US elections reside: Donald Trump claims he’s the ‘reverse of a Nazi’ as anger continues over Puerto Rico feedback

The Democrats are warding off a Republican offensive aimed toward overturning their tiny majority within the Senate.

Retaking management of the US Congress’s higher chamber could characterize the GOP’s greatest alternative of success in November’s election, in response to analysts, surpassing their probabilities of retaking the White Home and even retaining management of the Home of Representatives.

However with a burst of enthusiasm from Kamala Harris’s marketing campaign, Democrats are nonetheless aggressive…

Bannon, 70, was jailed for defying a subpoena within the congressional investigation into the assault on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. When he started serving his sentence in July, Bannon referred to as himself a “political prisoner”.

“I’m happy with going to jail,” he mentioned on the time, including that he was standing as much as the legal professional basic, Merrick Garland, and a “corrupt” justice division.

Bannon must reply additional costs at trial in New York. He’s accused of tricking donors who gave cash to assist construct Trump’s infamous wall alongside the US-Mexico border. Bannon has pleaded not responsible to cash laundering, conspiracy, fraud and different costs. The trial begins in December.

Campaigning is ramping up within the race to the White Home as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump proceed to trade barbs on the marketing campaign path. Solely seven days stay till People head to the polls on Tuesday, 5 November. On Monday, Harris and Tim Waltz courted younger voters in Michigan, whereas Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen spoke in Philadelphia.

In the meantime, in Atlanta, Georgia, Donald Trump railed in opposition to being in comparison with Hitler, telling voters that he was the “reverse of a Nazi” in response to Democratic opponents, who likened him to the Nazi dictator after a slew of racist remarks had been made at his rally in Madison Sq. Backyard on Sunday.

On Tuesday, Trump will maintain a information convention at Mar-a-Lago at 10am ET – the place he’s more likely to face questions on racist remarks about Puerto Rico on the New York occasion.

He’s then heading to Allentown, Pennsylvania – dwelling to tens of 1000’s of Puerto Ricans.

• Campaigning for Harris in Wisconsin, Bernie Sanders mentioned: “You’ve gotten Mike Pence saying I can’t assist the man I labored with for 4 years” and “We can not permit somebody to be president of the USA who’s a pathological liar and who’s working night time and day to undermine American democracy.”

• Sanders additionally launched a video addressing voter issues over the Biden-Harris administration’s document on Gaza, saying: “After Kamala wins, we’ll collectively do all the pieces that we are able to to vary US coverage in the direction of Netanyahu.”

• Earlier than acting at a rally with Obama in Pennsylvania, Bruce Springsteen mentioned: “I’m Bruce Springsteen and I’m right here immediately to assist Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and to oppose Donald Trump and JD Vance … I desire a president who reveres the structure, who doesn’t threaten however desires to guard and information our nice democracy, who believes within the rule of regulation and the peaceable switch of energy, who will combat for girls’s rights … [and] create a middle-class economic system that works for all our residents.”

• Anita Hill, a former clerk to the US supreme court docket justice Clarence Thomas, has mentioned “racist, misogynist and sexistinsults” aimed toward Kamala Harris “should sting”. In a New York Occasions opinion piece revealed on Monday, the Brandeis College professor – who was famously introduced earlier than Thomas’s affirmation hearings solely to have her sexual harassment allegations in opposition to him picked aside by sitting senators – wrote that she sympathises with the US vice-president.