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The Senate killed a once-promising $78 billion tax package on Thursday in the chamber’s last vote before lawmakers headed out of Washington for August recess. The bill went down in a vote of 48-44, with the vast majority of Republicans, one Democrat and two independents voting against a procedural motion to limit debate on the measure, which includes an expansion of family tax credits and would revive a trio of lapsed business breaks. It needed 60 senators in favor to succeed. The vote came a full six months after the House passed the legislation by an overwhelming bipartisan vote of…
ATLANTA — Former President Trump picked a new fight with Georgia’s Republican governor as he campaigned in the key swing state, where he’s looking to avenge his 2020 loss — a defeat he continues to blame on GOP officials based on his false claims of election fraud. Before a rally in Atlanta on Saturday, Trump posted on his social media site that Gov. Brian Kemp should be “fighting Crime, not fighting Unity and the Republican Party.” He also criticized the governor’s wife, Marty Kemp, for saying she would write in her husband’s name for president this fall instead of voting for…
reuters — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump proposed to debate Democratic U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Fox News on September 4, and the Harris campaign said Trump is trying to back out of a debate that had been set to run on ABC. The rules would be similar to the first debate with President Joe Biden, who has since dropped his reelection bid, Trump said in a post on Truth Social late Friday. But this time it would have a “full arena audience” and take place in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, Trump said. Trump and Biden had agreed…
Donald Trump has threatened to skip any debate with Kamala Harris unless it is hosted by Fox News. The former U.S. president declared he is pulling out of the scheduled ABC debate with Vice President Harris in September and instead wants her to face him on a more MAGA-friendly network, a demand Harris has firmly rejected. Later, in a Truth Social post, Trump launched a harsh critique of the Vice President, questioning her ‘mental capacity’ and raising doubts about her ability to handle such a debate. Kamala Harris arriving for an event honoring National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Former US…
2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), campaigned at a rally in Atlanta. The former president criticized his new rival, Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Kamala Harris, about issues such as immigration and transgenderism and said, “she’s a dumb version of Bernie Sanders and, actually, further left than him.” Vice President Harris became the presumptive nominee soon after President Biden withdrew from the presidential race. Mr. Trump also criticized Georgia Republican officials, Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, over the 2020 election results, calling Gov. Kemp “disloyal” about the matter. close…
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans weren’t ready for former President Donald Trump to wade into the realm of Vice President Kamala Harris’ race and ethnicity while speaking Wednesday to a room of Black journalists.But Trump did. And now the GOP is dealing with the fallout. In Chicago, Trump told attendees of a National Association of Black Journalists convention that Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, was “Indian all the way” until “she became a Black person” in recent years. (Harris’ mother is Indian and originally from India, her father is Black and originally from Jamaica.)So Raw Story took Trump’s claim to…
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan voters could play a major role in choosing who the next president will be — and they could also determine which major party controls Congress in 2025. Party primaries Tuesday for an open U.S. Senate seat and two congressional races in the battleground state will set the stage for November.Democratic U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin has the inside track for her party’s nomination to the Senate against a challenge from a television actor. Former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers has the endorsement of former President Donald Trump and the financial backing of national Republicans in the race for…
The first televised presidential debate took place in 1960 between Richard Nixon and John F Kennedy.Since 1987, they have been organised by the Commission on Presidential Debates, which is sponsored by both parties.But for the first time in nearly four decades, the commission will play no part, leaving it up to the campaigns to reach an agreement.If ABC goes ahead with the broadcast without Trump, there is the prospect of an empty chair at the debate.“He can say he won’t do the ABC debate, the optics of pulling out of that debate looks terrible,” Christopher Galdieri, an associate professor of…
US Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump exchanged insults on Saturday over a prolonged dispute regarding the timing and location of their debate.The former president has refused to commit to the previously scheduled September 10 debate hosted by ABC News. Instead, he has been pressuring Harris, the de facto Democratic presidential nominee, to agree to an earlier debate on Trump-friendly Fox News.On Friday, Trump announced on Truth Social that he had arranged with Fox News to hold a debate on September 4, featuring Fox News moderators and a full audience.In response, the Harris campaign mocked Trump…
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