WASHINGTON — The presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump intensified in the days following their first and likely only debate, as both arrived in key battleground states just over 50 days before the election.
Harris’ campaign rode a wave of momentum tardy last week, scrapping debate ads and launching an “aggressive” campaign in battleground states that it dubbed the “New Way Forward” tour.
Meanwhile, Trump and Republican Party officials filed “election integrity” lawsuits this week that address voter registration and mail-in voting. Nevada AND Michigan.
One sec numerous surveys he showed Harris surpassed former president on Tuesday debateTrump continued All his appearance at a news conference on Friday and criticized a reporter for suggesting that some Republicans thought he performed poorly.
“We received a lot of praise for the debate,” he said. he saidadding, “You know, listen, you’re Fox (News), you shouldn’t play the same game as everyone else.”
He has rejected to debate Harris again.
Trump repeats lies about migrants
Trump spoke for about an hour and answered about a dozen questions at Trump National Golf Course in Los Angeles, where he promised that if elected, he would “start with Springfield and Aurora” as he carried out “the largest deportation in the history of our country.”
Trump has repeated baseless rumors that Venezuelan gangs have taken over an apartment building in Aurora, Colo. In a memorable moment during Tuesday’s debate, he claimed that Haitian migrants were eating domesticated animals in Springfield, Ohio — a lie that has circulated among the right on social media, including from his vice presidential candidate, Ohio’s junior U.S. senator J.D. Vance.
Hundreds of thousands of Haitians live in the U.S. legally under momentary protected status after a nearby Caribbean country was rocked the sudden fall of the government this spring.
Asked by a reporter Friday if he was concerned about the Ohio community that has been thrust into the national spotlight and is now the target of bomb threats, Trump said he was not.
“The real threat is what is happening on our borders,” he replied sharply.
Trump too Lobbed Similar attacks occurred at a rally Thursday evening in Tucson, Arizona, where the miniature western Pennsylvania town of Charleroi was described as “not so pretty now” since Haitian migrants arrived there.
In fact, Charleroi has he suffered population decline and degradation that continued for decades following the collapse of the steel industry in the 1980s.
Harris campaigns in North Carolina and Pennsylvania
A national article was published in the New York Times/Siena before the debate vote showed Trump with a slight lead over Harris.
“We are weaker, let’s be clear” – Harris he said roaring crowd in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday night. “It’s hard work anyway, but we like hard work.”
Harris held consecutive campaign rallies On Thursday evening, a combined 25,000 people gathered in Raleigh and Greensboro, North Carolina, according to the campaign.
On Friday, the vice president traveled to the key swing state of Pennsylvania, where she first visited Classic Elements, a bookstore and coffee shop in the ruby-red neighborhood of Johnstown, before heading to an evening rally in Wilkes-Barre.
Junior U.S. Sen. John Fetterman and his wife Gisele accompanied Harris to the miniature business, where she told about a dozen customers: “You’ve created a safe space where people are welcome and know they’re encouraged to be with each other and feel like they belong,” according to reporters traveling with her.
“I will continue to travel the state to make sure I listen as much as I speak,” Harris said. “And ultimately, I believe deeply in earnest that every vote is worthy, and that means spending time with people in the communities where they live. That’s why I’m here, and we’re going to be spending a lot more time in Pennsylvania.”
Immediately after the debate, Harris received a coveted endorsement from pop sensation Taylor Swift, herself a Pennsylvania native.
Both Trump and Harris at 9/11 Memorial Ceremony
The vice president added to her list of Republican endorsements tardy last week when Bush-era Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez announced his support. Gonzalez, who served under former President George W. Bush, he wrote On Thursday, Politico wrote that Trump poses “perhaps the most serious threat to the rule of law in a generation.”
Tuesday’s debate immediately marked the 23rd anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Harris he joined President Joe Biden at numerous ceremonies.
Trump also attended events in New York and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, with a far-right activist and 9/11 supporter Conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer. He defended her at his press conference on Friday, calling her a “free spirit.”
A few Republicans To have criticized Loomer in recent days.
