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President Joe Biden stated he didn’t know if November’s election could be “peaceable” given Donald Trump’s “harmful” rhetoric, in a shock look within the White Home briefing room
Nevertheless, the president instructed reporters that he’s assured the election might be “free and honest”.
Biden was additionally requested if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was delaying a diplomatic settlement relating to the Gaza battle to affect the election. He stated that no administration has helped Israel greater than he has and Netanyahu ought to keep in mind that.
The president additionally mocked MAGA Republicans for calling at this time’s constructive jobs numbers “faux” and when requested if he had reconsidered dropping out of the presidential race, joked: “I’m again in.”
On the marketing campaign path, Trump and Georgia Governor Brian Kemp surveyed injury from Hurricane Helene on Friday afternoon. The 2 have been estranged because the governor refused to assist the previous president discover extra voters in his state within the 2020 election.
Trump might be joined by tech billionaire Elon Musk at his Saturday rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the location of his tried assassination on July 13.
Kamala Harris is campaigning in Michigan specializing in labor and the financial system having scored high-profile endorsements from Liz Cheney and Bruce Springsteen.
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As anticipated, Harris goes after Trump on labor points
Kamala Harris is utilizing her Flint, Michigan, rally at this time to go after Donald Trump on his labor file.
“When it got here to constructing the vehicles of the longer term, Donald Trump sat on the sidelines and let China dominate,” she instructed the group. “Then he discuss right down to American staff, saying we will’t compete with Chinese language staff.
“And make no mistake, Donald Trump is not any buddy of labor,” the vp continued. “He inspired automakers to maneuver their vegetation out of Michigan so they may pay their staff much less. When the UAW [United Auto Workers union] went on strike to demand greater wages that they deserved, Donald trump webnt to a non-union store, don’t you neglect.”
Right here’s the story she’s speaking about.
Each candidates have been visiting Michigan to attempt to show their pro-labor, auto business bona fides, with Harris touting the Biden administration’s assist for EVs.
Josh Marcus4 October 2024 23:19
Watch LIVE: Kamala Harris speaks in Flint, Michigan
Oliver O’Connell4 October 2024 22:55
Trump falsely claimed he was endorsed by Jamie Dimon — then didn’t appear to know something about it
At 1.56pm ET at this time a put up was made on Donald Trump’s Reality Social proclaiming that Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, had endorse him for president.
A search of X confirmed what seemed to be the earliest put up from somebody falsely claiming the Dimon endorsement, printed from a verified account at 12:33 p.m. ET. That message was rapidly echoed by different verified pro-Trump accounts, together with some with massive followings.
Dimon spokesman Joe Evangelisti rapidly pushed again on the declare, telling CNBC: “Jamie Dimon has not endorsed anybody. He has not endorsed a candidate.”
Jake Traylor of NBC Information was out on the marketing campaign path with the previous president and requested in regards to the alleged endorsement, to which the president replied: “I don’t know something about it.”
He added: “Any individual put it up — no, I don’t know.”
The query stays — who put it up? And why is it nonetheless virtually 4 hours later?
Oliver O’Connell4 October 2024 22:50
Trump has ideas on Cheney’s endorsement of Harris
They usually’re just about what you have been in all probability anticipating.
Right here’s the most recent from Reality Social:
Has Liz Cheney, one of many dumber folks in politics, ever seemed on the horrible statements she’s made about Lyin’ Kamala Harris? Each view and coverage is the precise reverse of what Cheney and her equally ridiculous father, who acquired us into the by no means ending Wars within the Center East, have acknowledged over time. They’re being posted everywhere in the web, and Cheney seems to be even dumber than I assumed she was – However I nonetheless say Kamala is worse!
Oliver O’Connell4 October 2024 22:45
Watch: Harris marketing campaign launches new advert spotlight Republican assist
Oliver O’Connell4 October 2024 22:40
Cheney trolls Trump’s faux tan behavior as she campaigns with Harris
“I used to be a Republican even earlier than Donald Trump began spray tanning,” Cheney instructed the group.
Oliver O’Connell4 October 2024 22:30
Trump dismisses jobs report, pushes tariffs, and says US being ‘poisoned’ by migrants
In an interview with Larry Kudlow on Fox Enterprise, Donald Trump dismissed at this time’s robust jobs report, claiming unlawful immigrants are getting the roles.
But once more making the case for his proposed excessive tariffs coverage that economists have warned will imply greater costs for US shoppers, Trump argued: “Our nation was the richest once we have been doing tariffs. This was within the Eighties and ’90 … McKinley was truly an excellent president. He was assassinated. Have you learnt why he was assassinated? As a result of he was charging all these international locations cash, in all probability.”
He appeared so enamored with McKinley he talked about him twice and once more claimed that the US is on the verge of a 1929-style despair (which he has stated earlier than). The inventory market is at present at file highs.
Trump went on to say the nation is being “poisoned” by migrants and pushed the conspiracy principle that “they’re making an attempt to get these folks to vote” — it’s unlawful for non-citizens to vote.
Oliver O’Connell4 October 2024 22:15
Elon Musk has been donating to GOP-aligned teams for years
The Unbiased has contacted Musk, DeSantis, and Miller’s authorized advocacy group for remark.
Oliver O’Connell4 October 2024 22:00
‘It’s a giant rip-off’: The View’s Pleasure Behar accuses Melania Trump of mendacity about pro-abortion stance
The View hosts usually are not satisfied by Melania Trump’s assist for abortion rights put forth within the former First Girl’s new memoir.
“Why ought to anybody aside from the girl herself have the facility to find out what she does together with her personal physique?” she writes in Melania. “A lady’s basic proper of particular person liberty, to her personal life, grants her the authority to terminate her being pregnant if she needs.”
Oliver O’Connell4 October 2024 21:40
Watch: Trump admits he misplaced Georgia in 2020 and hopes election might be ‘free and honest’
Oliver O’Connell4 October 2024 21:30