2024 election updates: Trump rides to rally in marked garbage truck
2024 election updates: Trump rides to rally in marked garbage truck
    Posted on 10/31/2024
Vice President Kamala Harris seized an opportunity to criticize former President Donald Trump on abortion after the Republican presidential nominee told a rally Wednesday night that he would protect women "whether the women like it or not."

"Donald Trump thinks he should get to make decisions about what you do with your body," Harris wrote on X. "Whether you like it or not."

Harris's campaign clipped Trump's comments and edited it into a loop with a split screen of headlines about Trump saying "he could prosecute women for abortions," "might monitor pregnancies" and other abortion-related headlines.

-ABC News' Fritz Farrow, Gabriella Abdul-Hakim and Will McDuffie

Vice President Kamala Harris commented late Wednesday night on the promises former President Donald Trump has allegedly made to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

"Putting an anti-abortion conspiracy theorist in charge of our public health agencies says everything you need to know about how Donald Trump would govern," Harris wrote on X.

"He is more unhinged than ever, and if he wins, he'll have no one to hold him back."

Trump said Sunday of RFK Jr.: "I'm going to let him go wild on health, I'm going to let him go wild on the food, I'm going to let him go wild on medicines."

In response, Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said, "No formal decisions about cabinet and personnel have been made, however, President Trump has said he will work alongside passionate voices like RFK Jr. to make America healthy again."

-ABC News' Will McDuffie, Kelsey Walsh, Soo Rin Kim and Lalee Ibssa

Vice President Kamala Harris held another get-out-the-vote rally in Madison, Wisconsin, Wednesday, joined by musical stars including Mumford and Sons, The National's Matt Berninger, Gracie Abrams and Remi Wolf.

Harris applauded the audience -- many of whom were young first-time voters -- for using their "power."

"You grew up with active shooter drills, are fighting to keep our schools safe," Harris said. "You will now know fewer rights than your mothers and grandmothers," the vice president added.

"What I know about you is these issues are not theoretical," Harris continued. "This is not political for you. This is your lived experience. And I see you and I see your power. I see your power, and I am so proud of you."

Harris largely stuck to her usual stump speech, contrasting herself to former President Donald Trump by pledging that as president she won't be looking to "score political points," but to "make progress."

-ABC News' Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, Fritz Farrow and Will McDuffie

Following his press conference in a garbage truck, former President Donald Trump held a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin – still opting to sport his new orange safety vest.

He stuck to his stump speech heavily focused on immigration and the economy, he also made an appeal to women repeating he will be their "protector."

Trump suggested that his campaign advised him to not say he’ll protect women, but he disagreed.

“We think it's very inappropriate for you to say,” Trump said his campaign told him.

"I said, 'Why, I'm president. I want to protect the women of our country.' They said, 'Sir, I just think it's inappropriate for you to say,'" Trump explained.

"Well, I'm going to do it. Whether the women like it or not, I'm going to protect them," Trump told the crowd. "I'm going to protect them from migrants coming in. I'm going to protect them from foreign countries that want to hit it, hit us with missiles and lots of other things."

"I'm going to defend and I'm going to protect women. I'm not going to let people go up to the suburbs or go into places where they live, whether it's suburbs or cities or farms. We're going to protect our women, at the border, we're going to protect our women, and also we're going to protect our men and our children. We're going to protect everybody."

Trump then asked the crowd: “Is there any woman in this giant stadium who would like not to be protected? Is there any woman in this stadium that wants to be protected by the president?”

The moment was met with a large applause.
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