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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris held dueling rallies in Milwaukee in the crucial state of Wisconsin on Friday evening
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With three days of campaigning to go in the 2024 race, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are making their final pitches in all of the key battleground states.
They both spent Friday evening hosting competing rallies in Wisconsin where they attempted to shore up support from voters in one of the “blue wall” states that could seal the deal for the Democratic Party on November 5.
Harris was joined by comedian Keegan-Michael Key and rapper Cardi B as well as a host of musical guests. Trump, whose speech was troubled by mic issues, was accompanied by Robert F Kennedy Jr and Republican lawmakers.
The final poll from The Times and YouGov finds that the vice president is set to narrowly win enough swing states to take the White House.
“We find that Kamala Harris very narrowly wins enough of those states to become America’s first female president,” Times US Assistant Editor David Charter said on Friday.
However, a Harris campaign official said they “fully expect” the former president to declare victory before all votes have been counted.
“It won’t work,” the official said during a press call.
“He did this before. It failed,” they added. “If he does it again, it will fail.”
Donald Trump’s first stint as commander-in-chief between 2017 and 2021 was anything but smooth sailing, with firings and acrimonious departures as much a feature of his administration as it was central to his hit NBC reality show The Apprentice.
And, the years that followed have also been eventful for the most notable characters from his presidency.
Some have ended up in prison or criminally charged in connection to their involvement with the former president.
Some have become his most vocal critics, sounding the alarm about the dangers of a second term.
Few are still on speaking terms with him.
Now, with the election, and therefore a possible Trump second term, just days away, here’s a reminder of some of the key figures in Trump’s first administration – and where they are now:
Few who served in his first administration are still on speaking terms with Trump – and some are openly hostile. Joe Sommerlad writes
Former president Donald Trump was “too undisciplined” in his first term and his “short” attention span kept him from remaining on message, The Wall Street Journal editorial board said in an op-ed on Thursday.
“Mr. Trump was too undisciplined, and his attention span too short, to stay on one message much less stage a coup,” the editorial board wrote.
For more than 95 years, WSJ has declined to formally endorse a presidential candidate but its editorial board released two op-eds this week on Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, laying out the pros and cons of each potential presidency.
Ariana Baio looks at what they said.
Newspaper published op-eds criticizing and praising Trump and Harris instead of endorsing a canidate
Rhian Lubin writes:
ith days to go until America decides who will become the next president, there are concerns among some US allies over one of the most important aspects of their relationship with the world’s most powerful nation — intelligence sharing.
While a Kamala Harris presidency is expected to fit into a more predictable pattern of intelligence handling, security experts say some US allies have more “anxiety” about the alternative: Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
The Independent spoke to experts in intelligence, national security, and foreign policy from the UK, Australia, and Canada on the implications of a second Trump term. They all agree that the stakes couldn’t be higher – and suggest that the Republican candidate’s track record when it comes to leaking secret information is one of their causes for concern.
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As the presidential race narrows, Rhian Lubin speaks to experts in intelligence, national security, and foreign policy from the UK, Australia, and Canada on the implications of a Trump second term
Votes cast for Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein in Ohio will not be counted despite her name appearing on the state’s ballot in Tuesday’s election after an appeals court panel denied her motion seeking to force the election chief to tally them.
The three-judge panel on the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday against her request for an injunction targeting Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose on Friday in a dispute over the person listed as her running mate on the ballot.
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Votes for Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein in Ohio will not be counted despite her name appearing on the ballot in Tuesday’s election
Kamala Harris is only the second woman to be a major party’s presidential candidate, following Hillary Clinton in 2016. But women have been trying to break this barrier for over a century. In 1872, Victoria Woodhull ran for president without the right to vote, and Belva Lockwood followed in the 1880s. By 1964, Margaret Chase Smith sought a major party nomination, and Shirley Chisholm became the first Black candidate to do so in 1972. In 2016, Clinton nearly became the first female president. Now, with Harris in the race, America might make history on November 5th.
John Bowden writes:
When election returns start coming in Tuesday evening, one group is certain to be in the spotlight: Black men.
For the past year, pollsters, pundits and political operatives have been hard at work spinning a narrative about Black voters, and younger men in particular. Those voters, many have warned, are increasingly turning away from the Democratic Party, which has enjoyed a massive advantage among Black voters for decades.
“Black men are rapidly abandoning the Democratic Party”, a triumphant headline declared on the website of the conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) earlier this year. That assertion was backed up by a poll from the NAACP in August, which found that as many as one in four young black male voters were considering voting for Donald Trump.
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Even former President Barack Obama lectured Black men for not ‘feeling’ the idea of a woman as president
The Republican Party is gearing up to support Donald Trump’s legal challenges to election results, again, by ensuring they have enough money to pay the bills – with more than $90 million raised so far.
Ariana Baio reports.
Former president spent millions in 2020 on legal challenges disputing election results
Former President Donald Trump launched a profanity-laden attack on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, calling the president a “stupid bastard” and the vice president a “sleazebag.”
Trump made the comments on Thursday night during a sitdown event with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in Glendale, Arizona.
Gustaf Kilander reports.
Former president slams Democratic rival for suggestion attendees leave his rallies out of exhaustion and boredom
Vice President Kamala Harris was once called a “childless cat lady” by Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance — a claim that the childfree community, her husband’s ex-wife, and even Jennifer Aniston have slammed as sexist.
It’s also just plain wrong. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee actually has two step-children thanks to her husband Doug Emhoff, whom she wed in 2014. Emhoff had two children, Ella and Cole Emhoff, with his first wife, Kerstin — and the pair affectionately refer to Harris as their “momala.”
“For over 10 years since Cole and Ella were teenagers, Kamala has been a co-parent with Doug and I,” Kerstin Emhoff told CNN. “I love our blended family and am grateful to have her in it.”
Here is what you need to know about Harris’s family.
The vice president isn’t a ‘childless cat lady’ — she’s ‘Momala’, according to her two stepkids
During a campaign stop in New Mexico, Donald Trump used the final moments of the 2024 election to continue spreading false claims, telling voters the previous two presidential votes in the state were “rigged.”
Albuquerque officials, meanwhile, were worried about a different count: the roughly $445,000 they say the Trump campaign still owes for a 2019 visit.
Josh Marcus reports.
Cities across the country say Trump campaign owes them hundreds of thousands of dollars for events dating back as far as eight years
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