Trump posts AI photo of himself riding a lion while Kamala dominates poll: Live

Trump questioned Harris’s “right to run for president” in a post on Truth Social on Friday, arguing that her taking on the Democratic mantle despite not winning a primary is a “threat” to democracy.

The former president and Republican presidential candidate wrote “Kamala Harris is the Weakest Presidential Candidate in History on Crime. She’s allowed millions of people to pour through our Borders, many from prisons, mental institutions and, indeed, terrorists, coming in at levels never seen before.”

“What gives her the right to run for President? She got no votes to Biden’s 14 Million. She failed in her previous attempt, was the first one out of 22 people to quit, never made it to Iowa, and now she’s a Presidential Candidate? This is a Threat to Democracy!” he added.

Appearing on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, Haberman was played a clip of the former president calling into Fox News on Thursday after Harris’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.

Blitzer noted that Trump also called into Fox News’s smaller rightwing challenger Newsmax, asking Haberman what the interviews said about Trump’s “mindset.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate Nichole Shanahan expressed doubts about Donald Trump and said their campaign would never “sell out,” hours before RFK Jr. endorsed the former president.

“We would never sell out this campaign ever. It’s not what we would ever choose to do nor are we defeated in this moment, but I have to say something. We are up against something that is unprecedented,” she said.

Kennedy got a rock star’s welcome at an arena in the battleground state city of Glendale on Friday, complete with pyrotechnics and a Foo Fighters song blasting.

Onstage, Trump praised RFK Jr., who he said “brought together people from across the political spectrum grounded in the values of his father, Robert F. Kennedy, a great man, and his uncle John F. Kennedy,” and promised to create a commission to investigate presidential assassinations that would release any remaining classified information on the JFK assassination.

The National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) has cited the infamous 1857 Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, which stated that enslaved people weren’t citizens, to argue that Vice President Kamala Harris is ineligible to run for president according to the Constitution.

The Republican group’s platform and policy document noted that “The Constitutional qualifications of Presidential eligibility” states that “No person except a natural born Citizen, shall be eligible, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.”

The US rock band said they were not asked for permission over the song’s use and “would not have granted it” if they had.

Kennedy, who suspended his campaign as an independent presidential candidate on Friday, joined Trump onstage in Arizona, as pyrotechnics blasted and the Foos song played.

In a campaign email, Robert F Kennedy Jr said he suspended his campaign “with a sense of victory” because his campaign elevated “key issues,” such as “corruption,” children’s health, “ending the war machine,” and ending “government censorship, surveillance, and information control.”

Kennedy endorsed Donald Trump on Friday, saying in his campaign email that while Trump talks about these issues, he also disagrees with the former president on a range of subjects.

“I believe I can best serve these goals as part of a unity cabinet inside the Trump administration,” Kennedy said.

But he added that “I am not naive. I know there is no guarantee that fine sentiments will translate into meaningful action. I have come to this decision through many days of meditation and prayer, during which I have cycled through all of the emotions and arguments that my supporters have expressed to me, from every direction.”

Robert F Kennedy Jr mentioned Joe Biden’s name eleven times in a speech moments after praising the RNC for not focusing on the US president.

The independent candidate abandoned his own presidential campaign on Friday 23 August and endorsed Republican Donald Trump, ending a bid he began as a Democrat trading on one of the most famous names in American politics.

During a press conference, he railed against chronic disease, “corruption” in health agencies, and the Democratic Party – focusing part of his attack on Mr Biden.

“In Chicago, Democratic speakers mentioned Donald Trump 147 times just on the first day, who needs a policy when you have Trump to hate?” he asked.

“In contrast, at the RNC, President Biden was mentioned only twice in four days.”

Donald Trump is set to campaign in a number of swing states in the upcoming week.

On Thursday, August 29, the former president is scheduled to appear at 3.30pm EDT in Potterville, Michigan to speak about the economy, inflation, and manufacturing, according to his campaign.

That same day, Trump will also host a town hall in La Crosse, Wisconsin at 6pm CDT.

The following day, Friday, August 30, Trump is set to hold a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania at 4.30pm EDT.