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New national polls from ABC, NBC, and CBS show tight race, with Kamala Harris’s lead narrowing in two and dead heat in one
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Donald Trump was allegedly the target of a third assassination attempt, California police have said.
A Las Vegas man named Vem Miller was arrested Saturday outside of a Trump rally in Coachella Valley with guns and ID documents with multiple names, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Miller, 49, denies wrongdoing and says he is a non-violent Trump supporter.
The California rally came hours after Kamala Harris released her medical information in a challenge to Trump, whose health and age are coming under increased scrutiny, particularly in light of recent long, rambling, and at times incoherent speeches, which the vice president invited people to watch to make up their own minds about the mental state of the former president.
Elsewhere, Trump has claimed a major threat to America comes from what he termed “the enemy from within,” whom he characterized as “sick people, radical left lunatics”, a term he often applies to Democratic opponents.
The former president told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News‘ Sunday Morning Futures that they — US citizens — “should be easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military”.
Harris is on the campaign trail in the key battleground of North Carolina where she attended a church service before holding a rally in the city of Greenville.
Sheila Flynn writes:
The first image posted was arresting, an ethereal watercolor rendering of just Melania Trump’s eyes – specifically identified as cobalt blue – staring out intently from her’s personal Instagram page.
The design, the accompanying December 2021 announcement explained, was the inaugural in Melania’s new line of cryptocurrency digital artwork – NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, essentially online collectibles meant to hold value.
And alongside that intense ocular image, significantly, was the Instagram account’s first mention of MelaniaTrump.com.
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Much has been made of the political strategies lurking inside Melania Trump’s memoir – but it serves another ambitious purpose, writes Sheila Flynn: Letting the former first lady outline her business acumen and ‘methodical’ nature while setting the stage for her own heavily-branded entrepreneurship
Police arrested a man they said was armed with multiple weapons and inconsistent identification documents just outside a Donald Trump rally on Saturday in Coachella Valley, California, in what officials are describing as a thwarted third assassination attempt against the former president.
However, the suspect – described as a “sovereign citizen” – is believed to be a Trump fan and told a news outlet he didn’t mean the Republican candidate any harm.
Here’s everything we know about suspect Vem Miller, 49, who has denied wrongdoing.
Local law enforcement described Miller as a ‘lunatic’ sovereign citizen plotting to kill Donald Trump – but he has reportedly denied meaning the former president any harm
With just over three weeks until election day, a new pair of polls from the key battleground states of Arizona and Pennsylvania tell very different stories for both the Harris and Trump campaigns.
The New York Times/Philadelphia Inquirer/Siena College polls show Donald Trump holding a six-point lead in Arizona. At the same time, Kamala Harris has a four-point lead in Pennsylvania when using unrounded figures.
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Still all to play for in two crucial battleground states for both vice president and former president
Eric Garcia writes:
[There is a] thorny trail that Harris must navigate when it comes to immigration reform and Latino outreach. For decades, Democrats believed that Republicans’ anti-immigrant stance would render them unable to win over a population that largely came to the United States as migrants. But the data has not borne that out.
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Polls show there’s a stark gender divide in how the Hispanic community is responding to the Harris-Walz ticket, meaning they may have to pivot their strategy
After mocking Vice President Kamala Harris over her teleprompter use, Donald Trump’s rally in Reno, Nevada, ground to a halt as he was was forced to fix his on-stage after a campaign sign fell on it.
Ariana Baio has the story.
Former president often mocks Kamala Harris for using a teleprompter
Vice President Kamala Harris could not come up with three virtues about former president Donald Trump when she was asked to do so on Thursday evening at a Univision town hall event.
The Democratic presidential nominee laughed upon hearing the question, posed by an audience member, and immediately shared a negative trait about Trump that she does not like.
Ariana Baio has the story.
Approaching the end of a contentious election year, Harris struggled to find positive qualities in here political opponent
Senator Raphael Warnock has responded to former President Barack Obama’s comments about support for Kamala Harris among Black men, after the former president stirred up something of a controversy on the left this week.
The former president directly called out Black male voters at Harris’s campaign rally in Pittsburgh, pointing to some national and state-level polling which shows a dropoff in Black support for Democrats in 2024, compared to past election cycles — including his own.
John Bowden reports.
Obama, nation’s first Black president, suggested Black men were uncomfortable supporting a woman for the White House
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco pushed back on Sunday against a statement from Vem Miller, a Las Vegas man arrested outside a Trump rally yesterday with illegal guns and fake ID documents.
Miller has claimed he wasn’t at the event to threaten Trump, while the sheriff maintains his department stopped a likely assassination plot.
“What we do know is he showed up with multiple passports with different names, an unregistered vehicle with a fake license plate, and loaded firearms,” Bianco said at a press conference.
“If you’re asking me right now, I probably did have deputies that did prevent the third assassination attempt. If we are that politically lost, that we have lost sight of common sense and reality and reason, that we can’t say, hold crap, what did he show up with all of that stuff and loaded guns, and I’m going to be accused of being dramatic? We have a serious, serious problem in this country.”
“I don’t know how else to explain it,” he added.
California officials provided additional information on Sunday about the arrest of a man at Donald Trump’s Coachella Valley rally yesterday who was potentially plotting to target the former president.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said at a press conference on Sunday that a man named Vem Miller was stopped by deputies as he attempted to pass through the inner security perimeter surrounding Trump’s rally.
Police said Miller’s SUV was in “disarray” with an “obviously fake” license plate, prompting deputies to investigate further. Upon further investigation, police found that Miller had multiple driver’s licenses and passports with different names, and possessed a loaded handgun and shotgun.
Sheriff Bianco said the markings on the license plate indicated Miller was part of “a group of individuals that claim to be ‘sovereign citizens.'”
Miller was booked on state gun charges, and Sheriff Biano said any further charges would likely come from federal officials.
Here’s our earlier report:
Suspect found with shotgun, handgun, and fake event passes, police said
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