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He Said, She Said: Trump Returns to Butler, Harris Defends Her Family
Date • 2024-10-08 349With less than a month to go until Election Day, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris just have a few weeks left to sway voters. Trump over the weekend returned to Butler, Pennsylvania, nearly three months after the assassination attempt there. He also campaigned in Juneau, Wisconsin. Harris visited Charlotte, North Carolina, for an update on relief efforts after Hurricane Helene and participated in a podcast interview that aired Sunday. HE SAID/SHE SAID Trump Talks Voting ‘Mandate’ and American Dream “We need, and I hate to use this word because they should have never done it with respect to COVID, they should have never done it, but for this, we need a mandate,” Trump said at the rally in Juneau. “But we need a mandate in the vote, and we’re going to get it.” “One month – we’ve got to get there. They’ll still drop all sorts of bombs. They’ll be hitting you, JD, they’ll be hitting me,” Trump said of his running mate Ohio Sen. JD Vance during the rally in Butler. “These people, they’ll hit and hit, but I think we’ve almost become immune to it, haven’t we? We’ve become immune to it.” Trump said that if he wins next month, “we’re going to have the American dream. So every kid in your family is going to grow up and say, ‘I want to be like Elon Musk. I want to have, I want to have $200 billion in cash. I’m going to be like Elon Musk.’ That’s the American dream.” Harris Defends Family: ‘This Is Not the 1950s Anymore’ “I’ve been seeing and hearing the stories from here in North Carolina about strangers who are helping each other out, giving people assistance in every way that they need, including shelter, food, and friendship and fellowship,” Harris said in Charlotte. “This is not the 1950s anymore,” Harris said on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast when asked about comments from Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders that appeared to suggest that Harris wasn’t humble because she doesn’t have biological children. “Families come in all kinds of forms.” (Huckabee Sanders said in a statement on Sunday that she “would never criticize a woman for not having children.”) “I don’t think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who, one, are not aspiring to be humble. Two, a whole lot of women out here who have a lot of love in their life, family in their life, and children in their life,” Harris said. Today on the Trail Both Harris and Trump will deliver remarks to mark the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff “will plant a memorial tree on the grounds of the Vice President’s Residence in honor of the victims and deliver remarks,” according to the White House. Trump will deliver remarks in Miami at an Oct. 7 remembrance event. Additionally, a “60 Minutes” election special with Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will air Monday night at 8 p.m. Trump declined an invitation to participate. Walz will also appear on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” for his first late night interview.