U.S. election: Trump in Pennsylvania, Harris heads west [Video]

SCRANTON, Pa. –

Former U.S. President Donald Trump offered his prayers to those in the path of  Hurricane Milton as it began to lash Florida while continuing to insult his rival, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, and other women — saying he had no interest in stopping even if it turned off female voters.

“I don’t want to be nice,” Trump said at his first of two rallies of the day in the pivotal battleground state of Pennsylvania. “You know, somebody said, `You should be nicer. Women won’t like it.’ I said, ‘I don’t care.”

Trump kept up his campaign schedule even as the storm threatened to overshadow the presidential race with fears that it would cause catastrophic damage in Tampa and other parts of Florida’s Gulf Coast. Harris was to fly to Nevada later Wednesday for a western campaign swing, but first attended a briefing on the storm and the federal response that U.S. …