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Tariffs, tax cuts core to Donald Trump's economic pitch to voters

Beyond tax cuts and tariffs, Trump has promised he would support the oil and gas industry by backing new pipelines and restoring fracking on federal land in a bid to boost the economy

Joe Biden tells Trump to 'get a life, man,' stop storm misinformation

President Joe Biden on Thursday publicly admonished Donald Trump, telling his predecessor to get a life, man and try to help people impacted by a pair of devastating hurricanes rather than spreading misinformation about the federal response. Speaking at the White House on the government's work to address Hurricanes Milton and Helene, Biden condemned the reckless, irresponsible and relentless disinformation and outright lies that continue to flow." The White House, and Biden personally, have spent days decrying Trump for making false claims about the disaster response, including that federal funding is being diverted for use on people in the country illegally and that such assistance is capped at USD 750. The USD 750 is an immediate need disbursement, Biden explained, to cover urgent requirements like food, diapers and baby formula That USD 750 that they're talking about, Mr. Trump and all those other people know it's a lie to suggest that's all they're going to get, Biden said. "It'

Donald Trump rejects Fox News invite to debate Harris in late October

In a statement, Fox had said a second debate 'would present an opportunity for each candidate to make their closing arguments'

Donald Trump vows to eliminate income taxes on Americans living abroad

No-taxes-on-Americans-abroad pledge is the latest in a series of Trump plans to cut personal tax bills, he's also floated exempting tipped wages, overtime pay and Social Security benefits from taxes

Harris faces urgency to explain how her presidency will differ from Biden's

With less than four weeks until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris is facing new urgency to define how her potential presidency would be different from that of President Joe Biden. Her struggle to present herself both as a candidate of change while demonstrating a loyalty to the politician she serves under was made clear on Tuesday, when she was asked on ABC's The View how she would lead differently than Biden. Harris said, We're obviously two different people and I will bring those sensibilities to how I lead. But when pressed to identify a decision made by Biden that she would have taken another way, she demurred. There is not a thing that comes to mind, she said. She followed up later in the show by saying she would put a Republican in her Cabinet. Two and a half months into her unexpected candidacy, Harris has so far largely relied on her age and biography to signal a break from the 82-year-old Biden and her 78-year-old Republican opponent, former President Donald ...

Early voting begins in Arizona, drawing visits from presidential campaigns

Early in-person voting begins Wednesday in Arizona, making it the first of this year's presidential battleground states where all residents can cast a ballot at a traditional polling place ahead of Election Day. The start of in-person voting in the closely contested state also is drawing the presidential tickets, with both campaigns scheduling visits there this week. Wednesday's voting overlaps with campaign stops by both vice presidential nominees Democratic Minnesota Gov Tim Walz and Ohio Sen JD Vance, a Republican who will hold separate events in Tucson on Wednesday. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, is scheduled to host a rally in Phoenix on Thursday, while former President Donald Trump will hold one Sunday in Prescott Valley, a Republican stronghold about 144 kilometres north of Phoenix. President Joe Biden defeated Trump by just 10,457 votes in 2020, a narrow margin that set off years of misinformation and conspiracy theories among Republicans who refuse

Harris gets personal in media blitz, resists breaking with Biden's policy

Kamala Harris wanted to help voters get to know her better with a cascade of media appearances on Tuesday, but the most lasting impression might have been her unwillingness to break with Joe Biden. Asked on ABC's The View how she would be different from the president she's served under for four years, Harris said we're obviously two different people and I will bring those sensibilities to how I lead. However, she was not able to identify a decision where she would have gone another way. There is not a thing that comes to mind, Harris said. The exchange encapsulated Harris' struggle to portray herself as a candidate who can deliver the change voters crave while also remaining loyal to the current administration. Some Harris aides privately winced as gleeful Republicans swiftly circulated clips of her response and Donald Trump swiped at her in a social media post, calling it her dumbest answer so far. It wasn't until later in the show that Harris named something that she would do ...

Harris still introducing herself as she sets out on media tour amid voting

When Vice President Kamala Harris sat down for an interview with podcaster Alex Cooper, the conversation didn't start by parsing policy positions. The goal, Cooper told the Democratic nominee, was to get to know you as a person. And that was just fine with Harris, who said she was on the popular Call Her Daddy podcast because one of the best ways to communicate with people is to be real. Long past the midway point of her unexpected presidential campaign and with voting already underway, Harris is still introducing herself to Americans who will determine her fate in this year's presidential election. On Tuesday, her media blitz will take her to studios across Manhattan as the Democratic nominee tries to reach as many people as possible in the shortest period of time. It's a sharp shift after largely avoiding interviews since replacing President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket, and it's an implicit acknowledgment that she needs to do more to edge out Republican candidate Donald ...

Will weigh Ukraine's Nato membership at some later point, says Harris

Biden administration has so far said such an invitation would be a longer-term proposition that would require Ukraine to shore up its defense capabilities

US elections: Kamala Harris rejects Republican digs at childless women

Harris said the Arkansas governor's views on family were outdated and discussed her own modern family

Trump, with Elon Musk, addresses thousands at failed assassination bid site

Former US president Donald Trump on Saturday returned to Butler, a city in Pennsylvania where he narrowly escaped an assassination bid 12 weeks ago, and addressed thousands of his supporters in this key battleground state, urging them to elect him as the next president of the United States. Joined by high-profile figures like Tesla owner Elon Musk and his running mate, Senator J D Vance, Trump (78) made a passionate plea to "defeat" Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate in the November 5 presidential poll. "We must stop her country-destroying regime, radical-left agenda once and for all. We cannot have it happen. So you must get out and you must vote," Trump said in Pennsylvania, which in this election cycle has emerged as a must-win situation for both candidates. Trump launched a scathing attack on Harris and accused her of being a failure on multiple fronts, including border security and economy. "She imposed a natural gas export ban on Pennsylvania, which is ...

Musk to attend Trump rally in Pennsylvania at July assassination bid site

Musk, the CEO of Tesla and owner of X, called Republican presidential candidate Trump "tough" and officially endorsed him after he survived an assassination attempt in Butler on July 13

Trump's campaign raised $160 mn in Sept, ending with $283 mn in bank

Former President Donald Trump raised USD 160 million for his campaign in September and entered October with USD 283 million in the bank for the campaign's final sprint, his aides announced. The September fundraising figure, which Trump's campaign released on Wednesday, is up from the USD 130 million he reported raising in August. It covers money raised by Trump's campaign and affiliated committees. Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump's Democratic rival, has not yet released her fundraising numbers for the full month, but numbers previously released suggest she'll exceeded Trump's haul. Harris aides have said she raised USD 55 million during a fundraising swing through California last weekend alone, which included stops in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The prior weekend, she raised USD 27 million at a packed New York City fundraiser, which was at the time her largest fundraising haul since she took over at the top of the ticket from President Joe Biden, according to a Harris campaig

Hurricane Helene brings climate change to forefront of US election campaign

A trio of new trials -- a devastating hurricane, expanding conflict in the Mideast and a dockworkers strike that threatens the US economy -- are looming over the final weeks of the presidential campaign and could help shape the public mood as voters decide between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump. How events shake out -- and how the candidates respond -- could be decisive as they claw for votes in battleground states. The president, Joe Biden, is still the steward of the US economy and foreign policy at this tumultuous moment and may well bear ultimate responsibility for how they play out. But how Harris and Trump approach the three disparate issues could have a rippling impact on how Americans perceive their two choices this November. "Unfortunately, there are going to be events like this, and this is where you see the leadership of a president show up," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Tuesday. "I think this should send a message t

Anti-abortion leaders undeterred as Trump says he would veto abortion ban

Anti-abortion leaders said on Wednesday that they're undeterred after Donald Trump said he would veto a federal abortion ban, the first time he has explicitly said so after previously refusing to answer questions on the subject. During Tuesday night's vice-presidential debate, the Republican presidential nominee posted on his social media platform Truth Social that "everyone knows I would not support a federal abortion ban, under any circumstances, and would, in fact, veto it". He then said that abortion rights should be left up to the states -- his most common response to questions about the issue since Roe v Wade was overturned by a conservative majority that included three of Trump's own appointees to the Supreme Court. In the two years since the ruling, abortion rights have emerged as a major vulnerability for the GOP, which has struggled to find a consistent message on the path forward, while driving turnout for Democrats. With the election less than five weeks away, Trump has

No chance of foreign adversary to change US election results: CISA head

Security for America's election systems has become so robust that Russia, Iran or any other foreign adversary will not be able to alter the outcome of this year's presidential race, the head of the nation's cybersecurity agency said Wednesday. Jen Easterly told The Associated Press in an interview that voting, ballot-counting and other election infrastructure is more secure today than it's ever been. Malicious actors, even if they tried, could not have an impact at scale such that there would be a material effect on the outcome of the election, said Easterly, director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Federal agencies have warned of growing attempts by Russia and Iran in particular to influence voters before the November 5 election and election conspiracy theories have left millions of Americans doubting the validity of election results. Easterly said those efforts are primarily aimed at sowing discord among Americans and undermining faith in the security

Trump, Harris campaigns claim victories after fierce arguments in VP debate

The Trump and Harris campaigns have claimed victories in the vice-presidential debate as their running mates, Senator J D Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, battled fiercely in a live televised debate wherein they tried to convince their fellow Americans to support, vote and elect them. But unlike the presidential debate, this one lacked high-clash moments. The only vice-presidential debate was hosted by CBS News in New York. As the two vice presidential candidates concluded the 90-minute debate, Walz patted Vance on the side of his arm, and Vance gave Walz a pat on the back. Usha, wife of the US Senator from Ohio gave Vance a warm hug. Vance then introduced Usha to the moderators. Thank you guys for hosting, he said. The Walzes also chatted with the moderators. I think it was a good debate. The public got to see a contrast, and I think the ending sums it up. The democracy issue is important, Walz told reporters after the couple picked pepperoni pizza from Justino's pizza in t

US key state faces poll uncertainty after storm ravages multiple counties

North Carolina election officials say they will do everything in their power to ensure that voters in the crucial presidential swing state will be able to cast their ballots despite the devastation of Hurricane Helene and the destruction of basic infrastructure only about a month before the November election. Karen Brinson Bell, the executive director of the state's election board, said on Tuesday that 12 county election offices in the hard-hit western part of the state remain closed after the storm unleashed "unprecedented" damage. Absentee ballots, some of which already have been mailed to voters who requested them, also face obstacles, from US Postal Service delays to road and residential damage that could render them undeliverable. The viability of early and Election Day voting sites remains unknown, she said. She described the storm as causing a "daunting" level of uncertainty, with early in-person voting scheduled to start in just over two weeks on October 17. Still, she said .

Donald Trump makes false claims about federal response to Hurricane Helene

Donald Trump repeatedly spread falsehoods on Monday about the federal response to Hurricane Helene despite claiming not to be politicising the disaster as he toured hard-hit areas in south Georgia. The former president and Republican nominee claimed upon landing in Valdosta that President Joe Biden was "sleeping" and not responding to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, who he said was "calling the president and hasn't been able to get him". He repeated the claim at an event with reporters after being told Kemp said he had spoken to Biden. The White House previously announced that Biden spoke by phone on Sunday night with Kemp and North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, as well as Scott Matheson, mayor of Valdosta, Georgia, and Florida Emergency Management Director John Louk. And Kemp confirmed Monday morning that he spoke to Biden the night before. "The president just called me yesterday afternoon and I missed him and called him right back and he just said, 'Hey, what do you need?' And I tol

Harris trolls Trump at LA fundraiser, says her crowds 'are pretty big'

US Vice-President Kamala Harris poked at Republican Donald Trump during a fancy fundraiser on Sunday, telling donors that as she campaigns around the country her "crowds are pretty big" -- before heading to Nevada for a rally at the same venue where the GOP nominee appeared two weeks ago. During the presidential debate, Harris appeared to get under Trump's skin when she said people were leaving his rallies early because of his rambling speeches. And she's kept it up on the campaign trail. She also has moved into what Trump considers his terrain -- immigration -- with a Friday visit to the border town of Douglas, Arizona. It was her first trip to the US-Mexico border since taking over for President Joe Biden atop the Democratic presidential ticket. Harris' four-day West Coast trip has been crafted with dual purposes: She was opening and closing with stops in Sun Belt battlegrounds -- Arizona and Nevada -- where the vice-president is trying to shore up support as Trump pounds her ...