Kamala Harris in Michigan questions Trump’s fitness for ‘toughest job in the world’ – US politics live

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Kamala Harris takes the stage at Oakland County rally

Kamala Harris began by thanking the members of the Arab- American communities at the rally.

Harris, however, suddenly stopped her remarks to call for a medic. Harris made a few comments about it being warm in the room.

Kamala Harris began by thanking the members of the Arab- American communities at the rally.

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Harris, however, suddenly stopped her remarks to call for a medic. Harris made a few comments about it being warm in the room.

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Trump takes the stage in Michigan with his usual self-confidence, acknowledging the cheers of the crowd who are waving “Make Detroit Great Again” signs. “We win Michigan, we win the whole ballgame,” he said, as he’s promised every other city he’s visited lately.

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However on his previous visit to the city, he bashed it as a “mess” and a “developing nation”. “Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your president. You’re going to have a mess on your hands,” Trump said, referring to Kamala Harris.

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Donald Trump started the conversation by again criticizing Kamala Harris’ decision not to attend the Alfred E Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, which raises funds for Catholic charities.

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Meanwhile in Michigan, Donald Trump answered questions from the press and denied reports that he’s exhausted and canceling events.

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“What event did I cancel,” Trump said. “I haven’t canceled. She doesn’t go to any events. She’s a loser. She didn’t even show up for the Catholics last night at the hotel. It was insulting. All they are is soundbites.”

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Trump said he has gone 48 days without a rest. “Tell me when you’ve seen me take even a little bit of a rest.”

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Kamala Harris will campaign alongside Barack Obama and MichelleObama in two separate events next week aimed at encouraging voting in swing states, the vice-president’s campaign said.

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On Thursday, Harris and Barack Obama will campaign in Atlanta, with the goal of encouraging supporters to take advantage of the early voting period. The vice-president will then head to Michigan on Saturday, the first day of early voting in that state, for an event with Michelle Obama.

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Kamala Harris seized on reports that Donald Trump had backed out of interviews because he was “exhausted”, saying that they were proof he is not up to the job of being president.

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“He has no plan for how he would address the needs of the American people, and he is, as we have seen, only focused on himself, and now he is ducking debates and canceling interviews,” Harris told the crowd in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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“And check this out. His own campaign team recently said it is because of exhaustion. Well, if you are exhausted on the campaign trail, it raises real questions about whether you are fit for the toughest job in the world.”

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Kamala Harris is soon to begin speaking in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as she looks for an edge among voters in a swing state that Donald Trump is looking to reclaim.

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The western Michigan city lies in historically Republican territory where Democrats have only recently begun showing strength. From a stage set up in a park, the vice-president was introduced by Michigan’s Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer, who said:

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Donald Trump has shown us that he is incapable of handling a crisis. He is a petty man who tells dangerous lies and is always looking for someone else to blame. We don’t need that. We need leaders who are going to put politics aside and work together to solve problems. As our next commander-in-chief, Kamala Harris will ask, what do you need? How can I help you? Are you okay? That’s what a leader does.

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An unnamed White House employee told an investigator for the January 6 committee that Donald Trump watched the attack on the Capitol unfold from a White House dining room while drinking a Diet Coke.

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The detail was included in hundreds of pages of mostly redacted documents in the federal case against Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election, which a federal judge allowed to be released today.

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“They’re rioting down at the Capitol”, the employee recalls telling Trump in an interview with an unnamed investigator.

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“Oh, really?” Trump replied.

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The employee recalls going with Trump to the dining room where he often spent time, and where a television was set up:

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And then we walked back to the back. I’m taking off his outer coat that he’s wearing right now, and I get the TV, like, ready for him, and I hand him over the remote, and he starts watching it. And I stepped out to get him a Diet Coke, come back in and that’s pretty much it for me as he’s watching and, like, seeing it for himself.

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A federal judge allowed release of hundreds of documents used in special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion case against Donald Trump, but the majority of them are redacted. What we can see mostly concerns the legal strategy Trump and his allies concocted to block Joe Biden from taking the White House, which may be presented to jurors whenever the case goes to trial. Meanwhile, reports have emerged that Trump has canceled interviews because he is “exhausted” – something his campaign denies – and is also considering holding a town hall with one-time rival Nikki Haley in a bid to woo female voters.

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Here’s what else has happened today so far:

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Trump said that some of the jokes he told at last night’s Al Smith dinner were written by employees of conservative network Fox – a breach of ethics, if confirmed.

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Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the president of Germany, warned in unusually direct terms of the threat Trump could pose if returned to the White House, during a visit by Joe Biden to the country.

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Kamala Harris’s campaign has enlisted singer-songwriter Marc Anthony for a campaign ad aimed at Latino voters in which he condemns Trump’s comments about Puerto Rico.

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A federal court has unsealed hundreds of pages of evidence in the case against Donald Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election.

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The release comes as special prosecutor Jack Smith’s team moves to get its case back on track after the supreme court’s ruling earlier this year that presidents have immunity from charges related to official acts.

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Much of the documents released have been redacted, but we will let you know if any news emerges. Meanwhile, here’s the latest in the legal wrangling over the case:

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Donald Trump was on Fox News earlier this morning, and was asked about his jokes at last night’s Al Smith dinner.

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He replied that some of them were written by “a couple people from Fox” – which, if true, would be quite the breach of media ethics, even for the right-leaning network. CNN captured a clip:

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Doocy: Your material at the Al Smith dinner "was real funny, who helped you with it?" Trump: "I had a lot of people helping, a lot of people, a couple people from Fox – actually, I shouldn't say that, but they wrote some jokes. For the most part, I didn't like any of them." pic.twitter.com/hQSFzPNDkd

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 18, 2024

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Here is our coverage of Trump’s zingers and insults from last night’s get-together:

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In a speech during Joe Biden’s visit to Germany, president Frank-Walter Steinmeier was unusually frank about the threat posed by Donald Trump if he returns to the White House.

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“In this friendship, there have been and always will be times of proximity and greater distance, times of agreement and times of discord. Even recently, just a handful years ago, the distance had grown so wide that we almost lost each other,” Steinmeier said.

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He noted that the outcome of the election could impact an array of American and European foreign policy priorities, including the defense of Ukraine:

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The choice on November the 5th is only Americans’ choice to make but we as Europeans have a choice too. We have the choice to do our part, to be unwavering in our support for Ukraine. To invest in our common security. To invest in our shared future. And as you have done sir, to stand by the transatlantic alliance no matter what.

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From the bottom of my heart, in this time when democracy is under strain all around the western world, you Mr President have been the beacon of democracy …

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Decency is maybe what we are most at risk of losing.

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Donald Trump has uncharacteristically been backing out of media interviews lately, and Politico has learned the reason why: the former president is “exhausted”.

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Here’s what they found:

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It happened just this week to planned Trump sit-downs with NBC in Philadelphia and CNBC’s “Squawk Box” — and that’s on the heels of him backing out of a “60 Minutes” episode earlier this month.

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Why does this keep happening? Another outlet was recently given an explanation by Trump’s team for why their own interview wasn’t coming to fruition: exhaustion.

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The Trump campaign had spent weeks in conversations with The Shade Room, a site that draws a largely young and Black audience — a demographic where Trump has been making inroads. It hosted an interview with Kamala Harris just last week.

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But no interview has materialized. As Shade Room staff began feeling that feet were being dragged inside Trump’s campaign, they pressed earlier this week to set a date for a sit-down.

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In response, a Trump adviser told Shade Room producers that Trump was “exhausted and refusing [some] interviews but that could change” at any time, according to two people familiar with the conversations.

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Trump’s spokeswoman has denied the report:

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Trump national press secretary Karoline Leavitt, while making clear she wasn’t part of the back-and-forth for the Shade Room interview, said last night that the idea that Trump was exhausted “is unequivocally false.”

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“President Trump is running laps around Kamala Harris on the campaign trail,” Leavitt said. “And has done media interviews every day this week. He has more energy and a harder work ethic than anyone in politics.”

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The federal judge handling Donald Trump’s trial on charges related to subverting the 2020 election has allowed a new batch of evidence against the former president to be made public today, the Washington Post reports.

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The evidence underpins a brief filed by special counsel Jack Smith that argues Trump’s conduct is not covered by a recent supreme court ruling that gave presidents immunity from prosecution for official acts. Here’s more from the Post on what we can expect to see when the evidence is released:

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In a five-page order Thursday, U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan said Trump had failed to address the legal system’s presumption in favor of public access to criminal court proceedings, and rejected the former president’s assertion that it could appear the court was trying to impact the election by making public potentially unflattering material about Trump in an appendix to Smith’s brief.

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“If the court withheld information that the public otherwise had a right to access solely because of the potential political consequences of releasing it, that withholding could itself constitute — or appear to be — election interference,” Chutkan wrote. “The court will therefore continue to keep political considerations out of its decision-making, rather than incorporating them as Defendant requests.”

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Trump’s attorneys earlier Thursday had asked Chutkan to postpone the release of the material, much of which was expected to be redacted, until nine days after the Nov. 5 election. That would fall after the former president is set to file his own blockbuster brief of up to 180 pages with its own appendix of sources arguing why he should not still face trial after the Supreme Court’s July ruling establishing that presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution for their official acts.

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While Trump argued that release of the materials would poison the jury pool, Chutkan said that both sides’ filings ultimately would be available to potential jurors, any taint could be rooted out in jury selection, and Trump was free to make his own legal arguments in court and to the public.

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Donald Trump’s campaign is pondering arranging a town hall with Nikki Haley, his former UN ambassador turned rival for the Republican nomination, who has since endorsed his candidacy, the Bulwark reports.

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The joint appearance, which could be held with conservative commentator Sean Hannity on Fox News, is a bid to shore up his standing with women voters, who polls indicate are less enthusiastic about returning Trump to the White House than are men. Haley and Trump were at-times bitter rivals in the GOP primaries earlier this year, but she later endorsed him during a speech at the Republican national convention in July.

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Nonetheless, Haley has lately noted that she still has her differences with Trump. Here’s what the Bulwark reports:

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Since then, however, Haley and Trump have not appeared together. And she hinted that tensions still linger on her new SiriusXM satellite radio show last month.

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“I don’t agree with Trump 100 percent of the time,” Haley said.

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“I have not forgotten what he said about me. I’ve not forgotten what he said about my husband or his, you know, deployment time or his military service. I haven’t forgotten about his or his campaign’s tactics from, you know, putting a bird cage outside our hotel room to calling me ‘bird brain,’” Haley said on her show, adding that she’s still for Trump because she thinks he “will make the country better.”

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Those comments garnered some attention in Trump’s orbit. One confidant of the ex-president privately joked that talk like that is usually taboo in his circles because “if you’re with him 99 percent of the time, you’re a fucking traitor in Trump’s eyes.”

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Good morning and welcome to our coverage of the run-up to the US election as Donald Trump has claimed Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy helped to start his country’s war with Russia.

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The Republican presidential candidate’s extraordinary criticism – the war started when Russia invaded Ukrainian sovereign territory – comes as Joe Biden arrives in Europe for closed-door discussions with allies with Ukraine high on the agenda.

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As Reuters reports, Trump’s comments indicate he is likely to radically shift US policy toward Russia if he wins the 5 November election.

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The Republican former president has frequently criticized Zelenskyy on the campaign trail, repeatedly calling him “the greatest salesman on Earth” for having solicited and received billions of dollars of US military aid since the war broke out in 2022.

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Trump has also slammed the Ukrainian leader for failing to seek peace with Moscow, and he has suggested Ukraine may have to cede some of its land to Russia to make a peace deal, a concession Kyiv considers unacceptable.

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Trump’s comments on the PBD Podcast on Thursday with Patrick Bet-David went a step further than his previous criticism. He said Zelenskyy was to blame not just for failing to end the war, but for helping start it. “That doesn’t mean I don’t want to help him because I feel very badly for those people. But he should never have let that war start. The war’s a loser,” Trump said.

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Meanwhile on Friday, Biden will seek to cement cooperation with key European partners on issues from the Ukraine war to conflict in the Middle East during a swift swansong trip to Berlin.

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“We’re wheels down in Berlin,” Biden wrote in a post on X overnight. “Ready to greet old friends and strengthen our close alliance as we stand together for freedom and against tyranny around the world.”

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We’re wheels down in Berlin.

Ready to greet old friends and strengthen our close alliance as we stand together for freedom and against tyranny around the world. pic.twitter.com/zaTFtTOFMT

— President Biden (@POTUS) October 18, 2024

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Donald Trump laid into Kamala Harris and other Democrats on Thursday in a pointed and at times bitter speech as he headlined the annual Al Smith charity dinner in New York. The Republican nominee repeatedly criticised his Democratic campaign rival over her decision to skip the event. She sent a video instead.

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Billionaire Elon Musk launched five nights of campaign events in Pennsylvania in support of Trump’s campaign last night. “This election, I think, is going to decide the fate of America and, along with the fate of America, the fate of Western civilization,” he said at a town hall event in Folsom, on the outskirts of Philadelphia. He also reportedly pushed the debunked narrative that voting machines had been used in a plot to rig the 2020 election.

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Harris and Trump will both be scouring for votes in Michigan on Friday as they try to lock down support in this key political battleground. Harris is scheduled to begin her day in Grand Rapids before holding events in Lansing and Oakland County, which is northwest of Detroit. Trump has his own event in Oakland County in the afternoon before holding a rally in Detroit in the evening.

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Germany have awarded US President Joe Biden the highest class of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his work improving the German-American friendship and the transatlantic alliance.

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He was presented the award by Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

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Steinmeier said the friendship with the US is “and will always be existentially important” for Germany, but there have always been “times of proximity and greater distance.”

n ”Even recently, just a handful of years ago, the distance had grown so wide that we almost lost each other,” Steinmeier said, alluding to tense relations during Trump’s earlier presidency.

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He said Biden “restored Europe’s hope in the trans-Atlantic alliance literally overnight.”

n “In the months to come, I hope that Europeans remember: America is indispensable for us,” he added. “And I hope that Americans remember: Your allies are indispensable for you. We are more than just ‘other countries’ in the world — we are partners, we are friends.”

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Vice President Kamala Harris did not attend the Al Smith charity dinner in New York in person, appearing via a pre-recorded video sketch, instead. Her jokes didn’t appear to land with the audience.

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The white-tie dinner raises millions of dollars for Catholic charities and traditionally candidates from both parties have attended.

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Trump’s jokes were crude but seemed to be well received by those in attendance.

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Trump mocked transgender people, aiming a jibe at vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz.

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He also took aim at migrants and New York, saying he had to wrap up his speech so New York can “turn the room into an illegal migrant shelter”.

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Regarding Harris’ absence, he posted on his Truth Social network:

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Just found out that Lyin’ Kamala is doing a video message tonight instead of being at the Al Smith Dinner. She shouldn’t be allowed to do a video message.

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Kamala should be there like almost every other Presidential Candidate in their History, except Walter Mondale, who lost 49-1. They didn’t give me the option of a video message, nor would I have done it. This is very disrespectful to everyone involved. She should be here, or lose the Catholic Vote!”

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“This is the worst mic I’ve ever had in my life,” Trump quipped.

After playing two campaign videos, Trump calls Kamala Harris the “tax queen” and claims her tax proposals will kill “almost a million full-time jobs”. “It will be economic armageddon for Detroit,” he said.

Trump’s microphone is working again.

He’s talking about his “build it in America plan”. “When CEOs call me to complain about my tariffs, my answer will be very simple, build it in America. And to be specific, build it in Detroit, and we’ll give you good electricity.

His plan is to impose tariffs on companies to discourage them from building manufacturing plants outside of America.

“The centerpiece of his plan will be a 15% made in America corporate tax rate. So we brought the rate down from close to 40% to 21%…now we’re going to get it down to 15% but only if they build it in America,” he said. “For those who don’t make their product in America they will be forced to pay tariffs.”

Harris is back.

She begins again, starting with addressing the devastation in Gaza and Lebanon.

“I know this year has been very difficult, given the scale of death and destruction in Gaza and given the civilian casualties and displacement in Lebanon. It is devastating. And now Sinwar’s death must be a turning point. Everyone must seize this opportunity to end the war in Gaza. Bring the hostages home. And end the suffering once and for all.”

Kamala Harris takes the stage at Oakland County rally

Kamala Harris began by thanking the members of the Arab- American communities at the rally.

Harris, however, suddenly stopped her remarks to call for a medic. Harris made a few comments about it being warm in the room.

While Trump waits for the technical difficulties to be fixed, Kamala Harris is taking the stage at her dueling rally in Oakland County, Michigan.

Donald Trump is indeed on stage at the rally but there are technical difficulties with the microphone it turns out. He began speaking but the sound cut out and he’s now standing around as the crowd cheers for him.

Trump takes stage in Detroit, days after criticizing the city

Diana Ramirez-Simon

Trump surrogates who have spoken before Donald Trump takes the stage have all hit on talking points we’ve heard repeatedly throughout his campaign. In addition to getting back jobs for American workers, including auto workers, and rising costs of living, nearly everyone who has taken the stage has decried what they describe as mass illegal immigration. They also made promises to Detroit residents specifically.

“Detroit once was the city that powered the entire world, every car worth driving in the entire world was manufactured here,” said former Trump adviser Stephen Miller. “Not in Mexico, not in China, not in Japan. Donald Trump has a plan to make Detroit and to make Michigan the economic center of the world.”

However, just last week, Trump criticized the city during a speech at the Detroit Economic Club.

“The whole country will be like — you want to know the truth? It’ll be like Detroit,” the Republican presidential nominee said. “Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your president.”

At the time, Detroit’s Democratic mayor Mike Duggan responded and cited the city’s recent drop in crime.

“Lots of cities should be like Detroit. And we did it all without Trump’s help,” Duggan said.

Donald Trump is slated to speak at a rally in Detroit in a few minutes. Follow along here.

While Donald Trump spent the last few minutes of his round table in Michigan talking about returning jobs to American auto workers,Kamala Harris is reminding auto workers what he’s previously said about their work.

According to Politico, at a campaign event at the United Auto Workers Local 652 in Lansing, Harris played the room full of auto workers remarks Trump made earlier this week at the Economic Club of Chicago. In addition to saying a child could do their jobs, Trump said car manufacturers “don’t build cars” and just “take them out of a box, and they assemble them”.

Both candidates are fighting to win over auto workers as well as working class voters in Michigan.

The round table has concluded. He ended the event by talking about tariffs in response to a United Auto Workers member. He said he plans to use tariffs to discourage people from building plants in other countries and taking jobs from American workers.

Donald Trump will be speaking at a rally in Detroit at 7pm. Stay tuned for more updates.

Donald Trump is hearing from audience members in Michigan. Among them have been a Teamster representative as well as a holistic wellness practitioner and the president of the Police Officers Association of Michigan.

Jim Tignanelli, the group’s president, described what he says is the loss of honor for police. He said three officers were shot in Michigan over the last 90 days.

In response, Trump said he wants to call for the death penalty for anyone killing a police officer. Trump also called for qualified immunity for police. “One thing we’re going to be doing is … immunity for some of these police,” Trump said.

“If police officers are doing their job … if they make a mistake, and that happens … we have to help people out now. We’re going to do the immunity thing. We have to stop being politically correct. You’re always going to have some bad apples but very few of them,” Trump said.

Donald Trump is speaking at a roundtable in Auburn Hills, Michigan

Donald Trump started the conversation by again criticizing Kamala Harris’ decision not to attend the Alfred E Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, which raises funds for Catholic charities.

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