Elections 2024 updates: Kamala Harris’s VP announcement looms as candidate sparks rumors with X publish | EUROtoday
US Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is believed to be on the verge of asserting who her 2024 operating mate might be.
The remaining listing consists of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly and Minnestota Governor Tim Walz.
Kelly, Walz and Shapiro all interviewed at Harris’s residence in Washington DC on Sunday, with the previous muddying the waters considerably by tweeting after which deleting a publish by which he declared, “Now my mission is serving Arizonans,” seemingly suggesting he’s not in competition.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was in the meantime at a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, together with his personal operating mate JD Vance on Saturday as his marketing campaign doubled down on his assaults on Harris’s ethnicity.
Trump instructed a convention of Black journalists final week that the Democrat “happened to turn Black” solely just lately.
Harris and Trump are just about tied within the race for the White House, in keeping with new polling.
Trump is at 49 per cent assist, in comparison with Harris’s 47 per cent, in keeping with CNN’s Poll of Polls — a mean of the 4 most up-to-date nationwide polls.
Pelosi ‘did not call one person’ earlier than Biden’s withdrawal from race
Former House speaker Nancy Pelosi has claimed that she “did not call one person” within the weeks earlier than President Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race – regardless of widespread experiences that the highly effective Democrat had been key in his determination to step down.
Here’s John Bowden on what she needed to say.
Joe Sommerlad5 August 2024 13:30
‘Republicans for Harris’ launches with backing from ex-Trump officers
Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign has launched “Republicans for Harris” with endorsements from former Trump administration officers and distinguished conservatives.
The initiative is “a grassroots organizing program to further outreach efforts to the millions of Republican voters who continue to reject the chaos, division, and violence of Donald Trump and his Project 2025 agenda,” the Harris marketing campaign mentioned in an announcement on Sunday.
Notable endorsements embrace former White House press secretary and Melania Trump chief-of-staff Stephanie Grisham and former homeland safety and counterterrorism advisor to Mike Pence, Olivia Troye.
Joe Sommerlad5 August 2024 13:00
Trump insists he and Vance aren’t ‘weird’ as he battles Democrat label
The Republican has insisted that he and operating mate JD Vance aren’t “the weird ones” because the presidential candidate fights to fight Democrat messaging on the contrary.
Trump made the remarks Thursday on the The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Showa conservative political podcast, following days of messaging from Kamala Harris’s marketing campaign dubbing her rivals “weird.”
“Well, they’re the weird ones, and if you’ve ever seen [Harris] with the laugh and everything else, that’s a weird deal going on there,” he mentioned.
“They’re the weird ones. Nobody’s ever called me weird. I’m a lot of things, but weird I’m not and I’m up front, and he’s not either, I will tell you, JD is not at all. They are.
“You notice the evening news, every one of them talk, you know, they introduced the word weird, and all of a sudden they’re talking about weird.
“Now, we’re not weird people. We’re actually just the opposite. We’re right down the middle.”
Still sounds bizarre to me.
Here’s Katie Hawkinson with extra.
Joe Sommerlad5 August 2024 12:30
RFK Jr wildly confesses to dumping lifeless bear cub in Central Park a decade in the past
Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr is as soon as once more firefighting a weird story from his previous after he wildly confessed to dumping a lifeless bear cub in New York City’s Central Park a decade in the past.
Seemingly making an attempt to get forward of the publication of a forthcoming article in The New Yorker journal, RFK Jr posted a video on X recounting the wild story to former sitcom actress Roseanne Barr.
Joe Sommerlad5 August 2024 12:00
Truth Social: Rattled Trump warns of financial disaster as he fails to put a glove on Harris
Over on his social media platform, the Republican is sounding determined certainly as he claims the markets are spooked by Kamala Harris and that an financial disaster is coming if she wins in November, one other drained previous gambit he’s wheeled out many, many occasions earlier than.
He’s additionally been claiming, bizarrely, that the Biden administration “hates farmers” (why?) and that the media is attempting to cowl up his assassination try, reasonably than naturally dropping curiosity a month after it occurred, with a fantastic deal else happening.
Joe Sommerlad5 August 2024 11:30
Harris holds final interviews with VP contenders earlier than remaining determination
Kamala Harris held final interviews on Sunday to check and distinction her chemistry with every of the ultimate contenders to be operating mate as she gears as much as announce who might be becoming a member of her on the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro all met with Harris at her Washington DC residence,The New York Times reported.
They all hail from states thought-about to be battlegrounds this November, giving them an edge within the choice course of.
John Bowden has this report.
Joe Sommerlad5 August 2024 11:00
Harris VP contender Mark Kelly tweets after which deletes publish suggesting he’s out of competition
The Arizona Senator reasonably muddied the waters round his candidacy to be Kamala Harris’s operating mate final evening when he posted after which swiftly deleted a tweet by which he declared, “Now my mission is serving Arizonans,” seemingly suggesting he’s not in competition, happening to exchange it with one thing far vaguer and extra innocuous.
A former US Navy pilot and astronaut who turned to politics after the near-fatal capturing of his spouse Gabby Giffords, Kelly could be a preferred selection for the position, not least due to the effectivity he might ship on the marketing campaign path if he selected to enlist his an identical twin Scott to assist cowl extra floor.
Joe Sommerlad5 August 2024 10:30
Senator Lindsey Graham warns Trump to cease birther-like assaults on Harris’s heritage
Lindsey Graham has warned Donald Trump in opposition to devolving into birtherism-like assaults in opposition to Kamala Harris throughout the 2024 race for the White House.
The South Carolina senator appeared on Fox News Sunday on August because the Trump marketing campaign continues to seek for an efficient message to run in opposition to Harris after she grew to become the formal Democratic nominee.
Graham made the remarks after Trump broached the difficulty of Harris’s racial background throughout an interview at a convention hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists this week. In entrance of the largely Black viewers, Trump insisted that Harris had solely just lately determined to determine as Black — drawing groans from the group.
John Bowden has the total story…
Kelly Rissman5 August 2024 10:00
Why San Francisco holds the important thing to the 2024 election
Last week, at a speech in Florida, Donald Trump warned {that a} Kamala Harris presidency would “forcibly impose crazy San Francisco liberal values on Americans nationwide.”
San Francisco, inhabitants 808,437, has lengthy been a punching bag for conservatives nationwide — however Trump uncared for to say that his personal operating mate, JD Vance, additionally has deep ties there.
Perhaps greater than another time in US historical past, either side of the ticket embrace individuals with basic ties to the Bay Area.
First, there’s Vice President Harris. This week she grew to become the primary Californian Democrat to safe the presidential nomination. Growing up in Oakland, she methodically rose by way of native after which state politics, bridging the area’s lengthy activist custom and its old-school native Democratic machine.
Io Dodds and Josh Marcus have the total story…
Kelly Rissman5 August 2024 09:00
ICYMI: Trump’s try to dismiss election interference case is denied by choose
The federal choose overseeing Donald Trump’s election interference case has denied his try to throw out the proceedings.
In an order, issued on Saturday, DC District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected Trump’s movement to dismiss the Department of Justice’s case on authorized grounds.
Trump “may file a renewed motion once all issues of immunity have been resolved,” she wrote.
Chutkan has reclaimed management of the election interference case after the Supreme Court tasked her with deciding which acts in Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election are thought-about “official” versus personal acts, the latter of which might be prosecuted.
In a movement filed final October, Trump’s legal professionals had argued that so as to convict the previous president, “the prosecution must prove that President Trump took post-election actions to accomplish a governmental objective, and not for any personal gain. Proving this, however, directly implicates Presidential immunity.”
Trump’s legal professionals had appealed the presidential immunity argument to the Supreme Court, claiming the previous president was appearing inside his official duties as president and due to this fact must be immune from prison prosecution.
Kelly Rissman5 August 2024 08:00
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