Trump accuses Harris of hiding from media and revives election fraud narrative ahead of

Donald Trump has accused Democratic rival Kamala Harris of hiding from the media ahead of their all-important first presidential debate on ABC News on Tuesday evening.

“The last thing we need for our Nation in Decline is another President who is not smart enough to answer reporters [sic] questions,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform, also promoting a spurious warning from Tucker Carlson about voter fraud in Pennsylvania, seemingly preparing the ground for contesting his ultimate defeat in November’s election.

Trump and Harris are currently neck-and-neck in the polls, according to a new New York Times/Siena College survey that puts the former president a single point ahead of the current vice president on 48 per cent to 47 per cent.

The Republican spent the weekend rallying his supporters in Mosinee, Wisconsin, his first visit to a deep red, mostly rural region of a swing state that could play a major role in determining the next occupant of the White House.

Trump used the event to tease the idea of expanding the 25th Amendment to include the possibility of removing a vice president, lied about transgender surgery and warned the mass deporation of illegal immigrants would be “bloody”.

Key Points

• Donald Trump accuses Kamala Harris of hiding from media and revives election fraud narrative

• Trump and Harris ‘neck-and-neck’ in latest poll

• Republican says press will give Harris debate win even if he ‘destroys’ her

• Liz Cheney explains her decision to back Harris: ‘The right vote to make this time around’

• Kimberly Guilfoyle forced to ask audience to clap as awkward speech falls flat

Nikki Haley says Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’ slur is ‘not helpful’

12:05 , Joe Sommerlad

On CBS’s Face the Nation yesterday, the former South Carolina governor and US ambassador to the UN – briefly heralded as an icon of anti-Trump resistance during the primaries before falling laughably in line – launched into a fresh attack on the candidate’s running mate.

“It is not helpful to talk about whether women have children or whether they don’t,” Haley told Margaret Brennan.

“It’s not helpful to say any of those things that are personality-driven, or anything else.”

This was a particularly classic exchange from the same interview:

Here’s more from Gustaf Kilander.

Nikki Haley says JD Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’ slur is ‘not helpful’

Hillbilly Elegy director Ron Howard ‘surprised and disappointed’ by JD Vance

11:45 , Joe Sommerlad

Asked about his 2020 Netflix adaptation of Trump’s running mate’s misery memoir at the Toronto International Film Festival, the veteran moviemaker explained: “We didn’t talk a lot of politics when we were making the movie because I was interested in his upbringing and that survival tale. That’s what we mostly focused on.

“However, based on the conversations that we had during that time, I just have to say I’m very surprised and disappointed by much of the rhetoric that I’m reading and hearing. People do change, and I assume that’s the case. Well, it’s on record.”

Here’s more from Jacob Stolworthy.

Hillbilly Elegy director Ron Howard hits out at ‘disappointing’ JD Vance

RFK Jr shows off ‘dance moves’ in lame Amber Rose social media skit

11:25 , Joe Sommerlad

The former independent candidate turned Trump supplicant has inflicted some disturbing imagery on the electorate in recent months, from the dead bear cub to the chainsawed whale’s head tied to the roof of his car, but this one takes the cake.

An absolutely excruciating watch for your Monday morning. Truly awful.

George W Bush reveals his decision on 2024 presidential endorsement

11:05 , Joe Sommerlad

The 43rd president has said he will not be joining his former vice president Dick Cheney in backing Kamala Harris in November, but nor will he placing an X beside Donald Trump’s name on his ballot sheet come November 5.

Graeme Massie has this on Dubya’s decision to sit on the fence.

George W Bush reveals his decision on 2024 endorsement after Cheney snubbed Trump

Melania complains about Trump’s 2020 defeat and ‘efforts to silence my husband’ in latest book plug

10:45 , Joe Sommerlad

The former first lady is finally venturing into the election race, with less than two months to go until the big day, although seemingly only in the hope of enriching herself further through the sale of a costly new ghostwritten memoir.

Trump falsely claims children are being forced into gender transition surgery

10:25 , Joe Sommerlad

Speaking in Mosinee, Trump teased the idea of expanding the 25th Amendment to include the possibility of removing a vice president and warned that the mass deporation of illegal immigrants on his watch would be “a bloody story”, a particularly disturbing turn of phrase to throw around so casually.

Even more absurdly, he suggested that children in American schools are being forced to undergo “brutal” gender transition surgery against their will, an utterly hysterical claim for which his own campaign team could provide no evidence whatsoever because it is not actually happening.

Here’s Gustaf Kilander on that particular lie.

Trump falsely claims children are being forced into gender transition ops at school

Trump says media will give Harris debate win even if he ‘destroys’ her

10:05 , Joe Sommerlad

The Republican spent the weekend rallying his supporters in Mosinee, Wisconsin, his first visit to a deep red, mostly rural region of a swing state that could play a major role in determining the next occupant of the White House.

Trump used the event to get his excuses in early regarding the debate, claiming the media will proclaim Harris the winner however it actually plays out.

Graig Graziosi has this report.

Trump says media will give Harris debate win even if he ‘destroys’ her

Trump and Harris ‘neck-and-neck’ heading into crucial debate, new poll finds

09:45 , Joe Sommerlad

The candidates are currently neck-and-neck in the polls, according to a new New York Times/Siena College survey that puts the former president a single point ahead of the current vice president on 48 per cent to 47 per cent.

Here’s Graeme Massie’s report and analysis.

Harris and Trump ‘neck and neck’ heading into crucial debate, says new poll

Truth Social: Trump accuses Harris of hiding from media and revives election fraud narrative

09:25 , Joe Sommerlad

Good morning!

Donald Trump has accused Democratic rival Kamala Harris of hiding from the media ahead of their all-important first presidential debate on ABC News on Tuesday evening.

“The last thing we need for our Nation in Decline is another President who is not smart enough to answer reporters [sic] questions,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Trump has also been busy promoting a spurious warning from Tucker Carlson about voter fraud in Pennsylvania, seemingly preparing the ground for contesting his ultimate defeat in November’s election.

“The 2024 Election, where Votes have just started being cast, will be under the closest professional scrutiny and, WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again,” he froths in another post.

“We cannot let our Country further devolve into a Third World Nation, AND WE WON’T!”

He has further been announcing his support for the legalization of marijuana as a means to ending “needless arrests and incarcerations”, which sounds almost like an honest to goodness policy.

The Gossip Girl-like dynamics of the Supreme Court

09:00 , Ariana Baio

There is perhaps no branch of government that fosters secrecy or harbors sneaky resentment to a degree even Gossip Girl herself would be astonished with, than the Supreme Court.

The highest court in the land has purposefully cast an opaque fog over its internal workings for decades, but in this past term, it was clear from their opinions that there was drama behind the scenes.

At the center of that is Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

If the court itself is Gossip Girl then Barrett is season two Jenny Humphrey. That’s to say, she’s breaking ranks with her OG squad and finding her own voice – although with less goth eyeliner.

The Gossip Girl-like dynamics of the Supreme Court

Kimberly Guilfoyle forced to ask audience to clap as awkward speech falls flat

08:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Kimberly Guilfoyle eventually had to ask her audience at the Florida Republican Party annual dinner to clap for her as her awkward speech fell flat in front of an audience of allies.

It was a moment reminiscent of Jeb Bush’s “please clap” moment during the 2016 campaign.

Guilfoyle, the fiancé of Donald Trump Jr, was speaking at the dinner in Hollywood, Florida when she shared her hope that Democrats would lose seats in Congress and be forced to give up control of the White House.

Kimberly Guilfoyle forced to ask audience to clap as awkward speech falls flat

Warnock responds to JD Vance’s comments on Georgia shooting: Guns make us all ‘sitting ducks’

07:00 , John Bowden

One of Georgia’s senators has responded to Republican vice presidential contender JD Vance after he referred to school shootings as a regrettable “fact of life” in modern society.

Raphael Warnock, who won a six-year term in 2022 after defeating a Republican challenger to secure his first full term in office, appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday after a shooting in his state claimed the lives of two students and two teachers at a high school. Nine others were injured.

He was asked about the comments by Vance, which ignited a media firestorm and were seized upon by Kamala Harris’s campaign as the latest sign of Republicans’ refusal to address such horrific attacks in American schools. The Ohio senator, speaking at a rally in Arizona, lamented, “I don’t like that this is a fact of life” after the shooting took place last week.

Warnock responds to JD Vance’s shooting comments: Guns make us all ‘sitting ducks’

Trump’s psychologist niece says he’s ‘dementing’ in wake of ‘gibberish’ answer on childcare question

06:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Mary Trump, the niece of Donald Trump, has shared her analysis that the former president’s mental health is deteriorating after he struggled to answer a question on childcare.

In a piece on Substack on Sunday, the psychologist argued that Trump is “dementing,” citing his appearance at the Economic Club of New York last week, where he was asked what type of legislation he would push to make childcare affordable.

“Well, I would do that, and we’re sitting down, I was somebody, we had Senator Marco Rubio, and my daughter Ivanka was so impactful on that issue,” Trump began his long, rambling answer. “It’s a very important issue, but I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about that because look, childcare is childcare. There’s something, you have to have it in this country, you have to have it.”

He went on to say that his proposed tariffs on imports would generate more than enough money to pay for childcare, but he did not explain what his actual policy would look like.

Trump’s psychologist niece says he’s ‘dementing’ in wake of ‘gibberish’ answer

Nikki Haley says JD Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’ slur is ‘not helpful’

05:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Former Trump UN Ambassador Nikki Haley acknowledged during a Sunday interview that JD Vance’s comments about “childless cat ladies” are not “helpful.”

Vance has faced criticism for a number of unearthed comments from his past, most notably for telling Fox News host Tucker Carlson in 2021 that the US was being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”

“It’s just a basic fact — you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC [Alexandria Ocasio Cortez] — the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,” he said. “And how does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”

Harris has two stepchildren and Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, adopted twins in August 2021.

Nikki Haley says JD Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’ slur is ‘not helpful’

Trump falsely claims children being forced into gender transition ops at school in rambling fantasy-filled rally speech

04:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Donald Trump falsely claimed yet again that children are the subject of “brutal” gender operations at schools across the US.

“Kamala supports states being able to take minor children and perform sex change operations, take them away from their parents, perform sex change operations, and send them back home,” Trump said in Mosinee, Wisconsin on Saturday afternoon.

“Can you imagine you’re a parent and your son leaves the house and you say, ‘Jimmy, I love you so much. Go have a good day in school’ and your son comes back with a brutal operation,” he added. “Can you even imagine this? What the hell is wrong with our country?”

There’s no evidence this has ever happened or been planned. In states where gender-affirming surgery is legal for people under the age of 18, parental consent is required.

Trump falsely claims children are being forced into gender transition ops at school

John Fetterman says Joe Biden would have beaten Donald Trump again

03:00 , John Bowden

John Fetterman, one of Joe Biden’s loudest defenders during calls from within his own party to step down, still believes that the incumbent president could have beaten Donald Trump a second time.

The freshman senator from Pennsylvania elected in 2022, was one of the many Democrats who refused to call for Biden to step aside in the wake of a whispery, wandering performance at a June debate with Trump in Atlanta.

But Fetterman, who suffered a stroke and battled his own issues with speech impairments in the final days of his winning 2022 campaign, took things a step further as he suggested that Biden’s critics in the Democratic Party were helping Trump win — a charge that seemed at odds with polling that showed Biden behind the former president long before the outpouring of Democratic whinging began.

John Fetterman says Joe Biden would have beaten Donald Trump again

Walz touts abiding support for LGBTQ+ rights: ‘Why would I stop anybody else from marrying the person they love?’

02:00 , Eric Garcia

On Saturday Minnesota Governor Tim Walz took a break from campaigning in swing states to address the largest pro-LGBTQ+ rights group in the country about his first run for Congress in 2006 in a Republican district when he was asked about whether he supported civil unions for gay couples.

“I said, ‘sure, if that’s your thing,’” Walz told attendees at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual dinner on Saturday evening. “But I said, my marriage, my wife, Gwen is the most important thing in my life. I love her deeply. Why would I stop anybody else from marrying the person they love? That makes no sense.”

At the time, many Democrats had run away from supporting same-sex marriage and had a tenuous relationship with gay rights at best. Two years before, George W Bush had won re-election by supporting a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman. Shortly after, Walz won his race in 2006 and people praised him for winning despite supporting abortion rights and same-sex marriage.

Walz touts his record supporting LGBTQ+ rights in difficult times

Cheney explains her decision to back Harris: ‘The right vote to make this time around’

01:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Liz Cheney, the former Republican congresswoman, appeared on ABC’s This Week on Sunday to speak about her decision to back Kamala Harris, warning of an “unrecoverable catastrophe” if former President Donald Trump returns to the White House.

“I’ve been voting for 40 years. My first vote I ever cast was for Ronald Reagan in 1984. I’ve never voted for a Democrat and it tells you, I think, the stakes in this election,” she said.

She urged voters to listen to Harris “talk about her vision for this country, her vision for the future … If you’re talking about a national security set of issues, and you care about America’s leadership role in the world, a vote for Vice President Harris is the right vote to make this time around.”

Harris and Walz set for ‘New Way Forward’ swing state tour after ABC debate

Monday 9 September 2024 00:00 , Andrew Feinberg

Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will follow up on Harris’s Tuesday face-off against Donald Trump by embarking on a whirlwind tour of swing states in hopes of seizing momentum off her debate performance this week.

The Harris-Walz campaign says the vice president and her running-mate will criss-cross the country following Tuesday night’s debate to make appearances in each individual media market in every single swing state over a four-day period next week.

The candidates’ spouses, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz, will also make a series of appearances in support of the campaign in the coming days.

Harris and Walz set for ‘New Way Forward’ swing state tour after ABC debate

Kimberly Guilfoyle forced to ask audience to clap as awkward speech falls flat

Sunday 8 September 2024 23:30 , Gustaf Kilander

Kimberly Guilfoyle eventually had to ask her audience at the Florida Republican Party annual dinner to clap for her as her awkward speech fell flat in front of an audience of allies.

It was a moment reminiscent of Jeb Bush’s “please clap” moment during the 2016 campaign.

Guilfoyle, the fiancé of Donald Trump Jr, was speaking at the dinner in Hollywood, Florida when she shared her hope that Democrats would lose seats in Congress and be forced to give up control of the White House.

Kimberly Guilfoyle forced to ask audience to clap as awkward speech falls flat

New Mexico governor to campaign for Harris in Virginia ahead of debate

Sunday 8 September 2024 23:00 , Gustaf Kilander

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham will campaign for the Harris-Walz team in Northern Virginia on Monday ahead of Tuesday’s debate.

There she will hold “fireside chats” to “highlight the stark contrast between Vice President Harris’ vision for a New Way Forward and Trump’s Project 2025 agenda,” the Harris campaign said in an advisory.

Lujan Grisham will take part in a Women for Harris event to speak about abortion rights and a Latinos con Harris-Walz event where she’ll “highlight how Trump’s Project 2025 would make life harder and more expensive for Latino families in Virginia and across the country,” the campaign added.

Harris says she’s ‘ready’ for debate

Sunday 8 September 2024 22:32 , Andrew Feinberg

The vice president, wearing all black, a hat, and a scarf, and the Second Gentleman, wearing a Harris/Walz sweatshirt, walked past reporters as part of what took on the feel of an impromptu procession, preceded by and followed by aides and security personnel both on foot and in vehicles.

At first, she did not answer questions about how she would respond to Trump at their upcoming debate and said “thank you” in the reporters’ direction.

The Independent asked if she is ready for the debate. The vice president turned, made a thumbs-up gesture up and replied: “Ready!”

Warnock responds to JD Vance’s comments on Georgia shooting: Guns make us all ‘sitting ducks’

Sunday 8 September 2024 22:30 , John Bowden

One of Georgia’s senators has responded to Republican vice presidential contender JD Vance after he referred to school shootings as a regrettable “fact of life” in modern society.

Raphael Warnock, who won a six-year term in 2022 after defeating a Republican challenger to secure his first full term in office, appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday after a shooting in his state claimed the lives of two students and two teachers at a high school. Nine others were injured.

He was asked about the comments by Vance, which ignited a media firestorm and were seized upon by Kamala Harris’s campaign as the latest sign of Republicans’ refusal to address such horrific attacks in American schools. The Ohio senator, speaking at a rally in Arizona, lamented, “I don’t like that this is a fact of life” after the shooting took place last week.

Warnock responds to JD Vance’s shooting comments: Guns make us all ‘sitting ducks’

Liz Cheney torches Nikki Haley over support for Donald Trump

Sunday 8 September 2024 22:00 , John Bowden

Liz Cheney is ready to force a reckoning for those Republicans who have come around to support Donald Trump for what she says are purely political reasons.

Anti-Trump Republicans including Cheney have become increasingly vocal in the past few months as Kamala Harris has ascended to the top of the Democratic ticket; emboldened by the new vigor her party has found in her wake. Trump, now running for the presidency for a third time, is poised to either pull off a massive political comeback or suffer his second defeat in as many presidential election cycles — to say nothing of the defeats his hand-picked candidates suffered in 2022’s midterms.

His enemies on the right, despite his dominating victory in the Republican primary earlier this year, still smell blood in the water and are now looking to Harris to deal an electoral deathblow this November.

Liz Cheney torches Nikki Haley over support for Donald Trump

NC gov says if Harris wins his state, she wins the White House

Sunday 8 September 2024 21:30 , Gustaf Kilander

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, who was in the race to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate before asking that he not be considered, told CBS’s Face the Nation that if Harris wins his state, she’ll win the White House.

The last time a Democrat won the Tar Heel state was in 2008, when Barack Obama won it for the Democrats for the first time since Jimmy Carter ran in 1976.

Cooper told CBS that if Harris wins North Carolina, “she is the next president of the United States.”

“It’s close here in North Carolina. It always is,” he added. “This was Biden-Harris’s closest loss in 2020, only 1.3%. So the fact that Kamala Harris, as Vice President of the United States, has been to North Carolina 17 times shows that she cares about our state.”

“She’s got a plan to lower costs for North Carolinians, particularly in this childcare arena, drug pricing. We’re excited about the economic plan that she has … and I think North Carolinians will respond to it,” the governor said.

“When we continue to get this information out to the American public, and to people here in North Carolina, that Kamala Harris has an economic plan that’s going to help lower the cost for everyday people, that’s going to help families thrive, that is going to protect women’s reproductive freedom. I think at the end of the day, that’s going to be what works here,” he added.

Harris campaign touts Republican support

Sunday 8 September 2024 21:00 , Gustaf Kilander

The Harris campaign noted in a press release on Sunday the amount of support from Republicans the vice president has received, such as from former Vice President Dick Cheney, his daughter, former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, her former January 6 Select Committee colleague Adam Kinzinger, former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan, former Trump White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, and former Mike Pence advisor Olivia Troye.

They added that Harris has the support of more than 230 alumni of George W Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney.

“As hundreds of Republican leaders have already realized, Vice President Harris is offering a New Way Forward for all Americans who reject Donald Trump’s threats to our freedom and his dangerous Project 2025 agenda,” the campaign said. “Between now and Election Day, Team Harris-Walz will continue making the case to conservative, independent, and moderate voters that they have the choice to put their country and democracy first and leave Donald Trump’s toxic chaos and division behind.”

‘The Republicans have nominated someone who is depraved,’ Cheney says

Sunday 8 September 2024 20:30 , Gustaf Kilander

Harris and Trump ‘neck and neck’ heading into crucial debate, says new poll

Sunday 8 September 2024 20:00 , Graeme Massie

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are running neck and neck ahead of this week’s high-stakes presidential debate, according to a new poll.

The vice president and her Republican rival are separated by just one point days before they take the debate stage in Pittsburgh, the poll by The New York Times/Siena College found.

The poll was taken between September 3 and September 6 and found 47 percent of likely voters backing Harris. Meanwhile, 48 percent of likely voters backed Trump in the poll.

Tuesday night’s ABC News debate will be the first for Harris but the second for Trump after he took on Joe Biden in June.

Harris and Trump ‘neck and neck’ heading into crucial debate, says new poll

VIDEO: Harris campaign unveils ‘New Way Forward’ ad ahead of debate with Trump

Sunday 8 September 2024 19:30 , Reann Philogene

The Gossip Girl-like dynamics of the Supreme Court

Sunday 8 September 2024 19:00 , Ariana Baio

There is perhaps no branch of government that fosters secrecy or harbors sneaky resentment to a degree even Gossip Girl herself would be astonished with, than the Supreme Court.

The highest court in the land has purposefully cast an opaque fog over its internal workings for decades, but in this past term, it was clear from their opinions that there was drama behind the scenes.

At the center of that is Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

If the court itself is Gossip Girl then Barrett is season two Jenny Humphrey. That’s to say, she’s breaking ranks with her OG squad and finding her own voice – although with less goth eyeliner.

The Gossip Girl-like dynamics of the Supreme Court

Cheney explains why she backs Harris

Sunday 8 September 2024 18:44 , Gustaf Kilander

Harris turns to her favorite foods in effort to show a more private side and connect with voters

Sunday 8 September 2024 18:30 , AP

One of the biggest challenges for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in the final stretch of the campaign is introducing herself to voters before her Republican rival, Donald Trump, has a chance to define her.

Until her sudden election to the top of the Democratic ticket this summer, Harris was still a somewhat unknown figure in national politics, driven in part by her aversion to opening up and embracing the spotlight. And since she’s become the nominee, Republicans have criticized Harris for not doing many interviews or giving enough specifics on her policy plans.

But the vice president is sharing personal details about her childhood, cooking and food to show her more private side.

Harris turns to her favorite foods in effort to connect with voters

Trump says his plan to expel millions of immigrants will be a ‘bloody story’

Sunday 8 September 2024 18:00 , Graig Graziosi

Donald Trump has issued yet another ominous warning about his potential second term in the Oval Office, this time promising a “bloody story” for the millions of immigrants he intends to deport.

He made the comments at a campaign rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin on Saturday, echoing the broader Republican National Committee’s 2024 platform. The GOP’s plans for America after a Trump victory include aggressive immigration enforcement and mass deportations.

That’s when Trump alluded to the blood.

“And ya know getting them out will be a bloody story,” Trump said. “[Undocumented immigrants] should have never been allowed to come into our country. Nobody checked them.”

Trump says his plan to expel millions of immigrants will be a ‘bloody story’

George W Bush won’t be making 2024 presidential endorsement

Sunday 8 September 2024 17:30 , Graeme Massie

Former president George W Bush will not make a presidential endorsement in the 2024 race for the White House, according to his office.

The 43rd president will not join his former vice president Dick Cheney, who said last week that he would vote for Democrat Kamala Harris over Republican Donald Trump.

Cheney’s daughter, leading Trump critic Liz Cheney, has also called on fellow conservatives to vote for Harris in November.

Harris and running mate Tim Walz have courted Republicans who refuse to vote for Trump, with Harris saying in a CNN interview that she would consider appointing a Republican to her cabinet.

George W Bush won’t be making 2024 presidential endorsement

Elton John says Trump’s ‘Little Rocket Man’ nickname for Kim Jong-un was ‘brilliant’

Sunday 8 September 2024 16:31 , Graig Graziosi

Elton John has weighed in on Donald Trump’s “Little Rocket Man” nickname for North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, calling it “brilliant”.

He also encouraged Americans to “make the right decision” in November’s election.

Speaking to Variety at the Toronto International Film Festival, John admitted “I laughed, I thought that was brilliant,” when he heard about Trump’s name for Kim, which the former US president began calling the North Korean leader in 2017.

John then went on to explain his relationship with Trump, adding: “I just thought, ‘Good on you, Donald.’ … Donald’s always been a fan of mine, and he’s been to my concerts many, many times. So, I mean, I’ve always been friendly toward him, and I thank him for his support. When he did that, I just thought it was hilarious. It made me laugh.”

Elton John says Trump’s ‘Little Rocket Man’ nickname for Kim Jong-un was ‘brilliant’

Meet the man who pretends to be Trump for Kamala Harris’s debate prep

Sunday 8 September 2024 16:15 , Graig Graziosi

A man who described Donald Trump as a “malevolent George Costanza” and a “malfunctioning appliance” is helping Kamala Harris prepare for her first debate with the former president.

Philippe Reines, a former deputy assistant secretary of state and senior advisor to Hillary Clinton, is the stand-in for Trump in mock debates ahead of the real thing on September 10.

This is the second time he has played the role after acting as Trump in Clinton’s own preparations in September 2016, and he takes the job seriously.

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Meet the man who pretends to be Trump for Kamala Harris’s debate prep

Second Trump term more worrying due to ‘dangerous’ foreign policy – ex-diplomat

Sunday 8 September 2024 16:00 , Graig Graziosi

A former British ambassador to the US said he worries “more about a Trump second term than his first term” as the former president’s foreign policy is “dangerous”.

Speaking on Sky News’ Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips, Lord Kim Darroch said he thought the UK Government would find it “difficult” to deal with Donald Trump and that Tuesday’s debate between the two presidential candidates could be “pivotal” for the election.

Lord Darroch told the programme he thought Kamala Harris had given a “mixed performance” at previous events and while Mr Trump was “not actually a great debater”, he had a “very forceful presence”.

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Second Trump term more worrying due to ‘dangerous’ foreign policy – ex-diplomat

Former GOP Congresswoman says she’s voting Democrat for first time in her life in 2024

Sunday 8 September 2024 15:37 , Graig Graziosi

Former Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney said that 2024 is the first time she’ll ever vote as a Democrat.

Cheney recently endorsed Harris, citing the “dangers” posed by a second Donald Trump term. She also announced that her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, would also be voting for Harris.

When she spoke with ABC News earlier this week, she revealed that not only was she not voting Republican, but that her vote for Harris would mark the first time she had ever voted for a Democrat.

“It tells you, I think, the stakes in this election,” she said. “Donald Trump presents a challenge and a threat fundamentally to the republic.”

‘She needs to let Trump be Trump’: Inside Kamala Harris’s unconventional debate prep

Sunday 8 September 2024 14:00 , Andrew Feinberg

Less than three months ago, a disastrous debate performance by President Joe Biden put Kamala Harris on a collision course with Donald Trump.

Now at the top of the Democratic ticket, Harris’s first public face-off with Trump on the ABC debate stage in Philadelphia is just days away. Right now, she is hunkered down in Pittsburgh for intensive preparations with a close circle of aides and confidantes who are getting her ready for her best — and perhaps only — chance to convince Americans that she, and not the former president, should spend the next four years in the White House.

According to NOTUS, the vice president will be participating in sessions led by Paul Weiss partner Karen Dunn, the Washington super-lawyer who masterminded then-Senator Harris’s prep for her 2020 debate against her predecessor, Mike Pence. Harris will also reportedly be coached by her veteran policy adviser Rohini Kosoglu, as well as Democratic National Convention mastermind and longtime operative Minyon Moore; domestic policy aide Brian Nelson; campaign chief-of-staff Sheila Nix; veteran adviser Sean Clegg; and Cedric Richmond, the former Louisiana congressman who is a co-chair of her campaign.

‘She needs to let Trump be Trump’: Inside Kamala Harris’s unconventional debate prep

Jimmy Carter ‘talking about politics again’ since Kamala Harris became Democratic nominee

Sunday 8 September 2024 13:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Former President Jimmy Carter is “talking about politics again” following the ascension of Vice President Kamala Harris to the top of the Democratic ticket.

“After my grandmother passed, he had a pretty long low period when he wasn’t really engaging much at all,” his eldest grandchild Jason Carter told The Washington Post. “But now he’s talking about politics again.”

Two members of the Carter family told the paper that after the death of his wife, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, in November last year, his health has worsened. He has been in hospice for 18 months.

Jimmy Carter ‘talking about politics again’ since Kamala Harris became nominee

Supreme Court Justice Alito says he got $900 concert tickets from German princess

Sunday 8 September 2024 12:00 , Lindsay Whitehurst

Justice Samuel Alito reported Friday that he accepted $900 worth of concert tickets from a German princess, but disclosed no trips paid for by other people, according to a new financial disclosure form.

The required annual filing, for which Alito has often sought an extension, doesn’t include details of the event tickets gifted by socialite Gloria von Thurn und Taxis of Germany. Alito didn’t report any outside income from teaching or book contracts.

The financial disclosures filed by Supreme Court justices come against the backdrop of a heightened focus on ethics at the high court amid criticism over undisclosed trips and gifts from wealthy benefactors to some justices. The other eight justices filed their forms in June; Alito received an extension.

Supreme Court Justice Alito says he got $900 concert tickets from German princess

Why the mediocre jobs numbers might be a good thing for Kamala Harris

Sunday 8 September 2024 11:00 , Eric Garcia

On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the latest jobs numbers, which showed that the US economy added 142,000 jobs. That is higher than the 99,000 jobs that ADP predicted, but still lower than most expectations.

The number may not seem that relevant, especially given that President Joe Biden is no longer running for re-election and most people blamed Biden for the bad economy. But it still means something.

Vice President Harris has sought to separate herself from Biden’s economic policies somewhat. In New Hampshire this week, she announced that she would support a 28 percent tax on capital gains for people earning a million dollars or more, which is about 10 points lower than Biden’s proposed 39.6 capital gains tax increase.

Why the mediocre jobs numbers might be a good thing for Kamala Harris

E Jean Carroll’s lawyer says ‘all options on the table’ after Trump attacks her again in rambling remarks

Sunday 8 September 2024 10:00 , Alex Woodward

As he detailed sexual assault allegations against him in two defamation cases he lost, Donald Trump said he was “very disappointed” in his legal team while half a dozen of his attorneys surrounded him in the lobby of Trump Tower on Friday.

Trump attended brief oral arguments in a federal appeals court hearing in Manhattan on Friday morning, where attorneys argued to reverse a $5 million defamation verdict against the former president, who a jury found liable for sexually abusing the writer E Jean Carroll in a department store in the 1990s.

Trump insists that he has never met Carroll and has labeled her a liar, claims that landed him a second defamation lawsuit, which he lost earlier this year. A separate jury awarded Carroll more than $83 million.

E Jean Carroll’s lawyer says ‘all options on the table’ after Trump’s latest attacks

Starmer will travel to Washington for second Biden meeting

Sunday 8 September 2024 09:00 , David Lynch

The Prime Minister will make his second visit to the USA since coming to office a matter of months ago, according to the White House.

Sir Keir Starmer is due to visit Washington DC and meet with President Joe Biden on September 13.

The meeting will be the second of its kind between the leaders since Sir Keir came to office in July, and comes just two months before Americans go to the polls for the presidential election.

Their first White House bilateral took place as Sir Keir attended the Nato summit just days after Labour won the election.

Starmer will travel to Washington for second Biden meeting

A surge of Black women and young people registering to vote in Pennsylvania spells trouble for Trump

Sunday 8 September 2024 08:00 , Richard Hall, Alicja Hagopian

New voter registrations surged among Black women and young people in Pennsylvania when Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee for president, according to newly released data.

In the week that Joe Biden announced he would not run for re-election, new registrations increased by 262 percent among Black women under 30 compared to the same week in 2020.

Registrations among Black voters increased by 110 percent, and among voters under 30 years old by 59 percent, also compared to the same week in 2020.

All of those demographic groups lean heavily towards voting for Democrats.

Pennsylvania sees surge in Black women and young people registering to vote

‘They don’t know him like I do:’ Trump’s disability advocate nephew details his ‘cruel’ streak

Sunday 8 September 2024 07:00 , Sheila Flynn

A lot of unexpected things have happened in the life of Fred Trump.

The son of Donald J’s handsome late older brother, Fred was disinherited of the family fortune by a technicality in his grandfather’s will. He and his wife, after a normal pregnancy and birth, discovered their third child suffered from severe rare disabilities requiring 24/7 care.

Then Fred watched his uncle become president. And that same uncle, while in office and standing in the White House, suggested disabled Americans like Fred’s son – his own great-nephew, William – should perhaps be left to “just die,” the 61-year-old author claims.

Trump’s disability advocate nephew details his ‘cruel’ streak

Vance insists John McCain wouldn’t have supported Harris if he saw the US-Mexico border

Sunday 8 September 2024 06:00 , Josh Marcus

The late Republican senator for Arizona, John McCain, wouldn’t have supported Kamala Harris if he saw the state of the US-Mexico border, according to GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance during a Phoenix campaign stop this week.

“Look, one of the things I love about Donald Trump, and I never knew John McCain, but I suspect that one of the things that I would have loved about John McCain is that they didn’t let their personal grievances get in the way of serving the country,” Vance said on Thursday.

“OK, so John McCain, I’m sure, disagreed with Donald Trump on a whole host of issues. And, yes, Donald Trump disagreed with John McCain on a whole host of issues. I do not believe for a second that if John McCain were alive today, and he sees what’s going on at the American southern border, that he would support Kamala Harris and all the destruction she’s wrought.”

Vance insists John McCain wouldn’t have supported Harris if he saw the border

Crypto No! Allies worry about Trump family’s ventures into digital currency

Sunday 8 September 2024 05:00 , Kelly Rissman

Months after Donald Trump and his eldest sons were found liable for civil fraud associated with a family business, the Trumps have sparked new concerns with a growing family venture — cryptocurrency.

The Republican presidential candidate has embraced a newfound love for cryptocurrency — he owns more than $1 million in digital currency — and sons, Don Jr and Eric, are considering forming a crypto startup called World Liberty Financial. But that plan has concerned Trump’s allies in the cryptosphere.

The X accounts of Trump’s youngest daughter, Tiffany Trump, and Lara Trump, Eric’s wife who co-chairs the Republican National Committee, were hacked earlier this week, with posts directing users to fake links for the project, according to World Liberty Financial.

Crypto No! Allies worry about Trump family’s ventures into digital currency

Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates

Sunday 8 September 2024 04:00 , Alicja Hagopian

It is now less than two months until Vice President Kamala Harris will go head-to-head with Donald Trump as Americans cast their votes in the 2024 election, after she replaced President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket in July.

Fresh polls suggest that Harris may be sweeping up elusive independent voters; though races in the swing states are still too close to call, with Harris and Trump neck and neck in Pennsylvania.

So how will Harris actually fare against Trump in November?

Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates from the 2024 election

Trump vows ‘long term prison sentences’ for people he falsely claims ‘CHEATED’ in the 2020 election

Sunday 8 September 2024 03:42 , Kelly Rissman

Donald Trump promised to prosecute those who “cheated” during the 2020 election as he intends to keep a close eye on the November race, the Republican nominee said in a late night rant.

The former president vowed in a post shared to X on Saturday night to seek political retribution “when” he retakes the White House for Democrats who, Trump baselessly claimed, committed “rampant cheating and Skullduggery” during the 2020 election.

Despite Trump’s insistence and his team’s legal challenges to the election results across the country, no court has supported these fraud claims.

“CEASE & DESIST,” the former president wrote. “WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again.”

Trump vows ‘long term prison sentences’ for those who ‘cheated’ in 2020 election

‘She needs to let Trump be Trump’: Inside Kamala Harris’s unconventional debate prep

Sunday 8 September 2024 03:00 , Andrew Feinberg

Less than three months ago, a disastrous debate performance by President Joe Biden put Kamala Harris on a collision course with Donald Trump.

Now at the top of the Democratic ticket, Harris’s first public face-off with Trump on the ABC debate stage in Philadelphia is just days away. Right now, she is hunkered down in Pittsburgh for intensive preparations with a close circle of aides and confidantes who are getting her ready for her best — and perhaps only — chance to convince Americans that she, and not the former president, should spend the next four years in the White House.

According to NOTUS, the vice president will be participating in sessions led by Paul, Weiss partner Karen Dunn, the Washington super-lawyer who masterminded then-Senator Harris’s prep for her 2020 debate against her predecessor, Mike Pence. Harris will also reportedly be coached by her veteran policy adviser Rohini Kosoglu, as well as Democratic National Convention mastermind and longtime operative Minyon Moore; domestic policy aide Brian Nelson; campaign chief-of-staff Sheila Nix; veteran adviser Sean Clegg; and Cedric Richmond, the former Louisiana congressman who is a co-chair of her campaign.

‘She needs to let Trump be Trump’: Inside Kamala Harris’s unconventional debate prep

Walz touts his record supporting LGBTQ+ rights in difficult times at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual dinner

Sunday 8 September 2024 02:34 , Eric Garcia

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz addressed the Human Rights Campaign, the largest pro-LGBTQ+ rights group in the country, about his first run for Congress in 2006 in a Republican district when he was asked about whether he supported civil unions for gay couples.

“I said, ‘sure, if that’s your thing,’” Walz told crowd at the group’s annual dinner on Saturday evening. “But I said, my marriage, my wife, Gwen is the most important thing in my life. I love her deeply. Why would I stop anybody else from marrying the person they love? That makes no sense.”

At the time, many Democrats had run away from supporting same-sex marriage and had a tenuous relationship with gay rights at best. Two years before, George W Bush had won re-election by supporting a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman. Shortly after, Walz won his race in 2006 and people praised him for winning despite supporting abortion rights and same-sex marriage.

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Walz touts his record supporting LGBTQ+ rights in difficult times

Stakeholder in Trump’s Truth Social parent company wins court ruling over share transfer

Sunday 8 September 2024 02:00 , Randall Chase

A federal judge in Delaware has ruled in favor of a firm seeking assurance that it will be able to sell its minority stake in the parent company of former president Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform.

The judge on Friday granted summary judgment to Florida-based United Atlantic Ventures LLC in a lawsuit filed against Minnesota-based Odyssey Transfer and Trust Co., a business that handles securities transfers among registered shareholders.

UAV is owned by Andrew Litinsky and Wesley Moss, former contestants on Trump’s TV show, “The Apprentice” who also helped facilitate a merger that took Trump Media public in March.

Stakeholder in Trump’s Truth Social parent company wins court ruling over share transfer