Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump emerged virtually tied nationally in recent polls.
A CNN Poll of Polls — the average of the four most recent national polls — found on Sunday that the rivals are polling incredibly close, with Trump boasting 49 per cent support compared to Harris’ 47 per cent.
A CBS poll that was released Sunday had Harris leading Trump nationally by one point: 50 per cent to 49 per cent. The survey also showed that the two are virtually tied in battleground states.
Harris’ boost in the polls, compared to her predecessor President Joe Biden, comes ahead of her expected vice presidential pick announcement.
She had final interviews scheduled on Sunday with her top veep contendors at her Washington, DC residence.
On Friday, she secured the majority of pledged delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination on Friday,
Her campaign has been battling a scandal over the weekend after her husband Doug Emhoff admitted having an affair during his first marriage.
His ex-wife has since spoken out about the tryst: “Doug and I decided to end our marriage for a variety of reasons, many years ago.” She called him a “great father” to their two children and a “great friend” to her.
Key Points
- Who is winning in the Kamala Harris veepstakes?
- Why Josh Shapiro might be Kamala Harris’s running mate pick
- Why Arizona’s Mark Kelly could end up being Kamala Harris’s response to JD Vance
- History-making Kamala Harris says she’s ‘honored’ to clinch presidential nomination
- Harris and Trump are now neck-and-neck nationally, polls show
- Harris to meet with top VP contenders for ‘chemistry test'
RFK Jr says he placed a dead bear cub in Central Park a decade ago
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Kelly Rissman
In a social media video posted on X on Sunday, Robert F Kennedy Jr, independent presidential candidate, recounted a strange tale 10 years ago, when he was going to go “falconing” in upstate New York. On the way there, a woman in the van in front of him hit and killed a “young bear,” he said. He decided to put the dead bear in his car, he continued.
“I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because I was gonna skin the bear,” the scion said. “It was in very good condition and I was gonna put the meat in my refrigerator.”
After a nice time upstate, he had to drive to New York City for a dinner instead of his home in Westchester — with the bear still in his car.
The dinner went late and he had to head to the airport. “I didn’t want to leave the bear in my car because that would have been bad,” he said. Kennedy then started discussing the recently-created bike lanes that had led to a lot of accidents in the city.
“I had an old bike in my car that somebody had asked me to get rid of and I said let’s go put the bear in Central Park and we’ll make it look like he got hit by a bike,” Kennedy continued. “Everybody thought, ‘That’s a great idea.’ So we did that and we thought it would be amusing for whoever found it or something.”
He said the story of the dead bear wound up on “the front page of every paper.”
The presidential candidate added: “I was worreid because my prints were all over that bike.”
“Luckily, the story died down after a while and it stayed dead for a decade. The New Yorker somehow found out about it, and they just – they’re gonna do a big article on me and that’s one of the articles. So they asked me, the fact checkers,” he said.
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Looking forward to seeing how you spin this one, @NewYorker… pic.twitter.com/G13taEGzba
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 4, 2024
‘Republicans for Harris’ launches with support from prominent members of Trump’s party
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Kelly Rissman
Kamala Harris’ campaign launched “Republicans for Harris” with endorsements from former Donald Trump administration officials and prominent 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 campaign said in a statement on Sunday.
Notable endorsements include former White House Press Secretary and Melania Trump chief-of-staff Stephanie Grisham, and former homeland security and counterterrorism advisor to Vice President Mike Pence, Olivia Troye.
“As a national security official and lifelong Republican, I witnessed firsthand the threat Donald Trump poses to our country while working in the Trump White House,” Troye wrote. “ The stakes are too high to let partisanship jeopardize our freedoms and the Constitution.”
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WATCH: Trump Congratulates Vladimir Putin on Prisoner Swap
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Why Arizona’s Mark Kelly could end up being Kamala Harris’s response to JD Vance
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Kelly Rissman
A first-term senator from Arizona, on paper, sounds like a perfect foil against a junior senator from Ohio, at least as running mates go.
With Kamala Harris ascending to the rank of presumptive Democratic nominee and nobody in her party apparently willing to challenge her for the nomination now that Joe Biden has dropped out of the race, all eyes have turned to Harris’s selection of a potential running mate ahead of her party’s convention, which kicks off August 19.
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New CBS poll shows Harris gaining traction — especially in battleground states
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Kelly Rissman
The two presidential candidates are neck-and-neck, with 50 per cent of registered voters said they would support Kamala Harris while 49 per cent said they would support Donald Trump, according to the CBS poll released Sunday.
Harris and Trump are tied in battleground states, the poll showed, meaning Harris gained points over Biden, who was trailing behind Trump when he dropped out.
There has also been a boost in Democratic enthusiasm since Harris entered the race, the poll revealed. On July 18, 81 per cent of Democrats said they would ‘definitely’ vote in November compared to now, when 85 per cent said they would ‘definitely’ vote.
Regardless of political leaning, the number of Black registered voters who said they would vote dramatically increased since Biden stepped aside. Only 58 per cent of Black registered voters said they would ‘definitely’ vote on July 18, compared to 74 per cent who would now.
The poll was taken between July 30 and August 2nd. During that period, Trump questioned Kamala Harris’ ethnic background, asking at the NABJ conference: “Is she Indian or is she Black?”
‘JD Vance is a fraud. He’s not for working class people’: UAW President said
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Kelly Rissman
JD Vance calling himself the most labor-friendly senator in Congress is "a complete joke," UAW President @ShawnFainUAW says.
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) August 4, 2024
"JD Vance is a fraud. He's not for working class people," Fain says. pic.twitter.com/0YjsYF0M8P
Speculation runs wild after Philadelphia mayor appears to leak Harris’ vice president pick
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Kelly Rissman
Philadelphia’s mayor released a video urging Pennsylvanians to support the state’s Governor Josh Shapiro “for vice president,” sparking speculation that Kamala Harris’ pick for running mate had been leaked.
On Friday, Mayor Cherelle Parker posted a video on her personal social media accounts encouraging Pennsylvanians to stand behind “Kamala Harris for president” and “Josh Shapiro for vice president”, days before the presumptive Democratic nominee is expected to make her official announcement.
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
“I can’t think of a better partner than our governor, Josh Shapiro,” Parker said, in the video.
The ad caused speculation to run wild across social media, with many wondering whether the mayor had accidentally revealed Harris’ running mate. The video has not been deleted as of Sunday morning.
However, The Independent has learned that Mayor Parker was simply expressing her support for a longtime ally and friend as a potential selection by Harris for the Democratic ticket.
Trump insists he and JD Vance aren’t the ‘weird ones’
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Kelly Rissman
Donald Trump has insisted that he and running mate JD Vance aren’t “the weird ones” as the Republican presidential candidate works to combat Democrat messaging to the contrary.
Trump made the remarks Thursday on the “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show,” a political podcast, following days of messaging from Kamala Harris’ campaign dubbing her rivals “weird.”
“Well, they’re the weird ones, and if you’ve ever seen [Kamala Harris] with the laugh and everything else, that’s a weird deal going on there,” Trump said. “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,” he continued. “Now, we’re not weird people. We’re actually just the opposite. We’re right down the middle.”
Katie Hawkinson has the latest...
Trump congratulates Putin on ‘another great deal,’ referring to prison swap
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Kelly Rissman
Trump: By the way I would like to congratulate Vladimir Putin for having made yet another great deal. Did you see the deal we made? pic.twitter.com/B2xRMZQjoj
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 3, 2024
Florida Rep Byron Donalds blames media for having ‘played up’ Harris’ Indian heritage when she became Senator after Trump questioned her racial identity
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Kelly Rissman
George Stephanopoulos DEMOLISHES Byron Donalds's defense of Trump's racist attacks on Kamala Harris: "The AP did not say that Kamala Harris is not Black. She is biracial. She is Indian. She is Black. You continue to repeat [Trump's] slur, but it's clear you're not gonna say… pic.twitter.com/bb4PXeIOZW
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 4, 2024
Trump lays in to Biden over historic prison swap while congratulating Putin
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Kelly Rissman
While speaking at the Georgia rally on Saturday evening, Trump criticized President Joe Biden’s historic prison swap — but congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I’d like to congratulate Vladimir Putin for having made yet another great deal. Did you see the deal we made?” Trump told supporters in Atlanta.
The swap included Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan in the biggest exchange between Russia and western nations since the Cold War.
Trump warned that the swap led to the release of “some of the greatest killers.”
“We got our people back, but boy we make some horrible, horrible deals,” the former president continued. “It’s nice to say we got ’em back, but does that set a bad precedent?”
Harris is ‘ only Black when it’s time to get elected,’ a conservative activist baselessly claims at Trump rally
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Kelly Rissman
Conservative activist Michaelah Montgomery took the stage on Saturday evening to defend Trump’s remarks questioning Kamala Harris’ racial identity, furthering the offensive rhetoric about Harris’ heritage.
“A few days ago president Trump said he didn’t know vice president Harris was a Black woman,” Montgomery said to Trump supporters. “I’m trying to figure out what all the outrage is about because she’s only Black when it’s time to get elected.”
Last week, Trump claimed at a NABJ conference that Harris “happened to turn Black” only recently.
The former president then said: “Is she Indian or is she Black?”
The vice president was born in California while her father, Donald Harris, was born in Jamaica and her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was born in India.
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman is concerned about his state’s governor Josh Shapiro becoming Harris’ VP
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Kelly Rissman
As Kamala Harris’ campaign closes in on her vice presidential pick, Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman warned against her picking his state’s governor Josh Shapiro, who is considered to be a favorite for the position.
“His advisers have privately relayed those worries to Harris’ team,” Politico reported on Sunday, noting that Fetterman fears that “Shapiro is excessively focused on his own personal ambitions.”
The pair of high-profile Pennsylvania Democrats have clashed historically.
Harris is expected to announce her veep pick before Tuesday, when she will host a rally in Philadelphia alongside her running mate.
Harris holds final ‘chemistry test’ interviews with top VP contenders
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Kelly Rissman
Kamala Harris is holding last interviews on Sunday to test the chemistry with her final vice president contenders as she gears up to announce her 2024 running mate in the next 48 hours.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapirowill meet with Harris at her Washington DC residence,The New York Times reported. Harris’s final meetings are intended to test the chemistry with the prospective veeps before heading out on the campaign trail.
They all hail from states considered to be battlegrounds this November, giving them an edge in the selection process.
John Bowden has the full story...
Who is part of the newly-launched ‘Republicans for Harris’ initative?
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Kelly Rissman
- Trump White House officials Stephanie Grisham and Olivia Troye
- Former Secretaries Chuck Hagel and Ray LaHood
- Former Governors Jim Edgar, Bill Weld, and Christine Todd Whitman, and former Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan
- Former members of Congress Rod Chandler, Tom Coleman, Dave Emery, Wayne Gilchrest, Jim Greenwood, Adam Kinzinger, John LeBoutillier, Susan Molinari, Jack Quinn, Denver Riggleman, Claudine Schneider, Christopher Shays, Peter Smith, Alan Steelman, David Trott, and Joe Walsh
Mysterious $10m withdrawal fueled ‘secret probe’ into whether Egypt gave Trump campaign cash
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Kelly Rissman
Did a potential $10 million cash payment from Egypt’s authoritarian ruler, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, have anything to do with Donald Trump’s affection for him?
That was the crux of a now-closed federal probe launched in 2016, new details of which were published Friday in an investigation by The Washington Post.
The Post connected the dots from a $9,998,000 withdrawal from a Cairo bank five days before Trump was inaugurated in January 2017 to a seeming front for Egyptian intelligence, fueling an investigation into whether the former president had taken money from El-Sisi for his presidential campaign.
Justin Rohrlich has the full story...
Former Republican Lt. Governor of Georgia weighs in on Trump’s rally comments on state officials
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Kelly Rissman
“If you were able to see through Donald Trump’s incoherence and vindictiveness tonight, you saw a Donald Trump who does not care about uniting this country or speaking to the voters who will decide this election. Millions of Americans are fed up with his grievance-filled campaign focused only on himself. Tonight we heard a particularly unhinged, angry version of the same Donald Trump that Georgia rejected in 2020.
“Elections are binary choices. As a lifelong conservative Republican, it was not an easy decision for me to endorse Vice President Harris, but I know that she fights for all Americans, right, left, or center, and will stand up for the Constitution.”
ICYMI: Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff acknowledges affair during first marriage
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Kelly Rissman
Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff has admitted having an affair during his first marriage.
The second gentleman was married to film producer Kerstin Emhoff from 1992 to 2008 and the pair share two children, Ella and Cole. The Daily Mail first reported on Saturday that Emhoff had cheated on Kerstin with his children’s private school teacher.
Later on Saturday, he acknowledged the affair happened. “During my first marriage, Kerstin and I went through some tough times on account of my actions. I took responsibility, and in the years since, we worked through things as a family and have come out stronger on the other side,” Emhoff told CNN in a statement.
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‘I’m for electric cars. I have to be because Elon endorsed me’: Trump says at Georgia rally
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Kelly Rissman
Donald Trump told the Atlanta crowd that has to support electric cars because Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, endorsed him last month.
Trump tonight: "I'm for electric cars. I have to be because Elon Musk endorsed me, so I have no choice. I'm for them, but for a small slice. They want to go all-electric & there's no way you can ever load (charge) them up; A charger is a gas pump with electricity coming through." pic.twitter.com/v0QJk3rs76
— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) August 4, 2024
ICYMI: JD Vance recalls telling his 7-year-old son to ‘shut the hell up’ during call with Trump
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Kelly Rissman
Harris to meet with top VP contenders
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Kelly Rissman
Vice President Kamala Harris will have her final in-person interviews with the top veep contenders on Sunday in a so-called “chemistry test.”
Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro are scheduled to meet with Harris on Sunday at her residence in Washington, DC, the New York Times reported.
It’s unclear whether others vying for the VP slot have already met with Harris.
She is expected to host a rally with her running mate on Tuesday, so the official announcement is expected before then.
In photos: Trump and Vance address Atlanta crowd
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Kelly Rissman
Donald Trump dumps on GOP officials in Georgia while speaking in Georgia
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Kelly Rissman
At his rally in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday evening, the former president took aim at the some of the state’s top Republican leaders.
“In my opinion, they want us to lose,” Trump told the crowd at Georgia State University Convocation Center.
About Governor Brian Kemp, he said: “Atlanta is like a killing field and your governor ought to get off his a** and do something about it.”
He also mentioned Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who Trump pressured in 2020 to “find” votes after it became clear he was losing the state in the presidential election in an infamous phone call. On Saturday, he baselessly claimed at the rally that Raffensperger was “doing everything possible to make 2024 difficult for Republicans to win.”
He also falsely claimed: “I won this state twice.”
Recap: JD Vance dismissed Trump’s offensive claim about Harris’ heritage as ‘hysterical'
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Kelly Rissman
JD Vance, who has three biracial children with his wife of Indian heritage, has tried to brush off Donald Trump’s stunning attack on Kamala Harris’ racial heritage by calling the backlash “hysterical.”
The Republican vice presidential nominee – who is also facing backlash over his misogynistic comments branding Harris and other women “childless cat ladies” – was asked about the former president’s comments on his campaign plane on the way to a rally in Arizona on Wednesday.
“I frankly just think it’s hysterical how much the media is overreacting to it,” he said, before leaping to defend Trump.
“How nice it is to have an American leader who’s not afraid to go into hostile places and actually answer some tough questions,” he said.
“I think he pointed out the fundamental chameleon-like nature of Kamala Harris,” Vance continued.
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How Trump’s attacks on Harris’s Black heritage are reviving racist ‘birther’ conspiracy theories
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Kelly Rissman
Donald Trump’s false claims that Kamala Harris “happened to turn Black” and only recently “became a Black person” have inflamed racist conspiracy theories surrounding his Democratic rival.
The former president’s allies have seized on his remarks by reviving racist “birther” claims that Trump has repeatedly used to undermine his opponents’ ethnic backgrounds, when he suggested that Harris wasn’t “born in this country” during the 2020 election and years earlier doubted whether Barack Obama was a US citizen by demanding to see his birth certificate.
His latest statements have turbocharged online racism that has surrounded the 2024 election, with supporters posting copies of her “birth certificate” and accusing Harris of “changing” her race for political reasons.
Harris’s father was born in Jamaica and is African-Caribbean, and her mother is Indian. The vice-president has discussed at length her upbringing in a biracial family and as a Black American with family roots in both Jamaica and in southern India.
“I didn’t know she was Black,” Trump told a panel of Black journalists on Wednesday.
Alex Woodward has the story...
Everything we know about Trump’s ancestry after he questioned Kamala Harris'
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Kelly Rissman
Donald Trump faced heavy criticism on Wednesday after questioning the heritage of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, while speaking to the National Association of Black Journalists.
“She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage,” he said. “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?”
Harris’s father is from Jamaica and her mother was from India. The vice president said on Wednesday night that Trump’s comments were “the same old show” of “divisiveness and disrespect.”
That has sparked questions on the backgrounds of both candidates. Trump is one of five children of the real estate developer Fred Trump and the Scottish immigrant Mary Anne MacLeod Trump. The former president has five children with his three wives as well as 10 grandchildren.
Gustaf Kilander has the full story...
WATCH: JD Vance joins TikTok and shares first video promoting hard seltzer
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Kelly Rissman
Trump and Vance aren’t the ‘weird ones,’ the former president insists
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Kelly Rissman
Donald Trump has insisted that he and running mate JD Vance aren’t “the weird ones” as the Republican presidential candidate works to combat Democrat messaging to the contrary.
Trump made the remarks Thursday on the “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show,” a political podcast, following days of messaging from Kamala Harris’ campaign dubbing her rivals “weird.”
“Well, they’re the weird ones, and if you’ve ever seen [Kamala Harris] with the laugh and everything else, that’s a weird deal going on there,” Trump said. “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,” he continued. “Now, we’re not weird people. We’re actually just the opposite. We’re right down the middle.”
Katie Hawkinson has the full story...
ICYMI: JD Vance desperately tries to find a way to credit Trump for Biden’s prisoner swap
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Kelly Rissman
Trump’s running mate JD Vance is stretching to give the former president credit for the high-profile prison swap carried out by the Biden administration – wildly claiming the historic moment is a “testament to [Donald] Trump’s strength”.
On Thursday, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US Marine Paul Whelan and Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva were among 16 prisoners released from Russian prisons in the largest prisoner swap with the West since the end of the Cold War.
The three Americans were greeted by President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their families as the aircraft touched down on US soil at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Thursday evening.
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Former President Jimmy Carter reveals his next goal: defeating Trump in November
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Kelly Rissman
Former President Jimmy Carter says he is “only trying to make it” to vote for Kamala Harris as he nears his 100th birthday.
“I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” Carter told his son Chip. Their conversation with shared with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution by his grandson, Jason Carter.
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Speculation runs wild after Philadelphia mayor appears to leak Harris’ vice president pick
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Kelly Rissman
Philadelphia’s mayor released a video urging Americans to support Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro “for vice president,” sparking speculation that Kamala Harris’ pick for running mate had been leaked.
On Friday, Mayor Cherelle Parker posted a video on her personal social media accounts encouraging Pennsylvanians to stand behind “Kamala Harris for president” and “Josh Shapiro for vice president”, days before the presumptive Democratic nominee is expected to make her official announcement.
“I can’t think of a better partner than our governor, Josh Shapiro,” Parker said, in the video.
The ad caused speculation to run wild across social media, with many wondering whether the mayor had accidentally revealed Harris’ running mate. The video has not been deleted as of Saturday morning.
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Trump’s bid to dismiss election interference case is denied by DC judge
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Kelly Rissman
The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s election interference case has denied his attempt to throw out the proceedings.
In an order, issued on Saturday, DC District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected Trump’s motion to dismiss the Department of Justice’s case on legal grounds.
Trump “may file a renewed motion once all issues of immunity have been resolved,” she wrote.
Chutkan has reclaimed control 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 considered “official” versus private acts, the latter of which can be prosecuted.
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Doug Emhoff acknowledges affair during first marriage
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Kelly Rissman
Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff has admitted having an affair during his first marriage.
The second gentleman was married to film producer Kerstin Emhoff from 1992 to 2008 and the pair share two children, Ella and Cole. The Daily Mail first reported on Saturday that Emhoff had cheated on Kerstin with his children’s private school teacher.
Later on Saturday, he acknowledged the affair happened. “During my first marriage, Kerstin and I went through some tough times on account of my actions. I took responsibility, and in the years since, we worked through things as a family and have come out stronger on the other side,” Emhoff told CNN in a statement.
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ICYMI: Secret Service provides timeline of Trump shooting
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Kelly Rissman
Harris was less than 20ft from pipe bomb during Jan 6 attack, new report reveals
Sunday 4 August 2024 00:00
Kelly Rissman
Vice President Kamala Harris was less than 20 feet from a “viable” pipe bomb on January 6, according to a new report from Homeland Security’s internal watchdog.
The Office of the Inspector General released its report on Friday detailing the Secret Service’s preparation for, and response to, the events of January 6, 2021. Five people died and hundreds were injured in the Capitol assault, where rioters aimed to prevent the certification of the election for President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Among the shocking revelations was that Harris, then vice president-elect, was within close range to a “viable” pipe bomb that Secret Security had missed in a security sweep.
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In photos: JD Vance and Trump are set to take the stage in Atlanta as the red-capped crowd
Saturday 3 August 2024 23:02
Kelly Rissman
My Cuban family fled a dictator. Now I’m scared they’ll elect Trump
Saturday 3 August 2024 23:00
Kelly Rissman
As Democrats are finding it increasingly difficult to connect with Latino voters — especially Cubans, who associate left-wing politics with the communism that tore their country apart, Jesus Maria Alvarez reports on the deep rifts within his community in the battleground state of Florida
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Trump crowd has been in line all day ahead of evening rally in Atlanta
Saturday 3 August 2024 22:27
Kelly Rissman
A journalist at Fox News Atlanta reported that people began lining up for the 5pm ET Trump rally 12 hours early.
Hundreds of people showed up early this morning ahead of a rally with former President Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance. The rally is set to start at 5pm, people were here before 5am to get in line. You can watch a livestream of the event on @FOX5Atlanta pic.twitter.com/yREk3Nxw8p
— Lindsay Tuman (@LindsayOnTV) August 3, 2024
JD Vance recalls telling his 7-year-old son to ‘shut the hell up’ during call with Trump
Saturday 3 August 2024 22:15
Kelly Rissman
JD Vance told his seven-year-old son to “shut the hell up” when Donald Trump called and asked him to be his running mate.
Vance, 40, recounted the story on the “Full Send Podcast” on Friday. The Ohio senator was publicly announced as Trump’s running mate last month at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, with Trump calling him to break the news just minutes before.
“My son, who is seven, is in the hotel room with me,” Vance told the political podcast, which regularly hosts conservatives. “And he is really into Pokémon cards right now, he’s going through a Pokémon phase...he’s really into it.”
Katie Hawkinson the full story...
Why San Francisco holds the key to the 2024 election
Saturday 3 August 2024 22:00
Kelly Rissman
The Independent’s Io Dodds and Josh Marcus explore how one relatively small city – not even California’s biggest – gain so much sway over national politics? And what does that foreshadow about the 2024 election?
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How Trump and Harris’ resumes stack up
Saturday 3 August 2024 21:45
Gustaf Kilander
Donald Trump’s and Kamala Harris’s resumes couldn’t be more different. Trump has a total of four years of experience in public office to Harris’s 34.
Unlike Harris, however, Trump has 52 years of business experience under his belt.
Taking on the renovation of the Commodore Hotel and the facade of the Grand Central Terminal in New York City as one of his first construction projects in 1976, Trump launched the Trump Organization and starred in the reality TV show The Apprentice.
He joined the political scene as a neophyte but caught the imagination of the Republican Party base and rode that wave all the way to the White House in the 2016 election.