upon learning of the former president's request, we approached it through the lens of one of our core values: we open our doors to everyone, the company said. McDonald's does not endorse candidates for elected office and that remains true in this race for the next president. We are not red or blue we are golden." The Chicago burger giant said franchis

Most voters split on whether Trump or Harris can fix weak US economy: Poll

Voters remain largely divided over whether they prefer Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Kamala Harris to handle key economic issues, although Harris earns slightly better marks on elements such as taxes for the middle class, according to a new poll. A majority of registered voters in the survey by The Associated Press-NORC Centre for Public Affairs Research describe the economy as poor. About 7 in 10 say the nation is going in the wrong direction. But the findings reaffirm that Trump has lost what had been an advantage on the economy, which many voters say is the most important issue this election season above abortion, immigration, crime and foreign affairs. Do I trust Trump on the economy? No. I trust that he'll give tax cuts to his buddies like Elon Musk, said poll respondent Janice Tosto, a 59-year-old Philadelphia woman and self-described independent. An AP-NORC poll conducted in September found neither Harris nor Trump had a clear advantage on handling the economy and jobs