Harris and Trump campaign clash over immigration, abortion

WASHINGTON — With seven weeks until Election Day, the campaign machines of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are targeting Black and Gen Z demographics, rural voters and conservative Christians with events and rallies. Attracting coveted voters in battleground states.

The Trump campaign set its sights on Michigan on Tuesday as the former president prepared to hold an evening town hall in Flint, his first event since the second apparent assassination attempt Sunday, his life, this time on a golf course in Florida.

Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, spoke Tuesday afternoon at a rally in a barn in Sparta, Miss., north of Grand Rapids, where he again spoke about living in Ohio. Haitian immigrants in Springfield. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians live legally in the United States with temporary protected status.

Vance said the immigrants were “primarily from Hatia and had been sent to Springfield” and mispronounced the Caribbean country’s name.

Trump and Vance continue to face tough challenges review A lie was spread that Haitian immigrants in town had been eating pet cats and dogs. Trump made the allegation during an appearance on ABC News last Tuesday debate Attracted 67 million viewers.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine Monday Already ordered State police will clear out Springfield schools, which have been the target of multiple bomb threats since Springfield came into the national spotlight.

Event seeks media attention

Vance answered several questions from local reporters in Michigan on Tuesday and said he was doing so to distinguish himself from Harris, whom he accused of fearing the “friendly American press corps.”

Vance commented less than an hour ago Harris sits down for public discussion A three-person panel from the National Association of Black Journalists in Philadelphia. Trump’s interview with the association in July became infamous for his remarks. explain Harris “happened to be black” during her political career.

Both campaigns have been seeking news media exposure.

Harris sat for a while One to one Friday with the ABC affiliate in Philadelphia. On the same day, Trump host Press conference at Trump National Golf Course in Los Angeles.

Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, arrived in central Georgia on Tuesday, where he taped a WMAZ-TV interview with a local news anchor in Macon and spoke with one of the campaign’s field offices talked to the staff.

Harris-Walz’s Georgia operations include 28 offices and more than 200 employees, according to the campaign.

Fried chicken biscuits and tax breaks

According to reporters traveling with him, Walz stopped at the historic H&H Soul Food restaurant in Macon and ordered a biscuit with fried chicken, bacon jam and pimento cheese.

Walz used Harris’ platform at the restaurant to simplify small business taxes and provide a $50,000 tax break for start-up costs.

He also joined the campaign in Atlanta before heading to Asheville, North Carolina, for a rally Tuesday night.

Earlier Tuesday, the Harris campaign issued a statement in response to ProPublica Report Amber Nicole Thurman, 28, died in Georgia because she was unable to access emergency care under the state’s strict abortion ban.

“This young mother should be alive, raising her son and pursuing her dream of attending nursing school,” Harris said in the statement. “That’s exactly what we feared when Roy was struck down.”

When asked about ProPublica’s reporting earlier Tuesday, Vance said he “would like to know more” about Thurman’s death.

“I’ve never spoken to a pro-life person who doesn’t believe in an exception to cover this exact situation,” Vance told a local Michigan reporter.

Six states have enacted abortion bans that do not include health exceptions, according to KFF Health News’ Abortion Law Tracker.

Monday night, Vance Tell At the Georgia Faith and Freedom Victory Dinner in Atlanta, an audience member considered the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2021 decision to overturn Roe, which established federal abortion rights, a “victory.”

“I stand here as the vice presidential candidate to say that the Republican Party is proud to be the party of pro-life and pro-family,” Vance said. “I stand here as the vice presidential candidate on health and newborn expenses.”

Trump joined his sons to promote his new cryptocurrency venture during an interview on social media platform X on Monday night. unveiling On Monday, a cryptocurrency company called World Liberty Financial.

youth voters

Harris campaign marks national voter registration day On Tuesday, a so-called “popular mobilization” was launched to appeal to young voters.

The campaign plans to commission celebrities, influencers and organizers to attend college campuses, basketball tournaments and “bracelet-making events” – an apparent nod to Swiftie’s friendship bracelets following last week’s endorsement by pop star Harris.

Organizers expect a “targeted presence” at historically black colleges and universities and Hispanic-serving institutions.

Pop singer Billie Eilish and her songwriter brother Phineas O’Connell took to social media Tuesday to support the vice president and urged their followers to visit the Democratic Party’s IWillVote.com platform.

The campaign also deployed other celebrities to reach college students: actress Jane Fonda and celebrity scientist Bill Nye.

east coast stops

The campaign continues at full speed Wednesday, with candidates and their surrogates making stops across the eastern United States

Harris will speak at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus leadership meeting in Washington, D.C., and Trump will hold an evening rally in Uniondale, New York. Vance will speak in the afternoon in Raleigh, North Carolina. Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will speak at a campaign event in New York City.