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'I hope Social Security's around': Trump rallygoer expresses fear of Project 2025

A supporter of Donald Trump said she feared Social Security would be degraded after being warned about Project 2025.

Ahead of a Tuesday Trump rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania, a woman named Chris expressed her fears to Right Side Broadcasting Network host Matt Kane.

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'Racist bile': Trump calls MSG rally a 'love fest' — critics call him 'trash'

Former President Donald Trump's description of his Madison Square Garden rally as a "love fest" stunned viewers who'd witnessed its racist jokes, misogynistic insults and the many comparisons made to another political event held in the event in 1939.

Trump spurred a new wave of outrage during his press conference at Mar-a-Lago Tuesday when he championed the love and beauty of an event that has the archbishop of San Juan demanding an apology.

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J.D. Vance claims Trump 'doesn't demean' people 'who aren't going to vote for him'

Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance insisted Tuesday that former President Donald Trump "doesn't demean" people who vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Vance ended a rally in Michigan by suggesting Trump was kinder to opponents than Harris.

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‘Confident’ Harris campaign says all swing states ‘in play’ in ‘extremely close’ race

In a rare move seven days before Election Day, the chair of the Harris campaign has released a video in an apparent effort to tamp down nervousness in the Democratic base.

Jen O'Malley Dillon told supporters, "we're on track to win a very close election," "we feel really good with what we're seeing," but "we still have a lot of work to do."

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'Just an outright lie': CNN anchor cuts Trump mic for epic fact check

Former President Donald Trump's press conference tirade Tuesday was cut short on CNN by an anchor compelled to challenge what he called multiple falsehoods and lies.

Jim Acosta muted Trump amid a lengthy rant delivered at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, and turned instead to CNN fact checker Daniel Dale for an analysis.

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'An absolute love fest': Trump defends racist and vulgar Madison Square Garden rally

Former President Donald Trump insisted that his rally at Madison Square Garden was a "love fest" despite racist and vulgar speeches given by his supporters.

At a last-minute press conference on Tuesday, Trump addressed criticism of Sunday's rally in New York City.

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'We're rooting for him': Jared Kushner opens up on why he and Ivanka have shunned campaign

Nearly two years ago when Donald Trump announced his third run for the presidency, his daughter and longtime adviser Ivanka Trump said that she would remain on the sidelines.

She's kept her word and barely made an appearance. She joined her dad at the GOP convention in July, and again at a Madison Square Garden rally this month. She also testified at her father's New York fraud trial, though that was not a campaign event.

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Bush's daughter Barbara endorses Harris in U.S. election

Barbara Bush, one of Republican former US president George W. Bush's daughters, has endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris in the razor-thin White House race and campaigned for her over the weekend, she told People magazine.

Bush, 42, spent part of the weekend knocking on doors for the vice president's campaign in Pennsylvania, considered one of the most crucial swing states that will decide the November election between Harris and Republican Donald Trump.

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‘Off-the-charts arrogance’: Joe Rogan pummeled for Harris campaign comment

Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver her "Closing Argument" speech Tuesday evening at the Ellipse—the same Washington, D.C. park where Donald Trump held his "Save America" rally telling supporters to march to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, ahead of the insurrection.

Before her 7:30 PM ET event, the Vice President will be giving five interviews, according to campaign spokesperson Ian Sams: "Battleground TV interviews in Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh + Spanish radio in Pennsylvania to reach Latinos, including Puerto Ricans."

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Trump more than an hour late to emergency press conference at his own house

Former President Donald Trump called a last-minute press conference at his Mar-a-Lago home but was over an hour late to the event.

Trump revealed the event following a firestorm of criticism over racist and vulgar language used at his Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday.

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'Now he's whining': Karl Rove slams Trump for complaining about being called 'fascist'

Republican strategist Karl Rove criticized former President Donald Trump for complaining about being called a fascist just days before the November election.

During a Tuesday appearance on Fox News, Rove said Vice President Kamala Harris had been wrong to focus on retired Gen. John Kelly's insistence that Trump was a fascist.

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'Don't know who he is': Trump passes blame as he refuses to denounce racist rally jokester

Former President Donald Trump refused Tuesday to denounce a campaign event comedian's comment that Puerto Rico is a "floating island of garbage," according to a new report.

Trump denied any responsibility for the racist and vulgar remarks Tony Hinchcliffe made at the former president's rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, ABC News reported.

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'Relentless chest-beating': Expert says Trump 'masculinity' spree reveals full-on panic

Former President Donald Trump's recent forays into contemplating Arnold Palmer's genitals and racist joke promotion represent dueling anxieties about manhood and his campaign's chances of victory, according to an expert on masculinity.

Jackson Katz — a scholar and activist who focuses on masculinity, politics and violence — spoke with Salon about male voters that Trump courted at a Madison Square Garden rally that featured Puerto Rico "garbage" jokes and the suggestion that Vice President Kamala Harris has pimps.

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