Donald Trump is set to hold a rally focused on immigration in Aurora, Colorado on Friday, where local officials have rejected his claim that the Denver suburb is a “war zone” taken over by Venezuelan gangs.
As they announced the rally, the Trump campaign said: “Aurora, Colorado has become a ‘war zone’ due to the influx of violent Venezuelan prison gang members from Tren de Aragua.”
During the debate with Vice President Kamala Harris on September 10, Trump said: “They are taking over the towns. They’re taking over buildings. They’re going in violently.”
The rally comes after Trump disparaged the entire city of Detroit, Michigan, on Thursday warning that the whole country could end up “a mess” like the Motor City if his Democratic rival wins November’s election, a pitch unlikely to endear him to local voters that has already inspired a major backlash.
Former president Barack Obama meanwhile delivered an impassioned speech denouncing the Republican’s character and mocking his “constant attempts to sell you stuff”, from gold sneakers to branded Bibles, during a campaign stop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, championing Harris’s bid for the presidency.
Key Points
- Trump expected to go on anti-immigrant rant during Colorado rally
- Trump disparages Detroit and rants about the death penalty when asked about raising his kids
- Barack Obama issues stern appeal to Black males thinking about voting for Trump
- Obama calls for action as he skewers Trump on campaign trail
- Kamala Harris comforts tearful woman as she appeals to Latino voters with Univision town hall
The polls are clear: Kamala Harris’s honeymoon period is over
20:00
John Bowden
Where will the 2024 election be decided?
In short, everywhere.
A new batch of polls came out this week, with a little less than one month to go in the presidential election. Kamala Harris’s “honeymoon” surge is now officially over.
Donald Trump is on the rise. A new Quinnipiac poll of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan this week showed him leading in the latter two; RealClearPolitics’s polling average now has him ahead for the first time in months in the state of Michigan, a state which spurned Hillary Clinton in 2016 but flipped back to Democratic control in 2020.
But what’s really clear — what Quinnipiac’s poll and every other survey of the race indicates this week — is how close the race is in every state. No candidate has a lead higher than the low single digits in more than a half dozen states, all of which will play a significant role in the Electoral College.
Maryland’s Senate race was friendly — until it really, really wasn’t
19:30
John Bowden
The conversation between Angela Alsobrooks and her opponent Larry Hogan started off cordial, even friendly on Thursday evening.
It was a vibe that lasted for all of about thirty seconds.
Within moments of the debate hosted by NBC’s Chuck Todd kicking off on Maryland Public Television (MPT), the two candidates had dropped the cordiality and were trading accusations of dishonesty. That’s a sign of not just the passionate state of politics in 2024, but the stakes on the line in Maryland, where Hogan’s candidacy puts a formerly safe Democratic seat in the US Senate in real contention for the first time in many years.
Trump’s top general calls ex-president ‘fascist to the core’ and ‘most dangerous person to this country,’ new book says
19:00
Andrew Feinberg
Mark Milley, the US Army general who Donald Trump appointed as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, now says the current Republican presidential nominee is a “fascist to the core” and says no person has ever posed more of a danger to the United States than the man who served as the 45th President of the United States.
Milley, a decorated military officer who became a target for right-wing scorn after it became known that he expressed concerns over Trump’s mental stability in the wake of his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden, is described by journalist Bob Woodward in his new book, War, as incredibly alarmed at the prospect of a second Trump term in the White House. The Independent obtained a copy ahead of the book’s October 15 release date.
In the wake of the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by a riotous mob of the then-president’s supporters, Woodward writes that Milley insisted on securing a meeting with the then-newly-minted attorney general, Merrick Garland, to urge him to investigate domestic violent extremism and far-right militia movements.
Trump, trailing badly with women, goes after ‘The View’ host in latest rant
18:30
John Bowden
Donald Trump is watching Kamala Harris’s post-debate media blitz. He’s watching, and he’s not happy about it.
And as the former president struggles to mend his own self-inflicted wounds, Harris has taken on an energetic campaign schedule. The vice president has held multiple rallies and smaller events, while also hitting the interview circuit to reach wider audiences. Trump, meanwhile, has remained on the trail as well, with multiple events on his weekly calendar.
As the former president plays to the crowds of supporters at his rallies, however, he clearly has his mind on the larger audiences Harris is reaching with appearances on 60 Minutes, The View and even the Spotify podcast Call Her Daddy.
On Wednesday, at a rally in Pennsylvania, he highlighted some of his opponent’s media tour onstage, playing a clip of Harris’s interview with The View. Sunny Hostin, who asked Harris what she would have done differently than Joe Biden over the last four years had she been president, was a target of ridicule.
Trump ally Roger Stone suggests sending ‘armed guards’ to voting stations in undercover video
18:00
James Liddell
Newly surfaced video footage reveals former Donald Trump adviser and longtime ally Roger Stone suggesting the deployment of Trump-backed “armed guards” at vote counting areas.
The notorious self-styled GOP “dirty trickster” was secretly recorded responding to a question about how Democrats can be stopped from “stealing” the election while mingling with attendees at his Jacksonville, Florida, event: ‘A Night with Roger Stone.’
“We have to fight it out on a state-by-state basis, but you have to be ready,” Stone can be heard replying in the undercover recording first given to Rolling Stone by documentarian Lauren Windsor.
Trump expected to go on anti-immigrant rant during Colorado rally
17:38
Gustaf Kilander
Donald Trump is expected to go on an anti-immigrant rant as he visits Aurora, Colorado on Friday for a rally.
The Republican has claimed the Denver suburb has become overrun by immigrants and turned it into a “war zone,” suggestions that have been rejected by local officials.
“Aurora, Colorado has become a ‘war zone’ due to the influx of violent Venezuelan prison gang members from Tren de Aragua,” the Trump campaign said in a statement as the rally was announced.
During the debate on September 10, Trump said that members of the Tren de Aragua had taken control of a number of apartment buildings in the suburb, claims that have been denied by city leaders.
“They are taking over the towns. They’re taking over buildings. They’re going in violently,” Trump said at the time. “These are the people that she and Biden let into our country.”
The rally is set to begin at 3pm ET at the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center.
Trump’s ghostwriter says ‘The Apprentice’ biopic gets ‘most things’ right
17:35
Joe Sommerlad
Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter who wrote Trump’s The Art of the Deal, has said the new biopic about the former president gets the most important thing about him right.
Gustaf Kilander has more.
Trump’s campaign racks up $750,000 in unpaid bills for police protection at his rallies
17:15
Joe Sommerlad
Cities across the US have tried to chase down money they say Donald Trump’s campaign owes them for providing law enforcement and other public safety measures at his hours-long rallies.
Trump’s campaign has been routinely accused of dodging invoices from local governments for the costs of increased police presence and other expenses that come with hosting large-scale events where crowds begin lining up hours ahead of his remarks, which typically go on for 82 minutes, on average.
In just five cities, that total is at least $750,000, with many of those bills dating back to rallies held while he was running for president in 2016, according to a new review from NBC News.
Here’s Alex Woodward’s report.
Recap: Detroit mayor slams Trump after ex-president trashes his ‘mess’ of a city
16:55
Joe Sommerlad
Mayor Mike Duggan came out swinging after the Republican presidential candidate had the audacity to criticize the Motor City during his appearance before the Detroit Economic Club, a tactic that was never likely to win him many Michigan votes.
Gustaf Kilander has this report.
Gateway Pundit removes all mention of defamed Georgia election workers
16:35
Joe Sommerlad
The far-right conspiracy theory-driven website earlier this week settled a defamation claim from Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the Peach State election workers who received a massive compensation payout from Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.
It now appears to have scrubbed any mention of the duo from its pages.
Gateway Pundit appears to have removed all mentions of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss from its website. The site settled a defamation lawsuit filed by the two women yesterday. https://t.co/7Xv0iir4Ughttps://t.co/lKsXnv5JLKhttps://t.co/iIYYdU7soe pic.twitter.com/d7FWsYCSdn
— Sam Levine (@srl) October 11, 2024
Meteorologists sent death threats over right-wing conspiracy theories alleging government ‘controls’ hurricanes
16:15
Joe Sommerlad
This is deeply stupid and depressing.
FEMA has already warned that misinformation spread by Trump and his MAGA allies has hindered its efforts to help the worst-hit communities in America’s southeastern states.
Now, meteorologists say they are facing a backlash and even death threats in response to false claims like Marjorie Taylor Greene’s intensely idiotic pronouncement that “they” control the weather.
“I’ve never seen a storm garner so much misinformation, we have just been putting out fires of wrong information everywhere,” Katie Nickolaou, a Michigan-based weather expert, told The Guardian.
“I have had a bunch of people saying I created and steered the hurricane, there are people assuming we control the weather.
“But it’s taken a turn to more violent rhetoric, especially with people saying those who created Milton should be killed.”
You can follow all the latest on Hurricane Milton in our dedicated liveblog below.
Live: Tim Walz campaigns in Michigan weeks before Election Day
15:55
Joe Sommerlad
You can watch a livefeed of Kamala Harris’s running mate’s latest appearance right here.
Walz can be relied upon to ridicule Trump over his comments about Detroit yesterday and will come prepared with attacks on the Republican’s lacklustre job creation record in the White House.
Trump-aligned UFC boss Dana White attacks Harris over Stephen Colbert interview
15:35
Joe Sommerlad
White, who spoke at the Republican National Convention this summer but suggests he doesn’t generally like to get political, goes after Harris here for her late-night appearance earlier this week.
Admittedly this is not her best answer but have you seen, oh I don’t know, literally any video of Trump speaking publicly from the last nine years??
I don’t like to post a lot of political content, but this clip should scare EVERYONE. She is the sitting VP and running for President of the United States. She is incapable of putting a sentence together without a teleprompter and even she appears to know she is in way over her… pic.twitter.com/iUgKsDRk7K
— danawhite (@danawhite) October 11, 2024
Watch: Obama criticized for singling out Black men during Harris-Walz campaigning
15:15
Joe Sommerlad
Former Democratic Ohio state senator and activist Nina Turner appeared on CNN last night and argued that the former president was “wrong” to take Black men to task for backing away from supporting Kamala Harris.
James Liddell has more on Turner’s comments.
Fewer ‘everyday people’ have donated to Trump’s campaign than in 2020
14:55
Joe Sommerlad
The Republican’s campaign has seen a more than 10 percentage point drop in the number of “small donors” this presidential election cycle compared to 2020.
So far this year, and with just 24 days to go until Election Day, only 31.7 percent of campaign donations have come from small donors – classified as people who give less than $200, according to OpenSecrets.
Four years ago, nearly half of Trump’s campaign donations came from small donors.
Ariana Baio has more.
‘They came to see Vance’s new civil persona. They got the attack dog’
14:35
Joe Sommerlad
Trump’s running mate has seen his numbers improve since last week’s VP debate against Tim Walz when he was surprisingly respectful to his opponent.
But that hasn’t stopped him reverting to a more pugnacious tone on the campaign trail.
Eric Garcia reports from Greensboro, North Carolina.
Trump seizes on one block of a Colorado city to warn of a migrant threat, even as crime dips
14:15
Joe Sommerlad
Here’s a timely little reality check on Aurora, the Denver suburb where Trump is holding the first of two events today, the second following later in Reno, Nevada.
Inside the Trump campaign’s ‘edgy’ and crass approach to appeal to men
13:55
Joe Sommerlad
Donald Trump has proclaimed himself the “protector” of women but the tone of his messaging has become incrasingly geared towards young men with crass language and put-downs in the hope that that bloc will back him in November.
But the former president risks further isolating female voters by doing so, writes Kelly Rissman.
Watch: Pennsylvania Governor tells Trump to ‘stop s***-talking America'
13:35
Joe Sommerlad
Josh Shapiro was as fired up as Obama in Pittsburgh yesterday.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro had a pointed message for former President Donald Trump while campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris. "Stop sh*t-talking America," Shapiro said. “This is the greatest country on earth. He [Trump] better damn well start acting like it," he… pic.twitter.com/ZxNzdhRV9H
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 11, 2024
Harris appears on the cover of Vogue as ‘the candidate for our times'
13:15
Joe Sommerlad
How long before Trump goes insane about this on Truth Social?
Here’s the Annie Leibovitz-shot Vogue cover and story. https://t.co/qpJco1NuGY pic.twitter.com/M3e96rIzma
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) October 11, 2024
The View hosts nail Trump after verbal attack at Pennsylvania rally
12:55
Joe Sommerlad
Whoopi Goldberg was hardly likely to take the Republican calling her “dirty and disgusting” lying down.
Here’s Inga Parkel on how she and her fellow View hosts responded to the nominee’s slur.
Fox News host blasts Trump over Hurricane Helene misinformation
12:35
Joe Sommerlad
“For the most part, we’ve seen a lot of responsible actors on both sides of the aisle,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told Neil Cavuto on Fox yesterday.
“You would never know from the conversations we’re having which one was a Republican and which one was a Democrat.
“Right now you have a lot of people pulling together, working to get the job done for people, regardless of how you voted.”
Cavuto responded to that by saying: “We also get a lot of misinformation, don’t we? We have people who say in North Carolina – if you’re a Republican, you’re not going to get help.
“If you’re a Democrat, you’re going to get help. I would imagine that does a huge disservice to people working together and scares the bejesus out of others when they believe it.”
Here he is pretty frankly calling out Trump:
Fox News' Neil Cavuto appears to blast Donald Trump for misinformation about hurricane relief, citing a lie he has spread:
— The Recount (@therecount) October 10, 2024
"Whether it's perpetrated by a politician or someone you think is someone of note and authority, it is wrong ... and it cannot be tolerated." pic.twitter.com/1srsUk9Pqz
Buttigieg subsequently took his message to CNN:
Buttigieg: Imagine if somebody sitting at home believes Donald Trump.. that all you're going to get is $750.. If they believe that. they might not apply for other funding that they absolutely deserve pic.twitter.com/vslL6C4aoe
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 11, 2024
As to the point the secretary raises there, here’s Graig Graziosi’s report on a North Carolina man who says his father-in-law is refusing help from FEMA explicitly because of Trump’s words.
Watch: Obama uses diaper joke to mock Trump at Pittsburgh rally for Harris
12:15
Joe Sommerlad
Harris re-creates John McCain’s legendary thumbs-down gesture
11:55
Joe Sommerlad
In Phoenix in the same state, the Democrat paid tribute to Arizona’s celebrated Republican Senator and 2008 presidential candidate John McCain, who passed away in August 2018.
In particular, she recalled the moment he burst through the wooden doors of the Senate to vote to save Obama’s Affordable Care Act in July 2017 with an iconic thumbs-down gesture.
“It needed one vote to keep it intact,” Harris remembered. “That vote was the late, great John McCain.”
The moment the senator entered was “like out of a movie”, she said, before repeating the motion herself to cheers from the locals.
Vice President Harris in Arizona calls the late Sen. John McCain “a great man, a great American, a war hero."
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) October 11, 2024
(The Republican nominee for president thinks Mccain isn't a war hero) pic.twitter.com/wzfwoOHOBz
She also pointedly called McCain “a great man, a great American, a war hero”, a knock at Trump who notoriously derided the Vietnam veteran’s six-year imprisonment in the Hanoi Hilton by saying he liked people who weren’t captured.
That despite Trump himself having received at least six draft deferrals to stay out of the conflict and later joking to Howard Stern that escaping an STD in his youth was his “personal Vietnam”.
Trump cites ‘incorrect’ article to prove he was Michigan’s 2013 ‘Man of the Year’
11:35
Joe Sommerlad
Also in Detroit, the Republican presidential nominee again confidently touted his being named the “Man of the Year” by the county’s Republican Party in 2013.
Trump: One of many things he said that was wrong, he said I would go around saying that I was honored here, years ago as man of the year or whatever.. I was honored and guess what they found, I was. Right here… pic.twitter.com/gpjltdidP1
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 10, 2024
The only problem is that he was not and the newspaper clipping he brought to prove it had to have a correction issued in response to it.
The former president appeared determined to set the record straight about his non-existent victory, a false claim he has been obsessed with for years.
Multiple news outlets, including The New York Times, have fact-checked his insistence he won the award and determined that no such accolade exists and Trump was never given it.
He again complained that it was “fake news” and “quite insulting” on Thursday evening.
Ariana Baio has more.
Harris says Trump’s refusal to debate her again is a ‘weak move’
11:15
Joe Sommerlad
The VP rebuked her Republican rival yesterday for refusing to debate her again before the election, Trump having let offers from both CNN and Fox News pass him by after making a fool of himself at ABC’s event in Philadelphia on September 10.
“I think it’s a disservice to the voters. I also think it’s a pretty weak move,” Harris told supporters at her rally in Chandler, Arizona, on Thursday.
“But even if he will not debate, the contrast in this election is already clear. This election is about two very different visions… for our nation. One, his, focused on the past. The other, ours, focused on the future.”
Vice President Harris: Y’all might have seen that just last night, Donald Trump officially ruled out any more debates. I think it's a disservice to the voters. I also think it's a pretty weak move pic.twitter.com/lh5XVCCIh7
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 11, 2024
Trump unwittingly reveals daughter Tiffany is pregnant
10:55
Joe Sommerlad
The former president deviated from his economic speech in Detroit yesterday to unexpectedly revealed that his daughter Tiffany Trump is pregnant.
Trump noted that the father of Tiffany’s husband Michael Boulos, Dr Massad Boulos, was in the audience and paused to call the young couple “very exceptional” before going on to say: “She’s going to have a baby, so that’s nice.”
Donald Trump announces at the Detroit Economic Club that his daughter, Tiffany, is pregnant:
— The Recount (@therecount) October 10, 2024
“So, that’s nice.” pic.twitter.com/easO9UmbYg
Gustaf Kilander has more.
Obama issues stern appeal to Black males thinking about voting for Trump: ‘I’ve got a problem with that’
10:35
Joe Sommerlad
Speaking at a more informal Black Voters for Harris event in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh yesterday, the 44th president was more forthright as he urged Black males to get behind the Democratic candidate.
“We have not yet seen the same kind of energy and turnout in all corners of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running,” Obama noted.
“Now, I also want to say that that seems to be more pronounced with the brothers,” he said, alluding to Black men.
“You’re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses. I’ve got a problem with that.
“Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.”
He continued: “Women in our lives have been getting our backs this entire time.
“When we get in trouble and the system isn’t working for us, they’re the ones out there marching and protesting.”
Former President Barack Obama has a “tough talk” at the Black voters for Harris event in East Liberty. He addressed that Black men have not been as enthused about Harris as during his first run, and he sought to encourage them to join Harris’ movement pic.twitter.com/gDFZhsdLxC
— Ryan Deto (@RyanDeto) October 10, 2024
At his rally, Obama sought to appeal to men more generally, saying:
“I’ve noticed that some men seem to think that Trump’s behavior of bullying and putting people down is a sign of strength.
“And I am here to tell you that is not what real strength is.”
Harris joins Detroit Mayor and Michigan Governor in hitting back at Trump over Motor City slur
10:15
Joe Sommerlad
Trump’s contention that “the whole country will end up being like Detroit” and become “a mess” if the Vice President wins November’s election has, not surprisingly, not gone down at all well with Democrats or local officials.
Speaking in Vegas, Kamala hit back by saying: “I’ve had a good time meeting with the Culinary Union members, who of course are part of the backbone of this great city.
“I guess by contrast my opponent Donald Trump yet again has trashed another great American city when he was in Detroit, which is just a further piece of evidence on a very long list of why he is unfit to be President of the United States.”
Also incensed was Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who posted on X: “Detroit just hosted the largest NFL Draft in history, the Tigers are back in the playoffs, the Lions are headed to the Super Bowl, crime is down and our population is growing.”
Detroit just hosted the largest NFL Draft in history, the Tigers are back in the playoffs, the Lions are headed to the Super Bowl, crime is down and our population is growing. Lots of cities should be like Detroit. And we did it all without Trump’s help.
— Mayor Mike Duggan (@MayorMikeDuggan) October 10, 2024
Not finished there, he recorded a video for Instagram in which he declared: “Since Donald Trump left office, the unemployment rate in Detroit is way down, the homicide rate is way down, and our population is growing for the first time since the 1950s.
“In fact, the best thing that happened to Detroit was when Donald Trump left office and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris came in and gave us real partners.”
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer also chimed in with: “Detroit is the epitome of ‘grit,’ defined by winners willing to get their hands dirty to build up their city and create their communities – something Donald Trump could never understand.”
Detroit is the epitome of “grit,” defined by winners willing to get their hands dirty to build up their city and create their communities—something Donald Trump could never understand.
— Gretchen Whitmer (@gretchenwhitmer) October 10, 2024
So keep Detroit out of your mouth. And you better believe Detroiters won’t forget this in… https://t.co/Q5VHuCfbkd
Kamala Harris comforts tearful woman as she appeals to Latino voters with Univision town hall
09:55
Joe Sommerlad
Kamala Harris herself took part in a town hall event in Las Vegas, Nevada, hosted by the Spanish-language network Univision as she sought to press home her advantage with that demographic, which she currently leads Trump on by 54 per cent to 40 per cent, according to an NBC News, Telemundo and CNBC poll published last month.
The Vice President wasted no time in trashing Trump for “playing political games” by lying about the federal response to Hurricane Helene and over his claim that he would be a dictator “on day one”.
“Do we support a democracy and the Constitution of the United States, or are we going to go on the path of somebody who is a sore loser and lost the election in 2020 and tried to have a violent mob undo it?” she asked viewers.
Kamala Harris: This is not about a debate on trickle down economic theory. It’s literally about do we support our democracy and the constitution or are we going to go on the path of somebody who is sore loser and lost the election and tried to have a violent mob undo it. pic.twitter.com/T74vgmKyZG
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 11, 2024
She did particularly well taking questions from the studio audience, comforting a woman moved to tears by the plight of her late mother and another describing her ordeal at the hands of long Covid, also putting to bed a concern about whether Joe Biden was pressured to drop out of the race in July to make way for her candidacy.
"Will you tell me her name? Let's speak her name." https://t.co/nW8OX44bgz pic.twitter.com/PpZSQ91ytY
— The Recount (@therecount) October 11, 2024
Harris gets a question from a man concerned about how Biden was pushed aside and asks her to clarify that process. Harris says Biden "decided to put country above his personal interest" and stresses the importance of the president honoring the oath they take to the Constitution. pic.twitter.com/W2WvuiCV27
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 11, 2024
Invited by one person to name “three virtues” she feels Trump has, Harris responded carefully: “I think Donald Trump loves his family and I think that’s very important.
“I think family is one of the most important things we can prioritize. I don’t really know him to be honest with you, I only met him one time on the debate stage.”
the last question Harris fields during her Univision town hall asks her to name three virtues Trump has. Harris cites Trump loving his family but very understandably doesn't seem like has much good to say about him. pic.twitter.com/oYphdrdEpO
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 11, 2024
Trump disparages Detroit and rants about the death penalty when asked about raising his kids
09:35
Joe Sommerlad
Just hours earlier, Trump had disparaged the entire city of Detroit, Michigan, warning that the whole country could end up like the Motor City if his Democratic rival wins on November 5, a pitch unlikely to endear him to local voters.
“The whole country is gonna be like — you wanna know the truth? It’ll be like Detroit. Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if [Kamala Harris is] your president.”
— The Recount (@therecount) October 10, 2024
— Donald Trump, in Detroit, to the Detroit Economic Club pic.twitter.com/4QWPwdQYmB
More bizarrely, he managed to turn a question about his parenting style into an eight-minute rant about drugs that ended with him explaining why some people convicted of fentanyl-related crimes should face the death penalty.
Incredible -- here's the full footage of Trump getting a question about his parenting style at the Detroit Economic Club, then going on a nearly 8 minute rant that culminates in him calling for drug dealers to be put to death. His brain just flits around. pic.twitter.com/Ry3WjAtEfU
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 10, 2024
Other “highlights” from his visit to the Detroit Economic Club included his raving about self-driving cars, declaring that California is “stone cold broke” and without electricity and griping about not winning a Nobel Prize, which I’m sure is a disappointment at the forefront of the minds of most Americans struggling with the cost of living and looking for a brighter vision for their country’s future.
Trump: I will stop Chinese and other countries produced audiblebile and autonomous vehicles. Do you like autonomous? Does anybody like an autonomous vehicle? You know what that is right? When you see a car driving along. pic.twitter.com/JV6DQxYSfn
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 10, 2024
Trump: If I were named Obama, I would’ve had the Nobel Prize. He got the prize, he didn’t know what he got it for. He got elected. So did I… I got elected too. There’s a lot unfairness in this world pic.twitter.com/ioR06AxlBr
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 10, 2024
Katie Hawkinson has more.
Barack Obama calls for action as he skewers Donald Trump on campaign trail
09:15
Joe Sommerlad
Good morning!
Former president Barack Obama delivered an impassioned speech denouncing Donald Trump’s character and mocking his “constant attempts to sell you stuff”, from gold sneakers to branded Bibles, during a campaign stop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Thursday as he championed Kamala Harris’s bid for the presidency.
Obama portrayed his White House successor as a callous, unprincipled and irresponsible man preoccupied with his own grievances and unfit to serve.
Obama: You've got the tweets in all caps, the ranting and the raving about crazy conspiracy theories. You have the two-hour speeches, word salads, just, you know, it's like Fidel Castro. Just on and on. pic.twitter.com/Yufftl4aSD
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 10, 2024
Obama: He said don't worry, women. I will be your protector. I will tell you how he protected you. He hand-picked three of the supreme court justices who overturned Roe. Went out and bragged about it and now there are Trump abortion bans in 20 states pic.twitter.com/JguJnBhU7B
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 11, 2024
Obama: Or you c
