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Kamala Harris will officially announce her choice of running mate on Tuesday morning, according to CBS News, after formally clinching her party’s nomination for the presidency at midnight on Monday.
Her pool of vice presidential contenders is understood to have narrowed to just Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, according to Reuters.
Harris is expected to announce her choice today ahead of the victor’s first rally appearance alongside her in Philadelphia, although the timing of the unveiling may change depending on when she makes her final decision or if there’s a leak to the press.
Shapiro, Walz and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly all interviewed at Harris’s residence in Washington DC on Sunday, with the former astronaut subsequently tweeting and then deleting a post shortly afterwards in which he declared, “Now my mission is serving Arizonans,” seemingly suggesting he is no longer in contention.
Republican candidate Donald Trump was interviewed by YouTube personality Adin Ross on Monday, who presented him with a Rolex watch and giftwrapped Tesla Cybertruck during a livestream, after losing his latest attempt to have the US Supreme Court block his sentencing in the New York hush money case against him.
Trump tells Ross he wants to ‘fire’ Black journalist who grilled him onstage
The Republican told Adin Ross that he would like to “fire” ABC News journalist Rachel Scott, who grilled him about his past comments about race during a panel at the National Association of Black Journalists convention last week.
During his appearance on Ross’s livestream on Kick on Monday, Trump was asked for his reaction to the event, which his campaign appeared to cut short by 30 minutes when it was clear that he led the session off the rails.
“This woman starts talking… about racism, and I said, ‘You didn’t even say hello to me,’ and I’m doing them a favor by doing this,” Trump told Ross on Monday.
“I’m doing this out of respect to the Black community.”
Scott has since said she has received death threats in the wake of Trump’s embarrassment at the event.
Joe Sommerlad6 August 2024 11:30
Streamer Adin Ross ‘gifts’ Trump a Rolex and Cybertruck wrapped in rally shooting photo
Republican candidate Donald Trump was interviewed by YouTube personality Adin Ross on Monday, who presented him with a Rolex watch and a Tesla Cybertruck wrapped in a photograph of the former president taken moments after a gunman shot him at a rally in Pennsylvania last month.
Joe Sommerlad6 August 2024 11:00
Supreme Court dismisses Republican challenge to delay Trump’s hush money sentencing
Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money trial won’t be delayed by a long-shot lawsuit from Missouri’s Republican attorney general, whose challenge to a gag order against the former president was dismissed by the Supreme Court.
The challenge from Andrew Bailey argued that a gag order and a potential jail sentence against the Republican presidential nominee amounted to election interference and would deprive Missouri voters from hearing the candidate before they cast their ballots.
Justices denied that challenge in a brief order on Monday.
The order also noted that Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas would have allowed Bailey to at least file the suit, but would not have granted him his requested emergency relief.
Alex Woodward has this report.
Joe Sommerlad6 August 2024 10:30
Kamala Harris officially secures Democratic party’s nomination with 99% of roll call votes
Harris has now officially been declared the Democratic party’s presidential candidate for the 2024 election in place of President Joe Biden – making history as the first Black woman and Asian American to top a major party ticket.
Her nomination became official late on Monday night, after a five-day round of online balloting by Democratic National Convention (DNC) delegates came to an end.
The DNC announced her win in a statement, revealing that she had earned the support of 99 per cent of the 4,567 delegates casting ballots in the roll call vote.
Joe Sommerlad6 August 2024 10:00
Kamala Harris set to reveal VP pick today: Walz v Shapiro
The Vice President will officially announce her choice of running mate on Tuesday morning, according to CBS News.
Her pool of vice presidential contenders is understood to have narrowed to just Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, according to Reuters.
Harris is expected to announce her choice today ahead of the victor’s first rally appearance alongside her in Philadelphia, although the timing of the unveiling may change depending on when she makes her final decision or if there’s a leak to the press.
Shapiro, Walz and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly all interviewed at Harris’s residence in Washington DC on Sunday, with the former astronaut subsequently tweeting and then deleting a post shortly afterwards in which he declared, “Now my mission is serving Arizonans,” seemingly suggesting he is no longer in contention.
Here’s Alicja Hagopian on who Democrats want to see at her side, according to the data.
Joe Sommerlad6 August 2024 09:30
Virginia man charged with threatening to burn Kamala Harris alive and murder Biden and FBI chief
Frank Lucio Carillo, 66, was arrested for threatening to kill Harris, who is the presumptive Democratic presidential party nominee in the 2024 election, according to a pair of court filings made on August 2.
His first court appearance was scheduled for Monday.
“Kamala Harris needs to be put on fire alive I will do it personally if no one else does it I want her to suffer a slow agonizing death,” Carillo allegedly said in a social media post flagged by the FBI. The post was made on the right-wing social media platform GETTR, according to investigators.
Graig Graziosi6 August 2024 09:00
RFK Jr called Trump barely human’ and ‘probably a sociopath’ in recent texts, New Yorker reports
The dead bear cub story was in The New Yorker’s new profile of Kennedy published earlier today, which also quotes RFK Jr calling Donald Trump a “terrible human being”, “the worst president ever and barely human” and “probably a sociopath” in a recent text message exchange.
Which is interesting because, last we heard, he was angling for a job in a future Trump Cabinet!
Here’s Alex Woodward’s report on that.
Joe Sommerlad6 August 2024 06:00
VIDEO: Harris holds last interviews with VP contenders hours before she makes final decision
Gustaf Kilander6 August 2024 05:00
No, JD Vance is not as bad of a running mate as Sarah Palin. He’s worse
Vance will be in Philadelphia on Tuesday, where Harris will make her first appearance alongside her running mate at a rally. Then, Vance will follow her to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, before he trails her to North Carolina.
The tour serves two purposes: Firstly, it allows for Vance to assume the common role of the running mate as the “attack dog” who can hurl javelins that the principal cannot do; secondly, it serves as Vance’s reintroduction to the public after a rocky rollout as Trump’s number-two.
Eric Garcia6 August 2024 04:30
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