Trumping Churchill, and who’s ‘Tom’ Walz?: An offbeat campaign week

The community of Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape is reeling from the massacre of 18 people. 
Police Minister Senzo Mchunu
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump pitching for a place along the greats in British history, Kamala Harris’s husband doing weird things at a fast-food restaurant, and vice presidential candidate “Tom” Walz: it was another colorful week on the US campaign trail.
– Churchill’s crowds –
Donald Trump put himself on a par with — or slightly above — World War II British prime minister Winston Churchill.
Trump did acknowledge Churchill as a “great speaker,” but suggested he himself should be included in that category as he addressed a Pennsylvania rally on Monday.
“I get much bigger crowds than him,” Trump complained, “but nobody ever says I’m a great speaker.”
– May I show you my real estate? – 
Melania Trump spilled details about her first date with her husband-to-be, which involved an hour-long drive to view a property he was developing.
“I loved the vision that he had,” she told Fox News of the real estate mogul Trump. “We were two of us, alone in the car, for an hour, hour and a half, and no other noise, no other people.”
Asked if she fell in love that day, she demurred, saying: “It was a connection.”
– Fast food fun –
Kamala Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff revealed some of his odd fast-food habits when he visited a burger chain in Texas.
His drink of choice? A split of two-thirds Diet Coke and one-third regular Coca-Cola. “It’s just delicious,” Emhoff said before later placing a straw behind his ear. 
“This is my weird thing that Kamala actually hates,” he said.
– Egg on your face –
J.D. Vance’s denunciation of rising costs under the Democrats went awry at a supermarket when he claimed that a dozen eggs now cost around $4.
Unfortunately for Trump’s running mate, a sign behind him showed eggs selling for $2.99.
– ‘Tom Walz’ –
Harris’s running mate Tim Walz temporarily became “Tom Walz” for a handful of voters, owing to a typo in Florida’s Palm Beach County.
The error — which affected around 250 overseas ballots — came from jumbling the neighboring “o” and “i” keys on a keyboard. The ballots have since been reissued.