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With less than a week to go in the US presidential election race, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are making their final pitches to voters.
The Democratic presidential nominee was forced to respond to Joe Biden inadvertently whipping up a conservative media storm by seemingly calling Trump’s supporters “garbage” in response to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s already-notorious Madison Square Garden joke about Puerto Rico.
The White House and the president himself maintain that he did not.
Harris told reporters on Wednesday that she “strongly” disagrees with any criticism of the public based on their voting intentions.
Trump also addressed the president’s comments: “He called them garbage and they mean it.”
In a bizarre moment, the Republican posed in a garbage truck dressed as a sanitation worker before a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, answering questions about the original slur and attempting to distance himself from Hinchcliffe in the hope of pinning it all on the Harris campaign.
Trump later told a rally crowd he would protect women “whether the women like it or not”.
The latest swing state polling meanwhile puts Harris narrowly ahead in Wisconsin and Michigan.
Kamala HQ turns Trump’s latest sinister declaration into hard-hitting meme
The X account that describes itself as “the official rapid response page of Vice President Harris’ presidential campaign” has wasted no time in going after the Republican for his disturbing pledge to protect women “whether they like it or not” by pointing out the real-life consequences of his war on reproductive rights in the starkest terms possible.
Trump boasts to crowd no one leaves his rallies early – just as man gets up and walks out
“Everybody watches our rallies, everybody loves our rallies, we never have an empty seat,” Trump declared at his earlier event yesterday in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
“They try and demean us like that horrible, horrible person that I debated when she said ‘and people leave early.’ Nobody leaves early.”
At that very moment, a rally-goer donning a black T-shirt featuring the Republican’s mugshot got up out of his seat and left.
Too perfect.
Here’s Rihan Lubin’s report.
Harris slams Trump for promising ‘abortion conspiracy theorist’ RFK Jr ‘control’ over public health agencies
Kamala came after the former independent candidate on X late yesterday, warning that him being put in charge of anything is evidence that Trump is “more unhinged than ever”.
Here’s Gustaf Kilander with more on the Republican’s apparent quid pro quo with Kennedy.
Jimmy Kimmel roasts Trump’s ‘confusing’ garbage truck stunt
“Shouldn’t they have put him in the back of that?” the host quipped.
“The garbage goes in the back”.
James Liddell has more on a gift for late-night.
Trump claims he could have beaten George Washington in 2020 but for Covid-19 outbreak
Fox News aired more of the Republican nominee’s dungeon-shot interview with Sean Hannity last night, which found him claiming a fictional Trump-Lincoln ticket could have seen off Big George four years but for that pesky pandemic.
He also offered this flagrant lie about the reception Beyonce got in her native Houston, Texas, last Friday as she campaigned for Harris, insisting the crowd were devastated that she didn’t sing.
Where are the candidates campaigning on Thursday?
Here’s where the main players will be today, with just five days to go.
- Donald Trump will spend Halloween casting his sinister shadow over Albuquerque, New Mexico, Henderson, Nevada, and Glendale, Azirona, with the even ghastlier Tucker Carlson joining him for that last one.
- Kamala Harris will be in Reno and Las Vegas, Nevada, before holding another “When We Vote, We Win” rally in Phoenix, Arizona. Her guests will be Jennifer Lopez and the Mexican pop-rock band Maná in Vegas and Los Tigres del Norte in Phoenix, pointed selections in light of garbage-gate.
- Tim Walz will meanwhile be in Harrisburg and Erie, Pennsylvania, before moving on to Detroit, Michigan.
- Byron Donalds, the Florida Representative, will be leading a Team Trump bus tour in Atlanta, Georgia.
Here’s more on J Lo joining the Harris train in response to Tony Hinchcliffe’s Puerto Rico slur from Rhian Lubin.
Harris shuts down pro-Palestinian protester
The Democrat was also in Wisconsin yesterday and was interrupted during her address in Madison by an activist demanding an end to US support for Israel’s military intervention in Gaza.
Unruffled, the Vice President broke off to silence the heckler, which she did politely but firmly, winning a rapturous reception from the crowd.
Kamala Harris leads Trump in Wisconsin and Michigan in latest polling
The latest swing state polling puts Harris narrowly ahead in Wisconsin and Michigan – but the two are tied in Pennsylvania.
The so-called blue wall states are Harris’s most viable, but not only, path to an Electoral College victory after Tuesday’s election.
Here’s more from Gustaf Kilander.
Trump vows to ‘protect’ women ‘whether the women like it or not’
When the Republican presidential nominee finally took the stage in Green Bay, he was still glorying in his garbage man stunt and wearing the vest, which made him look even more like a haunted pumpkin than usual.
But then it was all business as usual, bragging about Madison Square Garden, berating the Wisconsinites who had bothered to show up to support him, raving about BLT sandwiches and lying about immigration and American history before doing his weird double jerk dance to The Village People and heading for the exit.
There was no question what the line of the night was, however…
Source: independent.co.uk
