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    Trump Renews ‘Enemy Within’ Talk at Fox News Town Hall on Women’s Issues

    Former President Donald J. Trump reiterated his belief that Democrats are “the enemy from within” during a Fox News town hall on Tuesday billed as a conversation about women’s issues.Vice President Kamala Harris has sought to highlight Mr. Trump’s recent inflammatory comments, arguing that he has grown “increasingly unstable and unhinged” in the final weeks of the campaign. During a stump speech on Monday in Erie, Pa., Ms. Harris played footage of an earlier interview he had conducted with Fox News in which he called the Democratic Party and individual lawmakers an “enemy from within” and said they were more dangerous than foreign adversaries.But if Mr. Trump was fazed by these attacks, he did not show it on Tuesday after the Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner replayed the footage of his Fox News interview. Ms. Faulkner noted Ms. Harris’s use of the video in her campaign and her descriptions of his language as authoritarian. Mr. Trump in response called her campaign rally video “a nice presentation,” before rebuffing Democrats as “a party of sound bites.”Still, he did not disavow his comments.“It is the enemy from within,” Mr. Trump told Ms. Faulkner during the event, which is set to be broadcast at 11 a.m. on Wednesday. And he repeated insults concerning his belief that Democrats are loyal to Marxists and communists. He added of the party, “They’re the threat to democracy.”Mr. Trump fielded questions from an audience of all women in Cumming, Ga., an Atlanta exurb an hour north of the city. Roughly 110 women from local churches and mothers’ groups attended, according to a spokeswoman for Fox News.The women who asked him questions introduced themselves as Georgia residents and posed questions about his plans for the economy, public safety and immigration. Mr. Trump responded with a range of promises about what he would do if sent back to the White House, including pledges to lower energy prices by 50 percent, expand the child tax credit and outlaw sanctuary cities.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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    Tim Walz Blasts Trump and Vance at Pennsylvania Event

    Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, wearing a camouflage baseball cap and red-and-black plaid flannel, took the stage on Tuesday as the skies cleared on a muddy farm in Lawrence County, Pa.He opened with tender talk of his rural roots. Then, he painted the kind of haunting picture frequently evoked by the Republicans opposing him and his running mate atop the Democratic ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris: of a rural America under attack.“Been a lot of talk about outsiders coming in, coming into rural communities, stealing our jobs, making life worse for the people who are living there,” he said, alluding to the hostile remarks about immigrants.But Mr. Walz — speaking pointedly before a couple hundred people, with barns, bins and tractors as his backdrop — paused for dramatic effect.“Those outsiders have names. They’re Donald Trump and JD Vance,” he said, eliciting laughter and a few whistles from the audience.The event on Tuesday was part of a Wisconsin and Pennsylvania swing that Mr. Walz used to unveil his ticket’s plans to address the needs of rural voters. And Mr. Walz, who has been on a quest in recent days to reclaim male voters and football from the Republican Party, sought to make the most of the moment as a born and bred Nebraskan.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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    Biden Takes On Campaign Duty in Pennsylvania, Celebrating Unions

    As Jill Biden and JD Vance also made stops around Philadelphia, the president’s visit highlighted the intense struggle to persuade voters in what may be the most critical swing state.President Biden and Jill Biden, the first lady, joined the pitched electoral struggle over Pennsylvania on Tuesday, fanning out with three appearances across the Philadelphia area intended to aid Vice President Kamala Harris in what may be the most consequential swing state.While his wife helped staff a phone bank across town, Mr. Biden joined a dinner held by the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee at the local sheet metal workers’ union hall, where he revved up attendees with a punchy speech and unleashed a long list of attacks against former President Donald J. Trump.“He has the same ideas on race as the 1930s. Trump’s ideas on the economy are from the ’20s. Trump’s ideas on women are from the ’50s,” he said. “Folks, this is 2024. We can’t go back.”But as often as Mr. Biden sought to contrast his record with Mr. Trump’s, he carefully tacked back several times to express support for Ms. Harris. He compared her to himself in growing out of his role as former President Barack Obama’s running mate, seeking to support her without defining her in his own unpopular image.“I was loyal to Barack Obama, but I cut my own path as president,” he said. “That’s what Kamala is going to do. She’s been loyal so far, but she’s going to cut her own path.”Mr. Biden’s visit was a reminder that just three weeks before the election, even when the presidential candidates are not in Pennsylvania, they are well aware of the need to maintain a presence in the state. With 19 electoral votes, it is the largest of the battleground prizes, and both campaigns would face narrow paths to victory without it.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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    Harris Slams Trump in Interview With Charlamagne Tha God: 5 Takeaways

    Vice President Kamala Harris agreed on Tuesday with the radio host Charlamagne Tha God that former President Donald J. Trump was a fascist, going a step further than she had before in casting her Republican rival as a dangerous authoritarian leader.During a free-flowing interview that often spoke to the concerns of Black Americans, Ms. Harris was contrasting her vision for the nation with Mr. Trump’s when Charlamagne jumped in to say: “The other is about fascism. Why can’t we just say it?”“Yes, we can say that,” Ms. Harris replied.Her comments came days after it was revealed that Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Mr. Trump, had called the former president “a fascist to the core,” according to a new book from the journalist Bob Woodward.Ms. Harris’s hourlong appearance on Tuesday in Detroit with Charlamagne — a co-host of the popular hip-hop morning radio show “The Breakfast Club,” which has many Black listeners — was part of a major push to counteract weakening support from Black voters. And during the conversation, she predicted that the election would come down to the wire.“This is a margin-of-error race,” she said. “I’m going to win, but it’s tight.”Here are five takeaways from the interview.Harris sharpened her attack on Trump as ‘weak’ yet dangerous.For much of her vice presidency, some of Ms. Harris’s aides have thought she is too cautious in her public remarks. But when it came to Mr. Trump on Tuesday, she did not hold back.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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    Harris Uses Trump’s Own Words to Attack Him as ‘Unhinged’: ‘Roll the Clip’

    Former President Donald J. Trump’s words thundered from screens at a packed campaign rally on Monday night in Erie, Pa. But the event was for Vice President Kamala Harris, who was using Mr. Trump’s own words as her campaign amplified warnings of the dangers she says he poses should he win a second term in the White House.Ms. Harris pulled few punches as she portrayed her Republican opponent as an authoritarian obsessed with his own power, pointing to Mr. Trump’s recent rallies and media appearances where he has asserted that his Democratic detractors were the “enemy from within,” more dangerous than foreign adversaries like Russia and China, and that they “should be put in jail.”“After all these years, we know who Donald Trump is,” Ms. Harris said. “He is someone who will stop at nothing to claim power for himself.”In a striking moment, Ms. Harris told the crowd of 6,000 that they didn’t have to take her word for it, that she had an example of his “worldview and intentions.”“Please — roll the clip,” she said as the crowd groaned and gasped as Mr. Trump’s face flashed on screens.“He’s talking about the enemy within our country, Pennsylvania,” Ms. Harris said to a jeering crowd. “He’s talking about that he considers anyone who doesn’t support him, or who will not bend to his will, an enemy of our country.”We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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    Kamala Harris concede una entrevista a un medio no tan amistoso: Fox News

    La entrevista, que realizará el presentador Bret Baier, se emitirá el miércoles a las 6 p. m. hora del Este.La vicepresidenta Kamala Harris ha aceptado una entrevista con Fox News, dijo la cadena el lunes.La entrevista, con el presentador político en jefe de Fox News, Bret Baier, sucederá cerca de Filadelfia el miércoles, poco antes de que se emita a las 6 p. m., hora del Este, en el programa de Baier, Special Report. Se espera que Harris responda preguntas durante 25 o 30 minutos, dijo la cadena.Se trata de la primera entrevista formal de Harris con Fox News, cuya programación diaria se centra en la opinión pública conservadora, que a menudo apoya abiertamente a su oponente republicano, el expresidente Donald Trump.También podría representar una oportunidad para la candidata demócrata a tres semanas del día de las elecciones.Harris tendrá la oportunidad de transmitir su mensaje a un público que puede mostrarse escéptico ante su candidatura. Su disposición a aparecer en Fox News puede ayudar a la percepción de que está abierta a enfrentarse a preguntas difíciles. Además, puede llegar a una zona de votantes independientes, que ven más Fox News que CNN o MSNBC, según un estudio de Nielsen.Demócratas de alto rango llevan tiempo mostrando hostilidad hacia Fox News, llegando incluso a prohibir formalmente que la cadena organice un debate durante las primarias en 2020. Hillary Clinton, en 2016, fue la última candidata presidencial demócrata en sentarse para una entrevista en Fox News. El presidente Biden no ha aparecido en la cadena desde que asumió el cargo, aunque ha discutido en conferencias de prensa con su corresponsal principal en la Casa Blanca, Peter Doocy.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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    Kamala Harris recurre a su experiencia en el combate a la delincuencia transfronteriza en su campaña

    Como fiscala general de California, Kamala Harris dio prioridad a la lucha contra los traficantes de drogas y personas. Es una parte de su biografía de la que no siempre ha hablado.[Estamos en WhatsApp. Empieza a seguirnos ahora]Cuando la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris ha prometido tomar medidas enérgicas contra la inmigración ilegal en la frontera sur del país, ha hecho hincapié en su experiencia como fiscala general de California en la persecución de grupos criminales que trafican con drogas, armas y personas entre Estados Unidos y México.“Fui la máxima responsable de la aplicación de la ley en el mayor estado del país, California, que también es un estado fronterizo”, dijo el jueves en un acto con votantes de Nevada. “Me enfrenté a organizaciones criminales transnacionales”.Los colaboradores y aliados de Harris afirman que su lucha contra la delincuencia transnacional arroja luz sobre cómo podría abordar los retos en la frontera. El tema está a la vanguardia de las preocupaciones de los votantes después de que los cruces fronterizos ilegales aumentaran durante los primeros años del presidente Biden en el cargo, y mientras el expresidente Donald Trump y sus aliados alimentan falsedades sobre bandas de inmigrantes y combinan la inmigración con la delincuencia.Ahora, su historial de persecución de la delincuencia transfronteriza está siendo examinado por demócratas y activistas de la justicia social y tergiversado por los republicanos. Y ya no está dispuesta a afirmar que apoya algunas de las tácticas que había adoptado. He aquí lo que hizo como fiscala general de California, por qué es importante y por qué podría tener implicaciones si gana en noviembre.Cambio de estrategiaHarris hizo de la lucha contra la delincuencia transnacional una prioridad en su campaña para fiscal general de California en 2010 y durante sus seis años en el cargo.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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    Elecciones en EE. UU.: una contienda reñida sin precedentes

    Es difícil pensar en unas elecciones en las que tantos estados en disputa estuvieran tan igualados en las encuestas a estas alturas.Haiyun Jiang para The New York TimesLa contienda presidencial está cada vez más reñida.A tres semanas, el promedio de encuestas de The New York Times muestra que Kamala Harris y Donald Trump están esencialmente parejos en los siete principales estados disputados, con una diferencia de menos de un punto porcentual en cinco de ellos.Es difícil pensar en unas elecciones en las que tantos estados cruciales estuvieran tan igualados en las encuestas a estas alturas.Según nuestros cálculos, 2004 fue la última elección en la que las encuestas mostraban a un candidato encabezando los estados decisivos por alrededor de un punto: la ventaja de George W. Bush en estados como Ohio y Wisconsin. Pero incluso entonces tenía una ventaja perceptible, aunque estrecha, en el Colegio Electoral: John Kerry necesitaba arrasar en la mayoría de los estados reñidos para imponerse. Las encuestas no podían calificarse de empate, como las de hoy.¿Antes de 2004? Las elecciones de 2000, por supuesto, pero los sondeos no fueron tan parejos como el resultado real. Si buscamos aún más atrás, es difícil encontrar algo. Nunca ha habido unas elecciones con tantas encuestas que indiquen una contienda tan reñida.¿Está la contienda realmente estrechándose?Los promedios de las encuestas están más parejos que nunca, pero eso no significa necesariamente que haya habido un gran cambio —o incluso ningún cambio— en la contienda.Los mayores cambios en el promedio esta semana se han producido en Míchigan y Wisconsin. Y en este caso, “mayores” no significa “grandes”. Trump ganó un solo punto según nuestros promedios, el tipo de movimiento que puede parecer radical en unas elecciones tan divididas y estables, pero que no habría sido digno de mención en ciclos anteriores. También es un cambio lo suficientemente pequeño como para que una o dos encuestas de alta calidad que favorezcan a Harris la próxima semana puedan hacer que sus números vuelvan a subir rápidamente. De hecho, fueron solo una o dos encuestas de alta calidad las que hicieron bajar sus números. More