The ex-president makes racist accusations against migrants. Biden’s team reacted immediately and called his statements “disgusting.” All information in the news blog.
9:26 a.m.: US billionaire Elon Musk reiterates his support for the Republican presidential candidate after his joint campaign appearance with Donald Trump. In an interview with ultra-conservative US journalist Tucker Carlson, Musk says: “I’m all in, baby.” In the conversation, the Tesla and SpaceX founder also repeats right-wing conspiracy theories that the Democratic Party wants to change the US political system with the help of immigrants.
Musk is increasingly becoming a Trump surrogate during the election campaign and is reportedly planning a series of events in particularly battleground states in the coming weeks. Over the weekend, the South African native presented a program under which he wants to pay $47 (around 43 euros) to anyone who brings voters in the swing states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin to register with the election office.
On Saturday, Musk appeared with Trump in the small town of Butler, Pennsylvania. The ex-president wanted to commemorate the attempted attack on him there on July 13th.
6:34 a.m.: After Donald Trump’s racist statement that migrants bring “bad genes” into the country, US President Joe Biden’s spokeswoman expressed outrage. “This type of language is hateful, it is disgusting, it is inappropriate and it has no place in our country.”
8:42 p.m.: US presidential candidate Donald Trump has once again expanded his hostile rhetoric against migrants and made the racist accusation that they bring “bad genes” into the country. In a radio interview, the Republican presidential candidate says that his Democratic rival Kamala Harris, as vice president, allowed thousands of “murderers” into the country through her immigration policies.
Many of them now lived “in peace and quiet” in the USA. “These murderers, you know, I think it’s in their genes,” the former president said. “And we have a lot of bad genes in our country right now.” The right-wing populist is relying on extremely anti-immigrant rhetoric during the election campaign, insulting undocumented immigrants at almost every one of his campaign appearances and declaring that he would order a mass deportation of migrants if re-elected.
Migration and the situation at the border with Mexico, through which many undocumented people come to the USA, is one of the important topics of the election campaign. Before his first term in office (2017 to 2021), Trump announced the construction of a wall on the 3,000 kilometer long border with Mexico, which he then never implemented.
12:47 p.m.: Vice President Kamala Harris has spoken out for the first time about criticism from some Republicans. Their statements would misunderstand women who either couldn’t have children or simply didn’t want them, she said on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. She called attacks from Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance and other politicians who called Harris a childless catwoman “mean and malicious.”
Harris refers to her stepchildren Cole and Ella Emhoff as her children. “I love these kids to death,” Harris said. “And family can come in many forms. I think we are all increasingly understanding that we are no longer living in the 1950s.”
1.30am: US presidential candidate Donald Trump returned to the scene almost three months after the assassination attempt on him. He has a simple message, Trump said at a campaign rally in front of thousands of supporters in Butler, Pennsylvania. “Our movement (…) is stronger, prouder, more united, more determined and closer to victory than ever before.”
The 78-year-old said that the shooter missed his target due to “the providence of fate and God’s grace”. “He could not stop our movement, nor break our spirit, nor shake our iron resolve to save America from the evils of poverty, hate, and destruction.”