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Harris' 2020 campaign was a mess. If she ends up atop the ticket, this time could be a lot different.
WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris had one great day in her ill-fated 2020 presidential campaign: her first. Then came a rapid collapse. The freshman senator who announced her candidacy in January 2019 before 20,000 cheering supporters in Oakland, California, dropped out in December before a single vote had been cast.
Some Democrat donors reportedly left fuming after Kamala Harris call: ‘A total failure’
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke on a major donor call that left attendees feeling “frustrated,” according to a new report.The call, attended by some 300 major Democratic donors, was “mismanaged” and “rushed,” a source who attended told NBC News. The reportedly disastrous event comes as President Joe Biden faces mounting pressure to drop out of the 2024 race.“It was a total failure,” an anonymous attendee told NBC News. “It was damaging. It was poor planning.”Another donor reportedly unmuted during the conversation, calling the event “ludicrous.” The call was organized by Jen O’Malley Dillon, Biden’s campaign chair, according to NBC...
First congressional Democrat calls for Secret Service director to resign
Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) called on Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle to "resign immediately" Saturday, citing "unacceptable operational failures" in the wake of the assassination attempt on former President Trump. Why it matters: Boyle is the first Democrat in Congress to call for Cheatle's resignation, but he joins a chorus...
Uproar over Biden’s campaign shows no signs of abating. Manchin is latest to call for a new nominee
WASHINGTON (AP) — The uproar over President Joe Biden’s reelection bid showed no signs of abating Sunday with a fifth senator urging him to withdraw from the race and let Democrats hold an “open process” for a new nominee. The Biden campaign acknowledged “differing opinions” but said the party would unite to defeat Republican Donald Trump.
'My abuser is here today': New Miss Kansas opened up about toxic relationship on stage before getting crowned
Alexis Smith was crowned Miss Kansas last month but a clip posted from her on-stage interview where she spoke up about domestic abuse has made the rounds online just last week. Smith won the Miss Kansas pageant on June 8, but she and the organization posted the moment Smith revealed...
Donald Trump thanks Elon Musk for donations of "$45m per month"
During Donald Trump's speech at Grand Rapids in Michigan on July 20, the former US President thanked X / Twitter owner Elon Musk for his contribution of "$45m a month".In his first rally since his assassination attempt after a number of speeches at the Republican National Convention, Trump boasted about Musk's financial support to his campaign.It comes soon after Musk endorsed Trump amid reports he had created a super PAC (political action committee, a tax-exempt organisation) to pledge millions and millions a month to his campaign.During the rally, Trump said: "Elon endorsed me the other day, and I read, I...
The Secret Service acknowledges denying some past requests by Trump’s campaign for tighter security
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — The Secret Service has acknowledged it denied some requests by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign for increased security at his events in the years before the assassination attempt on him at a recent rally. In the immediate aftermath of the July 13...
Trump says he’d like to take Kim Jong-Un to a baseball game as he boasts about their friendship
Donald Trump said he’d like to take North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un to a baseball game as he boasted about their friendship at a Michigan rally on Saturday.The former president said he “got along” great with Kim when he was in office.“It’s a good thing to get along not a bad thing. I used to tell him, ‘why don’t you do something else?’ All he wants to do is buy nuclear weapons and make them,” Trump said of the North Korean leader. “I said, ‘just relax, chill.’ He got enough. He got so much nuclear weapons.”“I said, ‘just relax,...
Arike Ogunbowale and Caitlin Clark lead WNBA All-Stars to 117-109 win over U.S. Olympic team
PHOENIX (AP) — Arike Ogunbowale was the dominant scorer on the floor. Caitlin Clark was the best passer. Angel Reese was her usual double-double machine. The U.S. may still have the best team at the Olympics, but at the All-Star Game, they didn’t have all the best players on Saturday night.
Trump says he knows nothing about ‘seriously extreme’ Project 2025 that mirrors many of his proposed policies
Donald Trump called Project 2025, a 900-page blueprint for his second presidency, “seriously extreme” at his first rally since the assassination attempt against him.Trump made the comments at a rally in Michigan on Saturday afternoon. The event comes one week after Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at his Butler, Pennsylvania rally last weekend. Crooks killed one attendee and injured two others while one of his shots grazed Trump’s ear.“Like some on the right, severe right, came up with this Project 25, I don’t even know, some of them I know who they are, but they’re very, very conservative,” Trump...
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