Kamala Harris said she believes that Donald Trump is a “fascist” in a CNN town hall in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, again warning of the threat the Republican poses to the country’s future.
The former president is currently facing a fresh storm of criticism over a report alleging that he once said he needed “the kind of generals that Adolf Hitler had.”
John Kelly, his former chief of staff, meanwhile told The New York Times that Trump praised Hitler on multiple occasions.
Harris told compere Anderson Cooper that Kelly’s revelations were a “911 call to the American people”, having said earlier that Trump is “increasingly unhinged and unstable”.
Trump has nevertheless taken a narrow lead over Harris in a new Wall Street Journal poll with less than two weeks to go until Election Day, getting 47 percent of the vote in the newspaper’s latest survey, with Harris two points behind.
Another poll from Marist places the candidates neck-and-neck in the swing states of Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina.
In a long-awaited boost to the Harris campaign, the vice president will be joined onstage in Houston on Friday by Beyoncé after campaigning with Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen tonight in Atlanta.
Biden to apologize for 150-year Indian boarding school policy
President Joe Biden is expected to formally apologize on Friday for the country’s role in the Indian boarding school system, which devastated the lives of generations of Indigenous children and their ancestors.
“I would never have guessed in a million years that something like this would happen,” said Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland, a member of the Pueblo of Laguna. “It’s a big deal to me. I’m sure it will be a big deal to all of Indian Country.”
Shortly after becoming the first Native American to lead the Interior, Haaland launched an investigation into the boarding school system, which found that at least 18,000 children, some as young as 4, were taken from their parents and forced to attend schools that sought to assimilate them, in an effort to dispossess their tribal nations of land. It also documented nearly 1,000 deaths and 74 gravesites associated with the more than 500 schools.
No president has ever formally apologized for the forced removal of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children — an element of genocide as defined by the United Nations — or any other aspect of the US government’s decimation of Indigenous peoples.
More than 2.1 million people have voted early in Georgia
Georgia’s secretary of state says more than 2.125 million people have voted early in the state, as of this afternoon.
On day ten of Early Voting in previous years, 730,706 (2018), 1,328,199 (2020), and 1,139,770 (2022) voters had turned out for in-person Early Voting.
“Georgia voters know we’ve made it easy to cast a ballot. It’s really that simple,” said Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
“Over the past four years we’ve worked tirelessly to prepare for this election by adding Early Voting days and investing in infrastructure, only to be rewarded with the lies of Jim Crow 2.0 and a missed All-Star Game. We’re battled tested and ready, despite the critics.”
Alex Woodward24 October 2024 19:59
Far more Harris supporters confident outcome of election will be clear when ballots counted
A majority of American voters are at least somewhat confident in the outcomes of elections this November, but Donald Trump’s supporters are nearly 30 percent less likely to believe that it will be clear who won when the ballots are counted.
Roughly 85 percent of Kamala Harris voters are confident that it will be clear who won once the results are counted, compared to just 58 percent of Donald Trump supporters.
Eighty-five percent of Harris voters are also confident that mail-in ballots will be accurately accounted for, compared to just 38 percent of Trump voters.
Harris voters are much more confident than Trump voters that election systems are secure from hacking and technological threats — 73 percent, to just 32 percent among Trump voters, representing a 60 percent decrease from four years ago.
Only 20 percent of voters are “extremely” or “very” confident that the Supreme Court will remain politically neutral if election litigation lands in front of the justices this year.
Trump voters are far more confident (34 percent) about that than Harris voters (6 percent).
The survey was performed September 30 to October 6 among roughly 5,000 adult participants.
Alex Woodward24 October 2024 19:55
Republicans have bet big on anti-trans ads… but polling shows voters hate them
A polling firm has revealed that more than half of registered voters view Republicans’ anti-trans ads as “mean-spirited.”
54 percent of voters agree with the statement that attack ads on transgender people have “gotten mean-spirited and out of hand,” according to polling data released Thursday by left-leaning Data for Progress. 31 percent of Republicans also agreed with the statement, according to the poll.
Another 80 percent of likely voters said they “strongly” or “somewhat” agree both political parties should “spend less time talking about transgender issues and more time talking about voters’ priority issues like the economy and inflation.”
Katie Hawkinson has the details.
Oliver O’Connell24 October 2024 19:50
Sarah Jessica Parker shares presidential endorsement
Parker, 59, posted an image of herself holding up a “Harris/Walz” placard on Instagram.
In the caption, she listed 31 reasons why she intends to vote for the Democratic candidates. The post already has just under 340,000 likes.
Here’s Kevin E G Perry’s report.
Oliver O’Connell24 October 2024 19:35
DNC shootings suspect ‘was planning mass casualty event’
Jeffrey Michael Kelly, 60, was arrested on Tuesday night by Tempe Police and charged with multiple felony counts, including unlawful discharge of a firearm, shooting at a non-residential structure and committing an act of terrorism, and three misdemeanor counts of criminal discharge, authorities said.
Oliver O’Connell24 October 2024 19:30
Watch: ‘Trump’ sent to nursing home in new Eric Swalwell video
‘Donald Trump’ sent to nursing home in new Eric Swalwell video
A new video from Democrat Eric Swalwell’s campaign depicted Donald Trump as an elderly relative whose family sends him to a nursing home. In the clip, an actor playing the former president references notable claims the Republican nominee has made, including his “eating cats and dogs” comments, as he interacts with family members. The fictional Mr Trump is then taken to a nursing home named “A Place For Trump” where he “can enjoy the things he loves, like eating cheeseburgers and rage-posting at 3am.” A voiceover then says: “Let’s vote to put him in A Place For Trump, because we all know he belongs in a home, just not this one,” as a photo of the White House appears.
Oliver O’Connell24 October 2024 19:20
James Taylor to join Walz on campaign trail in North Carolina
Singer James Taylor will join vice presidential nominee Tim Walz on the campaign trail in Wilmington, North Carolina this evening, NBC News reports.
Taylor, a North Carolina-native, has endorsed the Kamala Harris and Tim Walz ticket.
Oliver O’Connell24 October 2024 19:16
‘Dad’ Trump will give ‘vigorous spankings to bad girls’… according to Tucker Carlson
Here’s Ariana Baio’s report on this unsettling visual.
Oliver O’Connell24 October 2024 19:10
Watch: Scaramucci explains why he doesn’t think Trump would incite violence if he loses
Former Trump staffer Anthony Scaramucci tells Dean Obdeidallah why he doesn’t think that Donald Trump would incite violence if he loses the 2024 election.
Oliver O’Connell24 October 2024 19:07
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