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Kamala Harris is out-fundraising Donald Trump, raising more than four times his total in August,The Washington Post reports.
Harris raised $190 million throughout the month, according to the Post, while Trump’s team raised $43 million.
Singer Janet Jackson also apologized for spreading the false claim that Kamala Harris is not Black on Sunday after Donald Trump and others peddled similar claims.
“She deeply respects Vice President Kamala Harris and her accomplishments as a Black and Indian woman,” Jackson’s manager Mo Elmasri said. “Janet apologizes for any confusion caused and acknowledges the importance of accurate representation in public discourse. We appreciate the opportunity to address this and will remain committed to promoting unity.”
The singer made the comments in an interview with The Guardian published on Saturday.
“She’s not Black,” Jackson said. “That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian. Her father’s white. That’s what I was told.”
When the reporter pushed back, explaining Harris is both Black and Indian, Jackson held her ground and falsely claimed the vice president’s father is white. Harris’s father, Donald Harris, was born and Jamaica and is Black. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, is Indian.
Trump spread a similar baseless claim earlier this summer, claiming Harris only recently “became a Black woman.”
Key Points
- Janet Jackson makes shocking comments about Kamala Harris’s heritage
- Janet Jackson apologizes for shocking comments about Kamala Harris’s race
- Donald Trump says he doesn’t believe he will run in 2028 if he loses in November
- Pressure mounts on Mark Robinson from all sides after porn site scandal
ICYMI: John Fetterman says fellow senator JD Vance has ‘reputation to say dumb things’
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman laughed off claims from JD Vance that Democratic rhetoric inspired the two assassination attempts against Donald Trump this summer.
“Who’s actually listening to what Vance says?” Fetterman told NBC News on Sunday.
“He has developed the kind of reputation to say dumb things, pointless things, and offend everybody, and he’s been picked as the most unpopular pick in history, but no one’s listening to him,” he added. “I’m certainly not.”
Last week, Vance said that the lack of assassination attempts against Kamala Harris are evidence that Democratic rhetoric is fueling violence against Trump.
“No one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of months, and two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last couple of months,” Vance said at a Faith and Freedom Coalition event last Monday. “I think that’s pretty strong evidence that the left needs to tone down the rhetoric or somebody is going to get hurt.”
Trump has similarly blamed Harris for the attempts on his life: “The Rhetoric, Lies, as exemplified by the false statements made by Comrade Kamala Harris during the rigged and highly partisan ABC Debate...has taken politics in our Country to a whole new level of Hatred, Abuse, and Distrust.”
Pressure mounts on Mark Robinson from all sides after porn site scandal
More and more mainstream Republican officials are calling on Mark Robinson, their party’s nominee for governor in North Carolina, to sue CNN if he really believes a damning report about his history of comments on an online porn site is false or step aside in the race.
Robinson was trailing his Democratic opponent, Josh Stein, before the release of the report on Thursday. CNN’s article uncovered a deep history of shocking and outrageous comments apparently made by Robinson on a porn site years before he entered politics.
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Pressure mounts on Mark Robinson from all sides after porn site scandal
Lindsey Graham, following a senator in Robinson’s home state, echoed calls for Robinson to refute ‘Black Nazi’ claim in court or step aside
John Bowden23 September 2024 05:45 1727064060Paramore’s Hayley Williams denounces Donald Trump: ‘Do you want to live in a dictatorship?’
Paramore’s Hayley Williams denounced Donald Trump from the stage on Friday night, asking fans: “Do you want to live in a dictatorship?”
Read more from The Independent’s Kevin EG Perry:
Paramore denounce Donald Trump: ‘Do you want to live in a dictatorship?’
The band were performing at the iHeartRadio Music Awards in Los Angeles
Katie Hawkinson23 September 2024 05:01 1727061341ICYMI: Meryl Streep endorses Kamala Harris
ICYMI: Harris has massively out-raised Trump four to one with less than 50 days until election
Kamala Harris’s campaign raised more than four times what Donald Trump’s campaign raised in August, The Washington Post reports.
Harris has consistently beat Trump’s fundraising numbers ever since entering the race this summer. The vice president even raised $47 million in the 24 hours after her debate with Trump.
This marked the largest single-day amount since she announced her candidacy.
Katie Hawkinson23 September 2024 03:30 1727055941Watch: Donald Trump promises to be 'Mr Border President' as he holds rally in Las Vegas
Trump experiencing ‘anxiety’ after assassination attempts, says long-time observer
Politics reporter and longtime Trump watcher Maggie Haberman has said that the former president appears unusually anxious after two assassination attempts against him.
Haberman, senior political correspondent for The New York Times and a CNN commentator, has reported extensively on Trump since he took office in 2016, and has penned a book about his presidency. Haberman told CNN on Friday that she sensed anxiety in Trump during his Uniondale, New York rally earlier this week.
Read more:
Trump experiencing ‘anxiety’ after assassination attempts, says long-time observer
A Republican close to Trump previously said the former president might have PTSD after he was shot in the ear
Katie Hawkinson23 September 2024 02:00 1727050541Majority of voters say the threat of political violence will increase if Trump is elected in November
More than half of voters say the threat of political violence will be greater if Donald Trump is elected this November, a poll from CBS News released Sunday reveals.
While 58 percent of voters think the threat will rise, 21 percent say it will fall under Trump, while another 21 percent say there will be no change, according to the poll.
Just over 40 percent of voters say the threat of political violence will rise under Harris, while 27 percent say it will decrease and 30 percent expect it to stay the same.
Katie Hawkinson23 September 2024 01:15 1727046041ICYMI: Mother of Amber Thurman speaks out at Harris rally
Trump unveils new commemorative coin for $100 in latest merchandise grab
Former President Donald Trump is selling commemorative coins for $100 as he continues to ask his supporters for cash by purchasing various merchandise.
Gustaf Kilander has the story:
Trump unveils new commemorative coin for $100 in latest merchandise grab
‘This beautiful, limited-edition coin commemorates our movement, our fight for freedom, prosperity, and putting America first,’ the former president says
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