Last night the annual Al Smith dinner was held in New York City, a benefit for Catholic charities. The event is a tradition for presidential candidates who come and roast one another and themselves in the final weeks ahead of the election. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
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00:00Last night the annual Al Smith dinner was held in New York City, a benefit for Catholic
00:04charities.
00:05The event is a tradition for presidential candidates, who come and roast one another
00:09and themselves in the final weeks ahead of the election.
00:13This year Harris chose to skip the event, the first major presidential nominee to do
00:17so since 1984, instead campaigning in Wisconsin, one of the election's key battleground states.
00:23Though she still shared a video roast, featuring SNL alum Molly Shannon as her superstar character
00:28Mary Catherine, who together poked fun at Trump.
00:51Then the GOP candidate took the podium.
01:06Trump took mild jabs at New York Mayor Eric Adams, who was recently arraigned on five
01:10felony counts including bribery and fraud.
01:13With Trump calling those charges, quote, peanuts compared to what they have done to me.
01:17He then made a joke about Tim Walz having a period, before turning his sights on himself.