Harris labels Trump as ‘obsessed with revenge’ during closing arguments: Live

If its own early estimate is to be believed, the Harris event drew about 22,000 more people than the Trump speech, whose crowd was estimated by the House committee investigating the Capitol riot to be about 53,000 people.

Josh Marcus has the details.

President Joe Biden tonight participated in a Zoom call with Latinos and denounced attacks on Puerto Rico at Donald Trump’s rally on Sunday at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

In somewhat rambling remarks, Biden said the “only garbage” he saw was intolerance of Trump supporters who believed what was said on stage when a comedian called the US territory a “floating island of garbage”.

The White House claims that this is their transcript of Biden’s comments: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”

White House spokesman Andrew Bates: “The President referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as ‘garbage.’”

As Election Day nears, Donald Trump has shared false and exaggerated claims about the integrity of the vote in the key swing state of Pennsylvania.

In a Truth Social post on Monday evening, Trump claimed multiple counties in Pennsylvania were experiencing major potential fraud, outpacing the facts on the ground.

Donald Trump’s Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City was meant to be a show of strength for the former president ahead of election week.

But the event became a disaster before Trump took to the stage. Early-in-the-night comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke: “There’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” set off a cascade of negative reactions that rapidly spun out of control.

Alex Woodward examines how, despite Trump’s long history of blatantly offensive remarks, this joke might have been one step too far:

With one week remaining until the 2024 election, Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday urged Americans to “turn the page” from Donald Trump, calling the ex-president “unstable,” “obsessed with revenge,” and not at all focused on their needs as she stood within sight of the White House to make her campaign’s “closing argument” against the ex-president.

Standing on a stage at the Ellipse, where Trump exhorted a riotous mob of his supporters to attack the Capitol nearly four years ago, Harris noted what Trump had done in the very place where she was standing and reminded the crowd of roughly 75,000 supporters that Trump was “the person who stood at this very spot nearly four years ago, and sent an armed mob to the United States Capitol to overturn the will of the people in a free and fair election — an election that he knew he lost.”

Andrew Feinberg reports for The Independent from Washington, DC.

“We are not a vessel for the schemes of wannabe dictators. The United States of America is the greatest idea humanity ever devised.”