Trump pushes immigration threat as Harris highlights his ‘fascism’ in visits to battleground states: Live

With the 2024 general election just three weeks out, Vice President Kamala Harris continued her aggressive media blitz as she defended her record and economic plans while assailing Donald Trump as an un-American “fascist” who isn’t fit to serve a second term in the White House.

Harris, who was in Detroit for a series of campaign appearances, took to the airwaves for an hour-long town hall hosted by popular radio host Charlamagne Tha God.

While much of the interview was tame, Harris took a tougher line than she has in many of her public appearances when talking about her rival, as she agreed with the host when he described Trump’s platform as “fascism.”

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A Republican congressional candidate is under fire after running an ad with the incorrect date for Election Day in a Black-owned local publication.

Tom Barrett, who is vying to represent Michigan’s 7th district, ran an ad in the Black-owned Michigan Bulletin that read, “On November 6 VOTE FOR TOM BARRETT.”

Election Day is on November 5.

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A federal death row inmate in Indiana fears that Donald Trump being re-elected would mean an immediate resumption in executions, after the Republican presided over a record 13 executions in his final seven months of office.

“It seems like they’re prepping,” Billie Allen, 46, told the Daily Mail, after a delegation of officials visited the Terre Haute prison, home to the federal execution chamber. “Some of the guys are saying it’s getting real. They’re getting ready and finding out if the equipment’s still working.”

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Donald Trump said immigration is a bigger issue than the economy and inflation during his Atlanta, Georgia rally on Tuesday night.

“I really believe that the border and the illegal immigration and 21 million people, many of them criminals, is a bigger thing than inflation,” Trump said.

“We don’t want them in this country,” he later added. “We’re going too fast. And I think it’s bigger than the economy.”

He also called for the death penalty for “any migrant that kills an American citizen or law enforcement officer.” This comes after Trump called for people who are convicted of fentanyl-related crimes to face the death penalty last week.

Donald Trump rambled about the destructive Hurricane Milton at his Atlanta, Georgia rally on Tuesday.

“I want to send our love and prayers to everyone here in Georgia, hit by the hurricane,” Trump said. “You got hit hard, as well as Florida. North Carolina, they really got hit hard.” South Carolina, pretty hard, Virginia, Alabama and Tennessee.”

“That’s a lot of hurricane. That was a big hurricane,” he continued. “I thought we were sort of over again. That’s Trump country. It’s Trump country. It is indeed. We love it. We love the people. We wish they took better care of Trump country, right?”

Donald Trump has taken the stage at his Atlanta, Georgia rally.

“Our hearts are with the families of every citizen who is tragically lost and all of the people who lost their home,” Trump said, referring to Hurricanes Helene and Milton which devastated the southeastern US.

Representative Byron Donalds spoke at Donald Trump’s Atlanta rally on Tuesday night ahead of the former president’s appearance on stage.

Donalds, a Republican and staunch Trump ally, addressed women voters from the stage and told them not to “worry” about the gender gap.

“They were trying to lecture us about the gender gap, but women, don’t worry about that,” Donalds said. “You’re going to come home and be with us. It’s going to be all right. You’re going to vote Donald J. Trump, and we’re going to make America great again.”

Stanley Kubrick’s daughter Vivian has claimed she is “very confident” that her late father would have been a Donald Trump supporter after the presidential candidate used footage from the director’s Oscar-nominated 1987 film Full Metal Jacket in a campaign video.

The clip in question was posted to Trump’s X/Twitter account with the caption: “WE WILL NOT HAVE A WOKE MILITARY!”

The video includes scenes from Full Metal Jacket in which a brutal, racist Marine Sargeant played by R. Lee Ermey shouts at and assaults Matthew Modine’s Private Joker. These scenes are captioned: “President Trump.”

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Former President Donald Trump referred to President Barack Obama by his middle name Hussein when asked about tariffs during an interview at the Economic Club of Chicago on Tuesday.

Trump was speaking to Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait when he started to ramble about a variety of subjects, such as the importance of steel production during war times before he began to brag about his record of keeping the US out of armed conflict.

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