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

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.

Dr Fauci, a longtime public health official who became a household name as part of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, is has now been discharged and is expected to recover fully, a spokesperson said.

“Tony Fauci has been hospitalized with a case of West Nile virus. He is now home and is recovering. A full recovery is expected,” the spokesperson said in a statement shared with the Washington Post. The outlet reported that Dr Fauci had spent six days in hospital before being discharged.

After endorsing Donald Trump on Friday, Robert F Kennedy Jr appeared to attempt to compare their relationship to that of his uncle President John F Kennedy, and the conservative Republican Senator Barry Goldwater.

It was a French, navy-blue, chic-but-sombre trousersuit and blouse for Kamala Harris’s nomination acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. Rumours had abounded that she would carry on the mantle of Hillary Clinton by wearing “suffragette white” to signal the historic nature of her candidacy. But, as an aide replied tautly when I asked if we could expect her to talk about the prospect of being the first female president: “Kamala doesn’t need to prove her credentials.”

So the message in Chicago has differed from the failed Clinton campaign of 2016 and Hillary’s persistent citing of her encounters with the “glass ceiling”. Harris plays down this side of her beliefs – or perhaps calculates that, beyond sympathetic voters, Americans do not always warm to women talking about their struggles.

An economical, well-crafted speech was pitched to move Harris from the niche of feminist, liberal Californian, which is being moulded by the Trump-Vance camp into a caricature of ultra-leftish, busybody activism, to an all-American everywoman: a commonsensical, straight-talking, safe pair of hands on America and the West’s security.

A new YouGov poll sees Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, outperforming the former president in a series of apolitical contexts.

For instance, more Americans believe Harris would win a cooking competition as well as a dance-off. The VP is also considered to be better at handling spicy food and as the better dresser.

She’s also “more likely to remember birthdays, keep a secret, and give better relationship advice,” according to YouGov.

The pollster also found that Harris is believed to be more likely to return a lost wallet or help a stranger.

But Trump bests Harris by a margin of 29 points on the question of who would win at arm-wrestling.

“More also think Trump would beat Harris in a poker game, and that he would give better financial advice,” the pollster stated.

Donald Trump has once again shared an image seemingly generated by artificial intelligence on his Truth Social account, this time of himself riding a lion with the caption: “There is only one president who can make America great again.”

The former US President made the claims after Robert F Kennedy Jr, the independent presidential candidate, decided to drop out of the presidential election race on Friday (23 August) and endorse Trump.

Speaking after Kennedy’s announcement, Trump said: “Barack Obama, he was nasty to me.

“He was nasty. Michelle was nasty. They’re all nasty. Nasty people. I was surprised, I thought he was, I was sort of nice to him.”

JD Vance declared himself a “never Trump guy” in 2016. Now that he’s Donald Trump’s running mate, the Ohio senator’s words have come back to haunt him in the form of a viral hit on social media app TikTok.

The 22-second long audio clip was created by DJ duo Casa Di and Steve Terrell, who sampled Vance’s comments from a 2016 Vance interview with Charlie Rose when he was promoting his memoir Hillbilly Elegy.

In the clip, Vance can be heard saying: “I’m a never Trump guy. I never liked him.”

That sample was added to the Petey Pablo hip-hop beat “Freek-a-Leek” and the resulting song has proved wildly popular on TikTok, where it has soundtracked more than 8,500 videos in the last month, racking up over 40 million views in total.

Sure, it may be hard to compete with the carnival charisma of Donald Trump, but another week on the campaign trail seemed to do little to change the attack lines against Vance.

There weren’t any all-time political gaffes like dismissing those without traditional families as “childless cat ladies,” but the US Senator for Ohio still managed to generate plenty of raised eyebrows and awkward silences.