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Donald Trump has doubled down on questioning Kamala Harris’s race — which has sparked outrage — saying “I think I was right” while also calling her a “b****” in private, according to reporting by The New York Times.
The former president is said to be “angry” as the vice president surges in the polls, both nationally and in key battleground states that will likely decide the election.
Harris has surged to a five-point lead over Trump in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, putting her at 42% to the Republican’s 37% nationally with less than three months to go to November’s presidential election.
In a New York Times/Siena College poll Harris is leading Trump by four points in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
At a rally on Friday night, Harris told pro-Palestine protesters in Arizona that “now is the time” to get a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and free the hostages, adding that she and President Joe Biden have been “working around the clock” with that aim.
Trump spoke at a rally in Bozeman, Montana, arriving late after his plane was diverted because of a mechanical issue. He falsely claimed Harris would not debate him, before admitting they would do so on September 10.
Trump bizarrely claims nobody knows his Democratic rival’s last name
The reclusive former president emerged from hiding at his Palm Beach, Florida, estate and flew — with a slight mechanical interruption — to a rally in Bozeman, Montana, in support of Republican Senate candidate Tim Sheehy, who is looking to unseat Democratic Senator Jon Tester.
On stage, Trump reeled through his standard list of grievances and disparaging remarks about America, adding some new material for the crowd.
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Dem congressman pokes fun at Trump’s angry reaction to Harris tips pledge
Capitol rioter gets 20 years in prison for attacking police
A California man with a history of political violence was sentenced on Friday to 20 years in prison for repeatedly attacking police with flagpoles and other makeshift weapons during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
David Nicholas Dempsey’s sentence is among the longest among hundreds of Capitol riot prosecutions. Prosecutors described him as one of the most violent members of the mob of Donald Trump supporters that attacked the Capitol as lawmakers met to certify Joe Biden‘s 2020 presidential election victory.
Dempsey, who is from Van Nuys, stomped on police officers’ heads. He swung poles at officers defending a tunnel, struck an officer in the head with a metal crutch and attacked police with pepper spray and broken pieces of furniture, prosecutors said.
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Trump furious about Harris echoing ‘no tax on tips’ policy
This really got to him…
Trump appears to confirm hacking of campaign by Iran
Here’s our earlier reporting:
Harris pledges to work to end taxes on tips for service industry employees, echoing Trump vow
Vice President Kamala Harris promised Saturday to work to eliminate taxes on tips paid to restaurant workers and other service employees, echoing a pledge that her opponent in November, Donald Trump, has made, and creating a rare instance of political overlap from both sides.
Harris made the announcement at a rally on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where the economy relies heavily on the hotel, restaurant and entertainment industries. Trump vowed essentially the same thing at his own rally in the city in June — though neither he nor Harris are likely to be able to fully do that without actions from Congress.
“It is my promise to everyone here that, when I am president, we will continue our fight for working families of America,” Harris said. “Including to raise the minimum wage and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.”
Trump responded on his social media site a short time later, posting that Harris “just copied my NO TAXES ON TIPS Policy.”
“The difference is, she won’t do it, she just wants it for Political Purposes!,” the former president wrote. “This was a TRUMP idea – She has no ideas, she can only steal from me.”
Harris and Walz hold rally in Las Vegas
It was quite a turnout, again.
Kamala Harris celebrated the endorsement of the Culinary Union — potentially crucial in Nevada.
Harris tries out a new message: “Bring it on!”
What did JD Vance do while serving in Iraq?
JD Vance sparked a firestorm this week when he accused fellow veteran and Democratic vice presidential nominee, Minnesota governor Tim Walz, of abandoning his unit before it deployed to Iraq.
“When the United States Marine Corps … asked me to go to Iraq to serve my country, I did it,” Vance told reporters. “When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq … he dropped out of the army and allowed his unit to go without him.”
Democrats were quick to hit back at the claim, pointing out that Walz filed to run for Congress and officially retired from the Minnesota National Guard months before his unit was alerted about deployment. But Vance’s criticism of his opponent’s record has drawn greater scrutiny of his own time as a “combat correspondent” in the Marine Corps, as Richard Hall reports.
After months of delays, Trump’s election interference case is back in Judge Chutkan’s hands
Donald Trump’s federal election interference case is slowly coming back to life.
Alex Woodward has been closely following the case.
Jack Smith seeks delay in Trump’s election interference case
Smith’s office indicted Trump in August 2023 over his allegedly “criminal scheme” to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory by installing slates of “fake electors” in states he lost, ordering the Justice Department to conduct “sham election crime investigations” and pressuring then-vice president Mike Pence to “alter the election results,” then failing to stop a mob that sought to do it by force.
Joe Sommerlad and Alex Woodward report.
Source: independent.co.uk
