Key events
Donald Trump invited Republican Senate candidate David McCormick to the stage. McCormick is challenging Senator Bob Casey for the seat in Pennsylvania.
“We’ve got to put you back in the White House,” McCormick told Trump, “to fight back on this crazy liberal agenda, the weakness of Kamala Harris that is taking us over.”
Donald Trump is over an hour into his speech in Pennsylvania. His remarks shifted from the economy to immigration.
He repeated a false claim about the Tren de Aragua gang taking over an apartment building in a Colorado town. Trump then called General Mark Milley, who has labeled the former president as a fascist, a “woke general.”
Referring to the handling of immigration, Trump said: “We have to go back to 1798, when we had real people running our country.”
At Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania, a group of more than a dozen steelworkers took the stage. “You’re my hero,” said one of the members of “Steelworkers for Trump.”
He said that, if his rival Kamala Harris is elected, “Pennsylvania will be an economic wasteland.”
The former president is set to hold another rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday, this time in Lancaster.
Donald Trump spoke about Pennsylvania-specific issues, including fracking, steel mills and energy prices.
“Pennsylvania was the commercial and industrial powerhouse of the United States,” he said. Trump told the audience that Democrats “annihilated your steel mills, decimated your coal jobs, assaulted your oil and gas jobs, and sold off your manufacturing jobs to China and foreign nations all over the world.”
He repeated his plan to to levy tariffs on all imports in a bid to boost American manufacturing.
Donald Trump called Kamala Harris “a threat to democracy”
During the former president’s speech in the battleground state Pennsylvania, Trump said Harris “shouldn’t even be the candidate.”
“They should have picked a candidate fairly, not just given it to her because they want to be politically correct,” Trump added.
The Republican presidential nominee said that Representative Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer approached Joe Biden about his candidacy and “took it away” from him.
“I think he might have done better than she’s going to do, because all we had to do is expose her as a lunatic,” Trump said, referring to Harris.
At a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump called the word “tariff” the “most beautiful word in the dictionary.”
“More beautiful than love, more beautiful than respect, no less beautiful than religion,” he said. “It’s going to make our country rich.”
Trump expressed his appreciation for SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s endorsement. The former president narrated the time he saw a SpaceX rocket fly across the sky.
Musk, the CEO of Tesla, is scheduled to host a town hall in Pittsburgh on Sunday in support of Trump.
The billionaire’s political action committee, America PAC, did not say where Musk will hold the rally.
Usher shows his support for Vice President Kamala Harris
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Usher, an influential R&B musician and bedrock of Atlanta’s musical contributions, spoke briefly to a crowd of about 10,000 Saturday at Lakewood Amphitheater in Atlanta assembled for a campaign rally for Kamala Harris with Barack Obama.
Usher did not perform, though he has two concerts scheduled in Atlanta this weekend. He appeared on stage ahead of Obama.
“I feel that this is a momentous opportunity for each and every one of us,” Usher said. “We have an opportunity to choose a new generation of leadership for our country. …“She fights for everyone’s rights. For freedom. … We have to strive to not allow our past to define our future.”
Usher, like every other speaker so far at the rally, pressed the crowd to vote early and to reach friends and family for votes.
“How we vote – I mean everything that we do in the next 17 days will affect our children, our grandchildren, all the people we love the most.”
Donald Trump asked the crowd: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”
The audience yelled “No!” in unison. He attacked Vice President Kamala Harris and the Biden administration for its handling of the southern US border and the Middle East crisis.
Trump then falsely claimed that “they stole the election from an American president.”
Former president Donald Trump is delivering his remarks at a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
Trump is has recently started delivering his speeches on schedule.
He began by telling the story of the Pennsylvanian golfer Arnold Palmer. Trump is holding his rally at the airport in Latrobe named after the golfer.
Former president Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver his remarks at a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania soon. Trump will stage a rally at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport.
We’ll be following his comments in the battleground state.
In a new TV ad, Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, a Democrat, distances himself from President Biden
Senator Bob Casey showed support for some Trump-era policies in his new ad, which aired on Friday in parts of the state,
The ad features a Republican-Democrat couple from Old Forge praising Casey as an independent leader. They say he opposed Biden on fracking and backed Trump on trade issues like ending NAFTA and imposing tariffs on China.
Bob Casey, Senate Democrat in Pennsylvania, touts breaking with Biden on fracking and agreeing with Trump on trade in this new ad… https://t.co/rOz8d6iUzX
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) October 18, 2024
Barack Obama to rally in Las Vegas in support for Harris
Barack Obama will hold an event on Saturday to rally voters for Kamala Harris on the first day of early voting in Nevada.
The Harris campaign said the former president will encourage voters to turn out and vote for Harris, Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Democrats up and down the ballot.
Former NFL star Antonio Brown is in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, for Donald Trump’s latest rally. Brown has continued to show his support for the former president before next month’s US presidential election.
The ex-Steelers star addressed the crowd of Trump supporters after teasing his appearance on social media earlier this week.
In Detroit, Kamala Harris was asked whether the war in Gaza could cost her the election. She didn’t directly answer the question, but she pointed to the Biden administration’s calls for peace days after the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
“This creates an opening that I believe we must take full advantage of to dedicate ourselves to ending this war and bringing hostages home,” Harris told reporters in Michigan.
Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota and the Democratic vice-presidential pick, paid a visit to the city of Chicago before heading to a rally in Omaha, Nebraska.
He spoke at a hotel ballroom in the city’s downtown area and was introduced by Senator Dick Durbin.
“It’s pretty clear the tired, divisive and old rhetoric of Donald Trump matches the tired, divisive and old Donald Trump,” Walz said.
Americans are paying attention to Kamala Harris’s media blitz and Donald Trump’s campaign rallies, according to a CNN poll.
A CNN polling project that tracks what average Americans are hearing, reading and seeing about the presidential nominees throughout the race revealed that the word most commonly used in describing the news about Harris was “interview”.
Survey respondents referenced appearances on CBS’s 60 Minutes and the podcast Call Her Daddy, as well as interviews with Howard Stern and Stephen Colbert.
When Americans were asked to describe the news about Trump, “rally” was the second-most commonly used word in response.
