By The Guardian (World News) | Created at 2024-09-29 14:55:14 | Updated at 2024-09-30 05:29:10
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Trump was hailed at the Georgia-Alabama football game at the University of Alabama with musicians Kid Rock and Hank Williams Jr and with two-time major champion golfer John Daly.
Trump came to the football game as the guest of Alabama businessman Ric Mayers Jr, a member of Mar-a-Lago. Mayers said in an interview before the game that he invited Trump so that he could enjoy a warm welcome.
Many University of Alabama fans, anticipating Trump’s visit to their campus for a showdown between the No 4 Crimson Tide and No 2 Georgia Bulldogs, sported stickers and buttons that read: “They’re eating the Dawgs!”
They broke out in random chants of “Trump! Trump! Trump!” throughout the day, a preview of the rousing welcome he received early in the second quarter as he sat in a 40-yard-line suite hosted by a wealthy member of his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
Good morning, US politics blog readers. Donald Trump is scheduled to speak at an event in Erie, Pennsylvania, in the north-west corner of Pennsylvania, on Sunday. The former president is heading to a town where Biden won Erie county in 2020 by less than 1,500 votes in a key swing state.
Meanwhile, Vice-President Kamala Harris is set to hold a rally in Las Vegas on Sunday night, also looking to gain momentum in a swing state ahead of November. The rally is part of Harris’s recent western tour, which included her first visit to the US-Mexico border since she took the role at the top of the Democratic presidential ticket from President Joe Biden.
The vice-presidential candidates, the Ohio senator JD Vance and Minnesota governor Tim Walz, are preparing to take the debate stage on Tuesday.
Here’s what else is happening:
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Donald Trump attended a football game at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa moments after delivering remarks against immigrants on Saturday afternoon in the Rust belt.
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Walz has been prepping for the debate in Minneapolis with the US transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, while Vance has been holding mock debates with the Republican whip in the US House, Tom Emmer, according to the Guardian’s Ed Pilkington.
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As the US’s tumultuous 2024 election unfolds, with concerns about democracy being at risk, several assassination attempts on Donald Trump, and fears of civil unrest, there has also been a troubling shift in how animals are politically treated in American politics.
