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Here’s a wrap-up of the day’s key events:
Kamala Harris has won enough votes from Democratic delegates to win the party’s nomination for president. The announcement was made by Jaime Harrison, the chair of the Democratic national committee, during a call with supporters.
After securing enough votes to win the Democratic presidential nomination, Kamala Harris took to X, saying: “This campaign is about people coming together.” She added that she will officially accept the nomination next week.
Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, has compared Joe Biden’s proposed supreme court reforms to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. McConnell, in an interview with Punchbowl News published this morning, accused Biden of trying to undermine the high court, saying, “That’s what some people were trying to do January 6 – to break the system of handing an administration from one to the next.”
July was the best grassroots fundraising month in presidential history, Kamala Harris’s team announced. Team Harris raised more across grassroots channels in the four days following president Biden’s endorsement Harris than Trump’s big donor-reliant operation raised in the entire month, it added.
Kamala Harris is expected to meet with her top vice-presidential contenders this weekend, CNN reports, citing a source familiar with the matter. Among Harris’s reported top contenders are Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, the Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, the Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, the Kentucky governor, Andy Beshear, the Arizona senator Mark Kelly and transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg.
Joe Biden has spoken with Kamala Harris about her vice-presidential picks, according to White House pool reports. When asked whether he has spoken with Harris about her running mate selections, Biden replied: “Yes.”
With Kamala Harris gaining momentum, Donald Trump’s campaign has launched a new coalition called Rural Americans for Trump. In a statement released on Thursday, the campaign said: “Rural America deserves a President that serves the interests of families in the Heartland and empowers them to be the most successful and prosperous versions of themselves.”
Kamala Harris’s campaign has brought in a staggering $310m in July, more than double the $137m that Donald Trump’s campaign raised last month, according to a new report. On Friday, Politico reported that Harris’s campaign and other affiliated committees have $377m in cash on hand, marking a $50m advantage over Trump’s total funds of $327m.
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Kamala Harris has won enough votes from Democratic delegates to win the party’s nomination for president. The announcement was made by Jamie Harrison, the chair of the Democratic national committee, during a call with supporters.
Speculation about the Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro has been whipped into a frenzy after Cherelle Parker, the mayor of Philadelphia, tweeted a video in support of “@KamalaHarris for president and @JoshShapiroPA for VP!”
Elon Musk’s political action committee has been using user data to help Donald Trump win the presidential election in November, according to a CNBC investigation published on 2 August.
After securing enough votes to win the Democratic presidential nomination, Harris said on X: “This campaign is about people coming together.” She added that she will officially accept the nomination next week.
Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, has compared Joe Biden’s proposed supreme court reforms to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. McConnell, in an interview with Punchbowl News published this morning, accused Biden of trying to undermine the high court, saying, “That’s what some people were trying to do January 6 – to break the system of handing an administration from one to the next.”
July was the best grassroots fundraising month in presidential history, Harris’s team announced. Team Harris raised more across grassroots channels in the four days following president Biden’s endorsement Harris than Trump’s big donor-reliant operation raised in the entire month, it added.
Harris is expected to meet with her top vice-presidential contenders this weekend, CNN reports, citing a source familiar with the matter. Among Harris’s reported top contenders are the Minnesota governor Tim Walz, Shapiro, the Illinois governor JB Pritzker, the Kentucky governor,Andy Beshear, the Arizona senator Mark Kelly, and the transport secretary Pete Buttigieg.
With Harris gaining momentum, Donald Trump’s campaign has launched a new coalition called Rural Americans for Trump. In a statement released on Thursday, the campaign said: “Rural America deserves a President that serves the interests of families in the Heartland and empowers them to be the most successful and prosperous versions of themselves.”
Harris’s campaign has brought in a staggering $310m in July, more than double the $137m that Trump’s campaign raised last month, according to a new report. On Friday, Politico reported that Harris’s campaign and other affiliated committees have $377m in cash on hand, marking a $50m advantage over Trump’s total funds of $327m.
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In a new series of ads, Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign is zeroing in on Donald Trump’s noncommittal responses to whether he was willing to debate the Democratic nominee, Reuters has reported.
According to Reuters: “The DNC has purchased large ads that dominate the digital homepages of major local newspapers in states where Trump plans to campaign in the coming weeks. The ads say ‘the convicted felon is afraid to debate’ and question whether that is due to his stance on abortion.”
Harris has accused Trump of “backpedaling” on the previously agreed upon debate that was originally set to be hosted by ABC news, and take place on 10 September. Trump has previously suggested that the debate should be held on Fox News and the news outlet has formally invited Harris and Trump to a debate on 17 September.
The first ads calling out Trump’s unwillingness to definitively agree to debate Harris appeared on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s website ahead of Trump’s visit to Georgia and are set to appear on local news stations alongside Trump’s tour of the state, according to Reuters.
Read the rest of Reuters’ reporting on Harris’s latest ads here.
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Speculation about the Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro has been whipped into a frenzy after Cherelle Parker, the mayor of Philadelphia, tweeted a video in support of “@KamalaHarris for president and @JoshShapiroPA for VP!”
Some have argued that the video was created to celebrate a yet-to-be-made announcement that Shapiro, an early frontrunner to be Harris’s running mate, has been formally invited to complete the Democratic ticket.
But a member of Parker’s staff told the New York Times that the video was released as a show of support for Shapiro, who the mayor hopes will be chosen, not as a celebration.
Proud to be back with so many leaders from across our region supporting @KamalaHarris for President and @JoshShapiroPA for VP! We are One CITY, One REGION, and ONE Commonwealth United! @PADems @PhillyDems @Joanna4PA @PADemsChair @IBEW98 @RepHarris @PALaborers pic.twitter.com/Rh1ojbRjcr
— Cherelle Parker (@PeopleforParker) August 2, 2024
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Elon Musk’s political action committee has been using user data to help Donald Trump win the presidential election in November, according to a CNBC investigation published on 2 August.
According to reporter Brian Schwartz, ads from the America Pac, a group co-founded by Musk in spring, show a young man lying in bed, getting a text with a video of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. When the young man replies asking how he can help he’s met with a link to the America Pac.
If the person who visits the Pac’s site is from a battleground state like Michigan, Arizona or Nevada, instead of being directed to a voter registration page for their state, they are directed to a page where they fill in personal information like their address and phone number.
So that person who wanted help registering to vote? In the end, they got no help at all registering. But they did hand over priceless personal data to a political operation,” Schwartz writes. “The combination of owning a social media company that gives him an enormous platform to push his political views, and creating a PAC with effectively unlimited resources, has made Musk, for the first time, a major force in an American presidential election.
Read the entirety of Schwartz’s article here.
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Here’s more from Pennsylvania’s governor, Josh Shapiro, who described Donald Trump’s attacks on Kamala Harris’s racial identity as “shameful”.
Shapiro, speaking after an event in Cheney, said:
I think it’s offensive. And it is more of the same from Donald Trump. He attacks other people based on what they look like, or who they pray to, who they love, the way they were raised. He tries to divide Americans, because quite frankly, he struggles with uplifting all Americans.
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The criminal case charging Donald Trump with plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat resumed after a nearly eight-month pause on Friday, after a supreme court opinion last month narrowed the scope of the prosecution.
The case has been formally sent back to the US district judge, Tanya Chutkan, who is expected to decide in the coming weeks which aspects of the indictment constitute official acts and which do not.
Last month in a significant victory for Trump, the court ruled that former presidents are entitled to broad immunity for official actions taken as president.
Judge Chutkan will have to decide how to apply the high court’s opinion to the remainder of the case.
That includes whether key allegations in the case – including that Trump badgered his vice-president, Mike Pence, to reject the official counting of electoral votes showing that he had lost the election – can remain part of the prosecution or must be discarded, according to AP.
The Secret Service takes “full responsibility” for the events that led up to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump last month, the acting director of the agency said on Friday.
In a press conference in Washington, Ronald Rowe, who replaced Kimberly Cheatle after she stood down from her position as director of the service after Trump was shot, said: “This was a failure.”
He said agents should have had better cover of the vantage points, from where a 20-year-old gunman ended up firing shots at the former president while he spoke at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last month.
The gunman, Thomas Crooks, fired several shots from a rifle after positioning himself on a warehouse roof that Rowe admitted “was not far” from the stage where Trump was speaking. Crooks was killed by government counter-snipers. Rowe said agents should have had “eyes” on that position beforehand.
“We should have had better coverage on that roof line,” he said.
The agency is conducting an internal investigation and Rowe said disciplinary action would be taken if necessary, and procedures will be changed.
Hunter Biden's sentencing date set for 13 November after conviction on gun charges
The sentencing for Hunter Biden’s firearms case, in which he was found guilty of three felonies, has been set for 13 November – just eight days after the November election.
Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden, is the first child of a sitting president to be convicted of a felony. He was found guilty by a jury in Wilmington, Delaware of lying on a gun application form when buying a Colt Cobra 38 Special revolver in 2018 by not disclosing his drug addiction, and then illegally owning the gun for 11 days, before his then girlfriend, the widow of his late brother Beau, threw it in a garbage bin.
The charges carry a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and fines of $750,000, although such punishments are rare for first time offenders.
Kamala Harris’s campaign has described the moment she secured enough votes from Democratic delegates to win the party’s nomination for president as “historic” in a “critical” election year with “sky-high stakes”.
Harris has unified the party and generated “unprecedented enthusiasm from across the broad and diverse coalition that sent her and President Biden to the White House,” a statement from the campaign said, adding:
Today’s milestone comes on the heels of a groundbreaking $310 million July fundraising haul – the best grassroots fundraising month in presidential history, with two-thirds coming from first-time donors.
Democratic National Committee chair Jaime Harrison has released the following statement after Kamala Harris secured enough votes to win the Democratic presidential nomination:
In the span of just a few weeks, Vice-President Kamala Harris continues to break records – and today is no different. With historic momentum and a groundswell of support, Vice-President Harris has officially met the threshold, securing a majority of the delegates she needs to receive the Democratic nomination on Monday.
With the support of more than 50% of all delegates just one day into voting, vice president Harris has the overwhelming backing of the Democratic party and will lead us united in our mission to defeat Donald Trump in November.
But I want to be clear – there is still time for delegates to cast their ballots. I encourage every single delegate across the country to meet this moment and cast their ballot so that we head into our convention in Chicago with a show of force as a united Democratic party.”
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Josh Shapiro on JD Vance: 'Trump really has buyer's remorse'
Upon being asked for his reaction to JD Vance comparing him to a “really bad impression of [Barack] Obama”, Pennsylvania’s governor Josh Shapiro, who is reported to be one of Kamala Harris’s top contenders for vice-president, said:
Barack Obama was probably our most gifted orator of my time, so that’s kind of a weird insult …
I’ll say this about JD Vance: it’s really hard being honest with the American people when you’re not being honest with yourself. He is the most inorganic candidate I think I have ever seen …
This guy is not exactly off to a good start. It is clear that Trump really has buyer’s remorse. So, if he wants to sling insults in my direction, which I’m not even sure is an insult, let him do it. Bring it on. I’ll be ready for whatever JD Vance throws my direction.”
Reporter: Vance compared you to a really bad impression of Obama
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 2, 2024
Shapiro: Barack Obama was probably our most gifted orator of my time, so that’s kind of a weird insult. I’ll say this about JD Vance: it’s really hard being honest with the American people when you’re not being… pic.twitter.com/0UY8T7KGJw
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Harris: 'This campaign is about people coming together'
After securing enough votes to win the Democratic presidential nomination, Kamala Harris took to X, saying: “This campaign is about people coming together.”
I am honored to be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States. I will officially accept the nomination next week.
This campaign is about people coming together, fueled by love of country, to fight for the best of who we are.
I am honored to be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. I will officially accept the nomination next week.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 2, 2024
This campaign is about people coming together, fueled by love of country, to fight for the best of who we are.
Join us: https://t.co/abmve926Hz
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Kamala Harris’s campaign has accused Donald Trump of being “too scared to debate” after the former president questioned why he should participate in a debate.
Trump, in an interview with Fox Business, was asked if he regretted debating Joe Biden in June. Trump replied:
If I didn’t do the debate, they’d say, ‘Oh, Trump’s you know, not doing the debate.’ It’s the same thing they’ll say now. I mean, right now I say, why should I do a debate? I’m leading in the polls, and everybody knows her. Everybody knows me.
In response, the Harris campaign’s co-chair, Cedric Richmond, said:
Donald Trump needs to man up. He’s got no problem spreading lies and hateful garbage at his rallies or in interviews with right-wing commentators. But he’s apparently too scared to do it standing across the stage from the Vice President of the United States.
He added:
Since he talks the talk, he should walk the walk and – as Vice President Harris said earlier this week – say it to her face on September 10. She’ll be there waiting to see if he’ll show up.
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Kamala Harris told supporters that “we are going to win this election” and that it will “take all of us”.
“We believe in the promise of America, the promise of freedom, opportunity and justice, not just for some, but for all,” she said.
We each face the question: what kind of country do we want to live in? Do we want to live in a country of freedom, compassion and rule of law, or a country of chaos, fear and hate? The beauty of our democracy is that we each, every one of us has the power to answer that question.
Kamala Harris noted that it was the “tireless” work of the Democratic party’s delegates, state leaders and staff that was “pivotal in making this moment possible”.
“Your dedication cannot be overstated,” she said.
We love our country, we believe in the promise of America, and that’s what this campaign is about.
Harris said she would officially accept the party’s nomination next week once the voting process ends, but that she was “happy” that she has enough delegates to secure it.
Later this month, we will gather in Chicago, united as one party, where we’re going to have an opportunity to celebrate this historic moment together.
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Kamala Harris thanked the Democratic National Committee chair, Jaime Harrison, after he announced that she had secure enough votes from delegates to become the party’s nominee for president.
Harris said she was “excited” for the future, but that the party has got “a lot of work to get there”. “It’s good work, we like hard work,” she told supporters in a call.
This is a “people-powered campaign”, Harris said, as she acknowledged that she would not have reached this point without the party’s support and trust, for which she said she was “deeply grateful”.
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Harris says she is 'honored' after earning enough votes to win Democratic presidential nomination
Kamala Harris has won enough votes from Democratic delegates to win the party’s nomination for president.
The announcement was made by Jamie Harrison, the chair of the Democratic national committee, during a call with supporters.
The online voting process ends on Monday, but Harris has crossed the threshold to have the majority of delegates’ votes.
The vice president, in a Harris for President campaign call, said:
I am honored to be the presumptive Democratic nominee for President of the United States.
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The mayor of a Louisiana city near the state’s border with Texas abruptly resigned from her post days before authorities jailed her on suspicion of raping a boy while she served in office.
Misty Roberts became the first woman to be elected as mayor of DeRidder in 2018, and she was well into her second term in the position when she handed in her resignation – with immediate effect – to the local city council on Saturday.
The letter did not provide a reason for Roberts’s decision. But the day before, Louisiana state police had begun investigating an allegation that Roberts engaged in “sexual relations” with a minor who was too young to be able to legally provide consent, according to a news release from the agency.
Investigators said they interviewed the alleged victim as well as one other child. Both confirmed Roberts “had sexual intercourse with one juvenile victim while employed as mayor”, the state police statement said.
Read the full story here: Louisiana mayor arrested on child rape accusations after abrupt resignation
The Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, in the Punchbowl News interview, was asked whether he was disappointed in the selection of the Ohio senator JD Vance as the Republican party’s vice-presidential nominee.
“It’s not my job to tell the president who he ought to run,” McConnell replied, adding:
With regard to Sen. Vance … yeah, we have a different point of view.
Without directly criticizing Donald Trump or Vance, McConnell said the foreign policy doctrine Vance and others in his party believe in is “nonsense”, adding:
I mean, even the slogans are what they were in the 30s – ‘America First’.
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Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, has compared Joe Biden’s proposed supreme court reforms to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
McConnell, in an interview with Punchbowl News published this morning, accused Biden of trying to undermine the high court.
That’s what some people were trying to do January 6 – to break the system of handing an administration from one to the next. We can have our arguments, but we ought to not try to break the rules.
Biden earlier this week unveiled a series of sweeping changes to the supreme court, including the introduction of term limits for justices and a constitutional amendment to remove immunity for crimes committed by a president while in office.
In response, McConnell said the term limits proposed will end up “dead on arrival” in Congress.
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Kamala Harris’s campaign said that they will be hosting a call with “some special guests” at 12.34pm ET.
The call will be livestreamed on the Democratic National Committee’s YouTube page.
It remains to be seen if Harris herself will tune into the call, as well as who the special guests will be.
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Josh Shapiro, the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, is widely speculated to be among Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential finalists.
Martin Pengelly explores Shapiro’s background for the Guardian:
Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, is a leading contender to be named Kamala Harris’s running mate in the US presidential election, with a decision expected in the next few days.
A congressional aide turned state representative and state attorney general, the 51-year-old father of four was elected governor in 2022. Close to two years later, he maintains historically high approval ratings, including notable support from Republicans, his numbers outstripping such ratings both for Harris and for the GOP ticket of Donald Trump and JD Vance.
In 2020, the declaration of victory in Pennsylvania confirmed Joe Biden’s election win over Trump. In 2024, the state is again one of the most important presidential battlegrounds. On Tuesday, Harris will stage her first event with her vice-presidential pick in Philadelphia, the state’s biggest city: a move that did little to quell speculation that Shapiro will be that pick.
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Harris's campaign: July was best grassroots fundraising month in presidential history
Here are some more details surrounding Kamala Harris’s campaign’s latest fundraising cycle, as per her campaign statement released on Friday:
July was the best grassroots fundraising month in presidential history.
Team Harris raised more across grassroots channels in the four days following President Biden’s endorsement of Vice-President Harris than Trump’s big donor-reliant operation raised in the entire month.
More than 3 million donors made over 4.2m contributions – with more than 2 million donors making their first donation this cycle.
This month, 94% of all our donations were under $200, and teachers and nurses continue to be among the most common donor occupations.
The campaign also announced several other achievements, including:
Compared with June, we saw more than 10 times the number of gen Z donors, and more than eight times the number of millennial donors.
Sixty per cent of all donors in July were women.
Coalition groups that organized calls since launch – like Black Women for Harris, Latinas for Harris, and White Dudes for Harris – raised more than $20m for Team Harris.
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Harris to meet with VP contenders this weekend – report
Kamala Harris is expected to meet with her top vice-presidential contenders this weekend, CNN reports, citing a source familiar with the matter.
Among Harris’s reported top contenders are Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, the Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, the Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, the Kentucky governor, Andy Beshear, the Arizona senator Mark Kelly and transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg.
According to the source, most of the meetings are expected to be in person but some will be conducted virtually. The source added that it is possible that additional candidates could be added to the schedule and that Harris has not yet made her choice.
Two other sources said that once factor Harris is considering is “how and where a vice-presidential candidate will help with independents and swing voters, especially in battleground states”, CNN reports.
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Joe Biden has spoken with Kamala Harris about her vice-presidential picks, according to White House pool reports.
When asked whether he has spoken with Harris about her running mate selections, Biden replied: “Yes.”
Upon being asked about what key qualities she should consider as part of the decision-making process, Biden replied: “I’ll let her work that out.”
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Donald Trump has appeared to have lost a fan – Kyle Rittenhouse, the 21-year old white man who was acquitted after shooting and killing two men while injuring another during racial justice protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, four years ago when he was 17 years old.
In a video posted on X, Rittenhouse, who since his controversial acquittal has been a chief proponent of the second amendment, said:
A lot of people are upset that I said I’m going to be writing in [former Texas congressman] Ron Paul for president of the United States and that is true. I will be writing in Ron Paul.
Unfortunately Donald Trump has bad advisers making him bad on the 2nd Amendment and that is my issue. If you cannot be completely uncompromisable on the 2nd Amendment, I will not vote for you and I will write somebody else in. We need champions for the 2nd Amendment or our rights will be eaten away and eroded each day.”
You must stand by your principles. https://t.co/EHSOxPxez4
— Kyle Rittenhouse (@ThisIsKyleR) August 2, 2024
Rittenhouse, who has been embraced by rightwing Republicans as a mascot – was charged with first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree reckless homicide, attempted first-degree intentional homicide and two counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety.
His closely followed trial in 2021 was seen as a test case for the US, as it appeared to illustrate contrasting attitudes of law enforcement when confronted with white men or teens who claimed to be acting as vigilante-style informal security personnel, armed with assault rifles, and Black members of the public or those protesting in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Following his acquittal – which was met with widespread outrage among civil rights organizations and gun control groups, Trump called Rittenhouse a “really nice young man” during his visit to Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago.
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For-profit universities are funding lawmakers who led attacks on top universities over campus protests surrounding Israel’s deadly war on Gaza.
The Guardian’s Tom Perkins and Will Craft report:
As antisemitism hearings on college campuses ignited late last year, US representatives Elise Stefanik and Virginia Foxx seized the spotlight, relentlessly attacking Harvard, Columbia and other top universities, portraying them as unsafe and incompetent.
“We must DEFUND the rot in America’s higher education,” Stefanik insisted in December, while co-authoring a bill that would withdraw federal funding from universities that do not participate in plans to curb campus protests. Foxx made similar calls.
A little-considered group of Stefanik and Foxx political allies and donors quietly benefited: the “for-profit” college industry.
For-profit schools, such as Keiser University, have drawn intense congressional and administrative scrutiny for predatory practices that frequently leave students with worthless degrees while enriching shareholders in recent decades. The industry is composed of schools that either are for-profit and have shareholders, or are formerly for-profit schools that became non-profits to evade regulations, but which still maintain relationships with for-profit entities.
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Donald Trump refused to be fact-checked live at the NABJ conference earlier this week and thus stalled his appearance, according to a new scoop from Axios.
Speaking to the outlet, NABJ president Ken Lemon said:
[Trump’s team] said, ‘Well, can you not fact-check? He’s not going to take the stage if you fact-check.’
He said that even though there were indeed audio problems – for which Trump blamed his lateness – they were “resolved very quickly”.
“The bigger problem was his threat not to take the stage when he had agreed to go on. He did not want to be fact-checked, but we could not let him on the stage without fact-checking,” Lemon added.
He went on to add that the delay was so long that he was prepared to go on stage to deliver a statement on why Trump refused to go on stage because of fact-checking.
As Lemon was drafting the statement, Trump walked on stage, Axios reports.
Meanwhile, the Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung told the outlet on Friday that they waited for “close to 40 minutes while audio/technical issues were fixed by NABJ”.
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Trump campaign launches 'Rural Americans for Trump' coalition
With Kamala Harris gaining momentum, Donald Trump’s campaign has launched a new coalition called Rural Americans for Trump.
In a statement released on Thursday, the campaign said:
Rural America deserves a President that serves the interests of families in the Heartland and empowers them to be the most successful and prosperous versions of themselves. President Trump has proven that he will fight for rural Americans, stand up to China, support our farmers, ensure fair trade deals for workers, and defend our ideals across the globe.
A similar coalition has been set up for Harris called Rural Americans for Harris.
On its sign-up page, the coalition for Harris wrote:
Rural America is ready to help get vice president Kamala Harris elected to the White House! Together, we aren’t going to sit around and let the MAGA crowd bully our neighbors and continue to let stereotypes that Trump and JD Vance perpetuate go unanswered or unchecked about our strong rural communities … The Trump Republicans have weird obsessions and outdated ideas about our reproductive health, public schools, immigrants, and veterans. We know our towns better than the consultants propping up Vance and Trump and that is why we endorse Kamala AND are committed to turning out 5% more rural voters for Democrats up and down the ballot!
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Harris to campaign in seven states over five days
A busy schedule is lined for Kamala Harris as the vice-president is set to continue the campaign trail next week by visiting seven states over five days.
Next Tuesday, Harris will return to Philadelphia, which will be her seventh visit to Pennsylvania this year. Harris is expected to announce her running mate by next Tuesday.
On Wednesday, Harris will visit Wisconsin – her sixth visit to the state this year and will then stop over at Detroit – her fifth visit to Michigan this year.
On Thursday, Harris return to Raleigh, North Carolina, which will be her eighth visit to the state this year.
On Friday, Harris will travel to Savannah, Georgia, marking her seventh visit to the state this year before going to Phoenix, Arizona – her fourth visit to the state this year.
Harris will end next week’s campaign blitz in Las Vegas, marking her seventh visit to Nevada this year.
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Harris campaign brings in $310m in July
Kamala Harris’s campaign has brought in a staggering $310m in July, more than double the $137m that Donald Trump’s campaign raised last month, according to a new report.
On Friday, Politico reported that Harris’s campaign and other affiliated committees have $377m in cash on hand, marking a $50m advantage over Trump’s total funds of $327m.
Since her entry into the race following Joe Biden’s re-election bid withdrawal, Harris has galvanized Democrats across the country, with a new Associated Press poll revealing that about eight in 10 Democrats say they would be somewhat or very satisfied if she became the Democratic nominee for president.
Moreover, according to a new poll from the conservative group Competitiveness Coalition, Harris is leading Trump in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin by 48% to 45%, as well as 48% to 46% respectively. The two opponents are also tied 45% to 45% in the swing state of Michigan.
With Harris gaining momentum, the vice-president will travel to major swing states including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada over the course of five days next week for campaign events. Harris is expected to announce her running mate by Tuesday next week, with the Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, the Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, the Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, the Kentucky governor, Andy Beshear, the Arizona senator Mark Kelly and transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, as reported finalists.
Here are other developments in US politics:
Biden and Harris greeted released Americans including the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich at Andrews air force base following the largest prisoner swap with Russia since the Cold War.
JD Vance attacked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her “sociopathic attitude” towards children and family in remarks to a Catholic group in 2021, new reports revealed.
The Courage Tour, a travelling tent with self-styled prophets, is visiting swing states to rally Christians to vote for Trump, a new Guardian report reveals.
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