The day so far
Donald Trump hit his favorite talking points in a rally held in Pennsylvania Friday afternoon, as he scolded the media, reiterated his call for death sentences for drug dealers, and spouted derogatory nicknames he’s assigned to opponents. The event was one of two on his schedule this afternoon as the former president heads back to Washington DC to speak at the national summit of Moms for Liberty, a conservative organization pushing for the removal of LGBTQ+ mentions and structural racism from schools.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is looking to keep her momentum with voters going, after yesterday conducting the first interview of her presidential bid with CNN, alongside her running mate Tim Walz. Her campaign has announced plans for an abortion-focused bus tour that will crisscross swing states, while Georgia is reportedly seeing a surge in registrations by new voters, particularly among the groups most likely to vote for Democrats.
Here’s what else happened today:
Kamala Harris’s campaign has responded to Donald Trump’s statement yesterday that he would support requiring the government or private insurances to back IVF care by saying he ‘lies as much if not more than he breathes’.
Trump addressed the recent altercation at Arlington cemetery, claiming he only posed for pictures because families asked him to. Arlington officials said in a statement that members of his campaign staff were reported for their behavior during a “crass” photo opportunity for the Republican candidate.
After receiving backlash for breaking with his base this week after he criticized Florida’s six-week abortion ban, Trump clarified he will vote against an amendment that would strike it down.
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The Defend Democracy Project, an organization formed to combat misinformation about the results of the 2020 election, condemned the Trump’s attempt to move his election interference case from Manhattan to federal court on Friday.
After being convicted on 34 felony counts for falsifying business records in relation to hush-money he paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2020 election, Trump was scheduled to be sentenced next month in state court. Trump’s lawyers have been pushing to delay sentencing until after the November election.
“Trump already tried to move this case to federal court under the exact same statute in 2023 and was denied. This time, he is trying to use the Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity to bolster his argument,” Ambassador Norman Eisen, who served as special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee majority during the first impeachment and trial of President Trump and Michael Podhorzer, the chair of the Defend Democracy Project said in a joint statement issued Friday.
“Trump knows this argument is a dead-end on the merits, but he’s clearly hoping to quickly force this up the ladder to the complicit MAGA justices on the Supreme Court to once again save him from facing accountability for his repeated attempts to interfere in our elections.”
