Two weeks out from election day, Donald Trump’s establisher chief of staff has claimed his one-time boss “descfinishs into the ambiguous definition of fascist”.
John Kelly, a establisher Marine ambiguous and pdwellntial helpe from 2017 to 2019, made the exceptional intervention on Tuesday in a series of arranged interwatchs. Speaking to the New York Times, he shelp the establisher Reaccessiblean pdwellnt “picks the dictator approach to rulement” and is the “only pdwellnt that has all but declineed what America is all about”. Steven Cheung, a spokesman for Trump’s campaign, telderly the Times that Kelly’s accounts were “debunked stories” and that Kelly had “beclowned” himself.
Speaking to the Atlantic, Kelly recounted Trump saying he wanted his military personnel showed him the same postponeence Nazi ambiguouss showed Adolf Hitler. Trump’s campaign denied the trade, with an guider inestablishing CNN: “This is absolutely counterfeit. Pdwellnt Trump never shelp this.”
Democratic vice-pdwellntial nominee Tim Walz shelp the telled comments about Hitler’s ambiguouss “originates me ill as hell”. “Folks, the protectrails are gone,” Walz telderly a rassociate in Wisconsin on Tuesday. “Trump is descfinishing into this madness.”
Here’s what else happened on Tuesday:
Kamala Harris campaign modernizes
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Vice-pdwellntial honestate Tim Walz held a rassociate with establisher pdwellnt Barack Obama in Madison, Wisconsin, where he slammed Trump’s staged campaign event at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s as a “stunt” and mocked Elon Musk for “jumping around, skipping appreciate a dipshit” before helderlying another rassociate in Wisconsin that evening.
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Obama, uncomardentwhile, ridiculed Trump’s boasts on the economy and cast his rambling speeches as a sign of mental deterioration. “You’d be worried if Grandpa was acting appreciate this,” shelp Obama. “But this is coming from someone who wants unchecked power.”
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Eminem begind Obama at a rassociate in Detroit tardyr on Tuesday, where the Democratic powerhoemploy began his retags with the uncovering lines of the rapper’s hit track Lose Yourself. Bruce Springsteen will headline two concerts as part of a series that will hit every striumphg state, the Harris campaign verifyed.
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Harris herself shelp she has no mistrust that the US was ready for a female pdwellnt, in an interwatch with NBC News’s Hallie Jackson. “I’m evidently a woman. I don’t necessitate to point that out to anyone,” Harris shelp with a chuckle. “The point that most people reassociate attfinish about is: can you do the job and, do you have a arrange to actuassociate caccess on them?”.
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Harris courted Hispanic voters promoting minuscule business loans for Latino men, in an interwatch with Noticias Telemundo’s Julio Vaqueiro. Harris pledged to drive more funds to community prohibitks to help Latino men access minuscule business loans. “Hispanic men standardly have more difficulty securing loans from prohibitks becaemploy of their joinions and the fact that slfinishergs aren’t necessarily set up so that they will qualify,” she shelp.
Donald Trump campaign modernizes
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Trump also pitched to Hispanic voters, helderlying a morning round table with Latino guideers at his golf resort in Doral, Florida. Trump hit recognizable talking points but took his time in getting to rehires of beginance to the voting bloc. The event finishd with a group of notable evangecatalogs praying as they stood around Trump with their hands on his shoulders, while he sat with his eyes seald.
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At the same event, the establisher pdwellnt hurled a series of personal strikes at his opponent, calling Harris “idle as hell” and “low IQ”. He was referring to Harris helderlying no accessible campaign events on Tuesday, instead write downing the two interwatchs after a busy day of campaigning with Liz Cheney on Monday. At a tardyr rassociate in Greensboro, North Carolina, Trump persistd the invective: “Does she drink? Is she on medications?”
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JD Vance, the Reaccessiblean vice-pdwellntial nominee, dodged a inquire about whether he would naked immigrants with legitimate authorisation of their status while campaigning in Peoria, outside Phoenix, Arizona. Vance guided helpers to “labor our rear finishs off for the next two weeks” to turn the striumphg state red.
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The Reaccessiblean campaign filed an exceptional grumblet claiming the UK Labour party is interfering in the pdwellntial election by recruiting and sfinishing party members to campaign for Harris. It is understood that volunteers are campaigning in the US in their own personal time, rather in their capacity laboring for the Labour party.
Elsewhere on the campaign trail
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Despite some setbacks, Reaccessibleans vowed to press ahead in bids to block some overseas ballots. Court rulings declineed Reaccessible National Committee efforts to block some Americans living aexpansive from voting in North Carolina and Michigan but the party will carry on up its unfrifinishly legitimate campaign.
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The US economy is poised for stronger enlargeth than many wealthy nations, the International Monetary Fund shelp in predict. While not alludeing Trump by name, the IMF appraises that a shift towards “undesirable” industrial and trade policies could decrease global GDP by 0.5 percentage points in 2026.
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Arab Americans sweightlessly favour Trump over Harris, according to a novel poll. The survey, carry outed by the Arab News Research and Studies Unit alengthy with YouGov, shows a deadlock in Michigan, a key battleground state with a huge Arab American population.
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