{"id":119465,"date":"2024-10-28T22:44:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T15:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119465"},"modified":"2024-10-28T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T15:44:08","slug":"trump-and-harris-make-final-push-with-early-voting-in-full-swing-election-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119465","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Harris Make Final Push With Early Voting in Full Swing: 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\u2019s closing rally at Madison Square Garden on the second to last Sunday before the election was a release of rage at a political and legal system that impeached, indicted and convicted him, a vivid and at times racist display of the dark energy animating the MAGA movement.<\/p>\n<p>A comic kicked off the rally by dismissing Puerto Rico as a \u201cfloating island of garbage,\u201d then mocked Hispanics as failing to use birth control, Jews as cheap and Palestinians as rock-throwers, and called out a Black man in the audience with a reference to watermelon.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Another speaker likened Vice President Kamala Harris to a prostitute with \u201cpimp handlers.\u201d A third called her \u201cthe Antichrist.\u201d And the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson mocked Ms. Harris \u2014 the daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father \u2014 with a made-up ethnicity, saying she was vying to become \u201cthe first Samoan-Malaysian, low IQ former California prosecutor ever to be elected president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">By the time the former president himself took the stage, an event billed as delivering the closing message of his campaign, with nine days left in a tossup race, had instead become a carnival of grievances, misogyny and racism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">If the parade of speakers felt at times like a Republican National Convention reunion \u2014 Senator JD Vance of Ohio, Mr. Carlson, Vivek Ramaswamy, Alina Habba, Lee Greenwood, the Trump family all appeared \u2014 they seemed to have returned for a bonus fifth night that was more inflammatory than the original in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The rally served as a capstone to an escalating series of remarks from Mr. Trump, who has repeatedly said in recent days that one of the gravest threats that America faces is \u201cthe enemy within.\u201d Democrats have cranked up warnings of Mr. Trump\u2019s descent into authoritarianism as John F. Kelly, the former Marine general who was his longest-serving chief of staff, warned that Mr. Trump met the definition of a fascist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhen I say \u2018the enemy from within,\u2019 the other side goes crazy,\u201d Mr. Trump said on Sunday, mocking his critics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Since early in his campaign, he has broadly promised <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/07\/us\/politics\/trump-2024-president.html\" title=\"\">an era of \u201cretribution\u201d<\/a> if he wins. But after a relative lull earlier this year, he has grown more specific of late, including promising prosecutions against a variety of people if they\u2019re deemed to have \u201ccheated\u201d in the election and to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/24\/us\/politics\/trump-jack-smith.html\" title=\"\">fire the special counsel<\/a>, Jack Smith, who brought two federal indictments against him, and even suggesting throwing him out of the country entirely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">On Sunday, Mr. Trump described the date of his potential election as a \u201cliberation day\u201d from what he described as an occupation by invading migrants.<\/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\">Long lines of supporters waited to enter the rally earlier on Sunday. <\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Hiroko Masuike\/The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\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\">Melania Trump, Mr. Trump\u2019s wife, introduced her husband at the rally. Ms. Trump has not been a regular presence during this year\u2019s campaign.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Kenny Holston\/The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Ms. Harris\u2019s campaign seized on the spectacle, and some Republicans, including from Florida and Puerto Rico, denounced the comic\u2019s comments about the island. Several influential Puerto Rican superstars, Bad Bunny, Jennifer Lopez, Luis Fonsi and Ricky Martin, lent their voice for Ms. Harris on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Trump has paid little political price over time for his own inflammatory remarks in the past \u2014 he has disparaged cities with large Black populations such as Detroit and Milwaukee this year \u2014 let alone those of his surrogates and supporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The marathon of speeches \u2014 Mr. Trump took the stage two hours after scheduled \u2014 was often infused with more self-indulgence than political strategy. Mr. Trump plainly enjoyed playing the Garden, which bills itself as \u201cthe world\u2019s most famous arena.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cKamala, you\u2019re fired!\u201d Mr. Trump said, returning to the line that he first made famous as host of \u201cThe Apprentice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But he went so long that the crowd had begun to thin noticeably before he had finished his 78-minute speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The event was a spectacle that captured the unusual and sometimes ugly range of the MAGA movement that has taken over the Republican Party from the inside over the last nine years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Hulk Hogan flexed his muscles and ripped off his clothes, just as he did at the convention. Donald Trump Jr. called his father a \u201cbadass.\u201d The world\u2019s richest man, Elon Musk, who has poured $118 million of his fortune to aid Mr. Trump so far, entered to a video of his rocket booster landing, pumping his fists in the air. He promptly predicted the federal budget could be slashed by one-third even as Mr. Trump rolled out deficit-expanding tax breaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Stephen Miller, a senior Trump adviser who influenced Mr. Trump\u2019s anti-immigrant crackdown, used nativist language as he argued that only Mr. Trump would stand up and say \u201cAmerica is for Americans and Americans only.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The big surprise was a rare public speech by Melania Trump, who introduced her husband and exited the stage with him after he had finished, as the Village People\u2019s \u201cY.M.C.A.\u201d blared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The arrival of thousands of red hats at the symbolic arena at the center of a blue city in a blue state was celebrated by Trump supporters who relished the chance to collectively thumb their noses at the New York and national elite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cSelling out the Garden means the MAGA movement has now arrived,\u201d Jack Posobiec, the right-wing activist with a big following on social media, said in an interview. \u201cIt\u2019s Madison Square Garden, it\u2019s the center of everything, and to have this place filled with MAGA hats and Trump supporters really goes to show you it\u2019s not just the surprise win of 2016 \u2014 it\u2019s a nationwide movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">It was lost on no one that Mr. Trump was just miles from where he was convicted of 34 felony counts earlier this year and still awaiting sentencing, and a short jaunt to Trump Tower, where he opened his first presidential campaign in 2015.<\/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\">From left, Vivek Ramaswamy, Speaker Mike Johnson and Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida watching Senator JD Vance of Ohio speak at the rally on Sunday.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Kenny Holston\/The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\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 opened his speech by asking the crowd a timeworn political line: \u201cAre you better off now than you were four years ago?\u201d<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Hiroko Masuike\/The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The singular nature of Mr. Trump\u2019s candidacy was emblazoned in slogan form on the scoreboard above as he began to speak: \u201cTrump will fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump opened by asking the crowd a timeworn political line: \u201cAre you better off now than you were four years ago?\u201d It is at the core of Mr. Trump\u2019s campaign against Ms. Harris ever since she replaced President Biden, a switch he remains sore about. Despite being delivered in a city that four years ago was the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic and still deep in shutdowns and closed businesses, and swimming in a high death toll, that line landed well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump\u2019s vows of mass deportation and inveighing against undocumented immigrants had an audience in New York City, too, where thousands of migrants who crossed the southern border without authorization have been given sanctuary and some residents have complained about the use of city services to help them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">So many of the day\u2019s warm-up speeches were spent portraying the former president as he wants to be seen. Several speakers talked about him surviving a July assassination attempt not in spiritual terms but in muscular ones, describing his toughness at \u201cdodging\u201d the bullet. Many also falsely claimed he \u201cbuilt\u201d the skyline in a city in which he was always seen as a B-list developer with a small portfolio of buildings that he acquired long after they were constructed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe king of New York is back to reclaim the city that he built,\u201d his son, Donald Trump Jr., declared anyway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The elder Mr. Trump, who normally speaks only glowingly about his late father, Fred, from whom he inherited millions of dollars and the spine of his real-estate company, delivered a surprising line about his parents as he reflected on how they would be receiving word of his legal travails.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cI know my mother\u2019s in heaven, I\u2019m not 100 percent sure about my father, but it\u2019s close,\u201d Mr. Trump said, to laughter in the arena.<\/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\">Outside the arena, an overflow crowd watched Mr. Vance speak as the sun fell over the city.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Todd Heisler\/The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\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 was just miles from where he was convicted of 34 felony counts earlier this year and still awaiting sentencing, and a short jaunt to Trump Tower where he first began his 2016 presidential campaign.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Hiroko Masuike\/The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">It was all a surreal scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">At one point, the painter Scott LoBaido received a huge cheer when he flipped a middle finger to the crowd before grabbing a paintbrush to paint an American flag as \u201cAmerica the Beautiful\u201d boomed. The grand finale was revealing an image of Mr. Trump hugging the Empire State Building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Later, the television host Phil McGraw, known as Dr. Phil, lectured the crowd on why Mr. Trump did not fit the definition of \u201ca bully\u201d because a bully requires \u201can imbalance of power,\u201d seeming to ignore the fact that Mr. Trump has enormous power as a billionaire and former president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">During the speech by Mr. Trump\u2019s running mate, Mr. Vance, the entire arena spontaneously burst into chants of \u201cTampon Tim\u201d to disparage Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, Ms. Harris\u2019s running mate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou all can say that,\u201d Mr. Vance smiled. \u201cI probably shouldn\u2019t say that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">It was a rare moment of restraint at the microphone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">David Rem, a childhood friend of Mr. Trump, called Ms. Harris \u201cthe devil.\u201d Grant Cardone, a businessman, declared that the sitting vice president had \u201cpimp handlers.\u201d Sid Rosenberg denounced Hillary Clinton as a \u201csick son of a bitch\u201d for linking the Trump rally and a pro-Nazi event at the arena of the same name decades ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Rosenberg called the entire Democratic Party \u201ca bunch of degenerates, lowlives, Jew-haters and lowlives. Every one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">When the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made his remark about Puerto Rico, there were groans from many in the audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">On the same afternoon, Ms. Harris was in Philadelphia, courting Pennsylvania\u2019s significant Latino population and stopping by Freddy &amp; Tony\u2019s, a Puerto Rican restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cTiming is everything,\u201d David Plouffe, a top Harris adviser, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/davidplouffe\/status\/1850654059499327938\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on X<\/a>, posting clips of the two side-by-side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In his White House bid, Mr. Trump has banked on winning uncommon shares of Black and Latino voters, in part by leaning into culture wars that split the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In his speech, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. invoked his uncle, former Senator Ted Kennedy, for creating Title IX for women\u2019s sports. He used that heritage to defend his own current opposition to transgender women participating in sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Carlson marveled aloud from the stage at following the party-switching Mr. Kennedy. \u201cIt\u2019s a realignment,\u201d he declared. \u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Twenty years ago, in the same arena, Rudolph W. Giuliani delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Republican National Convention, three years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack prompted then-President George W. Bush to caution the nation against hate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">On Sunday, Mr. Giuliani leaned into overbroad stereotyping against the Palestinian people, who he said \u201care taught to kill us at two years old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cI don\u2019t take a risk with people that are taught to kill Americans at 2,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m on the side of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Giuliani praised Mr. Trump for coming to the city where he once served as Republican mayor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is where a Republican is not supposed to come,\u201d Mr. Giuliani said. \u201cWhich is why Donald Trump came here.\u201d<\/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\/28\/us\/harris-trump-election\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. 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