Published: 10:01am, 14 Sep 2024Updated: 10:03am, 14 Sep 2024
Donald Trump doubled down on Friday on his anti-migrant attacks despite facing criticism for amplifying a conspiracy theory targeting Haitian immigrants, as he and election rival Kamala Harris took their presidential campaigns to swing states on opposite sides of the United States.
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Trump, 78, promised “large deportations” from the Ohio town at the centre of the racially charged row, as the Republican former president prepared to head to a rally in the western battleground of Nevada.
Democratic Vice-President Harris, 59, meanwhile hit the stump in Pennsylvania – arguably the most crucial of the half-dozen states set to decide what experts think will be a very close election on November 5.
Coming off a strong performance in Tuesday’s televised debate against Trump, Harris gave her first solo sit-down interview since her nomination to an ABC television affiliate in Philadelphia, the state’s largest city.
“I offer a new generation of leadership,” Harris said in the interview, as she spelled out her policies on tax cuts and credits for new parents, homeowners and businesses.