Kamala Harris poked fun at an answer to a debate question given by Donald Trump while speaking at an awards dinner in Washington on Saturday night.
“We actually have a plan for health care. Not just concepts of a plan,” the vice president told attendees at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Phoenix Awards to raucous laughter.
Harris was introduced by President Joe Biden who received a lifetime achievement award and gave a brief rundown of his accomplishments on behalf and alongside the Black community.
Speaking glowingly of Harris, he said: “I will be proud to stand on the steps of the Capitol and watch her being sworn in as president of the United States of America.”
Outrage continues following Trump’s claim during Tuesday’s likely-only presidential debate that the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio (who are there legally, and at the town’s invitation), were stealing and eating domestic pets
While the city officials and the governor have denied this is happening, Trump’s running mate, Ohio senator JD Vance has further stoked tensions by reposting an unverified video as alleged evidence.
Footage of what appears to be the Proud Boys on a main thoroughfare has surfaced and bomb threats have been called into hospitals, schools, and offices.
Key Points
- Watch: Harris takes jab at Trump’s ‘concept’ of a health care plan
- Trump’s rhetoric has Haitians in Springfield in a full-blown ‘panic’
- Walz hails ‘fellow cat owner Taylor Swift’ as he quotes ‘Tortured Poets’ song
- Can Kamala Harris win Pennsylvania? Just ask the mayor of Scranton
- Harris pressures Trump to return to debate stage: ‘We owe it to the voters’
- Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates
Trump gives evasive answer on why far-right activist Laura Loomer has joined his entourage
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Oliver O'Connell
When Donald Trump was asked about the concerns voiced by his Republican colleagues regarding his recent associations with far-right activist Laura Loomer, the former president stumbled to provide a concrete answer, instead calling her a “supporter” five times.
Kelly Rissman reports.
Walz hails ‘fellow cat owner Taylor Swift’ as he quotes ‘Tortured Poets’ song
04:30
Oliver O'Connell
“Coach” Tim Walz took a moment during a fired-up speech in Superior, Wisconsin, to give a shout-out to the Harris-Walz campaign’s most high-profile supporter — and reference a song off her Tortured Poets Department album.
Kamala Harris’s vice presidential running mate, accompanied by his wife Gwen, was in full pep-talk oratorical flow on Saturday afternoon when he decided to share some advice with the men in the crowd.
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Scathing Secret Service probe details haphazard securing of Butler rally
04:15
Oliver O'Connell
A scathing report from the Secret Service details failures by agents in the hours leading up to the shooting of Donald Trump -including breakdowns in communication and haphazard securing of the site.
The findings are part of a Secret Service probe into the July 13 shooting at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The shooting wounded Trump in the ear. It also left one spectator dead and two more hurt.
Gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to climb onto the roof of a building only a few hundred yards away and fire at Trump with an AR-style rifle. Crooks was shot dead by snipers, but not before wounding the Republican nominee for president.
Alex Lang reports.
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Oliver O'Connell
IN FOCUS: Days after his debate drubbing by Harris, Donald Trump is still flailing
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Oliver O'Connell
Andrew Feinberg writes:
Days after a debate that he hoped would restore his 2024 election lead over Vice President Kamala Harris, former president Donald Trump has found himself digging deeper and deeper into a hole of his own making.
He is trailing Harris in fundraising, in most polls taken following their face-off in Philadelphia on Tuesday, and now in the poll-of-polls averages that political forecasters look to when making their predictions of who will win the November presidential election.
Perhaps most importantly, he is beginning to fall behind Harris in nearly all of the key states where voters will, under America’s byzantine electoral system, determine who shall serve atop the country’s executive branch for the next four years.
It’s a stunning and quick reversal of fortune for the former president, who has spent most of the time since he announced his third presidential campaign leading in those same polls.
Despite the candidate’s messaging troubles, the Trump campaign still believes they are ahead.
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Walz rally crowd trolls Trump with chants of ‘we don’t eat cats’
02:45
Oliver O'Connell
The crowd at Tim Walz’s rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Thursday trolled Donald Trump over his false claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets, breaking out into chants of: “We don’t eat cats!”
The Democratic vice presidential nominee reflected on Tuesday’s presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Trump, teasing the former president with his now-classic buzzword for the Republican ticket: “weird.”
“He said a lot of weird stuff too, so I’m just going to say that,” the Minnesota governor told the crowd.
“You tell me that you had this on your bingo card: ‘And they’re eating cats’.”
A chorus of “we don’t eat cats” erupted from the crowd, as Walz jubilantly looked on from his podium.
James Liddell has the story.
Watch: Harris takes jab at Trump’s ‘concept’ of a health care plan
02:30
Oliver O'Connell
Kamala Harris: We actually have a plan for health care. Not just concepts of a plan. pic.twitter.com/ydI4n0uffH
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 15, 2024
Watch: Biden condemns Trump and Vance over attacks on Haitian Americans in Ohio
02:10
Oliver O'Connell
President Joe Biden has joined the chorus of condemnation of Donald Trump and JD Vance over their attacks on migrants — specifically the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio.
“Trump says black and brown immigrants poison the blood of our country. Right now, his running mate is attacking Haitian Americans in Ohio. It is wrong. It has got to stop,” said the president.
Biden: Trump says black and brown immigrants poison the blood of our country. Right now, his running mate is attacking Haitian Americans in Ohio. It is wrong. It has got to stop. pic.twitter.com/OKzU5hrOyg
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 15, 2024
Truck parades are back!
02:00
Oliver O'Connell
At first glance, you might think it was one of the many Trump truck parades put on by supporters across the country in 2020.
It’s not.
It’s a Harris-Walz truck parade in San Antonio, Texas, in 2024.
For context, Biden carried Bexar County 58.3% - 40.3% versus Trump in 2020, and Clinton won the county 54.5% - 41% in 2016.
Despite Texas going to Trump in 2020 52.1% - 46.5% overall with its 38 Electoral College votes, Biden carried all of the major cities (except for Fort Worth and Corpus Christi) — and by significant margins.
The final popular vote tally was 5.89 million to Trump and 5.26 million to Biden.
Watch LIVE: Biden and Harris deliver remarks at 2024 Phoenix Awards Dinner
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Oliver O'Connell
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Oliver O'Connell
Watch: Walz says Team Trump ‘mad as hell’ Project 2025 authors ‘said the quiet stuff out loud’ before election
01:30
Oliver O'Connell
Walz: They’re all mad as hell at the guys who wrote Project 2025 because it got out there. “Shh, you said the quiet stuff out loud before we got elected.” Yes, they did.. pic.twitter.com/sZdmuuzLR4
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 14, 2024
Martha Stewart has spoken.
01:15
Oliver O'Connell
While all the talk of campaign endorsements revolved around Taylor Swift this week, earlier on Tuesday, before the presidential debate, home and hospitality magnate Martha Stewart made her choice.
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Watch: Walz asks which Trump proposal his supporters like best
01:00
Oliver O'Connell
Walz: We all deal with it. Friends, neighbors, family… “I don’t really like how he swears or gets convicted of felonies and found liable for assaulting women.” Good, I’m glad you don’t like that but then they always go they like his proposals.
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 14, 2024
Which one? Taking your healthcare? pic.twitter.com/Lz4jzbES64
Trump details economic plans in local news interiview
Sunday 15 September 2024 00:52
Oliver O'Connell
KTNV Channel 13 Las Vegas scored an interview with Donald Trump last night while he was in town for his latest rally.
Reporter Steve Sebelius quizzed the former president predominantly about economic issues most important to Las Vegans — specifically the “no tax on tips”, “no tax on overtime”, and “no tax on social security benefits” policies.
Trump claimed that lost tax revenue would be covered by “enormous growth” and more drilling for oil — though the US currently produces more oil than it ever has before and more than any other nation in the world, ever.
Asked if any personal economic gains would be curtailed by his plan to increase tariffs through foreign nations passing on increased costs to consumers, Trump said his plan was to force foreign companies to open production in the US to avoid tariffs. That of course could take years.
This is total economic illiteracy and any money bro supporting this foul doofus should immediately lose their job for their occupational ignorance and poor judgment. https://t.co/2VAYrosFRy
— Van Badham (@vanbadham) September 14, 2024
Finally, Trump said Republicans who have thrown their support behind Kamala Harris might have a “personality problem” before inferring that they are somehow beholden to China...
When asked what he would say to convince Republicans voters who are supporting Kamala Harris to vote for him, Trump suggests those Republican Voters are receiving money from countries like China. pic.twitter.com/S5zcsN7XKq
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 14, 2024
You can watch the full interview here at KTNV Channel 13.
Trump’s rhetoric has Haitians in Springfield in a full-blown ‘panic’ after months of simmering racial tensions
Sunday 15 September 2024 00:45
Oliver O'Connell
“It’s creating so much panic in the community,” Springfield resident Viles Dorsainvil told The Independent. “... The words that come out of their mouths matter. They are looking for the highest office in America. They have the obligation to do better, because words are powerful.”
Justin Rohrlich reports.
Watch: Second Gentleman leads golf cart parade through The Villages
Sunday 15 September 2024 00:30
Oliver O'Connell
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff led a golf cart parade of Harris-Walz supporters through the traditional Trump stronghold of The Villages, the vast retirement community in Florida.
NOW: Proud Boys marching in Springfield Ohio pic.twitter.com/acPuw9eRU1
— Oliya Scootercaster (@ScooterCasterNY) September 14, 2024
Sunday 15 September 2024 00:28
Oliver O'Connell
Trump lies and says that Springfield has been taken over by illegal migrants.
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) September 14, 2024
The Haitians in Springfield are there under temporary protected status (TPS).
Trump knows what that is because he tried to revoke TPS for other Haitians during his administration. https://t.co/5jn40iS7Dk
Harris just gave her first solo interview as the presidential nominee. Here’s what we learned
Sunday 15 September 2024 00:15
Oliver O'Connell
Vice President Kamala Harris gave her first solo interview since she was selected as the Democratic nominee for president, pitching herself as “a new generation of leadership”.
In the exclusive interview on Friday, Harris sat down with 6ABC during her campaigning in the swing state of Pennsylvania where she discussed the economy, gun control, and reaching undecided voters.
Andrea Cavallier reports.
Watch: Footage appears to show Proud Boys marching in Springfield, Ohio
Sunday 15 September 2024 00:00
Oliver O'Connell
The group was spotted on South Burnett Road, a major thoroughfare in the city.
NOW: Proud Boys marching in Springfield Ohio pic.twitter.com/acPuw9eRU1
— Oliya Scootercaster (@ScooterCasterNY) September 14, 2024
Former Trump staffer mockingly asked someone to ‘track down’ victims of abortion bans
Saturday 14 September 2024 23:45
Oliver O'Connell
...then more than 17,000 women responded with their heartbreaking stories.
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COMMENT:
Saturday 14 September 2024 23:15
Oliver O'Connell
Catherine Pepinster writes:
Where does politics end and religion begin? Pope Francis has stoked that debate once again with his recent intervention in the US presidential campaign, where he commented on the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
Voters, he told journalists on his plane back to Rome from a tour of Asia, will have to choose between the “lesser” of two evils: that of Donald Trump’s anti-migrant policies, and Kamala Harris’s support for women’s abortion rights.
This may seem puzzling to some, who view being anti-migrant and supportive of abortion as at opposite ends of the political spectrum. But from the Pope’s point of view, they are part of a continuum of being “pro-life” – thinking that has seen Francis also speak out passionately against the death penalty and the Catholic Church being opposed to assisted dying.
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Bomb threats prompt lockdowns at Springfield hospitals in aftermath of Trump’s migrant conspiracies
Saturday 14 September 2024 23:07
Oliver O'Connell
Two hospitals in Springfield – the Ohio city at the center of Trump’s false pet-eating claims – were placed on brief lockdowns after receiving bomb threats Saturday morning.
Both medical centers have resumed normal operations after police and hospital security found nothing suspicious during their search.
Andrea Cavallier has the detail of what happened today.
Watch: Walz tells men ‘surround yourself with smart women’
Saturday 14 September 2024 22:45
Oliver O'Connell
...with a shoutout to fellow cat owner Taylor Swift.
“It’s really great to have all of these women help us beat the smallest man in the world... Donald Trump,” said vice presidential nominee Tim Walz.
Tim Walz: Here’s my life hack for all the guys out there: surround yourself with smart women and listen to them and you’ll do just fine. That includes my fellow cat owner Taylor Swift.
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 14, 2024
It’s really great to have all of these women help us beat the smallest man in the world..… pic.twitter.com/mA9JN2yYG2
People respond to JD Vance sharing video he claims shows migrants grilling cats: ‘Clearly chicken you weirdo’
Saturday 14 September 2024 22:30
Oliver O'Connell
Republican vice-presidential candidate Senator JD Vance continues to stoke outrage against foreign-born members of his own constituency, sharing video footage with his 1.9 million social media followers that he claimed showed African migrants in Dayton, Ohio “eating cats”.
In the eyes of many though, it appears to show nothing more than poultry cooking on an outdoor grill.
Justin Rohrlich has the story.
Watch LIVE: Tim Walz holds election campaign event in Wisconsin
Saturday 14 September 2024 22:06
Oliver O'Connell
Seth Meyers jokes RFK Jr might not be the best person to defend Trump’s debate meltdown about eating pets
Saturday 14 September 2024 22:11
Oliver O'Connell
Seth Meyers joked that Robert F Kennedy Jr might not be the best person to defend Donald Trump’s debate meltdown over eating pet dogs and cats – given his own very colorful history with dead animals.
On his show on Thursday night, the late-night host waded into the damage control efforts by Republicans and Trump allies following his showdown with Kamala Harris on Tuesday night.
RFK Jr was one of many trying to defend Trump’s performance.
Myriam Page reports.
Racial tensions in Springfield have simmered for months. Trump’s rhetoric now has Haitians there in a full-blown ‘panic’
Saturday 14 September 2024 21:00
Andrea Cavallier
After Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance helped supercharge a false, racist rumor that Haitian refugees in small-town Ohio were stealing and consuming people’s household pets, the fiction was duly parrotted by running mate Donald Trump during a nationally televised debate against Democratic opponent Kamala Harris.
The compounding myths, which the leader of notorious neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe gleefully took credit for having helped popularize, were swiftly debunked by, among others, the Springfield mayor, city manager, and police department.
But the claims have not only inflamed existing tensions in Springfield, they have also managed to further traumatize a group of people who fled civil war and ceaseless gang violence for the sleepy Rust Belt town of 58,000.
Justin Rohrlich reports:
Kamala Harris just gave her first solo interview as the presidential nominee. Here’s what we learned
Saturday 14 September 2024 20:31
Andrea Cavallier
Vice President Kamala Harris gave her first solo interview since she was selected as the Democratic nominee for president, pitching herself as “a new generation of leadership”.
In the exclusive interview on Friday, Harris sat down with 6ABC during her campaigning in the swing state of Pennsylvania where she discussed the economy, gun control, and reaching undecided voters.
Harris told Action News’ Brian Taff that she has a plan for bringing down prices for Americans and making life more affordable – starting with helping small businesses and first-time homebuyers.
Andrea Cavallier reports:
WATCH: Robert De Niro issues 7-word warning if Trump wins election
Saturday 14 September 2024 19:00
Andrea Cavallier
Days after his debate drubbing by Harris, Donald Trump is still flailing
Saturday 14 September 2024 18:30
Andrea Cavallier
Days after a debate that he hoped would restore his 2024 election lead over Vice President Kamala Harris, former president Donald Trump has found himself digging deeper and deeper into a hole of his own making.
He is trailing Harris in fundraising, in most polls taken following their face-off in Philadelphia on Tuesday, and now in the poll-of-polls averages that political forecasters look to when making their predictions of who will win the November presidential election.
Perhaps most importantly, he is beginning to fall behind Harris in nearly all of the key states where voters will, under America’s byzantine electoral system, determine who shall serve atop the country’s executive branch for the next four years.
It’s a stunning and quick reversal of fortune for the former president, who has spent most of the time since he announced his third presidential campaign leading in those same polls.
Despite the candidate’s messaging troubles, the Trump campaign still believes they are ahead.
Andrew Feinberg reports:
Viral image of man holding geese that fueled bizarre pet-eating claims in Ohio finally revealed
Saturday 14 September 2024 18:00
Andrea Cavallier
A viral photo of a man carrying two geese in Ohio fueled Donald Trump’s wild, now-debunked conspiracy that Haitian migrants are eating pets in the state – but turns out it was a wild goose chase.
The Ohio Division of Wildlife told TMZ that the man was picking up the two geese that had been hit by a car in Columbus, which is about 45 minutes from Springfield, where Trump had previously claimed that migrants were chowing down on the birds.
Andrea Cavallier reports:
John Legend defends hometown Springfield after Donald Trump’s bizarre cats and dogs claim
Saturday 14 September 2024 17:30
Andrea Cavallier
Robert De Niro launches fresh attack on Donald Trump
Saturday 14 September 2024 17:00
Andrea Cavallier
Robert De Niro has attacked Donald Trump as “a jerk” and “an idiot,” arguing that if the former President is re-elected in November he will not relinquish power.
The Taxi Driver actor, 81, has been a longtime critic of Trump and clashed with his supporters outside his hush money trial earlier this year.
During a new interview for Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? on Max, De Niro was asked whether he believed Trump would voluntarily give up power after serving a potential second term.
“You know he won’t,” replied the actor. “You know he won’t. He even said it. He’s never going to give it up. And anybody who deludes themselves in thinking that he is, shame on you.”
Wallace went on to ask De Niro whether the actor had any run-ins with the real estate mogul in New York during the 1970s and 1980s, and whether there was any personal animosity between the pair.
“No. I never wanted anything to do with him,” responded De Niro. “He’s a jerk, an idiot, who wants to meet a clown like that?
Kevin E G Perry reports:
WATCH: Donald Trump tells people to call him ‘Mr Border President’
Saturday 14 September 2024 16:10
Andrea Cavallier
Scathing Secret Service probe details haphazard securing of Butler rally
Saturday 14 September 2024 15:30
Oliver O'Connell
A scathing report from the Secret Service details failures by agents in the hours leading up to the shooting of Donald Trump -including breakdowns in communication and haphazard securing of the site.
The findings are part of a Secret Service probe into the July 13 shooting at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The shooting wounded Trump in the ear. It also left one spectator dead and two more hurt.
Gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to climb onto the roof of a building only a few hundred yards away and fire at Trump with an AR-style rifle. Crooks was shot dead by snipers, but not before wounding the Republican nominee for president.
Alex Lang has the story.
Martha Stewart makes her 2024 endorsement
Saturday 14 September 2024 15:00
Oliver O'Connell
While all the talk of campaign endorsements revolved around Taylor Swift this week, earlier on Tuesday, before the presidential debate, home and hospitality magnate Martha Stewart made her choice.
In an onstage interview with Joanna Coles, chief creative and content officer for the Daily Beast, at the 2024 Retail Influencer CEO Forum, Stewart said she would absolutely be tuning in to the debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
“Oh, you bet,” she said, before revealing her choice of candidate.
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Trump says his mass deportation will begin in Ohio town where he falsely claimed Haitians were eating pets
Saturday 14 September 2024 14:30
Oliver O'Connell
Donald Trump said he would conduct the “largest deportation in the history” of the United States and begin by removing immigrants and migrants in Springfield, Ohio – the same town in which he falsely claimed Haitian immigrants were eating pets.
On Friday, the former president repeated his anti-immigration policies and amplified familiar unsubstantiated claims of “migrant crime” during a press conference at his golf course in Racho Palos Verdes, California.
“We’re going to have the largest deportation in the history of our country and we’re going to start with Springfield,” Trump said.
Ariana Baio reports.
Harris raised a staggering $47m in the 24 hours after dominant performance in Trump debate
Saturday 14 September 2024 14:00
Mike Bedigan
Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign raised $47m in the 24 hours following her debate with Donald Trump.
The bump is the best 24-hour stretch since the vice president announced her candidacy and was overwhelmingly driven by grassroots supporters.
Nearly 600,000 people made donations, and the total sum is likely to expand a widening funding gap between the two campaigns.
The Republicans defending Trump’s debunked claims about pet-eating Haitian immigrants
Saturday 14 September 2024 13:00
Katie Hawkinson
Several GOP lawmakers have come to the defense of Donald Trump’s false claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Ohio.
This week, Trump, JD Vance and other right-wingers have promoted the unfounded conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating residents’ cats and dogs.
The theory – which city officials have said there is no evidence for – was even discussed on the debate stage as Trump faced off against Kamala Harris. Debate moderator David Muir pointed out the claim was unfounded, but Trump doubled down.
Trump is only running to stay out of jail, says 9/11 responder and advocate
Saturday 14 September 2024 12:00
Ariana Baio
A September 11, 2001 responder and victims’ rights advocate said he believes Donald Trump is running for president “to stay out of jail” and doesn’t actually care about the American people after the former president invited far-right figure Laura Loomer to the 9/11 memorial.
John Feal, who was injured while working as a demolition supervisor at Ground Zero after 9/11, told CNN on Thursday that he thinks the former president only cares about himself and has surrounded himself with other “self-absorbed” people like Loomer.
“Donald Trump’s not running for president, he’s running to stay out of jail,” Feal said.“I don’t care what anybody says.”
