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Kamala Harris has released a health summary from her White House physician, stating that she “possesses the physical and mental resiliency required to successfully execute the duties of the presidency.”
In the summary released on Saturday morning, the vice president’s physician Joshua Simmons writes that she is in “excellent health.”
Harris is releasing her medical information in a challenge to Donald Trump, whose health and age are coming under increased scrutiny.
Former Trump ally Chris Christie is the latest to sound the alarm over Trump’s competency to serve, saying that he has seen a “significant” mental decline in the former president.
On Friday, Trump espoused more anti-immigration rhetoric at his rallies in Reno, Nevada, and Aurora, Colorado, calling for the death penalty for migrants who kill American citizens and saying he would enact the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
Mike Coffman, Aurora’s Republican mayor, hit out at the comments and insisted neither the city nor state has “not been ‘taken over’ or ‘invaded’ or ‘occupied’ by migrant gangs.”
Key Points
- Harris shares medical report saying she has ‘physical and mental resilience’ to be president
- Trump campaign reposts year-old medical report in response to Harris record release
- Trump calls for the death penalty for migrants killing American citizens
- Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates
- Trump repeats lies about Venezuelan gang in Aurora
- Fox News to host town hall with Trump on October 16
Watch: Lincoln Project rips Trump over medical records
Oliver O'Connell12 October 2024 19:30 1728757120Vance: ‘Deranged’ for women not to have children due to climate change
JD Vance has said it is “deranged” and “very crazy” for women not to have children due to concerns about the climate crisis in his latest comments wading in on the choices of childfree Americans.
Donald Trump’s running mate has struggled to shake off the backlash for calling Kamala Harris and other Democrats “childless cat ladies” in a resurfaced interview with Tucker Carlson from 2021.
Now, in a new interview with The New York Times published on Saturday, the VP candidate was confronted once again about his past sexist comments less than one month out from the election.
Rachel Sharp reports.
JD Vance says it’s ‘deranged’ for women not to have children due to climate change
While Vance admitted that his ‘childless cat ladies’ remarks were ‘dumb’, he went on to stand by his argument, claiming that the US has become ‘almost pathologically anti-child’ and that not having children due to concerns about climate change is ‘bizarre’
Oliver O'Connell12 October 2024 19:18 1728756022‘Selfish child’: Chris Christie slams Trump for politicizing Hurricane Milton
Chris Christie has slammed Donald Trump for politicizing Hurricane Milton as Florida begins recovery efforts from the “once in a lifetime” storm.
“He is a selfish child,” Christie told The New York Times opinion journalist Frank Bruni.
“And he doesn’t care that these people in North Carolina are suffering the way they are, if caring costs him one bit of perceived political advantage.”
Trump has been peddling conspiracies about the federal government’s response to both Hurricanes Helene and Milton, including a debunked claim that money from FEMA is being diverted away from hurricane survivors towards illegal migrants.
Rachel Sharp12 October 2024 19:00 1728754222Chris Christie latest to sound alarm over Trump’s ‘significant’ mental decline
Former Donald Trump ally turned staunch critic Chris Christie has become the latest to sound the alarm over the former president’s apparent mental decline, saying that he has seen a “significant” change in his capabilities.
The former New Jersey governor told The New York Times opinion journalist Frank Bruni that the Trump he saw during his first White House bid in 2016 appears to be very different to the man running for a third time today.
Rachel Sharp reports.
Chris Christie sounds alarm over Trump’s ‘significant’ mental decline
Christie’s comments came just hours before Kamala Harris shared her medical report in what marked a thinly-veiled challenge to Trump to do the same
Oliver O'Connell12 October 2024 18:30 1728753322Biden says he’ll approve Trump request for military aircraft for campaigning as election nears
President Joe Biden told reporters that he would be happy to approve Donald Trump’s request to use military aircraft in the final stages of the campaign, as long as “he doesn’t ask for F-15s”, ABC News reports.
“Look, what I’ve told the department is to give him every single thing he needs for his — as if he were a sitting president,” he said. “Give him all that he needs. If it fits within that category, that’s fine. But it doesn’t, he shouldn’t.”
Here’s our report on the former president’s request for great protection on the campaign trail.
Trump wants a military plane to fly citing Iran threats
There is no record of a presidential nominee ever getting a military jet to travel
Oliver O'Connell12 October 2024 18:15 1728752416How Melania Trump’s book sets the stage for her businesswoman revamp
Sheila Flynn writes:
The first image posted was arresting, an ethereal watercolor rendering of just Melania Trump’s eyes – specifically identified as cobalt blue – staring out intently from her’s personal Instagram page.
The design, the accompanying December 2021 announcement explained, was the inaugural in Melania’s new line of cryptocurrency digital artwork – NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, essentially online collectibles meant to hold value.
And alongside that intense ocular image, significantly, was the Instagram account’s first mention of MelaniaTrump.com.
Up until that point, @melaniatrump – created eight months beforehand, one day after the former first lady posted her farewell message to the American people on her now-archived FLOTUS account – had featured occasional messages promoting patriotism and echoing her White House platforms to combat cyberbullying and support foster care.
The sleek and sexy eye artwork, however, marked a departure – and the soft launch of a newly-revamped “Brand Melania.”
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Brand Melania: The former first lady’s book sets the stage for a big revamp
Much has been made of the political strategies lurking inside Melania Trump’s memoir – but it serves another ambitious purpose, writes Sheila Flynn: Letting the former first lady outline her business acumen and ‘methodical’ nature while setting the stage for her own heavily-branded entrepreneurship
Oliver O'Connell12 October 2024 18:00 1728750616Harris is trying to fix her Latino problem
Eric Garcia writes:
The divide reveals the thorny trail that Harris must navigate when it comes to immigration reform and Latino outreach. For decades, Democrats believed that Republicans’ anti-immigrant stance would render them unable to win over a population that largely came to the United States as migrants. But the data has not borne that out.
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Kamala Harris is trying to fix her Latino problem
Polls show there’s a stark gender divide in how the Hispanic community is responding to the Harris-Walz ticket, meaning they may have to pivot their strategy
Oliver O'Connell12 October 2024 17:30 1728749422Gateway Pundit acknowledges no election fraud in Georgia in 2020 after settlement with poll workers
The Gateway Pundit has posted a statement on its website acknowledging there was no voter fraud in Georgia in the 2020 election and that Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss were cleared of any wrongdoing.
Georgia officials concluded that there was no widespread voter fraud by election workers who counted ballots at the State Farm Arena in November 2020. The results of this investigation indicate that Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ‘Shaye’ Moss did not engage in ballot fraud or criminal misconduct while working at State Farm Arena on election night. A legal matter with this news organization and the two election workers has been resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the parties through a fair and reasonable settlement.
The two election workers reached a settlement in their defamation lawsuit against the Missouri-based conservative website that falsely accused them of fraud in the 2020 presidential election, according to a court filing earlier this week.
The lawsuit against The Gateway Pundit, its owner Jim Hoft and his brother Joe Hoft “has been resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the parties through a fair and reasonable settlement,” lawyers for Freeman and Moss said on Friday.
Oliver O'Connell12 October 2024 17:10 1728748816After mocking Harris over teleprompter use, Trump stops rally to remove sign that fell on his
After mocking Vice President Kamala Harris over her teleprompter use, Donald Trump’s rally in Reno, Nevada, ground to a halt as he was was forced to fix his on-stage after a campaign sign fell on it.
“Thank god I don’t use teleprompters too much,” Trump told rallygoers after the sign fell on the teleprompter, causing the script to stop being projected. “I look at the teleprompter, it’s totally gone. I say ‘What the hell happened.’ The sign fell on top of it.”
Ariana Baio has the story.
Trump fixes teleprompter after mocking Harris for using a teleprompter
Former president often mocks Kamala Harris for using a teleprompter
Oliver O'Connell12 October 2024 17:00 1728747502Trump campaign reposts year-old medical report in response to Harris record release
Following the release of Kamala Harris’s latest medical report, the Trump campaign has responded by releasing the former president’s medical reports... sort of.
A statement from Steven Cheung, Trump campaign communications director, reads:
President Trump has voluntarily released updates from his personal physician, as well as detailed reports from Dr. Ronny Jackson who treated him after the first assassination attempt. All have concluded he is in perfect and excellent health to be Commander in Chief. He has maintained an extremely busy and active campaign schedule unlike any other in political history, whereas Kamala Harris has been unable to keep up with the demands of campaigning and reveals on a daily basis she is wholly unqualified to be President of the United States. Her schedule is much lighter because, it is said, she does not have the stamina of President Trump. Polls are reflective of this.
Linked underneath are two letters from Rep Ronny Jackson, Trump’s former physician, concerning the wound to the former president’s ear after the attempt on his life, and a letter from Trump’s current doctor that provides little detail and is dated November 20, 2023.
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