Kamala Harris and Donald Trump with a clock counting down to Election Day
Welcome to October Surprise, the Daily Beast’s daily countdown to the biggest election of our lifetimes. It’s just six days until Election Day and here’s what’s happening in the race for the White House between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
THE DOWNLOAD
Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the president Joe Biden‘S Makes a clear reference to his supporters as “trash”. Hillary Clinton‘S 2016 insult from him MAGA supporters look like ‘baby stuff’.
“Joe Biden has finally said what he and Kamala really think of our supporters,” Trump said at a rally in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. “He called them trash. And they mean it.”
The crowd booed before Trump reminded them of what his 2016 Democratic opponent thought of them. “That makes deplorables look like baby stuff, doesn’t it,” Trump said, referring to Clinton, who damaged her presidential bid when she said Trump supporters belonged in a “basket of deplorables.” Read the full story here.
Kamala Harris was heckled at two daytime rallies in different battleground states on Wednesday, using both occasions to present herself as a unifier while shouting about the disruptions.
“I will listen to experts,” she said as an audience member started shouting at a Get Out the Vote rally in Raleigh, North Carolina. “I will listen to those who are affected by the decisions I make. And for people who disagree with me.”
Later, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as protesters began shouting and at least one loudly blew a whistle and waved a Palestinian flag, Harris said, “We are six days away from an election and ours is about a fight for democracy and your right to be independent. heard, that is what is at stake in these elections. Look, everyone has the right to be heard, but right now I’m speaking.” Read the story here.
POLLEN OBSESSED
Kamala Harris received encouraging news on Wednesday from CNN Polls conducted in three “blue wall” states. In Michigan, she leads Trump 48 percent to 43 percent among likely voters. In Wisconsin, it increased by 51 percent to 45 percent. And in the biggest battleground of them all, Pennsylvania, the battle is evenly matched, with each candidate receiving 48 percent support among likely voters.
Meanwhile, the last primaries Economist/YouGov Survey says 47 percent of registered voters say they will vote for Harris, or have already voted, while 46 percent are strongly in favor of Trump.
ON THE MOVE
After a failure in North Carolina, Trump gets star power from the former NFL quarterback Brett Favrewho will join the GOP nominee at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Both Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walzcampaigned in North Carolina, with Harris also hitting Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. GOP vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance campaigned in must-win Pennsylvania.
WAY BACK WEDNESDAY
On October 30, 2020, Donald Trump’s inner circle increasingly whispered the same thought: “Our guy screwed up.” With consistent election deficits, even the most die-hard MAGA loyalists were bracing for defeat Stephen Moorean all-in economist who told the Beast, “I believe the betting markets, which say there is a 60 percent chance that Biden wins, and a 40 percent chance that Trump wins.” But because it was Trumpland, there were plenty of believers. Doug Deasona top-dollar Trump donor from Dallas put Trump’s chances at “75 percent or better.” Read more here.
BEAST OF THE DAY
Reggaeton star Nicky Jam has withdrawn its approval Donald Trump above comedian Tony Hinchcliffe reference to Puerto Rico as one “floating island of waste” during the former president’s Madison Square Garden rally.
The singer publicly threw his support behind the GOP presidential candidate in September, donning a MAGA hat and appearing at a rally in Las Vegas, where he told the former president and attendees, “We need you to be the president.”
However, on Wednesday Jam announced he stopped supporting Trump in an Instagram video. “Never in my life did I think that a month later a comedian would come and criticize my country and speak badly about my country,” he told his 43 million followers on the app. “And that is why I am withdrawing all support for Donald Trump and stepping aside from any political situation. Puerto Rico deserves respect.” Read more here.
SHAMELESS PLUG
Trump biographer Michael Wolff has a number of truth bombs to drop about the former president. Hear them tonight on the latest episode of The Daily Beast Podcast, which drops at midnight when Wolff, the author of Fire and furywill tell Joanna Coles And Samantha Bee exactly what unpleasant things Trump does behind closed doors and makes a very provocative judgment about the people who went to the MSG meeting.
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