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Kamala Harris clapped back Thursday at Donald Trump over what she called his "very offensive" remarks about women, returning reproductive rights to the fore as the rivals took their knife-edge White House race to western battleground states.
As each candidate seeks even the slightest of advantages, they have also homed in on immigration and are aiming to woo crucial Latino voters with just five days before the November 5 election.
Pop icon Jennifer Lopez will bring her star power to the stage for Harris in Las Vegas, Nevada, as the Democratic vice president and Republican former president chase one another through the seven swing states expected to decide the election winner.
Trump too holds a rally in Nevada on Thursday evening. Beforehand, the rivals separately visit neighboring Arizona, where Harris speaks in Phoenix, and Trump holds a scheduled interview with ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
Harris began her day in Wisconsin, lashing out at Trump over his remarks the previous day when he raised eyebrows by telling a rally that "I want to protect the women of our country... whether the women like it or not."
She branded the comments "offensive to everybody" and "very offensive to women in terms of not understanding their agency."
Trump, she told reporters, "does not prioritize the freedom of women and the intelligence of women to make decisions about their own lives and bodies."
Reproductive rights have served as a rallying cry for Democrats -- and an Achilles heel of sorts for Trump -- ever since the conservative-dominated U.S. Supreme Court ended the federal right to abortion in 2022.
Polling for this year's election shows a demonstrable gender gap, with women voters tilting toward Harris, and Trump earning support from most men, so abortion rights could play a determining role in the outcome.
Both campaigns have been jolted in recent days after controversies stemming from a remark by a warm-up speaker at a Trump rally, which initially blew back against Republicans before a damaging gaffe from President Joe Biden.
Harris made political hay from the comedian calling the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage."
Her campaign won the backing of Puerto Rican celebrities Lopez, rapper Bad Bunny and singer Ricky Martin, and released a Spanish-language ad with the voice-over concluding: "On November 5, Trump will find out that one person's trash is another's treasure."
But Harris found herself on the defensive after Biden appeared to call Trump supporters "garbage" -- prompting the Democratic candidate to state she disagreed with criticism of people based on who they vote for.
Trump, who himself has branded Harris's allies "garbage" and "scum," pounced on the misstep with a publicity stunt by climbing into a Trump-branded garbage truck.
The 78-year-old will also visit New Mexico on Thursday, and Virginia on Saturday -- surprising calls given that polls suggest the two states will go to Harris.
More than 60 million Americans have cast their ballots via early or mail-in voting so far, almost 40 percent of the 2020 total.
Campaigning out west, Trump is betting frustrations over the Biden-Harris administration's immigration policy will swing border state Arizona back in his favor after Biden beat Trump there in 2020.
Latino voters traditionally have aligned more with Democrats, but recent polling shows a noticeable trend toward Republicans.
The latest New York Times/Siena poll showed Harris with 52 percent of support among Hispanic voters to Trump's 42 percent.
Both candidates will be in North Carolina on the weekend as part of a blitz of battleground states, with Harris also visiting Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania before Election Day.
Trump -- who has 34 felony convictions for crimes connected to the 2016 election -- is expected to reject Tuesday's election result if he loses.
In Georgia, where Trump faces charges he interfered in the 2020 election, early voting is shattering records, said Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, as he pledged a secure statewide election.
© 2024 AFP
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PTownsend
and those in Trump's cult applaud those remarks because their favorite entertainer, a convicted felon, is once again doing all he can to 'troll the libs', which is as close as he and his ruck can get to having a 'policy', before Trump and his corrupt Supreme Court backed by Musk his fellow tech billionaires further aided by others in the US and global establishment start final plans for implementing Project 2025, should he be elected. Which federal lands will they use to build their concentration camps?
falseflagsteve
Name calling and a lack of civil debate on policies show us how things are going downhill all the time.
Underworld
Trump says "I'll be your protector", not realizing that it is creepy as ....
He just doesn't understand women.
Underworld
falseflagsteve
Cleverly Harris has stayed out of the name calling.
Trump just can't help himself.
funkymofo
Trump will crash the economy with his crazy tariffs- just ask musk, or the 23 Nobel Prize winning economists who call the Harris economic plan ‘vastly superior’.
Tokyo Guy
I reckon election fatigue is setting in. I bet both candidates can't wait for this to be over.
The US media, on the other hand, would probably love another election settled by litigation and allegations of cheating, interference and other such impropriety. It's an open secret that they would rather have another four years of Trump as a generator of eye-grabbing headlines.
Underworld
PTownsend
"very offensive" remarks about women
Meanwhile the women in Trump's corner, Megan Kelly and Nikki Haley, are warning Trump to tone down the "Brotastic" attitude. Young men love it, but it completely turns off women.
Does Trump listen?
Nope.
dagon
I wonder if Tucker is going to giggle while talking about Daddy Trump coming home to spank his teen daughter and call Harris 'Samoan-Malaysian'.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/tucker-carlsons-fresh-charge-during-trump-msg-rally-calls-kamala-harris-samoan-malaysian-full-speech/videoshow/114701805.cms?from=mdr
It is not like he can go any lower.
DaDude
OMG, let me grab the next flight to LAX and try to change my vote because of this.
stormcrow
I . . . Donald J. Trump . . . VOW to PROTECT women whether they like it or NOT!
Wow! That must come as a relief to all of the women you've sexually assaulted over the years.
bo
Trump has reduced the USA to a laughing stock ,the whole world is cracking up at his stupidity and crassness !
dagon
A righteous American Dude would know you can register online as an American abroad and mail in your ballot.
Curious
BB
For all those voting Funkymofo down maybe read about it? His economic policies are just as bad as everything else. Or maybe Ted Nugent knows more about economics?
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-10-31/23-nobel-laureates-can-t-be-wrong-about-trump-right
Tokyo Guy
For all those voting Funkymofo down maybe read about it?
I salute your optimism.
bass4funk
Yup
The libs are trolling him
What on earth are you talking about??
Trump has nothing to do with P2025, not going to happen
There will be no camps, stop reading lib tabloids
bass4funk
That would be Biden and his former boss.
The average American couldn’t care less what the world thinks or feels, that’s the establishment globalist swamp rats that worries about image
Blacklabel
even CNN not buying the new Kamala lies:
“Tapper live fact-checks Harris speech: Trump's quote on protecting women was 'not as she presented it'
CNN's Jake Tapper corrected Vice President Kamala Harris immediately after she took a quote from former President Trump about protecting women out of context.”
meanwhile her surrogate said women around Trump are not strong or smart.
so what ARE they, Mark? That is actually insulting. Unlike this fake story.
Tokyo Guy
...they know Kamala is a mitigated disaster.
Still beats an unmitigated one like Trump.
Ricky Kaminski13
Ohhhhh, are we back to abortion again? Will these ‘news’ pieces continue of Trump is elected? That’s gunna be a full time job right there. Five days to go, let’s roll.
bass4funk
How? At this point, nothing is showing that Harris will win, can she? Sure, but not according to the polls or betting markets
https://polymarket.com/event/presidential-election-winner-2024/will-donald-trump-win-the-2024-us-presidential-election?tid=1730416046446
Yes
Yawn, now imagine how screwed the country will be with a Marxist woman that can’t even speak without a teleprompter. If you can’t do Joe Rogan, that’s a red flag right there.
ok1517
Trump doing his best to get into the trash-(truck).
The old man is suffering from so much - dementia, personality disorder, and so on.
Someone should finally help him and find a place where he can be helped.
Besides, Trump did call others "scum, garbage, suckers, losers" and more.
So crybaby Donald got no reason at all to complain.
In addition, listening to him and his followers concerning women's (reproductive) rights - who wants to go back to the 18 hundreds?
Oh, and @bass, VP Harris wasn't the POTUS during that time - but soon she'll be, a president for all Americans - maybe not for those who are planning to leave the US! ("Kamala won’t, she had 4 years to save us, she didn’t but now all of a sudden she will?")
Underworld
bass4funk
The part about it not happening is true because Trump won't win.
Actually, it's a dead heat:
https://www.economist.com/interactive/us-2024-election/prediction-model/president
Jimizo
Erm…yes. It’s been a losing issue for the Republicans.
Do you expect the Democrats not to use it?
That would be very stupid.
proxy
It's not like the dems haven't been calling men "toxic" for years.
bass4funk
Which is Never good for any incumbent.
Tokyo Guy
That would be Biden and his former boss.
You sure?
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/06/10/americas-image-abroad-rebounds-with-transition-from-trump-to-biden/
"The election of Joe Biden as president has led to a dramatic shift in America’s international image. Throughout Donald Trump’s presidency, publics around the world held the United States in low regard, with most opposed to his foreign policies. This was especially true among key American allies and partners. Now, a new Pew Research Center survey of 16 publics finds a significant uptick in ratings for the U.S., with strong support for Biden and several of his major policy initiatives."
Bob Fosse
Sounds like you’re setting up your excuses.
”But the polls! The Dems must have cheated. Every poll, waaaa, nate silver, waaaaa, ballot boxes”
Blacklabel
Trump is still winning even the popular vote that Kamala needs to win by +4
Underworld
bass4funk
Actually, it's a dead heat:
Nor is it good for Trump.
Especially when you consider that more women vote and women overwhelmingly support Harris.
Trump may have the "bro's", but they'll probably stay at home and play "Call of Duty 6" rather than vote.
Underworld
Blacklabel
Not according to The Economist.
https://www.economist.com/interactive/us-2024-election/prediction-model/president
Norm
She’s not an incumbent. But you may already know that, or perhaps you don’t understand the meaning of the word?
Ricky Kaminski13
Ohhhhh, are we back to abortion again?
By all means necessary Jimizo. Feel free to use the tools at hand!
Just like Jimmy Dore said, To the Dems, abortion is like Christmas!
Jimizo
Unusually for a man extraordinarily qualified in the sciences, you do have a habit being imprecise and cherry picking your sources.
Which polls are you taking about? An average?
Are you picking the one or ones you like again?
Ken
Right, Repubs started lying to themselves early this year lmao. Their false poll records are what they are going to use to back their election steal claim this time around
Blacklabel
and the aggregate of all polls says what?
Jimizo
Where are you getting this aggregate from?
Underworld
Blacklabel
Not according to The Economist.
Dead heat.
Jimizo
Never heard of him.
Blacklabel
Where are you getting this aggregate from?
RCP and/or 538.
in neither is she winning the popular vote at all or by the required amount to win.
Tokyo Guy
Dead heat.
In itself a pretty baffling statistic, although I have heard a fairly convincing explanation: polls are often made to landlines. Younger people often don't have landlines, and even if pollsters call a cellphone, the younger generation never pick up on an unknown number.
Or maybe the US truly is revving up to repeat the same mistake they made in 2016.
DaDude
and an American dragon would know you can have a ballot sent from family in the U.S. that comes with a circular "I Voted" sticker.
lincolnman
This clearly shows who is surging and who is sinking...
"More than 75,000 spectators gathered in Washington, D.C., to hear Vice President Kamala Harris' closing argument speech at the same site of former President Donald Trump's infamous "Save America" rally that preceded the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Harris' event at the Ellipse arrived one week before Election Day and followed Trump's closing arguments at Madison Square Garden on Sunday that received backlash for its inflammatory and racist rhetoric.
https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-crowd-size-washingtion-dc-rally-1976987
Her opponent is either hiding in his basement or cosplaying as a fry cook or sanitation engineer...
MAGA-world is crumbling and burning...
ulysses
donald has had a Dukakis moment and has blown his campaign to smithereens.
Jimizo
Sorry, I’m not getting your point here.
Are you saying it isn’t a winning issue for the Democrats? They shouldn’t use it?
It’s not very clear.
Blacklabel
yeah with most of them chanting Free Free Palestine and banging drums talking about a revolution and an Intifada. What’s that?
ulysses
Sir donald said they were all AI, now that is some AI!!!!
lincolnman
More clear evidence that he knows he's going to lose and is already starting the "Big Lie ver 2.0"....
“Pennsylvania is cheating, and getting caught, at large scale levels rarely seen before,” Trump posted without evidence to his social media site Wednesday morning. And he continued Thursday: “We caught them CHEATING BIG in Pennsylvania. Must announce and PROSECUTE, NOW!,” he posted. “Who would have ever thought that our Country is so CORRUPT?”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-turning-pennsylvania-ground-zero-153454077.html
The flailing cries of a demented Loser...
Blacklabel
They are cheating in Pennsylvania. the election officials in 4 counties have indicated receiving thousands of fake registration forms from nonexistent voters. Often filled out in the same handwriting.
democrats filed a lawsuit claiming 20,000 of their mail in ballots are “missing”.
Yahoo News is a very poor source to get valid information, as we have known since the 90s.
meanwhile;
what’s all that chanting about as people flee the rally over fences?
konjo4u
That is some weird makeup on the old man these days.
ulysses
That is terrible sir, thousands of registrations with same handwriting, you’d have thought they could get a few more people to do it.
lincolnman
Interesting....I thought only Trump was in the throes of dementia when he forgets who he's running against and insists at his rallies that his opponent is "Biden"....
It appears the malady is more widespread...
ulysses
Sir I demand you investigate it immediately @!!!
Sir,I rely on you for my news, the only true source of fantasies!!
meanwhile;
Sir are you hearing chanting??? That’s a serious condition!!!
Norm
Most? So like 40,000+ people were chanting “Free Free Palestine”? It seems like that would have been in every major newspaper, and something Fox would still be running with 24/7.
The NYPost article you kindly posted a link to mentions just two people, and know that tabloid doesn’t like Harris.
So, where are you getting your “most” info from?
lincolnman
Indeed - all in "Black Sharpie"...
Some MAGA-nut burn down another mailbox?
It was from Politico. Try reading it before replying...
Fleeing? You said they were "claiming the fences"....?????
Blacklabel
Colorado: voting machine passwords leak.
pennsylvania: already mentioned fake voter registrations
Michigan: Dominion system created 168,000 duplicate ballots. Chinese national illegally voted and they will count it.
nevada: accepting unpostmarked ballots after election day
Minnesota: car full of blank ballots left unattended
Arizona: over 100,000 people voting with no proof of citizenship
nationwide: Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says there is a “NATIONWIDE ISSUE” with Dominion Voter Access Terminals,” preventing voters from making certain selections.
and more….
Blacklabel
Totally legit math:
“After reviewing the Qualified Voter File (QVF) of votes actually cast as of yesterday, Oct 29, 2024, the database identifies 114,545 Michigan voters who have cast 279,113 ballots from multiple addresses across the state.”
bass4funk
Already capitalized on that, mugs, T-shirts etc. worked out well.
Yeah, the Dems keep saying that, when Kamala can give 97 interviews, talk without her handlers and answer any question, I will be humbly impressed.
Like Speaker Johnson said, most of the staff can’t keep up with him
He sure did to predominantly individuals, not to voters directly
Looking at the polls, you are right.
Here we go….
But has been for the last 4 years, so since 72% of Americans feel like we are headed in the wrong direction, so now how’s she going to fix the country since she messed it up? But now I should trust at fixing things? You can, I won’t.
Ok, based on what? She’s the incumbent and she’s polling neck and neck with Trump, do you not understand that is bad for any incumbent to slightly trail their challenger like that? If the confidence and belief in her as a whole be positive and deeply enthusiastic, she would be at least 6-8 points ahead, he’s beating her on 6 of the 7 battleground states, her camo has already pulled out of NC, she’s not going to win that state, so how is she going to catch up to him, voters 51% trust Trump more on the economy than Harris 32% so how is she going to convince people that she’s better on the economy? The border issue, forget it.
lincolnman
This is the type of disinformation swirling in the right-wing media sphere - most of it generated in Russia and China...
They already know Trump has lost - and now the Big Lie 2.0 is being tested...
But we already know how that played out in 2020 - just ask Fox News about that $787 million they had to pay for lying to their viewers...
The MAGA-whining has already begun...
bass4funk
Not in 6 of the 7 Battleground states
Actually, it is because he’s not the incumbent
More men, men that work especially minorities are voting more for Trump
So far there is zero indication of that
ulysses
Sir, I am screaming, whether in anger or at the stupidity of people who believe such stuff, I am not sure!!!
ulysses
Yes sir, ordered a million of each, I am sure you did the same!!!
You are so humble sir, I really enjoyed seeing donald struggling to open the door of the garbage truck!!!
Underworld
Blacklabel
Relax. There will be no fraud.
But I suspect you will use bogus claims like these when Trump loses.
Underworld
bass4funk
Actually, it's a dead heat:
It's a prediction model which takes into account the battleground states, which are all within the margin of error.
Nor is it good for Trump.
Makes no difference. That is built in to the model.
Especially when you consider that more women vote and women overwhelmingly support Harris.
More women, women that work especially minorities are voting more for Harris.
Trump may have the "bro's", but they'll probably stay at home and play "Call of Duty 6" rather than vote.
Actually there is. In many states the turnout is ~55% for women and ~45% for men.
Blacklabel
good to know you think so, don’t want you flip flopping when Trump wins.
those are a lot of concerning things I posted.
Yrral
Their no excuse for a woman to support Trump ,unless they do not know any better or do it unwillingly
Blacklabel
Don’t come back later complaining you lost cause 20,000 Democrats didn’t get their ballots.
”there will be no fraud”, he says.
Cards fan
I like how you criticize Yahoo for being a poor source for news, but then copy and paste literal tweets. Hey, which of those do you think is more likely to be accurate? A news article written by actual journalists, or some rando on Twitter, that you don't even know if they're a real person.
This has already been debunked, by the way.
Yrral
If Trump mother say he no good ,that put the questions mark,that he no good , when the person that birth you in the world say that
Underworld
Blacklabel
Relax. There will be no fraud.
I won't. And "if" not "when".
No, there aren't.
burgers and beers
"Harris made political hay from the comedian calling the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage."But Harris found herself on the defensive after Biden appeared to call Trump supporters "garbage" -- prompting the Democratic candidate to state she disagreed with criticism of people based on who they vote for."
It was comedy gold to read the Harris cheerleader posts overt the last couple of days blasting Trump and calling him responsible for that stupid comedian's remarks and whining about "Trump needs to own it ". Then 24 hours later when senile Joe despite being sidelined managed to get to a laptop and put out his own " Trump supporters are garbage" gaffe, the same cheers quad is claiming that Harris is not responsible for what Joe said and anyway " who cares". LOL. Love that flip flop woke hidari.
Underworld
burgers and beers
Well, the comedian's speech was vetted before the rally, and nobody took it out.
But let's say, it was a mistake. The thing to do would be to apologize.
Has anybody heard an apology from Trump?
Nope. He doesn't do apology.
The difference being that Joe apologized and corrected the misunderstanding.
Not at all. If Trump apologized, it wouldn't be a thing.