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Senate Democrats are feeling more confident about their chances of keeping the Senate majority with Vice President Harris leading the ticket, arguing her momentum could lift them despite a nightmare battleground map.
The GOP has long been the favorite to take the Senate this fall because Democrats are defending more difficult-to-hold seats. Republicans need only net two seats in total to take the majority even if they lose the White House. |
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BY ELLA LEE AND ZACH SCHONFELD |
When Vice President Harris was named Democrats' presumptive presidential nominee, she put her past role as a prosecutor at the heart of her pitch to voters – and used it as an early attack line against her opponent who has faced a litany of legal troubles over the last year.
"I took on perpetrators of all kinds: predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain," Harris said last month at her first presidential campaign rally. "So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump's type." |
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The GOP continues to hammer Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz over his military record, with the Harris campaign quickly pivoting to quell fresh questions on his deployment during the Afghanistan war.
Walz's 24 years in the Army National Guard have come under intense scrutiny by Republicans since he was tapped as Vice President Harris's running mate, particularly over whether he misrepresented his service. |
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Should all school kids get free meals — regardless of income? Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's (D) selection as Vice President Harris's running mate has brought that once-peripheral policy issue — and the long-running partisan divide over it — to the center of the 2024 presidential campaign. |
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Former President Trump is setting off alarms among critics as he pushes the claim that Vice President Harris's ascent to become the Democratic nominee is somehow unconstitutional, with some warning he could be laying the groundwork to contest an electoral defeat as he did in 2020. Trump has repeatedly sought to cast Harris replacing President Biden as the Democratic nominee as nefarious, likening it to a "coup" and in recent days claiming it may be unconstitutional because she was not atop the ballot in the primary process. |
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Vice President Harris at a Las Vegas rally on Saturday night suggested she would support ending taxes on tipping — a policy initiative that has become popular with former President Trump on the campaign trail. The idea — exempting tip income from federal income and payroll taxes — has become a common policy line item for Trump as a way of courting working-class voters. |
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Independent presidential candidate Cornel West weighed in on his competitors' running mates, saying Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) "sold his soul" to former President Trump and Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) is a "decent man" in a party that is corrupt. "Vance has seemed to sell his soul to be subordinate to Trump's lies and his crimes," West said on NewsNation Saturday. "Vance is much more intellectually sophisticated than brother Trump but it's sad to see him give up on his claims of integrity and honesty and to find himself an extension of Trump's mendacity and Trump's criminality." |
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Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) criticized former President Trump, saying he knows "nothing about service," as the campaign trail debate over Walz's military record continues. Walz, speaking at a campaign rally in Las Vegas, said he was proud to wear the "uniform of this country" for 24 years. |
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Former President Trump's campaign said some of its internal communications were recently hacked by foreign sources. The breach was first reported by Politico after the outlet received emails from an anonymous account with documents from the Trump campaign. |
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OPINION | The recent assassinations in Beirut and Tehran of two of Israel's foes — Fuad Shukr, a top Hezbollah commander, and Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas's political chief — have put the Middle East on edge. The assassinations illustrate the shadow war waged for decades by Israel against Iran and its proxies. With the two nations locked in a dangerous cycle, the threat of a direct military confrontation looms ever larger. |
OPINION | On July 13 at 6:11 p.m., on a stage in Butler, Pa., former President Donald Trump came an inch away from being assassinated. But for luck, "divine intervention" and his own quick thinking and actions, Trump would have been killed that day. As has been shockingly and painstakingly detailed, the U.S. Secret Service did nothing to stop the eight bullets that were fired at Trump and beyond him, tragically, into the crowd. |
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BY MAGGIE HABERMAN AND JONATHAN SWAN |
People around the former and would-be president see a candidate knocked off his bearings, disoriented by his new contest with Kamala Harris and unsure of how to take her on. |
BY JUAN FORERO, PATRICIA GARIP AND KEJAL VYAS |
The U.S. is pursuing a long-shot bid to push Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to give up power in exchange for amnesty as overwhelming evidence emerges that the strongman lost last month's election, people familiar with the matter said.
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Former President Donald Trump's presidential campaign said Saturday that it has been hacked and suggested Iranian actors were involved in stealing and distributing sensitive internal documents. |
BY KAREEM FAHIM AND MOHAMAD EL CHAMAA |
The militant group has been buoyed by its status as Lebanon's unrivaled military force, its vast arsenal of weapons and its tens of thousands of men under arms.
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