Biden, Bullock slam Trump at fair
… if we can’t give people a reason to vote for us and not just against him, Donald Trump will win again,” Bullock said. “The path to victory doesn’t just go through the coasts.”
The two candidates Thursday reaffirmed their support for new gun restrictions — expanded background checks and bans on certain military-style weapons and ammunition — even as they stopped short of some solutions their more liberal opponents have proposed.
California Sen. Kamala Harris has said she’d use sweeping executive action on guns if Congress doesn’t act within 100 days of her inauguration.
But campaigning in Sioux City, Iowa, Harris stopped short of calling Trump a white supremacist.
“I think that there’s no question that his words and his language … (have) been about condoning the conduct and certainly accommodating the conduct of white supremacists,” the California senator told reporters. “So, I think it’s a fair conversation to have.”
Elsewhere on the campaign trail:
Former Texas Rep. Beto O’rourke crossed into Mexico for the funeral of one of the country’s victims of the El Paso shooting. O’rourke, who was raised in El Paso and represented the city in Congress for six years, said after walking across the international bridge into Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, that he was there “to remind the world that we are a binational community.”
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper insisted his focus was on the presidential race as pressure mounted on him to consider running for the U.S. Senate instead.
“I think I’m better served, I think the team is better served, if I maintain absolute focus on here’s what we’re doing in Iowa, here’s what we’re going to do this week, here’s what we’re going to do next week,” Hickenlooper said after visiting a health clinic in the latest stop in his multiday Winnebago tour of early-voting Iowa.