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Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are launching a bus tour in the southern swing state of Georgia next week.
It will be the ticket’s first time campaigning together in the state and comes after their four-day convention in Chicago where the vice president accepted her party’s nomination on Thursday night.
Harris and Walz are also expected to record their first joint interview next week and attend fundraisers, likely in California, Florida, New York as well as the Peach State, according to NBC News.
After the bus tour, Harris is set to host a rally on her own in Savannah on the Georgia coast. It will be Harris’s second trip to the state following the start of her presidential campaign in July.
“Campaigning in this part of the Peach State is critical as it represents a diverse coalition of voters, including rural, suburban, and urban Georgians — with a large population of Black voters and working class families,” the Harris campaign said in a press release.
It comes as former President Donald Trump argued on Truth Social on Friday that Harris being allowed to take on the Democratic mantle is a “threat” to democracy because she didn’t win a primary.
Key Points
- Kamala Harris lays out case against ‘unserious’ Donald Trump in historic speech as she accepts Democratic nomination
- Trump blasts ‘all talk’ Harris in furious Truth Social ‘fact check’ of DNC speech
- Democrats react to Harris’s historic keynote convention speech
- Harris’s stepdaughter Ella Emhoff address DNC as grandnieces explain how to pronounce her name
- ‘Central Park Five’ warn against Trump after his death penalty crusade
Pink performs!
Award winning artist Pink has taken to the stage with a group of singers, including her daughter Willow, to perform her hit song What About Us.
Senator Mark Kelly blasts Trump for his attitude towards military veterans
Senator Mark Kelly took to the stage to cheers and chants of “A-ri-zo-na!”
“President Obama had to follow Michelle I had to follow Gabby and Pink,” he quipped. “Gabby impresses me every day, she was able to walk out an address you today because she’s a fighter.”
“We all need a team, I’ve flown into space four times, I’ve flown into combat nearly 40 times, not once did I do that by myself it took a team to accomplish the mission.”
Senator Kelly blasted Donad Trump and the accusations that he had once referred to veterans as “suckers and losers.”
“If we fall for that again and make him Commander-In-Chief, the only suckers would be us,” he said.
Senator Kelly was, at one point, tipped to be a favorite to join Kamala Harris on the Democratic ticket.
Mike Bedigan23 August 2024 02:49 1724378914Gretchen Whitmer blasts Trump as ‘that man from Mar-A-Lago'
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer laid into Donald Trump, calling him “that man from Mar-A-Lago” – in reference to previous insults he had thrown at her.
“In Michigan they call me governor, in Detroit the call me Big Gretch. Donald Trump called me that woman from Michigan... as an insult. Being a woman from Michigan is a badge of honor!” she said, to cheers.
“Like women across America we just GSD - ‘get stuff done.’”
She continued: “Donald Trump doesn’t know you, at all... But Kamala Harris, she gets us, she sees us, she is us. We’ve all lived through a lot of history over the last few years... floods and fires... a plot and a pandemic.
“One day s*** whill hit the fan and you’ll ask... who is in charge. What if it’s him? What if it’s that man from Mar-A-Lago?”
“What I know is that we need someone to come up with a plan, to tell the truth. Right now we get to choose, what if we get to choose the leader who is tough, tested and a total badass.”
“I know who I want as my Commander-In-Chief. America let’s choose Kamala Harris!”
Mike Bedigan23 August 2024 03:08 1724379302 Mike Bedigan23 August 2024 03:15 1724379968
May Harris urges convention to elect ‘my big sister'
Kamala Harris’ sister, Maya Harris, urged the convention to “roll up your sleeves” get out and vote, and elect “my big sister.”
Taking to the stage in a pink pant suit, she discussed growing up with her sister and mother, who she described as “a trailblazer.”
“She had great expectations for us but more than that she had greater expectations of us... she raised us to believe we could be anything we wanted to be,” she said.
She continued: “Kamala knows what it’s like to be underestimated... to be the underdog and yet still beat the odds.”
“She has created so much electrcity... so much joy around the nation. We are living in a time in which some are trying to divide us... my sister rejects that view.
“When others want to drag us back to the past, my sister says ‘hold up now... we are not going back.”
Kamala Harris takes to the stage in Chicago
Kamala Harris has taken to the stage in Chicago, where she will formally accept the Democratic nomination for president.
The vice president arrived to roars, wearing a black pant suit, to Beyonce’s “Freedom” the song that has been a staple of her campaign so far.
Roy Cooper: One of Harris’s oldest friends who might be key to helping her win North Carolina
Roy Cooper has just finished addressing the convention.
Here’s a profile on the North Carolina governor from The Independent’s Eric Garcia:
The last line of defense for abortion rights in the South - and Biden’s best ally
Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina talks with Eric Garcia about defending abortion rights in the south, his friendship with Kamala Harris and why Joe Biden can win North Carolina
Mike Bedigan23 August 2024 03:35 1724380794Thanking and shushing the cheering delegates, Harris declared: “Let’s get to business!”
“Let me start by thanking my most incredible husband Doug, for being an incredible husband to me, and an incredible father to Cole and Ella... and happy anniversary dougie, I love you so very much.”
Adressing Joe Biden she said: “Joe, I am filled with grattitude, your record is extraordinary as history will show,” before adding: “To coach Tim Walz, you are going to be an incredible vice president!”
“America, the path that led me here was no doubt unexpected but I’m no stranger to unlikely journey.”
Harris went on to detail her mother’s life and her childhood.
Kamala Harris officially accepts the Democratic nomination for president
Kamala Harris has officially accepted the Democratic party’s nomination for president.
“My only client has on behalf of the people, she said.
“On behalf of every American...on behalf of my mother and everyone who has ever set out on their own, unlikely journey... on behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on earth, I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America.”
She added: “And with this election our nation has a precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cyncism and divisive battles of the past, a chance to chart a new way forward.
“Not as members of any one party or faction, but as Americans. I promise to be a president for all Americans.”
Mike Bedigan23 August 2024 03:48 1724381673Kamala Harris has spoken often about her mother – but who is her father, Donald Harris?
In her acceptance speech, Kamala Harris spoke about her mother’s journey to America and how she raised her and her sister.
But what about her father. Sheila Flynn investigates:
Harris says her dad taught her to be fearless, but he has also scolded her publicly
Family is at the forefront of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, and she speaks frequently and fondly of her late mother’s influence – but rarely is there mention of her father. A “Marxist” economics professor who left Jamaica for UC Berkeley, Donald J Harris has said little about his daughter during her meteoric rise – other than to scold her, writes Sheila Flynn
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