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CNN — Donald Trump showed up in battleground North Carolina for a big speech on the economy – and one of his unhinged rallies broke out. But amid the insults, trash talk, rage and lies, the former president blundered into the thing he’d been seeking for days: a strategy to take on Vice President Kamala Harris. The former president took the stage Wednesday with Republican commentators pining for signs that he’d stabilized after more than three weeks of fury and disorientation after President Joe Biden pulled out of the 2024 race. Anyone hoping for an elusive Trump pivot would have…
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks during a campaign event at West Allis Central High School, in West Allis, Wisconsin, U.S., July 23, 2024. Vincent Alban | ReutersWASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris plans to propose the first-ever federal ban on “corporate price-gouging in the food and grocery industries,” her campaign announced late Wednesday.”There’s a big difference between fair pricing in competitive markets, and excessive prices unrelated to the costs of doing business,” the Harris campaign said in a statement. “Americans can see that difference in their grocery bills.”The proposed ban is part of a broader economic policy platform that…
Sen. John Thune said Republicans need to “focus on the issues,” in the 2024 election, if they want to win the presidency and control of the Senate.Thune, the Senate Republican Whip, made the comments in Salt Lake City on Wednesday where he received the Titan of Public Service Award from The Orrin G. Hatch Foundation. Thune served with the late Sen. Hatch for years, and he called Hatch one of the Senate’s most effective lawmakers.Last year’s award winner was Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who Thune hopes to replace as leader of the Republican conference when McConnell steps down in…
In a recent series of polls, Vice President Kamala Harris has shown strong momentum against former President Donald Trump in key battleground states.According to a Cook Political Report survey, Harris holds an average 48% – 47% lead over Trump across seven battleground states, outperforming him in all but Georgia, where they are tied, and Nevada, where Trump has a slight edge.When third-party candidates are included, Harris’s lead increases to 46% – 44%.The Cook Political Report’s swing state poll reveals that Harris has gained six points against Trump since May. In a one-on-one contest, Harris leads Trump 48% – 46% in…
NEWS AND OPINION: The Republican National Committee has some news of note for us. “Republican-led states are driving job growth. Vice President [Kamala] Harris and President Biden deserve no credit for jobs that have been created — they paid Americans not to work for months and stifled economic growth,” the committee said in a report released Wednesday. “Republican-led states are the ones creating jobs and leading economic growth. The latest state jobs report shows that 16 of the top 20 states for jobs recovered since the coronavirus pandemic began are led by Republican governors, and 16 of the states have…
Attendees at the Republican National Convention hold up signs reading “Mass Deportation Now!” last month in Milwaukee. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images At the Republican National Convention this summer, hundreds of attendees waved signs demanding “Mass Deportation Now!” When former President Donald Trump took the stage on the final night of the convention, he promised to launch “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” if reelected. Trump’s deportation pledge has become a familiar theme of his 2024 campaign, repeated often by the former president at his rallies, in the official Republican Party…
Kamala Harris’s economic agenda will focus on lowering the cost of groceries, housing and healthcare, bolstering the child tax credit and drawing a contrast with Donald Trump on tariffs and taxes, aides and advisers told Reuters on Wednesday.Harris is expected to lay out some details of her economic plan in a speech in North Carolina on Friday that will touch on lowering costs and “price gouging”.“Same values, different vision,” said one aide, describing how Harris’s economic agenda will compare with that of Joe Biden, who stepped aside as the Democratic presidential candidate last month.“She’s not moving far away from him…
A Financial Times report that the US Defence Department has decided to remove Hesai – a Chinese maker of remote sensors used in smart cars – from its blacklist has prompted a strong reaction from some Republican lawmakers.“The Biden-Harris Administration should be doing more to restrict Chinese lidar companies, not giving China’s national champion the green light to infiltrate our military,” Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a vocal congressional critic of China, posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.Senator Rick Scott, also of Florida, called on the Pentagon to “immediately reverse the decision”, condemning it as “nothing but a gift…
This month, GOP operatives and others close to Donald Trump have grown increasingly nervous over trends they’ve seen in recent private polling data produced by different Republican organizations and conservative allies. It’s not just the swing-state polling or the national surveys that are causing distress lately. The anxiety-spiking numbers are coming out of Trump strongholds like Ohio and Florida, according to three GOP sources, including two people close to the former president, who have reviewed the private polls. “They’re looking worse than they should,” one Republican operative who has seen the internal data tells Rolling Stone. “Donald Trump is not…
A fed-up California Democratic state senator has revealed she is jumping ship to the Republican Party because her now-former party has become unrecognizable under its current leadership and policies. State Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil, a longtime Democrat, broke news of her defection late Thursday, saying the values she shared with the Democratic Party when she was elected in 2022 have shifted. “In the past two years that I’ve been working in the Senate, I have not recognized the party that I belong to,” the lawmaker said during an appearance on Fox News. “The Democratic Party is not the party that I…