Cardi B give passionate speech at Harris rally in Milwaukee as Trump suffers mic issues at close by occasion: Live
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The final poll from The Times and YouGov finds that Kamala Harris is set to narrowly win enough swing states to take the White House.
“We find that Kamala Harris very narrowly wins enough of those states to become America’s first female president,” Times US Assistant Editor David Charter said on Friday.
This comes as a Harris campaign official has said they “fully expect” former President Donald Trump to declare victory before all votes have been counted.
“It won’t work,” the official said during a press call.
“He did this before. It failed,” they added. “If he does it again, it will fail.”
With four days of campaigning to go in the 2024 race, Harris and Trump are making their final pitches, spending Friday evening hosting competing rallies in Wisconsin where they will attempt to appeal to “blue wall” voters.
Having already addressed two gatherings of his supporters on Thursday, the former president ended his day in a sit-down interview with Tucker Carlson on stage in Glendale, Arizona, at which he shockingly fantasized about former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney being shot at.
Cheney has since hit back at Trump, calling him “a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.”
Harris attacks Trump and draws contrast over ‘enemy within’ comments
Vice President Kamala Harris tells the crowd at his rally in Milwaukee: “Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t believe people who disagree with me are the enemy … That is what real leaders is about. That’s what strong leadership is about.”
Watch: Trump is really mad about the mic
“Do you want to see me knock the heck out of people backstage?” says Donald Trump.
“I’m up here seething!”
He blames “stupid people”.
Trump talks jobs report but misses crucial factor
Donald Trump said at his rally that the US jobs report issued today, which showed that employers added 12,000 jobs in October, showed that the Biden-Harris administration is failing on the economy.
Last month’s hiring gain was down significantly from the 223,000 jobs that were added in September.
“This is like a depression,” Trump said of the numbers as he heaped insults on Harris.
Economists estimate that Hurricanes Helene and Milton, combined with strikes at Boeing and elsewhere, pushed down net job growth by tens of thousands of jobs in October.
Trump did not mention that.
Harris denounces Trump as ‘obsessed with revenge’ and ‘consumed with grievance’
Vice President Kamala Harris tells the crowd at her rally: “We know who Donald Trump is. This is not someone who’s thinking about making your life better. This is someone who is increasingly unstable. Obsessed with revenge. He is consumed with grievance. And the man is out for unchecked power.”
More mic problems for Trump
Donald Trump is again hit with audio problems and [again] says the contractor shouldn’t be paid.
Cardi B states her case for Kamala Harris
“I wasn’t going to vote in this election, I wasn’t, but Kamala Harris joining the race, she changed my mind,” Cardi B told the crowd in Milwaukee. “I believe in every word that comes out of her mouth— she’s passionate, she’s compassionate, she shows empathy, and most of all, she is not delusional.”
When Trump says he’ll protect women, Cardi B says, it “is his definition of protection not the freedom of choice?”
She adds: “Hustling a woman out of her rights is nasty work.”
“Did you hear what Donny Trump said the other day?” the rapper asked the Milwaukee audience.
Cardi B then recollected for the audience Trump’s promise to protect women “whether the women like it or not.”
After an audience reaction, the rapper paused and then said, “Donny, don’t.”
Meanwhile…
Big turn out for Donald Trump across town at the FiServ Forum:
Cardi B takes the stage at Harris rally in Milwaukee
Cardi B will shortly introduce Kamala Harris.
Program underway at Trump’s FiServ Forum rally in Milwaukee
Delivering opening remarks for Donald Trump tonight at the FiServ Forum in Milwaukee — the site of the Republican National Convention in July — are Wisconsin Senate candidate Eric Hovde, Sen Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, Sen Eric Schmitt of Missouri, and Robert F Kennedy Jr.
Watch: Rep Jasmine Crocket rails against Texas elected officials telling her what to do with her body
Source: independent.co.uk
