LOS ANGELES: Vice President Kamala Harris poked at Republican Donald Trump during a fancy fundraiser on Sunday, telling donors that as she campaigns around the country her \u201ccrowds are pretty big\u201d \u2014 before heading to Nevada for a rally at the same venue where the GOP nominee appeared two weeks ago.
\nDuring the presidential debate, Harris appeared to get under Trump\u2019s skin when she said people were leaving his rallies early because of his rambling speeches. And she\u2019s kept it up on the campaign trail.
\nShe also has moved into what Trump considers his terrain \u2014 immigration \u2014 with a Friday visit to the border town of Douglas, Arizona. It was her first trip to the US-Mexico border since taking over for President Joe Biden atop the Democratic presidential ticket.
\nHarris\u2019 four-day West Coast trip has been crafted with dual purposes: She was opening and closing with stops in Sun Belt battlegrounds \u2014 Arizona and Nevada \u2014 where the vice president is trying to shore up support as Trump pounds her relentlessly over illegal migration. And her mid-stay in California was devoted to hauling in campaign contributions from donors in her blue home state.
\nHarris\u2019 border visit in Arizona seemed to irk Trump. The GOP leader has spent two days railing about the vice president during his rallies, upping his personal attacks against her, claiming she was responsible for a border \u201cinvasion,\u201d and stirring up unfounded fears that she\u2019d usher in lawlessness if elected.
\nHarris gave the same response she usually does to his insults, even despite Trump calling her \u201cmentally impaired.\u201d
\n\u201cWe just see the same old tired show from the same old tired playbook,\u201d she told a Los Angeles crowd of donors, some who shouted \u201cboring!\u201d in response.
\nHarris has warned the race is as close as it could possibly be, a \u201cmargin-of-error\u201d race. But on Sunday in Los Angeles, she added: \u201cThe election is here and let me be clear. We are going to win.\u201d
\nThe fundraiser was full of celebrities: Stevie Wonder, Keegan Michael-Key, Sterling K. Brown, Demi Lovato, Jessica Alba and Lily Tomlin. Performing for the crowd: Halle Bailey and Alanis Morissette.
\nThe Los Angeles fundraiser and one a day earlier in San Francisco raised a combined $55 million for Harris\u2019 campaign.
\nThe vice president is continuing to notch Republican support. Former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake became the latest to endorse her. He credited Harris with a \u201cfine character and love of country\u201d and said he wants a president who does not treat political adversaries as enemies or try to subvert the will of voters.
\nFlake, a longtime critic of the former president, joins a list of anti-Trump Republicans who have said they will vote for the Democratic ticket, including Dick Cheney, the deeply conservative former vice president, and his daughter, Liz.
\nBut Maryland Senate candidate Larry Hogan, a former Republican governor and a sharp critic of Trump, said Harris has yet to earn his vote, though Trump won\u2019t get it.
\nIn Nevada, where Harris was holding a rally Sunday night, all voters automatically receive ballots by mail unless they opt out \u2014 a pandemic-era change that was set in state law. That means most ballots could start going out in a matter of weeks.
\nHarris will be back in Las Vegas on Oct. 10 for a town hall with Hispanic voters. Both she and Trump have campaigned frequently in the city, highlighting the critical role that Nevada\u2019s six electoral votes could play in deciding an election expected to be exceedingly close.
\nTrump held his own Las Vegas rally on Sept. 13 at the Expo World Market Center, where Harris was to speak on Sunday. She\u2019s also held events at the same venues that Trump used in Milwaukee, Atlanta and suburban Phoenix.
\nDuring a campaign stop in Las Vegas in June, Trump promised to eliminate taxes on tips received by waiters, hotel workers and thousands of other service industry employees. Harris used her own Las Vegas rally in August to make the same promise.
\nFully doing away with federal taxes on tips would probably require an act of Congress. Still, Nevada\u2019s Culinary Union, which represents 60,000 hospitality workers in Las Vegas and Reno, has endorsed Harris.
\nTed Pappageorge, the culinary union\u2019s secretary-treasurer, said the difference between the dueling no-taxes-on-tips proposals is that Harris has also pledged to tackle what his union calls \u201csub-minimum wage,\u201d where employers pay service industry workers small salaries and meet minimum wage thresholds by expecting employees to supplement those with tips.
\n\u201cThat shows us she\u2019s serious,\u201d Pappageorge said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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