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Harris rallies in North Carolina after disagreeing with Biden’s ‘garbage’ comments

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Kamala Harris says American patriots did not struggle for us to ‘submit to the will of another petty tyrant’

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, with both set to appear in battleground North Carolina on Wednesday.

The Democratic presidential nominee has been 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 only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters – his – his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American,” the president told Latinos on a Zoom call on Tuesday.

Harris told reporters on Wednesday that she “strongly” disagrees with any criticism of the public based on their voting intentions.

The Democrat delivered her “closing argument” at the Ellipse in Washington DC last night, speaking on the very same spot from which Trump told his supporters to “fight like hell” on January 6 2021.

She urged Americans to finally “turn the page” on the “division, chaos and mutual distrust” of the Trump era, characterising her opponent as a cynical opportunist vulnerable to the influence of malign actors at home and abroad.

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Trump tells supporters that he is ‘not Hitler’

At his rally in North Carolina, Trump once again reminded his supporters that he was “not Hitler.”

The former president came under fire following reports he had once made comments praising the German dictator. Comparisons were also drawn between his recent rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden, the site of a Nazi rally in 1939.

“They’ve called me Hitler,” Trump said. “Many years ago I had a father, he was a great guy, a strong guy… he always used to tell me ‘never use the word Nazi, never use the word Hitler.

“Now we’re called Nazis and I’m called Hitler, I’m not Hitler!”

Mike Bedigan30 October 2024 18:05

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Trump responds to Biden calling his ‘high quality’ supporters ‘garbage’

Donald Trump addressed remarks made by Joe Biden in which the president appeared to refer to Trump supporters at “garbage.”

The former president said his fans were “far higher quality” than those of the Democrats.

“This week Kamala Harris has been comparing her political opponents to the evil mass murderers in history and now, on a call for her campaign last night, Joe Biden finally said what he and Kamala really think of our supporters,” he said.

“He called them garbage and they mean it… even though, without question, my supporters are far higher quality than Crooke Joe or Lyin Kamala.”

He added: “My response to Joe and Kamla is very simple: You can’t lead america if you don’t love Americans, you just cant. And you can’t be president if you hate the American people…

“They’ve treated you like garbage, the truth is they’ve treated our whole country like garbage whether they’ve meant to or not.”

Mike Bedigan30 October 2024 17:55

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Trump calls Harris ‘low-IQ individual’ but claims he is ‘very nice’ to her

Moments after Kamala Harris finished her remarks, Donald Trump began his own rally in North Carolina, in Rocky Mount.

The former president claimed that he was “very nice” to the Democrats, moments after referring to his Democratic rival as a “low-IQ individual.”

“I will bring back a thing called The American Dream, isn’t that nice? Because we hadn’t had that in a long time,” he said.

“Our country will be bigger, better, bolder, richer, safer, and strongner than ever before.”

He continued: “Kamala Harris, a low-IQ individual, is running a campaign of hate, anger and retribution. See I’m very nice to them, they’re not very nice to me.”

Harris’ plans were “the plans of a simpleton” he later added.

Trump later laughed when an audience member shouted that Harris was “an idiot” but joked “I didn’t say it… In fact, sir I’d like to admonish you that way the press can’t get me.”

Mike Bedigan30 October 2024 17:45

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In pictures: Harris arrives to campaign in Raleigh, North Carolina

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Mike Bedigan30 October 2024 17:35

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Harris says will people who disagree with her a ‘seat at the table’

Kamala Harris told supporters in North Carolina that, unlike her Republican rival, she would work with those who have conflicting views.

“Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t believe that people who disagree with me are the enemy,” she said. “He wants to put them in jail. I’ll give them a seat at the table.”

She added: “We are here together because we love our country, and when you love something you fight for it.”

Mike Bedigan30 October 2024 17:20

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Harris repeats promise to ‘turn the page’ on Donald Trump

At a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, Kamala Harris repeated her promise to “turn the page” on Donald Trump.

After taking to the stage, the vice president went back over many of the points made in her “closing argument speech” in Washington DC on Tuesday night.

She added it was time to “turn the page on a decade of Donald Trump, who has been trying to keep us divided and afraid of each other.” “That is not who we are,” Harris said.

“It is time for a new chapter where we stop with the pointing fingers at each other – let us lock arms with each other… it is time for a new generation of leadership in America.”

Similar to her DC speech, she said that Trump was “obsessed with revenge” and after “unchecked power.”

Mike Bedigan30 October 2024 17:10

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Watch live: Donald Trump holds campaign rally in North Carolina

Mike Bedigan30 October 2024 16:59

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Election Day’s weather forecast is out – and the conditions could help determine who wins

Here’s Julia Musto to tell us which way the wind is blowing and what it might mean for voter turnout on Tuesday.

Joe Sommerlad30 October 2024 16:50

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Supreme Court allows Virginia to resume voter roll purge

The US Supreme Court’s conservative majority moved on Wednesday to allow Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations that the state says is aimed at stopping people who are not American citizens from voting.

The high court, over the dissents of its three liberal justices, granted an emergency appeal from Virginia’s Republican administration led by Governor Glenn Youngkin.

The court provided no reason for its action, which is typical in emergency appeals.

The justices acted on Virginia’s appeal after a federal judge found that the state illegally purged more than 1,600 voter registrations in the past two months.

A federal appeals court had previously allowed the judge’s order to remain in effect.

Such voting is rare in American elections, but the spectre of immigrants voting illegally has been a main part of the political messaging this year from Trump and other Republicans.

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Mike Bedigan30 October 2024 16:40

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Live: Kamala Harris holds campaign rally in North Carolina

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