Election 2024 live updates: Harris hits out at ‘increasingly unhinged’ Trump as he claims she ‘bombed’ at rally with Obama

Earlier this year, Donald Trump made history by becoming the first former president ever convicted of a crime.

Now, with Election Day looming and the Republican neck-and-neck with Kamala Harris in the polls, he could make history again: by becoming the first convicted felon elected to the nation’s highest office.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) will run a billboard plastered with Donald Trump’s alleged remarks about Adolf Hitler outside a Las Vegas rally held by the former president on Thursday.

“Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’” the billboard will read, referencing a recent report in The Atlantic which claimed Trump once told White House officials he needed generals as loyal to him as those of the German dictator.

Donald Trump proclaimed his loves for imposing tariffs on other countries, declaring that it was the “most beautiful” word, before quickly backtracking.

“I can make anybody do anything through the use of tariffs. I can keep people out of war. I can keep us out of war,” he said.

“The word tariff is the most beautiful… I think I’ll do this just so I don’t get myself in trouble. I’m going to say the third most beautiful [after] love and religion, and then the word tariff.

“I think I’d better say love is the most and religion… You could switch it back and forth anyway you want. This way, I’ve just protected myself. But the third most beautiful word is the word tariff.”

Trump then claimed he would impose “200 percent” tarriffs on warring nations and cited two – “you know them, they’ve been fighting for 1,000 years” – who had agreed to peace because of the threat he wielded.

Donald Trump claimed that Kamala Harris would “kill thousands of people” at his rally in Las Vegas, though failed to put the remark in context or elaborate on what he meant.

“You have to get out and vote,” he said.

“If Kamala gets four more years she will obliterate our economy, kill millions of jobs, kill thousands of people too, by the way, and destroy your family finances –probably forever.”

Donald Trump opened his rally in Las Vegas by claiming that Kamala Harris had “bombed” at her event in Georgia earlier that day.

“In Georgia tonight, they say that Kamala has just absolutely bombed. She’s bombed,” he said.

“In fact, I was going to watch it. I didn’t want to come out. I wanted to watch that first, is that terrible? Then I could explain to you what happened. But I hear it was bad tonight. But it’s always bad.”

He added: “I’m not supposed to say it, but we are leading by so much.”

Video from the Harris rally appeared to show large crowds gathered to hear the vice president speak alongside Barack Obama.

Gina Carano, an actress fired by Disney over controversial social media posts, delivered remarks ahead of Donald Trump at a rally in Las Vegas.

“The Democrats, have suffered no accountability,” she said. “I will tell you my personal belief a vote for Kamala Harris is no other than a vote for a shadow government and greedy corporations who will walk over our dead bodies and turn around and use those bodies to keep themselves in power.”

In February 2021, Carano shared an Instagram post that compared “hating someone for their political views” to the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust and included an image taken during the Lviv pogroms. Many critics interpreted the post as comparing American conservatives to Jews in Nazi Germany.

She was subsequently dropped by Disney and Lucasfilm, losing her role in poular show The Mandalorian.

Carano is now suing Disney, with the help of Elon Musk, another ardent Trump supporter.