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In swing state push, Harris calls Trump 'unstable and unhinged' as Trump ramps up his hateful rhetoric – as it happened | US politics

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  • Vice President Kamala Harris gave a speech in Atlanta focusing on issues surrounding abortion access.

  • Donald Trump called Kamala Harris “a threat to democracy.” During the former president's speech in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, Trump said Harris “shouldn't even be the nominee.”

  • R&B star usher spoke briefly to a crowd of about 10,000 people who had gathered at the Lakewood Amphitheater in Atlanta for a campaign rally on Saturday Kamala Harris with Barack Obama.

  • Michigan-born rapper Lizzo expressed their support Kamala Harris at a rally in Detroit. Lizzo said she voted early and encouraged the audience to do the same, calling early voting “a power boost.”

  • Kamala Harris gathered at a high school in Detroit, Michigan. The vice president gave a speech at Western International High School in Detroit, Michigan on Saturday. Her comments come a day after Harris toured the state with presidential campaign events in Grand Rapids, Lansing and Oakland County.

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Donald Trump has concluded his speech Latrobe, Pennsylvaniaafter attacking the Biden administration's handling of the U.S.-Mexico border and promising to rebuild the country's military.

“We are not being attacked. We will not be occupied. “We will not be defeated,” Trump said, repeating the anti-immigrant statements that have been made at all of his rallies.

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Donald Trump invited Republican Senate candidate David McCormick on the stage. McCormick challenges the senator Bob Casey for the Pennsylvania seat.

“We need to get you back to the White House,” McCormick told Trump, “to fight back against this crazy liberal agenda, the weakness of Kamala Harris, that is taking over.”

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Donald Trump has already given his speech in Pennsylvania for over an hour. His remarks shifted from the economy to immigration.

He repeated a false claim that the Tren de Aragua gang had taken over a home in a Colorado town. Trump then called General Mark Milley, who called the former president a fascist, a “woke general.”

Addressing immigration, Trump said: “We need to go back to 1798, when we had real people running our country.”

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At Donald Trump's At the rally in Pennsylvania, a group of more than a dozen steel workers took the stage. “You are my hero,” said one of the Steelworkers for Trump members.

He said if his rival Kamala Harris is elected, “Pennsylvania will be an economic wasteland.”

The former president will hold another rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday, this time in Lancaster.

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Donald Trump spoke about Pennsylvania-specific issues, including fracking, steel mills and energy prices.

“Pennsylvania was the commercial and industrial powerhouse of the United States,” he said. Trump told the audience that Democrats “destroyed your steel mills, decimated your coal jobs, attacked your oil and gas jobs and sold your manufacturing jobs to China and other countries around the world.”

He reiterated his plan to impose tariffs on all imports to boost American manufacturing.

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Donald Trump called Kamala Harris “a threat to democracy”

During the former president's speech in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, Trump said Harris “shouldn't even be the nominee.”

“They should have chosen a candidate fairly, not just given it to her because they want to be politically correct,” Trump added.

The Republican presidential candidate said that Rep Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer approached Joe Biden about his candidacy and “took it away” from him.

“I think he probably could have done better than them, because all we had to do was expose them as crazy people,” Trump said, referring to Harris.

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At a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump called the word “tariff” the “most beautiful word in the dictionary.”

“More beautiful than love, more beautiful than respect, no less beautiful than religion,” he said. “It will make our country rich.”

Trump expressed his appreciation for the SpaceX founder Elon Musk Approval. The former president recounted watching a SpaceX rocket fly across the sky.

Musk, the Tesla CEO, will host a town hall in Pittsburgh on Sunday in support of Trump.

The billionaire's political action committee, America PACHe did not say where Musk will hold the rally.

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Usher shows his support for Vice President Kamala Harris

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usheran influential R&B musician and cornerstone of Atlanta's musical contributions, briefly addressed about 10,000 people gathered for a campaign rally at Atlanta's Lakewood Amphitheater on Saturday Kamala Harris with Barack Obama.

Usher did not perform, although two concerts are scheduled in Atlanta this weekend. He appeared on stage before Obama.

“I feel like this is a great opportunity for each and every one of us,” Usher said. “We have the opportunity to select a new generation of leadership for our country. … “She fights for the rights of everyone. For freedom. … We must strive not to allow our past to determine our future.”

Usher, like all other speakers at the rally so far, urged the crowd to vote early and encourage friends and family to vote.

“How we vote — I mean, everything we do in the next 17 days will impact our children, our grandchildren and all the people we love most.”

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Donald Trump asked the crowd, “Are you feeling better now than you were four years ago?”

The audience screamed “No!” in unison. He attacked the vice president Kamala Harris and the Biden administration for its handling of the U.S. southern border and the Middle East crisis.

Trump then falsely claimed that “they stole the election from an American president.”

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Former President Donald Trump delivers his speech at a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

Trump has recently started giving speeches on schedule.

He began by telling the story of the Pennsylvania golfer Arnold Palmer. Trump is holding his rally at the Latrobe airport named after the golfer.

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Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to give his speech at a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania soon. Trump will hold a rally at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport.

We will be following his comments in the battlefield state.

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In a new television commercial, Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, a Democrat, distances himself from President Biden

senator Bob Casey showed support for some Trump-era policies in his new ad, which aired in parts of the state on Friday.

The ad features a Republican-Democrat couple from Old Forge praising Casey as an independent leader. They say he opposes Biden on fracking and has supported Trump on trade issues such as ending NAFTA and imposing tariffs on China.

Pennsylvania Senate Democrat Bob Casey touts breaking with Biden on fracking and agreeing with Trump on trade in this new ad… https://t.co/rOz8d6iUzX

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) October 18, 2024

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Barack Obama rallies in Las Vegas in support of Harris

Barack Obama will hold an event on Saturday to mobilize voters Kamala Harris on the first day of early voting in Nevada.

The Harris campaign said the former president would encourage voters to get out and vote for the governor of Harris, Minnesota Tim Waltz and Democrats up and down the ballot.

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Former NFL star Antonio Brown is in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, for Donald Trump's recent rally. Brown has continued to express his support for the former president ahead of next month's US presidential election.

The ex-Steelers star addressed the crowd of Trump supporters after mocking his appearance on social media earlier this week.

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In Detroit, Kamala Harris was asked whether the war was in Gaza could cost them the election. She did not answer the question directly, but referred to the Biden administration's calls for peace days after the killing of the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

“This creates an opportunity that I think we must take full advantage of to dedicate ourselves to ending this war and bringing the hostages home,” Harris told reporters in Michigan.

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Tim Waltzthe governor of Minnesota and the Democratic vice president-elect, visited the city of Chicago before heading to a rally in Omaha, Nebraska.

He spoke in a ballroom at a downtown hotel and was introduced by the senator Dick Durbin.

“It’s pretty clear that the tired, divisive and old rhetoric of Donald Trump matches the tired, divisive and old rhetoric of Donald Trump,” Walz said.

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Americans are paying attention Kamala Harris' media blitz and Donald Trump's campaign rallies, according to a CNN poll.

A CNN polling project that tracks what average Americans hear, read and watch about the presidential candidates during the race found that the most commonly used word to describe the news about Harris was “interview.”

Survey participants pointed to appearances on CBS' “60 Minutes” and the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, as well as interviews with Howard Stern and Stephen Colbert.

When Americans were asked to describe the news about Trump, “rally” was the second most commonly used word in response.

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