Both major presidential candidates are making appearances Thursday meant to fire up their core supporters, with Vice President Kamala Harris participating in a livestream with Oprah Winfrey and Donald Trump attending an event with prominent Jewish donors before addressing a gathering of the Israeli-American Council.
Winfrey, who has endorsed Harris and spoke at the Democratic convention in August, is set to host a two-hour “Unite for America” nighttime streaming session in Michigan with Harris that organizers say aims to highlight dozens of grassroots groups backing the vice president.
Trump will be in Washington to address a “Fighting Anti-Semitism in America” evening event with Miriam Adelson, a co-owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks and widow of billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who founded the Las Vegas Sands casino and was one of the Republican Party's largest donors.
Trump will also speak before the Israeli-American Council, a nonprofit long backed by Sheldon Adelson as well as Haim Saban, a major donor to President Joe Biden and Democratic causes. The council is holding its national convention in the weeks before the first anniversary of Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, which sparked the war in Gaza.
On Friday, Harris has campaign stops planned in swing states Wisconsin and Georgia as she calls attention to the case of a young mother who died after waiting 20 hours for a hospital to treat her complications from an abortion pill. Harris contends that outcome shows the consequences of Trump's actions.
Amber Thurman’s death, first reported Monday by ProPublica, came two weeks after Georgia’s strict abortion ban was enacted in 2022 after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn nationwide abortion rights. Trump nominated three of the justices who made that decision.
Trump has a Saturday rally set in battleground North Carolina.
Thursday's campaign stops follow the Federal Reserve cutting its benchmark interest rate by an unusually large half-point. That marked a dramatic shift after more than two years of high rates that helped tame inflation but also made borrowing painfully expensive for American consumers.
With the presidential election less than seven weeks away, the move has the potential to scramble the economic landscape just as Americans prepare to vote. Campaigning in New York on Wednesday, Trump said, “I guess it shows the economy is very bad to cut it by that much, assuming they’re not just playing politics."
Asked about potential political influence of a rate cut so close to Election Day, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the Biden administration has been “very clear about this and very respectful of the independence of the Federal Reserve.”
“Unlike other administrations, we’ve been, I think, pretty steadfast about that, and have been continuous in making that clear,” she added, without naming Trump and his past public criticism of the Fed or his suggestions during the campaign that presidents should have more authority over the central bank.
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dagon
I think journalism would be almost dead if it wasn't for ProPublica.
Interesting. Producer of the Power rangers is backing Harris.
Peter Neil
i don't know about you folks, but i'm tired of the relentless u.s. politics 365 days per year, 24 hours per day.
TaiwanIsNotChina
We're tired of it, too, but unfortunately there is nothing more important in the world today.
Blacklabel
isn’t politicizing death in a desperate attempt to get elected, pathetic?
wallace
Just like what Trump did.
Some dude
isn’t politicizing death in a desperate attempt to get elected, pathetic?
I think it still beats out getting elected and then causing mass deaths by politicising science. See "Covid, Trump's response to"
Blacklabel
See article on this site today: Covid, Chyna market, probably.
wallace
Springfield, Ohio, parents ask Trump and Vance to stop using their child as a 'political tool'.
Aiden Clark was killed last year when a minivan driven by Hemanio Joseph crashed into his school bus.
Peter Neil
i’m thinking a martini is pretty important now… :)
Blacklabel
Yes this weirdo actually said he “preferred” that his child had been killed by an older white man.
wallace
A father grieving for his dead son is not a weirdo that would be Trump and Vance using the death for their political agenda.
Cards fan
Yes, it's really weird when people wish their kid's death hadn't been used to fuel racist conspiracy theories targeting immigrants. Who wouldn't want their kid's death used in such fashion?
Blacklabel
Hillary is suddenly very vocal and active again publicly and in media.
Now hinting at the significant role she will have in a Harris administration.
Good thing there won’t be any such thing as that.
and the Biden betrayal making more sense every day. But Kamala just can’t win either. One more time with Gavin?
Blacklabel
so what is Kamala when she does the same thing as mentioned in the article?
the father could say he wished his son’ s death wasnt politicized, agree.
Did he need to say he wished an old white man had been the killer?
wallace
Because right-wing extremists are hounding the family they want to be left alone.
Cards fan
You're more critical of what a grieving man says, than the guy who wants to be president of the United States. Bless.
Blacklabel
It did need to be said. because it brought national media attention to the actual more important issues related to illegal and legal immigration going on there that the media previously refused to cover.
seen the video of the Town Manager from March admitting he has heard such complaints from the townspeople?
ABC lied in saying he said he never heard.
wait until the Trump rally there soon, media gonna go nuts.
Cards fan
No. Lies didn't need to be told. If you need to make stuff up to "get your point across," you didn't even have a point to begin with.
Then talk about that. Not the lies the right makes up.
What complaints?
bass4funk
Well, don't expect any hard questions from Oprah, maybe she'll get a car out of it, but for those housewives who want to snuggle under a hot blanket while drinking a cup of hot chocolate, more power to them. I guess it wouldn't hurt, but will it help? Doubt it.
bass4funk
She absolutely played the race card.
https://youtu.be/Ol2RwjF6iYc?si=jawG4vkVKo8IQuFn
So he shouldn't address concerned Jewish voters after what happened to them earlier this year? Smh...
https://x.com/TorahJudaism/status/1796076341630013635
So yea, he should address them.
Underworld
Blacklabel
as she calls attention to the case of a young mother who died
Nope. It is an honest way of showing America the consequences of Trump overturning Roe v Wade and who to elect in the upcoming election if you want to avoid unnecessary death and suffering.
Underworld
Blacklabel
If you have to make racist lies to bring media attention to something, then it doesn't deserve any media attention.
And that nine of them are credible.
No, they didn't.
I don't think he will be welcome there after the mess his comments have made. He doesn't even act sorry.
Underworld
*none
Peter Neil
the resemblance of many posts looks the same as that being used by the russian fsb.
hmmmm…
lincolnman
Wow, just wow...the mental meltdowns just get worse each day....
"Former President Donald Trump appeared on a taped segment of Fox News' "Gutfeld!" Wednesday, complaining once again that the ABC News debate moderators bothered to fact-check him while falsely claiming that the debate audience "went crazy" for his performance. Host Greg Gutfeld chose not to fact-check Trump over the fact that there was no debate audience whatsoever, per the rules set by ABC News and agreed to by both campaigns.
"They didn’t correct her once,” Trump complained, referring to Vice President Kamala Harris. “And they corrected me, everything I said, practically. I think nine times or 11 times. And the audience was absolutely — they went crazy.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/delusional-and-unsettling-trump-forgets-there-was-no-debate-audience-claims-crowd-went-crazy/ar-AA1qQri0?ocid=windirect&cvid=5000846bc5234c61bc0010edfc3883f1&ei=62
How many times has Trump waved at a nonexistent crowd? Now he's claiming crowds are clapping for him that aren't there...
His brain is toast...he won't last until the end of Sep...
The phone has to be ringing off the hook at Nikki Haley's house...
Yrral
Since Japantoday is like day old Sushi and a yen short with the news, today big political story is North Carolina involving Trump Black MAGA candidate,it got racism ,sexism and pornography
bass4funk
Yup.
Now contrast that with the hundreds of times when they were there. Can't even count.
Seems sharp as ever and laser-focused, he's got a lot to focus on
She can hang with the Democrats. and Liz.