Donald Trump and the 2016 midterm elections: The problem of illegal immigration in the United States and the role of the hurricane Helene crisis during the 2016 election

The coalition that powered President Biden’s narrow 2020 victory included a sizable number of anti-Trump conservatives and right-leaning independents who backed his campaign but otherwise support Republicans. After taking over as the Democratic nominee this summer, Harris has ramped up efforts to campaign across the aisle and expand the party’s tent to defeat Trump.

The events of Monday reiterate how crucial it is for every constituency to come out and vote, as polls continue to show a very close race.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, which ripped across the South in late September, Trump has used the storm as a frequent opportunity to bash Harris, President Biden and the federal government’s response — and to tie everything back to his immigration views.

Trump said they spent a lot of money on bringing illegal immigrants to the country. Nobody can even believe the amount of money they’ve spent. They don’t have any money to help the people that live here.

The president declined to condemn threats of violence against federal employees after a North Carolina man was arrested for making threats.

He exaggerated the number of pre-screened supporters that he served at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s and praised the early voting numbers from the Tarheel State.

At his rally, Trump attacked Harris for being part of an “invasion” of America, while maintaining his calls for mass deportations.

“So you’re either stupid, you hate our country, or they’re trying to get them to vote right?,” he said about Harris’ immigration policies. It is most likely the third. She’s making beautiful towns into a dumping ground.

There is no evidence for the claim about non-citizens voting illegally, and Trump acknowledged that he has not seen any evidence to suggest the election wouldn’t be fair. I know the other side, and they are not good. But I have not seen that,” Trump said.

The suggestion that there may be rigging the final vote is in line with another part of Trump’s closing message: that if there is cheating, he will lose.

At the faith event, Trump largely stuck to his usual campaign stump speech, vowing to “keep men out of women’s sports” but also promising “we will proudly say Merry Christmas again,” while baselessly accusing Harris, who is Baptist, of having anti-Christian bias.

The Vice President of the Blue Wall States, Liz Cheney, discusses the issues of pro-life and abortion in the U.S.

She traveled to the “Blue Wall” states with Vice President Dick Cheney telling suburban voters that support for Harris is not incompatible with conservative views even for those who oppose abortion.

“I think there are many of us around the country who have been pro-life, but who have watched what’s going on in our states since the Dobbs decision and have watched state legislatures put in place laws that are resulting in women not getting the care they need,” Cheney said in Pennsylvania, referring to the Supreme Court decision striking down the constitutional right to an abortion. “So I believe this isn’t an issue that we’re seeing broken down across party lines.”

“In this moment, there are millions of good and honorable people who Donald Trump has just fundamentally betrayed,” Cheney said in Waukesha, Wisc. The decision to give someone the power of the presidency means that you have to choose people with good faith and character in order to have a good presidency.

Harris is scheduled to sit for interviews on Tuesday with NBC and Telemundo. Later in the week, she is also going to campaign with former President Barack Obama in Georgia and take part in a town hall with CNN.

Throughout the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump has made little effort to moderate his message beyond his base within the Republican Party, and has instead sought to grow that base by turning out lower propensity voters receptive to his message and disillusioned by the current Democratic administration.

“I have said before and it must be repeated each time: There are moments in the history of our country which challenge us, each of us, to really decide,” Harris said in Malvern, Pa. Do we stand for things that we talk about, like in particular country over party?

The town hall discussions with Liz Cheney were held in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin where the vice president framed the election as a choice between democrats and republicans in the future of democracy.

The Rise and Fall of the United States: President Donald Trump and VP Sarah’s 2024 Presidential Campaign in Miami and the Challenge to Latinos

“As I look back at my life’s journey and events, I now recognize that it’s been the hand of God leading me to where I am today,” Trump said at an event with faith leaders in Concord. “And my faith took on new meaning on July 13th in Butler, Pennsylvania, where I was knocked to the ground essentially by what seemed like a supernatural hand. I would like to think that God saved me for the purpose of making our country better.

There are two more Tuesdays left in the presidential election, and former President Donald Trump and Vice President Harris are filling up their schedules with stops in some key swing states.

Both candidates spent part of Tuesday continuing to make their appeals to Latino voters: Trump with a panel discussion at his golf resort in Miami, and Harris in taping an interview with Telemundo that will air Wednesday.

After faking Harris taking a day off from campaigning, Trump held his fourth campaign event in two days in the state that has become a must-win for his White House hopes.

Twenty million people have already cast their ballot in the 2024 presidential election, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab, including more than 1 in 4 active Georgia voters.

The campaign for Harris wants to push back against criticism of the number and type of interviews she has done.

“This is a serious matter. She said the American people are being presented with a very serious decision to make about the future of the country.

Asked if she would pardon Trump if she won the White House and he was convicted in the federal election interference case against him, Harris refused to engage.

Harris didn’t say whether she would make concessions, such as religious exemptions, to get the Republican senators to pass the abortion access law.

Harris intended to use the interview to announce a series of policies for Latino men. Those measures include a plan to double the number of registered apprenticeships and remove college degree requirements for up to 500,000 federal jobs.

The Harris campaign said the vice president would also provide 1 million forgivable loans worth up to $20,000 each for Latino and other entrepreneurs, and set a goal to more than double the number of first-time Latino homebuyers to nearly 600,000.

Speaking in Detroit, Obama said that Trump was incompetent and only wanting the power of the presidency as a means to an end, urging voters to support Harris because “we do not need to see what an older, loonier Donald Trump looks like with no guard rails.”

“Donald Trump wants us to think that this country is hopelessly divided between us and them,” he said. “And ‘us’ for him is the ‘real Americans’ who support him, and everybody else who doesn’t, that’s ‘them’ — that’s the enemy.”

While Latino voters have historically supported Democrats in greater numbers, Republicans hope Trump’s central focus on immigration issues and border security will help peel away support from a crucial bloc of voters.

Trump’s telepromptography of 2016: a gaffe from the media to the campaign trail in Gwinnett and Houston

He spoke for nearly two hours and mixed in his usual prepared remarks from the teleprompter with lengthy asides, including boasts about his crowd size and a melancholic reflection that his time on the campaign trail is coming to an end, both for this election and potentially for good.

He said it was sad because they were wrapping it up. We have been doing this for a long time. We had two unbelievable elections … when you think, we’ve been doing it for, from 2015 and now we’re where we are.”

Donald Trump, who would be the oldest person to become president if he wins, has made more gaffes in his speeches recently. He forgot the word fryer when talking about his McDonald’s stop Tuesday night and mistakenly referred to a group of fans known as the Front Row Jacks and Joes.

With 14 days to go until voting closes, the time, place and focus of each event added to the calendar gives insight into the campaigns’ closing messages and priorities to get out the vote.

Trump will headline a Turning Point USA rally in suburban Gwinnett County, Ga. Wednesday while Harris tapes a town hall with CNN in Chester Township, Pa. Thursday, Harris also heads to Gwinnett County to rally voters with Obama and Bruce Springsteen.

The Harris campaign announced Tuesday that the vice president will travel to Houston, Texas on Friday to discuss how the state’s abortion restrictions have hurt women — and to pin the blame for that on Trump. The event is also aimed at boosting support for Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, who is challenging Republican Ted Cruz for his Senate seat.

Trump also announced multiple rallies in Pennsylvania and Michigan later this week, joining events planned in Nevada and Arizona before holding an event at Madison Square Garden in New York.