{"id":116060,"date":"2024-10-19T20:05:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T13:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116060"},"modified":"2024-10-19T20:05:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T13:05:48","slug":"harris-and-trump-campaign-in-battleground-states-election-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116060","title":{"rendered":"Harris and Trump Campaign in Battleground States: Election Live Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump turned his back to the crowd and stared up at the screen. Ominous music rang out. For the next minute and a half, the former president and his audience in Atlanta stood and silently watched clips of news reports of undocumented immigrants committing horrific crimes.<\/p>\n<p>When the montage ended, Mr. Trump said out loud what he has been telling his advisers in private for weeks: that, in his view, immigration is the \u201cNo. 1\u201d issue in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThat beats out the economy. That beats it all out to me, it\u2019s not even close,\u201d Mr. Trump said of the immigration issue, after playing the video on Tuesday night. \u201cThe United States is now an occupied country. But on Nov. 5, 2024, that will be liberation day in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In the final weeks of a campaign that the former president has been waging more or less since his first year out of office, Mr. Trump is going with his gut, doubling down on the rhetoric that he believes won him the 2016 election and using immigration and the border to form the core of his closing message to voters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Those instincts are at odds with the data, and with some of his advisers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has told aides that he beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 with the border but that in 2020 the border was \u201cfixed\u201d \u2014 illegal crossings had dropped to a dramatic low in part because of the coronavirus pandemic \u2014 so he could not use it as an issue against Joseph R. Biden Jr. He thinks immigration is more potent than ever as a political message, after the record levels of border crossings under the Biden-Harris administration and after he helped kill a bipartisan border security bill that the administration tried to pass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But neither public nor private surveys support Mr. Trump\u2019s theory of the race. Voters frequently rank the economy and the high cost of living as their most important issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has spent considerable time and energy in recent days at economy-themed events, pitching proposals to make car loan interest fully tax deductible and to offer companies tax breaks and other benefits if they move their manufacturing to the United States or keep it there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Trump draws his energy from his rallies, and it is the reaction on immigration he is getting there that is helping convince him that the issue is better for him than the economy. When he launches into an immigration tirade, Mr. Trump gets animated, florid, dark and tribal. And there is a difference in how the audience and the press responds, compared with the response he gets when he talks about grocery prices, taxes or tariffs. It gets more attention, and it always has.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has told allies that he thinks crowds get \u201cbored\u201d when he talks too much about the economy, according to a person close to him.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-hxpw2c e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-1g9ic6e ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Voters frequently rank the economy as their most important issue, and it\u2019s what his advisers have consistently urged Mr. Trump to talk about.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Anna Watts for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">And Mr. Trump has a new reason for focusing on the issue: He has told rally audiences and people close to him that his opposition to illegal immigration saved his life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In Butler, Pa., in July, Mr. Trump turned his head to look at a chart of illegal border crossings on a screen at the very moment a would-be assassin\u2019s bullet missed his skull by less than an inch and grazed his ear. He has given the chart, and the issue it illustrated, an almost mythical status. \u201cIf you think about it, illegal immigration saved my life \u2014 I\u2019m the only one,\u201d Mr. Trump told a crowd in Aurora, Colo. \u201cUsually, it\u2019s the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Some in Mr. Trump\u2019s orbit, like his influential adviser Stephen Miller, fully support his instinct to emphasize immigration as the top issue for voters. Other allies worry that some of his more extreme immigration rhetoric \u2014 like his baseless claim that Haitian migrants are eating cats and dogs \u2014 risks turning off moderate voters whose support he needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has been pushing advisers to get more immigration content, and they are obliging. Mr. Miller \u2014 the hardest of immigration hard-liners \u2014 has been flying more often on Mr. Trump\u2019s plane since the summer and playing a big role in shaping his closing message. Mr. Miller declined to comment for this article.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Last month, Mr. Trump was intent on visiting Springfield, Ohio, after spreading unfounded rumors that Haitian migrants there were eating the pets of the city\u2019s residents. He declared publicly that he would soon travel to Springfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Ohio is not considered a battleground state, but Mr. Trump thought it would be politically powerful to show up to highlight the perils of undocumented immigration. (The immigrants in question were in the country legally, including many who qualified for Temporary Protected Status after fleeing violence and chaos in Haiti.) But after bomb threats closed Springfield schools and threats against Haitians spiked, local Republican officials pleaded with Mr. Trump to stay away to avoid bringing further chaos to a city already under severe strain. Ohio\u2019s Republican governor, Mike DeWine, added his voice, condemning Mr. Trump for smearing hardworking Haitians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Many on Mr. Trump\u2019s team privately thought that a visit to Springfield could do more political harm than good. At a Univision town hall broadcast on Wednesday, Mr. Trump continued to insist that he would visit Springfield. But no date has been announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Instead of going to Springfield, the compromise within the former president\u2019s campaign was for Mr. Trump to give the speech in Aurora, Colo., a city he has used to exaggerate the harms inflicted by migrant gangs. Like Ohio, Colorado is not a battleground state, but Mr. Trump was determined to make the visit to highlight his personal top issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Speaking there on Oct. 11, Mr. Trump highlighted his desire to use the Alien Enemies Act \u2014 last used during World War II to place people of Japanese descent, among others, in interment camps \u2014 to deport gang leaders. The law lets officials make sweeping deportations of people from countries that have invaded or are at war with the United States, or that have made \u201cpredatory incursions.\u201d While the Supreme Court has upheld past uses of the law, it is not clear whether the justices would allow a president to stretch it to encompass drug cartel activity as opposed to the actions of a foreign government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Even when Mr. Trump does talk about the economy he tends to bring his points back to immigration. When The New York Times asked the Trump campaign for its plan to lower the cost of housing, the campaign\u2019s response was that mass deportations would increase the supply of housing and therefore reduce costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Asked to explain Mr. Trump\u2019s focus in the closing days of the race, a Trump spokesman, Brian Hughes, said: \u201cPresident Trump rightfully recognizes that Kamala Harris\u2019s porous border is at the heart of so many issues, whether it is high housing prices, low wages or overwhelmed hospitals and schools. An open border means that taxpayer dollars are wasted on illegal immigrants, instead of benefiting citizens. President Trump\u2019s closing message is all about putting Americans first and restoring prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-hxpw2c e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-1g9ic6e ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Mr. Trump met with Border Patrol agents before the start of a rally in Prescott Valley, Ariz., on Sunday. <\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Anna Watts for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Chuck Rocha, a Democratic strategist who has looked extensively at voting patterns, said Mr. Trump was taking a gamble that playing to fear would win him more votes than it costs him. He said some of Mr. Trump\u2019s rhetoric might appeal to white suburban women troubled by the end of Roe v. Wade but also fearful of the influx of migrants, while at the same time possibly turning off other voters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe\u2019s got a calculated risk option,\u201d Mr. Rocha said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump\u2019s views on immigration, and the country\u2019s, have evolved over time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Immigration was not an issue Mr. Trump lingered on in 2011 when he considered running for president. Three years later, as illegal border crossings of unaccompanied children increased under President Barack Obama, the issue dominated conservative news media and became a focal point of Mr. Trump\u2019s kickoff campaign speech in June 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Now, immigration is a powerful motivating issue in a general election, the second-most important for many voters. And one of Mr. Trump\u2019s signature policy proposals \u2014 building a border wall \u2014 is now broadly popular, expanding beyond Mr. Trump\u2019s base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump already dominates among the voters who care most about immigration, so it remains unclear how much room he has to grow his vote share by hammering on the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Voters have very clearly and steadily ranked the economy as their top issue this election, far ahead of abortion and immigration. Even Republicans were nearly twice as likely to list the economy as the most important issue to their vote over immigration in the latest New York Times\/Siena College poll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump is favored over Vice President Kamala Harris on both the economy and immigration. But while Mr. Trump\u2019s lead on the economy has narrowed in some polls, his lead on immigration remains wide and consistent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">As he has pummeled Democrats for the influx of migrants, Ms. Harris and President Biden have scrambled to rebrand themselves as tough on immigration, including by pushing Mexico to step up its own enforcement to keep migrants from reaching the U.S. border. Ms. Harris was pressed on Wednesday on her positions on immigration in an interview with the Fox News host Bret Baier. She conceded that there remained systemic problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Ms. Harris has also sought to use Mr. Trump\u2019s opposition to the bipartisan border legislation to counter that the former president has no interest in solving the problems there and wants only to exploit it as a political issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In a speech last month in Wisconsin, Mr. Trump promised to \u201cliberate\u201d the state from an \u201cinvasion of murderers, rapists, hoodlums, drug dealers, thugs and vicious gang members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cNothing can be as serious as this \u2014 because this gets down to the very fabric of our society,\u201d he said. \u201cYour way of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump stressed the same point in Atlanta on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cAfter years of building up other countries, we will protect our borders, defend our families and protect our American suburbs, cities and towns,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/10\/19\/us\/harris-trump-election\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. 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