Uncertainty reigns entering the final full week of the 2024 campaign with Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris locked in a fiercely competitive presidential contest. What happens in the coming days will be pivotal in deciding the winner of next week’s election.
Trump on Sunday held a huge and enthusiastic rally at Madison Square Garden.
Trump plans to hold a rally in Atlanta Monday evening while Harris will make several campaign stops in Michigan, including a rally with singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers.
Here’s the latest:
Trump speaks at Madison Square Garden
The event was a surreal spectacle that included former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, TV psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, politicians including House Speaker Mike Johnson and Reps. Byron Donalds and Elise Stefanik, and an artist who painted a picture of Trump hugging the Empire State Building.
And that was all before Trump was to take the stage.
After being introduced by his wife, Melania Trump, the former president began by asking the same questions he’s asked at the start of every recent rally: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” The crowd responded with a resounding “No!”
“This election is a choice between whether we’ll have four more years of gross incompetence and failure, or whether we’ll begin the greatest years in the history of our country,” he said.
Trump announced a new tax credit for caregivers
Trump on Sunday added a new proposal to his list of tax cuts for older adults and blue-collar workers, which already includes vows to end taxes on Social Security benefits, tips and overtime pay: A tax credit for family caregivers.
Trump otherwise repeated familiar lines about foreign policy and immigration, calling for the death penalty for any migrant who kills a U.S. citizen and saying that the day he takes office, “The migrant invasion of our country ends.”
Harris says she’d take a cognitive test if asked to
As former President Donald Trump continues to attack Vice President Kamala Harris’s intelligence, he has also suggested she should take a cognitive test.
In an interview with CBS News, Harris said “sure” when asked whether she’d take such a test.
“I would challenge him to take the same one,” Harris said. “I think he actually is increasingly unstable and unhinged and has resorted to name-calling because he actually has no plan for the American people.”
Biden plans to cast an early ballot on Monday
President Joe Biden plans to cast an early ballot on Monday near his home outside Wilmington, Delaware, according to the White House.
For all but a few years since 1970, Biden has held office or has been running for one during election season. But this year, his hopes lie with a newer generation of Democrats, including three on the Delaware ballot looking to make history.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who Biden endorsed after dropping out of the presidential race in July, is vying to become the first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent to serve as president.
Harris highlights costs of living, abortion and border security as 3 immediate priorities
Kamala Harris says she has three immediate legislative priorities when she takes office, should she be elected president.
In an interview with CBS News, Harris said her first priority will be reducing costs for Americans with an expanded child tax credit and efforts to reduce the cost of groceries and make homes more affordable. The second is to work to restore abortion protections and the third will be to work on passage of a border security bill.
Harris and Republican Donald Trump are in a tight race for the White House.
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