Closing summary
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Here’s a look back at the day’s political news:
Kamala Harris delivered her speech at a campaign rally in Madison, Wisconsin, where she highlighted the case of Amber Thurman, who died in Georgia due to a strict abortion ban.
In Madison, Kamala Harris restated her plan to give a tax cut to 100 million Americans and expand the child tax credit. This measure aims “to help young and new parents buy a car seat, a crib, baby clothes in that most significant phase of their development”.
Mark Robinson, the lieutenant governor of North Carolina, will not attend Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday after CNN reported on his troubling online posts.
Harris took the stage in Atlanta earlier today, where she also decried the state’s abortion ban. She condemned Donald Trump in her speech, recounting how he appointed three of the justices who would go on to vote for Roe v Wade’s downfall.
Georgia’s election board voted to require that ballots be counted by hand, a move that could complicate and slow down determining whether the swing state has voted for Kamala Harris or Donald Trump in the November election.
The Secret Service report looking into the 13 July assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump revealed that agents did not have the necessary discussions in advance regarding how the warehouse should be guarded, and about the positioning of a local team on the roof of the warehouse building.
The House unanimously approved allowing a bipartisan taskforce investigating the July assassination attempt targeting Donald Trump in Pennsylvania to also scrutinize the apparent second attempt on his life on Sunday in Florida.
North Carolina’s Republican candidate for governor, Mark Robinson, was still in the race for governor on Friday morning after the deadline passed overnight for him to withdraw or be removed from the ballot. He is facing increasing pressure to step down after CNN reported he attacked Martin Luther King Jr, backed the reinstatement of slavery and referred to himself as a “black Nazi” in comments on a pornographic website.
Donald Trump is due to visit North Carolina tomorrow. When asked about the CNN report by the Associated Press, Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt did not mention Robinson by name or answer questions as to whether he would appear with Trump at tomorrow’s campaign rally in Wilmington, or had been invited to do so.
Donald Trump bemoaned a lack of support from Jewish voters just hours after allegations emerged that a Republican ally had referred to himself as a “black Nazi” on a pornography website.
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Harris wrapped up her speech in Madison by reminding crowd members that “the stakes are even higher” in this election.
“Wisconsin, it all comes down to this,” she said. “We are here together because we love our country. We love our country and we understand the awesome responsibility that comes with the greatest privilege on Earth.”
