Month: August 2024

August 1, 2024, presidential campaign news  CNNsource

(NEXSTAR) — All day Sunday, you’ll be able to visit all of our national parks for free. Technically, you can visit the majority of the 430 National Park Service sites for free all year long. But on six days in 2024, the entrance fees at the roughly 100 parks that charge them are waived. We’ve…
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Former Donald Trump Aide Raises Questions About His Ancestry Claims  Newsweeksource

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that former President Trump is scared to debate Vice President Harris. “He’s afraid to even debate Kamala Harris. He already said he wouldn’t debate, you know?” Schumer said in an interview with NBC News. “She’s a strong Black woman, Donald Trump may not wanna say that, but…
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Video: JD Vance credits Trump for prisoner swap Biden negotiated  CNNsource

In June, Politico published an article titled, “Is Climate Change an Emergency at the WTO?” The question posed was not about the environment, but rather whether the organization will allow climate change to be used as an excuse in international relations.  The question was anticipated in connection with China’s case at the World Trade Organization against parts…
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Kamala Harris Is Crushing Donald Trump at the Monogram Shop in the Hamptons, by Nearly 5 to 1  Vanity Fairsource

Bill O’Reilly: ABC’s Scott, Trump both ‘blew it’ during NABJ panel  The Hillsource

Trump’s lawyers ask judge to lift gag order imposed during New York trial  The Associated Presssource

Olympic gymnast Simone Biles took a swipe at former President Trump on X after she won another gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics. “I love my black job,” Biles said in a post on the social platform X Friday. Biles won the gold medal for women’s all around gymnastic performance on Thursday, following up on…
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Republicans Warn Donald Trump on Kamala Harris’ Racial Identity Remarks  Newsweeksource

Former President Trump pushes back on Democratic attacks that he and his running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) are “weird” during a podcast interview Thursday. “Nobody’s ever called me weird,” Trump said on “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.” “They’re the weird ones,” Trump added of Harris and Democrats. “I’m a lot of things,…
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‘Weird’ does not begin to describe the Trump threat  The Washington Postsource

Opinion | I Was an Attorney at the D.A.’s Office. This Is What the Trump Case Is Really About.  The New York Timessource

The six-time gold medalist isn’t holding back this Olympics. Like, at all.

Political campaigns are traditionally top-down affairs where political strategists workshop and focus-group messages, analyze data, and target narrow groups of persuadable voters and donors. But in the last 12 days, we have seen the birth of something genuinely new: the crowdsourced campaign.  Kamala Harris has already done unprecedented things, including raising $200 million in her…
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Trump Doubles Down on “Kamala Isn’t Black” Argument With New Photo  The New Republicsource

As Vice President Harris weighs her choice for running mate, House Democrats are increasingly advocating for a former colleague: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.  First elected to Congress in 2006, Walz served in the House for 12 years and rose to become the top Democrat on the powerful Veterans Affairs Committee before heading home in 2019…
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Black journalists respond to ‘disastrous’ Trump panel at annual convention  The Guardian USsource

Trump hits back at Dem attacks: ‘They’re the weird ones’  POLITICOsource

Trump-backed Virginia state Sen. John McGuire defeats US Rep. Bob Good in GOP primary recount  The Associated Presssource

Critics Stunned By Donald Trump’s ‘Heartless’ Punch Line About Man Killed At His Rally  Yahoo! Voicessource

‘We Never Make Good Deals’: Trump Criticizes Russia Prisoner Swap And Presses For Details About Who US Released  Forbessource

Many Republican senators are feeling “uncomfortable” and “embarrassed” by former President Trump’s suggestion that Vice President Harris isn’t really Black and only “happened” to adopt that identity out of political convenience. Trump’s bombshell comments Wednesday at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago immediately made national headlines and put Republican lawmakers on the…
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Republicans Freak Out at Trump’s Race Attack on Harris  The Daily Beastsource