Biden begins private meetings with world leaders at Delaware home ahead of secretive Quard meeting
President Biden is meeting privately with the three other world leaders that make up the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue at his Delaware estate. The White House released statements acknowledging the arrival of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida already, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was spotted arriving at the home on Saturday. The meetings are taking place in the president’s hometown of Wilmington — an excessively private affair that has sparked outrage from the White House Correspondents’ Association. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS’ ASSOCIATION PROTESTS ‘UNACCEPTABLE’ LACK OF PRESS ACCESS AT BIDEN’S QUAD SUMMIT The foreign leaders are invited to a low-profile dinner on Saturday night hosted at Archmere Academy, the president’s former school. Administration officials have tried to characterize the unusual format and venue for the event as a gesture of hospitality, but media figures have protested the private nature of Biden’s final meeting with the world leaders. “These are personal relationships that mean a lot to him. And he believes personal relationships are important to foreign policy,” White House national security spokesman John Kirby previously told the press. BIDEN HOLDS FIRST CABINET MEETING IN NEARLY A YEAR, FIRST LADY JOINS FOR FIRST TIME “This is the first time President Biden will host foreign leaders in Wilmington as president, reflecting his strong relationship with the leaders, and their strategic importance,” the State Department said in a briefing. WHCA president and Politico correspondent Eugene Daniels said in an email to the press obtained by Fox News Digital, “The lack of access to the president of the United States for these bilateral meetings due to a location chosen by the White House is unacceptable to the WHCA.” In a message to the White House, Daniels said, “My understanding is that the current posture of the administration is for the press to only see the leaders drive in with no eyes, or cameras on POTUS in this historic moment. I can’t remember a time where this president has had a bilateral meeting on US soil and the press and therefore the American people were blocked from seeing it.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP He continued, “And the WHCA’s position is that shouldn’t be the case this time either. [We] have talked through different scenarios and possibilities for the pool to be able to cover these moments. While we understand that there are security concerns, it’s essential for the public to have direct and independent press accounts of the greetings at the very least.” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said it was “not unusual” for the press to not have access to the president as he meets with foreign leaders at his home and continued to emphasize how reporters would be able to see Biden and the world leaders when they leave. The meeting is expected to be one of Biden’s final summits with foreign leaders after he dropped out of the presidential election earlier this year. Fox News Digital’s Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.
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Vance says he will keep calling Haitian migrants ‘illegal aliens’ despite legal status
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance on Thursday stood by past remarks calling Haitian migrants who have entered the U.S. through a Biden-era parole program or who are protected from deportation “illegal aliens” — amid an ongoing debate about migration into the U.S. Vance was asked at a campaign event about why he was referring to migrants from Haiti in towns like Springfield, Ohio, as “illegal aliens” when many of them have come in through the parole processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans (CHNV) or are protected from deportation via Temporary Protected Status (TPS). “The media loves to say that the Haitian migrants — hundreds of thousands of them, by the way, 20,000 in Springfield, but hundreds of thousands of them all across the country — they are here legally.” BIDEN ADMIN’S PAROLE USE IN SPOTLIGHT AS IT REVEALS EYE-POPPING NUMBER OF MIGRANT ARRIVALS IN US “And what they mean is that Kamala Harris used two separate programs, mass parole and Temporary Protected Status. She used two programs to wave a wand and to say, we’re not going to deport those people here,” he said. “Well, if Kamala Harris waves the wand illegally and says these people are now here legally, I’m still going to call them an illegal alien. An illegal action from Kamala Harris does not make any alien legal. That is not how this works. “ The CHNV parole processes were expanded by the Department of Homeland Security in 2023 to allow up to 30,000 migrants from those four countries into the U.S. each month if they are vetted and have a supporter already in the U.S. Meanwhile, the Biden administration redesignated and extended TPS for Haiti last year, offering protection from deportation and work permits for hundreds of thousands of Haitians — even those in the country illegally. Republicans have objected to the use of parole programs by the Biden administration, both the CHNV program and the use of the CBP One app at ports of entry to allow in 1,450 migrants per day via parole. They argue that Congress has limited the use of parole to a “case by case” basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit, and that use of parole in such quantities is a breach of that. Republican states sued over the CHNV program this year, but they have lost in court. TRUMP REVEALS NEW PLEDGE AMID HAITIAN REFUGEE CONTROVERY: ‘I WILL SAVE OUR CITIES’ “These processes — a safe and orderly way to reach the United States — have resulted in a significant reduction in the number of these individuals encountered at our southern border,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said earlier this year in a statement when that case was decided. “It is a key element of our efforts to address the unprecedented level of migration throughout our hemisphere, and other countries around the world see it as a model to tackle the challenge of increased irregular migration that they too are experiencing.” The administration says that the use of the parole programs encourages legal immigration and has been tied to a sharp drop in illegal crossings from those nationalities. “All CHNV beneficiaries continue to be thoroughly screened and vetted by CBP prior to their arrival to the United States and must meet other eligibility criteria authorization to travel to the United States in a safe, orderly and lawful way once they purchase their own commercial airline tickets,” Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said on Monday. “Since DHS has implemented these safe, orderly and lawful processes, encounters of CHNV nationals in between POEs are down 99%,” the statement said. But the debate has come back into the spotlight in recent days amid attention on the influx of Haitian migrants into small towns like Springfield, Ohio. Both Vance and Former President Trump repeated unsubstantiated claims that Haitians in Springfield were eating pets of the people that live there. As that debate has continued, and sparked a slew of memes, it has led to more attention on the use of parole. The administration recently announced that more than 1.3 million migrants have been allowed in using the CBP One app. While critics have pointed out that many of the migrants are not here illegally due to the use of parole, Vance pushed back. BIDEN ADMIN RESTARTS CONTROVERSIAL MIGRANT FLIGHT PROGRAM WITH ADDITIONAL VETTING AFTER FRAUD REVELATIONS “What is fundamentally illegal is for Kamala Harris to say we’re going to grant parole not on a case by case basis, but to millions of illegal aliens who are coming into this country. That does not magically make them legal,” he said. The Harris campaign did not respond to a request for comment. Vance also criticized the use of TPS by the administration. The Trump administration attempted to end the use of TPS for a number of nationalities, including Haitians. Vance described TPS as a “government edict saying that you’re not allowed to deport people anymore.” The remarks show how the debate about immigration has extended beyond the southern border, where numbers have dropped sharply in recent months after an executive order by President Biden that limited arrivals into the U.S. Former President Trump said recently that he will “immediately end the migrant invasion of America.” “We will stop all migrant flights, end all illegal entries, terminate the Kamala phone app for smuggling illegals (CBP One App), revoke deportation immunity, suspend refugee resettlement, and return Kamala’s illegal migrants to their home countries (also known as remigration),” he said. Fox News’ Sophia Compton contributed to this report.
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Former President Trump vowed to “protect women at a level never seen before” if elected, and to ensure that “powerful exceptions” for abortion are adopted across the nation, in a social media post early Saturday. Trump, in the lengthy late-night missive to his Truth Social in all capitalized letters, said “women are poorer than they were four years ago, are less healthy than they were four years ago, are less safe on the streets than they were four years ago, are more depressed and unhappy than they were four years ago, and are less optimistic and confident in the future than they were four years ago.” TRUMP VOWS HE ‘WILL NOT BLOCK’ ABORTION PILLS OR MEDICATION IF ELECTED, SAYS HE BELIEVES IN ‘EXCEPTIONS’ “I will fix all of that, and fast, and at long last this national nightmare will be over,” he said. “Women will be happy, healthy, confident and free!” Polls have consistently shown Trump running strongly, against Vice President Kamala Harris in most demographic groups, but struggling with women. Much of that has been attributed to the fact that the three justices he picked for the Supreme Court helped overturn Roe v. Wade, which had enshrined abortion protections under federal law. In his post, Trump wrote that women “will no longer be thinking about abortion, because it is now where it always had to be, with the states, and a vote of the people—and with powerful exceptions, like those that Ronald Reagan insisted on for rape, incest, and the life of the mother—but not allowing for Democrat demanded late term abortion in the 7th, 8th, or 9th month, or even execution of a baby after birth.” “I will protect women at a level never seen before,” he said. “They will finally be healthy, hopeful, safe and secure.” Trump added: “Their lives will be happy, beautiful, and great again!” The former president’s play for the female vote comes after Vice President Harris campaigned in Georgia, delivering a speech about the consequences of, what her campaign calls “extreme Trump Abortion Bans.” “After Vice President Harris spent the week speaking about the consequences of Trump Abortion Bans and the stakes of this election for women’s lives, Donald Trump snapped — taking to his phone late at night to rant and rave about women,” Harris-Walz 2024 Spokesperson Sarafina Chitika said in response to Trump’s Truth Social post. “After ripping away our reproductive freedom, now he’s trying to tell us how to think.” Chitika said “Trump thinks he can control women — he’s wrong.” The Harris campaign said he is “terrified that women across the country will vote like our lives and freedoms depend on it, because they do.” “Women aren’t stupid. We see Trump’s Project 2025 agenda for what it is: an extreme plan to ban abortion nationwide and threaten access to IVF and birth control,” Chitika said. “We’ll vote like it this November.” JD VANCE VOWS TRUMP WOULD NOT IMPOSE FEDERAL ABORTION BAN, VETO IT IF COMES ACROSS DESK But Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital that Harris and President Joe Biden have put women’s lives in danger, and noted the names of women who have been killed by illegal immigrants. “President Trump is right. Kamala may want to be the first woman president, but she’s made the lives of women worse — more dangerous and more unaffordable,” Leavitt said. “If Kamala cared about protecting women, she would close the border and stop allowing rapists and murderers to flow into our country to prey on young women and girls. Kamala has never said the names of Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nunguaray, and Rachel Morin. President Trump has honored their lives and consoled their grieving families.” Leavitt added: “If women want safety, security and prosperity for our families, there’s only one option on the ballot — President Trump.” As for Project 2025, a blueprint for a Republican administration crafted by the Heritage Foundation, Leavitt repeated Trump’s assertion that he did not commission it and has no plans to implement it if elected. “President Trump has repeatedly said he has nothing to do with Project 2025,” Leavitt said, adding that “Kamala’s campaign is lying because they are losing.” Harris continues to claim that Trump will install a national abortion ban that would allow for no exceptions, despite Trump repeatedly saying that he would never support a national abortion ban, and believes in exceptions for abortion, including rape, incest, and life of the mother. Harris has refused to say whether she supports any abortion restrictions up to birth. Trump has vowed that he “will not block” abortion pills or abortion medication for women, should he be elected president.
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Harris-Trump cash dash: This presidential candidate holds fundraising edge in final stretch
Vice President Kamala Harris entered the final stretch of the 2024 race for the White House with a large fundraising advantage over former President Trump, new federal filings show. Harris hauled in nearly $190 million in fundraising for her 2024 campaign in August, more than quadrupling the $44.5 million that Trump’s team reported bringing into his principal campaign account last month — this according to figures from the Federal Election Commission made public on Friday. The Harris campaign also vastly outspent the Trump campaign last month, as it dished out roughly $174 million. Much of those expenditures went to creating and running ads, as the campaign aimed to familiarize Americans with Harris after she replaced President Biden on the Democrats’ 2024 ticket two months ago. HARRIS-TRUMP SHOWDOWN: WHICH CANDIDATE HOLDS THE EDGE ON THIS CRUCIAL ISSUE The Trump campaign, by comparison, listed just $61 million in expenditures, with most of the spending going toward media buys. But despite the Harris spending spree, the vice president’s campaign entered September with $235 million cash-on-hand, far ahead of the $135 million Trump’s coffers, according to the FEC filings. WHAT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POLL SHOWS IN THE HARRIS-TRUMP 2024 SHOWDOWN The latest cash figures are another sign of the vice president’s surge in fundraising since becoming her party’s standard-bearer. Both the Harris and Trump campaigns use a slew of affiliated fundraising committees to haul in cash, and those panels file their reports on a different schedule. The Harris campaign announced earlier this month that they and their allied committees hauled in $361 million in August — nearly triple the $130 million reported raised by the Trump campaign and its aligned committees. The vice president’s team also touted that Harris hauled in $47 million from nearly 600,000 donors in the 24 hours after her first and potentially only debate with Trump, which took place earlier this month in Philadelphia. When asked about the fundraising deficit, Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley told Fox News Digital in the debate spin room earlier this month that “the Democrats have a ton of money. The Democrats always have a ton of money.” However, he emphasized that “we absolutely have the resources that we need to get our message out to all the voters that we’re talking to and feel very comfortable that we’re going to be able to see this campaign through and we’re going to win on November 5.” Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.