Trump’s message moments before assassination attempt spurred me to action: Butler-area mayor
SHERMAN’S DALE, Pennsylvania— Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania Mayor Jondavid Longo was with former President Donald Trump in his home county of Butler in July just minutes before the GOP nominee was shot by an attempted assassin. Longo, about to begin his eighth year as mayor of the borough just a handful of miles northwest of the rally site, spoke to Fox News Digital as he traveled the commonwealth with the Team Trump bus tour — a week-long trip he embarked on because of what Trump has come to mean for many Pennsylvanians since that tragic day, he said. “You know, I’ve always been a supporter of the president,” Longo said, adding during his public speech that he had backed the mogul since “day one when he came down the golden escalator” in Trump Tower in 2015. Longo said he, like many Republicans in Pennsylvania, was hesitant about transitioning to early voting from the centuries-old custom of waiting until Election Day to go to the polls to cast a ballot. OCTOBER FESTS: POTPOURRI OF LATE ELECTION YEAR SURPRISES SHAKE-UP MOST RACES, HISTORY SHOWS “But… I thought to myself long and hard after that day, after watching that man get shot in the face. And I thought, ‘My goodness, everything that this man has been through — and he’s asking us to go and vote early — the least that we all could do is do what it is that he’s asking us to do in order to make sure that he can get across the finish line so that we can take this country back,’” he said. “Because let’s face it, people are suffering, and we cannot afford another four years of the failed leadership of Kamala Harris.” Longo was with Trump about 20 minutes before he took the stage in Butler in July. Reportedly his normal gregarious self, Trump interacted with several local officials, including the mayor, backstage at the Butler Farm Show grounds. “He asked me, ‘Mayor, how are we doing on the ground — what’s it look like in Butler County?’” VANCE QUESTIONS LEFT’S CACOPHONY AGAINST JILL STEIN WHILE BACKING RFK JR ON THE BALLOT “And I had the pleasure of looking that man in the eye and talking about all of the great things that all of you are doing in places like Butler County and all across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to make sure those 19 important electoral votes belong to him so that we can get them back to the White House.” “We’re going to deliver Pennsylvania for you, Mr. President. We’re going to do it for you,” Longo recalled telling Trump. Moments later, shots rang out, and Trump was dogpiled by Secret Service agents, bleeding from his head. Shooter Thomas Crooks had hit Trump’s right ear in what the president said was a stroke of luck due to his gesturing at that same moment toward a graph of illegal immigration statistics. “I watched that man get shot in the face. How many of you saw that?” Longo later asked the crowd. “Let me ask you something: Do you love President Trump? Are you willing to do whatever it takes to make sure he gets back in Washington to clean up this mess that Kamala Harris and the Democrats have put us in?” “Then I implore you, join me in early voting for President Trump. And that’s my confession here. Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve got to tell you, I wasn’t a giant fan of early voting until this moment. When I looked at President Trump in the eyes, and he said, ‘Don’t let me down.’ And I heard him time and again.” The “don’t let me down” refrain stuck with Longo ever since, as he stepped off the bus for the penultimate time Friday at Republican state Rep. Barb Gleim’s farm near the Perry County line. As he took the stage, the sun was setting over the nearby Appalachian Mountains to the west, and former California Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado, a fellow Trump surrogate on the bus, remarked how much the scene reminded him of home. Standing beside Maldonado and several others, and before rows of supporters seated on haybales and a giant American flag suspended by a crane, Longo said the risks Trump has endured for the U.S. should energize everyone next month. “I thought to myself, this man, the sacrifices he’s made for all of us, him and his family have been raked over the coals for years and have given up everything so that they can fight for us.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Longo said he and his wife are expecting a daughter next year, and that Pennsylvanians should vote early, not just for Trump, but to not “let down” the next generation yet to be born. Back home in Slippery Rock, not far from industrial Youngstown, Ohio, and Erie, Pennsylvania, Longo said his constituents are “feeling… the pressure” of the Biden-Harris economy and decline in public safety. “My family should not feel unsafe going to a town next door like Pittsburgh to go and enjoy a night out. And we just don’t feel safe in our own cities anymore. Businesses are fleeing cities like that as well. I mean, my gosh. Pennsylvania itself is hemorrhaging people,” he said. “We’re losing population because opportunities aren’t here. We’re under heavy Democrat control here in Pennsylvania, I might add, too,” he said. “So these are the things that are very much on the hearts and minds of Pennsylvania’s voters. And for those reasons, we’re going to get out and vote for Donald J. Trump.”
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Biden casts vote in Delaware, calls Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally ‘simply embarrassing’
President Biden cast his early-voting ballot in Delaware on Monday and told reporters he was confident that Vice President Kamala Harris would defeat former President Donald Trump, calling Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday an embarrassment. Biden waited in line with other voters outside the state of Delaware Department of Elections and helped push an older woman in a wheelchair ahead of him before casting his ballot. After voting, Biden greeted reporters outside, where he was asked whether it was a bittersweet moment. Biden responded, “No, this is just sweet.” Biden stepped down from his re-election campaign in July following a poor debate performance that stoked concerns about his health and Democrats’ worries about his chances of defeating Trump. LIVE UPDATES: TRUMP RIDES HIGH AFTER MSG RALLY AS HE AND HARRIS NEAR ONE WEEK TO ELECTION DAY Biden was asked what he thought about the massive rally Trump held at Madison Square Garden the previous night. “It’s beneath any president but that’s what we’re used to,” Biden said. “That’s why this election is so important.” Biden added that Trump puts his own character into question “every time he opens his mouth.” Trump took the stage Sunday night in front of a packed house of thousands of supporters, focusing his speech on spiraling immigration, inflation woes and looking toward the future with lower consumer costs and securing the border. When asked about the Israel-Hamas war and a potential cease-fire, Biden responded, “We need a cease-fire, we should end this war.” Regarding another conflict abroad, the Russia-Ukraine war, Biden was asked about North Korea deploying troops to help Russian President Vladimir Putin. TRUMP, HARRIS NEARLY TIED IN BATTLEGROUND WISCONSIN 8 DAYS FROM ELECTION DAY, POLL FINDS “It’s very dangerous,” Biden said, of the apparent escalation. The range of questions included whether he thought Elon Musk’s $1 million offer to swing-state voters who sign his political action committee’s petition backing the Constitution was election interference. Biden called the tech billionaire’s offer “totally inappropriate.” Biden was also asked if he thought Democrats – including Harris – would win. “I think we will,” he said. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Michigan campaign stops from presidential candidates already double that of 2020, 2016
Presidential and vice presidential candidates have already doubled their events in Michigan during the 2024 election cycle compared with the 2016 and 2020 elections. The Harris and Trump campaigns have combined for 46 events in the swing state of Michigan with a week to go before the election, far outpacing the 22 events the state saw in 2016 and 21 it hosted in 2021. The 2024 data, which is continuously updated by the Associated Press, counts events held in the state by both candidates for president, their running mates, and events where the entire ticket is present for the event. Data for the 2016 and 2020 elections was compiled by Fair Vote and also counts events for both presidential candidates and their running mates. CHECK OUT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POWER RANKINGS IN THE 2024 ELECTION Former President Trump and Ohio Sen. JD Vance have combined for 26 visits to the state, while Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz have combined for 20. The visit count in Michigan comes as the state has emerged as one of the key battlegrounds in what promises to be a tight election. According to the Real Clear Politics polling average as of Monday, Trump holds a narrow 0.1 point lead in the state. The betting odds for Michigan are nearly as close, with ElectionBettingOdds.com showing Trump with a 53% chance to win Michigan, with Harris coming in at a 47% chance. Meanwhile, the Fox News Power rankings continue to rate Michigan as a toss-up. POLITICAL ROCK STARS AND ENTERTAINMENT CELEBRITIES HIT THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL Michigan has been one of the most critical swing states in the last three elections, with Trump narrowly winning the state in 2016 by less than half a percentage point. Trump would then drop the state to President Biden in 2020 by less than three percentage points. The importance of the state and how narrow the margins have been in recent years have shown up in the amount of time the candidates are spending there. Michigan’s 22 total visits came in fifth place in 2016, ranking behind Florida (71), North Carolina (55), Pennsylvania (54) and Ohio (48). A similar story played out in 2021, when Michigan was the fourth most visited state, coming in behind Pennsylvania (47), Florida (31) and North Carolina (25). Only Pennsylvania has received more total visits from the campaigns than Michigan in 2024, coming in at 63 total visits as of Oct. 28, the AP data shows. The five other key battlegrounds in this year’s election have also seen a high amount of attention, with North Carolina (35 events), Wisconsin (33), Arizona (23), Nevada (20), and Georgia (18) rounding out the top states, the AP data shows. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
Leaked video exposes Dem staffer admitting ‘quiet part out loud’ in fiery tirade: ‘Open the f—ing border’
A Democrat staffer who has worked on campaigns for two vulnerable Ohio candidates was captured on video calling for open borders and labeling those wanting to secure the border as “racist.” “Open the f—ing border, I don’t give a s— who comes in here,” the staffer, identified and first reported by Ohio.news as Kevin Oyakawa, said on a video during a conversation with a volunteer earlier this month. “We don’t need border patrol but, [the] issue with even talking about immigration here in Ohio is that it’s a losing issue for Democrats here, for like no f—ing reason other than people’s pure racism,” added Oyakawa, who posted on Facebook that he was hired by the Ohio Coordinated Campaign to “re-elect Sherrod Brown, Congresswoman Emilia Sykes, and other down ballot Democratic candidates.” “That’s why,” Oyakawa explains, “It’s probably hard to find anything about like where she [Sykes] stands on it.” VOTERS SPEAK OUT IN KEY SWING DISTRICT THAT COULD DETERMINE CONTROL OF HOUSE: ‘KICKED’ TO THE ‘CURB’ “In terms of the way that she talks with the public, if she has to start talking about immigration, she starts losing.” Oyakawa’s LinkedIn page, before it was deleted on Thursday, listed him as a regional organizing director in Ohio for the Ohio Democratic Party. Photos on social media show him canvassing for Sykes and Brown and in a now-deleted Facebook post he wrote that he is “responsible for leading a team of field organizers on day to day operations of the campaign” in Summit and Stark counties. “Just another guy who is active in the Resistance,” Oyakawa’s Facebook page says along with a photo of him standing with an Emilia Sykes sign with various other volunteers. In a statement to Fox News Digital, the Sykes campaign said, “Congresswoman Emilia Sykes has worked to deliver increased funding to help secure our border and stop the flow of illegal drugs like fentanyl. She also cosponsored the bipartisan Dignity Act that would address border security and infrastructure, all while her opponent Kevin Coughlin uses the border to play politics.” OHIO GRAND JURIES INDICT SIX NON-CITIZENS FOR ALLEGEDLY ILLEGALLY VOTING IN PAST ELECTIONS Matt Keyes, Brown’s campaign spokesperson, told Fox News Digital, “While Sherrod supports the bipartisan border security bill backed by border patrol agents and has worked with both parties to secure our southern border and keep Ohioans safe from fentanyl by cracking down on the chemical suppliers in China and drug cartels in Mexico, Bernie Moreno opposes these efforts because he isn’t looking out for Ohioans.” Brown and Sykes’ Republican opponents are blasting Oyakawa’s comments. VULNERABLE HOUSE DEM DODGES QUESTION ON VP HARRIS’ RECORD AS ‘BORDER CZAR’: ‘DON’T KNOW WHO KAMALA HARRIS IS’ “Sherrod Brown’s staff is saying the quiet part out loud: Ohio Democrats would rather keep the border open and continue to allow millions of illegals to enter our nation rather than secure the border and protect our communities,” Reagan McCarthy, communications director for Brown’s GOP challenger, Bernie Moreno, told Fox News Digital. Former Ohio state Sen. Kevin Coughlin, running against Sykes in Ohio’s 13th Congressional District, told Fox News Digital, “Ohioans are already aware of Emilia Sykes’ dangerous open border policies, and now we see what she and her team support behind closed doors. It’s bad enough that Ohio communities are suffering from fentanyl and crime flowing over our borders, but her team has no remorse. And she calls anyone who disagrees with her ‘racist.’” “It’s disgusting, and Emilia Sykes should condemn this immediately.” NRCC spokesperson Mike Marinella told Fox News Digital that Sykes “has gone to great lengths to lie to voters about her dangerous open border record, but her staff just said the quiet part out loud.” “Sykes should be ashamed of her team and apologize immediately.” Fox News Digital reached out to the Ohio Democratic Party for comment but did not receive a response. Both Sykes and Brown have faced criticism from their Republican opponents for not being strong enough on illegal immigration. In Brown’s case, his campaign has blanketed radio and television with ads touting his border record. Sykes, a first-term Democrat who won in 2022 by five points, is defending her seat in a district that includes parts of two counties that former President Trump comfortably won in 2020. The Cook Political Report ranks the race as a “Lean Democrat.” The race between Moreno and Brown is expected to be a close one as Republicans view it as one of their strongest opportunities to take back control of the Senate in November. The Cook Political report ranks the race as a “toss-up” and recent polling shows the race within the margin of error.
‘Scared’ and ‘traumatized’: Walz’s support for trans women in Minnesota women’s prison ‘endangering’ inmates
Inmates in Minnesota’s sole women’s prison report feeling “scared” and “traumatized” by the presence of transgender women in their living quarters – a situation that arose after Gov. Tim Walz’s endorsement of a controversial “sue and settlement” arrangement with a left-wing organization last year. Rebeca Warmbo, a former inmate at the Women’s Correctional Facility in Shakopee, who spent more than a decade in and out of prison on drug and robbery charges, now considers herself an advocate for her friends still behind bars. Warmbo, 50, keeps in regular contact with several women, who’ve written to her about their experiences ever since the trans inmates were transferred in. “They’re in fear, and they’re scared all the time, and they feel traumatized,” Warmbo told Fox News Digital. “Because [some of] these men are sex offenders, and a lot of the women in there have been abused or had sex offenses done against them.” She added: “They do sexually suggestive things to them, and it’s making them all very uncomfortable.” WALZ ADMINISTRATION SETTLES LEFT-WING GROUP’S TRANS INMATE LAWSUIT, COSTING MINNESOTA TAXPAYERS NEARLY $500K There are 48 transgender people reported across all Department of Corrections (DOC) facilities, according to a release last year from the Minnesota DOC. Fox News Digital identified at least four transgender inmates in the women’s prison. The state’s total incarcerated population is just under 10,000. Nathan Charles Johnson, Bradley Richard Sirvio, Sean Windingland and Elijah Thomas Berryman are currently serving sentences in the women’s facility for felony charges. According to DOC records, Sirvio is serving a life sentence for homicide, Windingland is serving 24 years for criminal sexual conduct, Berryman is serving a 26-year sentence also for criminal sexual conduct, and Johnson, charged with aiding and abetting a burglary, is set to be released in February 2025. Warmbo – a self-professed Christian who says she is now sober and studying to be a psychologist – said she has written several letters to her local representatives in Congress and to the Biden-Harris administration about the added “endangerment” incarcerated women now face living in close quarters with biological males. TRANS INMATE WHO KILLED BABY AND IDENTIFIES AS MUSLIM WOMAN SUES CHAPLAIN FOR ALLEGEDLY NOT ALLOWING HIJAB In addition to Warmbo, Fox News Digital spoke with an inmate currently in prison who spoke on condition that her name be withheld from publication. The inmate detailed how the prisoners are often too intimidated to speak out about encounters with the trans women, fearing administrative repercussions and having their privileges revoked. She also told Fox News Digital the trans women get their own rooms, while the other prisoners are placed two to a cell. All the prisoners virtually share the same open living spaces, including the showers. The inmate told Fox News Digital in a phone call that graphic instances of sexual harassment occur in the facility, though Fox News Digital could not independently confirm. “It’s just going to be a huge mess I see for Minnesota because of Tim Walz and his agenda on this,” Warmbo said. Last week, a longtime teacher at the Minnesota women’s facility, Alicia Beckmann, resigned out of protest at the new policy, the Independent Women’s Forum reported. Beckmann was reportedly “blindsided” leading up to her 10th anniversary working at the facility, when inmate Sirvio and Craig Lusk – who goes by the name Christina – arrived. “The women are scared to speak up. Many women are incarcerated because of the men they spend their time with, and we all have freedom of choice, but I guarantee that probably 75% of our population committed a crime because there was violence against them by a man, or they felt coerced into doing something for that man,” Beckmann told the organization. According to the DOC’s policy guidance issued to staff in April, trans inmates are granted certain privileges. “Incarcerated people who are transgender, gender diverse, intersex, or nonbinary may request a single-cell assignment,” and they must be “given the opportunity to shower separately in a manner so as to prevent viewing by other incarcerated people.” “Facility staff must provide incarcerated people who are transgender, gender diverse, intersex, or nonbinary state-issued undergarments consistent with their gender identity including any combination of those items up to the allowable limit if requested,” the document also states. When it comes to security checks, “pat and unclothed body searches of incarcerated people who are transgender, gender diverse, intersex, or nonbinary must be done in accordance with the gender of the facility in which they are assigned,” meaning if a trans inmate is housed in a male facility, the search should be conducted by male staff. If they are in a female facility, the search should be conducted by female staff. VIOLENT CONVICT’S TAXPAYER-FUNDED SEX CHANGE CHALLENGED BY STATE AG AFTER JUDGE’S APPROVAL “The department provides incarcerated people who are transgender, gender diverse, intersex, or nonbinary with appropriate gender-related mental health and medical services throughout their incarceration. The DOC provides medical care in accordance with WPATH standards of care,” the memo noted. Nearly $500,000 in taxpayer money was paid last year by Walz’s administration in what effectively was a “sue and settlement” scheme by a left-wing interest group, Gender Justice, which represented Craig “Christina” Lusk one year after the organization filed a sex discrimination complaint against the Minnesota DOC. As of Jan. 31, Lusk was released from state custody and placed under supervision. The settlement reached in this case involved a total of $495,000 distributed among three parties. Lusk received $245,903.72, Gender Justice was allocated $198,000 and Robins Kaplan LLP received $51,096.28 for legal fees. In 2023, records provided by OpenTheBooks indicate that Gender Justice received $448,904, which includes payments from the DOC and the $5,000 from the Minnesota Department of Education, though further details about the latter amount were not explored. The complaint alleged the DOC discriminated against a Lusk for not placing the inmate in a women’s prison and rejecting requests for sex-change surgeries. Prior to an arrest in December 2018 after being charged with
Pro-Harris super PAC warns against messaging that focuses too much on ‘Trump fascist’ label
The leading super PAC funding Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is warning Democratic political operatives that messaging that focuses too narrowly on former President Donald Trump’s fascist label and character flaws is far less effective than messaging that focuses on policy differences between the two presidential candidates. Future Forward USA Action, which has contributed more than $56 million to the Harris campaign, reportedly circulated an email Friday insisting that “attacking Trump’s fascism is not that persuasive,” according to the New York Times. The email was part of weekly “Doppler” messages that the fundraising behemoth sends out with guidance on messaging strategies and other tactics that the group has insight on. “Purely negative attacks on Trump’s character are less effective than contrast messages that include positive details about Kamala Harris’s plans to address the needs of everyday Americans,” the Doppler email read. HARRIS BREAKS SILENCE AFTER GOP LEADERS SAY ANTI-TRUMP RHETORIC ‘RISKS INVITING’ ANOTHER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT “Focusing on Trump’s disturbing, ludicrous and outlandish behavior can be an effective lead-in to talking about substantive policy, but is not effective at moving vote choice on its own,” it also said. The email pointed to Harris’ response to remarks made by Trump’s former Chief of Staff John Kelly, who said in a series of interviews last week that the former president “met the definition” of a fascist, and claimed Trump had praised Adolf Hitler on multiple occasions. The Doppler email noted that Harris’ comments were only in “the 40th percentile on average” in terms of moving voter choice. Meanwhile, Harris’ remarks on “The Howard Stern Show” about promising to expand Medicare to help the elderly pay for in-home care, tested in the 95th percentile, the email pointed out. ‘THE WORST THING I’VE EVER HEARD’: HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR BLASTS HARRIS FOR COMPARING TRUMP TO HITLER “They’ve been launching these attacks and lies against President Trump for eight years and every poll shows he’s more popular today than ever before,” Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said. “Tells you everything you need to know.” Fox News reached out to the Harris campaign for comment but did not receive an on-the-record response. The president of Future Forward, Chauncey McLean, did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment either; however, he did issue a rare statement to the New York Times. HARRIS-TRUMP SHOWDOWN: VP CONTINUES TO DOMINATE THIS CRUCIAL CAMPAIGN METRIC DAYS BEFORE 2024 ELECTION “Don’t over-read this,” McLean said. “This is just one of our regular emails sharing testing results from thousands of pieces of earned and social media content. It shows people that the most effective way of using Trump’s words and behavior is tying them to consequences in voters’ lives. That’s what Kamala Harris does every day by comparing her to-do list with his enemies list, for example.” Meanwhile, the Harris campaign released a memo over the weekend, according to the Times, which insisted Harris’ “economic message puts Trump on defense.” “As voters make up their minds, they are getting to see a clear economic choice — hearing it directly from Vice President Harris herself, in her own words,” the memo declared.
Trump, Vance meet with family of Marine veteran killed off Mexican highway by suspected cartel members
Former President Donald Trump and running mate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, met with the family of the U.S. Marine veteran who was killed along a Mexican highway by suspects believed to be cartel members earlier this month. Nicholas Douglas Quets, a 31-year-old Marine veteran who worked for Pima County, Arizona, on water reclamation projects, was shot and killed along the Caborca-Altar Highway in northern Mexico on Oct. 19. His family said Quets was driving with friends down to Rocky Point for a beach trip. The shooting happened approximately 30 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border. The Sonora Attorney General’s Office said a vehicle pulled up alongside Quets’ pick-up truck and opened fire in a “direct attack,” according to KVOA. An armed group had tried to stop Quets’ truck at an illicit checkpoint and followed after them when they did not pull over, a Sonora official confirmed to Tucson.com. JD VANCE SAYS TRUMP CLASHED WITH FORMER OFFICIALS FOR REFUSING TO ENGAGE IN ‘RIDICULOUS WAR’ Quets’ father and brother-in-law described to the Washington Examiner private meetings the family had with Trump and Vance last week while the Republican running mates were campaigning in Arizona. “I did not know what to expect because he’s a TV star, billionaire, populist,” Quets’ father, retired Army Lt. Col. Warren Douglas Quets, told the Examiner. “He looked at me, looked at the picture of Nick. He had a tear in his eye, and said, ‘Tell me what happened.’ And he was actually angry as we told him the story…. He said, ‘Tell me what I can do for you and your family.’” Quets’ father said the family has not heard from any elected officials in the Biden-Harris administration. “A U.S. military veteran transiting Mexico was executed and four days into this and no official, outside of the consulate in Mexico, has made any effort to contact us or provide us with an update of what’s happening,” the elder Quets told the Examiner last week. “What we want is an investigation and prosecution within the United States. We want the U.S. to take over the prosecution.” “If my case for my son is not worthy of the highest level of attention from the U.S. government, then what is?” he added. “How can this be that this Marine gets killed 30 minutes south of the border?” “I haven’t heard from anybody, elected or appointed government officials, at all,” he added. “And I begged for that to the point where, yesterday, I wrote the consul and said, ‘Don’t worry about it anymore. I’m going to go ahead and contact [President Claudia Sheinbaum] in Mexico and ask for her help in getting the U.S. involved.’” TRUMP APPEARED ON JOE ROGAN’S PODCAST FOR NEARLY THREE HOURS: HERE ARE THE TOP MOMENTS “I have no doubt in my mind that the President of the United States was briefed on Saturday morning in his presidential brief that a United States Marine veteran was killed in Mexico. I have no doubt,” Quets’ brother-in-law and best friend, retired Air Force Capt. Philip Sweet, told the Examiner. Fox News Digital reached out to the White House and Harris campaign for comment on Sunday but did not hear back. “We can confirm the death of U.S. citizen Nicholas Douglas Quets in Mexico,” a State Department spokesperson said in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital. “We extend our deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of the deceased. Out of respect for the privacy of the family and loved ones during this difficult time, we have no further comment.” Trump met with the Quets family and posed for a photograph with the slain veteran’s portrait in Tempe, Arizona, last week. Vance, a fellow Marine veteran, met with the Quets family in Tucson before mentioning the veteran by name on stage. “Over the next couple of weeks, we all need to work to apply pressure on the cartels who murdered this innocent, young Marine and try to put pressure on Kamala Harris to do something about it,” Vance told the crowd. “Here is my solemn promise to you, while you’ve been ignored, by your own government in the last four days in the midst of this unbelievable tragedy,” Vance said. “I promise you, the cavalry is coming, and when Donald Trump is president, we’re going to kick the cartels’ a–es and we’re going to do it for you and for every person in this room.” Quets’ father recalled the family’s private meeting with Vance beforehand, telling the Examiner, “[Vance] says, ‘You’re talking to me as JD. I want you to tell me exactly what I need to know, and I want you to tell me how I can help you. That’s what he said. So it was a really classy move, and it was sincere.” “As an apolitical guy, you want the best for the country, which is what I’ve devoted my life to,” he added. “I left the meeting thinking I was ready to follow Vance any place.” “My family feels more comfort in this horrible, horrific event that we’ve been dealing with,” Sweet told the Examiner. “To feel comfort from somebody that we’ve never met, but felt like he was a member of our family, and he cared about us, truly cared about us.”
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Apparent Harris rallygoer screams at baby in stroller in shocking viral video
A video of a woman screaming at a toddler outside of Vice President Kamala Harris’ celebrity-packed Houston rally is going viral on social media as critics slam the shocking behavior seen toward a child. Harris’ Texas rally Friday was joined by celebrities such as Beyoncé, Jessica Alba and Willie Nelson to make a last-ditch appeal to voters in the red state ahead of next week’s election. A video posted to social media shortly after the event shows a woman in a light blue T-shirt standing outside what appears to be the Houston Metro station walking over to a little girl in a stroller among the throngs of people decked out in Harris-Walz apparel. The woman in the light blue shirt is seen leaning down to the toddler in the stroller and screaming in her face. It is unclear what the woman said and what provoked the incident. HARRIS RIPPED BY TRUMP CAMPAIGN AFTER BEYONCÉ DOESN’T PERFORM AT PACKED RALLY: ‘THEY LIED TO BUILD A CROWD’ A man, likely the young girl’s father, quickly picked up the toddler and removed her from the woman’s direct line of ire. The shocking video then shows another woman quickly confronting the screaming woman, pulling her away from the girl and admonishing her for the outburst. “Not at the baby, not at the baby,” the woman who intervened was seen telling the screaming woman. The girl’s father was holding a microphone during the exchange and was later heard asking the screaming woman: “Are you not ashamed at all? Look at her face!” It is unclear if the father was a counter-protester at the rally or why he had a microphone. The video has racked up more than 22 million views on X alone as of Monday morning. Social media commenters lambasted the screaming woman, while praising the other woman who intervened. FROM ‘JOYFUL’ TO ‘FASCIST’ – WHY KAMALA HARRIS ADOPTED BIDEN’S PLAYBOOK ON BLASTING TRUMP Harris’ rally on Friday included 30,000 people, as word spread that Beyoncé was slated to appear at the rally. The pop star officially endorsed Harris during her appearance but did not perform any songs. VANCE RIPS HARRIS IN BATTLEGROUND GEORGIA: ‘STOP TELLING AMERICANS THEY’RE BAD’ FOR WANTING ‘SECURE BORDER’ “It’s time for America to sing a new song,” Beyoncé said. “Ladies and gentlemen, please give a big, loud Texas welcome to the next president of the United States, Vice President Kamala Harris.” Ahead of the rally, media outlets such as MSNBC reported Beyoncé would not only appear, but would also likely perform at the rally. Beyoncé did not perform, sparking the Trump campaign to argue that Harris “lied” about Beyoncé’s appearance at the rally in order to “build a crowd.” TEXAS POLITICOS LAUNCH FULL-COURT PRESS AGAINST HARRIS AHEAD OF HER BORDER STATE CAMPAIGN RALLY: ‘APOLOGIZE’ Trump also slammed the event during his own rally in Michigan on Saturday. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “Beyoncé went up and spoke for a couple of minutes and then left, and the place went crazy,” Trump told a crowd in Michigan. “They booed the hell out of everybody. They thought she was going to perform. What happened was my opponent got up and started speaking, and they booed the hell out of her. It’s crazy. They have to use people to get people to come, and then they send buses. We don’t send buses. Everybody comes. We’re just going to make America great again. It’s very simple.” Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.