With 21 days remaining until the final voting day of the 2024 United States presidential election, both Harris and Trump are making efforts to gain the support of African American voters, women, and other crucial voting districts. The competition between the two candidates is intense, and their campaign schedules are packed.
On Wednesday, October 16th, Harris conducted a campaign event in Pennsylvania before her interview with Fox News, while Trump recorded a town hall event with a Spanish-language television station in Miami, Florida, where he interacted with Hispanic voters and later hosted a high-priced fundraising event at his Mar-a-Lago estate that evening.
Harris’s interview on Fox is scheduled to air on Wednesday evening, while Fox News aired a pre-recorded town hall event on women’s issues featuring Trump earlier in the day.
During a campaign event in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, Harris appealed to Republicans and independent voters, painting former President Trump as a threat to American democracy that is dangerous and unstable.
Former U.S. Congressman Adam Kinzinger from Illinois, a Republican, participated in Harris’s campaign event, stating that it is a time to put “country over party.”
Standing in front of a banner that read “Country Over Party,” Harris stated that the Constitution is meant to ensure a peaceful transfer of power and emphasized that it is not a relic of the past. She highlighted that the Constitution determines whether the U.S. is a country where people can speak freely and criticize the president without fear of being thrown in jail.
During the town hall event hosted by Fox News that day, Trump once again referred to Democratic Party members as “domestic enemies,” more dangerous than foreign adversaries, labeling them as “Marxists, Communists, and fascists.”
The Vice President’s campaign team criticized Trump’s comments as “absurd.”
At the town hall event hosted by the leading Spanish-language television network Univision, Trump faced sharp questioning.
One man present raised the issue of the events at the Capitol building on January 6, 2021.
Trump reiterated his view that no one did anything wrong on January 6 and described it as a “day filled with love” from the perspective of the millions of participants.
The former president made similar comments during an interview with Bloomberg yesterday, stating that “Some people went to the Capitol, and a lot of strange things happened there. Some were waved in by the police, some were shouting ‘go in,’ but these people never got into trouble.”
Trump also addressed questions related to immigration, guns, and abortion, including whether he agreed with his wife Melania’s support for abortion rights in a new memoir.
He responded by saying he encourages Melania to support whatever stance she believes in while promoting her new book.
Trump considers his appointment of a Supreme Court justice who could overturn the Roe v. Wade case as an achievement during his term. However, he has stated that if re-elected, he would overturn the federal abortion ban and leave the issue to be decided by state legislatures.