Tag: Harris
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Zelenskyy’s meeting with Harris and spat with Trump reveal a growing partisan divide on Ukraine
Vice President Kamala Harris is meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a trip to the U.S., while former President Donald Trump isn’t, highlighting the growing partisan division over a key foreign policy issue. Harris is scheduled to meet Thursday with Zelenskyy at the White House. Trump won’t meet with him while he’s in the…
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Huge ad spending pours into defining Harris in the ‘blue wall’ battlegrounds
Money talks. And right now, the presidential campaigns’ dollars are talking about the “blue wall” — and about defining Kamala Harris. More than half of every dollar spent on ads in the presidential race from Sept. 1 to 20 were spent in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — with Pennsylvania alone drawing 1 of every 4…
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Kamala Harris to visit the southern border for first time as nominee
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris is set to make her first visit to the southern border since she jumped into the 2024 race, with plans to attack former President Donald Trump on an issue that’s central to his campaign. Harris is scheduled to visit a border town in Arizona on Friday, her campaign announced…
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Kamala Harris talks up McDonald’s gig in criticizing Trump’s economic plans
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday again confirmed that she once worked at McDonald’s, pushing back against former President Donald Trump who has repeatedly claimed she never worked there. During an interview with Stephanie Ruhle, the MSNBC anchor said, “I just want to ask you, yes or no: At any point in your…
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Harris says Trump needs to trust women to make their own reproductive decisions
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday criticized former President Donald Trump’s recent comments about reproductive rights, saying he needs to trust women to make their own decisions. “I don’t think the women of America need him to say he’s going to protect them,” Harris said during an interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, referring…
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Harris calls Trump’s tariff proposals a ‘sales tax on the American people’
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris called former President Donald Trump’s tariff proposals “a sales tax on the American people,” in an interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle. President Joe Biden has also backed certain tariffs and done little to roll back ones Trump put into place while president, but Harris emphasized that tariffs should not…
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Harris outlines $100 billion manufacturing plan, vowing pragmatism over ideology
PITTSBURGH — Kamala Harris vowed to govern as a pragmatist who won’t be captive to ideology in an economic speech Wednesday while outlining some $100 billion in new investments in manufacturing, a major issue in this battleground state. Harris proposed an “America Forward” agenda that calls for tax credits to boost investment and industrial job creation,…
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Trump and Harris get unprecedented levels of security after assassination attempts
Former President Donald Trump now speaks at rallies with bulletproof glass around him. When he exits his plane, a Secret Service agent closely trails him down the steps. And Trump has not golfed since an apparent assassination attempt last week. On social media Wednesday, Trump said that “Big threats on my life by Iran” have…
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Chappell Roan reveals she’s voting for Kamala Harris after online backlash
Pop star Chappell Roan revealed in a TikTok video Wednesday that she’s voting for Vice President Kamala Harris in November, though she stopped short of endorsing the Democratic presidential candidate. The singer-songwriter’s announcement followed an intense and dayslong online backlash from her liberal fanbase. The criticism was fueled after Roan, 26, told The Guardian in…
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Secret Service agent placed on leave after ‘misconduct allegation’ with Harris staffer
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Secret Service recently notified Vice President Kamala Harris’ office about an incident involving one of its agents and a “misconduct allegation,” according to spokespeople for both the USSS and the vice president’s office. In a statement about the incident, Harris’ office said it takes the “safety of staff seriously” and that…