Tag: campaign
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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…
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Musk pushes debunked Dominion voting conspiracy theory at campaign appearance
FOLSOM, Pa. — Billionaire Elon Musk promoted debunked conspiracy theories about election fraud Thursday at the first of a series of planned campaign events across Pennsylvania meant to rally support for former President Donald Trump’s campaign. At a town hall hosted at a high school outside Philadelphia, Musk referred to the false conspiracy theory that…
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Harris campaign ramps up ‘unhinged, unstable’ attack on Trump in new ad
WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris’ campaign will launch a new television ad Thursday aimed at linking the three words the vice president has used to describe Donald Trump lately — unhinged, unstable and unchecked — with the policy implications voters might see if the former president returns to office. The 30-second spot is set to air…
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This is how a Russian disinformation campaign starts
Johnson did not return requests for comment. Similar requests to those who spread the false assassination attempt story went mostly unanswered. Those who responded defended their posts and videos. “We reported it as potentially being a hoax,” Dore said. Andrew Kolvet, a representative for Kirk and a producer of his podcast, said Kirk noted at…
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Harris and Vance campaign in Pennsylvania; Trump joins town hall in Miami
Reproductive Freedom For All endorsed Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., for re-election today in a statement first shared with NBC News. Mini Timmaraju, president of the nonprofit organization, which advocates for reproductive rights, said Casey is “meeting the moment” and “recognizes that action is needed to protect abortion rights and access nationwide.” “With anti-abortion Republicans like…
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Michelle Obama has yet to hit the campaign trail for Kamala Harris
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama has begun stumping for Vice President Kamala Harris. Bill Clinton is holding a series of campaign events for her in battleground states. Yet the Democratic superstar many members of the party would like to see helping Harris has been absent from the campaign trail so far. With just 21 days until…
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U.S. support for Israel’s campaign in Lebanon is ‘limited’ to Hezbollah
Having failed to secure a cease-fire, President Joe Biden’s administration is signaling that it supports Israel’s operations against Iran-backed Hezbollah and the group’s eventual withdrawal from southern Lebanon. The hope is that a weakened Hezbollah — Tehran’s most important proxy force and Lebanon’s most powerful political party — will provide an opening for the Lebanese…
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Gen Z advocacy group launches TikTok campaign against voting for Jill Stein
A young-voter advocacy group backing Vice President Kamala Harris is launching a campaign on TikTok meant to target young voters — but not necessarily those backing former President Donald Trump. Voters of Tomorrow released a series of videos Tuesday aimed at convincing young supporters of Green Party candidate Jill Stein to back Harris, working to…
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Trump’s dark rhetoric about big cities returns to the campaign trail
When Donald Trump visited Detroit last week, he unfurled a string of insults. He compared the city, which is 77% Black, to a developing nation and posited that the “whole country will end up being like Detroit” if Vice President Kamala Harris wins. If there was any question whether Trump thinks this is good or…
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Police arrest man after Korean American candidate’s campaign signs appear spray-painted with slurs
An Orange County, California, man has been arrested in connection to acts of vandalism in which anti-Asian slurs that were spray-painted over campaign signs for Democratic congressional candidate Dave Min, who’s Korean American. Huntington Beach Police Department arrested Kevin Walker, a 62-year-old from the city of Fountain Valley, on suspicion of vandalism last week, according…