2024 presidential election live: Donald Trump rips into his ‘stupid’ campaign staff for blunder during rally

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Donald Trump berrated his campaign staff while on stage for a rally in Wisconsin on Sunday.

Speaking in Juneau, the former president ripped into his own aides by claiming that they did not put the right image on the jumbotron screen.

He wanted to brag with a picture of how large his crowd was the day before in Pennsylvania.

We have something to show you the kind of crowd we had last night. It was really something special. So, let’s put it up if we can.

A video then played of a large crowd at Trump’s first return to Butler, Pennsylvania since the assassination attempt at his rally there in July.

It was unbelievable. They used the wrong pictures, the same pictures but they had the two side things. So stupid. But that’s alright. We have that every once in a while.

Trump was referencing the two blurred images that show on the sidebars of video and images taken vertically on a phone and then displayed on a horizontal screen.

Trump is historically touchy about the size of his rally crowds and often boasts about how many people come out to hear him speak.

Thousands consistently show up for the political rallies where Trump usually speaks for about an hour-and-a-half after music, vendors and other speakers tee up the main event.

Tens of thousands of Trump supporters showed up in Butler on Saturday for his first return after the assassination attempt where he was shot in the ear.

Even billionaire, Tesla, X and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attended and made an appearance on stage.

Trump often talks about how his Democrat competitors cannot attract the same sort of rally crowds that he can.

Elon Musk, a hardcore Trump supporter, joined him onstage in Butler over the weekend.

DailyMail.com also spoke with witnesses of the July 13 shooting, just two months later:

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis doesn’t appear interested in taking a ‘politically motivated’ call from the Biden-Harris administration.

With Hurricane Milton’s impending landfall in Florida, the Republican governor refused to take a call from President Joe Biden, DailyMail.com can confirm.

And the White House said that Vice President Kamala Harris also reached out.

Biden’s Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Monday:

It’s up to the governor if he wants to respond to us or not.

She also said that DeSantis was invited to join Biden in Florida.

As North Carolina and other parts of the east coast continue to recover from the devestating and deadly Hurricane Helene, Florida is bracing for another storm to hit Wednesday.

A new poll has Democrat Kamala leading Republican Donald Trump by 11 points in Virginia.

The Christopher Newport University poll has Harris at 52 percent to Trump’s 41 percent among likely Virginia voters. Another 4 percent of likely voters remain undecided.

Harris holds a twenty-point lead among women and a fifteen point lead among Independents. She also has a 54 point lead among black voters and a twenty point lead among college educated likely voters.

Trump has a massive lead among Republicans but just a one-point lead among white voters.

Top issues in the state are Inflation and the economy, followed by threats to democracy, immigration and abortion.

Melania Trump revealed that it was her husband Donald Trump who invited her to the White House Situation Room to watch the October 2019 raid to kill ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdad.

‘I was caught off guard when I received a call informing me that the president wanted to see me in the Oval Office,’ she writes in forth-coming memoir Melania, a copy of which was obtained by the Daily Beast.

‘I was directed to join him in the Situation Room – a first and unique experience for me.’

‘Watch this incredible action at work,’ Donald whispered to me,’ she writes.

By Jon Michael Raasch, U.S. Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s separate trips to survey Hurricane Helene damage delayed crucial rescue efforts and potentially cost lives, a Republican running relief missions charges.

Florida Republican Rep. Cory Mills, an Army veteran who has self-conducted aid missions from Afghanistan to Haiti, has been unilaterally coordinating Helene relief response in North Carolina.

He was there immediately after the storm made landfall last week, before federal government assistance arrived, and has witnessed the horrific damage firsthand.

Videos show Mills with packing helicopters with food, water and medical supplies flying to impacted areas. One picture shows a smiling old lady with an IV drip attached to her arm in the back of a helicopter next to a grinning Mills.

At-risk Americans like the smiling lady were put in peril by Biden and Harris’s ‘photo ops,’ Mills wrote the president in a letter exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com, as those visits delayed rescue operations and grounded air operations and could’ve cost lives.

The Georgia Supreme Court reinstates controversial six-week abortion ban that is sure to cause confusion as the state continues to ping-poing on the issue.

Just last week, a judge had overturned the conservative state’s controversial law.

Abortion is one of the hottest topics of the 2024 presidential election.

The back and forth in Georgia has been a topic of conversation for both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on the campaign trail.

The ruling goes into effect at 5pm today, just one week after a lower court ruling allowed clintics to resume abortions after six weeks.

The ban will remain in effect indefinitely while the appeal process proceeds through the Georgia Supreme Court.

A new poll reveals how the fallout from the Hamas assault on Israel last year has divided American society with the potential to influence the outcome of November’s election.

It found that almost four in 10 American Muslims believe Hamas did not commit murder and rape on October 7 last year.

Some 31 percent said they did believe the gunmen were responsible for such crimes.

The findings, from an online poll of 1000 members of the general public plus a sample of 500 Muslims, illustrate how decades of conflict in the Middle East are seen through deeply different lenses.

Some 59 percent of Muslims said the attack was carried out to ‘forward the Palestinian cause’ while a majority of the general public (51 percent) said it was because ‘Hamas wanted to kill Jews and is set on the destruction of Israel.’

Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor

Voters who have been frustrated for lack of the chance to see Kamala Harris without a teleprompter have a chance to get their fill this week.

The vice president is on an all-out media tour, though she still hasn’t scheduled a press conference that would give the wider press the chance to probe her.

She already taped an interview with the ‘Call Her Daddy’ podcast, where she took on Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders’ comment that there wasn’t anything ‘keeping her humble.’

Tonight, she appears on ’60 Minutes’ for a taped interview that airs in prime time.

Further sitdowns this week have her taking likely softballs on ABC’s ‘The View,’ plus an appearance on ‘The Howard Stern Show’ and ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.’

Colbert helped host a massive Democratic fundraiser for Biden and Stern gave Biden a lengthy interview earlier this year that focused on his personal biography.

Harris will also attend a town hall hosted by Univision on Thursday.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

A massive group of Muslim voters in Michigan have now endorsed Green Party candidate Jill Stein for president.

The movement began last year as Muslim voters looked to rebuked the Biden-Harris administration’s support for Israel in its war with Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

Stein said in an interview with Middle East Eye in August that if she were to win her longshot bid for president she would end all military support to Israel.

Abandon Harris wrote in a statement Monday on its endorsement of the third party candidate:

We are not choosing between a greater evil and a lesser evil. We are confronting two destructive forces: one currently overseeing a genocide and another equally committed to continuing it. Both are determined to see it through.

We call on Muslim-Americans and all those who stand firmly against genocide to vote for the Green Party in 2024. The path to justice is long, painful, and difficult, but it is ours to pave and follow.

Michigan has a massive voting bloc of Muslim-Americans who are against the U.S. support for the Jewish State of Israel.

In the 2024 primaries, they successfully pulled a good bit of votes from President Joe Biden – who want then slotted to lead the Democratic ticket – as a show of protest against his pro-Israel policies.

The Senate’s highest-ranking Jewish lawmaker, Chuck Schumer, is commemorating the one-year mark of the horrific October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.

At least seven Americans remain in Gaza as hostages a year since the deadliest attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust.

The viciousness and brutality of Hamas’s attack remains overwhelming and heart wrenching: murdering nearly 1,200 Israelis, raping and abusing innocent victims, taking hundreds hostage, killing young people at a music festival, and burning homes to the ground to smoke out women and children.

I still remember when one of the family members told me every minute is an hour, every day is a year not knowing the fate of their loved ones held in Hamas’s captivity.

Hamas displayed such viciousness on that horrible day to try to scare the Israeli people, the American people and freedom-loving people of the world into submission—but they failed. We will never forget.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is getting a promotion and a new title – but will still be speaking for the Biden administration during daily briefings.

In addition to her flacking role, she will now be senior advisor to the president, joining grizzled Biden advisors Mike Donilon, 65, Steve Richetti, 67, and Bruce Reed, 64.

Jean-Pierre, 50, was a senior advisor to Biden’s 2020 campaign, and was elevated to the press secretary role after serving as a deputy to Jen Psaki. She previously worked in the Obama White House, and has been a loyal Biden defender from the podium.

She has yielded some of the traditional communications duties of her role when national security spokesman John Kirby briefs reporters at her side – although it is Jean-Pierre who determines which reporters he calls on, in an occasionally awkward division of labor.

‘Her counsel will be critical to get as much done as possible for the American people in the coming months,’ White House chief of staff Jeff Zients told ABC, calling her a ‘trusted advisor.’

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, accompanied by Rabbi Aaron Alexander of Adas Israel Congregation, lit a candle and held a moment of silence in remembrance of the victims of the October 7 attacks.

The Rabbi recited the ‘El Malei Rachamim’ prayer, which translates to ‘God full of Mercy.’ It is a Jewish prayer for the soul of a person who has died. It is recited during burial services and memorial services.

He prayed for ‘the souls of the holy ones, men, women and children who were killed on October the seventh.’

‘For this we pray for the ascent of their souls, may they rest in the Garden of Eden,’ he said. ‘May their souls be bound up in the bond of everlasting life.’

Biden then lit a yahrzeit candle, which is a candle lit in memory of the dead in Judaism.

The three then held a moment of silence.

Neither the president nor the first lady spoke during the brief ceremony.

Rabbi Alexander is a family friend of the Goldberg-Polin Family, the White House noted. Hersh Goldberg-Polin was abducted by Hamas on October 7, 2023 and held hostage for almost 11 months until he was murdered by Hamas.

Biden has met often with his parents.

The president also called Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Biden conveyed his commitment to the safety of the Jewish people, the security of Israel, and its right to exist, and reaffirmed his support for Israel’s right to defend itself against attacks from Iran and all Iranian-backed terrorist groups, including Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis, the White House said.

Speaker Mike Johnson: ‘It’s been 365 days since the world watched in horror as Hamas terrorists carried out their barbaric attack on innocent Israelis in the worst assault on the Jewish people since the Holocaust.’

‘Nearly 1,200 people were brutally killed, 251 were kidnapped, and countless others were beaten and raped.’

He goes on to say in a video that Congress will continue to support Israel.

The Trump campaign has posted a video to fire back at claims the former president is lying that FEMA used funds for migrants.

The Republican nominee has used campaign speeches to suggest the agency dealing with the devastation from Hurricane Helene had run out of cash because of its support for migrants.

FEMA has insisted this isn’t true and critics have called Trump’s words ‘dangerous’.

Now the campaign has collated footage from CNN and the White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre where they admitted funds were being directed to illegal migrants

Trump also doubled down on his claims with a Truth Social post on Monday morning.

The GREAT people of North Carolina are being stood up by Harris and Biden, who are giving almost all of the FEMA money to Illegal Migrants in what is now considered to be the WORST rescue operation in the history of the U.S. On top of that, Billions of Dollars is going to foreign countries! NORTH CAROLINA HAS BEEN VIRTUALLY ABANDONED BY KAMALA!!! DROP HER LIKE SHE DROPPED YOU – VOTE FOR PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP. MAGA2024!

The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans.

Without detailing their reasoning, the justices kept in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations that would violate Texas law.

The Biden administration had asked the justices to throw out the lower court order, arguing that hospitals have to perform abortions in emergency situations under federal law.

The administration pointed to the Supreme Court’s action in a similar case from Idaho earlier this year in which the justices narrowly allowed emergency abortions to resume while a lawsuit continues.

The administration also cited a Texas Supreme Court ruling that said doctors do not have to wait until a woman’s life is in immediate danger to provide an abortion legally.

The administration said it brings Texas in line with federal law and means the lower court ruling is not necessary.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said it was imperative that messes from Hurricane Helene be cleaned up ahead of Hurricane Milton’s arrival so they don’t become dangerous flying projectiles.

More than 300 vehicles picked up debris Sunday but encountered a locked landfill gate when they tried to drop it off.

State troopers used a rope tied to a pickup truck and busted it open, DeSantis said.

‘We don’t have time for bureaucracy and red tape,’ DeSantis said. ‘We have to get the job done.’

Kevin Guthrie, executive director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, said: ‘We are preparing for the largest evacuation that we have seen, most likely since 2017, Hurricane Irma.’

In a radio interview with WABC on the anniversary of October 7 Donald Trump said:

I should get 100 percent of the Jewish vote and I don’t. It’s amazing. I gave them a lot of money so that they can protect themselves, and protect themselves they do, frankly, when you look at what’s going on.

He said he could ‘run for prime minister’ of Israel, although Benjamin Netanyahu was ‘doing a lot better right now.’

A debate for a vacant Senate seat in New Jersey briefly turned into a scary situation as candidate Curtis Bashaw froze up for several seconds during what was described as a ‘medical episode’ on Sunday evening.

Bashaw, 63, is the Republican nominee for the Senate seat left empty by the resignation of indicted Democrat ‘Gold Bars’ Bob Menendez.

The GOP hopeful participated in his first debate against Democrat opponent Andy Kim, a two-term Congressman who beat Governor Phil Murphy’s wife to the nomination.

The debate was briefly derailed at the start when Bashaw stopped speaking mid-sentence and stared ahead, nonresponsive.

Bashaw was initially assisted by opponent Kim before he was helped from the stage and left the room for roughly 10 minutes.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden sent a message of hope to those impacted by Hurricane Helene, emphasizing there are no politics behind the aid being sent.

The couple started their message, broadcast on ABC’s Good Morning America, by directly addressing the people of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida…and Tennessee, Virginia and Alabama.

‘Your nation has your back,’ the president said.

‘In moments like this there are no red and blue states,’ he added.

Jill Biden added: ‘No matter you vote we help each other when disaster strikes because we are one United States of America.’

There has been much misinformation behind the aid efforts. Online, there are politically charged rumors and conspiracies falsely claiming Republican areas aren’t getting help from the Democratic president.

Kamala Harris struggled to explain her economic policies and how she will get them through Congress in an interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes, where she was repeatedly asked about its details.

‘My plan is about saying that when you invest in small businesses, you invest in the middle class, and you strengthen America’s economy. Small businesses are part of the backbone of America’s economy,’ she said.

But when CBS’ Bill Whitaker continued to grill her what her plan does and how she would pay for it, Harris didn’t offer any specifics, just staying she knew lawmakers agreed with her.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump all will mark the one-year anniversary of the surprise Hamas attack on Israel that sparked the war in Gaza.

Biden and first lady Jill Biden will be at the White House, where they will be joined by a rabbi to light a yahrzeit candle, a Jewish mourning tradition for anniversary of a death.

Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff will plant a pomegranate tree, a Jewish symbol of hope and righteousness, on the grounds of the vice president’s residence at the Naval Observatory in memory of the attacks.

Trump will start the day in New York City, where will visit Brooklyn tomb of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the legendary Lubavitcher Rebbe. It’s a traditional stop for politicians seeking support from ultra-Orthodox Jews.

The former president then heads to Florida, where he will give remarks at an anniversary remembrance event his Trump Doral golf course in Miami.

The October 7, 2023, attack sparked the longest war between Israelis and Arabs since 1949.

More than 1,500 Israelis have been killed and about 250 others were abducted. More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s counterattack.

Historian Allan Lichtman said that a so-called October surprise would not make him back off his prediction that Kamala Harris will beat Donald Trump in November.

The American University professor, 77, has fashioned his own election model that has correctly forecast every presidential winner since 1984.

He announced in early September that Harris has met the critical objectives for victory and predicted she would beat Trump and now he denies the idea that any sort of surprise between now and November 5 would change that.

‘One of the greatest myths of American politics is the October surprise. I have never changed my prediction in response to an October surprise,’ he said.

An October surprise historically refers to a significant news event that takes place in the closing weeks of a presidential campaign.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Donald Trump slammed ‘dope’ late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel and reposted a clip of him reading a social media post of the former president on-stage at the Oscars earlier this year.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote along with the video:

Remember this? What a dope! His wife and agent begged him not to do it, and just before BEST PICTURE AWARD, yet.

He suffers from TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. All of this on top of really bad ratings for Jimmy, just like failing Bill Maher and the two clowns on CBS and NBC! NO TALENT EQUALS BAD RATINGS!!!

The latest attack comes just hours before Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will appear for an interview with the host.

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel read out loud on-stage at the Oscars earlier this year a Truth Social post that former President Donald Trump made in the middle of the broadcast criticizing his hosting abilities

Kamala Harris was forced, once again, to defend the fact that she doesn’t have any biological children during her interview on the often-raunchy, female-focused podcast Call Her Daddy.

Speaking with host Alex Cooper, Harris hit back at Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders who said the vice president doesn’t have anything to keep her ‘humble’ because she doesn’t have children of her own.

‘This is not the 1950s anymore,’ said Harris, who has two stepchildren through husband Doug Emhoff. ‘Families come in all kinds of forms.’

‘I don’t think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who, one, are not aspiring to be humble,’ Harris added. ‘Two, a whole lot of women out here who have a lot of love in their life, family in their life, and children in their life.’

Harris, 59, has faced a slew of criticism from conservatives and advocates of ‘traditional families’ and has been at the center of the controversy over the ‘childless cat lady’ comments made by Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance years ago.

Ahead of the 2024 Presidential election, see how Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are really faring among voters with DailyMail.com’s brilliant poll tracker.

Readers can view who is winning the head-to-head race as well as the situation in the battleground states that will ultimately decide who gets into the White House.

All of the data used in our analysis comes from Harris versus Trump polls collated by DailyMail.com’s pollsters J.L. Partners and FiveThirtyEight.

The 2024 presidential election could be one of the closest in history.

Polls show former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are neck-and-neck during one of the most unprecedented campaigns in recent memory.

The race has been dominated by assassination attempts, two drama-filled debates and President Joe Biden making the monumental decision to forgo a chance at a second term by dropping out of the race.

Every day there are dramatic twists and turns that are shaping the biggest conversation in the nation: Who will be the next president?

As the United States races toward Election Day on November 5, DailyMail.com is launching its first politics newsletter to keep you up to date with the most important developments.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Donald Trump accused the White House of ‘abandoning’ Americans and ignoring the plights of North Carolinians devastated by Hurricane Helene.

The red-leaning battleground state was rocked by the storm and many accuse President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of not doing enough to provide relief and aid to residents.

Former President Trump said that Biden and Harris are giving emergency funds to illegal immigrants instead of Americans facing fallout from the hurricane.

He wrote on Truth Social on Monday:

The GREAT people of North Carolina are being stood up by Harris and Biden, who are giving almost all of the FEMA money to Illegal Migrants in what is now considered to be the WORST rescue operation in the history of the U.S. On top of that, Billions of Dollars is going to foreign countries!

The 2024 Republican presidential nominee continued in all caps:

NORTH CAROLINA HAS BEEN VIRTUALLY ABANDONED BY KAMALA!!! DROP HER LIKE SHE DROPPED YOU – VOTE FOR PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP. MAGA2024!

Above: Vice President Kamala Harris helps put together emergency aid packages at a resource donation center in Charlotte, North Carolina to send out to residents hit by Hurricane Helene

On October 7, 2023, thousands of terrorists led by Hamas flooded out of Gaza into Israel to perpetrate the single-worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.

The merciless violence claimed 1,200 lives, mostly civilians, and saw thousands more injured, raped and brutalised. Hundreds were taken back to Gaza as hostages.

A year on, the dust has still not settled.

Here, we recap every twist and turn of the ‘war that will never be won’, and look ahead to how the conflict might escalate given Israel’s incursion into Lebanon and Iran’s missile barrage…

Hamas’ October 7 attacks of last year returned Israel back to ‘square zero’, a senior official gloated this morning one year on from the atrocity as rockets soared over the border and impacted targets in Tel Aviv and elsewhere.

‘The Al-Aqsa flood returned the occupation to square zero and threatened its existence,’ Khaled Meshaal, the former head of Hamas, said on the Al Arabiya TV station, using the Palestinian group’s official name for the attack.

The comments came as Israel began commemorating the anniversary of the horrific assault – one of the darkest days in Jewish history since the Holocaust.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog began the day with a minute of silence at 6:29am – the moment the attack started – at the site of the Nova music festival near Re’im where heavily armed Hamas fighters killed at least 370 people.

Minutes later the service was marred by air raid sirens as Hamas declared it launched projectiles at the ‘enemy gatherings’ just a few kilometres from the border with Gaza, as well as at Tel Aviv.

Images emerged later this morning showed civilians and rescue workers inspecting damage at various buildings caused by rockets or falling shrapnel, while videos showed smoke trailing from craters near Israel’s cultural and commercial capital.

The Israeli army said several rockets were downed by air defence systems, adding that it had foiled what would have been a much larger attack after it ‘struck Hamas launch posts and underground terrorist infrastructure throughout the Gaza Strip’.

But some projectiles still hit their targets, prompting an IDF spokesperson to issue an evacuation order to residents in several regions of southern Gaza ahead of an ‘extreme response’.

‘Due to Hamas’ terrorist acts, which will be met with extreme force, you must evacuate these areas immediately and move to the humanitarian area an Al-Mawasi,’ the IDF’s Arabic spokesman Avichay Adraee declared.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are locked in a neck-and-neck battle for the White House with just one month to go before Election Day.

Polls show that in a nation of over 300 million, the closest presidential race in modern history is likely to be decided by just thousands of voters in seven battleground states.

When the data is processed through the DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners model, it shows the ex-president winning in 56.7 percent of the simulations over Harris.

Voting by mail is already underway in a few states including North Carolina with more joining in the coming weeks. Early voting in person has also begun in a couple of states including Virginia and South Dakota.

At the same time, voter registration cutoffs started Sunday, with 15 states hitting their deadline date in the next few days including several battleground states.

Vice President Kamala Harris said she will ‘never forget the horror of October 7, 2023’ in her statement on the anniversary of the attacks.

‘Women raped on the side of the road. 250 people kidnapped. It was the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust,’ she said.

The Demcoratic presidential candidate vowed to make sure the threat of Hamas is ‘eliminated’.

She also said: ‘It is far past time for a hostage and ceasefire deal to end the suffering of innocent people.’

I will never forget the horror of October 7, 2023.  1,200 innocent people, including 46 Americans, were massacred by Hamas terrorists. Women raped on the side of the road. 250 people kidnapped. It was the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. What Hamas did that day was pure evil – it was brutal and sickening. And it has rekindled a deep fear among the Jewish people not just in Israel, but in the United States and around the world.

The long, extraordinary arc of Jewish history is full of pogroms and prejudice, slaughter and separation. And now, in our own generation, there is another moment that the world must never forget.

I am devastated by the loss and pain of the Israeli people as a result of the heinous October 7 attack. Doug and I pray for the families of the victims and hope they find solace in remembering the lives their loved ones lived.

We also pray for the safety of Jewish people all around the world. We all must ensure nothing like the horrors of October 7 ever happen again. I will do everything in my power to ensure that the threat Hamas poses is eliminated, that it is never again able to govern Gaza, that it fails in its mission to annihilate Israel, and that the people of Gaza are free from the grip of Hamas. I will never stop fighting for the release of all the hostages, including the seven American citizens, living and deceased, still held: Omer, Edan, Sagui, Keith, Judy, Gad, and Itay. I will never stop fighting for justice for those who murdered Hersh Goldberg-Polin and other Americans. And I will always ensure Israel has what it needs to defend itself against Iran and Iran-backed terrorists like Hamas. My commitment to the security of Israel is unwavering.

Hamas’s terrorist attack on October 7 launched a war in Gaza. I am heartbroken over the scale of death and destruction in Gaza over the past year—tens of thousands of lives lost, children fleeing for safety over and over again, mothers and fathers struggling to obtain food, water, and medicine. It is far past time for a hostage and ceasefire deal to end the suffering of innocent people. And I will always fight for the Palestinian people to be able to realize their right to dignity, freedom, security, and self-determination. We also continue to believe that a diplomatic solution across the Israel-Lebanon border region is the only path to restore lasting calm and allow residents on both sides to return safely to their homes.

Today, as we mourn the lives lost on October 7, I know many Jews will be reciting and reflecting on the Jewish prayer for mourning – the Kaddish. The words of the Kaddish, however, are not about death. The prayer is about still believing in God and still having faith. I know that is difficult amidst so much trauma and pain. But it is with that spirit that I commemorate this solemn day. We will not forget, and we will not lose faith. And in honor of all those souls we lost on October 7, we must never lose sight of the dream of peace, dignity, and security for all.

President Joe Biden paid tribute to the 1,200 innocent people – including 46 Americans – killed during the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

The commander-in-chief used the statement to say the U.S. would continue to push for a ceasefire deal in Gaza and said far too many civilians have suffered far too much during this year of conflict.

On this day last year, the sun rose on what was supposed to be a joyous Jewish holiday. By sunset, October 7 had become the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Today marks one year of mourning for the more than 1,200 innocent people of all ages, including 46 Americans, massacred in southern Israel by the terrorist group Hamas. One year since Hamas committed horrific acts of sexual violence. One year since more than 250 innocents were taken hostage, including 12 Americans. One year for the survivors carrying wounds, seen and unseen, who will never be the same. And one year of a devastating war. On this solemn anniversary, let us bear witness to the unspeakable brutality of the October 7th attacks but also to the beauty of the lives that were stolen that day.

The October 7th attack brought to the surface painful memories left by millennia of hatred and violence against the Jewish people. That is why, soon after the attack, I became the first American President to visit Israel in a time of war. I made clear then to the people of Israel: you are not alone. One year later, Vice President Harris and I remain fully committed to the safety of the Jewish people, the security of Israel, and its right to exist. We support Israel’s right to defend itself against attacks from Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and Iran. Last week, at my direction, the United States military once again actively assisted in the successful defense of Israel, helping to defeat an Iranian ballistic missile attack.

Today and every day, I think of the hostages and their families. I have met the families of the hostages and grieved with them. They have been through hell. My Administration has negotiated for the safe release of more than 100 hostages, including Americans. We will never give up until we bring all of the remaining hostages home safely.

I also strongly condemn the vicious surge in antisemitism in America and around the world. It is unacceptable. All of us must stand united against antisemitism and against hate in all its forms.

I believe that history will also remember October 7th as a dark day for the Palestinian people because of the conflict that Hamas unleashed that day. Far too many civilians have suffered far too much during this year of conflict — and tens of thousands have been killed, a human toll made far worse by terrorists hiding and operating among innocent people. We will not stop working to achieve a ceasefire deal in Gaza that brings the hostages home, allows for a surge in humanitarian aid to ease the suffering on the ground, assures Israel’s security, and ends this war. Israelis and Palestinians alike deserve to live in security, dignity, and peace. We also continue to believe that a diplomatic solution across the Israel-Lebanon border region is the only path to restore lasting calm and allow residents on both sides to return safely to their homes.

On this day of remembrance, which also falls during the holiest days of the Jewish calendar, we honor the indomitable spirit of the Jewish people and mourn the victims of October 7th. May their memory be a blessing.