Kamala Harris’s campaign has released a new ad seeking to tie Donald Trump to embattled North Carolina Lt Gov Mark Robinson, engulfed in a scandal relating to online posts on a porn forum.
There are reports that Robinson will not be attending a Trump rally organized in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Saturday, suggesting the former president’s campaign team may be trying to distance him from the scandal.
Meanwhile, Harris told Oprah Winfrey that she would shoot an intruder in her home as the vice president addressed gun violence, the cost of living, reproductive rights, and immigration in an event on Thursday evening.
The pair sat down for their “Unite for America” live-streamed rally in Michigan before an in-person and remote audience that included the likes of Chris Rock and Julia Roberts.
Also on Thursday, Trump said that Jewish American voters will bear “a lot” of blame if he loses the election, he told the Israeli-American Council National Summit in Washington on Thursday.
On Friday, Harris held a rally focused on reproductive rights in Atlanta, Georgia, and in the evening moved on to see supporters in Madison, Wisconsin. Trump is holding a fundraiser in Miami, Florida.
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Harris takes the stage in Wisconsin: ‘Hard work is joyful work’
Kamala Harris took the stage in Madison, Wisconsin on Friday night to a raucous crowd.
“We got work to do – 46 days until the election and what we know is this is going to be a tight race until the very end,” she said. “So let’s not pay too much attention to the polls, because let’s be clear, we are the underdog in this race, and we have some hard work ahead of us. But here’s the thing, we like hard work. Hard work is good work. Hard work is joyful work.”
Gustaf Kilander21 September 2024 00:14
ICYMI: More voters say Harris is ‘tough enough’ to be president than Trump, new poll shows
There are just 47 days until November’s presidential election and the latest AP/NORC poll shows Kamala Harris pulling ahead of Donald Trump as the candidate of which voters have a more positive view.
Specifically, the vice president scores higher on where she is “tough enough to be president”, “would change the country for the better”, and “would fight for people like you”.
The former president meanwhile scores highest on “will say anything to win the election”.
Capping the poll off, a larger share of registered voters believe Harris will win on November 5 (40 per cent) over Trump (28 per cent). One-fifth of respondents think both candidates have an equal shot at the White House.
Majorities of both Democratic registered voters and Republican registered voters think their respective candidate will win, while there independent registered voters favor Harris over Trump, but with almost a quarter saying they do not know enough.
In July, after the Republican convention but before Harris was officially designated as the Democratic nominee, the public was more likely to think Trump would prevail over Harris.
While registered voters are divided on whether Harris would make a good president (47 per cent to 41 per cent), a majority think Trump would not (59 per cent to 36 per cent). These views are heavily influenced by partisanship, with about 8 in 10 Democratic voters and Republican voters believing their respective party’s nominees would make a good president.
Registered voters also have more positive views of Harris than Trump as a candidate. While Harris narrowly beats Trump on whether they are each tough enough to be president (43 per cent versus 42 per cent), slightly more think Harris would fight for people like them and would change the country for the better compared with Trump. And six in 10 think Trump will say anything to win the election compared with four in 10 who think the same about Harris.
Currently, about half of registered voters have a favorable opinion of Harris compared with 37% who have a favorable opinion of Trump. The candidates’ favorability ratings are currently similar to August. Last month, the August 2024 AP-NORC Poll found that 48 per cent of the public had a favorable opinion of Harris and 41 per cent had a favorable opinion of Trump.
The latest poll found that 88 per cent of Democratic voters have a favorable view of Harris, while 77 per cent of Republican voters have a positive opinion of Trump.
The nationwide poll was conducted between September 12-16, 2024 using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 2,028 adults, including 1,771 self-reported registered voters. The overall margin of sampling error is +/- 3.1 percentage points; +/- 3.5 percentage points for registered voters.
Oliver O’Connell21 September 2024 00:00
Wisconsin governor says Trump and Vance ‘are a dangerous threat to our country and our democracy’
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers went after Donald Trump and JD Vance during the rally in Madison.
“Donald Trump and JD Vance are a dangerous threat to our country and our democracy. They’re not running to help others,” he said, adding that they’re running to “serve themselves.”
“They’re not capable of being honest or telling the truth, and their radical Project 2025 agenda won’t help Wisconsin families. It’s going to hurt them,” Evers said.
Gustaf Kilander20 September 2024 23:48
Tammy Baldwin slams Eric Hovde: ‘Celebrated when Roe was overturned’
Wisconsin Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin slammed her opponent in her race for re-election, Republican Eric Hovde, calling him a “self-funding multi-millionaire.”
Baldwin was speaking ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris at a rally in Madison, Wisconsin.
“Eric Hovde owns a $3bn California Bank and a $7m ocean view home in Laguna Beach, and he has been named one of the most influential residents of Orange County three years in a row. Folks, we have a Green County, we have a Brown County, but Wisconsin does not have an Orange County,” she said.
“We may laugh at that, but the stakes in this race are incredibly high. Eric Hovde celebrated when Roe was overturned,” she added. “He says he’s 100 percent anti-choice. Meanwhile, I’m leading the effort to restore reproductive freedoms with my Women’s Health Protection Act.”
Gustaf Kilander20 September 2024 23:43
Supreme Court: Alaska man charged with threatening to torture and kill six justices and their families
Panos Anastasiou, 76, is accused of sending more than 456 messages through the Supreme Court’s online portal between March 2023 and July 2024, according to the indictment.
He now faces 22 charges including 13 counts of making threats in interstate commerce and nine counts of making threats against a federal judge.
It is not clear which six justices that Anastasiou is charged with threatening.
Oliver O’Connell20 September 2024 23:30
After Fed cuts interest rates, Biden makes ‘declaration of progress’ on economy
With the Federal Reserve trimming interest rates for the first time since before the Covid-19 pandemic and inflation rates slipping to pre-Covid levels, President Joe Biden is taking a moment to savor the victory with a speech to the Economic Club of Washington on Thursday.
Biden said the decision by the Fed to cut rates after years of post-pandemic inflation led them to raise them from the near-zero levels they were at during the worst days of Covid represented a “good day for the country” and “good news for consumers” because borrowing costs will come down.
Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington, DC.
Oliver O’Connell20 September 2024 23:00
Ohio’s governor supports Trump but condemns his attacks on Haitian migrants in emotional op-ed
In an emotional op-ed in The New York Times on Friday, DeWine said it was “disappointing” that the 58,000-person city “has become the epicenter of vitriol over America’s immigration policy, because it has long been a community of great diversity.”
Oliver O’Connell20 September 2024 22:30
Tim Walz is out to teach Trump a lesson as he trials election attack lines on the road
Comfortable in khakis and an open collar, Walz couldn’t be more different from JD Vance, the awkward man in a boxy suit and an overly long tie. Instead of talking about ‘threats to democracy’, Harris’s running-mate made a football analogy about January 6th — and it went down a storm.
Oliver O’Connell20 September 2024 22:00
Despite warning from local officials, Georgia’s GOP-led elections board OKs controversial voting change
Gustaf Kilander has the details.
Oliver O’Connell20 September 2024 21:52
Jimmy Kimmel heckles Trump over crowd sizes
“So I call up my wife, and I’d say, ‘Baby, who can draw crowds like me’,” Trump told attendees. “Nobody, nobody can. I’m the greatest of all time, maybe greater even than Elivs. Elvis had a guitar. I don’t have the privilege of a guitar.”
Finishing Trump’s thought on the latest episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the late-night host joked: “Thanks to my tiny baby hands, I am unable to play the guitar.”
Oliver O’Connell20 September 2024 21:40