Trump insults Detroit as Obama serves up fiery assaults on his character: Live

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.

“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:

Buttigieg subsequently took his message to CNN:

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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.”

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.”

Gustaf Kilander has more.

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.

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.

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.”