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Democrats are leery about the prospect of Vice President Harris putting out anything close to a fleshed-out agenda, believing they must make the 2024 election about the former president — not the current vice president.
Instead, they're hoping Harris will run a largely atmospheric campaign — one with limited policy substance — to make the race more of a referendum on former President Trump than on her administration's record. |
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BY LEXI LONAS AND ALEJANDRA OCONNELL-DOMENECH |
Health experts are urging school staff and families to take active steps to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 amid rising infections as school districts stick to their previous plans to combat the virus similarly to how they would the flu or strep throat. Weekly deaths from COVID-19 have steadily risen in the United States since mid-June, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID Data Tracker. |
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Alaska Republicans are looking to avoid a repeat of the midterms, when they lost the state's lone House seat to Rep. Mary Peltola after the party failed to coalesce around a single opponent in the Last Frontier's ranked-choice system. Peltola finished first in this week's top-four nonpartisan primary, followed by Republicans Nick Begich and Lt. Gov Nancy Dahlstrom (R), according to the latest tallies from Decision Desk HQ. But Dahlstrom, backed by former President Trump, bowed out of the race on Friday as her party looks to consolidate support. |
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BY ELLA LEE AND ZACH SCHONFELD |
Local election officials in key swing states are taking on new power heading into 2024, worrying some legal observers who expect attempts to slow down the certification process in favor of GOP candidates.
In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, which former President Trump baselessly claimed was rigged against him, local bodies, which typically provide clerical roles, are now giving glimpses into what potential chaos might loom in 2024. |
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BY JARED GANS AND TAYLOR GIORNO |
A potential endorsement from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in the 2024 race remains an open question following this week's Democratic convention. The Teamsters union said it has historically waited until after the party conventions to endorse, making this week a pivotal milestone in the highly anticipated endorsement timeline. But joining its fellow large unions in endorsing the Democratic ticket is not a guarantee. |
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Presidential candidates who've secured their party's endorsement ahead of a general election have traditionally pivoted toward the ideological center on issues of economic policy in order to appeal to middle-class moderates of both parties. Not so in 2024. |
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Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) suggested that President Biden would have dropped his reelection bid earlier if he debated independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. McCarthy argued that the Democrats kicked Kennedy out of their party and that Vice President Harris, who filled in for Biden after his decision to not seek another term, would not have won the party's nomination had she gone through a competitive primary. |
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Republican pollster Frank Luntz signaled that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s backing of former President Trump could help him win battleground states in 2024. Luntz said that while Kennedy's poll numbers have dropped since Vice President Harris ascended to the top of the Democratic Party presidential ticket, his remaining supporters could provide enough backing to tip some swing-state results in Trump's favor. |
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Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president, said former President Trump would shoot down a federal abortion ban if he recaptures the White House in the fall. "I think he would," Vance told NBC News's Kristen Welker in a clip posted to the "Meet the Press" account on the social platform X Saturday. "He said that explicitly that he would." |
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OPINION | Africa has become a battlefield between democracy and authoritarianism. As things stand right now, the autocrats are winning. In the shadowy recesses of international politics, Africa is often overlooked by headline-dominant crises elsewhere, yet it is a pivotal arena where the future of global democracy may well be decided. As more than 25 percent of the world's population will be African in the coming decades, it's in our best interest to think about their future — and the broader implications for global security, democracy and U.S. interests. |
OPINION | Two recent developments in the current hot wars have highlighted the failures of Biden administration foreign policy: Ukraine's invasion of Russia in the Kursk campaign, and the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, presumably carried out by Israel which however has not claimed responsibility. Both of these steps, which reshaped their respective theaters of war, in Ukraine and in the Middle East, are assumed to have taken place without prior consultation with Washington. |
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BY MARK MAZZETTI, RONEN BERGMAN, JULIAN E. BARNES AND ADAM GOLDMAN |
Yahya Sinwar's ability to evade capture or death has denied Israel a military success in a war that began in Gaza after he planned the Oct. 7 attacks. |
BY ALEX LEARY AND VIVIAN SALAMA |
After the Democrats completed a jubilant convention in Chicago, the Republican nominee plans his counteroffensive. |
BY JOSEF FEDERMAN AND ABBY SEWELL |
Israel has launched a wave of airstrikes across southern Lebanon in what it called a preemptive strike on Hezbollah. |
BY ISAAC ARNSDORF, JOSH DAWSEY AND MARIANNE LEVINE |
The Republican nominee has fixated on Biden's withdrawal: "It feels like he's lost his mojo."
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