As Florida faced its second major hurricane in two weeks, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, Criticized Donald Trump Spreading an “Onslaught of Lies” about how the federal government is handling the damage from Hurricane Helen. Hurricane Biden Milton — which the president previously said “looks like the storm of the century” — is on the verge of making landfall in Florida.
“Quite frankly, these lies are un-American,” Biden said from the White House. “Former President Trump led the onslaught of these lies.”
Biden said Donald Trump and his allies have misrepresented the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) response and resources. The president singled out the Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Green In Georgia, the federal government said it could control the weather.
Republican congressmen representing areas devastated by Hurricane Helen joined Biden in condemning him. About the storm of denial and the government's response to the misinformation and conspiracy theories spread by Trump and his supporters. Chuck EdwardsThe member of North Carolina's 11th District contradicted criticism from Trump and others, praising the Biden administration's handling of the disaster for “a level of support unmatched by any other disaster across the country.”
Trump He kept his campaign schedule even as the storm threatened to overshadow the presidential race with fears of catastrophic damage to Tampa and other parts of Florida's Gulf Coast. She offered her prayers to those in Milton's path, while insulting her rival and other women – saying she had no interest in stopping women voters even if it did.
“I don't want to be nice,” Trump said in Scranton, a key battleground state in his first two rallies in Pennsylvania. “You know, somebody said, 'You've got to be good. Women don't like it.' I said, 'I don't care.'
Trump Hours after Fox News invited the two presidential contenders to participate in a second debate on Oct. 24 or Oct. 27, he announced that he would not debate Harris again before the election. “There will be no more,” Trump said on his Truth Community site. “So there is no debate.”
Vice President and Democratic Party Candidate, Kamala Harris, She flew into the swing state of Nevada with six Electoral College votes, but first attended a presentation on the federal response to the storm and Biden at the White House.
In an interview with CNN, Harris Condemning Trump's comments on aid, he said, “It's dangerous — obviously, anyone who thinks they're a leader is going to mislead a desperate people, and those desperate people won't get the help they need.”
Harris's assistant, Tim WallsIn the meantime, the Electoral College system should be put to an end and replaced by a popular vote system. He made his comments in the audience at a party fundraiser. While most American voters favor abolishing the Electoral College, Harris has not taken a position on the matter.
Walls had previously made similar comments at a separate event in Seattle, where he called himself “a national popular vote guy” while qualifying that “that's not the world we live in.”
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The FBI arrested an Afghan man who planned a plot inspired by the Islamic State terrorist group. Election Day Attacks Target Large Crowds in America Department of Justice said. Nazir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of Oklahoma City, told investigators after his arrest Monday that he planned the attack to coincide with Election Day in November and that he and a co-conspirator would die as martyrs, according to charging documents.
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With less than three weeks until Election Day, the Harris campaign and Democrats had $404 million in cash to the Trump campaign's $295 million.. The Harris campaign and organizations supporting him have raised $1bn in donations since he launched his presidential campaign in July. The pull, confirmed to Reuters by a source familiar with the vice president's fundraising, went to his campaign, the Democratic National Committee and backs backing his run. Trump has raised about $853 million in 2024, according to a New York Times tally of public campaign reports.
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The Florida Department of Health sent cease and desist letters to local news stations An ad urging people to vote in favor of a ballot measure – an issue voted on by people in a given state on Election Day – in a state that expands abortion rights.
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A judge has ruled that three voting rights groups seeking to reopen voter registration in Georgia did not prove that Internet and power outages caused by Hurricane Helen unfairly deprived people of the opportunity to register. He set another hearing for Thursday to consider evidence and legal arguments. Georgia's presidential race in 2020 was decided by only 12,000 votes. State officials and the state Republican Party argue that requiring additional voter registration would be too burdensome for counties.
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In-person voting began in Arizona on Wednesday. It's the first of the presidential battleground states this year where all residents can vote at a traditional polling place before Election Day. Biden beat Trump in the state in 2020 by just 10,457 votes. Early voting, especially by mail, has long been popular in Arizona, where nearly 80% of voters submitted their ballots before Election Day in 2020, according to the Secretary of State's office.
