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Democrats hold palpable concerns about whether Vice President Harris can appeal to voters in key battleground states, even as they have united behind her candidacy in the six days since President Biden's exit from the race. The worries have been hard to see amid the party's elation with Harris, who is widely seen as a huge improvement over Biden. |
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Chatter and speculation surrounding Vice President Kamala Harris's running mate options is reaching a fever pitch as Democrats jockey for their preferred candidates.
While most of the "veepstakes" talk has been dominated by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly (D), Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D), and North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D), other names are popping up in the conversation. |
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BY AL WEAVER AND ALEX GANGITANO |
Vice President Harris's white-hot start to her presidential campaign is prompting questions over how long her political honeymoon can last.
Republicans for days have said Harris's performance in the days since President Biden dropped out of the presidential race and backed her is more of a shooting star than anything sustainable, and with three months remaining until November, they expect her to follow the laws of political gravity and crash back down to earth. |
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FBI Director Christopher Wray kicked a hornet's nest with remarks this week casting doubt on former President Trump's claims that he was hit by a bullet in his July 13 assassination attempt. Speaking before the House Judiciary Committee, Wray said that "with respect to former President Trump, there's some question about whether or not it's a bullet or shrapnel that, you know, that hit his ear." |
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Vice President Harris is tied with former President Trump in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and down 1 point from him in Wisconsin in a set of new Fox News polls released Friday. The polls found Harris and Trump tied at 49 percent support in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and the vice president at 49 percent support in comparison to the former president's 50 percent in Wisconsin. |
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Former President Trump topped Vice President Harris by 2 points in a new poll from The Wall Street Journal. The former president garnered 49 percent support among registered voters to the vice president's 47 percent in the poll, conducted in the wake of President Biden leaving the 2024 presidential race. |
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Vice presidential hopeful Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) acknowledged the white supremacist attacks against his wife, Usha Vance, who is a child of Indian immigrants. "Look, I love my wife so much. I love her because she's who she is," he told host Megyn Kelly on her show Friday. "Obviously, she's not a white person, and we've been accused, attacked by some white supremacists over that. But I just, I love Usha." |
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Vice President Kamala Harris will not seek to ban fracking if she's elected president, an official with her campaign told The Hill on Friday. Harris's position not to support a ban on fracking differs from where she stood when she was running for president last cycle. |
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Since 2015, the number of Americans who say they are ready for a female president has dropped by nine points, according to a new Times/SAY24 poll from YouGov poll. The survey, conducted after President Biden dropped out of the race, was designed to assess the electorate's beliefs surrounding "gender bias," and Vice President Harris's chances come November. |
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OPINION | Republican members of the House Appropriations Committee have recently voted to cut $500 million from the Social Security Administration (SSA) budget. It is important to understand that these cuts will not subtract even a penny from the deficit. |
OPINION | Donald Trump has recently told Bloomberg News that Taiwan should "pay us for defense" if it expects military protection in the event of any Chinese attack against what Beijing sees as a renegade province. |
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BY JOSHUA JAMERSON, JOHN MCCORMICK AND TARINI PARTI |
Gender and race move to the center of the campaign with Kamala Harris expected to lead the party's ticket. |
BY LAURA MECKLER AND STEVE HENDRIX |
Trump, incensed when the Israeli prime minister called Joe Biden to congratulate him on his 2020 victory, has been openly critical of Netanyahu's handling of the war in Gaza. |
Donald Trump is taking his campaign back to Minnesota, a state that has favored Democrats but that the former president thinks could be in his reach this year. |
His political views differed from a transgender classmate's, but they forged a bond that lasted a decade — until Mr. Vance seemed to pivot, politically and personally. |
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