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Aides to former President Donald Trump are reportedly concerned that he’s golfing too much and campaigning too little.
But as his family visits his Bedminster, New Jersey golf course in August, the president seems to prefer hitting the links and appeared bored during a press conference at the course earlier this month. He didn’t seem too pleased about attending a fundraiser with donor Miriam Adelson either, The Washington Post reports.
Former aides told The Post that Trump prefers to have a less hectic schedule during his family’s time in Bedminster when he mostly spends time on the course. But aides, speaking anonymously, also told the paper that they didn’t want the former president sitting at home watching the Democratic convention and getting irate.
This comes as his running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance says that he regrets that “a lot of people” took his 2021 “childless cat ladies” comments “the wrong way.”
He told NBC News in an interview broadcast on Sunday that he made “a joke” in “the service of a real substantive point.”
“This country has become too anti-family,” he added. “It’s too expensive to afford a house. It’s too expensive to afford groceries.”
Vance refuses to say whether Trump’s plans to expel millions of migrants would mean separating families
Vance sat down for an extended interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker on Meet the Press and took a line of questioning about one of Donald Trump’s main 2024 campaign promises: to enact the “largest deportation operation in American history”, per his campaign’s own description. What that represents in reality would be a massive operation requiring significant federal funding, state cooperation, and could result in serious repercussions to communities around the country.
But when asked by Welker a question with a seemingly obvious answer — whether the concept of separating family units, including young children from their parents, would be revived under a second Trump term — Vance could not answer.
John Bowden26 August 2024 01:00
Takeaways from the AP’s review of Tim Walz’s descriptions of his military record
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz served in the National Guard for 24 years, rising through the enlisted ranks and receiving an honorable discharge. It is a record seen as one of his political strengths. Republicans are trying to turn it into a weakness.
They have seized on criticism from former National Guard members denouncing Walz, the Minnesota governor, for retiring from the military in 2005 to run for Congress shortly before his unit was deployed to Iraq and for overstating the rank he held after he left the service. They also have pointed to a comment Walz made that implied he had seen combat, when he had not.
Jonathan Mattise, Richard Lardner26 August 2024 00:00
Walz’s exit from Minnesota National Guard left openings for critics to pounce on his military record
John Kolb, a retired Minnesota National Guard colonel, knew Tim Walz by reputation as an “excellent leader” who adroitly guided the enlisted troops in his field artillery battalion. But Kolb was stunned by what he saw when Walz left the military and entered politics.
Walz retired from the National Guard in 2005 to run for Congress just before his unit received an order to mobilize for the war in Iraq. Then during the campaign, Walz overstated the rank he held at the point he left the service.
“That is not the behavior I would expect out of a senior noncommissioned officer,” Kolb said in an interview.
Richard Lardner, Jonathan Mattise, Trenton Daniel, Steve Karnowski25 August 2024 23:00
Vance says Trump would veto national abortion ban – but critics aren’t convinced
But the Republican vice presidential contender is facing the reality of his own past support for such as plan as well as other pathways towards enacting such a ban being eyed by conservatives as he and Trump seek to defend themselves on the issue of reproductive rights.
John Bowden25 August 2024 22:30
Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates
So how will Harris actually fare against Donald Trump and his vice-presidential pick, JD Vance, this November?
Alicja Hagopian25 August 2024 22:00
Kerry Kennedy says she’s ‘disgusted by my brother’s obscene embrace of Donald Trump’
Gustaf Kilander25 August 2024 21:30
Trump makes bizarre claim Harris would ‘implement SOVIET Style Price Controls’
Trump continued making baseless claims about Harris on Sunday, writing, “If you think things are expensive now, they will get 100 times WORSE if Kamala gets four years as President.”
“Under her plan, Kamala will implement SOVIET Style Price Controls,” he claimed. “She will abolish private health care, and make California’s ridiculous tax policies the law of the land, meaning EVERY American will be taxed up to 80% of their income! If you want more CASH and less TAX, VOTE TRUMP!!!”
Here’s a rundown of what the candidates’ actual economic plans say:
Gustaf Kilander25 August 2024 21:18
In boosting clean energy in Minnesota, Walz lays foundation for climate influence if Harris wins
When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz strolled onstage to welcome a conference of clean power advocates to Minneapolis in May, he was quick to note that his state is now getting a little over half of its power from renewables. In the next breath, Walz said Minnesota would never get to 100% — a goal he helped set — without changing what he called “outdated” permitting laws.
“There are things we are doing that are too cumbersome, they don’t fit where we’re at, they add costs, and they make it more prohibitive to get where we need to go,” Walz told the industry group American Clean Power.
A few weeks later, he signed legislation to speed things up. Developers no longer have to demonstrate that a clean energy project — that is, solar and wind, storage and transmission projects — is needed as part of Minnesota’s energy system. And they no longer have to study alternative sites and transmission line routes — a requirement that had effectively doubled the possible opponents for a project.
Jennifer McDermott, Isabella O’Malley25 August 2024 21:00
Trump takes to X to claim Harris will bring nuclear war
Donald Trump took to X on Sunday to claim that Kamala Harris would bring, among other things, “nuclear war.”
Having settled on a nickname for the vice president, “Comrade Kamala,” the former president began his tweeting shortly before noon on Sunday by asking “Who is negotiating for us in the Middle East?”
“Bombs are dropping all over the place! Sleepy Joe is sleeping on a Beach in California, viciously Exiled by the Democrats, and Comrade Kamala is doing a campaign bus tour with Tampon Tim, her really bad V.P. Pick. Let’s not have World War lll, because that’s where we’re heading!” he added.
Just after 3pm, Trump carried on: “Kamala and her ‘handlers’ are trying to make it sound like I am the Incumbent President, so that they can blame me for the failure of the past four years. No, it was their failure! It is one of the worst Presidencies in History, and she is definitely the Worst Vice President.”
He added: “There will be no future under Comrade Kamala Harris, because she will take us into a Nuclear World War III! She will never be respected by the Tyrants of the World!”
Trump was famously friendly with the world’s autocrats during his time in power.
Going back to domestic attacks, Trump said, “Comrade Kamala will obliterate Social Security and Medicare by giving it away to the Millions of Illegal Immigrants who are infiltrating our Country!”
Gustaf Kilander25 August 2024 20:44
Warren slams Vance and Trump on abortion access: ‘American women are not stupid’
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren slammed Ohio Senator and Trump running mate JD Vance during an appearance on NBC’s Meet The Press.
Vance said he believed Trump would veto a federal abortion ban if it made its way to his desk.
“American women are not stupid and we are not going to trust the futures of our daughters and granddaughters to two men who have openly bragged about blocking access to abortion for women all across this country,” Warren said.
“Donald Trump and JD Vance … can actually ban all access to abortion all across this country,” she argued. “And understand, when I say ban access for abortion, I don’t mean with exceptions for rape or incest or a 16-week ban, I mean ban it for every woman any time she needs it.”
“Because once they take the medications off the market, once they take the surgical instruments off the market, they’re not there,” she added. “So, for any woman who’s in the middle of a miscarriage who goes into an emergency room and discovers there’s no medication and no treatment for her because abortion has been banned nationwide, they can thank Donald Trump and JD Vance.”
Gustaf Kilander25 August 2024 20:30
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