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Former president says ‘these are not serious people’ in Georgia rally as Trump defended his White House decor in Ohio rally ‘They mobilized a whole government response to that joke’: Obama laughs off Trump attacks Sign up for the Breaking News US email Donald Trump has demanded that Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola and a rival sharing the name of Alaska’s Republican incumbent be removed…
During a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesday, October 29, former president Barack Obama criticized the Trump administration's reaction to a joke he had made. Obama stated that the administration mobilized a "whole-of-government response" to the joke rather than addressing inflation. ABC News (US) reported that the joke concerned the White House appearing as if Saddam Hussein had opened a Cheesecake Factory.
In a separate matter, The Guardian US reported that Donald Trump has demanded the removal of Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola and a rival sharing the name of Alaska’s Republican incumbent from next week's election ballot. Trump accused Democrats of an illegal scheme to confuse voters following an investigation regarding the recruitment of "spoiler" candidates intended to draw votes away from Senator Dan Sullivan.
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