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We’re pausing today’s live blog. Thank you all for following along. Here are some of the biggest moments of the day.
Dick Cheney, the former republican vice-president, said that he will be voting for Kamala Harris in the upcoming election. In a statement, Cheney said: “In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.”
A 15-year-old student has been shot and injured at Joppatowne high school in Maryland, about 24 miles north of Baltimore. The shooting appears to have stemmed from a fight on campus, and a 16-year old student has been arrested, ABC News reports.
Before Donald Trump’s trip to North Carolina today, the Fraternal Order of Police issued a statement of endorsement of him.
The judge in the New York criminal case in which Donald Trump was convicted earlier this year of election-related fraud over hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels and a cover-up has delayed the sentencing of the former president until after the election.
Donald Trump launched an angry tirade against E Jean Carroll, the Biden administration, Kamala Harris, news networks including ABC and CNN, and Iran and China in a long and aggressive press conference filled top to bottom with outlandish claims and personal attacks.
More than 90 business leaders, including the heads of Yelp and Chobani, endorsed Kamala Harris’s presidential bid, in a new letter. It was also signed by current and former top executives including the former CEOs of PepsiCo, Ford Motor, Yahoo! and 21st Century Fox, and said: “Harris has a strong record of advancing actions to spur business investment in the United States and ensure American businesses can compete and win.”
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Dick Cheney confirms he will vote for Kamala Harris
Dick Cheney has confirmed that he will be voting for the Democratic ticket in the US presidential election. The statement from the Republican former vice-president came hours after his daughter Liz Cheney, the former Republican representative for Wyoming, told a crowd that her father would be supporting Harris.
Dick Cheney: “In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump. He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be… pic.twitter.com/5xF2iqsq1O
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) September 6, 2024
His pronouncement comes days after Liz told a North Carolina crowd that she would also be voting for Harris.
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