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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are both holding rallies in Michigan this evening as they try to win voters in the key swing state.
Trump is speaking in Detroit, telling supporters that Harris is “grossly incompetent” and he will “save” the city. Meanwhile, Harris is speaking in Oakland County. The latest Emerson College poll shows the two candidates are tied in the key swing state with just over two weeks until Election Day.
Also tonight, former President Barack Obama is campaigning on the vice president’s behalf in Tuscon, Arizona.
Ahead of tonight’s rally, the former president called Judge Tanya Chutkan “the most evil person” and labeled special counsel Jack Smith a “sick puppy” after new evidence was released in the January 6 case against him.
Trump has called the case against him “a terrible thing” and “election interference” as he navigates indictments in Washington and Georgia for his efforts to subvert his 2020 loss.
Meanwhile, the ratings for the latest Fox News appearances by Harris and Trump were released. More than 7.8 million people tuned in to Harris’s interview with Bret Baier, more than double the 3.1 million who tuned in to Trump’s town hall event.
Trump meanders across the stage after mic malfunction
Donald Trump is pacing back and forth and waving to the crowd at his Detroit rally following a microphone malfunction.
The crowd is chanting in support of the president as wanders about on the stage.
Katie Hawkinson19 October 2024 01:01
Trump takes the stage in Detroit
Donald Trump has taken the stage for his Detroit rally on Friday night.
“Detroit was decimated as if by a foreign army…Our factories were left in ruins, and under Kamala Harris, the US has lost nearly 50,000 manufacturing jobs,” Trump told his supporters.
When he was in Detroit earlier this month, Trump called the city a “mess.”
“The whole country is going to be like, you want to know the truth? It’ll be like Detroit,” Trump said last week. “Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your president. You’re going to have a mess on your hands,” he said. “We’re not going to let her do that to this country. We’re not gonna let it happen.”
Katie Hawkinson19 October 2024 01:00
Obama campaigns for Harris in Arizona
Former president Barack Obama is campaigning on behalf of Kamala Harris in Tuscon, Arizona on Friday night.
Obama slammed Trump’s economic plans, taking a jab at the argument that the US economy under Trump was “good” for the first two years of his presidency.
“Yeah, it was good, it was my economy that I gave to him,” Obama told the audience. “I spent eight years cleaning up the mess that Republicans had left me. So when I handed over the economy to Donald Trump, we had had 75 straight months of job growth…All he did with it was give a tax cut to people who did not need one and drove up the deficit in the process.”
“Now he wants to do it again,” Obama continued.
Meanwhile, Trump and Harris are both speaking in Michigan this evening.
Katie Hawkinson19 October 2024 00:45
Dispute over Trump sign in a yard leads to shooting, man getting foot run over
A dispute over a pro-Donald Trump sign outside a home in Las Vegas turned violent, resulting in a shooting and a man getting his foot run over.
Timothy Parks, 45, and Jennifer Lund, 38, now face charges of assault, battery and stalking, following the incident on October 13, according to charging documents.
Mike Bedigan has the details.
Oliver O’Connell19 October 2024 00:30
Secret Service lacks ‘critical thinking’ and needs massive reforms says scathing Homeland Security report
The findings, from a panel of security and law enforcement officials, recommended Thursday that the elite protective agency clean house and replace senior leadership with officials from the outside.
Josh Marcus has the details.
Oliver O’Connell19 October 2024 00:10
Trump calls for death penalty for cop killers
During a town hall in Michigan, Donald Trump talked about police issues. He also said that he wanted to see the death penalty for anybody who kills a cop.
“We also want to call for the death penalty for anyone killing a police officer,” Trump said to loud applause.
Trump also called for immunity for police in their jobs.
Alex Lang19 October 2024 00:08
Who lies more? Democrats or Republicans?
A top fact-checker finally reveals which party lies more as James Liddell reports.
Oliver O’Connell18 October 2024 23:50
Trump fights back after Harris questions whether he is ‘exhausted’
Donald Trump‘s energy level emerged as a flashpoint on Friday as the Republican nominee and Democrat Kamala Harris scrambled across battleground Michigan with Election Day looming.
Harris told reporters that Trump was “unfit,” “unstable” and “a danger to our democracy” ahead of an afternoon rally. But she appeared to touch a nerve with her Republican rival when she mentioned a report that Trump was “exhausted.”
“Being president of the United States is probably one of the hardest jobs in the world and we really do need to ask, if he’s exhausted on the campaign trail, is he fit to do the job?” jabbed Harris, who has been on the road campaigning since Monday and won’t return to Washington until sometime next week.
NRA took aim at Tim Walz — it totally backfired
The National Rifle Association, the influential firearms lobbying group, was mocked online for allegedly getting the facts wrong on a video claiming vice presidential candidate Tim Walz doesn’t know how to use a shotgun.
Josh Marcus has the story.
Oliver O’Connell18 October 2024 23:10
Harris asked about gender divide between her supporters and Trump supporters
Kamala Harris was asked by NBC’s Peter Alexander about the gender gap between her supporters and those of Donald Trump. Something that has been evident in recent polling.
PETER ALEXANDER: Let me ask you, if I can about one of the challenges the campaign faces right now. Polls show that there is a widening gender gap that Donald Trump leads, particularly among men, by 16 points right now. Why is that? And why do you think there is a disconnect for you with men right now?
KAMALA HARRIS: Let me tell you can look at this audience and you can see that there are people of every background and gender who are showing up by the 1000s, and I think it is because they know I intend to be a president for all Americans, and that is how I’m campaigning to earn the vote of every American, not only about their gender, but about their geographic location and, and unburdened by who they may have voted for in the past. I think this really is a moment like we saw with the Republicans who are supporting me most publicly recently, that it’s a time to put country before party and really, again, with a sense of optimism, fight for what we care about.
PA: Just to be clear, though, men still say by 60% margin of supporting Donald Trump right now. Why do you think that is?
KH: It’s not the experience I’m having to be honest with you.
PA: You, think the men are on board?
Oliver O’Connell18 October 2024 23:02