Trump claims he’s ‘healthier than Kamala’ in rant about medical records as Harris brands him ‘unhinged’: Live

Donald Trump launched into a late-night Truth Social rant about election rival Kamala Harris’s medical records last night, alleging that while his own health is “flawless”, hers is “not good”, citing what he claimed were two “deeply serious conditions that clearly impact her functioning” that were mentioned in the report she released over the weekend.

The Republican also taunted his rival for pushing for a second debate and predicted her upcoming Fox News interview with Bret Baier would be “weak and soft”.

The Democrat meanwhile hit back at a rally in Eerie, Pennsylvania, by playing recordings of Trump threatening to deploy the National Guard or even the military against American citizens from a Sunday interview with Fox’s Maria Bartiromo and calling him “increasingly unstable and unhinged”.

The former president was in the same state last night taking part in a town hall event in suburban Philadelphia that turned into a confused, impromptu dance party when two people in the audience suffered medical emergencies.

Trump was left awkwardly bopping his head on stage to a selection of pop music and show tunes while medics dealt with a pair of supporters who apparently fainted in the heat of the auditorium.

Key Points

• Donald Trump raves about Kamala Harris’s medical records in late-night Truth Social rant

• Harris plays Trump’s ‘enemy within’ threats at Pennsylvania rally

• ‘Hope he’s okay: Harris ridicules Trump after he spends most of swing state town hall nodding to music

• Trump again tries to move hush money case to federal court

• This may be the most important county in the election

Trump again tries to move hush money case to federal court

10:00 , Joe Sommerlad

The Republican nominee is still trying to move his hush money case away from Judge Juan Merchan, who has already obligingly moved his sentencing date to November 26, three weeks after the United States goes to the polls.

As you will no doubt recall, Trump was found guilty on May 30 this year by a New York jury on all 34 felony counts of falsifying documents to conceal a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in October 2016 to stay quiet about an affair she alleges they had a decade earlier.

Lawyers on Monday again pushed to transfer the matter to federal court, a move that would give him the ability to end the prosecution if he regains the presidency.

Trump’s attorneys renewed the request in a brief filed with the Manhattan-based 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals as they appealed US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein’s September 3 ruling rejecting the shift.

In their brief, Trump’s advocates cited the US Supreme Court’s July 1 decision that former president’s cannot be prosecuted for official actions taken in office.

In the hush money case, they said, jurors had improperly seen evidence of Trump’s official acts as president.

His lawyers said the state charges intruded on the authority of the presidency under the US Constitution.

If Trump beats Kamala Harris to the White House next month, he could seek to pardon himself for any federal crime or have his new Justice Department leadership dismiss any criminal cases pending against him in federal court.

But state criminal charges are beyond the reach of presidential pardon authority or Justice Department action.

Under American law, civil or criminal cases pursued against federal officials may be moved to federal court if they relate to do their duties in office.

Trump’s lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove wrote that prosecutors’ “use of official-acts evidence in grand jury proceedings and at trial violated the Constitution and threatens the ability of all future Presidents to fulfil that role”.

‘Hope he’s okay: Harris ridicules Trump after he spends most of swing state town hall nodding to music

09:40 , Joe Sommerlad

The former president was also in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania last night, taking part in a town hall event in suburban Philadelphia – Oaks, Montgomery County, to be exact – hosted by puppy killer and sometime South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem.

But the event quickly turned into a confused, impromptu dance party when two people in the audience suffered medical emergencies, leaving Trump awkwardly bopping his head on stage to a selection of pop music and show tunes while the afflicted were assisted by medics, having apparently fainted in the heat of the auditorium.

The bizarre interlude was rightly ridiculed by Kamala Harris and drew some truly desperate spinning from Trump’s embattled spokesman Steven Cheung:

The playlist, since you ask, ranged from Luciano Pavarotti belting out “Ave Maria” through “YMCA” by The Village People, “Nothing Compares 2 U” by Sinead O’Connor, “It’s a Man’s World” by James Brown, “November Rain” by Guns N’ Roses and Barbara Streisand singing “Memory” from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats.

Io Dodds has this report on a weird evening, even by Trump’s standards.

Trump spends most of PA town hall standing jamming to music after two people fall ill

Harris plays Trump’s ‘enemy within’ threats at Pennsylvania rally

09:20 , Joe Sommerlad

The Democrat hit back at a rally in Eerie, Pennsylvania, last night by playing recordings of Trump threatening to deploy the National Guard or even the military against American citizens from a Sunday interview with Fox’s Maria Bartiromo and calling him “increasingly unstable and unhinged”.

Harris called the twice-impeached, felonious former president “someone who will stop at nothing to claim power for himself,” citing his long history of comments that express contempt for the Constitution and the recent Supreme Court decision giving presidents sweeping immunity from prosecution for any crimes committed while carrying out their official duties.

But Harris told the 6,000-strong crowd that they don’t have to take her word for it when it comes to Trump’s malign intent.

She asked staff to “roll the clip” on what she said was an example of Trump’s “worldview and intentions” – a segment from an interview he sat for with Bartiromo broadcast over the weekend.

In it, Trump tells the financial correspondent – a strong and vocal supporter of his who repeatedly broadcast lies about the conduct of the 2020 election – that “the enemy from within,” his term for Americans who do not support him or vote for Republicans, are “more dangerous” than foreign adversaries such as Russia or China.

“We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think they’re the and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary by the military,” he said, facing no pushback from the Fox personality.

Here’s Andrew Feinberg’s report.

Harris uses Trump’s threats on ‘enemy within’ against him in Pennsylvania

Donald Trump raves about Kamala Harris’s medical records in late-night Truth Social rant

09:00 , Joe Sommerlad

Donald Trump launched into a late-night Truth Social rant about election rival Kamala Harris’s medical records last night, alleging that while his own health is “flawless”, hers is “not good”, citing what he claimed were two “deeply serious conditions that clearly impact her functioning” that were mentioned in the report she released over the weekend.

The Republican also taunted his rival for pushing for a second debate and predicted her upcoming Fox News interview with Bret Baier would be “weak and soft”.

Most ridiculously of all, he claimed to “love truth”, which, I think, requires no further comment.

Perhaps this open letter from 230 doctors demanding that he come clean about his own physical and mental wellbeing is what’s got him so riled up on the subject.

Mike Bedigan reports.

Over 230 doctors call for Trump to release medical records

Trump and Republicans are preparing their excuse for why they lost the election

08:00 , Alex Woodward

James Stroop applied to work the polls in Alabama on Election Day. He got a letter from the state on August 23 that he hoped was a response.

Instead, he was “shocked” to discover that he was being purged from the state’s voter rolls as a “non-citizen”. The 55-year-old was born in Florida and has lived in Alabama for nearly 50 years.

James Cozzad, 49, had been a registered Republican voter and cast his ballot in 2016 and 2020 elections without any issue. He also received a letter from the state: He was being removed from the rolls, for the same reason as Stroop.

Trump is preparing his excuse for why he lost the election

What is a sovereign citizen? The anti-government group linked to armed suspect at Trump rally

07:00 , James Liddell

As Vem Miller was arrested outside a Donald Trump rally in California on Saturday, authorities said they noticed something peculiar about his license plate: it was “obviously fake.”

The 49-year-old Las Vegas resident was pulled over about half a mile from the Coachella Valley campaign event armed with an unregistered shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine.

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said at a press conference that his deputies had “probably” just thwarted a third assassination attempt on Trump in as many months, though the Secret Service has since said that Trump “was not in any danger.”

What is a sovereign citizen? The far-right group linked to Trump rally gun suspect

WATCH: Dem strategist accuses Trump of ‘mimicking’ infamous Nazi rally

06:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Man armed with assault rifle arrested after reports ‘armed militia’ were hunting hurricane relief workers

05:00 , Graig Graziosi

Government officials were forced to flee a county in North Carolina and one man was arrested after reports that an armed militia was prowling around in trucks “hunting” for Hurricane relief workers.

Deputies later said they found no evidence of truckloads of men with guns, but did arrest a man armed with an assault rifle who allegedly threatened to “mess up” FEMA workers.

On Saturday, the Washington Post reported on an email sent out by US Forest Service officials warning relief workers that “National Guard troops had come across two trucks of men saying [they] were out hunting FEMA.”

Armed man arrested after reports ‘armed militia’ hunting hurricane relief workers

Kamala Harris plays Trump’s ‘enemy within’ threats at Erie rally

04:20 , Io Dodds

Meanwhile, in Erie, Pennsylvania, Kamala Harris played recordings of Donald Trump’s own words to argue that he is becoming “increasingly unstable and unhinged”.

My colleague Andrew Finberg reports:

Speaking to a crowd of supporters at an Erie, Pennsylvania, Harris called the twice-impeached, felonious former president “someone who will stop at nothing to claim power for himself,” citing his long history of comments that express contempt for the Constitution and the recent Supreme Court decision giving presidents sweeping immunity from prosecution for any crimes committed while carrying out their official duties.

But Harris told the crowd, which a campaign official estimated at roughly 6,000, that they don’t have to take her word for it when it comes to Trump’s malign intent.

She asked staff to “roll the clip” on what she said was an example of Trump’s “worldview and intentions” — a segment from an interview he sat for with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo.

In it, Trump tells the financial correspondent — a strong and vocal supporter of his who repeatedly broadcast lies about the conduct of the 2020 election — that “the enemy from within,” his term for Americans who do not support him or vote for Republicans, are “more dangerous” than foreign adversaries such as Russia or China.

“We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think they’re the and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary by the military,” he said, facing no pushback from the Fox personality.

Read Andrew’s full story here.

238 healthcare professionals call on Trump to release medical records

04:00 , Gustaf Kilander

As many as 238 doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers have issued a call for former President Donald Trump to release his medical records.

They argue he should practice transparency because of his “advancing age.”

The letter was initially obtained by CBS News. It was organized by the group “Doctors for Harris” which is not connected to the vice president’s campaign.

“Trump is falling concerningly short of any standard of fitness for office and displaying alarming characteristics of declining acuity,” they wrote in the letter released on Sunday.

“In the limited opportunities we can examine his behavior, he’s providing a deeply concerning snapshot,” they added.

“As we all age, we lose sharpness and revert to base instincts. We are seeing that from Trump, as he uses his rallies and appearances to ramble, meander, and crudely lash out at his many perceived grievances,” the signatories said.

Seventh person granted clemency by Trump charged with new crimes

03:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Philip Esformes, whose 20-year-sentence was commuted by Trump at the end of his first and so far only term in the White House, has been charged with two felony counts which could mean that he may be heading back to jail, according to The New York Times.

He’s at least the seventh person so far who was granted clemency by Trump and subsequently has been charged with new crimes, the paper notes.

He’s also the third person granted clemency by the then-president to be charged with domestic violence offenses.

On Saturday night, he verbally threatened a woman whom her relatives say is his wife. He also threatened a second member of the family, according to The Times.

Whoever wins this Pennsylvania county will likely win the whole election

02:00 , Eric Garcia

The most valuable asset any candidate for office has is time. And how they spend it shows what their priorities are.

While over the weekend, former president Donald Trump held a vanity fest in Coachella down in California, he held an arguably more important event with Latino business leaders on Saturday as part of his effort to pick off Latino voters from Vice President Kamala Harris.

Meanwhile, Vice President Harris spent Sunday in Greenville, North Carolina as she seeks to win a state that Democrats have long been close to winning but just can’t get right.

Whoever wins this county will likely win the whole election

All alone in the moonlight

01:45 , Io Dodds

The live stream has unceremoniously cut out, which presumably means Donald Trump’s town hall event in Oaks, Pennsylvania has ended – not with a bang but with the heartbreaking strains of ‘Memory’ from Cats.

Thanks for sticking with us through this rollercoaster, and best wishes to the two people who took ill.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics

01:31 , Io Dodds

One running theme of this town hall, at least before the medical incidents, was Trump refusing to believe official statistics.

On crime, inflation, and deaths in the Ukraine war, he repeatedly claimed that he didn’t accept the currently public numbers and that the true numbers were far worse – without going into detail or offering evidence.

Meanwhile, according to my colleague Alex Lang, the town hall has now been in this interrupted limbo state for twice as long as it was actually running.

Trump continues to sway his body mildly to the music.

Trump’s town hall becomes an impromptu music festival

01:14 , Io Dodds

The town hall event is ending – or is it? Things are a little confusing at present.

After playing Luciano Pavarotti’s ‘Ave Maria’, Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli’s ‘Time To Say Goodbye’, and James Brown’s ‘It’s A Man’s World’ (again featuring Pavarotti) – with a little bit of stiff dancing from the former president – Trump again addresses the crowd.

“How about this? We’ll play YMCA, and we’ll go home. But listen, whatever you can do, get out there. We have to win. This is the most important election in the history of our country…

“Those two people who went down are ptriots, and we love them. And because of them, we ended up with some good music, right?”

They then play ‘YMCA’ by the Village People, which often signals the end of a Trump rally (despite the opposition of its creators). But afterwards, Trump says: “Nobody’s leaving. What’s going on? There’s nobody leaving. Should we keep going?”

Then it’s on to Jeff Buckley’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’. More exciting news as soon as we get it.

Armed suspect arrested at Trump rally insists he’s ‘an artist’ — not a would-be assassin

01:00 , Justin Rohrlich

Vem Miller insists he’s absolutely not a would-be presidential assassin.

Rather, the 49-year-old dual US-Canadian citizen, who was arrested Saturday with a loaded handgun, shotgun, and a high-capacity magazine in the parking area of a Trump rally in Coachella, California, is “but an artist,” he told The Independent.

Miller, a onetime journalist who has worked as a music video director and now runs a website called the America Happens Network — which features conspiracy-minded videos about 9/11 being “an inside job” and the “so-called” Covid-19 pandemic — said he “was certainly not there to cause any harm to anybody.”

At a news conference on Sunday, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco called Miller a “lunatic” with “fringe” views, and claimed his arrest may have headed off a third assassination attempt. But Trump was never in any danger at Saturday’s rally, the Secret Service, FBI, and US Attorney’s Office said in a joint statement.

Armed suspect at Trump rally insists he’s ‘an artist’ — not a would-be assassin

‘Would anyone else like to faint? Please raise your hand’

Tuesday 15 October 2024 00:56 , Io Dodds

An extended musical break and some patter from Trump as the medics handle the situation.

”Sir, she’s on her feet and walking out,” Kristi Noem tells the former president, referring to the second person who fainted. “Let’s encourage her,” Trump tells the crowd. “Let her know well be praying for her.”

He says both people are in “good shape”, before joking: “Would anyone else like to faint? Please raise your hand.”

Then he asks the town hall staff to put on Pavarotti’s version of Ave Maria, lamenting that the previous version played had no vocals.

At one point, a bar chart showing border crossings at the US-Mexico frontier appears on the projector. It’s a familiar prop: Trump has claimed that turning his head to look at the chart during the assassination attempt back in July “probably saved my life”, and that he loves it “more than I even love the police”.

“There it is! That’s my favourite piece of paper anywhere in the world. I sleep with it every night. I kiss it, I kiss it.”

Pray, pray for us sinners

Tuesday 15 October 2024 00:40 , Io Dodds

As the crowd watches the medics work, someone puts Ave Maria on the venue stereo, giving the proceedings an eerie and reverent air.

“Eyyy! Eyyyyy! Great! We love that man. We love that man,” says Trump as the music plays, apparently responding to some sign of recovery from off-camera. “It’s so beautiful though, right? Listen to that [music]. It’s nice. He’s going to be okay. Right?”

Then the town hall resumes. But within a minute or two, people start pointing over to the other side of the venue, shouting “Medic! Medic!” Looks like someone else needs help. Ave Maria begins again.

Someone needs a doctor

Tuesday 15 October 2024 00:33 , Io Dodds

The town hall pauses for a while so that someone in the crowd can receive medical attention.

“Take your time, doctor. Take your time. Thank you very much,” Trump says. “We always have great doctors in the audience.”

After a long pause while he and Kristi Noem look offstage at what’s happening, Trump : “Look at the quality of care we have. It’s incredible, when you think. First responders – our first responders are amazing, in the way they can do things so beautifully and quickly.” People in the audience wave their hats in saute.

A while later, Trump admits: “That looks a little bad… don’t worry, we’ll extend for a little time. WE just want to make sure they’re fine. This is a little bit of a tough one, I think.”

Then the crowd breaks into a spontaneous song – sounds like a hymn (maybe Abide With Me?). Hopefully the person is okay.

Immigration, immigration, immigration

Tuesday 15 October 2024 00:26 , Io Dodds

Second question is from Angelina, a Black woman in a blended family, who says she was raised among Philadelphia Democrats but is now being hurt by inflation.

“We’re going to do a lot of things,” says Trump, then pivots to talking about immigration.

Indeed, he’s taking every opportunity to talk about the border, namechecking Springfield, Ohio and Aurora, Colorado. He’s previously said he wants to use a 200-year-old wartime law to begin mass deportations of suspected illegal immigrants.

Trump wrongly claims inflation is worst in US history

Tuesday 15 October 2024 00:19 , Lauren Io Dodds

During his answer, Trump wrongly claimed that we have recently seen the worst period of inflation in US history – although he qualified that this was just, like, his opinion, man.

“Such damage has been done – In my opinion, the biggest inflation in the history of our country,” he said. “They didn’t include a lot of the bad numbers.”

In fact that title goes to March and April of 1980, according to CNN, when the rate of inflation hit 14.6 per cent.

More recently, inflation hit a peak of just over 9 per cent in July 2022. It’s now back down at around 2.6 per cent, although of course that doesn’t erase the price rises we’ve already suffered through.

Trump promises to cut energy prices in half by 2026

Tuesday 15 October 2024 00:08 , Io Dodds

After a brief intro speech lamenting the US’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, Trump’s Q&A begins.

The first question is from a man named Reed. “I believe you’re a Navy SEAL, correct?” asks moderator Kristi Noem. No: he’s a single father and Iraq war veteran who “dreams of owning a home”, which he says interest rates under Biden and Harris have made “impossible”.

Trump says it’s too expensive to build a home due to regulatory red tape. But most of all, he says, he’ll bring interest rates down. He says he’ll do this by unleashing fossil fuel extraction – “drill, baby drill!” – to lower energy prices.

“It’s going to be beautiful. You’re going to have a house. Just wait a little while. Give me a little while. Let me get in,” he concluded.

“One year from January 20, we will have your energy prices cut in half all over the country.”

Gwen Walz outlines fertility struggles in Women’s Health essay

Tuesday 15 October 2024 00:00 , Gustaf Kilander

In an essay for Women’s Health magazine published on Monday, Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz outlined her and Governor Tim Walz’s struggles with fertility.

She urged voters to back Vice President Kamala Harris to protect reproductive rights, arguing that former President Donald Trump will put in place a “nationwide abortion ban” if he returns to the White House.

“We were fortunate to have access to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, where we began fertility treatments,” Walz wrote. “I was prescribed Clomid, among other treatments we tried, which is a medication that increases the hormones that stimulate egg production in your ovaries and can help you get pregnant. I’d also have to take special shots before an intrauterine insemination procedure that would increase my chances of pregnancy and successful fertilization.”

Trump walk on stage in Oaks, Pennsylvania

Monday 14 October 2024 23:56 , Io Dodds

Noem lead cheers of “We love Trump! We love Trump!” She tells the audience: “He’s listening to you right now. He hears you!” Loud cheering.

Then comes Donald Trump, wading through his crowd of supporters and mounting the stage in suburban Philadelphia.

Kristi Noem: ‘Kamala Harris sucks’

Monday 14 October 2024 23:54 , Io Dodds

South Dakota governor Kristi Noem is now speaking to introduce Donald Trump in suburban Philly.

“Let’s face it, Kamala Harris sucks,” she says, to general cheers. “She sucks.”

She’s particularly proud, she says, of her resistance to Covid-19 lockdowns and other pandemic mitigation strategies such as mask mandates, saying that she never defined “essential business” because she didn’t believe the government had the right to determine what that meant.

Trump advisors ‘urged ABC to stop fact checking’ amid former president’s war on the media

Monday 14 October 2024 23:30 , Mike Bedigan

Donald Trump’s advisors reportedly blew up at ABC executives midway through his televised debate with Kamala Harris and complained about fact-checking.

People familiar with the matter told The Washington Post that top Trump aides Chris LaCivita and Jason Miller claimed the network had breached a pre-agreed set of rules for the debate on September 10.

In recent weeks Trump has bemoaned the insistence of networks to fact-check his speeches, raising spurious allegations of corruption and bias, and even threatened to somehow revoke broadcast licenses for major networks that air critical coverage.

Read more:

Trump advisors ‘urged ABC to stop fact checking’ amid ex president’s war on the media

Trump due to speak in suburban Philly

Monday 14 October 2024 23:19 , Io Dodds

Donald Trump is due to speak in a town hall event in Oaks, Pennsylvania – part of the Philadelphia suburbs.

Technically, according to earlier reports, he was meant to start 19 minutes ago, at 6pm Eastern Time. But he’s usually late, so we’ll be posting live updates here as soon as he begins.

Hurricane relief workers in North Carolina evacuated over threats from ‘armed militia’

Monday 14 October 2024 23:00 , Graig Graziosi

Government officials were forced to flee a county in North Carolina after they received reports that an “armed militia” was prowling around in trucks “hunting” for Hurricane relief workers.

On Saturday, the Washington Post reported on an email sent out by US Forest Service officials warning relief workers that “National Guard troops had come across two trucks of men saying [they] were out hunting FEMA.”

That email resulted in aid workers being evacuated out of Rutherford County.

Hurricane relief workers in North Carolina evacuated over threat from ‘armed militia’

Biden told Iran attempt on Trump’s life would be act of war

Monday 14 October 2024 22:30 , Gustaf Kilander

President Joe Biden is reported to have instructed his National Security Council to tell Iran that any assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump would be viewed as an act of war.

Several high-level former Trump officials have received increased security following the 2020 killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.

National Security Council spokesperson Sean Savitt told Fox News Digital last month that Iran has wanted revenge for the killing.

“We consider this a national and homeland security matter of the highest priority, and we strongly condemn Iran for these brazen threats,” he told the network. “We have ensured that appropriate agencies are continuously and promptly providing the former president’s security detail with evolving threat information. Additionally, President Biden has reiterated his directive that the United States Secret Service should receive every resource, capability and protective measure required to address those evolving threats to the former president.”

WATCH: ‘I’ll be the first to let you know’: Trump hits out at media boasting his ‘ranting and raving’

Monday 14 October 2024 22:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Harris says it’s not her ‘experience’ that Black men are leaving Democrats for Trump

Monday 14 October 2024 21:30 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump accused of ‘mimicking’ infamous Nazi rally with Madison Square Garden event

Monday 14 October 2024 21:00 , James Liddell

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville claimed that Donald Trump’s forthcoming rally at Madison Square Garden is mimicking a pro-Adolf Hitler Nazi event held at the venue more than 80 years ago.

With just 22 days to go until Americans head to polling stations to cast their ballots, the 79-year-old appeared on Sunday’s episode of MSNBC’s Inside with Jen Psaki.

Carville claimed that Trump’s volatile language is reminiscent of rhetoric used during the Third Reich, as he urged the Harris campaign to switch up its attack lines from Trump being “weird” to downright “scary.”

“I did not realize when I said that that he would actually go on television and say, I’m going to use the military to round up my political enemies,” Carville said.

Trump accused of ‘mimicking’ infamous Nazi rally with Madison Square Garden event

Abortion most important issue for women under 30, survey shows

Monday 14 October 2024 20:30 , Gustaf Kilander

Abortion has become the most important issue for women under 30 since Vice President Kamala Harris entered the race for the White House, according to a new survey.

The KFF Survey of Women Voters found that reproductive rights have become the top issue, beating out inflation, which took the top spot earlier this summer.

Thirty-nine percent of women now list abortion as their top issue – double the number who said so in June.

‘New York is reeling’: Trump campaign officially announces Madison Square Garden

Monday 14 October 2024 20:00 , Gustaf Kilander

The Trump campaign has issued its official announcement of the upcoming rally for the former president in Madison Square Garden in Manhattan.

Trump is set to deliver remarks at the stadium at 5pm on Sunday, October 27.

The Garden has a capacity of 19,500, while Trump’s average rally crowd size is about 5,600, according to the Ash Center.

“New York is reeling from the harmful effects of the dangerously liberal policies championed by Kamala Harris and Democrats like Eric Adams,” the Trump campaign said of the vice president and the New York mayor.

Trump is heading to New York, a state he’s sure to lose, as he at times treats the campaign as a national race rather than a battle for roughly seven swing states.

The Trump campaign said the former president’s “message to New York City is simple and built on his winning record: If you want to return to the strongest economy in over 60 years, rising wages, quality jobs, strong borders, and safer neighborhoods, then vote for the Trump-Vance ticket.”

The rally has been slammed as being akin to the 1939 Nazi event at the Garden.

Trump slammed for suggesting woman heckler should ‘get knocked out’ at Coachella rally

Monday 14 October 2024 19:30 , Kelly Rissman

Weeks after Donald Trump vowed to be a “protector” of women, he suggested a woman heckling him should get “the hell knocked out of her.”

The Republican nominee paused his October 12 rally in Coachella Valley, California, to address the woman in the crowd.

“This election is your chance to send a message,” the former president said, before turning around to the crowd apparently booing at a heckler. The boos turned to cheers when the heckler was seemingly escorted out of the California arena.

Trump then swung back to the microphone and said: “Back home to mommy. She goes back home to mommy. ‘Was that you darling?’ And then she gets the hell knocked out of her.”

Trump slammed for suggesting woman heckler should ‘get knocked out’ at rally

Trump says immigrants who commit murder have ‘bad genes’ in ‘racist’ slam of migrants

Monday 14 October 2024 19:00 , Michelle Del Rey

Former President Donald Trump is claiming migrants who commit murder are predisposed to doing so because of “their genes.”

Trump made the comments while speaking on The Hugh Hewitt Show on Monday, claiming that 13,000 migrants who have entered the US are “murderers.”

“How about allowing people to come through an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers? Many of them murdered far more than one person,” Trump told the show’s host. “And they’re now happily living in the United States. You know, now a murderer — I believe this: it’s in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now. Then you had 425,000 people come into our country that shouldn’t be here that are criminals.”

Trump says immigrants who commit murder have ‘bad genes’ in ‘racist’ slam of migrants

Harris to take part on first-ever formal Fox News interview

Monday 14 October 2024 18:30 , Gustaf Kilander

Fox News revealed on Monday that Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to sit for an interview with the network to be broadcast on Wednesday.

The interview will be conducted by chief political anchor Bret Baier and is set to be recorded near Pennsylvania shortly before airing.

Fox News said the vice president is expected to sit for about half an hour of questions.

It will be Harris’s first formal interview with the conservative network.

What is a sovereign citizen? The anti-government group linked to armed suspect at Trump rally

Monday 14 October 2024 18:00 , James Liddell

As Vem Miller was arrested outside a Donald Trump rally in California on Saturday, authorities said they noticed something peculiar about his license plate: it was “obviously fake.”

The 49-year-old Las Vegas resident was pulled over about half a mile from the Coachella Valley campaign event armed with an unregistered shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine.

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said at a press conference that his deputies had “probably” just thwarted a third assassination attempt on Trump in as many months, though the Secret Service has since said that Trump “was not in any danger.”

What is a sovereign citizen? The far-right group linked to Trump rally gun suspect

Trump’s niece says Musk now ‘owns’ ex-president: ‘He’s always been up for sale’

Monday 14 October 2024 17:30 , Joe Sommerlad

Mary Trump is accusing her estranged uncle of having a “new owner” because of his increasingly close relationship with tech billionaire Elon Musk.

“Donald Trump has always been for sale,” she wrote in a Substack post this weekend.

“Given this decades-long pattern, it’s not surprising that the world’s richest fascist, South African jumping bean Elon Musk, would also be interested in purchasing a few shares in a man who is willing to sell whatever he can get his hands on — whether it’s steaks or American national security — because he values money more than anything.”

Josh Marcus has more.

Trump’s niece says Musk now ‘owns’ ex-president: ‘He’s always been up for sale’

Trump and Republicans are preparing their excuse for why they lost the election

Monday 14 October 2024 17:05 , Joe Sommerlad

While Trump promotes a baseless idea that non-citizens are illegally casting ballots to rig the election against him, voting-eligible citizens are being swept up in Republican-led purges across the country, Alex Woodward reports.

Trump is preparing his excuse for why he lost the election

‘I’ll be the first to let you know’: Trump hits out at media for questioning if he’s cognitively impaired

Monday 14 October 2024 16:45 , Joe Sommerlad

Having questioned his opponent’s mental wellbeing earlier for absolutely no reason other than the strategy worked for him against Joe Biden, here’s Mike Bedigan on the 78-year-old getting mighty shirty when the tables are turned on him.

Trump hits out again at media for coverage questioning if he’s cognitively impaired

Can Harris beat Trump? Latest poll updates

Monday 14 October 2024 16:25 , Joe Sommerlad

Here’s our data correspondent Alicija Hagopian with all the latest election polling as the candidates apparently remain deadlocked.

Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates from the 2024 election

Trump tantrums over Apprentice biopic in middle-of-the-night rant: A ‘fake’ and ‘classless’ movie

Monday 14 October 2024 16:05 , Joe Sommerlad

Here’s more from Gustaf Kilander on the Republican nominee’s fury at the forthcoming new biopic in which Sebastian Stan plays his younger self, Succession’s Jeremy Strong his cutthroat mentor Roy Cohn and Maria Bakalova his late first wife Ivana.

Trump says Ali Abbasi’s film, which has struggled to find an American distributor, amounts to election interference.

Trump brands Apprentice biopic ‘fake and classless’ in middle-of-the-night rant

It’s ‘deranged’ to not have children because of climate change, says JD Vance

Monday 14 October 2024 15:45 , Joe Sommerlad

Oh boy. Trump’s running mate has been sharing his thoughts on the nuclear family once again.

Rachel Sharp reports.

JD Vance says it’s ‘deranged’ for women not to have children due to climate change

Harris and Trump both visiting Pennsylvania on Monday

Monday 14 October 2024 15:25 , Joe Sommerlad

The two White House candidates are descending on the pivotal swing state of Pennsylvania on Monday, which Joe Biden narrowly won four years ago and which promises to serve as kingmaker once again this time around.

Harris will be holding a rally in Erie, a Democratic majority city in the northwest of the state of about 94,000 people bordered by suburbs and rural areas that is home to plenty of registered Republicans in the hope of changing their minds.

Trump, meanwhile, will be in the southeast doing a town hall at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center and Fairgrounds in suburban Oaks.