DONALD TRUMP ADDRESSES ANNUAL AL SMITH DINNER

The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner  is an annual dinner in New York City to raise funds for Catholic charities supporting children of various needs in the Archdiocese of New York. Held at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on the third Thursday of October, it is hosted by the Archbishop of New York in honor of Al Smith, who grew up in poverty and later became the governor of New York four times and was the first Catholic nominated for president by a major party as the Democrat nominee in the 1928 election.


By 1960, the Al Smith dinner had become a ritual of American politics. It is generally the last event at which the two major party presidential candidates share a stage before the election.

Last night Republican candidate Donald J. Trump addressed the Al Smith dinner, while the Democrat candidate, Kamala Harris snubbed the charity event. 



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