Breaking News: Trump to Campaign in New York, Harris Speaks at Hispanic Leadership Conference

Donald Trump takes his message Wednesday to a somewhat unlikely location: the suburbs of New York.

The Republican presidential candidate and former president is heading to Uniondale, Long Island, an area that could be key for his party maintain control of the HouseHis party is trying to protect 18 Republicans in heavily Democratic constituencies that Joe Biden won in 2020.

Meanwhile, the vice president Kamala Harris He spoke at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s 47th annual leadership conference in Washington and has trips planned later in the week to Michigan and Wisconsin.

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Harris questions how Trump would implement promised mass deportations

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has criticized Donald Trump’s promise to deport millions of people in the United States illegally.

The former Republican president has pledged to carry out the largest mass deportation operation in US history if he is re-elected in November. He has not provided any details on how he would go about it.

Harris questioned Trump’s intentions Wednesday during a speech in Washington to Hispanic members of Congress, asking her rival whether he would need to resort to “massive raids” and “massive detention camps” to achieve his deportation goal.

Trump was scheduled to appear in Uniondale, on New York’s Long Island, later Wednesday.

National Treasury Employees Union Endorses Harris for President

The National Treasury employees’ union on Wednesday endorsed Kamala Harris’ presidential bid.

“When it comes to treating federal employees with respect, valuing their service, and investing in their work, Kamala Harris is the clear choice,” said National Chair Doreen Greenwald. “She shares our values ​​and commitment to making the federal government work for all Americans. She has been a fierce advocate for the issues that matter most to federal employees: fair pay, paid family leave, adequate funding and staffing for agencies, and strong collective bargaining rights.”

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has promised to lay off tens of thousands of federal workers if elected. In 2020, Trump issued an executive order called “Schedule F” that would have stripped those workers of their job protections.

As Trump seeks votes from Polish Americans, he and the Polish president are expected to attend the same event

Donald Trump and Polish President Andrzej Duda are expected to attend the same event this Sunday in Pennsylvania, a key state in this year’s presidential election as Trump seeks to tap into the Polish-American vote.

A meeting between the two men at a Polish-American shrine has not yet been confirmed, but seems possible given their friendly ties in the past – and the fact that Duda’s office has said it expects a meeting if Trump were to attend.

Pennsylvania has one of the largest Polish-American populations in the county, and both Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are eager for their support. At the recent presidential debate in Philadelphia, Harris appealed to Polish Americans by portraying Trump as a threat to the security of Poland and Europe more broadly because of his opposition to US support for Ukraine in its war against Russia.

Trump won the state in 2016, but Democratic President Joe Biden won in 2020.

Police Commissioner Says Person Who Allegedly Trained Bomb-Sniffing Dog Caused False Report of Explosives

Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said a person who may have trained a bomb-detection dog spread false reports that explosives had been found near former President Donald Trump’s rally on Long Island, New York.

“A person is being questioned and is believed to have trained a bomb detection dog in the vicinity of the site,” Ryder said. “The individual who had a bomb detection dog falsely reported the discovery of explosives and is currently in police custody.”

Authorities say online reports of explosives found in car near Trump rally are false

Nassau County officials say social media reports that explosives were found in a car near former President Donald Trump’s rally on New York’s Long Island, just days after the second apparent assassination attempt on him, are false.

Christopher Boyle, a spokesman for Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, and Lt. Scott Skrynecki, a spokesman for the Nassau County Police Department, both said Wednesday morning that the reports were unfounded.

“No. It’s ridiculous. No validity,” Boyle said.

“This is false,” Skrynecki said in a message.

Officials said they would issue an official statement later.

In a message on X, Musk says that “Trump must win” the presidential election

Elon Musk, the owner of social media platform X, said overnight that “Trump must win” to save the country.

“If Trump is not elected, America will fall under the yoke of tyranny,” he wrote to his nearly 200 million followers, responding to a post that claimed the former president was the only candidate fighting against an imminent American dictatorship.

The message is part of a recent trend from Elon Musk, who endorsed Trump in July. frequently intervenes in the political fray with inflammatory comments in moments of tension. He has also repeatedly shared false information about the elections to his huge audience on X.

Musk’s critics and several election officials have condemned his actions as irresponsible, but the 53-year-old billionaire and many conservatives strongly disagree. They sharply criticize Democrats for suggesting that free speech should be moderated or criminalized and blame Trump for the assassination attempts. on the rhetoric of the left.

White House hosts first meeting of Trump, Harris transition teams

Representatives of the former president Donald Trump and vice-president Kamala Harris Transition teams met for the first time at the White House, The Biden administration announced Wednesday, as the outgoing administration plans to make it easier for anyone to transfer victories in november.

Chief of Staff Jeffrey Zients The White House hosted a meeting Tuesday of the White House Transition Coordination Committee — the government’s top transition planning group — and for the first time this year, advisers to Harris and Trump were included. The meeting and invitation of representatives from both parties is required by law. Presidential Transition Actwhich stipulates that the designated representatives of the candidates exercise an advisory function.

Now a Roe advocate, a woman raped by her stepfather as a child tells her story in a Harris campaign ad

A 22-year-old woman who became a abortion rights defender After being raped by her stepfather as a child, she tells her story in a new advertising campaign for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

Hadley Duvall says in a voiceover that she has never slept a full night in her life: Her stepfather began abusing her when she was five and got her pregnant when she was 12. As she speaks, images of Duvall as a child flash across the screen. The ad’s soundtrack is a song by Billie Eilish, who endorsed the vice president on Tuesday.

“I remember thinking, ‘I need to get out of my skin. I can’t be myself right now. I thought, ‘This is not possible,’” Duvall says. “I didn’t know what to do. I was a child. I had no idea what it meant to be pregnant. But I had options.”

The ad is part of a campaign push by Harris to highlight the growing consequences of the fall of Roe, including the fact that some states have restrictions on abortion without exceptions in cases of rape or incest. In some states, women are facing increasingly perilous medical care, and the first reported case of a woman dying because of a delay in reproductive care surfaced this week.

New Jersey voters set to choose successor to former congressman in special election

Voters in northern New Jersey are set to vote on a special election for the U.S. House of Representatives to fill the seat that opened when Rep. Donald Payne Jr. died earlier this year.

Newark City Council President LaMonica McIver, a Democrat, and Republican Carmen Bucco are running for the seat in the Democratic and black-majority 10th Congressional District. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy set special elections under state law after Payne died in April. He had served in the House for more than two decades.

Wednesday’s election will determine who will fill Payne’s remaining seat, which expires Jan. 3, 2025. The regular election process that will be held in parallel will determine who will fill the seat after that date. McIver and Bucco are also running for Payne’s full term, alongside third-party candidates.