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Donald Trump doubled down on comments he made at the weekend in which he referred to Democrats as “enemies from within” and that the military could be called upon to handle any unrest from “radical left lunatics”.
When confronted with his comments by Harris Faulkner of Fox News during a town hall of his supporters, the former president added that they are “sick” and “evil”.
Kamala Harris has said that Trump’s remarks are evidence that he is “increasingly unstable and unhinged” and ”out for unchecked power”.
This evening, the vice president and Democratic nominee will sit for an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier, which will be broadcast unedited on Wednesday evening — a marked contrast to Trump’s pre-recorded and edited appearance earlier in the day.
On Tuesday, the Democrat joined Charlamagne Tha God for an hour-long sitdown in Detroit in which she declared she is going to win in November and agreed with the host when he called Trump’s policy platform “fascist”.
Also on Tuesday, Trump took part in a freewheeling Bloomberg Q&A with the Economic Club of Chicago and told a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, that he considers illegal immigration a greater problem than inflation.
Key Points
- Trump sits for edited town hall before friendly audience, while Harris interview will be unedited and ‘live to tape'
- Donald Trump to receive further campaign support from Elon Musk in Pennsylvania
- Kamala Harris agrees with Charlamagne Tha God that Trump’s platform is ‘fascist'
- Fox News’s Bret Baier shuts down MAGA supporters fuming over his upcoming Harris interview
- Trump claims illegal immigration is bigger issue than inflation
- Campaign schedule: Who is doing what and where on Wednesday?
Colbert channels his inner Biden to mock Trump for dance-a-thon town hall
Late-night TV host Stephen Colbert mocked Donald Trump’s recent dance-filled town hall- as the comedian put on aviator sunglasses and impersonated Joe Biden’s reaction to the odd event.
Colbert, host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, made a series of jokes Tuesday night about Trump’s Monday town hall. where he danced for more than 30 minutes after two attendees had a medical emergency.
Katie Hawkinson has the story.
Colbert channels his inner Biden to mock Trump for dance-a-thon town hall
Trump swayed along to his favorite tunes for over 30 minutes at a town hall event in Pennsylvania after two people had a medical emergency
Oliver O'Connell16 October 2024 21:10 1729109116Economist/YouGov Poll: Harris has edge nationally
Vice President Kamala Harris leads former President Donald Trump by 48 per cent to 45 per cent among registered voters in the latest Economist/YouGov poll, little changed from recent weeks.
Harris leads by four points among likely voters — those who either have voted, say they definitely will vote, or both say they will probably vote and also have voted in either 2020 or 2022.
Nearly all supporters of Harris (97 per cent) and Trump (98 per cent) believe their minds will not change before election day.
Slightly more registered voters say they think Harris will win than say they think Trump will (41 per cent to 37 per cent).
About two-thirds of both Democrats and Republicans say they are very or extremely enthusiastic about voting for president.
Harris leads by 51 per cent to 47 per cent among registered voters choosing only between her and Trump; two per cent say they prefer both equally.
Among likely voters, Harris leads among college graduates, women, and Black and Hispanic Americans; Trump leads among non-college graduates, men, and white Americans.
The poll was conducted between October 12-15, 2024 and 1,624 US adult citizens were surveyed.
Read the full poll results here
Oliver O'Connell16 October 2024 21:05 1729108381Trump asked about Harris’s virtues at Univision town hall
Oliver O'Connell16 October 2024 20:53 1729108201‘Preposterous’: Armed MAGA fan arrested outside Trump rally sues sheriff
A Las Vegas man who was arrested with two firearms outside a Trump rally in California last weekend insists he was wrongly portrayed as a would-be assassin by the county sheriff, accusing the lawman of cobbling together an entirely phony narrative in a misplaced bid for glory.
Vem Miller says Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco — a dedicated Trumper who is himself under investigation by California Attorney General Rob Bonta over allegations of widespread civil rights violations — “intentionally, maliciously and with a blatant disregard for the truth, wanted to create a narrative so as to be viewed as a ‘heroic’ Sheriff who saved Presidential candidate Trump from a third assassination attempt,” according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.
Here’s Justin Rohrlich with the full story.
Trump fan arrested outside rally sues sheriff over claim he was potential assassin
Vem Miller told The Independent that he is currently in hiding, for fear that Sheriff Chad Bianco’s contention that he was gunning for the former president could get him ‘offed’ by ‘crazy guys trying to protect Trump’
Oliver O'Connell16 October 2024 20:50 1729108036Qunnipiac Poll: Trump holds lead in Georgia; Harris ahead in tight North Carolina race
GEORGIA: Trump 52%, Harris 45%, other candidates 2%
NORTH CAROLINA: Harris 49%, Trump 47%, other candidates 1%
NC GOVERNOR RACE: Stein 52%, Robinson 40%, other candidates 4%
In the final weeks of the 2024 presidential race, a snapshot of the state of the race in the key Southeastern swing states of Georgia and North Carolina shows different pictures. In Georgia, former President Donald Trump holds a lead over Vice President Kamala Harris, while in North Carolina Harris is on the upside of a race that is too close to call, according to Quinnipiac University polls of likely voters in each of the two states released today.
Oliver O'Connell16 October 2024 20:47 1729107421Watch LIVE: Harris campaigns with Republicans in swing state of Pennsylvania
Oliver O'Connell16 October 2024 20:37 1729107001Melania’s collector’s edition memoir includes photo of her first date with Trump
“It was an enjoyable and memorable evening,” Melania Trump said reflecting on the photo.
Ariana Baio reports.
Melania’s collector’s edition memoir includes photo of first date with Trump for $250
Special edition of memoir has a 525 percent markup from the original price
Oliver O'Connell16 October 2024 20:30 1729106607Meanwhile, over on Truth Social...
Perhaps he watched Kamala Harris’s audio town hall with Charlamagne Tha God, but Donald Trump is now claiming that if the vice president “gets 4 more years” the Black community will lose “its political power forever because their neighborhoods will all be majority migrant”.
The former president wrote on Truth Social this afternoon:
Kamala’s support is collapsing with Black voters. Inflation is hell. Worse, their cities are being used as illegal alien dumping grounds. If Kamala gets 4 more years, the Black Community loses its political power forever because their neighborhoods will all be majority migrant.
Which sounds like something of a fear-mongering knee-jerk statement given the friendly nature of Harris’s appearance and the comprehensive and thoughtful nature of her answers to questions from the community.
Trump followed that up by posting:
I hope everyone listened yesterday as Bloomberg interviewed me. For over a year, I’ve said China is building giant plants in Mexico. Since they heard about the Tariffs, all work has STOPPED on those plants. I saved Michigan autoworkers. Detroit will thrive if I’m elected!
Here’s CNN’s Daniel Dale with a fact check of his specific remarks in Chicago on Tuesday:
Trump told a story about how he saved US jobs with a tariff threat that got John Deere to declare “yesterday” that it’s killing a plan to move some production to Mexico.
Except there was no yesterday declaration, and Deere says it isn’t killing the plan.
And here’s Gustaf Kilander’s report on part of Trump’s contentious conversation with Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait:
Trump re-ups ‘Barack Hussein Obama’ conspiracy when asked about tariffs at speech
Amid Obama’s rise, many on the right, including Trump, pushed the baseless ‘birther’ conspiracy theory that he was secretly a Muslim born in Kenya
Oliver O'Connell16 October 2024 20:23 1729105801DeSantis admin faces lawsuit over ‘coercive threats’ to derail Florida’s abortion rights campaign
An abortion rights campaign in Florida is suing Ron DeSantis’s administration for his “months-long crusade” to derail an upcoming ballot measure that would sink his anti-abortion agenda.
A federal lawsuit filed in Florida on Wednesday accuses state health officials of violating Floridians Protecting Freedom’s First Amendment rights with “coercive” threats to prosecute TV stations that aired its campaign ads — an “escalation” of DeSantis’s broader campaign against Amendment 4.
The administration has also deployed “election police” to question people who signed a petition in support of the amendment, accused petitioners of “fraud,” and launched taxpayer-funded ads and a website accusing the campaign of spreading “lies” about abortion care.
Alex Woodward has the details.
Abortion rights campaign sues DeSantis administration for ‘coercive’ threats
Cancer survivor featured in campaign ad slams state officials for ‘abuse of power’ after threats to TV stations
Oliver O'Connell16 October 2024 20:10 1729104601Trump had no sense of ‘who he was talking to’ when he made shocking Harris slur, report says
Donald Trump had “no sense of who he was in front of or who he was talking to” when he made a shocking slur about his Democratic rival Kamala Harris during a recent dinner for billionaire donors in New York, according to New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman.
Joe Sommerlad reports.
Trump reportedly had no sense of ‘who he was talking to’ when he made Harris slur
New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said the Republican presidential nominee has ‘less of a filter than there used to be, which is what happens when people get older’
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