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Influential prophesizing pastors believe reelecting Trump is a win in the war of angels and demons

Oct. 03, 2024 08:09 AM EDT

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Thousands sang, cheered and prayed as multiple preachers declared Donald Trump to be God’s favored candidate to defeat what one called the “forces of darkness.” Headliners denounced Democrat Kamala Harris — Trump's campaign rival — as...

Liz Cheney will campaign with Harris in Wisconsin while Trump holds a rally in Michigan

Oct. 03, 2024 06:35 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Liz Cheney, one of Donald Trump’s fiercest Republican antagonists, will join Democrat Kamala Harris at a campaign event in Wisconsin on Thursday aimed at reaching out to moderate voters and rattling the former president. Cheney was the top Republican on the...

Hurricane Helene brings climate change to forefront of the presidential campaign

Oct. 03, 2024 02:41 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene has brought climate change to the forefront of the presidential campaign after the issue lingered on the margins for months. Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Georgia Wednesday to see hard-hit areas, two days...

Haunted by 2016, some Michigan Democrats worry that Harris remains ill-defined in swing state

Oct. 03, 2024 00:13 AM EDT

EASTPOINTE, Mich. (AP) — Bill Clinton stood with Michigan Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell outside a suburban Detroit grocery store two days before the 2016 election when it was clear to both that Hillary Clinton would lose the state. “They didn’t listen to you,” Dingell recalled the former...

The Latest: Trio of crises looms over the campaign's final stretch

Oct. 02, 2024 20:57 PM EDT

In a debate that evoked a calmer era in American politics, Tim Walz and JD Vance went after each other’s running mates Tuesday and sought to shore up their campaigns’ vulnerabilities at a time of renewed fears of a regional war in the Middle East and sadness over devastation from Hurricane...

Harris hands out meals, consoles families as she surveys Hurricane Helene devastation in Georgia

Oct. 02, 2024 20:18 PM EDT

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris handed out meals, embraced a shaken family and surveyed Hurricane Helene’s “extraordinary” path of destruction through Georgia on Wednesday as she left the campaign trail to pledge federal help and personally take in scenes of toppled trees,...

FACT FOCUS: Claims that more than 300,000 migrant children are missing lack context

Oct. 02, 2024 18:42 PM EDT

Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, have recently claimed that hundreds of thousands of migrant children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border unaccompanied are missing, then criticized the border policies of the Biden administration and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President...

JD Vance again refuses to say Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election

Oct. 02, 2024 17:58 PM EDT

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance on Wednesday again refused to say who he believed won the 2020 presidential election, which has been the persistent focus of false claims by his running mate, Donald Trump. Vance, speaking in Michigan a day...

Anti-abortion leaders undeterred as Trump for the first time says he'd veto a federal abortion ban

Oct. 02, 2024 16:54 PM EDT

CHICAGO (AP) — Anti-abortion leaders said Wednesday that they're undeterred after Donald Trump said he would veto a federal abortion ban, the first time he has explicitly said so after previously refusing to answer questions on the subject. During Tuesday night's vice presidential...

Harris and Trump are tested by the Mideast, Helene and the port strike in the campaign's final weeks

Oct. 02, 2024 15:39 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A trio of new trials — a devastating hurricane, expanding conflict in the Mideast and a dockworkers strike that threatens the U.S. economy — are looming over the final weeks of the presidential campaign and could help shape the public mood as voters decide between Democrat...