{"id":118830,"date":"2024-10-27T05:01:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T22:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118830"},"modified":"2024-10-27T05:01:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T22:01:46","slug":"harris-and-trump-campaign-in-michigan-10-days-before-election-day-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118830","title":{"rendered":"Harris and Trump Campaign in Michigan 10 Days Before Election Day: 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>On a Friday in late September, Donald J. Trump took time off the campaign trail for a closed-door meeting at Mar-a-Lago with officials representing the vaping industry.<\/p>\n<p>The vaping emissaries talked about loosening regulations and told the former president he had \u201csaved\u201d the industry in the past. The group \u2014 including Mr. Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, and another 2016 campaign aide, Michael Rubino \u2014 showed him mock-ups of mailers they were sending out through Election Day. Mr. Trump asked for input on what he could say on social media about a complicated regulatory issue.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Within hours, Mr. Trump had posted about his allegiances to the embattled e-cigarette sector. \u201cI saved Flavored Vaping in 2019,\u201d Mr. Trump <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/113171256073757122\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on social media<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ll save Vaping again!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The head of the Vapor Technology Association, Tony Abboud, who was also in the meeting, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VaporTechAssoc\/status\/1837295414137012660\/photo\/1\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">quickly declared<\/a> he was \u201cpleased\u201d that Mr. Trump was \u201ccontinuing to fight for vapers.\u201d The vaping industry has not been a significant contributor in the presidential race, but the Vapor Technology Association has been quietly sending versions of those mailers to voters in battleground states warning that Democrats want \u201cto steal vapes from freedom-loving Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">As Mr. Trump seeks a return to the White House, he has come a long way from his 2016 campaign pitch that he was so rich he was incorruptible. Back then, he mocked the G.O.P.\u2019s donor-lobbyist class and boasted in his announcement speech, \u201cI don\u2019t need anybody\u2019s money.\u201d Today, Mr. Trump is looking everywhere for cash: asking small donors online, pressing <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/12\/us\/politics\/trump-gop-donors.html\" title=\"\">fellow billionaires over private meals in Trump Tower<\/a> and lobbying for donations from industries regulated by the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">As he does so, he is sometimes making overt promises about what he will do once he\u2019s in office, a level of explicitness toward individual industries and a handful of billionaires that has rarely been seen in modern presidential politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In some cases, Mr. Trump has sought to shake loose cash from industries like oil and energy that have long aligned with his deregulation agenda. In others, Mr. Trump has flipped his positions, such as on crypto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Not long ago, he was warning that cryptocurrencies seemed <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-57392734\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201clike a scam\u201d<\/a> that could <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1149472282584072192?lang=en\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">facilitate crimes<\/a>, and he supported stiff regulation. Now, he is aggressively courting the industry, promising to make America \u201cthe crypto capital of the planet\u201d and to fire its most hated regulator on Day 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Millions of dollars in crypto-industry contributions have followed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cFormer President Trump has a \u2018For Sale\u2019 sign around his neck and appears to be willing to sell basically any policy in exchange for campaign contributions,\u201d said Dennis Kelleher, president of Better Markets, a nonprofit that seeks stronger regulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The Trump operation had feared being outspent when it was competing against President Biden. But the matter of raising money became especially urgent once he was running against Vice President Kamala Harris, who raised twice as much as him over the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In a statement, Karoline Leavitt, a Trump campaign spokeswoman, said the former president had proposed policies to help people \u201cstruggling from the weak and terrible policies\u201d of the current administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cPresident Trump only takes his cues on policy from one group of people: the American people,\u201d Ms. Leavitt said. She said he was supported by \u201cpeople who share his vision of American energy dominance\u201d as well as \u201ccrypto innovators and others in the technology sector\u201d who are \u201cunder attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In 2016, Mr. Trump vowed to \u201cdrain the swamp,\u201d though he was not initially enamored with the phrase. \u201cA little hokey,\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/02\/29\/trump-tells-cpac-he-originally-hated-his-iconic-drain-the-swamp-battle-cry\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">he called it<\/a>. But crowds roared, and he kept repeating it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">As president, he did no such thing. Far from it: He hired top executives from Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs and from the fossil fuel and pharmaceutical industries. He ended the practice of making public White House visitor logs. His family operated a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/07\/us\/emoluments-trump-democrats.html\" title=\"\">for-profit hotel blocks from the White House<\/a> that became a den of lobbying activity and a must-stay place for those <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/10\/us\/trump-hotels-resorts-takeaways.html\" title=\"\">looking to curry favor<\/a>. People who paid pricey membership dues to join his private club at Mar-a-Lago had easy <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/10\/10\/us\/trump-properties-swamp.html\" title=\"\">access<\/a> to Mr. Trump as he dined on the patio, often taking the opportunity to pitch their pet interests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cTrump was the first transactional president,\u201d said Scott Reed, a longtime Republican consultant and former top political strategist for the United States Chamber of Commerce. \u201cHe\u2019s now taken it to a new level.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"live-blog-post-content css-19v2tje eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-67f2b44\">Crypto<\/h2>\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\u2019s main fund-raising committee has reported receiving more than $8.2 million in cryptocurrency donations this year, his campaign said.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Doug Mills\/The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">There are few industries Mr. Trump has done more to court than the crypto world. And there is no industry for which his policy reversal has been more headturning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Five months after leaving office, in June 2021, Mr. Trump said cryptocurrencies should be regulated into near oblivion. \u201cI don\u2019t think we should have all of the Bitcoins of the world out there,\u201d Mr. Trump said. \u201cI think they should regulate them very, very high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Three years and plenty of campaign cash later, the former president sounds a lot like a budding cryptocurrency entrepreneur. That\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/16\/technology\/trump-crypto-world-liberty-financial.html\" title=\"\">because he is one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump\u2019s sons <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/16\/technology\/trump-crypto-world-liberty-financial.html\" title=\"\">have<\/a> <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/07\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-crypto-2024-campaign.html\" title=\"\">embarked<\/a> on a cryptocurrency endeavor that his advisers anticipate could prove lucrative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In June, Mr. Trump met at Mar-a-Lago with a group of Bitcoin miners. Within hours, he posted about Bitcoin mining and how he wanted \u201call the remaining Bitcoin to be MADE IN THE USA!!!\u201d He stopped by a different crypto event at Mar-a-Lago the month before and shook hands with one crypto executive, Ryan Selkis, who <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/twobitidiot\/status\/1796502898467291356\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">posted a photo<\/a> with the caption: \u201c$100 million+ from the crypto community. Consider it done, Mr. President.\u201d Mr. Selkis soon gave $50,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The $100 million figure overstates the disclosed crypto-industry investment in Mr. Trump. But industry leaders have given him significant support amid concerns they have about the Biden administration\u2019s strict regulation attempts.<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"> <\/strong>Mr. Trump\u2019s main fund-raising committee has reported receiving more than $8.2 million in cryptocurrency donations through September, his campaign said. Millions and millions more have been given in actual dollars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, co-founders of the crypto platform Gemini, each gave more than $1.25 million to Mr. Trump and supportive super PACs after attending a fund-raising dinner for him in San Francisco. The dinner was hosted by David Sacks, who is an outspoken crypto booster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/18\/us\/politics\/trump-gop-platform-convention.html\" title=\"\">dramatically trimmed the Republican Party\u2019s official platform<\/a> in 2024, but the revised version still made space for \u201cthe right to mine Bitcoin,\u201d \u201cthe right to self-custody of digital assets\u201d and opposition to a central bank digital currency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In July, Mr. Trump appeared at a crypto industry conference and promised to fire Gary Gensler, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, on his first day \u2014 a top crypto priority. It is unclear whether the president would have that authority, but Mr. Trump has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/17\/us\/politics\/trump-plans-2025.html\" title=\"\">made it clear<\/a> he intends to try to bring independent agencies under direct presidential control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Ms. Harris has taken some steps to woo the deep-pocketed crypto community, including inserting a line in an economic speech about <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2024\/09\/25\/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-at-a-campaign-event-pittsburgh-pa\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the importance of \u201cblockchain.\u201d<\/a> And she has some crypto megadonors, such as Chris Larsen, who has contributed more than $12 million to her super PAC and her campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump is also promising to free from prison Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the online illicit marketplace Silk Road, by commuting his sentence. Mr. Ulbricht has become a cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre of the crypto community. Jesse Powell, the founder of the crypto exchange Kraken, posted in June <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jespow\/status\/1806569144294556146\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on X<\/a> about his $1 million donation to Mr. Trump with the hashtag #freeross and a thumbs-up picture of his meeting with Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf crypto had no money to give, Trump would still be the crypto president,\u201d said Trevor Traina, who served as Mr. Trump\u2019s ambassador to Austria, is now in the crypto business and has given more than $400,000 this year. \u201cBut fortunately for Trump, crypto does have money to give.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"live-blog-post-content css-19v2tje eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-437c3ac2\">Big Tobacco and Marijuana<\/h2>\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 has been lobbied to support a major marijuana legalization measure on the ballot in Florida.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Saul Martinez for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has personally long opposed smoking. The tobacco industry, however, is wagering heavily on him in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">A subsidiary of the tobacco giant Reynolds American is the largest corporate contributor to Mr. Trump\u2019s main super PAC. The business, RAI Services Company, has contributed $8.5 million so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The donations come as cigarette makers are seeking to fight off a proposed ban on menthol cigarettes that has been advanced \u2014 and then paused \u2014 by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Brian Ballard, a lobbyist and fund-raiser for Mr. Trump who himself has given <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/lda.senate.gov\/filings\/public\/contribution\/256eff0c-997b-4661-9977-f09c7c078b4c\/print\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">$260,000 this year<\/a>, heads a lobbying firm that has represented Reynolds for years. Executives for Reynolds American and Mr. Ballard have met several times with Mr. Trump, according to two people familiar with the meetings, which were first reported by The Washington Post. They discussed policies in a second potential Trump term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Ballard declined to comment. Reynolds American did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Another group, Americans for Consumer Protection, is spending <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/conservative-group-campaign-kamala-harris-black-voters-rcna168393\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">$10 million<\/a> in five battleground states targeting Black voters with a message blaming \u201cHarris and Democrats\u201d for the proposed menthol ban. The group does not disclose its donors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has not yet staked out a public position on the menthol ban. He has, however, taken a proactive and new position on marijuana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In 2015, he said that legalizing it was \u201cbad\u201d and that \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?c4541840\/user-clip-donald-trump-marijuana\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">I feel strongly about that.\u201d<\/a> But this year, there is a major legalization measure on the ballot in Florida, and Mr. Trump has been lobbied to support it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Over the summer, Mr. Trump met privately with Kim Rivers, the chief executive of Trulieve, the cannabis company behind the Florida measure, according to people briefed on the meeting, including State Senator Joe Gruters, who is also supporting the Florida measure and had his own meeting with Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Gruters called Mr. Trump the \u201cKing Kong\u201d of the Republican Party and said his support was important. \u201cI would say it was a collective effort to try to educate him and encourage him to come out on the positive on this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump did just that in two posts at the end of August and in early September. \u201cIt is time to end needless arrests and incarcerations of adults for small amounts of marijuana for personal use,\u201d he wrote <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/113105431683796730\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">in a social media statement<\/a>, announcing he would vote for the Florida measure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Ms. Rivers\u2019s company has poured more than $100 million into the Florida ballot measure but has not made any disclosed donations to the former president. She told Mr. Trump in the meeting that she \u201cwants to be helpful,\u201d according to a person with knowledge of her remark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe don\u2019t talk about our contributions to anyone,\u201d Ms. Rivers said on Wednesday at an event in a Trulieve dispensary near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. \u201cAnd we contribute widely and broadly.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"live-blog-post-content css-19v2tje eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-7052c4b1\">Elon Musk and Jeff Yass<\/h2>\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\">Elon Musk is leading an effort to elect Mr. Trump that has no parallel in American history.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Doug Mills\/The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In April 2023, when Elon Musk was considering supporting Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, the former president sharply criticized the world\u2019s richest man for seeking favors from the federal government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cElon is just trying to make friends with the absolutely horrible Biden Administration because of all the government subsidies he gets, and all the permits he needs,\u201d Mr. Trump posted on his social media website, Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">A year and a half later, Mr. Musk is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/11\/us\/politics\/elon-musk-donald-trump-pennsylvania.html\" title=\"\">leading<\/a> an effort to elect Mr. Trump that has no parallel in American history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">He is steering a super PAC that he has seeded with $118 million of his own money. He is relentlessly promoting Mr. Trump\u2019s candidacy on X, the platform he owns. And he has campaigned for Mr. Trump in Pennsylvania, offering <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/23\/us\/politics\/elon-musk-department-of-justice-giveaway.html\" title=\"\">$1 million payouts to voters who sign his petitions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has responded in kind. Far from being concerned that Mr. Musk is seeking favors as <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/20\/us\/politics\/elon-musk-federal-agencies-contracts.html\" title=\"\">a major contractor with the federal government<\/a>, Mr. Trump has promised that if he\u2019s elected, he will appoint Mr. Musk to run an audit of the government to root out waste, fraud and abuse. The move would create conflicts of interest on a scale unseen in recent memory, with Mr. Musk potentially exercising power over parts of the government that pour billions of dollars into his businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has recently praised Mr. Musk\u2019s space business, which receives government funding. And while he still opposes electric vehicle mandates, Mr. Trump no longer bashes them like he used to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m for electric cars \u2014 I have to be, because Elon endorsed me very strongly,\u201d Mr. Trump declared at a rally in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Musk is not the only billionaire former critic Mr. Trump has courted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In early 2024, Mr. Trump met briefly backstage at an event with Jeff Yass, the billionaire investor whose firm owns a significant stake in the Chinese company that owns TikTok. The two men did not speak about TikTok, people familiar with the encounter said, but rather Mr. Yass\u2019s animating cause of school choice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Still, Mr. Trump soon opposed a bill in Congress that demanded the sale of TikTok and eventually joined the platform himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">At a recent event in Erie in Mr. Yass\u2019s home state of Pennsylvania, Mr. Trump, reading from the teleprompter, gave <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarioNawfal\/status\/1840508857329627479\/video\/1\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">an unusually detailed shout-out<\/a> to state-level legislation that Mr. Yass <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/opinion\/commentary\/jeff-yass-janine-yass-school-vouchers-lifeline-scholarships-education-freedom-20230715.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">has lobbied aggressively for on school choice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe lifeline scholarship bill would be a great start for those students trapped in the worst-performing schools in Pennsylvania,\u201d Mr. Trump said in Erie. The former president seemed surprised as the crowd cheered. \u201cOh, you do know that? Good,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Yass has made more than $90 million in federal donations since 2023 but has not given any disclosed funds to Mr. Trump. Mr. Yass is a major financier of Republican politics in Pennsylvania, which is seen as <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/09\/us\/politics\/trump-harris-pennsylvania-battleground.html\" title=\"\">2024\u2019s most consequential presidential battleground<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Yass has given more than $6 million to two groups called Win PA and Keystone Renewal PAC, focused on down-ballot races. Mr. Yass has also previously given money to a group that in 2022 transferred $1.2 million to Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania, which is leading a 2024 <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pachase.com\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">get-out-the-vote drive<\/a> that could help Republicans up and down the ticket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Cliff Maloney, the lead organizer, said they had raised $3 million to hire 120 staff members to chase ballots. Mr. Maloney declined to comment on his financial supporters but said, \u201cJeff Yass is a patriot.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"live-blog-post-content css-19v2tje eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-67c0677b\">Oil and Gas<\/h2>\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 has hosted officials representing the vaping, cryptocurrency and oil industries at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Florida.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Doug Mills\/The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump began October with a fund-raising trip to Texas, with stops in energy-rich Midland and Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Among the co-hosts on the Texas trip were Jeff Hildebrand, the billionaire founder of Hilcorp Energy Company, and his wife. The couple have donated $1.2 million to Mr. Trump and the Republican National Committee in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In contrast to the crypto industry, Mr. Trump has for a long time been aligned with much of the oil, gas and energy industry. He has derided climate change as a \u201choax,\u201d and since 2016, Mr. Trump has aggressively opposed Democrats\u2019 environmental regulations, promoting a deregulatory agenda as president that delighted many fossil fuel executives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has received millions of dollars in donations from top energy executives, including $10 million across two pro-Trump super PACs from Kelcy Warren, the chief executive of Energy Transfer. Joseph Craft III, who leads a major coal company, and his wife, Kelly, a former Trump ambassador, have given nearly $3 million to Mr. Trump, the party and a super PAC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">One evening in April, Mr. Trump <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/09\/climate\/trump-oil-gas-mar-a-lago.html\" title=\"\">hosted an \u201cenergy round table\u201d at Mar-a-Lago<\/a> of industry executives and lobbyists, including the oil billionaire Harold Hamm, executives from major companies like Exxon Mobil and a representative from the industry lobby group, the American Petroleum Institute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">At the dinner, Mr. Trump repeated his public pledge to eliminate new Biden administration climate rules designed to speed up the transition to electric vehicles. And he told the executives that as president he would open up more public lands for oil and gas exploration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">He also made an audacious request. The oil and gas industries would do so well under a Trump president that the people in the room should <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/09\/climate\/trump-oil-gas-mar-a-lago.html\" title=\"\">donate $1 billion<\/a> to his presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s enticement and coercion \u2014 the carrot and the stick,\u201d said Walter Shaub, a former director of the United States Office of Government Ethics. \u201cHe has been making clear through his actions that any industries that support him stand to be rewarded and any that oppose him stand to be punished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-1smqmx3 etfikam0\">Patricia Mazzei<!-- --> contributed reporting. <!-- -->Kitty Bennett<!-- --> contributed research.<\/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\/26\/us\/harris-trump-election\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a Friday in late September, Donald J. 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