There’s less than a week until Election Day, and Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are focused on the crucial battlegrounds set to determine the race for the White House.
Trump is holding two rallies on Wednesday, one in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and another in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Harris will hold rallies in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Raleigh, North Carolina, before traveling to the University Of Wisconsin-Madison.
Both Trump and Harris are also turning to star power on Wednesday: Trump will be joined by former NFL star Brett Favre in Wisconsin, and Harris’ rally in the state will feature performances by Gracie Abrams, Mumford & Sons and other musicians.
Georgia secretary of state ‘ready to defend the results’
Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who famously resisted former President Donald Trump’s call to “find” nearly 12,000 votes to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory in the state in 2020, reiterated his commitment Wednesday to upholding the results this election.
Speaking at a press conference, Raffensperger said his grandson lost a playoff baseball game the night before, but the whole team accepted the loss with grace.
“Just as an American, I think that’s wonderful, because I think that’s what America is,” Raffensperger said.
“I have no control over human behavior,” Raffensperger went on. “I will hold both parties accountable to you, the voters of Georgia, and I stand ready to defend the results of the election with election officials all across the states. We will do our job.”
Harris breaks with Biden’s ‘garbage’ remarks about Trump supporters
Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday publicly disagreed with President Joe Biden’s comments where he referred to former President Donald Trump’s supporters as “garbage,” saying that while the president clarified his comments, she does not agree with criticisms of voters based on who they are supporting in the election.
“First of all he clarified his comments, bu let me be clear: I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for,” she told reporters at Joint Base Andrews. Harris pointed to her speech on the Ellipse on Tuesday evening where she pledged to be a president for all Americans as she courted undecided voters.
“I’ve been very clear with the American public, I respect the challenges that people face,” she said. “I am serious, what I mean when elected president, I will represent all Americans, including folks who don’t vote for me and address their needs and their desires.”
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Walz dismisses concerns that Democrats’ recent rhetoric undercuts unity message
When pressed on “CBS Mornings” whether Democrats’ recent rhetoric, including Walz’s comparison of Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally to a Nazi event and Biden’s recent ‘garbage’ comment, are undercutting his campaign’s message of unity, Walz said, “certainly not.”
“I’ve represented rural areas. I’ve represented Democrats, Republicans, independent, same thing with the Vice President,” said Walz, claiming that Trump’s rhetoric has caused division in the country.
“President Biden was very clear that he’s speaking about the rhetoric we heard at that so it doesn’t undermine it,” Walz added.
Biden’s comments come after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe said Puerto Rico was a “floating island of garbage” at the former president’s Madison Square Garden rally. Biden said during a zoom call with a nonprofit organization that the only “garbage” he saw “floating out there” were “his supporter’s,” though it was not clear at the time whether he was referring to Hinchcliffe or all of Trump’s supporters. Many Republicans interpreted it as the latter.
Walz also rebutted reports that Biden is being sidelined by the campaign.
“President Biden’s the president the United States. He’s running it. Vice President Harris is our candidate and will be the next president. And I think there’s two different positions there,”