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Harris looking to trigger Trump on rally crowds number

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2 months ago

September 12, 2024

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Harris looking to trigger Trump on rally crowds number

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FIRST ON FOX – The Democratic National Committee, on Thursday, plans to troll former President Trump, over his alleged preoccupation with the size of the crowds at his rallies and those of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Fox News has learned that the DNC will launch a video of Harris baiting Trump over crowd sizes, from Tuesday’s first and potentially only presidential debate between the Democratic and Republican Party nominees.

The video will play on a mobile billboard that will circle the Tucson Music Hall, site of Trump’s Thursday campaign event in battleground Arizona.

Harris is seen in the video in a clip from Tuesday’s debate discussing Trump’s comments at his rallies, in what the Democrats characterize as “incoherent ramblings.”

HARRIS APPEARS TO GET UNDER TRUMP’S SKIN AT DEBATE SHOWDOWN

Vice President Kamala Harris during the second presidential debate, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (Doug Mills/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The vice president in the debate noted that Trump – at his rallies – speaks about fictional characters, including Hannibal Lecter from the psychological horror crime thriller film “Silence of the Lambs.” She also spotlighted that the former president talks about how “windmills cause cancer.”

Harris then noted that “people start leaving his rallies early, out of exhaustion and boredom.”

Harris’ shifting of the spotlight to crowd size during the debate came as she was answering a question on border security, which is seen as an issue that politically benefits Trump.

Trump, apparently taking the bait, responded to Harris, arguing, “she said people start leaving. People don’t go to her rallies. There’s no reason to go.”

“And the people that do go, she’s busing them in and paying them to be there. And then showing them in a different light,” the former president claimed. “So, she can’t talk about that.”

trump on debate stage with kamala harris

Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, debates Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, for the first time during the presidential election campaign at The National Constitution Center on September 10, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump for years has drawn large crowds at his rallies, which can stretch up to three to four hours, from a pre-show of speakers to Trump’s often-hour to two-hour-long stream of comments.

Harris, since replacing President Biden nearly eight weeks ago atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket, has also drawn large crowds of similar sizes to her rallies, but she keeps her comments shorter, with her speeches rarely extending over a half an hour in length.

Hours before the start of the debate, the Harris campaign launched an ad in another attempt to get under Trump’s skin over crowd size. The spot used clips from former President Barack Obama’s much-talked about tweaks of Trump during Obama’s Democratic National Convention speech last month.

Vice President Kamala Harris, right, and former President Donald Trump during their first and potentially only debate, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. Photographer: Doug Mills/The New York Time/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Getty Images)

Ahead of Trump’s stop in Tucson, DNC spokesperson Cameron Niven argued that “no matter what Trump rambles on about tonight, he will not be focused on the issues that matter to Arizonans.”

Arizona is one of seven key battleground states that decided the outcome of the 2020 election between Biden and Trump and are likely to determine the winner of the 2024 White House showdown.

Harris holds two rallies Thursday in another of the crucial swing states – North Carolina.

Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.

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Los Angeles, Ca

Fort Irwin soldier allegedly murdered comrade

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21 mins ago

November 25, 2024

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Fort Irwin soldier allegedly murdered comrade

A soldier from Fontana has been charged with murder in the death of another soldier at Fort Irwin in San Bernardino County.

Spc. George Cornejo, 26, is accused of killing Spc. Andrew P. Smith on Oct. 28, military officials said in a press release.

Smith, 27, was found injured in his residence that day and later succumbed to his wounds, officials said when announcing his death. The Rye, New York, native had been stationed at Fort Irwin for more than two years.

The manner and possible motivation for the alleged murder were not released.

Cornejo has been in pre-trial custody since Oct. 29, and he’s expected to be transferred to the Naval Consolidated Brig in Miramar.

A preliminary hearing will be held to determine if Cornejo will be tried by court-martial.

Southwest

Texas man convicted after saying he mutilated victims, ate human heart as part of 'ritualistic sacrifices'

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7 hours ago

November 25, 2024

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Texas man convicted after saying he mutilated victims, ate human heart as part of 'ritualistic sacrifices'

A Texas man was convicted of killing three people, dismembering them and burning their bodies after admitting to investigators that he was called to “commit sacrifices.”

Jason Thornburg was found guilty of capital murder on Wednesday and now, the same Tarrant County jury that convicted him must determine whether he receives a death sentence or if he will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole, according to Fox 4.

In September 2021, Thornburg killed three people, dismembered their bodies and stored them under his bed at a motel in Euless, Texas, before lighting the bodies on fire inside a dumpster in Fort Worth.

TEXAS LAWMAKER PROPOSES BILL TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY IN LONE STAR STATE: ‘I THINK SENTIMENT IS CHANGING’

Jason Thornburg (Tarrant County Jail)

Thornburg confessed to investigators that he felt a compulsion to commit “ritualistic sacrifices” and that he ate a victim’s heart and other parts of the victims’ bodies.

His attorneys argued he was insane when he carried out the murders and suffered from a severe mental disease.

ELDERLY MAN ACCUSED OF ROOMMATE AND DOG’S ‘BRUTAL’ MURDER HAD EXTENSIVE CRIMINAL RECORD

Thornburg confessed to investigators that he was being called to “commit sacrifices” and that he ate a victim’s heart and other parts of the victims’ bodies. (iStock)

When he was arrested on murder allegations, Thornburg confessed to police he killed his roommate in May 2021 during a suspicious home explosion and his girlfriend in Arizona back in 2017.

These two previous murders were brought up in court on Thursday when the punishment aspect of the trial began.

The jury must now determine whether he receives a death sentence or if he will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. (iStock)

The victims’ families cannot speak publicly until the punishment phase is finished.

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Vehicle, 2 occupants plunge into crowded Southern California harbor

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8 hours ago

November 25, 2024

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Vehicle, 2 occupants plunge into crowded Southern California harbor

Two people were taken to the hospital after a vehicle they were inside plunged into the harbor Sunday night in Marina Del Rey, officials confirmed to KTLA.

Details are limited and It’s unclear exactly how the incident occurred, but authorities with the Los Angeles County Fire Department responded to 4675 Admiralty Way just after 6 p.m. on reports of the vehicle in the water.

L.A. County Fire Department Public Information Officer Marco Rodriguez said the two occupants were able to get themselves out of the vehicle after it went into the water.

Both were examined by medical personnel with the fire department and taken to a nearby hospital in unknown condition.

Rodriguez said that two L.A. County Lifeguard divers were deployed to ensure there were no other occupants trapped in the vehicle.

Crews with L.A. County Fire work to pull a vehicle out of the harbor in Marina del Rey. (KTLA)
Crews with L.A. County Fire work to pull a vehicle out of the harbor in Marina del Rey. (KTLA)
Crews with L.A. County Fire work to pull a vehicle out of the harbor in Marina del Rey. (KTLA)
Crews with L.A. County Fire work to pull a vehicle out of the harbor in Marina del Rey. (KTLA)
Crews with L.A. County Fire work to pull a vehicle out of the harbor in Marina del Rey. (KTLA)
Crews with L.A. County Fire work to pull a vehicle out of the harbor in Marina del Rey. (KTLA)
Crews with L.A. County Fire work to pull a vehicle out of the harbor in Marina del Rey. (KTLA)
Crews with L.A. County Fire work to pull a vehicle out of the harbor in Marina del Rey. (KTLA)

A witness, Johnny Hamcheck, told KTLA that a third person, a woman, exited the vehicle before it went into water, though officials did not confirm that detail.

Footage of the recovery effort showed crews attaching large yellow floating devices to the vehicle as it was anchored to a crane and eventually pulled out of the water and loaded onto a tow truck.

The vehicle showed heavy front-end damage, presumably from crashing through the steel railing and into the water.

An investigation into the crash is ongoing and no further details were provided.