The campaigns of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are arguing ahead of their big Sept. 10 debate over whether microphones should be muted except for the candidate whose turn it is to speak. President Joe Biden’s campaign team made muting the microphone a condition of their decision to accept this year’s debates. Trump suggested on Sunday that he might not appear at the ABC-hosted debate.
Trump was scheduled to travel to Michigan on Monday to address the National Guard Association of the United States conference.
Meanwhile, Harris’ campaign said it has now raised $540 million, with donations increasing last week during the Democratic National Convention.
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He is the sitting vice president. He is a candidate for change. How Harris has it both ways
He is the sitting vice president who has been in office for 3 1/2 years. He’s also only a five-week presidential candidate promising a “new way forward.”
Kamala Harris has it both ways as she hits the campaign trail after the Democratic National Convention, taking credit for parts of President Joe Biden’s record at rallies in front of the Air Force One while positioning herself as a new leader who opposes the ‘politics’ of the past.”
In every presidential election cycle, candidates run on experience or freshness, but Harris so far appears to be successfully harmonizing two seemingly competing messages, much to the frustration of former President Donald Trump and his allies.
“He has this powerful, unique and interesting edge that we’ve never seen before in our politics,” said Patrick Gaspard, CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a Democratic think tank, and a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. President Barack Obama.
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The Harris campaign says it raised $540 million and saw donations during the convention
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign says it has now raised $540 million in its election battle for the Republican nominee against former President Donald Trump.
The campaign has had no problem getting supporters to open their wallets since President Joe Biden announced on July 21 that he was ending his campaign and quickly endorsed Harris. The campaign said donations spiked last week at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where Harris and his running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, endorsed their candidacy.
“Just prior to Vice President Harris’ acceptance speech Thursday night, we officially crossed the $500 million mark,” campaign chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon wrote in a memo released by the campaign on Sunday. “Immediately after his speech, we saw our best hour of fundraising since launch day.”
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Trump is trying to link Harris to the chaotic withdrawal from the war in Afghanistan on the anniversary of the attack
Former President Donald Trump on Monday committed Vice President Kamala Harris to the chaotic withdrawal from the war in Afghanistan on the third anniversary of a suicide bombing that killed 13 members of the US military.
Republican presidential nominee Trump laid wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery for three slain service members — Sgt. Nicole Gee, Staff Sgt. Darin Hoover and Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss. Later in the day, he was on his way to Michigan to speak at the National Guard Association of the United States conference.
Monday marks the three-year anniversary of the August 26, 2021, suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport that killed American soldiers and more than 100 Afghans. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
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Trump would oppose a federal abortion ban bill, Vance says
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance says Donald Trump would not support a national abortion ban if elected president and would veto such legislation if it made it to his desk.
“I can absolutely commit to that,” Vance said when asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” if he could commit to Trump not imposing such a ban. “Donald Trump’s view is that we want individual states and their individual cultures and their unique political sensibilities to make these decisions because we don’t want an ongoing federal conflict on this issue.”
The Ohio senator also insisted that Trump, the former president who is the Republican nominee this year, would veto such legislation if Congress passed it.
“I mean, if you don’t support it as president of the United States, you basically have to dodge it,” he said in an interview that aired Sunday.
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Behind the rhetoric, the presidential campaign is a race to tell the American story
Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination “on behalf of everyone whose story can only be written in the greatest nation on earth.” America, Barack Obama, “is ready for a better story.” JD Vance argued that the Biden administration “is not the end of our story,” and Donald Trump urged fellow Republicans to “write their own exciting chapter in the American story.”
“This week,” comedian and former Obama administration speechwriter Jon Lovett told NBC on Thursday, “has been about the story.”
In the American political debate, this kind of bipartisan debate is not surprising – even appropriate. Because in the 2024 campaign season, just like in American culture in general, “the story” is everywhere.
This year’s political conventions were, like many others of their kind, a curated collection of detailed stories carefully crafted to achieve one goal — getting elected. But behind them lay a fierce, high-stakes battle over how to frame the biggest story of all — the one about America, which, as Harris put it, should be “the next great chapter in the most extraordinary story ever told.”
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By promoting clean energy in Minnesota, Walz is setting the stage for climate impact if Harris wins
When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz walked on stage to welcome a conference of clean energy advocates to Minneapolis in May, he was quick to note that his state now gets just over half of its energy from renewable sources. In the next breath, Walz said Minnesota would never reach 100% — a goal he helped set — without changing so-called “outdated” permit laws.
“We’re doing things that are too cumbersome, they don’t fit where we are, they add cost and make it harder to get where we need to go,” Walz told the industry group American Clean Power. .
A few weeks later, he signed a law to speed things up. Developers will no longer have to demonstrate that a clean energy project — meaning solar and wind, storage and transmission projects — is needed as part of Minnesota’s energy system. And they no longer have to explore alternative locations and power line routes – this requirement had effectively doubled the potential opponents of the project.
Walz’s effort to tackle a major obstacle to the clean energy transition nationwide is gaining new attention as he was tapped as a partner with Kamala Harris. His experience passing such laws in Minnesota could position him to lead climate affairs if Harris wins in November.
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