Jennifer Lopez campaigns with Harris in Las Vegas – how it happened | US elections 2024

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Trump's comments come at a time when he is struggling to reach female voters and at a time when Harris is courting women in both parties with a message centered on freedom. She argues that women should have the freedom to make their own decisions about their bodies and that if Trump is elected, more restrictions will follow as both campaigns head toward Tuesday's presidential election.

At a rally Wednesday evening near Green Bay, Wisconsin, Trump told supporters that his aides had asked him to stop using the term “protector” because it was “inappropriate.”

He then added a new bit to the line of protectors. He said he told his aides, “Well, I'm going to do it whether the women like it or not.” I will protect her.”

Those comments dominated much of Harris' Thursday as the two campaigns jostled for the remarks.

More on Harris' comments: She said that Donald Trump's comment that he would protect women whether they “like it or not” showed that the Republican presidential candidate does not understand women's right to “make decisions about their own lives, including hers.” own body.” ”

“I think it's offensive to everyone, by the way,” Harris said before heading out to campaign in the western battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada.

At her rally in Phoenix, she expanded on these comments: “He just doesn't respect women's freedom or women's intelligence to know what's in their own best interest and make decisions accordingly. “But we trust women.”

There are still five days left, and “nobody can sit on the sidelines,” Harris says.

People should reach out to friends and family, as well as neighbors and colleagues.

“In the next few days, let’s be intentional about building community,” she says

Harris reminds fans in Las Vegas that she has spent her life fighting for people who have been “hurt.”

She has lived the promise of America, she says, and sees it in everyone there tonight.

At the Harris event, the crowd chants, “We’re not going back!” We’re not going back!”

“We will not go back because our fight is a fight for the future and a fight for freedom. A woman’s freedom to make decisions about her own body.”

She reminds voters that changes to abortion laws under Trump mean that one in three women now live in a state with an abortion ban.

More details on J Lo's appearance a few moments ago, from the press pool report:

Jennifer Lopez took the stage at 9:02 a.m. wearing a long olive dress. The audience sounded very pleased.

The event will be livestreamed, but here are a few quotes:

“They are the ones who are going to send a message – that Las Vegas is Harris country

“Kamala Harris gets it…. As President of the United States, Kamala will fight for us… and the freedom to choose what we do with our bodies.”

About Trump and Madison Square Garden:
“It wasn’t just Puerto Ricans who were offended that day. It was every Latino.”

Shout “Thank you” and “We love you, J-Lo”