Mid-Day Update： October 16, 2024
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Summary
Elon Musk puts his money where his mouth is, Kamala Harris faces another critical moment in her campaign today when she sits down for an interview with Fox News. President Trump heads back to Pennsylvania this weekend, and no, it s not just for a campaign rally.
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Wednesday, October 16th.
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Elon Musk putting his money where his mouth is.
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The tech mogul who's the world's richest person has pledged more than $70 million
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to helping Donald Trump and other Republicans win this November's election,
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making him one of the biggest donors to the GOP cause this season.
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This according to the campaign finance disclosures released this week.
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Musk made the donation over the summer to the America PAC,
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a super political action committee he launched in May to aid Trump in his bid to return to the White House.
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Musk saying, quote, the America PAC is just aiming for common sense, centrist values.
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Some good swing state polling news for President Trump this week,
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and this is after Elon Musk has dumped some money into Pennsylvania
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trying to get people to get out and vote there for President Trump.
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President Trump is now up three points in Pennsylvania over Kamala Harris,
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The poll shows that Trump is gaining support in the Keystone State.
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In September, both Trump and Harris were tied at 48.
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And Vice President Kamala Harris faces another critical moment in her campaign today
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when she will sit down for an interview with Fox News.
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Kamala sat down with Brett Baer, who's a bit of a rhino, if not a Democrat at Fox News,
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for this interview that's obviously been pre-recorded,
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We'll see if we see any of those same edits we saw during her 60-minute interview.
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I'm not entirely sold that Fox News has better journalistic integrity than 60 minutes.
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I think we probably put them both at the same level.
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And President Trump is heading back to Pennsylvania this weekend,
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President Trump says he will visit a McDonald's in the swing state of Pennsylvania on Sunday
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President Trump, in his excellent sense of humor, says he's going to head to McDonald's
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to work the job that Kamala Harris says she allegedly worked,
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even though that some people are saying it's not exactly true that Kamala ever worked there.
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Be sure to join us for today's episode of The Great America Show.
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We're joined by brilliant economist John Lonsky.
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He says we're slipping into a bit of a recession under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
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Join us for that in the full discussion and much more today on The Great America Show.