Tag: campaign
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Harris campaign targets Gen Z voters in the final stretch of the election
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is launching an early voting push targeting students on battleground state college campuses. The effort consists of concerts, block parties and tailgates in addition to a new seven-figure targeted ad buy focused primarily on reaching students through social media platforms. The ad buy will geographically target students in battleground states…
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Police arrest suspect in shooting incidents at Harris campaign office in Arizona
Police in Tempe, Arizona, have arrested a 60-year-old man suspected of shooting at a Democratic National Committee office over the last two months and hanging suspicious bags of white powder from politico signs in a nearby village. Police announced the arrest late Tuesday and identified the suspect as Jeffrey Michael Kelly. He was charged with…
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Usha Vance’s expansive reading list gives a glimpse of a private figure in the campaign
As Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance campaigns across the country, his wife, Usha Vance, has been a near-constant presence by his side. In the final weeks of the campaign, she has traveled with her own regular companion: a copy of “The Iliad.” Her edition of the Greek epic — a celebrated 800-page translation from…
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McDonald’s campaign event highlights Trump-Harris battle for low-wage workers
Donald Trump’s campaign event Sunday at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania highlighted his battle with Kamala Harris to court a coveted group of working-class voters who have the potential to decide the outcome of the presidential election in a critical swing state. To win them over, the former president is seeking to make the election a…
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Obama on the campaign has one particularly tough crowd: Young Black men
TUCSON, Ariz. — If there’s a prototypical Kamala Harris voter it might seem to be Charles Johnson, a 23-year-old Black college student. Johnson is informed and politically engaged; he went to hear former President Barack Obama speak Friday at a Democratic campaign rally on the University of Arizona campus. Yet he isn’t all that impressed…
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Harris goes to church, highlighting absence of religion in 2024 campaign
Religion is making a rare appearance on the campaign trail this week in a presidential election that has dwelled less on candidates’ personal faith than any in recent memory. Vice President Kamala Harris is planning to attend services and speak at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church outside Atlanta on Sunday, while her running mate,…
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Kamala Harris has no current plans to campaign with Biden before Election Day
WASHINGTON — With just two weeks left in the 2024 campaign, there currently are no plans for Vice President Kamala Harris to appear on the trail with President Joe Biden before Election Day, according to three Harris campaign officials and three White House officials. Instead, Biden plans to try to help Harris this week by…
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Harris’ campaign mocks ‘exhausted’ Trump after he appears to nod off during an event
WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris’ campaign posted a video that appeared to show Donald Trump nodding off at a campaign event Friday, pushing a new line of attack that the former president is too “exhausted” to run for office. “An exhausted Trump appears to be falling asleep during his campaign event,” the Harris campaign posted to…
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When campaign and football season collide: Harris and Trump battle for sports fans: From the Politics Desk
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, deputy politics editor Adam Wollner looks at efforts from the Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigns to appeal…
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Obamas to hit the campaign trail in first joint appearances with Harris
Vice President Kamala Harris will hit the trail for the first time alongside the Obamas, who the campaign hopes will galvanize supporters in early voting areas in the waning days ahead of the election. Harris is appearing alongside the political juggernauts at a crucial time when polling indicates that she and former President Donald Trump…