Harris talks abortion rights on Call Her Daddy podcast while bashing Trump’s ‘protector’ of women claim – as it happened

This blog is closed – thanks for following along. Here is a summary of today’s key developments:

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  Kamala Harris’s interview on Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper aired on Sunday. The host, whose podcast targets a diverse set of audiences, and the vice-president discussed issues revolving around abortion, reproductive healthcare, housing and student debt relief.

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  Donald Trump delivered his roughly two-hour speech at a rally in Juneau, Wisconsin. The former president was standing behind barriers of bulletproof glass, which is now a standard US Secret Service practice at outdoor rallies.

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  Arizona senator Mark Kelly criticized Elon Musk during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union for supporting Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania this weekend.

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  President Joe Biden ordered 500 more troops to assist with Hurricane Helene relief efforts. The troops will move into western North Carolina and assist with the response and recovery efforts after the deadly and devastating Hurricane Helene.

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  Tim Walz said during his appearance on Fox News this morning that Donald Trump’s agenda would destroy the US economy, while he supported Kamala Harris’s plan to lower costs and stimulate job growth.

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Kamala Harris condemned former president Donald Trump for calling himself the “protector” of women at a rally in Pennsylvania.

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“This is the same guy who said that women should be punished for having abortions,” Harris said on Alex Cooper’s podcast Call Her Daddy.

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Harris went on to talk about the state of abortion access currently in the country.

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“The majority of women who receive abortion care are mothers,” Harris said. “Every state in the South except for Virginia has an abortion ban.”

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Kamala Harris’s interview on Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper just dropped.

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The host, who targets a diverse set of audiences, begins the episode by explaining to her listeners why she decided to interview the vice-president.

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“As you guys know, I do not usually discuss politics or have politicians on the show,” Cooper said. “At the end of the day, I couldn’t see a world in which one of the main conversations in this election is women, and I’m not a part of it.”

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Donald Trump attacked Kamala Harris’s tax policy, calling her a “tax queen” and misleading attendees with a claim that Harris plans to raise taxes on US families.

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“I’ve never seen somebody that openly campaigns on the fact that they’re going to raise taxes,” Trump said.

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He then showed a campaign ad, composed of a compilation of clips of Harris saying wants to raise taxes.

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In reality, Harris has said she plans to cut corporate tax rates.

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Donald Trump claimed that the media favors Kamala Harris in their coverage and they “hate our country”. He continued to make anti-immigrant and transphobic comments.

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“I can’t understand. Why do they want open borders? Why do they want sex change operations for people that are too young to even think about it? Why do they want men playing in women’s sports?” Trump said.

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“We actually are now the party of common sense,” he said. “I think that’s what I like calling us now, party of common sense.”

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Donald Trump called the Biden administration “the most corrupt people” during his rally in Wisconsin.

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“From the very beginning of this journey, I’ve been on a mission to rescue our nation from a failed and corrupt political establishment and corrupt people,” he said.

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“This country is in big trouble. We’re a failing nation. We are a failing nation. We’re a nation in decline. We’re a nation in distress, and we’re going to get it fixed very quickly,” Trump said.

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Donald Trump started his speech on time in Juneau, Wisconsin.

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The former president is standing behind barriers of bulletproof glass, which is now a standard US Secret Service practice at outdoor rallies.

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We’ll be following his remarks.

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President Joe Biden said on Sunday he ordered another 500 active-duty troops to move into western North Carolina and assist with the response and recovery efforts after the deadly and devastating Hurricane Helene.

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“With a total of 1,500 troops now supplementing a robust on-the-ground effort – including more than 6,100 National Guardsmen and more than 7,000 Federal personnel – my administration is sparing no resource to support families as they begin their road to rebuilding,” Biden said in a statement.

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He also said he was being briefed on tropical storm Milton as it strengthened across the Gulf of Mexico. Milton, which strengthened into a category one hurricane on Sunday, is expected to make landfall on Florida on Tuesday or Wednesday.

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California representative Adam Schiff said during an interview with NBC News’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that Donald Trump “will contest” the election results if he loses.

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“If it is close, if Donald Trump loses again, as I expect that he will, he will contest it,” Schiff said.

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“He has more reason to contest it than he did before, not because of any flaw in the election, but because Donald Trump believes, and perhaps with reason, that if he doesn’t succeed at the ballot box, he may be going to jail. So he’s going to challenge the results.”

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During an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, Arizona senator Mark Kelly criticized Elon Musk for supporting Donald Trump.

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On Saturday, Musk joined Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and made the baseless claim that if Trump’s supporters fail to turn out, “this will be the last election”.

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Kelly said that Musk was “hypocritically standing next to the guy that tried to overturn the last – the 2020 election on January 6, saying that this is somehow going to be the last election and they’re going to take away your vote.”

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“It just doesn’t pass the logic test,” he said.

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“It’s not lost on me, and it shouldn’t be lost on the American people that Donald Trump, when he was president, gave a giant tax cut to billionaires,” Kelly said during the interview. “Elon Musk is the richest person in the world. He’s got a tremendous amount of interest in Donald Trump being elected president.”

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.@SenMarkKelly calls Elon Musk “hypocritical” for supporting Donald Trump and tells @DanaBashCNN, “He’s got a tremendous amount of interest in Donald Trump being elected president because… billionaires like Elon Musk will get their giant tax cut again.” pic.twitter.com/pBuxaKMyDs

— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) October 6, 2024

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Melania Trump was asked whether Donald Trump knew she would express strong support for abortion rights in her upcoming memoir, where she emphasized that women should have the autonomy to decide whether to have children based on their own convictions, without government interference or pressure.

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“Yes, he knew my position and my beliefs since the day we met, and I believe in individual freedom,” she said.

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“I want to decide what I wanted to do with my body. I think I don’t want government in my personal business,” she added.

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This blog is closed – thanks for following along. Here is a summary of today’s key developments:

• Kamala Harris’s interview on Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper aired on Sunday. The host, whose podcast targets a diverse set of audiences, and the vice-president discussed issues revolving around abortion, reproductive healthcare, housing and student debt relief.

• Donald Trump delivered his roughly two-hour speech at a rally in Juneau, Wisconsin. The former president was standing behind barriers of bulletproof glass, which is now a standard US Secret Service practice at outdoor rallies.

• Arizona senator Mark Kelly criticized Elon Musk during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union for supporting Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania this weekend.

• President Joe Biden ordered 500 more troops to assist with Hurricane Helene relief efforts. The troops will move into western North Carolina and assist with the response and recovery efforts after the deadly and devastating Hurricane Helene.

• Tim Walz said during his appearance on Fox News this morning that Donald Trump’s agenda would destroy the US economy, while he supported Kamala Harris’s plan to lower costs and stimulate job growth.

Kamala Harris finished her interview with Call Her Daddy’s Alex Cooper by pledging to fight for student debt relief and listing key issues she hopes to address if she’s elected president.

“I care about making sure that people are entitled to and receive the freedoms that they are due,” Harris said. “I care about lifting people up and making sure that you are protected from harm. I care about tapping into the ambitions and the aspirations of people knowing that we are capable of so much.”

Alex Cooper and Kamala Harris discussed JD Vance’s age-old sexist “childless cat ladies” trope, but Harris was asked what she would do as president to help generations who feel that the economy hinders them from having children.

“Housing is too expensive and we need to increase the housing supply,” Harris said. “Part of my plan is to work with home builders in the private sector to create tax incentives to build by the end of my first term, 3,000,000 more housing units.”

“Part of my plan is to give 100 million more people who basically are middle class working people, tax cuts, including for young parents, a $6,000 tax cut for the first year of their child’s life, which helps them buy a crib or a car seat or clothing and just get through that first year,’” she added.

During an episode of the podcast Call Her Daddy, Kamala Harris condemned Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders after Sanders said that the presidential candidate “doesn’t have anything keeping her humble” because she doesn’t have children.

“I don’t think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who, one, are not aspiring to be humble,” Harris said during the podcast.

The vice-president discussed her relationship with her stepchildren, Cole and Ella Emhoff, who are the biological children from her husband’s, Doug Emhoff, first marriage.

“We have our family by blood and then we have our family by love. And I have both,” Harris said.

Kamala Harris was asked by Alex Cooper if she could think about any law that “gives the government the power to make a decision about a man’s body”.

Harris laughed and said: “We are a work in progress.”

“Part of the strength of our country and our evolution as a country has been through the fight for the expansion of rights. Not the restriction of rights,” she added.

Alex Cooper asked Kamala Harris to clarify a claim former president Donald Trump made during last month’s presidential debate, where he falsely claimed that Democrats support abortions “after birth” and “executing” babies.

“That is not happening anywhere in the United States,” Harris said. “It is not happening and it’s a lie.”

She also labeled as “insulting” his claim that women in their ninth month of pregnancy are electing to have an abortion.

Kamala Harris and Alex Cooper continued to discuss abortion rights and reproductive healthcare during a Call Her Daddy episode aired on Sunday.

“You don’t have to abandon your faith or deeply held beliefs to agree the government shouldn’t be telling her what to do,” Harris said in the podcast.

Harris added: “What’s so outrageous about it is a bunch of these guys up in these state capitals are writing these decisions because they somehow have decided that they’re in a better position to tell you what’s in your best interest than you are to know what’s in your own best interest.”

Kamala Harris condemned former president Donald Trump for calling himself the “protector” of women at a rally in Pennsylvania.

“This is the same guy who said that women should be punished for having abortions,” Harris said on Alex Cooper’s podcast Call Her Daddy.

Harris went on to talk about the state of abortion access currently in the country.

“The majority of women who receive abortion care are mothers,” Harris said. “Every state in the South except for Virginia has an abortion ban.”

Kamala Harris responded to questions from Call Her Daddy’s Alex Cooperelaborating on why she decided to become a prosecutor, the guidelines for reporting sexual assault, and the need to talk about the issue more.

In her interview with Kamala Harris, Alex Cooper asked the vice-president about the lessons she learned from her mother regarding mental health, the ways she has taken accountability during her vice-presidency, and what she thinks her mother would say if she became the next president of the United States.

Later on, Cooper referenced some of the harsh descriptions former president Donald Trump has used against Harris during the race, including questioning her mental health. She asked Harris how this affected her.

Harris said:

I think it’s really important not to let other people define you, and usually those people who will attempt to do it don’t know you.

Donald Trump finished his remarks in Juneau, Wisconsin, which ran for about two hours.

During her interview with Kamala HarrisCall Her Daddy host Alex Cooper quickly touched on a soft spot for the Harris campaign, which is the vice-president’s lack of interviews with the media. She asked Harris why she decided to come on the podcast.

“I think you and your listeners have really got this thing, right, which is one of the best ways to communicate with people is to be real, you know, and to talk about the things that people really care about,” Harris said.

“What I love about what you do is that your voice in your show is really about your listeners,” she added. “And I think especially now, this is a moment in the country and in life where people really want to know they’re seen and heard and that they’re part of a community, that they’re not out there alone.”

The host of the comedy and advice podcast Call Her Daddy, Alex Coopersaid at the start of her episode with Kamala Harris that she invited former president Donald Trump to come on the show.

“If he also wants to have a meaningful, in-depth conversation about women’s rights in this country, then he is welcome on Call Her Daddy anytime,” Cooper said.