New York City Mayor Eric Adams told reporters Saturday that he does not believe former President Trump is a fascist, while defending the Republican presidential nominee the day before a major rally at Madison Square Garden.
Adams and other city leaders held a press conference at the New Yew City Police Department headquarters on Saturday afternoon to discuss security measures before the campaign rally in Manhattan.
During the press conference, a reporter asked Adams if he believed Trump is a fascist, as others have said.
“I’ve heard those terms hurled at me by some political leaders in the city, using terms like Hitler and fascist,” Adams said. “My answer is no. I know what Hitler has done and I know what a fascist regime looks like.”
He suggested everyone dial down the temperature, adding he strongly disagrees with those who say Trump should not be allowed to have a rally at Madison Square Garden.
“This is America. This is New York, and I think it’s important that we allow individuals to exercise their right to get their message clear to New Yorkers,” Adams said. “Our job as a city and as a police department is to make sure they can do that in a peaceful way.
“When people called me a fascist and other terminologies, I didn’t like it and I don’t think it’s fitting to anyone to state that the former president is equal to being Hitler,” he added.
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris both campaigned in Michigan on Saturday with just more than a week until election day.
Trump attempted to make his case to Muslim voters frustrated with the Biden-Harris administration's response to the Israel-Hamas war during a rally in Novi, Michigan, while Harris brought out former first Lady Michelle Obama during her stop in the city of Kalamazoo.
"To the women listening: We have every right to demand the men in our lives do better by us. We have to use our voices to make these choices clear to the men that we love. Our lives are worth more than their anger and disappointment," Obama said.
Harris was also heckled over the war in Gaza during her rally in Michigan.
Meanwhile, Trump highlighted to the Muslim community in Michigan that his critic and former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., is campaigning with Harris, calling Cheney a "Muslim-hating warmonger."
"Kamala is campaigning with Muslim-hating warmonger, Liz Cheney, who wants to invade practically every Muslim country on the planet. And let me tell you the Muslims of our country, they see it, and they know it," Trump said.
Trump also spoke Saturday at a rally at State College in Pennsylvania, where he vowed to slash U.S. energy costs in half.
Harris' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, is set to play the Madden NFL video game on the streaming platform Twitch with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. on Sunday.
Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance will appear at a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday along with notable figures in politics and entertainment.
Continue to follow Fox News Digital for live updates from the campaign trail.
Former President Donald Trump will hold a massive campaign rally in New York City's Madison Square Garden on Sunday, – just nine days before voters cast their ballots.
The event, which was first-come, first-serve, sold out within hours of being announced.
The 19,500-seat venue is home of the New York Knicks and New York Rangers.
The Trump campaign says the program includes political icons, celebrities, musical artists, and friends and family of former President Trump who will all discuss how he is "the best choice to fix everything that Kamala Harris broke."
"This epic event, in the heart of President Trump's home city, will be a showcase of the historic political movement that President Trump has built in the final days of the campaign," the campaign said in a press release.
Elon Musk and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO Dana White will attend the rally Sunday.
Other notable attendees this Sunday include former Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, political commentator Tucker Carlson and former Democrat presidential nominee turned Republican Tulsi Gabbard.
High-profile names from the political world include Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance, Speaker Mike Johnson, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla.
Read the full article by Fox News' Brooke Singman.
{{#rendered}}Former President Trump criticized former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., as a "Muslim-hating warmonger" during his rally on Saturday in Novi, Michigan.
This comes as Cheney, a staunch Trump critic, is campaigning with Vice President Kamala Harris after her endorsement of the Democrat nominee for president.
"Kamala is campaigning with Muslim-hating warmonger, Liz Cheney, who wants to invade practically every Muslim country on the planet. And let me tell you the Muslims of our country, they see it, and they know it," Trump said.
Trump also called out her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, for his role in U.S. invasions of Middle Eastern countries during former President George W. Bush's administration.
"Her father was responsible for invading the Middle East, killing millions of Arabs – millions – and this is the one that Kamala is campaigning with," Trump said.
Trump's comments were made in Novi, which is located roughly half an hour northwest of Detroit, where a large Arab-American and Muslim community reside.
Muslims in Michigan have criticized the Biden-Harris administration over its support for Israel amid the ongoing war in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas.
Former race car driver Danica Patrick said after speaking at a rally for former President Trump that while she is new to politics, it is an "honor to be part of one of the most powerful political movements in history."
"If you would have told me a year ago I would speak at a @realdonaldtrump rally 12 days before the election and have him call me out a few times during his speech ... I would have asked if you fell out of the coconut tree," she wrote on the social media platform X shortly after midnight Saturday morning.
"Politics is so new and so unexpected for me. It’s an honor to be part of one of the most powerful political movements in history. Not only as far as an election but also to expose the truth and really be the party of unification," she continued.
Patrick added: "There is something beautiful being built."
A Texas man is facing charges after punching an election worker who asked him to remove a hat supporting former President Trump.
It is illegal under Texas law to wear clothing supporting a candidate at a polling location.
The suspect, identified as Jesse Lutzenberger, was told to remove his cap while walking through the voting area. He removed the hat, cast his vote and then put his hat back on before leaving the area, according to Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar.
The 69-year-old voting clerk told Lutzenberger to take off his hat as he was leaving because it is illegal under state law to wear clothing supporting a candidate inside a polling area.
Lutzenberger then allegedly threw an arm or elbow at the clerk before turning and throwing several punches at the victim's face, Salazar told reporters.
The victim suffered some marks on his face, the sheriff said.
Lutzenberger was arrested following the incident and booked into Bexar County Jail.
The sheriff urged people to "tone down the violence."
"Look, nothing here is worth going to jail for," he said. "This election is going to happen one way or another in any particular race, one side is going to win, one side is going to lose. That’s just the nature of things."
"But there’s no sense in picking up a criminal case, picking up a criminal history, we’re injuring or even killing somebody in the name of politics," he continued. "It just doesn’t make any sense."
{{#rendered}}Former President Trump claimed Saturday that Vice President Kamala Harris is "guaranteed" to lead the U.S. into World War III if she wins the presidential election next month.
Trump made the comments at a rally in Pennsylvania, where he argued that Harris would be too incompetent to handle world leaders such as Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to The Hill.
"To make her president would be to gamble with the lives of millions of people," he said. "She would get us into a World War III guaranteed because she is too grossly incompetent to do the job."
Trump added that Americans' "sons and daughters will end up getting drafted to go fight for a war in a country that you’ve never heard of."
The former president also pledged to avoid World War III even as the country has "never been so close" to it.
Trump also repeated his previous claims that foreign conflicts like the Israel-Hamas war that started after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack on the Jewish State would not have happened if he was president.
President Biden said Saturday that men who vote for former President Trump in next month's election are making a "mistake."
The president made the comments to reporters as he was boarding Air Force One, according to The Hill.
Biden issued the warning to male voters in response to Trump saying Thursday that the U.S. is a "garbage can for the world" due to the influx of migrants coming into the country under the Biden-Harris administration.
"We're a dumping ground," Trump told supporters in Tempe, Arizona. "We're like a garbage can for the world. That’s what's happened. That's what’s happened to our — we're like a garbage can. You know, it's the first time I ever said that. And every time I come up and talk about what they've done to our country, I get angrier and angrier. First time I've ever said 'garbage can.' But you know what? It's a very accurate description."
Trump is leading in the polls with male voters with just more than a week until the election against Vice President Kamala Harris.
Democrat vice presidential candidate Tim Walz and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Sunday will play the Madden NFL video game on the live-streaming platform Twitch.
"Me scrambling to practice Madden before the Bronx Halloween Parade," Ocasio-Cortez wrote on the social media platform X along with a picture of her playing the football video game.
The announcement appears to be an effort by the Harris-Walz campaign to appeal to young and male voters with just more than a week until the election.
Ocasio-Cortez has previously played video games on Twitch, including when she played "Among Us" on the streaming platform in October 2020.
{{#rendered}}Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, also the Democrat vice president nominee, said Saturday that former President Trump is "descending into madness" and cites people who have worked with Trump who say he is not the same as he was when he ran for president in 2016.
"That's not the Donald Trump running today," Walz told the crowd at a rally in Phoenix. "This Donald Trump called for a termination of the Constitution. This Donald Trump stood there and said he will not back down, he will send United States military after people who do not support him. He's talking about, today he said, the enemy within is more dangerous than the dictator in North Korea with nuclear weapons. Now, look, I know, I know, I'm on the top of that list, but don't kid yourself. You're on the list too. That's how they are."
"So look, the highest-ranking soldier in our military, General Mark Milley, at the time was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was working with Donald Trump, and he said, and I quote, 'Donald Trump is the most dangerous person ever,'" he continued.
Walz added: "And earlier this week, John Kelly, another four-star career general. These are not Democrats. These are career military people, are heroes here speaking it. Their job is to speak it. His chief of staff came out on the record and said Donald Trump is a textbook fascist and would rule like a dictator. Don't pretend to all of you watching at home or anyone here. Don't pretend that any of this is normal."
Former first lady Michelle Obama said Saturday that women will become "collateral damage" to men's rage if "we don't get this election right" as she stumped for Vice President Kamala Harris in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Obama said she understands frustrations with the "slow pace of change" under the Democrats in charge but cautioned against sitting out the election, voting third party or voting for former President Trump because "your rage does not exist in a vacuum."
"Are you, as men, prepared to look into the eyes of the women and children you love and tell them you supported this assault on our safety?" she said.
"To the women listening: We have every right to demand the men in our lives do better by us. We have to use our voices to make these choices clear to the men that we love. Our lives are worth more than their anger and disappointment," she added.
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance of Ohio spoke openly about the importance of quality education and addressing the nation’s public school crisis at a town hall event in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Saturday night – part of a broader campaign effort to make inroads with Black voters and evangelical leaders in the crucial swing state just 10 days before the election.
Speaking to members of the Black Pastors United for Education group, Vance addressed gaps in the U.S. education system, his views on the major drivers of the education crisis, and how to solve gaping political and socioeconomic divisions.
Vance has an outsize interest in issues of education and access to quality schools since he himself was the first person in his immediate family to graduate college – an experience chronicled in his 2016 memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.” Vance said he was shocked to learn that the life premium for individuals with a bachelor’s degree is, on average, seven years higher than individuals without a college education.
“You want to talk about division? You talk about the fact that if you don't go to college, you die seven years sooner than people who went to college? That’s a real division,” he said, noting that he’s seen just one close relative make it to age 70.
Vance said he believes solving the education problem in the U.S. will require improvements to classrooms, increased access to public and private schools, and ultimately, rebuilding a “middle class, manufacturing economy.”
Still, he said talking about these issues is the best place to start.
“That's what Americans do,” he said. “I really do believe that Black, White, Brown, whatever the color of your skin – we solve problems; and we're at least talking about these things in a way that's going to lead to a solution.”
{{#rendered}}Former President Trump vowed Saturday to slash U.S. energy costs in half if re-elected, seizing on oil and gas policies to draw a sharp contrast with Kamala Harris in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania.
Speaking to voters at a rally in State College, Trump vowed to lift the U.S. pause on U.S. liquefied natural gas export terminals, embrace fracking and otherwise undo what he described as the "disastrous" energy policies enacted under the Biden administration.
"Starting on day one of my new administration, I will end Kamala Harris' war on Pennsylvania energy," Trump told the crowd. "And we will frack, frack, frack."
Fracking, the process of using pressurized fluids to extract natural gas from shale rock, is a controversial technology and one Harris previously pledged to ban when seeking the presidency in 2019.
Read more about what Trump said about fracking.
This is an excerpt from an article by Breanne Deppisch.
Former President Trump is campaigning for vulnerable House Republicans in New York Saturday evening alongside House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., a source familiar with the effort told Fox News Digital.
Saturday also marked the first day of early in-person voting in the Empire State.
A source told Fox News Digital early voting would be a central focus of the telephone rally, or "tele-rally," with key Republicans including Trump urging as many as 1 million listeners not to wait until Election Day to cast ballots.
"New York is Trump country," Stefanik said. "Hardworking New Yorkers support President Trump in record numbers. Far left New York Democrats like Kamala Harris and Kathy Hochul have failed our state, and their polling numbers are in free fall. I am incredibly grateful that President Trump continues to invest in our key battleground districts in New York."
Read more about campaign efforts in the Empire State.
This is an excerpt from an article by Elizabeth Elkind.
Former President Trump’s appearance on the popular podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” has been watched more than 21.5 million times on YouTube, in about a 24-hour period.
Trump sat down with host Joe Rogan for nearly three hours on Friday, and the podcast was uploaded to YouTube and Spotify later that evening.
The podcast, recorded in Austin, Texas , gave the Republican presidential nominee exposure to Rogan’s 14.5 million followers on Spotify and 17.6 million followers on YouTube. Rogan, the nation’s most-listened-to podcast host, is extremely influential with young male voters, who Trump is trying to reach.
On YouTube, the interview was viewed 21,664,977 times, as of Saturday night, and that number continues to climb.
Out of those views, the story has garnered over 350,000 comments.
Fox News Digital's Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
{{#rendered}}Comedian Bill Maher encouraged Vice President Kamala Harris to target an extremist on the Democratic side on Friday during "Real Time," referencing a "Sister Souljah moment."
"It’s not too late for Kamala Harris to do what many have been calling for her to do since she became the candidate: have a Sister Souljah moment. And if you weren’t around in 1992, let me tell you what a Sister Souljah moment means. It’s when you earn cred with the middle of the road voters by standing up to an extremist in your own coalition," he said, referencing when former President Clinton had denounced the rapper and activist's remarks about race while he was running for president.
Maher, who supports the vice president and routinely criticizes former President Trump, has also criticized the far left. The comedian recently said Harris needed to convince undecided voters that she's not part of the "worst excesses of the left."
Read more about Maher’s remarks.
This is an excerpt from an article by Hanna Panreck.
Former President Trump invited the Penn State College wrestling team to the stage while speaking at a rally on Saturday.
Before they came up on stage, Trump said he wasn’t sure the stage could hold them all because “that’s a lot of muscle.”
“We like to have winners and we have with us a team that won like 11 out of the last 13 national championships and are the current national champions,” Trump said. “They are USA national champions in wrestling.”
One of the wrestlers was asked to come up and speak.
The man said it was an honor to speak, stressing the importance of Pennsylvania being a battleground state.
“We need to win this election, and let’s make America great again,” he said. “Go vote.”
According to NCAA.com, Penn State won championships every year since 2011, except for 2015, 2020 and 2021.
Former first lady Michelle Obama joined Vice President Kamala Harris at a campaign rally in Michigan, where she accused voters of holding Harris to a “higher standard” than former President Trump in the run-up to 2024 – something she feared could have a detrimental outcome on the election.
Speaking to voters in Kalamazoo on Saturday, Obama took aim at individuals “sowing seeds of doubt” about Harris and how she will govern if elected.
Voters “accuse her of not providing enough policy detail,” Obama said. “Some wonder, do we really know her? Is she too aggressive? Is she not aggressive enough?”
We expect Kamala “to be intelligent and articulate, to have a clear set of policies to never show too much anger, to prove time and time again that she belongs,” she added. “But for Trump, we expect nothing at all.”
The former first lady also criticized voters for “picking apart Kamala’s interviews” and their lack of policy answers, noting that they are interviews Trump “doesn’t even have the courage to do.”
While in Kalamazoo, Obama noted that she “hates politics.” But ultimately, she said, she felt too much is at stake just 10 days before the election.
“I wanted to do everything in my power to remind the country that I love, that there's too much we stand to lose if we get this one wrong,” she said.
{{#rendered}}Vice President Kamala Harris was heckled while speaking in Kalamazoo, Michigan on Saturday.
During her speech, a man started heckling Harris and shouting anti-war rhetoric about Gaza, which was answered by the crowd with loud boos from the crowd. The crowd then started shouting “Kamala” in unison.
The vice president then responded on the topic of gaza.
“We must end that war, and we must end the war and bring the hostages home,” she said.
Former President Trump blasted Vice President Kamala Harris Saturday over an appearance with Beyoncé at which critics say Harris and the media intentionally misled attendees into thinking the superstar would perform.
"Beyoncé went up and spoke for a couple of minutes and then left, and the place went crazy," Trump told a crowd in Michigan. "They booed the hell out of everybody. They thought she was going to perform. What happened was my opponent got up and started speaking, and they booed the hell out of her. It’s crazy. They have to use people to get people to come, and then they send buses. We don’t send buses. Everybody comes. We’re just going to make America great again. It’s very simple."
Several media outlets, including MSNBC, promoted Beyonce’s appearance with Harris in Houston on Friday by saying that the music superstar would perform, prompting criticism from conservatives who accused Harris of intentionally misleading the public. Beyoncé did speak, but she did not perform.
"They lied to build a crowd," Trump senior adviser Tim Murtaugh posted on X.
Read more about how the Harris campaign misled supporters.
This is an excerpt from an article by Andrew Mark Miller.
President Biden took aim at former President Trump at a campaign event in Pennsylvania on Saturday, using his remarks to cast his predecessor as an anti-labor leader who, if reelected, would renege on some of the union's hardest-fought gains.
Speaking at an event in Pittsburgh, Biden repeatedly described Trump as a "loser" who doesn’t care about union workers and would gladly do away with benefits like health care and pension plans if he won the presidency for a second time.
"Donald Trump is a loser," Biden told the audience. "He’s a loser of a candidate – and he’s a loser of a man."
"I’ve never been this direct," Biden added. "But I tell you what, [Trump] is about making sure you push people down. He thinks the way you get ahead is to push people down."
Read more about Biden’s remarks.
This is an excerpt from an article by Breanne Deppisch.
{{#rendered}}Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman opened up about the state of the presidential race in his key battleground state and called former President Trump’s support there "astonishing" while predicting that Elon Musk’s endorsement is "going to really matter."
"There’s a difference between not understanding, but also acknowledging that it exists," Fetterman told the New York Times in an interview published Saturday morning when asked about enthusiasm for Trump in Pennsylvania. "And anybody who spends time driving around, and you can see the intensity. It’s astonishing."
Fetterman continued, "I was doing an event in Indiana County. Very, very red. And there was a superstore of Trump stuff, and it was a hundred feet long. [There were] dozens of T-shirts and hats and bumper stickers and all kinds of, I mean, it’s like, Where does this all come from? It’s the kind of thing that has taken on its own life. And it’s like something very special exists there. And that doesn’t mean that I admire it. It’s just — it’s real."
Fetterman said he believes Musk, who endorsed Trump and appeared with him at a rally at the site of the first assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, will be appealing to voters in Pennsylvania.
Read more about what Fetterman said about Trump’s support.
This is an excerpt from an article by Andrew Mark Miller.
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance was in Georgia on Saturday morning. He rallied supporters and called out Vice President Kamala Harris for what he says is the suggestion that voters are bad people for supporting conservative policies.
"Here's my message to Kamala Harris," Vance told the crowd in Atlanta. "Stop censoring your fellow citizens, try to persuade them and you might actually get somewhere. Stop telling people they're racist because they want their children to go to schools with kids who speak the English language."
Vance continued, "Stop telling American citizens they're bad people because they don't want fentanyl flooding their communities. Stop telling the American people they don't deserve to have smaller hospital wait times. Stop telling the American people they're bad for wanting a secure southern border."
Check out what else Vance had to say.
This is an excerpt from an article by Andrew Mark Miller.
Some progressive Democrats are upset with Vice President Kamala Harris' decision to lean on Liz Cheney in the weeks ahead of the election, suggesting the vice president should focus more on her Democratic base.
"The truth of the matter is that there are a hell of a lot more working-class people who could vote for Kamala Harris than there are conservative Republicans," Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT., told the Associated Press.
Cheney, an anti-Trump Republican, has appeared on the campaign trail with Harris several times. Other progressive leaders, such as Sanders or Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , have been "relegated to low-profile roles," according to the AP.
Check out what other progressive Democrats had to say.
This is an excerpt from an article by Hanna Panreck.
{{#rendered}}Former President Trump received a massive endorsement of major Muslim leaders and Imams of Michigan, which he announced during a rally on Saturday.
“Muslims are joining our cause in larger numbers than ever before, and now the most wonderful thing is happening, we’re winning overwhelming support from the Muslim and Arab voters right here in Michigan, can you believe it?” he said. “It’s great. And earlier today, I had an incredible meeting, a great meeting. You know what they want? They want peace, they’re great people, with a group of Muslim imams. And like everyone here today, Muslim and Arabic voters in Michigan — you know, they’re going to be, they could turn the election one way or the other I think.”
He then brought a group of Muslim and Arab leaders, as well as imams, on stage, one of whom said, “We as Muslims stand with President Trump, because he promises peace – not war.”
The Trump campaign announced the endorsement on X.
“President Trump was just endorsed by Imam Belal Alzuhairi and other prominent leaders of Michigan's Muslim community — the most expansive, diverse coalition in political history,” the campaign wrote.
Read more about Trump's endorsement.
Former President Trump repeated his criticisms of Detroit at a rally in Novi, Michigan on Saturday, saying the city makes America look like a "developing nation."
Trump made the remarks while telling supporters about his plans to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. from Mexico and China.
"I think Detroit and some of our areas makes us a developing nation. China doesn’t have any place like that," the Republican nominee said.
Trump was criticized for previous remarks to the Detroit Economic Club in which he warned "the whole country will be like – you want to know the truth? It'll be like Detroit," if Vice President Harris wins the election. "It's a mess," he said last month.
His comments drew blowback from Michigan's Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who told rallygoers at a Harris campaign event that Trump "doesn't have a clue what the hell he was talking about."
"And you know what I think? He ought to keep Detroit out of his mouth," she said.
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Vice President Kamala Harris is "desperate" since she is now calling her opponent former President Trump a "fascist" in the closing days of the 2024 campaign.
On "Fox & Friends Weekend," McCarthy also said Harris' rhetoric about Trump is becoming "dangerous," noting that two people have tried to shoot Trump this year.
"This is different than any other election. There have been two assassination attempts. This is a moment in time that they should pull back and realize how dangerous the language that they are using right now, and who are they speaking to and what direction. Because normally you get a mentally ill person that tries these attacks on them, and they believe they're getting the message directly from Kamala to go do this," McCarthy said.
"If their polls were better, would she be saying this? That's the real question you want to ask," he added.
{{#rendered}}"Shark Tank" investor Mark Cuban declared he would have no role in a potential Kamala Harris administration and that Elon Musk would not be in the White House if former President Trump wins, either.
FOX Business host Neil Cavuto spoke with Cuban Friday on "Cavuto: Coast to Coast" about scenarios where either former President Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris potentially win the presidency this election, asking, "If [Harris] gets elected president, what cabinet position will Mark Cuban have?"
"None. Absolutely none. I don’t want one. I don’t wanna work for the government," Cuban said, noting that he has a company of his own that is already "killing it" and "changing health care."
"That’s one of the great things about Kamala Harris. You heard her talk about PBM’s pharmacy benefit middle men, really taking a hammer to them, you’ve seen her talk about transparency which will reduce cost of medications for families and households for 20-30% or more. You know, I think I could have more of an impact on healthcare in general with CostPlusDrugs.com and just doing what I do as an entrepreneur as opposed to working for the government."
Cavuto noted that there has been talk about Elon Musk taking a role in a potential Trump administration as the "cost cutter" secretary, but Cuban thought otherwise.
"Yeah but look, even Elon’s gotta – to me I would follow the law and say if I wanted a cabinet position, which I don't, I would have to divest everything I’m doing, and I don’t want to do that. I don’t see how Elon actually has a cabinet position or a real position inside an administration because of all the conflicts of interest that he would have. I mean, I don’t see how that works."
This is an excerpt from an article by Alexander Hall.
Former Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie argued with the liberal hosts of ABC's "The View" on Friday's show after he insisted that Vice President Harris still had more work to do to convince voters to support her. There are just 11 days until Election Day.
Christie suggested that undecided voters still didn't "know" Harris and that she had failed to distinguish herself from President Biden and his policies.
"Ten days ago I would've told you that she's going to win. And I think she's had a bad ten days," he began.
"There’s advantages and disadvantages to coming into the race this late. The advantage is she didn’t have to go through all the primaries and go through all of that that goes on that wears you down a bit. But the disadvantage is people don’t know her," he said.
"She's been vice president for four years!" co-host Sunny Hostin cut in. "How could they not know her?"
Christie defended his comment by saying that the job of vice-president keeps you out of "focus" from the public, before co-host Joy Behar also interrupted.
"Why do they keep accusing her of doing nothing when she was vice president?" Behar exclaimed. "What did Mike Pence do?"
Christie went on to say that Harris needs to make clear to voters what she would do differently from President Biden, after she's struggled to answer this question in multiple interviews.
This is an excerpt from an article by Kristine Parks.
Latino voters – a longstanding Democratic voting bloc – appear more likely to cast their ballot for former President Trump than Vice President Harris this election cycle, a recent poll shows.
A new USA Today/Suffolk University poll taken among Latinos between October 14-18 saw Trump boasting an 11-point lead at 49% compared to Harris' 38% with a +/-9% margin of error.
Despite Latino voters trending toward Democratic candidates in the past, Goya Foods CEO Bob Unanue isn't surprised.
"We are the No. 1 exploited community in the world," he told Fox News on Tuesday.
"The biggest industry that has flourished under this administration, under Kamala, has been drugs and human trafficking. Last year, Tara Lee Rodas testified that the U.S. is the middleman in this hundreds of billion-dollar business. She said there were 85,000 children missing…"
"From 85,000, this year, they raised the amount of children lost or sold to 325,000 children. The Hispanic community, the Latino community is fed up with being exploited. They're fed up with high prices, and that's why you're seeing this community go head over heels toward Donald J. Trump."
Unanue, who leads America's largest Hispanic-owned food company that produces and distributes items in the U.S. as well as Spanish-speaking countries, has been critical of the Biden-Harris administration on multiple occasions — slamming their job performance on the economy and immigration, two prevailing issues this election cycle.
This is an excerpt from an article by Taylor Penley.
{{#rendered}}Republican political analyst Ford O’Connell said recent decisions by major newspapers to refrain from endorsing presidential candidates, including the liberal-leaning Washington Post, show the race is "slipping away" from Vice President Kamala Harris.
"Trump is firing on all cylinders and he's outworking Kamala Harris at every turn on the campaign trail," O'Connell said on "Fox & Friends Weekend."
"And frankly, he's going up in all the polls," O'Connell added.
The GOP strategist pointed out that Trump is leading in the Real Clear Politics average of polls in all seven key battleground states, with his strongest polling in sun belt states including North Carolina, Georgia and Arizona.
"Obviously, he's going to have to pick off one of the blue wall states, whether it's Pennsylvania, Michigan or Wisconsin. Right now, it appears that Harris is leading in the early vote in Pennsylvania. But let me tell you, it's going to be really, really close in all three of those states. But I do think the momentum is on Trump's side."
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO Dana White are just some of the names expected to speak at former President Trump’s much-anticipated rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden (MSG) on Sunday.
"The World's Most Famous Arena" is expected to be packed with Trump supporters as the Republican nominee returns to his "deep blue" home state as his campaign enters its final days with increasing momentum. MSG is a 19,500-seat venue.
The Trump campaign says the program includes political icons, celebrities, musical artists, and friends and family of former President Trump who will all discuss how he is "the best choice to fix everything that Kamala Harris broke."
"This epic event, in the heart of President Trump's home city, will be a showcase of the historic political movement that President Trump has built in the final days of the campaign," the campaign said in a press release.
Musk has already hit the campaign trail for Trump, delivering a memorable speech in Butler, Pennsylvania, earlier this month, when the former president returned to the same site where an assassination attempt was made on his life on July 13.
White, who has been a close friend of Trump for years and played a role in him reestablishing the mixed martial arts company in the early 2000s, introduced the former president at this year’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, telling the crowd the stakes have never been higher.
Other notable attendees this Sunday include former Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, political commentator Tucker Carlson and former Democrat presidential nominee turned Republican Tulsi Gabbard.
High-profile names from the political world include Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance, Speaker Mike Johnson, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla.
Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump as well as the former president’s sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. will also feature.
From the music world, Death Row Records founder Michael Harris Jr. is set to appear, as will singer Lee Greenwood and opera singer Christopher Macchio.
This is an excerpt from an article by Michael Dorgan.
The Harris-Walz campaign rolled out a new TV and digital ad on Saturday linking former President Trump to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and other acts of anti-Asian hate.
In the 30-second ad, titled, "Our America," the Harris campaign accuses Trump of having an "outdated vision of America" that "has no place" for Asian Americans. The ad features symbols of American freedom, including the Constitution, purportedly "under attack by Trump and his extremist allies," the Harris campaign said in a news release.
The ad "alludes to moments when Asian Americans were denied their civil rights – such as the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin in Detroit," the campaign said.
It concludes with a call to action to defend democracy by voting for Harris.
“The choice for Asian American voters in this election couldn’t be clearer. While Trump surrounds himself with loyalists to emulate the dictators he admires and intends to wield unchecked power to serve himself, Vice President Kamala Harris has only ever had one client: the people,” said Harris-Walz 2024 Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander spokesperson Andrew Peng. “This November, we have the power to protect our freedoms and elect a president who believes in the aspirations of our communities – and will never view us as ‘other.’”
{{#rendered}}Early voting has hit record levels in battleground Georgia, where elections officials say the vote count has already exceeded more than half of 2020's total turnout.
“So over 50% of the turnout for 2020 has already voted in Georgia,” said Gabriel Sterling, the chief operating officer for the secretary of state's office. "So for people like Joe Biden & Stacey Abrams, you were wrong saying we had voter suppression here. It’s easy to register & vote in Georgia…and really hard to even try to cheat. Great job by our voters & counties."
More than 2.6 million people in the Peach State have voted early, according to Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office. The total vote count in the 2020 election was barely under 5 million. former President Trump narrowly lost the state to President Biden by a margin of just 11,779 votes.
Gov. Brian Kemp signed an overhaul of Georgia's election rules into law in 2021, after Trump made unproven claims of widespread voter fraud that purportedly cost him the state's 16 electoral votes in the last presidential election. Republicans said that new restrictions on absentee and mail-in voting, expanded voter ID requirements and prohibitions on non-poll workers from providing food and drink to voters waiting in line at poll centers were necessary to preserve election integrity.
Democrats lambasted the changes, accusing GOP lawmakers of failing to back their claims about voter fraud with evidence and using the issue as a cover to suppress votes in minority communities.
Earlier this week, Raffensperger told Fox News Digital that early votes could top 4 million by Election Day.
Early voting in Georgia runs through Nov. 1.
Joe Rogan and former President Trump discussed the Republican nominee's growing popularity with young voters, with Rogan noting how America's youth is "rejecting a lot of this woke bulls--t."
"Young people are tired of being yelled at and scolded. They're tired of these people that they think are mentally ill telling them what the moral standards of society should be today, and people are upset," observed Rogan.
"The rebels are Republicans now," he continued. "Like, you want to be a rebel? You want to be punk rock? You want to, like, buck the system? You're a conservative now. That's how crazy – and then the liberals are now pro-silencing criticism. They're pro-censorship online. They talking about regulating free speech and then regulating the First Amendment. It's bananas to watch."
"Joe, they come after their political opponents," Trump said. "I've been investigated more than Alfonse Capone."
"Well, the do," agreed Rogan.
Trump went on to say that he could have put "crooked" Hillary Clinton in jail, but didn't.
"I respected that you didn't," said Rogan. "Because what you said was it would be bad for the country."
"No, I can't. I couldn't even imagine – You have, first of all, a secretary of state but more importantly, the wife of the president of the United States of America going into jail?" said Trump.
Vice President Harris told a cheering crowd of 30,000 in Houston that she will fight for "reproductive freedom" and accused pro-life Republicans of hypocrisy on the abortion issue.
"These same people who have argued that these Trump abortion bans are investments in women and children, do look at their record. They tend to be in states with the highest rates of maternal mortality in the country," Harris said.
"For decades, these extremist leaders, who have neglected prenatal care, maternity care and post-partum care and who now, after continuously failing to support women and children, are claiming to care about women and children – well, I have a question for them. Where have you been?"
Harris claimed Republicans who oppose abortion have also opposed expanding the child tax credit, blocked Democratic proposals that would have lowered child care costs for working parents and advocated for cuts to entitlement programs like WIC and SNAP for poor families.
"The hypocrisy abounds," she said.
{{#rendered}}The number one podcaster in America loves the fact that former President Trump has teamed up with independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
During a three-hour conversation on "The Joe Rogan Experience," the titular host asked Trump whether he is "completely committed" to having RFK Jr. serve in his administration.
"Oh, I am," Trump said. "But the only thing I want to be a little careful about with him is the environmental. Because, you know, he doesn't like oil. I love oil and gas."
Trump said that Kennedy would be directed to "focus on health, do whatever you want." He also revealed that "big Pharma" has exerted pressure on him to disassociate from Kennedy.
Kennedy is a leading voice in spreading skepticism about vaccines, conflicting with most doctors and scientists who say the benefits of inoculations outweigh rare potential side effects.
He has also claimed pharmaceutical companies conspire to prevent health improvements because they profit from selling drugs to people with chronic illness.
The Associated Press contributed to this update.
The U.S. government is investigating unauthorized access to commercial telecommunications infrastructure by Chinese hackers, targets of which include the Trump and Harris campaigns.
The campaigns have been informed of the potential breach of cellphones used by former President Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, and members of Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
"After the FBI identified specific malicious activity targeting the sector, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) immediately notified affected companies, rendered technical assistance, and rapidly shared information to assist other potential victims," the FBI and CISA told Fox News Digital in a joint statement.
The FBI and CISA said the investigation was ongoing and "we encourage any organization that believes it might be a victim to engage its local FBI field office or CISA. Agencies across the U.S. Government are collaborating to aggressively mitigate this threat and are coordinating with our industry partners to strengthen cyber defenses across the commercial communications sector."
The hackers are believed to be connected to the Chinese government's intelligence services, The Journal reported.
"We are aware that a highly sophisticated nation-state actor has reportedly targeted several U.S. telecommunications providers to gather intelligence," telecommunications company Verizon said in a statement. "Along with federal law enforcement, industry peers and third-party cyber experts, we are working to confirm, assess and remediate any potential impact. Verizon is committed to assisting law enforcement in this investigation. Since this is an active investigation, we have no additional comment at this time."
The anonymous officials said that investigators are working to find out if any data was stolen from the campaigns, adding that other people in the U.S. government may have been targeted by the attackers.
This is an excerpt from an article by Brie Stimson, David Spunt and Jake Gibson.
Former President Trump accused his opponent Vice President Kamala Harris of "running a hate campaign" against him Friday at a rally in Traverse City, Michigan.
The Republican nominee took aim at Harris after she and other Democrats have repeatedly called him a "fascist" on the campaign trail.
"You know, I think they're calling me a dictator," Trump said. "So they started off where I was a dictator. None of it worked. Then they went to: ‘He’s an evil genius.’ That didn’t work. Then they went: ‘He’s a dumb son of a bitch.’ That didn’t work. That didn’t last too long. Then they went back to the dictator stuff,” Trump said.
“Those poor people, those poor lost souls – they're like lost souls. They're radical left lunatics, Democrats. And they all suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome at a level."
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., released a relatively rare joint statement on Friday, demanding Harris cease using "dangerous rhetoric" and reminding her of the two recent assassination attempts against Trump.
But Harris has so far ignored her GOP critics and continues to warn of "the danger and the threat that Donald Trump poses to America and the fact that he is unfit to serve" on the campaign trail.
Fox News Digital's Julia Johnson contributed to this update.
{{#rendered}}The co-founder of Death Row Records, one of the most recognizable and influential record labels in the music industry, spoke to Fox News Digital about why he recently decided to endorse former President Trump over VP Kamala Harris.
"It's about his track record," Michael "Harry-O" Harris told Fox News Digital about his decision to endorse Trump, who granted Harris clemency from a 33-year prison sentence that had seven years remaining on it as one of his last actions as president.
"The former president, while president, enacted some initiatives that speaks to my community specifically and other people as well."
Harris cited several examples of policies from the first Trump administration that he feels are in line with the goals of his organization, Community First Action, including permanent funding for HBCUs, opportunity zones promoting investment in low income neighborhoods, the First Step Act, and bipartisan legislation combating sickle cell anemia.
Polls have increasingly shown that Trump has made significant inroads with the Black community and is expected by many to earn a historically strong share of those votes in November. Harris told Fox News Digital he believes it is due in part to voters trusting that Trump will keep his word, and a lack of movement from the Biden-Harris administration.
"People have more confidence that he will keep his word and I think it's kind of based on some of the same research that we did, that when somebody doesn't campaign on something but actually enacted laws . . . that wants to double down on what he did in the first administration," Harris said.
"I haven't heard that from the other side as much. I mean, what I've heard, I believe, frankly, came a little bit too late, too little, too late. And so, when it comes to a balancing act, and you have to make a decision, the critical decision that could affect your life and the life of your family, you have to go based on facts, and the facts are that for the last three and a half years, the previous, the present administration hasn't really focused on our community."
This is an excerpt from an article by Andrew Mark Miller.
Vice President Kamala Harris is far and away the frontrunner in the battle for campaign cash, an important indicator in presidential politics.
According to the latest figures the two major party presidential campaigns filed with the Federal Election Commission, Harris hauled in $97 million during the first half of October.
That far outpaced the $16 million former President Trump's campaign said it raised during the first half of this month.
Both campaigns use a number of affiliated fundraisings committees to raise money. And when those are included, Trump narrowed the gap, but trailed $176 million to $97 million during the first two weeks of this month.
The new filings also spotlight that the Harris campaign continues to vastly outspend the Trump campaign.
During the first 16 days of October, the Democratic presidential nominee's campaign outspent Trump $166 million to $99 million, with paid media the top expenditure for both campaigns.
However, Harris finished the reporting period with more cash in her coffers. As of Oct. 16, she had $119 million cash on hand, while Trump had $36 million. When joint fundraising committees are also included, Harris holds a $240 million to $168 million cash-on-hand advantage.
This is an excerpt from an article by Paul Steinhauser.
Two major national polls conducted Sunday through Wednesday and released Friday indicate Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump are in a dead heat.
Grabbing headlines first is a New York Times/Siena College survey indicating the Democratic Party and GOP presidential nominees are tied at 48%.
That's a switch from a previous poll, earlier this month, when Harris held a slight three-point edge.
A CNN survey had the candidates deadlocked at 47% among likely voters nationwide. Its previous poll from late September indicated the vice president had a razor-thin one-point margin.
There were warning signs in the two surveys for both candidates, however.
Harris lost her favorability advantage over Trump in both polls.
After replacing President Biden atop the Democrats' 2024 ticket in July, the vice president's favorable ratings soared. But they've steadily eroded over the past month.
Another red flag for Harris are polls indicating her support among Black voters is below Biden's levels in the 2020 election.
For Trump, his support among White voters is on par with his standing in the 2020 election, when he lost the White House to Biden.
And the former president still faces a healthy deficit to the vice president when it comes to being trustworthy and caring about people.
While national polls are closely watched, the race for the White House is not based on the national popular vote. It's a battle for the states and their electoral votes.
And the latest surveys in the seven crucial battleground states whose razor-thin margins decided Biden's 2020 victory over Trump and will likely determine whether Harris or Trump wins the 2024 election, are mostly within the margin of error.
The latest Fox News national poll indicated Trump had a two-point edge, but Harris had a 6-point advantage among respondents questioned in all seven battleground states.
This is an excerpt from an article by Paul Steinhauser.
{{#rendered}}With 10 days until Election Day, two new major national polls indicate Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump are in a dead heat in the race to succeed President Biden in the White House.
With the clock quickly ticking, the two nominees and their running mates are fanning out across the key battleground states this weekend.
Trump starts Saturday with a rally in Novi, Michigan, in suburban Detroit. Later in the day, he'll campaign in another of the crucial swing states — Pennsylvania — as he holds a rally in State College, home to Penn State University.
Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice presidential nominee, starts his day in Atlanta before holding campaign events in Erie and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Top Trump surrogates Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who ended his long-shot White House run and endorsed Trump, and former Democratic presidential candidate and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who days ago switched from an independent to a Republican, will team up for Trump in swing state North Carolina. And Elon Musk, the Tesla and Space X magnate who's the world's richest person, stumps for Trump in Pennsylvania.
Harris on Saturday will team up with former first lady Michelle Obama, arguably the most popular Democrat in the country, at a get-out-the-vote rally in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The stop comes two days after the vice president shared the stage in suburban Atlanta with former President Obama.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, makes two stops in battleground Arizona Saturday, first in Window Rock and later in Phoenix.
In a sign of just how important a role Pennsylvania is playing with its 19 electoral votes up for grabs, first lady Jill Biden campaigns for Harris in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, while progressive champion Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a two-time runner-up for the Democratic nomination, stumps for Harris in Erie.
This is an excerpt from an article by Paul Steinhauser.
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