Vice President Kamala Harris continued her outreach to anti-Trump Republicans today. She held a campaign event in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, where she showcased her support from more than 100 former Republican officials and continued her attacks labeling former President Donald Trump as dangerous for American democracy. “It is clear, Donald Trump is increasingly unstable and unhinged — and he is seeking unchecked power,” she said. Her remarks came hours before Fox News aired a combative pre-taped interview she gave to host Bret Baier, her first formal appearance on the Murdoch-owned network.
Earlier in the day, Fox News aired a town hall that former President Donald Trump had taped Tuesday night in front of an all-female audience of his supporters in Cumming, Georgia. Trump took questions on a range of issues, including the economy, immigration, reproductive rights and transgender rights. He made some news by doubling down on comments he made over the weekend calling some of his opponents “the enemy from within” and suggested he would use the military against them. “It is the enemy from within, and they’re very dangerous,” he told the town hall.
CNN’s Daniel Dale reports that Trump made at least 19 false claims during the one-hour event — “most of them debunked earlier in the campaign but some of them new, notably including an absurd claim that he is ‘the father of IVF.’”
Trump also held a Univision town hall with Latino voters in Doral, Florida, where he refused to back off his debunked claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. “I was just saying what was reported,” he said.
Trump also defended the January 6, 2021, rioters, saying they descended on the Capitol because they thought the election was rigged. “That was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions,” he said.
And he soft-pedaled his proposal for a mass deportation of undocumented immigrants. “We want workers, and we want them to come in, but they have to come in legally, and they have to love our country,” Trump said.
The Univision town hall will air at 10 p.m. ET.
