Month: August 2024

Americans are nearly evenly split between enthusiasm and uncertainty over Vice President Harris’s selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as her running mate, according to a new poll. The YouGov survey, released Tuesday night, found 35 percent of Americans believe Walz is either a “good” pick or the “best possible” pick for Harris’s presidential…
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Even before the Jan. 6 fiasco, I avoided voting for Donald Trump because he seemed autocratic. Nothing in Trump’s recent behavior leads me to rethink that.  Further, there are things I like about Vice President Kamala Harris, who was once a tough-on-crime prosecutor.  Yet I can’t vote for the vice president because her administration, and…
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The billionaire has endorsed Trump in the 2024 presidential race.

Former President Trump welcomed Vice President Harris’s decision to add Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) to the Democratic ticket, calling it a “shocking pick.” “I would say my reaction is I can’t believe it. I never thought I was going to be the one who was picked,” Trump said Wednesday morning in an interview on…
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Former President Trump said Wednesday he’ll be debating Vice President Harris in the near future, suggesting the two sides could reach an agreement after Trump backed out of a planned ABC News debate. “I hear she’s sort of a nasty person, but not a good debater,” Trump said on Fox News’s “Fox and Friends. “But…
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Schiff, Newsom mock Trump for suggesting Biden may take back nomination  The Hillsource

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the GOP critics of Vice President Harris’s newly announced running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), are “flailing,” while dismissing the attacks against the Democratic ticket. “I think they’re flailing right now. They just don’t know how to respond to this campaign that, again, as excited as we are about…
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Trump-backed candidate leads Newhouse in 4th Congressional District race  The Seattle Timessource

Trump keeps losing his train of thought. Cognitive experts have theories about why  STATsource

The storm on the Democratic Party’s electoral horizon was never limited to President Biden staying in the race. Biden’s mental infirmity and the concerted denial surrounding it, while governmentally dangerous, were merely amplifying the severity of the party’s imminent political reckoning. Vice President Kamala Harris has now officially replaced Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee. But this…
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Justice Dept. Charges Pakistani Man in Alleged Plot to Kill U.S. Leaders  The New York Times Pakistani national charged with alleged plot to assassinate Donald Trump, other public officials: DOJ  ABC News US arrests Pakistani national for alleged plot to kill Trump  BBC.com source

Harris and Walz make Trump focus at Democratic ticket’s first rally  CNBCsource

How Tim Walz became beloved by young voters with a message that the GOP is ‘weird’  The Associated Presssource

Highlights: Harris and Walz kick off campaign at Philadelphia rally  The Associated Presssource

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Trump, Harris campaigns race to define Democratic running mate Tim Walz  CNBCsource

Jim Cramer Says Go With Trump If ‘You Care About Your Paycheck:’ Is Ex-President Really Taxpayer Friendly?  Yahoo Financesource

Supreme Court Puppetmaster Spends Millions to Elect Trump’s Immunity Lawyer  Rolling Stonesource

Former President Trump has softened his tone on electric vehicles following his backing from Tesla’s Elon Musk. Over the weekend, Trump said: “I’m for electric cars. I have to be because Elon endorsed me very strongly. So I have no choice.” Trump, who has frequently railed against policies that support electric vehicles, is still expected…
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Yes, the Harris campaign has a Truth Social account.

Kamala Harris could’ve continued to make history by asking a woman to be her running mate, but if we know anything about America, it was always going to be a white man.

Former Trump Lawyer Breaks Ranks and Cuts Deal in Fake Electors Case  The New Republicsource

Karoline Leavitt immediately moved the goalposts.

‘Kamala caved’: Trump and his allies cast the Walz pick as liberal overload  NBC Newssource

Tim Walz: charismatic running mate to help Harris make case against Trump  The Guardian USsource