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Kamala Harris has surged to a five-point lead over Donald Trump in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, putting her at 42 percent to the Republican’s 37 percent nationally with less than three months to go to November’s presidential election.
Harris and running mate Tim Walz are visiting Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday as Trump heads to Montana.
On Thursday, the Democrat said she welcomed the Republican’s decision to debate her in September, which the former president announced at a rambling press conference at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.
“I hear that Donald Trump has finally committed to debating me on September 10,” the Vice President wrote on X. “I look forward to it.”
Trump called the press session in the hope of regaining the limelight but ultimately spent around an hour delivering an unhinged variation on his customary, apocalyptic stump speech, attacking Harris, Walz, and Joe Biden and issuing warnings that America is “in the most dangerous position it’s ever been in” and “very close to a world war.”
Trump also called for the mass deportation of illegal immigrants and claimed to be the embodiment of “common sense,” an attempt to rebut Walz’s highly successful attack on him as “weird.”
Key Points
- Kamala Harris takes major five-point lead over Donald Trump in new poll
- Stage set for next debate after Trump and Harris agree to ABC date
- Campaign schedule: Harris and Walz in Arizona today as Trump heads to Montana
- Trump calls impromptu press conference to rage about everything and nothing
- Republican ‘freaking out’ about new challenger’s surging poll numbers
Harris looking to pick younger, more diverse Cabinet than Biden
The Vice President is reportedly already weighing up her future Cabinet choices, aiming for more young people and people of color than President Joe Biden.
Axios reported a preliminary list of several picks for top administration positions including Senators Laphonza Butler and Alex Padilla from Harris’s home state of California and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
For Secretary of State, Harris’s shortlist is said to include Delaware Senator Chris Coons, CIA director Bill Burns and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a former contender as Harris’s running mate, could be nominated for US Ambassador to the United Nations.
Harris may also be considering Michele Flournoy, undersecretary of defense for policy under President Barack Obama, for Secretary of Defense.
Katie Hawkinson has more.
Harris looking to pick younger, more diverse Cabinet than Biden
Potential picks include Pete Buttigieg, a former contender for Harris’s running mate, and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
Joe Sommerlad9 August 2024 17:30 1723219211Fani Willis files brief to Georgia appeals court over Trump’s attempt to disqualify her
As you may recall, the Fulton County district attorney’s indictment against the former president (alleging 2020 election interference in her jurisdiction) hit the rocks earlier this year when Trump and his co-defendants kicked up a stink about her past romantic relationship with fellow prosecutor Nathan Wade, hoping to boot her off the case.
After a series of tense hearings, Judge Scott McAfee rejected their arguments but gave the prosecution an ultimatum: either Willis step aside or Wade must leave his role as special prosecutor. The latter took the fall.
Trump and co have since appealed that decision and the state’s appeals court is due to hear their latest arguments on October 4.
Willis has now filed an appellate brief of her own rejecting the motion, in which she writes: “The appellants sought to disqualify District Attorney Fani T Willis by persuading the trial court that she had engineered the present case, which involves issues of national importance and daily public scrutiny, as a scheme for her personal enrichment. They failed.
“After giving the appellants every opportunity to provide evidence and argument in support of their theory, the trial court decided that their central witness had provided no information of value and that their central theory did not add up.
“Unsatisfied, the appellants now seize upon the trial court’s criticisms of the district attorney to distort its actual findings and overstate their case.
“They ask this court to second guess the trial court’s factual conclusions and apply standards of disqualification that no Georgia court has ever authorized or employed.”
Joe Sommerlad9 August 2024 17:00 1723218011
John Bolton says Trump can’t even tell when he’s lying
The former president’s ex-national security adviser Trump adviser appeared on CNN last night in the wake of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago meltdown to tell Kaitlan Collins: “In his mind, the truth is whatever he wants it to be and that’s what you heard today.”
Ariana Baio has more.
Former Trump adviser says ex-president can’t even tell when he’s lying
National Security Advisor under Trump claimed the former president no longer knows what the truth is
Joe Sommerlad9 August 2024 16:40 1723216811Harris-Walz now selling camo coolers for beer cans
Their camouflage baseball caps flew off the shelves earlier this week so it was inevitable the Democratic ticket would extend their merchandise range with further blue collar offerings.
Here’s Kaleigh Werner on the $1m hat that started it all.
Harris-Walz camouflage hat reaches nearly $1m in sales a day after release
‘The branding coming out of this campaign is unreal,’ one fan writes on X after the camo hat release
Joe Sommerlad9 August 2024 16:20 1723215611
Dril hits back over use of his meme in Harris-Walz press release
Very hard to imagine Joe Biden ever attempting something like this.
Here’s Greg Evans to explain.
Dril fires back with Israel jab after Harris-Walz use one of his memes
The internet meme factor that is 'dril' has responded after one of his many viral tweets was featured in a press release from the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign mocking Donald Trump.Late on Thursday, Trump held an unscheduled press conference at his Mar-A-Lago complex in Florida after new polls sho...
Joe Sommerlad9 August 2024 16:00 1723214411New Harris ad leans into biography in appeal to American middle class
You can watch Kamala’s new 30-second TV spot below.
Here’s what her senior campaign spokesperson Lauren Hitt had to say about its intentions:
“Being president is about who you fight for. Vice President Harris is the daughter of a working mother and worked at a McDonald’s to put herself through college. She knows what middle class families go through.
“Now, she’s running for president to make it easier for families to not just get by, but get ahead. As president, Harris’ top priority will be taking on corporate greed to lower costs.
“Donald Trump, on the other hand, is running to give more handouts to his ultra-wealthy friends at the expense of working Americans. That’s the contrast voters are going to see between now and Election Day.”
Joe Sommerlad9 August 2024 15:40 1723213211Campaign schedule: Harris and Walz in Arizona today as Trump heads to Montana
The Democratic duo hit the Phoeniz, Arizona, leg of their whirlwind swing state tour before appearing in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Trump is finally emerging from his gilded cage in Palm Beach to visit Montana and stump for Republican Senate nominee Tim Sheehy, an entrepreneur and former Navy Seal hopping to topple Democratic incumbent Jon Tester in what is proving an increasingly tense and costly race for both sides as advertising money flows in.
Here’s Alex Woodward on Harris and Walz’s introductory tour.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz tour battleground states with Trump and Vance behind them
Republican nominee Donad Trump and running mate JD Vance will be trailing the Democratic ticket in several swing state visits this week
Joe Sommerlad9 August 2024 15:20 1723212000Trump’s speaking style shows ‘potential indications of cognitive decline’, experts say
The Republican’s manner of speaking may betray signs of cognitive decline, a number of psychological experts have suggested.
An analysis by STAT –a media organization focusing on health – found that Trump’s common pattern of speech called tangentiality (jumping from topic to topic with few, if any, connections in between) is just one of a number of his incoherent speaking habits that appears to have worsened in the last few years.
In 2017, Trump’s first year as president, STAT concluded Trump’s speaking style had worsened since the 1980s.
Gustaf Kilander has the story.
Experts say Trump’s speaking style shows ‘potential indications of cognitive decline’
‘There’s reasonable evidence suggestive of forms of dementia,” clinical psychologist says after reviewing Trump speeches
Joe Sommerlad9 August 2024 15:00 1723210824‘Policy attack dog’ or ‘creepy’? Vance’s plane incident with Harris adds to his weird factor
The image of Trump’s running mate approaching Air Force Two with his team of nearly all-male advisers earlier this week made some feel deeply uncomfortable, writes Richard Hall.
‘Creepy’: Vance’s plane incident with Harris adds to his weird factor
The image of Vance approaching Air Force Two with his team of nearly all-male advisers made some feel deeply uncomfortable
Joe Sommerlad9 August 2024 14:40 1723209624The truth behind the conspiracies on Tim Walz’s China ties
Tim Walz has been attacked from all angles by Republicans in the two days since he was unveiled as Kamala Harris’s running mate to take on Donald Trump and JD Vance in November.
The mild-mannered Midwesterner and Minnesota governor, a 24-year veteran of the Army National Guard and former high school teacher, has been called everything from a “radical leftist” to “Tampon Tim” as the opposition scrambles to define and discredit him in the eyes of voters.
So far, little has stuck, prompting Trump’s allies to turn to Walz’s ties to China as a fresh avenue of attack.
Here’s the truth behind the disingenuous partisan nonsense.
The truth behind the conspiracies on Tim Walz’s China ties
From conspiracies he was an undercover CIA agent to accusations of communism, Walz is coming under scrutiny over his links to Beijing
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