Trump wishes Harris a happy birthday during his stop at McDonald’s

Former President Donald Trump on Sunday wished Vice President Kamala Harris a happy birthday and joked that he would get her some McDonald’s french fries.

“It’s Kamala’s birthday? She’s 60 years old? Yes, I would say happy birthday, Kamala,” Trump said when asked by a reporter whether he wanted to say anything to the vice president on her birthday.

“I think I’ll get her some flowers. Maybe I’ll get her some fries. … I’ll get her a McDonald’s hamburger,” Trump joked after receiving a tutorial on how to work the french fry station at the restaurant.

Trump’s visit to the fast-food chain comes as has his fixation has grown around Harris’ past employment there, and the stop marked his latest attempt to sow doubt about the Democrat’s work history.

Emhoff and Walz wish Harris a happy 60th birthday

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz wished Vice President Kamala Harris a happy 60th birthday Sunday.

Emhoff, Harris’ husband, posted a video to his official White House account on X featuring photos of him and Harris and a brief message describing his role in their relationship.

In a message posted with the video, Emhoff wrote, “Happy birthday, honey. I love you so much, and I’ll always have your back.”

Emhoff said he plans to celebrate with Harris this evening after they both spend the day on the campaign trail. He said “if everything works out,” he’ll meet Harris, who spent the morning in Georgia mobilizing Black voters, in Philadelphia this evening, so the couple can “actually see each other for the first time in a week.”

Walz, Harris’ running mate, wrote in a social media post Sunday: “Happy Birthday, @KamalaHarris! Thank you for bringing compassion, decency, and joy to our politics. I’m honored to be in this fight with you, and I couldn’t be prouder to call you my friend.”

Trump works fry cooker and drive-thru window at McDonald's in Pennsylvania

Former President Donald Trump swapped his suit jacket for an apron to work the fry cooker and drive-thru window at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania on Sunday afternoon.

Trump’s visit to the fast-food chain comes as has his fixation has grown around Vice President Kamala Harris’ past employment there, and his visit to the restaurant marked his latest attempt to sow doubt about the Democrat’s work history.

Trump received a tutorial on how to work the fry station and then tried his hand at cooking the fries in oil and scooping them into the packaging. Trump then stood at the drive-thru window and handed customers bags of food.

“This is fun, I could do this all day. I wouldn’t mind this job,” Trump said.

Some background: A Harris campaign official previously told CNN that she worked at a McDonald’s in Alameda, California, during the summer of 1983 when she was a college student at Howard University in Washington, DC. She worked the register and manned the fry and ice cream machines, according to the official.

This post has been updated with additional information.

Trump expects Nikki Haley to join him on campaign trail

Former President Donald Trump said Sunday he expects his former GOP presidential opponent Nikki Haley to hit the campaign trail with him in the final stretch before Election Day.

“I think she is going to be,” Trump said when asked by a reporter if he wanted to see Haley on the campaign trail with him.

CNN has reported that Trump’s campaign is in talks with Haley to join him on the trail as he seeks to broaden his appeal among female voters, two sources familiar with the talks told CNN.

Vance encourages people to vote early at Packers' tailgate

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance swung by a Packers tailgate in Green Bay as he campaigns in Wisconsin, encouraging people to vote early and by mail in the final push to Election Day.

Vance continued, “If you can vote early, vote early. If you get your friends to vote early, vote early, vote by mail, do everything that we can.”

Earlier in the day, Vance made an unannounced stop at Kroll’s West sports bar in Green Bay, Wisconsin, serving beers ahead of the Packers’ game.

Sporting a Trump-Vance half-zip, Vance was greeted by loud cheers and chants of “J-D.”

“What percentage of the fans today are going to vote for Donald Trump?” Vance said as the bar cheered.

“That’s good,” Vance said. “I don’t know what the exact answer is, but it’s good.”

Trump says Harris should be investigated over "60 Minutes" interview, says he's going to subpoena CBS

Former President Donald Trump suggested that his opponent Vice President Kamala Harris should be investigated over her “60 Minutes” interview which he claims was grossly edited by CBS at the direction of the Harris campaign.

He suggested that he’s planning to “subpoena” CBS’ “records” to “see how much else did she do.”

Trump also repeated his false claims about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio. When Kurtz pointed out that his claims have been debunked by local officials, Trump said, “I don’t think it’s been debunked at all. I think nobody talks about it, except you.”

Trump stood by his comments that January 6, 2021, was a “day of love,” and insisted that “there was a beauty and love to it that I’ve never seen before” at the rally. He also falsely claimed that law enforcement was “ushering” protesters into the US Capitol that day.

Rep. Lawler criticizes inflammatory rhetoric on the campaign trail as he faces his own tight race

New York Rep. Mike Lawler urged political unity during a time of heightened party polarization and inflammatory rhetoric on the campaign trail, saying “all of the rhetoric needs to stop.”

Both Vice President Kamala Harris and ex-President Donald Trump have weaponized strong wording to criticize their political opponents on the trail. Harris agreed that Trump is “about fascism” in a recent podcast interview, and Trump called Democrats the “enemy from within.”

The Republican congressman said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that political division distracts from the “threats that are actually facing the United States” from countries like China, Russia and Iran.

Lawler is in a tight reelection race against former Democratic Rep. Modaire Jones in his Hudson Valley district as Republicans try to maintain their slim majority in the House.

Trump reiterates "enemy from within" comments, calls Schiff and Pelosi the "enemy"

Former President Donald Trump on Sunday repeated his “enemy from within” remarks, referring to California Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi as the “enemy.”

“Well, of course, he’s an enemy. He’s an enemy,” Trump said Sunday of Schiff in an interview on Fox News’ “MediaBuzz.”

In a previous interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, Trump had suggested using the military to handle what he called “the enemy from within” on Election Day, saying that he isn’t worried about chaos from his supporters or foreign actors, but instead from “radical left lunatics.”

In his interview on “MediaBuzz,” Trump argued that Schiff wanted to put his son, Donald Trump Jr., in jail over the findings from the 2016 Russia investigation – or “scam” as Trump called it. He falsely claimed that they were spying on his campaign.

“Think of how bad you have to be when you say you’re going to put any son, not just a president’s son, but any son. You’re going to put somebody in jail on a scam that you knew was made up by you. That’s an enemy from within,” he said.

Trump also called Pelosi an “enemy from within,” claiming that she had the opportunity to protect the US Capitol as house speaker on January 6, 2021.

CNN has previously fact checked these claims by Trump and found them to be false.

Trump’s closing pitch to voters begins with a lewd story about a Hall of Fame golfer

Donald Trump has pivoted to making his closing argument to voters heading into the final stretch of his race for the White House.

Or so his campaign said Saturday as the former president took the stage in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

But shortly after walking out to a pro wrestler’s entrance music, Trump swiftly veered into a rambling anecdote about the late Arnold Palmer, the golfing legend after whom the local airport was named. The story, which seemed to serve little purpose beyond invoking a regional icon and which lasted nearly 15 minutes, included tangents on Palmer’s immense wealth and several offhand remarks about the Hall of Famer’s naked body.

“Arnold Palmer was all man, and I say that in all due respect to women, I love women… This man was strong and tough, and I refused to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros they came out of there, they said ‘Oh my god. That’s unbelievable,’” Trump said.

The anecdote prompted one rallygoer to comment, “I didn’t expect to hear that tonight.”

Read more about Trump’s closing pitch here.

Harris attends church service in Georgia to mobilize early voting among Black voters

Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday delivered remarks at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, as part of a campaign push known as “souls to the polls” aimed at mobilizing early voting among Black voters.

The vice president detailed growing up in church, where she said she often attended Sunday school and sang in the choir.

Harris was dressed in a black suit and pink blouse in honor of the church’s “pink day” to raise awareness about breast cancer and reflected on her mother’s legacy as she highlighted the significance of attending Sunday’s service.

“As some of you may know, my mother was a breast cancer researcher. She was one of the very few women, and fewer even women of color, who was engaged in studying breast cancer, and she had two goals in her life, to raise her two daughters, my sister Maya and me, and to end breast cancer,” Harris said.

Trump focuses on the border and illegal immigration as his closing message in final weeks of campaign

Former President Donald Trump focused on the US-Mexico border and illegal immigration when asked in a SiriusXM interview this weekend about what his closing message was in the final stretch of the 2024 campaign.

“I happen to think that the biggest item is really going to be the border. It’s really the border. People, inflation is big, it’s horrible, it’s a country-buster and the economy and all of that but I happen to think that the border is going to be,” Trump said.

Trump has repeatedly said he thinks the border and illegal immigration is the most important issue this election.

Stoking fears about undocumented immigrants is a central part of Trump’s campaign message and he has ramped up his use of dehumanizing and degrading language of immigrants in the final stretch before Election Day.

He has vowed to conduct mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, as he highlights instances of violent crime committed by undocumented immigrants and promotes false and sensationalized claims about Venezuelan gang members taking over parts of Colorado and Haitian migrants eating pets.

Walz suggests Trump isn't persuading voters during Michigan union stop

Democratic vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz made the case that former President Donald Trump’s “floor and ceiling” for November’s presidential election are “about the same thing,” conceding that core Trump supporters will turn out for him in high numbers but arguing he is not persuading new voters to the same degree as Vice President Kamala Harris.

Walz told a few dozen supporters at a plumbers’ union hall in Saginaw, Michigan, on Sunday that he believes high early voting numbers are coming from “new voters” and people who support Harris, rather than Trump supporters, whom he portrayed in particularly evocative terms.

Walz also attacked Trump’s plan to increase tariffs, suggesting the plan would cause particular damage to rural farmers and business owners, and called Trump “a horrible businessman.”

“I was just talking to a friend of mine. His brother has a custom combining business or whatever, tariffs on that and tariff on farmers are absolutely destructive. And I keep coming back to this. Let’s just dispel the myth in its entirety, Donald Trump was a horrible businessman, and he knows nothing about business right now,” Walz said.

Speaker Johnson defends Trump's "enemy from within" remarks

House Speaker Mike Johnson repeatedly defended former President Donald Trump on Sunday in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, choosing to deflect or not to answer when pressed about Trump’s latest controversial comments such as his vulgar remarks about Arnold Palmer or his suggestion that he would use the military against the “enemy from within.”

In a back and forth with the speaker, Tapper asked whether Trump’s comments in Pennsylvania about the former pro golfer’s genitalia were the closing message Johnson wants voters to hear.

When pressed by Tapper about Trump’s cognitive state and fitness for office, Johnson rejected the idea that Trump was unfit for the presidency.

When asked about Trump’s suggestion to use the military against the “enemy from within” on Election Day, Johnson started by arguing that the former president was referring to criminal or transnational gangs.

“What he’s talking about is marauding gangs,” Johnson said.

But when Tapper pushed back, noting that Trump has described Democrats such as Rep. Adam Schiff as the “enemy from within,” Johnson said Trump was not talking about using the military on political opponents.

“I did not hear President Trump in that clip say he’s going to sic the military on Adam Schiff. That’s not what he’s saying,” Johnson said.

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Trump thrusts McDonald’s into the political arena in final days of campaign

Donald Trump is pulling one of the most iconic American companies – McDonald’s – into the political arena in the final days of his third White House bid.

The former president is expected to stop by one of the fast-food chain’s Pennsylvania franchises during his Sunday swing through the Keystone State. There, he plans to work as a fry attendant, CNN reported last week.

It’s the same job Vice President Kamala Harris has said she held as a young woman, a biographical detail revealed during her first campaign for president. It has since become a centerpiece of the middle class origin story she has made key to her pitch to voters as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

Trump, whose deep affection for the Golden Arches and its offerings is well documented, has meanwhile grown fixated on Harris’ employment there. In interviews and on the campaign trail, he regularly accuses Harris – without evidence – of making up the factoid. His visit to the restaurant is his latest attempt to sow doubt about the Democrat’s work history.

Read more about Trump and Harris’ relationship with the Golden Arches here.

Obama emphasizes "everything a president says is serious" to people excusing Trump's behavior

Former President Barack Obama on Saturday took people to task whom he said have “made excuses” for former President Donald Trump’s behavior as him being funny or unserious, arguing that “everything a president says is serious.”

Obama, who has been attempting to help Vice President Kamala Harris shore up support with Black men, said that he’s noticed this “especially among some men who seem to think Trump’s behavior of bullying people or putting them down is somehow a macho sign of strength.”

“That’s what we should want in our sons and our daughters. That’s what I want to see in the president of the United States,” he added.

Harris defends strategy shift to sharpen attacks on Trump

Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday said the shift in her campaign strategy to sharpen attacks on former President Donald Trump in recent days is because “he’s becoming increasingly unstable and unhinged.”

“He’s becoming increasingly unstable and unhinged, and it requires that response. I think the American people are seeing it,” Harris said to reporters in Detroit when asked about ramping up attacks on Trump.

Ahead of a get-out-the-vote event in Michigan, Harris praised the recent record early voting in battleground Georgia as she encouraged voters to cast ballots ahead of Election Day.

“I think it’s great that people are turning out and voting and being active,” she said, adding that Americans should all want people to understand “their civic duty but also that they can make a difference.”