Elon Musk donates $75 million to pro-Trump groups
Elon Musk donated about $75 million over three months to a pro-Donald Trump spending group, federal disclosures show, adding that the billionaire is helping the Republican candidate to win the presidential election. Reuters reported that it highlighted how important the project is to the initiative.
America PAC spent about $72 million in the July-September period, focusing on voting in swing states that will determine the outcome of the election, according to disclosures filed with the Federal Election Commission.
That’s more than any other pro-Trump super PAC focused on getting voters to the polls. The Trump campaign has relied extensively on outside groups to recruit voters, with the super PAC founded by Musk, the world’s richest man, having an outsized lead in the close election between Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris. It means playing a role.
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Let me tell you a little more about Billy that I talked about earlier.
The reporter asked him what his rank was and where he was from. He replied that he was 16 years old and came from Guatemala.
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Billy was followed by a girl named Janice Adriana who told her story of being detained while trying to enter the United States.
“They said they were going to separate me and my mom, and then everything bad started happening. Me and mom both started crying because we thought we’d never see each other again,” Adriana said.
She continued:
Then they took her away from me and after that I had to stay in this foster care facility for a week and I asked them many times when I could see my mom and they said they would meet soon, but that never happened.
After that, they took me to my father’s place and I stayed with him for about two months. Getting out of the foster care facility made me feel a little better because at least I was with my dad, but then they deported him to Honduras and I had no one to accompany me, just my aunt. I had a friend and I had to spend three years with him. I haven’t been able to see my mother for three years, and I was really sad because I thought I wouldn’t be able to see her any more.
Adriana concluded: “Kamala Harris helped me and my parents come together again, and now me and my parents are happily together. I don’t want Donald Trump to be president again. Because I don’t want other kids to go through what I did. ”
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Billy was eventually reunited with his father, but said the damage from the forced separation still lingers.
I ran to my dad, hugged him, and told him I never wanted anything like this to happen again. And he promised to never leave me again. And even after that we still feel fear. I’m seeing a therapist, but I still have the fear that Trump will be re-elected and the same thing will happen to me and other kids again.
Kamala Harris helped us get back together and helped us become a family again. And I don’t want this to happen to any more children.
The Harris campaign organized the event ahead of an event at City Hall, where Trump is scheduled to appear on Univision News tonight, as part of an effort to attract Latino voters.
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Victims of Trump-era family separation policies speak at Harris campaign event
Survivors of President Donald Trump’s family separation policies spoke about their experiences at an event convened by Kamala Harris’ campaign to denounce the former president’s hard-line immigration policies.
The young man, who gave his name only as Billy, told a news conference in Doral, Florida, that he was detained after arriving in the United States and told his father he would be reunited with him soon.
“From that day on, I never saw him again for 40 days,” Billy said, explaining that he was instead flown to New York and placed in foster care.
“They told me I would never see my father again, I would never see my family again. You can imagine how that felt to me as a 9-year-old. There was so much sadness in front of my eyes. The emptiness I felt when I was told I wouldn’t be able to see my family again was out of this world, and it’s something I still live with to this day. It was not something I should have gone through.”
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Joe Biden is heading to Arizona next week, but the White House says it’s for an official event (and thus not a campaign event).
It’s still unclear what brought the president to the battleground state where he won by just over 10,000 votes in 2020, becoming the first Democratic candidate to win Arizona since Bill Clinton.
Recent polls show Kamala Harris trailing Donald Trump in the state, but Democratic Senate candidate Ruben Gallego is trailing Republican opponent and Trump ally Cali.・He is leading Mr. Lake.
Harris doesn’t need to win Arizona. Because she has other paths to reach 270. But it’s probably a sign of concern about her standing among Hispanic voters, who make up about a third of the state’s electorate. However, Democrats cannot maintain control of the Senate unless they hold seats.
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Michelle Obama to headline Georgia rally aimed at young voters
President Michelle Obama will hold a rally in Atlanta later this month aimed at encouraging young voters to go to the polls, her nonpartisan organization When We All Vote announced.
The Oct. 29 event will feature Atlanta-area college and high school students and is aimed at encouraging first-time voters to cast their ballots in Georgia, which Joe Biden won by a narrow 12,000 votes in 2020. .
“Elections don’t start on Election Day, they end on Election Day. Thanks to Georgia’s partners and volunteers who continue to get their communities ready to vote, Georgia voters are energized and ready to make their voices heard. ,” Beth Link, executive director of When We All Vote, said in a statement.
President Obama launched “When We All Vote” in 2018 with the goal of getting new voters to the polls. The Atlanta rally will be her first public appearance since her speech at the Democratic National Convention, where she deftly criticized Donald Trump:
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Harris is scheduled to be interviewed on FOX News tonight.
It’s a big day for Fox News, with Kamala Harris scheduled to interview anchor Bret Baier at 6 p.m., hours after Donald Trump’s pre-recorded town hall broadcast.
It will be a journey into hostile territory for the vice president, as Fox’s coverage and viewership tends to skew conservative. It remains to be seen what they will talk about, but Baier said yesterday that the interview would be broadcast without commercial breaks.
With less than three weeks until the presidential vote, Harris will appear on Fox News as she continues a series of media interviews aimed at boosting her candidacy. Here are the details:
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Fox News to broadcast live meeting between President Trump and Georgia women
At 11 a.m. today, FOX News will broadcast a pre-recorded town hall featuring Donald Trump and a group of women from the battleground state of Georgia.
Expect a friendly encounter – Fox News is a conservative network, and a short clip from the event aired yesterday shows President Trump fielding questions about immigration, a key issue in the speech . Nevertheless, the event serves a certain purpose for the former president. Opinion polls show his standing among some women’s groups is low, and the event appears aimed at turning that around, especially in states that could decide the election. is.
FOX News host Harris Faulkner said in announcing the event.
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Rising rates of child labor violations, injuries and chronic school absenteeism have led state governments across the country to take steps to eliminate protections for minors, according to a report released today.
A report by Governing for Impact, the Economic Policy Institute, and the Child Labor Coalition points to a recent spike in child labor violations across the U.S. and a trend in some states to pass legislation that would roll back state laws. In response, it proposes actions the Biden-Harris administration could take. level of child labor protection.
The book’s authors also warn that efforts to weaken child protections are likely to escalate under President Trump’s second term.
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Obama and Harris return to campaigning as Michigan voting begins
The vice president’s campaign announced next week that he will begin campaigning to replace Kamala Harris next week, when early voting begins in Michigan on Tuesday.
Harris’ campaign said the former president would rally voters in Detroit, but did not provide details.
Mr. Obama made his first campaign appearance for Mr. Harris in Pennsylvania last week, encouraging black men to vote for the vice president.
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Donald Trump’s pro-Israel stance is alienating the far right and intensifying anti-Semitic attacks, writes Ben Makuchi.
One campaign issue that divided MAGA circles and extremists on Telegram and other fringe social media sites was the former president’s support for Israel in several military operations across the Middle East.
The far right and Donald Trump’s ideologies have largely aligned since winning the Republican ticket at the RNC convention in July.
As his supporters wave ultra-nationalist “mass deportation now!” signs, Mr. He gave a speech that included
But that sense of unity is beginning to crack under the weight of anti-Semitic attacks directed at President Trump to commemorate the anniversary of the October 7 attacks…
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