Harris Seeks Black Male Vote/Trump Talks To Bloomberg

October 15, 2024 5:52 pm

DETROIT (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris stopped by a Detroit art gallery with three Hollywood stars in tow for a conversation with Black men. The campaign event on Tuesday unfolded as both she and Donald Trump seek to energize key constituencies their allies worry may be slipping away. Harris was joined by Don Cheadle, Delroy Lindo and Detroit native Cornelius Smith Jr. at the Norwest Art Gallery. Harris reminded the gathered crowd that early voting starts in Michigan in four days. Trump, meanwhile, focused on reaching women.  He seized on an opening to sound his frequent argument that imposing huge tariffs on foreign goods would amount to an economic elixir — one he claims would raise enormous sums for the government, protect U.S. firms from overseas competition and prod foreign companies to open factories in the United States. Appearing Tuesday before a friendly audience at the Economic Club of Chicago, Trump asserted that tariffs are misunderstood as an economic tool. “To me,” Trump said, “the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff. It’s my favorite word. It needs a public relations firm.” If tariffs need an image makeover, it’s probably because mainstream economists say they actually amount to a tax on American consumers.  (Photo:  AP)