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Laura Coates Live

Obama Mocks “Older, Loonier” Trump At Rally

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump were in the battleground state Friday. Harris pledged to invest in manufacturing communities and work with union members in Grand Rapids. Trump spoke at a rally in Detroit and said the city “has such great potential,” a week after insulting it. In Arizona, former President Barack Obama questioned former President Donald Trump’s competence, arguing that America doesn’t need to see what an “older, loonier Donald Trump looks like with no guardrails.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, just 18 days to go and the race for the White House is neck and neck and

0:07.8

things today begin personal. all.

0:19.0

Kamil Harris and Donald Trump trading jabs as they go head to head tonight in the Midwest Trump trading jabs as they go head to head tonight in the Midwest's biggest battleground state.

0:24.9

I'm talking about Michigan.

0:26.2

They're courting voters, they're cleaning up messes of their own making, and, well,

0:30.9

going for the jugular.

0:32.4

Remember, just a few months ago,

0:34.4

President Biden was pressured out of his re-election bid.

0:38.0

We all remember that because of his fears,

0:39.7

a fears that they had about him

0:41.8

that he wasn't mentally fit for another four years in office.

0:45.0

Well, tonight, a similar sentiment is being used by Kamala Harris

0:50.0

in her closing argument against Donald Trump.

0:54.6

And now, check this out, he is ducking debates and canceling interviews.

0:59.2

You saw his own campaign team is saying it's because of exhaustion.

1:10.0

All right. Well, here's the thing. If you are exhausted from the campaign trail,

1:18.0

it raises real questions about you are fit for the toughest job in the world.

1:25.0

Harris of course is referring there.

1:29.0

It's a political reporting that says that Trump backed out of the interview this week because he was

1:33.9

quote exhausted. And Trump appears well frankly quite ticked off. He's denying

1:39.4

the reporting and he is firing right back at Harris.

1:43.0

I haven't yet.

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