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'This is not normal': Internet erupts as Trump blames illegal immigration for fly on stage

A small fly stole Donald Trump's thunder at the former president's rally on Saturday, causing him to rant about how things wouldn't have been like this years ago.

Trump spoke at an indoor rally in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, where at one point he called Vice President Kamala Harris "a mentally disabled person." Trump would later blame Harris for having to host the event in a "small arena."

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'She was born that way': Trump says at rally Kamala Harris is a 'mentally disabled person'

Donald Trump on Saturday called Vice President Kamala Harris a "mentally disabled person" at a rally in Wisconsin.

Trump, delivering remarks in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, said over the weekend that President Joe Biden "became mentally impaired."

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Watch: Trump speaks in Wisconsin after outdoor rally abandoned

Donald Trump will address his faithful followers at an indoor arena in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin at a smaller venue than originally planned due to Secret Service concerns. at 3:30ET.

The former president has ramped up appearances in the so-called battleground states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan as new polling shows Vice President Kamala Harris taking a slight lead in the closely contested presidential race.

The former president had originally slated a rally at a Wisconsin airport on Saturday, but those plans were tossed out when the Secret Service stated it did not have the manpower on the same weekend that foreign dignitaries were flooding New York City for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.

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According to a statement from the beleaguered Secret Service, "Our personnel and equipment are being pushed to their limits to sustain the current operational tempo. This proposed Wisconsin event also took place during the United Nations General Assembly, where the Secret Service is responsible for the safety and security of over 140 world leaders amid a challenged global threat level."

You can watch Trump address his MAGA supporters below:

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Media exec ‘extremely concerned’ not enough focus on possible third-party spoiler

Media executive Tom Rogers said Friday night that Vice President Kamala Harris “has the momentum” to defeat Donald Trump in November’s “tight race,” but warned that “there is not enough focus” on the possibility that a third-party candidate could derail the race for the Democrats.

Rogers, editor-at-large of Newsweek and founder of MSNBC and CNBC, told host Stephanie Ruhle on “The 11th Hour” Friday that while he believes that the former president’s poll numbers have “a ceiling,” the only way Trump wins the presidency “is if there is somebody on the ballot who takes his opponent down below 50%.”

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'You've done nothing for 11 years!' Shouting erupts on CNN after Harris' speech

Two CNN panelists tried to talk over each other Friday night during a passionate discussion over Vice President Kamala Harris' speech at the Arizona border.

Harris delivered the speech in Douglas, Arizona, and focused on border security and illegal immigration. Despite indicating in the past that unlawful border crossing ought to be a civil offense, Harris vowed to push for harsher criminal penalties for repeat border crossers and give the Justice Department more resources to target transnational gangs. She also pledged to revive a bipartisan border security bill once torpedoed by former President Donald Trump.

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'Off the charts extraordinary': Strategist heaps praise on Harris after border speech

Vice President Kamala Harris’ speech Friday night for her first campaign trip to the border was welcomed as a homerun by a Democratic strategist who said it “is why Kamala Harris is going to win this election on November 5.”

“That thing was off the charts extraordinary,” said Fernand Amandi, a Democratic pollster and strategist. “She gave a serious speech that didn’t sound like open borders advocacy. She said ‘I’m a responsible leader. I’m going to solve this problem.'”

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Harris speech was 'tough on the border without being terrible to people': CNN commentator

Vice President Kamala Harris' "gamble" of a border speech in Arizona earned praise from a former Obama administration adviser even as the panel's Republican strategist cast doubt on the speech's effectiveness.

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper noted some called Harris's speech Friday night a "gamble" that will bring attention to her and the Biden administration's record on the border.

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'They are leaving': Harris taunts Trump with video of people leaving his rally as he rants

Vice President Kamala Harris had a snappy retort to former President Donald Trump's rambling rant on his ability to draw and keep a crowd.

Minutes after Trump declared during a Walker, Michigan, campaign event that "nobody ever leaves" his rallies, Harris' campaign took to X with a rebuttal.

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'These stupid people': Crowd-obsessed Trump throws staffers under the bus

Former President Donald Trump threw his campaign staff under the bus amid a rambling rant that touched on airplane delays, "little" Hurricane Helene, the importance of wealthy people and the size of his crowds.

Trump delivered an hour-long speech during a campaign rally in Walker, Michigan, Friday afternoon during which he argued — despite taunts from Vice President Kamala Harris and multiple videos and reports from outside his campaign events — that no one ever left early.

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'Pretty cheap stuff': Expert hammers Trump Watch in scathing analysis

A luxury watch expert tried to take former President Donald Trump's new line of timepieces seriously — and almost immediately failed.

Oisín O Malley, UX designer and a prominent watch reviewer on YouTube, took Trump's newly announced $100,000 Tourbillon gold watch to figurative pieces in a 15-minute review in which he repeatedly broke out laughing.

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MAGA fan cites 'yard signs' and 'Facebook' to predict Trump election win

One of Donald Trump's fans cast doubt on polling that shows Kamala Harris narrowly edging him out.

A reporter from the right-wing Newsmax network interviewed supporters outside a rally in Warren, Michigan, where a MAGA hat-wearing fan who identified himself as Brent from Trenton cited some anecdotal data to contradict nationwide polls.

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Trump accused of pledging 'fealty' in meeting with Vladimir Putin

During an MSNBC "Morning Joe" segment on how closely the future of Ukraine is tied to the election of either Vice President Kamala Harris or Donald Trump in November, co-host Joe Scarborough accused the former president of being in the pocket of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.

After sharing clips of Trump disparaging Ukraine for fighting back against the Russian invasion and claiming the war "didn't need to happen," The MSNBC host took his shot at the former president by citing a secretive and controversial meeting between Trump and Putin in 2018.

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'The reporting has to be truthful': Morning Joe buries the NY Times over Harris coverage

With new polling showing Vice President Kamala Harris maintaining leads over Donald Trump in more than a handful of battleground states, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough singled out the New York Times for its NYT/Sienna polling that continually seems at odds with other polls — and is always bad for Vice President Kamala Harris.

After sharing new polling from Bloomberg News/Morning Consult that should concern Harris' opponent, Donald Trump, the "Morning Joe" host brought up the Times and its outlier polling.

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