Harris on Trump in Wisconsin: ‘This man is evil’

She also said Trump was “one of the biggest manufacturing losers in American history,” sticking to the word “loser.”

Harris, accompanied by IBEW staff, said Trump was “out of the question” about unions, calling him “no friend of labor” and a “career-long union buster.”

“There’s a lot of talk about him, but if you pay attention to what he’s actually done… you’ll see who he really is,” she said, calling Trump an “existential threat to the American labor movement.”

Union workers play an important role in a number of key swing states. While Democrats have long enjoyed the support of labor leaders, Trump improved Republicans’ standing among rank-and-file union workers in both 2016 and 2020.

Harris ended her campaign by arguing that the former president was more focused on the people she believed wronged him than on the American people.

Meanwhile, several Arab-American leaders in Dearborn, Michigan, say they have declined invitations to meet with Trump, who on Friday visited the country’s largest Arab-majority city in metro Detroit.

Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud declined an invitation to meet with Trump this week, Katie Doyal, Hammoud’s spokeswoman, confirmed to the Associated Press. Hammoud, a Democrat, did not endorse any presidential candidate this year.

Arab American News publisher Osama Siblani said he was invited to a “handshake” meeting with Trump but set conditions, asking for a substantive discussion on social issues.

Siblani also informed Trump’s allies that the Arab American PAC, which he co-founded, and The Arab American News would not change their lack of endorsement in the presidential race, even if he faces Trump. Siblani said that after requests, the meeting never took place.

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Eight years have passed since recordings of Donald Trump’s conversation with TV host Billy Bush were leaked, prompting a wave of comments from the former president about kissing and grabbing women without their consent.

Now young people are getting their first taste of the tape on TikTok, where users share videos of their reactions and, in some cases, reach large audiences.

Many first-time voters were teenagers in 2016, when the Washington Post first reported an incident in which the former president appeared to endorse sexual assault during a behind-the-scenes conversation on “Access Hollywood” when he did not realize this matter. his microphone was on. Despite widespread criticism of Trump’s statements at the time, he won the 2016 presidential election and the mainstream news cycle remained unchanged.

Now, the generation that has come of age in the #MeToo era is turning to social media for information about candidates and elections — according to Pew Research, 39 percent of young adults say they often get their news from TikTok. This week, many people said on the social network that they were shocked by the former president’s words and did not know why the episode did not lead to a deal breaker in 2016.

“I don’t think any of my friends have heard it,” said Kate Sullivan, a 21-year-old student from Ohio who first heard the tape this week on her TikTok For You channel. “We were all equally shocked.”

Sullivan has stated that people her age have less tolerance for inappropriate sexual behavior because they grew up surrounded by a series of high-profile molestation and assault cases involving major celebrities. She immediately felt compelled to share the video in her own video with the text overlaid: “Fathers vote for this man.” The video was viewed 2.5 million times and singer Billie Eilish retweeted it to her 68 million followers.

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GLENDALE, Arizona – At his final campaign event in Arizona, former President Donald Trump on Thursday night insulted Liz Cheney, one of his most outspoken GOP critics, and used threatening imagery to suggest she should be sent into the firing line.

During an on-stage interview with Tucker Carlson, a former Fox News host and top Trump ally, Trump attacked Cheney, who is campaigning with Vice President Kamala Harris. Then, disagreeing with her approach to foreign policy, he suggested placing her in a war zone.

“She is a radical warhawk,” Trump said before thousands of people at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona. “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there and shooting nine barrels at her, OK? Let’s see what she thinks about it. You know, when guns are pointed at her face.

He continued by expressing contempt for those in Washington who wanted the United States involved in foreign conflicts. “You know, they’re all war hawks when they sit in Washington in a nice building and say, ‘Oh, gosh, well, let’s send, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.'”

Cheney responded Friday morning in a post on the X social media platform: “This is how dictators destroy free nations.”

Trump’s hypothetical comes as the dark and sometimes threatening language he uses against his political opponents has recently increased. The former president, whose lie that he won the 2020 election prompted some of his supporters to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, on Thursday once again referred to a pernicious “enemy within” that must be dealt with. He had previously described his enemies as “vermin” that needed to be eradicated. (Cheney was the top Republican on the House committee investigating Trump’s role in the Capitol riot).

During Thursday night’s interview, Trump’s third highlight of the day, he gave a series of rambling responses in which he hurled personal insults at his critics and at one point recalled his 2016 presidential campaign and used dark language to make exaggerated claims about immigration.

He repeatedly denigrated Harris, used profanity to refer to President Biden and attacked the appearance of Representative Adam Schiff, the California Democrat who was the lead investigator in Trump’s first impeachment. Reflecting on his 2016 campaign, he happily recalled the “extremely destructive” nicknames he gave to his opponents.

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Elon Musk, a titan of technology and business and the world’s richest man, has spent at least $119 million to mobilize Trump supporters to support the Republican Party candidate.

Musk’s conversion into self-proclaimed “Dark MAGA” Trump warrior is recent.

Records show he has donated modest amounts to both Republicans and Democrats in the past, including $5,000 to Hillary Clinton in 2016. He became involved in Trump’s political efforts only this year, according to federal campaign finance disclosures.

Musk currently heads America PAC, the super political action committee that is leading Trump in his get-out-the-vote efforts.

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ATLANTA – Donald Trump put his opposition to transgender rights at the center of his final speech before Election Day, using demeaning language and false statements to portray an extremely narrow segment of the U.S. population as a threat to national identity.

The former Republican presidential candidate and nominee’s campaign and affiliated political action committees have spent tens of millions of dollars on ads attacking Democratic nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris for her past statements supporting transgender rights.

His speeches at rallies have now featured a fake video mocking transgender people and their place in the US military. A montage interspersed with clips of the Vietnam War film “Full Metal Jacket” usually draws loud boos at his rallies, as do Trump’s false claims about female athletes and his mocking impression that he thinks she is a transgender woman who lifts weights.

“We will kick … transgender madness the hell out of our schools and keep men out of women’s sports,” Trump said at his recent rally at Madison Square Garden, drawing approving roars from the crowd of more than 20,000.

His running mate, J.D. Vance, alleged Thursday that “middle-class or upper-middle-class” white teenagers may identify as transgender to more easily get into elite universities. In doing so, Vance invoked conservative anger over affirmative action and other programs targeting historically disenfranchised groups.

“Is there a phenomenon where if you become trans, it’s a way of rejecting your white privilege?” Vance said in an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan. “That is the only social meaning, the only meaning that is available in hyper-awake thinking, is that you are not gender binary.”

Though often overshadowed by his emphasis on migrants, Trump’s anti-LGBTQ attacks appear to be growing more frequent and ominous in the final days of the campaign, aimed both at riling up his core supporters and winning over votes from more moderate voters who may not connect with Trump on other issues. matters. It’s part of an overall campaign in which Trump promotes his own brand of hypermasculinity, most recently referring several times to CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who is gay, under the feminine name “Allison Cooper.”

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