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Harris looking to trigger Trump on rally crowds number
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.”
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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 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.
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.
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Los Angeles, Ca
Long Beach hospital seeks help identifying man found injured on Metro train
A hospital needs help identifying a man who was found injured on a Metro train in Long Beach.
The male patient has been hospitalized since Sept. 7 at a Dignity Health hospital.
He was found unconscious and lying on the floor of a Metro train at the 1st Street Station platform, staff said.
He is in his 40s, stands 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs around 119 pounds. He has brown/gray hair, brown eyes and a short, stubble beard.
The man was not found with any personal belongings to help workers identify him.
The extent of his injuries was not released by hospital staff.
Anyone who recognizes this patient or has information that may help identify him is asked to call 562-491-9381.
Southwest
'Trump Train' trial: Bus driver says he felt 'under attack' during interstate clash
The driver of a Biden-Harris campaign bus told jurors on Wednesday that he felt “under attack” when the bus he was driving was swarmed by a convoy of former President Trump supporters on a busy Texas interstate days before the 2020 presidential election.
On the third day of the “Trump train trial,” bus driver Timothy Holloway testified that he felt threatened during the incident when dozens of vehicles adorned with large Trump flags surrounded the bus along Interstate 35 as it made its way to a campaign event.
“I was the captain of the ship. I was the pilot of the plane,” a tearful Holloway told the seven-person jury, according to the San Antonio Express-News. “I don’t know what they’re trying to do.”
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Holloway said he had a clenching feeling in his stomach and sweaty palms as he worked to stay calm during the Oct. 30, 2020, incident, saying the “Trump Train” drivers forced him to slow down to speeds as low as 5 or 10 miles per hour.
Holloway, along with former Democratic Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, a campaign volunteer and a staffer, is suing six Trump supporters who were part of the convoy that day, accusing them of political intimidation in a federal civil case that kicked off Monday.
The plaintiffs say those Trump supporters are responsible for assault and political intimidation tactics, including violating state law and the federal Enforcement Act of 1871, also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act. The law aims to stop political violence and intimidation tactics and was enacted by Congress during the Reconstruction Era to protect the rights of Black men to vote by prohibiting political violence.
The lawsuit, filed in 2021, seeks punitive and compensatory damages.
The defendants — Steve Ceh, Randi Ceh, Robert Mesaros, Joeylynn Mesaros, Eliazar Cisneros and Dolores Park — say they were merely supporting Trump “in a very loud way,” an attorney has said.
The plaintiffs say the group attempted to run the bus off the road along Interstate 35 and in one incident captured on video, a “Trump Train” pickup truck and a Biden campaign SUV collided while trailing the bus, although nobody was hurt. The defendants have denied driving recklessly and argue that a campaign staff member in the white SUV initiated the collision along the highway. Video leading up to the collision shows the SUV repeatedly driving in between lanes.
The plaintiffs argue that some of those in the convoy appeared to believe that Kamala Harris, then a candidate for vice president, might be aboard, though she was not.
Holloway on Wednesday testified he got an “eerie feeling” when he saw the Trump supporters’ vehicles lined up along the interstate waiting for the bus around the Solms Road exit near New Braunfels, the San Antonio Express-News reports. He said that the “Trump Train” drivers caused several near-collisions and forced Holloway to repeatedly swerve to avoid crashing, adding that if he had tried to navigate the bus through the group of vehicles, it might have led to deaths.
“I can’t really outrun these cars,” Holloway said. “You have to do whatever the car in front of you does.”
Erin Mersino, a defense attorney, asked Holloway why he didn’t pull off the freeway and seek safety at a police station if he felt threatened. Holloway replied saying that there are usually stoplights on the frontage roads along the highway, where the “Trump Train” drivers might have surrounded the stopped bus, per the outlet.
Mersino said Halloway could have run the lights if he were really in fear for his life.
Theron Bowman, a former police official who is working as a paid expert witness for the plaintiffs’ attorneys, also took the stand on Wednesday, as well as on Tuesday, and testified that the “Trump Train” drivers posed a “serious threat” to traffic safety and that their actions appeared “very coordinated,” the San Antonio Express-News reports.
He noted that one driver — Robert Mesaros — pulled in front of the bus to stop on the shoulder, while Bowman said he could see a pattern of the drivers working together to surround the bus.
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Mesaros’ attorney argued that his client had stopped on the shoulder due to damage to a state of Texas flag that was flying from the back of his truck and that he only pulled in front of the bus when Holloway honked the horn, interpreting the honk as a signal to go ahead and pull over.
Bowman countered, saying that Holloway made a sustained honk of his horn, indicating for him to “get out of my way.”
“The option that he took was probably the least safe option that he had at that moment,” Bowman said, per the San Antonio Express-News.
Bowman also said that video showed a line of “Trump Train” drivers in front of the bus braking at the same time to slow it down.
He also pointed to cell phone videos filmed by Dolores Park, one of the defendants, where she can be heard saying: “They try to break us up, but it doesn’t work … there’s too many of us.” She can also be heard in the video describing how she could “scoot over” in front of a semi-truck to let more drivers join the convoy.
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On Monday, Davis, who was also on the bus, testified that she felt like she was being “taken hostage in a way.”
“It was a day that was very different from anything I experienced campaigning,” said Davis, who testified that she felt riddled with fear and anxiety.
The trial is scheduled to resume Thursday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Los Angeles, Ca
Khloe Kardashian, Paris Hilton, and more celebs react to earthquake near Malibu
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.6 rocked the Los Angeles area on Thursday morning.
Those who felt it immediately took to social media to check on what had happened, among those were some celebrities.
“Damn, that was a big one,” Khloe Kardashian posted to X, formerly Twitter. Kardashian resides in Hidden Hills, which is a gated community with the Santa Monica Mountains. It’s not exactly clear if the reality star was home at the time of the quake.
“That #Earthquake was scary,” wrote Paris Hilton to the platform.
Model and personality Amber Rose said the tremor was “the biggest earthquake” she had ever “experienced in California.” She then wrote that she hoped “everyone is ok!”
Actress and “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Garcelle Beauvais said she was in bed when she felt the quake.
Like many L.A. residents, comedian and host Loni Love received an update on her iPhone.
“I felt it as soon as this message popped… hope folks are okay,” she posted to X.
The quake was initially reported as magnitude 5.1 before being downgraded to 4.6 and then ultimately 4.7. Several KTLA viewers reported feeling the quake in the Inland Empire, and the USGS impact map shows it was also felt in areas of Orange County, Santa Barbara County and San Diego County.
The quake was followed by at least two aftershocks measuring 2.8 and 3.4.
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