Donald Trump rallied supporters in Mosinee, Wisconsin on Saturday, in his first visit to the deep-red, mostly rural part of the important swing state.
Amid a familiar list of grievances, the former president made a new attack against Harris. He suggested expanding the 25th Amendment to include the possiblity of removing a vice president. Trump has been openly bitter about President Joe Biden’s decision to exit the 2024 race.
Accusing Harris and other Biden allies of pushing him out of the race in a “cover-up,” Trump told the crowd: “I will support modifying the 25th Amendment to make clear that if a vice president lies or engages in a conspiracy to cover up the incapacity of the president of the United States — if you do that with a cover-up of the president of the United States, it’s grounds for impeachment immediately and removal from office, ‘cause that’s what they did.”
At another point during the rally, Trump offered an explanation for his frequent references to the ficitional cannibal Hannibal Lecter. The Silence of the Lambs character is a “representative of people that are coming into our country,” he said.
This type of explanation, similar to his explanation last weak for his ability to “weave”, has prompted one of his biographers to say he is “hyper-aware” that he is mentally slipping.
Former Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney said that 2024 is the first time she’ll ever vote as a Democrat.
Cheney recently endorsed Harris, citing the “dangers” posed by a second Donald Trump term. She also announced that her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, would also be voting for Harris.
When she spoke with ABC News earlier this week, she revealed that not only was she not voting Republican, but that her vote for Harris would mark the first time she had ever voted for a Democrat.
“It tells you, I think, the stakes in this election,” she said. “Donald Trump presents a challenge and a threat fundamentally to the republic.”
Graig Graziosi8 September 2024 15:37
Less than three months ago, a disastrous debate performance by President Joe Biden put Kamala Harris on a collision course with Donald Trump.
Now at the top of the Democratic ticket, Harris’s first public face-off with Trump on the ABC debate stage in Philadelphia is just days away. Right now, she is hunkered down in Pittsburgh for intensive preparations with a close circle of aides and confidantes who are getting her ready for her best — and perhaps only — chance to convince Americans that she, and not the former president, should spend the next four years in the White House.
According to NOTUS, the vice president will be participating in sessions led by Paul Weiss partner Karen Dunn, the Washington super-lawyer who masterminded then-Senator Harris’s prep for her 2020 debate against her predecessor, Mike Pence. Harris will also reportedly be coached by her veteran policy adviser Rohini Kosoglu, as well as Democratic National Convention mastermind and longtime operative Minyon Moore; domestic policy aide Brian Nelson; campaign chief-of-staff Sheila Nix; veteran adviser Sean Clegg; and Cedric Richmond, the former Louisiana congressman who is a co-chair of her campaign.
Andrew Feinberg8 September 2024 14:00
Gustaf Kilander8 September 2024 13:00
Justice Samuel Alito reported Friday that he accepted $900 worth of concert tickets from a German princess, but disclosed no trips paid for by other people, according to a new financial disclosure form.
The required annual filing, for which Alito has often sought an extension, doesn’t include details of the event tickets gifted by socialite Gloria von Thurn und Taxis of Germany. Alito didn’t report any outside income from teaching or book contracts.
The financial disclosures filed by Supreme Court justices come against the backdrop of a heightened focus on ethics at the high court amid criticism over undisclosed trips and gifts from wealthy benefactors to some justices. The other eight justices filed their forms in June; Alito received an extension.
Lindsay Whitehurst8 September 2024 12:00
On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the latest jobs numbers, which showed that the US economy added 142,000 jobs. That is higher than the 99,000 jobs that ADP predicted, but still lower than most expectations.
Eric Garcia8 September 2024 11:00
As he detailed sexual assault allegations against him in two defamation cases he lost, Donald Trump said he was “very disappointed” in his legal team while half a dozen of his attorneys surrounded him in the lobby of Trump Tower on Friday.
Trump attended brief oral arguments in a federal appeals court hearing in Manhattan on Friday morning, where attorneys argued to reverse a $5 million defamation verdict against the former president, who a jury found liable for sexually abusing the writer E Jean Carroll in a department store in the 1990s.
Trump insists that he has never met Carroll and has labeled her a liar, claims that landed him a second defamation lawsuit, which he lost earlier this year. A separate jury awarded Carroll more than $83 million.
Alex Woodward8 September 2024 10:00
The Prime Minister will make his second visit to the USA since coming to office a matter of months ago, according to the White House.
Sir Keir Starmer is due to visit Washington DC and meet with President Joe Biden on September 13.
The meeting will be the second of its kind between the leaders since Sir Keir came to office in July, and comes just two months before Americans go to the polls for the presidential election.
Their first White House bilateral took place as Sir Keir attended the Nato summit just days after Labour won the election.
David Lynch8 September 2024 09:00
New voter registrations surged among Black women and young people in Pennsylvania when Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee for president, according to newly released data.
In the week that Joe Biden announced he would not run for re-election, new registrations increased by 262 percent among Black women under 30 compared to the same week in 2020.
Registrations among Black voters increased by 110 percent, and among voters under 30 years old by 59 percent, also compared to the same week in 2020.
‘This data is suggesting that women, younger voters, voters of color, and then especially younger women of color are going to vote at a much higher rate than they did in 2020,’ one strategist says, predicting that it could have ‘a significant potential impact on the outcome of this election’
Richard Hall, Alicja Hagopian8 September 2024 08:00
A lot of unexpected things have happened in the life of Fred Trump.
The son of Donald J’s handsome late older brother, Fred was disinherited of the family fortune by a technicality in his grandfather’s will. He and his wife, after a normal pregnancy and birth, discovered their third child suffered from severe rare disabilities requiring 24/7 care.
Then Fred watched his uncle become president. And that same uncle, while in office and standing in the White House, suggested disabled Americans like Fred’s son – his own great-nephew, William – should perhaps be left to “just die,” the 61-year-old author claims.
Fred Trump has had a front seat since childhood to the bombastic antics of his Uncle Donald and the ‘cruel’ eccentricities of the wider Trump clan. A disability advocate since the birth of his son 25 years ago, Fred’s now airing family secrets in a new book. He speaks to Sheila Flynn
Sheila Flynn8 September 2024 07:00
The late Republican senator for Arizona, John McCain, wouldn’t have supported Kamala Harris if he saw the state of the US-Mexico border, according to GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance during a Phoenix campaign stop this week.
“Look, one of the things I love about Donald Trump, and I never knew John McCain, but I suspect that one of the things that I would have loved about John McCain is that they didn’t let their personal grievances get in the way of serving the country,” Vance said on Thursday.
“OK, so John McCain, I’m sure, disagreed with Donald Trump on a whole host of issues. And, yes, Donald Trump disagreed with John McCain on a whole host of issues. I do not believe for a second that if John McCain were alive today, and he sees what’s going on at the American southern border, that he would support Kamala Harris and all the destruction she’s wrought.”
Josh Marcus8 September 2024 06:00
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