US Election 2024: Harris warns of dangers of another Trump presidency during closing remark at Jan. 6 speech site

Urged by some allies to apologize for racist comments made by speakers at his weekend rally, Donald Trump took the opposite approach on Tuesday, saying it was an “honor to be involved” in such an event and calling the scene a “lovefest” — the same term he has used to describe the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Trump gathered supporters and reporters to his Mar-a-Lago resort two days after a massive rally at Madison Square Garden featured a number of crude remarks by various speakers, including a set by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe in which he joked that Puerto Rico was a “floating island of garbage.”

Some of Trump’s top Republican allies have condemned the remarks, and his campaign took the rare step of publicly distancing itself from Hinchcliffe’s joke, though not the other comments.But given the opportunity to apologize at events and in an interview, Trump instead leaned in. Speaking at his Florida resort, he said that “there’s never been an event so beautiful” as his Sunday rally in his hometown of New York.“The love in that room. It was breathtaking,” he said.

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Steve Bannon, an ally of former President Donald Trump, and reportedly the person who encouraged Trump to declare victory in the 2020 election ahead of the final counting, has said that Trump should speak early on election night.

Bannon said that citizens were confused in 2020 and Trump needs to explain to people the scenario. Bannon said, “I’m urging President Trump, if the votes come in like it looks like they’re going to come in, he should step up and inform the American citizens of exactly what’s going on and not keep people in the dark, like was done in 2020.”

Bannon, the right-wing podcast host, was imprisoned for four months for defying the subpoenas from the House January 6 committee back in the year 2022 but he managed to avoid jail for two years as he sought appeals.

The US Supreme Court rejected a plea by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to remove him from the ballot in key swing states of Wisconsin and Michigan, as he was earlier contesting the US presidential election independently.

Kennedy has endorsed Republican candidate Donald Trump and is seeking to remove his name from the ballots in order to boost his ally’s chances. A full detailed judgment is to follow as the court did not explain its reasoning.

The voters of Puerto Rico gathered outside the PPL Center arena to protest against Republican candidate Donald Trump, who is scheduled to hold a rally in the area which is largely a Puerto Rican neighbourhood.

Protesters held signs which read “Vote for Community” in English and Spanish. They are protesting against the remarks made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe against Puerto Ricans during Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday.

Allentown mayor said that the comments have not gone down well with the community and people are “angry” over the incident in the Latino-majority city, reported NBC News.

As the Trump Campaign appears to be in a damage control mode after controversy over a joke on Puerto Rico during former President Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, the Republican candidate has now said that he has "done more" for Puerto Rico than any other president.

Trump, during a round table in Pennsylvania said, “I think no president's done more for Puerto Rico than I have.”

Trump didn’t mention or made any remark by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe who referred to Puerto Rico as “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean” during New York City’s rally on Sunday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson took a potshot at the Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) at a rally in Pennsylvania on Monday and promised to a crowd that if Republican candidate Donald Trump wins, “massive” health care changes will take place in America.

“Health care reform’s going to be a big part of the agenda. When I say we’re going to have a very aggressive first 100 days agenda, we got a lot of things still on the table,” Johnson said.

Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to draw over 40,000 people during her closing arguments in a rally in Washington. The location Harris will speak is the Ellipse lawn, infamous for former President Donald Trump’s speech on Jan 6, 2021 after which a crowd attacked the US Capitol.

Harris is bound to draw parallels between herself and Trump’s administration and would urge the audience to turn the page of Trump’s era which ushered in US politics, according to NBC News.

Ahead of her presumed final efforts to steel herself as the presidential candidate, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris is bound to give five interviews to local news outlets targeting voters across the battlegrounds in places like Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.

Barbara Pierce Bush, daughter of former Republican President George W. Bush and granddaughter of former President George H.W. Bush, has announced her support for Vice President Kamala Harris.

In an interview with People magazine, Pierce Bush stated that she is “hopeful” that Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, will “move our country forward and protect women’s rights.”

Kamala Harris’s lead over Donald Trump has narrowed in the final phase of the US presidential race, with the Democrat holding a slim advantage of just one percentage point, 44% to 43%, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday.

The three-day poll, concluded on Sunday, suggests the race is effectively deadlocked as the November 5 election approaches. The poll has a margin of error of approximately three percentage points in either direction.

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Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is set to become the first political campaign to advertise on the Las Vegas Sphere.

This news was initially reported on Tuesday by 8 News Now in Las Vegas, which noted that the ads will coincide with Harris’s visit to the city on Thursday.

A spokesperson for the Harris campaign stated that they hope the imagery will reach millions of voters in Nevada and online. Josh Marcus Blank, who handles communications for the Harris campaign, also shared the announcement on Tuesday.

Recent polling has revealed that Donald Trump's support among young Black men has declined since August, while Kamala Harris’s backing has increased.

A new NAACP survey, conducted between 11 and 17 October, found that 21% of Black men under 50 years old indicated they would vote for the former president, down from 27% in August.

Harris’s support within this group rose from 51% to 59% over the same period, according to the researchers.

Podcast host Joe Rogan, who interviewed Donald Trump on Friday, stated on social media today that Kamala Harris’s campaign has not “passed on doing the podcast,” but they only offered one hour and that he would need to travel to her.

In a post on X early Tuesday morning, Rogan expressed that he feels “strongly” that the best way to conduct the interview would be in his studio in Austin, Texas.

“My sincere wish is to just have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being,” he remarked. “I really hope we can make it happen.”

Harris campaigned in Michigan on Monday, another crucial battleground state. Speaking at a rally in Warren, she highlighted the Biden administration’s commitment to creating more jobs in the region. “He (Trump) is not working for or concerned about working people, middle-class people,” she said, taking aim at the Republican leader.(PTI)

On Monday, Trump, the Republican nominee, spoke at a rally held in the McCamish Pavilion on the Georgia Institute of Technology campus in Atlanta, where he dismissed efforts by Democrats to liken him to the Nazis.

“The latest line from Kamala and her campaign is that anyone who isn’t voting for her is a Nazi,” he said in Georgia’s capital city. Georgia is one of seven key battleground states that could decisively swing the 5 November election towards either candidate.

“I am not a Nazi... I am the opposite of a Nazi,” the former Republican president declared. Trump also criticised Harris for labelling him a fascist. “She’s the fascist,” he retorted. Following Trump’s rally on Sunday at Madison Square Garden in New York, Harris’s campaign team compared it to a 1939 Nazi gathering held at the venue.

During the rally, Trump announced several major policy plans, including on taxation. “Today, I’m announcing a new policy – I’ll support a tax credit for family caregivers who are looking after a parent or loved one,” he stated. (PTI)

Kamala Harris is set to deliver her closing argument speech later today at the Ellipse in Washington DC, just one week before election day.

She is expected to offer a hopeful and optimistic message centred on moving forward, according to a senior Harris campaign official who spoke to ABC News.

Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz is also scheduled to make remarks in Georgia today.

The controversial rhetoric at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday has stirred internal tensions within his camp and raised concerns that his intended message was overshadowed by inflammatory remarks. Several of Trump’s allies privately voiced frustration over the event’s tone, particularly comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s off-color joke about Puerto Rico, which many saw as setting a divisive tone for the evening. “I’m furious,” one source close to the former president shared, expressing shock that such comments had made it through the vetting process. (Inputs by CNN)

Federal authorities are currently investigating fires set at two ballot drop boxes in the Portland area of Oregon and a separate fire at a ballot drop box in nearby Vancouver, Washington, according to CNN.

Democrats stepped up their attacks on Donald Trump on Monday, a day after a comedian opening a rally for the former president called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” a comment that drew wide condemnation and highlighted the rising power of a key Latino group in the swing state of Pennsylvania. Vice President Kamala Harris described Trump’s rally Sunday at Madison Square Garden as “more vivid than usual” and said he “fans the fuel of hate” before she flew to Michigan for a campaign event.

President Joe Biden called the rally “simply embarrassing.” In a rare move late Sunday, the Trump campaign distanced itself from the remarks on Puerto Rico made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe.“The garbage he spoke about is polluting our elections and confirming just how little Donald Trump cares about Latinos specifically, about our Puerto Rican community,” Eddie Moran, mayor of Reading, said at a news conference with other Puerto Rican officials.

With just over a week before Election Day, the fallout underscores the importance of Pennsylvania's 19 electoral votes and the last-minute efforts to court growing numbers of Hispanic voters, mostly from Puerto Rico, who have settled in cities west and north of Philadelphia. Fernando Tormos-Aponte, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh who specializes in Puerto Rican politics and electoral organizing, said the timing of the comments may spell trouble for the Trump campaign.

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Republican candidate Donald Trump called former First Lady Michelle Obama “nasty” during a rally in Atlanta, Georgia and added that she has opened a box by going after him.

During the rally, Trump said, “You know who is nasty to me? Michelle Obama. I always tried to be so nice and respectful. She opened up a little bit of a little bit of a box. She opened up a little bit of something. She was nasty.”

Michelle Obama campaigned for Kamala Harris on Saturday, which was also her first appearance during the 2024 campaign trail of Democrats. Obama criticized Trump for gross incompetence and that he had “no honesty, no decency [and] no morals.”

In a major incident, ballot drop boxes in Portland, Oregon, and neighboring Vancouver, Washington, were set on fire on Monday just a week before the November 5 Election Day and officials have said that both the incidents appear to be connected.

An identical vehicle Volvo was spotted at both the incident site and the use of an “incendiary device” in Portland was “similar in nature” to what occurred in Vancouver, the police department has said, as reported by NBC News.

Portland Police have described the setting up of ballot boxes on fire as a targeted and intentional act.

A group of dozen pro-Palestine protesters interrupted Vice President Kamala Harris’ remarks in Michigan and they were escorted out of the Harris’ rally just after 10 minutes into her remarks.

The protesters were heard shouting, “Israel bombs, Kamala pays, how many kids will you kill today?” as per NBC News report.

Though Harris responded to the protesters and said everyone wants the war with Gaza to end. She added, “Hey guys, I hear you. On the subject of Gaza, we all want this war to end as soon as possible and get the hostages out, and I will do everything in my power to make it so.”

Republican candidate Donald Trump dismissed the criticism of him as a fascist by Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and the comparisons of his recent rally at Madison Square Garden with that of 1939 gathering of Nazis at the same venue.

“Kamala’s now doing something much worse than what she was talking about. The newest line from Kamala and her campaign is that anyone who isn’t voting for her is a Nazi,” said Trump, while referring to his electoral opponent Harris, during a rally in Georgia.

“I’m not a Nazi,” Trump said. “I’m the opposite of a Nazi.” With around a week left for the US presidential elections, the reference to Nazis and fascists is suggesting that the campaigning and the political rhetoric is at its peak.