Kamala Harris continues media blitz as Donald Trump’s campaign pushes back on new book’s allegations about relationship with Putin

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Vice president Kamala Harris continued her media blitz on Tuesday by appearing on ABC’s The View , being interviewed at length on Howard Stern’s radio show, and guesting on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

The attention seems to be paying off. The Democrat has taken a three-point lead in the latest New York Times/ Siena College national poll — the first time she has pulled ahead of Donald Trump in that survey.

One of Harris’s recent appearances, on the Call Her Daddy podcast, led to a mini-scandal for Republican senator John Kennedy, who was pilloried online for a comment about the interview which also suggested tampons are luxuries.

Meanwhile, former president Trump reportedly sent Vladimir Putin Covid-19 test kits at the height of the pandemic, according to a new book by veteran Watergate journalist Bob Woodward.

Elsewhere on the political front, federal officials say they’ve foiled an ISIS-inspired Election Day threat.

And finally, Melania Trump marked the release of her memoir with a rare live interview on The Five on Fox News, shortly after her husband attacked the network on Truth Social.

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What attracted Melania to celebrity ‘billionaire’ Trump?

Melania Trump has revealed the four qualities that first attracted her to her husband, the billionaire property tycoon turned former president turned 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

In the latest social media video promoting her new memoir Melania, the former first lady and model recalls the moment the couple first met in New York City in 1998.

Joe Sommerlad has the story.

Melania reveals the four qualities that first attracted her to ‘magnetic’ Trump

Former first lady describes ‘undeniable spark’ she felt when first introduced to Donald Trump in 1998

Oliver O'Connell9 October 2024 03:30

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‘Betrayed’: Melania reveals her feelings about plagiarism of Michelle Obama speech

Melania Trump has ruthlessly blamed the Trump campaign and singled out one particular staff member for the embarrassing scandal where she was accused of plagiarising Michelle Obama’s speech.

The former first lady, whose memoir Melania was released on Tuesday, revisits the controversy surrounding her 2016 speech at the Republican National Convention and says she felt “a profound sense of betrayal” by staff members over the saga.

Rhian Lubin has the story.

Melania says team ‘betrayed’ her with that Michelle Obama speech plagiarism scandal

In her memoir, Melania admits her 2016 RNC speech contained ‘undeniable similarities’ to Michelle Obama’s

Oliver O'Connell9 October 2024 02:30

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Report: Jan 6 prisoners Trump has vowed to free are becoming more radicalized inside jail

Prisoners charged with and convicted of crimes related to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, are reportedly growing more radical by being held together in a Washington, D.C., a harbinger of the dark mood around the 2024 election as top Republicans continue to deny or avoid the fact Trump lost the 2020 election and the former president himself has mused publicly in recent days that his supporters want him to “go after” his enemies.

Josh Marcus has the story.

Jan 6 prisoners Trump has vowed to free are getting radicalized inside jail

Prisoners also regularly communicate online with thousands of supporters on the outside

Oliver O'Connell9 October 2024 02:00

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Trump reportedly used wrong gender for Maine governor during rambling call

Donald Trump reportedly used the wrong gender pronoun for female Maine governor Janet Mills during a recent call with supporters, according to the Bangor Daily News.

“He wants to resettle 75,000 migrants into Maine. That’s only because [Biden and Harris] told him to do so,” Trump said on the call, according to a recording provided to the paper.

Here’s what Mills had to say in response.

Josh Marcus9 October 2024 01:55

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Trump’s war on ‘60 Minutes’ continues

Donald Trump is reportedly demanding 60 Minutes release an “unedited” transcript of its recent interview with Kamala Harris.

The former president has been fueding with the mainstay news program, after he reportedly dropped out of a planned election special interview because producers planned to fact-check his claims.

The Trump campaign, for its part, has claimed it never confirmed the interview, and Donald Trump has said he took issue with the questions from a 2020 interview he had on the show.

For more details, here’s Io Dodds’s recent piece on the matter.

Josh Marcus9 October 2024 01:52

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Trump falsely takes full credit for ‘$35 insulin’

In a Truth Social post on Tuesday, Donald Trump falsley claimed Kamala Harris is lying about helping secure low-cost insulin for seniors.

“I was the one who got the $35 Insulin, not Lyin’ Kamala,” Trump wrote. “I’ve never seen a group that lies so much.”

As the KFF health thinktank notes in a recent fact-check, both the Trump and Biden administration extended cost-protections on insulin for seniors using Medicare, with a more wide-reaching version of the initiative taking place under the current administration.

Josh Marcus9 October 2024 01:50

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Feds foil alleged Election Day attack

Federal prosecutors have accused a 27-year-old Afghan citizen of conspiring with ISIS and stockpiling weapons to launch an Election Day attack in the US.

Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was allegedly planning to liquidate his family’s assets and sell his family’s home, resettle family members overseas, and buy up AK-47 rifles and ammunition “to stage a violent attack in the United States in the name of and on behalf of ISIS,” according to court documents unsealed on Tuesday.

According to a criminal complaint, Tawhedi and a co-conspirator, who is a minor, met with an FBI informant in Oklahoma to buy two AK-47s, 10 magazines and 500 rounds of ammunition.

Alex Woodward reports.

Afghan national was planning ISIS-inspired attack on Election Day, prosecutors say

Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi planned to target large gatherings and die in the aftermath, according to FBI agents

Josh Marcus9 October 2024 01:48

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Republican senator slammed for implying tampons are a luxury

A Republican Senator from Louisiana ranted about Kamala Harris’s recent Call Her Daddy podcast appearance and in doing so insinuated that tampons are a luxury, and are not needed by Hurricane Helene victims.

Senator John Kennedy voiced his opinion on the necessity of women’s sanitary products during an appearance on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Monday. He was responding to Harris’s appearance on Alex Cooper’s mega-popular podcast over the weekend.

“The Vice President goes on some show called Call Her Daddy or Call Your Daddy or Who’s Your Daddy or something — Call Me Daddy, I like Who’s Your Daddy better — and among other things, she’s talking about tampons,” the senator said.

Call Her Daddy is the second most popular podcast on Spotify, boasting millions of listeners and second only to the Joe Rogan Experience. It’s unclear why the senator appeared surprised that women’s health was a topic of conversation between two women on a podcast whose audience is largely women.

Graig Graziosi has the story.

Republican senator slammed online for implying that tampons are a luxury

Senator John Kennedy voiced opinion on necessity of women’s sanitary products during Fox News appearance with Sean Hannity

Josh Marcus9 October 2024 01:42

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Elon Musk has no regrets over Kamala Harris assassination post

Elon Musk made it clear he has no regrets over his X post pondering why no one had tried to assassinate Kamala Harris or Joe Biden, when he sat down for an interview with Tucker Carlson on Monday night.

On Sunday, September 15, the CEO of X, Tesla and SpaceX sparked outrage when he responded to a social media post about the second alleged assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

Joe Sommerlad has the story.

Elon Musk makes it clear he’s got no regrets over Kamala Harris assassination post

’No one tries to assassinate a puppet,’ Musk tells Tucker Carlson

Oliver O'Connell9 October 2024 01:30

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DeSantis lashes out at Harris as they spar over Hurricane Milton: ‘It’s not about you Kamala!’

As Hurricane Milton bears down on the U.S, Florida governor Ron DeSantis has accused Kamala Harris of politicizing storm preparations, after the vice president called the Republican “selfish” for reportedly ignoring her calls.

“We’ve been on emergency footing around the clock, two weeks straight,” DeSantis told Fox News on Tuesday. “That’s been my sole focus. My focus has not been on dealing with Kamala Harris. I saw the news report. I didn’t know she tried to contact me. It’s not about you, Kamala. It’s about the people of Florida.”

Josh Marcus reports.

‘It’s not about you Kamala!’ DeSantis lashes out at Harris over Hurricane Milton

Spat comes as Florida braces for ‘once-in-a-lifetime storm’

Oliver O'Connell9 October 2024 01:00

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