With just over two weeks to go until the 2024 presidential election and the race reaching a dead end, Donald Trump And Kamala Harris go on campaign in strategic battlegrounds.
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Donald Trump went to a barbershop in the Bronx section of New York for a segment with commentator Lawrence Jones that aired Monday on ‘Fox & Friends.”
He answered questions from company customers about immigration, energy and taxes. The barbers wore a black shirt with the text ‘Make Barbers Great Again’.
One of the clients asked Trump if it would be possible to eliminate federal taxes once he generated enough revenue from some of his proposals.
“There is a way. There is a way,” Trump said, adding that people in the 1890s did not have to pay income taxes.
The business owner, who rents the building, told him his biggest challenge was paying his utility bill, which had increased from $2,100 to $15,000 in the past seven months.
“What?” Trump said. “How many heads can you take care of? That’s a lot.”
Trump asked how much average haircuts cost and how much they had increased. He was told they had risen from a range between $12 and $15 to between $30 and $40.
Near the end of the visit, Trump told the men: “You are the same as me. It’s the same stuff. We were born the same way.”
For Rona Kaufman, there are signs everywhere that more Jews feel abandoned by the Democratic Party and may vote for Republicans Donald Trump.
It’s in her Facebook feed. It’s in the discomfort she perceived during a Q&A at a recent Democratic Party campaign event in Pittsburgh. It runs in her own family.
“The family of my generation and older generations, I don’t think anyone is voting for Harris, and we’ve never voted Republican,” Kaufman, 49, said, referring to Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. “My sister has a Trump sign outside her house, and that’s a huge change.”
How big of a shift? Surveys continue to show that most Jewish voters still support the Democratic ticket, and Kaufman acknowledges that she is an exception.
Yet any shift can have enormous consequences Pennsylvaniawhere tens of thousands of votes decided the past two presidential elections. Many Jewish voters say the 2024 presidential election will be remembered unlike any other, amid Hamas’ growing fallout brutal attack about the Israelis last year.
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