The Latest: Harris visiting Nevada and Arizona while Trump speaks in Michigan
As Florida grapples with the consequences of Hurricane MiltonThe presidential campaigns in the US battleground states are still in full swing
Vice President Kamala Harris will attend a Univision town hall in Las Vegas on Thursday afternoon before heading to an evening meeting in Phoenix, while remaining in close contact with the White House and overseeing federal disaster response efforts.
Former President Donald Trumpmeanwhile, will speak at the Economic Club of Detroit after holding meetings in Pennsylvania on Wednesday.
But even in the midst of the hurricane, both the Harris and Trump campaigns are using their trips strategically, trying to boost support among key voting blocs that could decide an election that is expected to be extraordinarily close.
Former President Barack Obama will also be campaigning on Thursday evening, making his first appearance for Harris at a rally in Pittsburgh. That starts with what the Harris campaign says will be a series of campaign stops that Obama will make on behalf of the vice president.
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Here’s the latest:
Donald Trump says CBS should lose its broadcast license because of the way “60 Minutes” edited his interview with Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this week.
Trump, in a post on his social media site, accused the network of perpetrating a “gigantic Fake News Scam” after several CBS shows, “60 Minutes” and “Face the Nation,” with Harris giving different answers, an apparent result of the to process .
“TAKE AWAY THE CBS LICENSE. Election interference,” Trump denounced. “She is an idiot, and the Fake News Media wants to hide that fact.”
CBS did not respond to questions about the apparent discrepancies.
This isn’t the first time Trump has threatened to go after a network’s license.
He has said ABC deserved to lose theirs after moderating his debate with Harris, and has previously threatened NBC and CNN for reporting he didn’t like it.
The Harris campaign openly questioned Trump’s economic performance ahead of the Republican candidate’s speech in Detroit on Thursday, part of a broader effort to damage the former president’s credibility.
During a campaign-organized call with reporters, Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers, called Trump the “job killer-in-chief.” Despite Trump’s promises to bring back factory jobs, Fain said, “The reality is that Trump never brought back the squats.”
In 2000, Michigan had nearly 900,000 manufacturing jobs. That number almost halved after the 2008 financial crisis, before slowly recovering 633,900 jobs in 2018. But factory work in Michigan began collapsing in 2019 and then declined during the pandemic, all during Trump’s term. Labor Department data shows that manufacturing work in the state has still not fully recovered, with 604,800 jobs in the sector in August.