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Vice President Kamala Harris woke up to some mixed news on the final Friday before Election Day. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the US economy added only 12,000 jobs. That number came largely because of the devastation caused by Hurricanes Helene and Milton as well as labor strikes.
Nonetheless, the Trump campaign criticized the low jobs numbers as a sticking point, even though they know this is likely to happen amid natural disasters.
At the same time, she got a goodie in her trick-or-treat bag at the end of Halloween: a new poll from Marist showed that she leads Donald Trump by 2 points in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin while leading Trump by three points in Michigan. Throughout the campaign, Trump has led on the economy by a wide margin as many people continue to feel the pain of inflation at the gas pump or the grocery.
But Harris's messaging, particularly focusing on housing and home care, as well as zeroing in on Trump's economic policies, seems to have helped her. Meanwhile, Trump's pronouncements have become even more slapdash. On Thursday evening, he said in Nevada he would put Robert F Kennedy Jr, the anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist, in charge of women's health.
Then, Trump caused another firestorm when he appeared in Glendale, Arizona with Tucker Carlson. He called Liz Cheney "a very dumb individual, very dumb" and a "radical war hawk."
"Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her," he said. "Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face."
Some have said this means that he wanted Cheney to face a firing squad. Though re-watching, it's clear he meant he wants her to experience war when she hasn't served in the military despite her support for a strong interventionist foreign policy. Either way, it does show Trump wants his political opponents to experience violence.
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