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November 3, 2024 at 9:45 pm #44983Sandy PhillipsParticipant
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has given a profane and conspiracy-laden speech two days before the presidential election, as his Democratic rival Kamala Harris spoke at a historically Black church in the battleground state of Michigan.
Opinion polls show the pair locked in a tight race, with Vice President Harris, 60, bolstered by strong support among women voters while former President Trump, 78, gains ground with Hispanic voters, especially men.
In remarks on Sunday that bore no resemblance to his standard speech in the campaignâs closing stretch, Trump spoke about reporters being shot and suggested he âshouldnât have leftâ the White House after his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden.
The former president also resurrected old grievances about being prosecuted after trying to overturn his defeat four years ago.
Trump intensified his verbal attacks against a âgrossly incompetentâ national leadership and the American media, steering his Pennsylvania rally at one point onto the topic of violence against members of the press.
In a meandering 90-minute rally speech two days before Tuesdayâs US presidential election, Trump noted gaps in the glass panes around him.
The former president has survived two attempted assassinations this year, including being grazed in the ear by a gunmanâs bullet during a July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Surveying the gaps, Trump said: âTo get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news and I donât mind that so much.â
Unrestrained rhetoric
His rhetoric has become increasingly unrestrained in the campaignâs final weeks.
Arizonaâs top prosecutor on Friday opened an investigation after Trump suggested prominent Republican critic and former congresswoman Liz Cheney should face gunfire in combat.
He said Cheney would not be willing to support foreign wars if she had ânine barrels shooting at herâ.
Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung issued a statement after the media remarks on Sunday, saying Trump was looking out for the mediaâs safety.
âThe presidentâs statement about protective glass placement has nothing to do with the media being harmed or anything else. It was about threats against him that were spurred on by dangerous rhetoric from Democrats,â the statement said.
Trump spent a considerable amount of his speech attacking the news media at the rally, at one point gesturing to TV cameras and saying, âABC, itâs ABC, fake news, CBS, ABC, NBC. These are, these are, in my opinion, in my opinion, these are seriously corrupt people.â
Harris in Michigan
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, meanwhile, told a Michigan church congregation on Sunday that God offers America a âdivine plan strong enough to heal divisionâ.
The two candidates offered starkly different tones with the campaign almost at an end, as Harris said voters can reject âchaos, fear and hateâ.
She concentrated on Michigan, beginning the day with a few hundred parishioners at Detroitâs Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ. It marked the fourth consecutive Sunday that Harris, who is Baptist, has spoken to a Black congregation, reflecting how critical Black voters are across multiple battleground states.
âI see faith in action in remarkable ways,â she said in remarks that quoted the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah. âI see a nation determined to turn the page on hate and division and chart a new way forward. As I travel, I see Americans from so-called red states and so-called blue states who are ready to bend the arc of history toward justice.â
She never mentioned Trump, though sheâs certain to return to her more conventional partisan speech in stops later Sunday. But Harris did tell her friendly audience that âthere are those who seek to deepen division, sow hate, spread fear and cause chaos.â
The election and âthis moment in our nation,â she continued, âhas to be about so much more than partisan politics. It must be about the good work we can do together.â
After her Detroit appearance, Harris was due to head to East Lansing, Michigan, a college town in an industrial state that is viewed as a must-win for the Democrat.
Trump was due to speak in Kinston, North Carolina, before ending his day with an evening rally in Macon, Georgia.
Of the seven US states seen as competitive, Georgia and North Carolina are the second-biggest prizes up for grabs on Tuesday, with each holding 16 of the 270 votes a candidate needs to win in the state-by-state Electoral College to secure the presidency. Pennsylvania is first with 19 electors.
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