Trump tells Christians they ‘won’t have to’ vote again at rally as he slams FBI: Live

Trump and his new running mate JD Vance held their first joint campaign rally of the 2024 season in Minnesota on Saturday, a state the former president lost to Democrats in both 2020 and 2016. During Trump’s speech in St Cloud, he attacked his new presumptive opponent Kamala Harris, endorsed by Joe Biden after the president announced his decision to step aside last Sunday, and also swiped at a local target: Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a progressive and member of the “Squad” who has been outspoken in her opposition to Maga Republicanism.

The wealthy banking heir and railroad tycoon Timothy Mellon is spending millions on electing Donald Trump, according to The New York Times.

He has reportedly spent $75m on the Trump campaign and $25m on the campaign of independent candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr. The massive sums mean that he’s the single largest donor for both Trump and Kennedy.

In total since 2020, he has donated $227m to federal candidates and political committees – almost all of it to Republicans.

“By the way, there are numerous ways of saying her name, they were explaining to me, ‘you can say Kamala, you can say Kamala’, I said, ‘don’t worry about it. It doesn’t matter what I say. I couldn’t care less if I mispronounce it’,” Trump said on Friday. “Some people think I mispronounce it on purpose, but actually, I’ve heard it said about seven different ways.”

New Hampshire Republican Governor Chris Sununu said during an appearance on ABC’s This Week on Sunday that the personal attacks against Kamala Harris have to stop and that the focus for Republicans should be on attacking her policy record.

Speaking in Minnesota on Saturday night, Trump said if Democrats “don’t cheat we win this state easily.”

Republicans haven’t won Minnesota in a presidential race since Richard Nixon won the state in 1972.

“Okay, they cheat. They have no shame, they cheat … They cheated in the last election, and they’re going to cheat in this election, but we’re gonna get them,” Trump said on Saturday.

Michigan Democratic Senator Gary Peters said on MSNBC on Sunday that Trump “is basically a sore loser and he’s gonna lose again and he’s gonna want to blame something else, but it is completely irresponsible.”

He added: “We know elections are free. They’re fair. We saw that last time – no evidence whatsoever of widespread fraud … it’s simply a lie.”

“We’ve got to remind the American people of that and we have to let the American people know by just even questioning an election as to whether or not [it’s] free or fair is a direct attack on our democracy,” Peters said.

California Representative Adam Schiff, a Senate candidate in the fall, shared a clip on X of Trump’s comments: “This year democracy is on the ballot, and if we are to save it, we must vote against authoritarianism. Here Trump helpfully reminds us that the alternative is never having the chance to vote again.”