Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox
Get our free Inside Washington email
Get our free Inside Washington email
Donald Trump delivered a garbled speech to the Economic Club of New York on Thursday in which he was stumped by a simple question about how to make childcare more afforable for American families, delivering a meandering, nonsensical answer that invited derision.
At the same event, the Republican presidential nominee again joked about relocating to Venezuela, praised North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, dismissed the threat posed by climate change, suggested Elon Musk could oversee “drastic” government efficiency cuts and told his audience of financiers: “A couple of nukes and your bank doesn’t mean a thing.”
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris’s campaign raised more than $361 million last month, nearly triple the $130 million that Trump’s campaign raised in the same period.
The vice president’s campaign claimed it was the most successful grassroots fundraising month in presidential history. Harris and her running mate Tim Walz now have roughly $400 million in cash on hand, their campaign said. Trump and JD Vance, meanwhile, have $295 million.
Harris is also pulling ahead of Trump in polls. The vice president has a 3.1-point lead over the former president, according to the latest average of national polls.
In pictures: Protesters gather outside courthouse as Trump attended E Jean Carroll appeal
Katie Hawkinson6 September 2024 15:59
New poll shows Latinos really don’t like JD Vance
Here’s Eric Garcia on a new survey that suggests Trump’s Yale hillbilly running mate is box office poison among the Latino community, who have, in the past, looked favorably upon the New Yorker himself despite his less-than-enlightened remarks about Central America.
Joe Sommerlad6 September 2024 15:45
Trump’s lawyers argue he should not pay E Jean Carroll $5 million
Donald Trump’s legal team is in court today, arguing the former president should not have to pay the $5 million judgment awarded to E Jean Carroll after a jury found him liable for sexually assaulting and defaming her.
John Sauer, Trump’s attorney, is arguing that the case was based on “highly inadmissible evidence.” Typically, federal appeals courts defer to district courts to determine evidence – which already happened.
Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan argued that, despite the high-profile nature of the case, it “really just involves the routine application of the rules of evidence.”
Kaplan also clarified to the circuit judges that she is “not related” to Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw the case, “nor is he my mentor.” This is a reference to Trump’s lawyers trying to allege she had a conflict of interest.
Ariana Baio, Katie Hawkinson6 September 2024 15:32
Harris rebukes JD Vance for calling school shootings a ‘fact of life’ in response to deadly Georgia attack
Read more:
Rhian Lubin6 September 2024 15:30
Trump appeals $5 million award to E Jean Carroll
Today, Donald Trump’s lawyers will ask a federal appeals court to overturn a $5 million jury verdict finding him liable for sexually assaulting and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of raping her nearly three decades ago.
Trump is expected to attend today’s oral arguments, which will be held at the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan.
The former president currently owes Carroll more than $88 million in damages, awarded across two cases.
Watch The Independent’s live view from outside the courthouse:
– YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
Katie Hawkinson6 September 2024 15:00
Harris nearly triples Trump fundraising in August
Kamala Harris’s campaign raised $361 million in August, nearly triple Donald Trump’s $130 million over the same period.
Now, Harris’s campaign has more than $400 million in cash on hand going into September, while Trump’s campaign has just under $300 million. Harris’s campaign claimed their August fundraising totals beat the record for the most successful month of grassroots fundraising in presidential history.
Each candidate will likely spend more than $1 billion for this election, Reuters reports, citing regulatory filings.
Katie Hawkinson6 September 2024 14:43
North Carolina judge rejects RFK Jr’s request to remove his name from state ballots
Wake County Superior Court Judge Rebecca Holt refused to take Robert F Kennedy Jr’s name off presidential ballots in the battleground state yesteday, with the first batches of November absentee ballots slated to be sent to registered voters who requested them on Friday.
Here’s more on a situation that has the potential to cause trouble for Trump, who had hoped to pick up all of RFK Jr’s support in the wake of his dropping out.
Joe Sommerlad6 September 2024 14:30
Stephen Colbert mocks JD Vance for awkwardly grabbing woman’s fist bump
Here’s Myriam Page with the latest from late-night.
Joe Sommerlad6 September 2024 13:55
‘Nostradamus of polling’ says Harris will win presidential race
Allan Lichtman, the American political historian known as the “Nostradamus of presidential predictions”, has officially declared that Kamala Harris will win this year’s race for the White House.
Here’s our report.
Joe Sommerlad6 September 2024 13:35
Jesse Watters roasted for joking about Russian election interference
Brutal stuff here as the Fox News host gets hauled over the coals for mocking the Justice Department’s claims about Russia manipulating conservative influencers in the United States for its own nefarious ends.
Joe Sommerlad6 September 2024 13:15
