Harris follows Oprah event with crucial swing state visit as Trump tries to dodge scandal-plagued Republican: Live

If you were on Twitter around this time last night, you probably witnessed an explosion of shock and schadenfreude as this story broke…

Trump appeared on the Fox News late-night show Gutfeld! on Wednesday evening where he was shown a clip of the radio host and several other celebrities lambasting the former president.

Gustaf Kilander has the story.

The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Nevada’s Green Party seeking to include presidential candidate Jill Stein on the ballot in the battleground state.

The court’s order Friday, without any noted dissents, allows ballot preparation and printing to proceed in Nevada without Stein and other Green Party candidates included.

The outcome is a victory for Democrats who had challenged the Greens’ inclusion on the ballot in a state with a history of extremely close statewide races. In 2020, President Joe Biden outpaced former President Donald Trump by fewer than 35,000 votes in the state.

The state’s Democratic party had sued to kick Stein off the ballot after the Green party submitted enough signatures to include her. A lower state court ruled in her favor, but the state Supreme Court decided the petition forms were faulty.

The Green party was represented at the Supreme Court by Jay Sekulow, a Trump ally who was part of the president’s legal team during his first impeachment trial.

Across the country, a network of Republican political operatives, lawyers and their allies is trying to shape November’s election in ways that favor Trump. Their goal is to prop up third-party candidates, including Stein and Cornel West who offer liberal voters an alternative that could siphon away support from Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee.

“This is an issue that has to do with Robinson’s campaign and not President Trump’s campaign,” a Trump official told Axios on Thursday.

Kamala Harris slammed Donald Trump on abortion rights, bringing up the example of a Georgia woman who died of sepsis after her care was delayed.

“Women are being denied care during miscarriages, some only being treated once they develop sepsis,” she said.

“And we know that women have died because of Trump abortion bans. I was with a mother and the two sisters of a woman who died because of Trump abortion bans just last night,” she said about the event on Thursday night hosted by Oprah Winfrey.

“Her mother said the worst thing among the pain that she’s experiencing is when she heard and reflects on what she was told that it was preventable,” Harris said. “And you know when that decision came down just over two years ago. We predicted this would happen, and it’s preventable.”

“You know, the young woman, she was a vibrant, 28-year-old young woman with a mother of a six-year-old son. Her name Amber Nicole Thurman – I promised her mother I will say her name every time,” Harris added.

The vice president went on to outline how Amber was a medical assistant who had just learned that she was accepted to nursing school.

“She had her whole future planned out, and her sisters and her mother were describing her to me, and they said, ‘you know, she had such light, and she had ambition and she had drive, and she was so proud that she had worked so hard, and she was finally gaining independence that she found an apartment in a safe community’,” the vice president said.

“It had a little pool where her son could play, and she was so proud. She was so proud and so hopeful,” Harris said.

Thurman then found out that she was pregnant, and decided to have an abortion.

“But because of the Trump abortion ban in Georgia, she was forced to travel out of state to receive the health care that she needed,” Harris said on Friday.

The 28-year-old then discovered that she needed further care after coming back to Georgia, where she went to a hospital.

“But under the Trump abortion ban, her doctors could have faced up to a decade in prison for providing Amber the care she needed. And so she waited for 20 excruciating hours,” Harris recalled on Friday. “She waited as she deteriorated, then she reached such a critical state, that the doctors finally operated, and it was too late, and she died of sepsis.“

Medical experts have found that her death was preventable, Harris argued.

“So understand what a law like this means, these kinds of laws under Trump abortion bans, it means doctors may have to wait until the patient is at death’s door before they take any action,” the vice president said.

“Nobody wants that. What is he talking about?” she said of Trump, who has claimed there was a clamor for abortion access decisions to be returned to the states.

“Are we saying we’re going to craft public health policy so that doctors only kick in when you’re about to die?” Harris asked. “This is one example of what is happening around our country right now, and this is a health care crisis, and Donald Trump is the architect.”

“When Congress passes the bill to restore reproductive freedom. As President of the United States, I will proudly sign it into law,” Harris concluded.

A recent AP/NORC poll shows most Americans believe the opposite.

Responding to a shout from the crowd, Harris said: “The courts will take care of that, let’s take care of him in November.”

“But if you look at what he’s up to, Donald Trump will give billionaires and big corporations massive tax cuts,” she added. “He intends to cut Social Security and Medicare, and he wants to impose what I call a Trump sales tax. Because here’s the thing, what he is proposing would be a 20 percent tax on everyday basic necessities, which economists estimate will cost most working families more than $4,000 a year extra.”