Election 2024 live updates and polls: Trump, Harris make final push in swing states

John Mitnick — former Homeland Security general counsel who was appointed and fired by Trump, and a former official at Raytheon and the Heritage Foundation — warned fellow conservatives that the former president is “reckless, angry, vengeful, and narcissistic, and he has no respect for the Constitution or the rule of law.”

“He is not a conservative; rather, he is a would-be autocrat and fascist motivated exclusively by his personal self-interest,” he wrote in a thread on X on Sunday. “If you think he cares about you or your family, I assure you that he does not. He cares only about himself.”

He urged support for Kamala Harris and said, “It’s time to close the book on Trump” and “rebuild” the Republican Party.

Young people are using the social video app to champion the practise of “cancelling out” the votes of conservative parents by proudly using their own ballots to back Harris.

Reflecting on the end of the campaign, Trump said, “I won’t be doing this anymore with North Carolina, and I won’t be doing this anymore … after today.”

“I’m just thinking, as I’m going through this, that this will be our final moment, but … the more exciting moment is going to begin,” he added. “These moments of hundreds and hundreds of the most incredible rallies any country, no country has ever seen anything like that. But these moments that we’ve had together, these really were just to create what we hopefully will create tomorrow, which is we’re going to make America great again.”

Trump’s longest-serving Chief of Staff John Kelly has said that the former president fits the description of a “fascist.”

Trump responded on Monday, saying that he should have been fired and calling him a “disaster.”

The former president also said former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley “should have been fired.”

“All those generals – Kelly should have been, Kelly was such a disaster. Some people are good, some people are not good, some people are stupid,” Trump said.

Trump joked on Monday that Biden “probably” voted for him because of what the former president said is his dislike for Kamala Harris.

“He actually hates my guts, but he likes Trump more than he likes Kamala,” he said.

“He just got 14 million votes,” Trump said in reference to the Democratic primary.

Trump responded to a member of the audience who suggested that Biden voted for him.

“That’s one of the ladies from North Carolina. She said he voted for me – probably did,” Trump said.

Trump once again made the false claim that FEMA funds were allocated to help undocumented migrants.

“FEMA did a horrible job. The administration – they’re still not there. You know why? Because they’ve spent all their money on bringing in murderers and a lot of people,” Trump said on Monday in Raleigh, North Carolina, speaking about hurricanes striking Florida, North Carolina, and other states. “They spent all their money on bringing in illegal migrants. They’ve also taken a lot of your jobs, especially jobs from the Black population.”