President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, a potential White House challenger in 2020, are making election pushes several hundred miles apart from each other in pivotal Nevada, where early voting was beginning Saturday
Trump was wrapping up a visit to Western states with an afternoon rally in rural Elko, Nevada, and lending support for Dean Heller considered the most vulnerable GOP senator on the Nov. 6 ballot as Republican hope to retain their Senate majority.
A few hours earlier and 400-plus miles south, Biden was to participate in a rally at a union local and promote Democratic candidates, urging Nevada residents to get out and vote. In a further sign of the state’s importance in the midterms, former President Barack Obama scheduled a stop Monday in Las Vegas.
He won Nevada in his 2008 and 2012 campaigns, and Democrat Hillary Clinton carried the state by 2 percentage points over Trump in 2016. But during the last midterm elections in 2014, many Democrats stayed home and Republicans won key races across the state, which a 29 percent Latino population.
Trump has used his appearances in Montana and Arizona to try to frame the choices for voters in the upcoming election, contending Democrats are “too extreme and too dangerous” to take control of Congress. He has sought to focus on immigration as one of the defining election issues and has falsely accused Democrats of wanting “open borders” and encouraging illegal immigration.
“Anybody who votes for a Democrat now is crazy,” Trump said.
The country’s immigration system has long vexed politicians from both parties, and Republicans themselves have torpedoed near-compromises in recent years. Yet Trump tweeted Saturday that “we could write up and agree to new immigration laws in less than one hour” if Democrats “would stop being obstructionists and come together.”
“Call me,” he told the Democratic leaders in Congress, Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York and Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California. It seemed reminiscent of the time last year when Trump cracked open the door of bipartisanship with those leaders, who emerged from a White House meeting to say Trump had agreed to work toward a deal on protection young immigrants. But no agreement came to pass.
Trump’s Nevada visit was aimed at boosting Heller, whose opponent is Rep. Jacky Rosen as Democrats push to regain control of the Senate. Republicans hold a 51-40 edge now.
Heller once had rocky relations with Trump and had returned a campaign donation from then-candidate Trump over Trump’s immigration rhetoric. Last year, Trump threatened Heller’s re-election chances when the senator held up GOP efforts to repeal the Obama-era health law. But Heller has since become an ally of the president, who has made two fundraising stops for him in Nevada this year already.
Heller and Rosen held their first and only debate of the campaign on Friday. Heller accused her of making a visit to see separated families at the U.S.-Mexico border in order to stage a “photo-op,” while she described Heller a “rubber-stamp” for Trump, whose tax plan she said benefits the wealthy at the expense of the middle class.
The Biden-Trump circling of one another in the same state happened recently in Kentucky, where Biden campaigned for a Democratic congressional candidate on a Friday night and Trump held a rally the next evening.
Biden said in his appearance that “basic American values are under assault” and that the upcoming election was “bigger than politics.”
Trump used his Kentucky visit to praise Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for shepherding the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh through the Senate.
Garry Kasparov has a message for those who didn’t foresee Russia’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election: “I told you so.”
“I’ve been saying many of the same things about Vladimir Putin for over 17 years,” Kasparov, the former world chess champion and political activist, said at a conference on activism here Monday. Other attendees included former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, human rights activist Kerry Kennedy and David Hogg, a Florida high school student who has emerged as a gun control advocate.
Kasparov — whose 2015 book, “Winter Is Coming,” warned of Putin’s rise as a dictator on the global stage — said he voiced his concerns about the Russian president to anyone who would listen.
“Putin is not a democratically elected leader — he is a dictator,” Kasparov said, recalling remarks from a 2007 conference he attended in Washington, D.C. “I said, yes, Putin was a bad guy. He was Russia’s problem, but if he wasn’t contained, he would be a regional problem — and soon after, everybody’s problem.”
Kasparov said Russia’s spread of so-called fake news across American social media networks — part of a disinformation campaign aimed at undermining the U.S. elections — was “nothing new for us in Russia.”
“The sad news is propaganda works,” he said. “Fake news works.”
By the time Putin took aim at the U.S., Kasparov said, his cyber army had more than 10 years of experience in such attacks.
Kasparov — originally from Azerbaijan, the former Soviet republic — has been living in forced exile in New York City since 2013. He did not mention special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia. But he suggested where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
“Donald Trump had more Russian connections than Aeroflot,” Kasparov said in his remarks at the University Club, just two blocks south of Trump Tower.
“While I believe in coincidences, I also believe in the KGB.”
“Every country has its own mafia,” he continued. “In Russia, the mafia has its own country.”
Still, Kasparov echoed the conclusions of U.S. intelligence officials that the Kremlin will continue to target elections, in the U.S. and abroad.
“Putin will attack again, here and elsewhere,” Kasparov said. “He has no choice. He needs enemies — big ones.”
Kasparov said that to combat Putin, Americans must put value in democracy and the truth.
“You can’t defend yourself against Putin and the Putins of this world if you don’t believe what they are attacking is worth defending,” he said.
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The co-founder of Twitter, Evan Williams, on Saturday apologised for the social media platform’s role in Donald Trump’s victory in the last United State’s presidential election.
Mr. Williams made this known in an interview with the New York Times on Saturday, saying he recently learned that President Trump said he believed Twitter put him in the White house.
Mr. Williams said, “It’s a very bad thing, Twitter’s role in that,” he said. “If it’s true that he wouldn’t be president if it weren’t for Twitter, then yeah, I’m sorry.”
The White House did not respond to a request for a comment on Williams’ statement, reports said.
The 45-year-old entrepreneur criticised the internet for rewarding extremes calling it, “broken”.
Mr. Trump has often used Twitter to dispute reports seen in the news.
Recently, Trump took to the social media platform to deny that he or his campaign had any involvement with Russia in influencing the results of the presidential election.
“Again, the story that there was collusion between the Russians and Trump campaign was fabricated by Dems as an excuse for losing the election,” he tweeted on May 12.
In another tweet this week, the U.S president described the media’s reporting of the matter the “single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history.”
But Mr. Williams said he was wrong for thinking that the world would be a better place if there was a platform for everyone to freely speak and exchange ideas.
“Some would say that’s what we deserve for giving the power of tweets to Donald Trump,” he said in a speech at the University of Nebraska this month.
U.S. Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump accused Democratic rival Hillary Clinton of a legacy of “death, destruction, terrorism and weakness” as U.S. secretary of state. Trump vowed to be tough on crime and illegal immigrants in a speech on Thursday accepting the Republican presidential nomination.
Several Nigerians are currently living in the U.S with expired traveling documents. This will come as a massive threat to them as the billionaire had earlier complained about the straining of lean resources in the country to accommodate the immigrants with Mexico being his first victim.
Trump’s 75-minute speech was designed to set the tone for the general election campaign against Clinton, an answer to Republicans who say the best way he can unify the divided party is to detail why the Democrat should not be elected on Nov. 8.
As the crowd chanted: “Lock her up” for her handling of U.S. foreign policy, Trump waved them off and said: “Let’s defeat her in November.” Thousands of supporters who were gathered in the convention hall roared their approval. When it was over, Trump was joined on stage by family members as balloons cascaded from above and confetti blew around the arena.
The acceptance speech by Trump, 70, closed out a four-day convention that underscored his struggle to heal fissures in the Republican Party over his anti-illegal-immigrant rhetoric and concerns about his temperament.
American Presidential nominee, Donald Trump has announced that Nigerian-American woman, Omarosa Manigault, is now the director of the African-American Outreach for his presidential campaign. Omarosa, known as 'the villain' on the reality show, 'The Apprentice', who was announced as the director of African-American outreach for the Trump campaign, spoke to newsmen after the announcement and said;
“I’m happy to take up that cause for Donald Trump,” adding that her new role was “an extension” of the work she had been doing at the National Diversity Coalition for Trump. “I am the director of African-American outreach for Donald Trump. I am proud to serve in that role.
Omarosa during a campaign for Trump
“It is a very difficult time for our country, but the good thing I know is that I know Donald Trump at his heart … and I know what he can do in that role.”
When asked about polls that show Trump has zero percent support from African Americans in Ohio (where she is from) and Pennsylvania, Manigault said she was confused about who had been polled because according to her;
“I just spent an amazing weekend with African Americans for Trump, about 300 of them."
“My reality is I’m surrounded by African Americans who want to see Trump as the next president. Trump is focused on improving the conditions of African Americans in this country. Unemployment in African-American community is at an all time high,” Manigault said.
Donald Trump reportedly hired Omarosa Manigault to help him win Black votes as recent polls have shown that he had 0% approval among black voters in key states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The 42-year-old reality TV star, made a name for herself as a ‘TV villain’ in the first season of Trump’s 'The Apprentice' and also had a lot of negative press during that period as a result of her intensity and controversial actions.
According to a 2004 Peoplemagazine article, Omarosa Manigault was ‘banished’ from four political jobs in only two years with the Clinton administration. At her last job, she was reportedly asked to leave almost immediately because she had been so disruptive.
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USAToday
Donald Trump is a really controversial and formidable figure in the race for the White House. Trump, who is pitched against Hilary Clinton is in the news for plagiarizing President Barack Obama's tweet years ago.
Lets recall that Donald Trump has previously attacked Vice President Joe Biden for, notoriously, plagiarizing a speech from a British politician in 1987.
“I’ve had a great record, I haven’t been involved in plagiarism,” Trump said.
This is coming after Trump's wife also made headlines for copying Obama's wife's speech [Read Here]
Barack Obama made a tweet four years ago in 2012, about his wife, Michelle Obama as seen below:
4 years after, Donald Trump, while also talking about his wife, Melanie Trump, shared an identical tweet:
What got observers really stunned is that both men tweeted their statements on twitter on 19th July: Obama tweeted his on 19th July 2012 and Trump made his today, 19th July 2016.
Melania Trump delivered a rare speech Monday on the first night of the Republican National Convention about her husband Donald Trump. She is however being slammed right now for sharing an almost identical section to first lady Michelle Obama’s Democratic convention speech in 2008.
The presumptive Republican nominee’s wife discussed the hard work instilled by her parents, treating people with respect, and wanting a better future for children — which were all apparently things she took from Michelle Obama’s address.
Melania Trump Said In Her Speech Monday -
From a young age, my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise. That you treat people with respect. They taught and showed me values and morals in their daily life.
That is a lesson that I continue to pass along to our son, and we need to pass those lessons on to the many generations to follow because we want our children in this nation to know that the only limit to your achievements is the strength of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.
Michelle Obama’s convention speech in 2008 hit on many of the same themes:
And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you’re going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them, and even if you don’t agree with them.
And Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values, and pass them on to the next generation. Because we want our children — and all children in this nation — to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.
Before taking the stage Monday night, Melania Trump told NBC’s Matt Lauer she wrote the speech.
“I wrote it… with a little help as possible,” she said.
The similarities were first pointed out by Jarrett Hill on Twitter.
Two former Obama staffers said the original author of the lines was Sarah Hurwitz, a former Obama campaign speechwriter who now works in the White House as a special assistant to the president.
Former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau said he had “no idea” how the blunder could have happened.
“A stray line or phrase could be a mistake. Two full paragraphs from the current First Lady is just incomprehensible,” he said. “I can’t believe someone would do that to her.”
“Michelle’s head speechwriter, used to be Hillary’s,” Favreau tweeted. “So the Trump campaign plagiarized from a Hillary speechwriter.”
Donald Trump has previously attacked Vice President Joe Biden for, notoriously, plagiarizing a speech from a British politician in 1987.
“I’ve had a great record, I haven’t been involved in plagiarism,” Trump said.
Below is a video comparing the two speeches:
I am pleased to announce that I have chosen Governor Mike Pence as my Vice Presidential running mate. News conference tomorrow at 11:00 A.M.
Pence, quoting Trump’s tweet said:
Honored to join @realDonaldTrump and work to make America great again.
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