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Kamala Harris once again called out Donald Trump for becoming “increasingly deranged” as she held her first joint campaign rally with Barack Obama in Atlanta.
“Over the last eight years Donald Trump is more confused, more unstable and more angry. You see it every day, he has become increasingly unhinged,” she said.
The rally in Georgia on Thursday is the first of a series of get-out-the-vote events in key swing states. Harris was also joined by celebrities including Samuel L Jackson, Tyler Perry, Spike Lee, and Bruce Springsteen.
On Friday in Houston, Texas, superstar Beyoncé will lend her support to the campaign as Harris focuses on the future of reproductive rights.
Meanwhile, at his own rally in Las Vegas on Thursday, Trump claimed that the vice president had “absolutely bombed,” despite video on social media showing large crowds at the event.
“I was going to watch it. I didn’t want to come out. I wanted to watch that first, is that terrible? Then I could explain to you what happened. But I hear it was bad tonight. But it’s always bad,” he said.
Earlier, while speaking about immigration in Tempe, Arizona, the former president referred to the US as the “garbage can for the world.”
Trump claims Harris will ‘kill thousands of people’ if elected
Donald Trump claimed that Kamala Harris would “kill thousands of people” at his rally in Las Vegas, though failed to put the remark in context or elaborate on what he meant.
“You have to get out and vote,” he said.
“If Kamala gets four more years she will obliterate our economy, kill millions of jobs, kill thousands of people too, by the way, and destroy your family finances –probably forever.”
Mike Bedigan25 October 2024 04:15
Trump claims Harris ‘bombed’ at rally in Georgia
Donald Trump opened his rally in Las Vegas by claiming that Kamala Harris had “bombed” at her event in Georgia earlier that day.
“In Georgia tonight, they say that Kamala has just absolutely bombed. She’s bombed,” he said.
“In fact, I was going to watch it. I didn’t want to come out. I wanted to watch that first, is that terrible? Then I could explain to you what happened. But I hear it was bad tonight. But it’s always bad.”
He added: “I’m not supposed to say it, but we are leading by so much.”
Video from the Harris rally appeared to show large crowds gathered to hear the vice president speak alongside Barack Obama.
Mike Bedigan25 October 2024 04:00
Actress fired by Disney over controversial social media posts speaks at Trump rally in Las Vegas
Gina Carano, an actress fired by Disney over controversial social media posts, delivered remarks ahead of Donald Trump at a rally in Las Vegas.
“The Democrats, have suffered no accountability,” she said. “I will tell you my personal belief a vote for Kamala Harris is no other than a vote for a shadow government and greedy corporations who will walk over our dead bodies and turn around and use those bodies to keep themselves in power.”
In February 2021, Carano shared an Instagram post that compared “hating someone for their political views” to the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust and included an image taken during the Lviv pogroms. Many critics interpreted the post as comparing American conservatives to Jews in Nazi Germany.
She was subsequently dropped by Disney and Lucasfilm, losing her role in poular show The Mandalorian.
Carano is now suing Disney, with the help of Elon Musk, another ardent Trump supporter.
Mike Bedigan25 October 2024 03:50
Hillary Clinton as election looms: ‘How can we be back here?’
Mike Bedigan25 October 2024 03:40
Donald Trump denies alleged comments about Hitler
Ahead of his Thursday night rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, Donald Trump denied accusations that he had once told White House officials that he “needed generals like Adolf Hitler.”
Asked by a reporter about the claims, first published by The Atlantic, the former president replied: “No I never said that. He [journalist Jeffrey Goldberg] made it up for a story, he’s done it before, it’s a failing magazine – right before the election.”
The Trump campaign has also previously denied the claims on his behalf.
Mike Bedigan25 October 2024 03:25
Fox News host claims most people don’t know what fascism is amid reports Trump praised Hitler
Fox News anchor Jesse Watters claimed Thursday most Americans don’t know what fascism is, amid an ongoing political discussion around the topic after former Donald Trump staffers claimed the Republican meets the defition of a fascist and praised Hitler.
“You can’t even define fascism,” Watters said during a discussion on The Five. “I challenge Kamala to tell us what it is.”
Mike Bedigan25 October 2024 03:10
In pictures: Harris’ celebrity guest speakers in Atlanta
Mike Bedigan25 October 2024 02:50
Obama blasts Trump’s alleged Hitler remarks in Georgia
Mike Bedigan25 October 2024 02:30
Trump comes up with new slur against US: ‘We’re the garbage can for the world’
During a campaign event in Arizona, Donald Trump once again echoed nativist tropes while talking about migrants to the US, the latest in a long string of rhetoric about immigrants and political opponents that’s been compared to fascist dictators.
“We’re a dumping ground. We’re like a garbage can for the world,” Trump said. “That’s what’s happened. We’re like a garbage can.”
Mike Bedigan25 October 2024 02:10
In pictures: Harris and Obama take the stage in Georgia
Mike Bedigan25 October 2024 01:50
