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Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign announced Friday that it raised $361 million in August, dwarfing the $130 million the Trump campaign says it raised during the same period.By nearly tripling Donald Trump’s fundraising, Harris opened up a $109 million cash advantage, leaving the VP with a considerable financial edge as the 2024 campaign enters the home stretch. The vice president’s campaign reported $404 million on hand, while Trump’s reported $295 million.Unlike typical campaign cycles, when more money tends to roll in as enthusiasm builds closer to Election Day, Trump’s fundraising has wilted in recent weeks. The $130 million his campaign…

Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories NPR identified two Trump campaign staffers involved in an altercation at Arlington National Cemetery last week. They, according to a source, are deputy campaign manager Justin Caporale and Michel Picard, a member of Trump’s advance team. Those staffers had a verbal and physical confrontation with a cemetery official who tried to stop them from taking photos and videos in Section 60, a restricted area where many casualties…

EXCLUSIVE – LAS VEGAS – Sen. Steve Daines of Montana, the chair of the Senate Republicans’ campaign committee, is making his pitch to top dollar donors and influential conservative activists in order to remedy the cash disparity between GOP campaigns and those of Democrats.”We need your help to close the fundraising gap,” the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) chair emphasized as he addressed the crowd at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership meeting. “We have the right candidates. Let’s get them the resources they need to win.”Minutes earlier, in an interview with Fox News Digital, Daines pointed to the GOP’s fundraising…

Senate Republicans have a feeling that the battle to succeed Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is just beginning and that more contenders will make last-minute bids for the role after the general election in November. One name that continues to be tossed around is that of Steve Daines, R-Mont., head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), who has notably refused to rule out the possibility of running for the top Senate GOP role. A source with knowledge told Fox News Digital that earlier in the year, after McConnell’s shock February announcement that he would not seek another term as leader, former President…

Mak­ing good on yes­ter­day’s threat to go to court to under­mine pub­lic con­fi­dence in Wash­ing­ton’s elec­tions after they did­n’t get the result they want­ed in a super close statewide race, the Wash­ing­ton State Repub­li­can Par­ty today sued King Coun­ty Direc­tor of Elec­tions Julie Wise, ask­ing for injunc­tive relief to bar the use of a tool called Omni­Page that allows vot­ers to fix issues with their ballots.The law­suit, filed by Repub­li­can attor­ney Joel Ard in Sno­homish Coun­ty Supe­ri­or Court, bizarrely argues that the state par­ty’s endorsed can­di­date for Com­mis­sion­er of Pub­lic Lands Sue Kuehl Ped­er­son would have advanced to the Novem­ber…

Vice President Kamala Harris will beat former President Donald Trump this November, says the historian who successfully predicted 9 out of 10 presidential elections since 1984.”Kamala Harris will be the next president of the United States, at least that’s my prediction for the outcome of this race,” Allan Lichtman, a presidential historian at American University, told The New York Times in a video interview that aired on Thursday.Lichtman, whose “Keys to the White House” prediction model consists of 13 true-or-false questions, said in the interview that eight keys were in Harris’ favor.Trump, Lichtman said, had three keys going for him…

Seemingly without a hint of irony, Karoline Leavitt — who is former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign spokesperson — recently said that defendants found guilty by a jury of their peers should be incarcerated. Leavitt’s remark was in response to a New York Times story about a man who received clemency from Trump after spending nearly three decades in jail following a 1993 murder conviction. The defendant, Jaime A. Davidson, got his pardon during the former president’s lame-duck period in early 2021 just before he left the White House. Despite being convicted for playing a role in orchestrating a robbery…

PHOENIX — A Senate panel is launching an investigation into why the Citizens Clean Elections Commission won’t let the Green Party nominee for U.S. Senate participate in an upcoming televised debate.Sen. Jake Hoffman, who chairs the Republican-controlled Government Committee, is demanding answers about what he said is a new rule. He said it says only candidates who pick up the support of at least 1% of all votes cast in all primaries can participate in the general election debate for statewide and federal races.That would total about 12,400 votes in the race for the U.S. Senate. But Eduardo Quintana tallied…

The two Trump campaign staffers accused of being involved in a dispute with an Arlington National Cemetery official have been identified, according to a report from NPR.The broadcaster broke the allegations last week, revealing–without identifying–two Trump staffers got into a physical and verbal altercation with an Arlington employee who told them they couldn’t take photos in the cemetery’s Section 60.The staffers involved in the incident were identified by a source Thursday as Justin Caporale, a deputy campaign manager, and Michel Picard, a member of the Republican nominee’s advance team.Caporale previously worked as an aide to former First Lady Melania Trump…

In the wake of the Wash­ing­ton State Repub­li­can Par­ty’s poor per­for­mance in the 2022 midterms, in which it lost a net of one con­gres­sion­al seat, one state Sen­ate seat, and one state House seat, while fail­ing to even get a can­di­date through to the gen­er­al elec­tion against recent­ly appoint­ed Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sec­re­tary of State Steve Hobbs, new chair Jim Walsh took over the par­ty office vow­ing that 2024 would be different. Walsh, an elect­ed offi­cial him­self, penned an August 2023 let­ter to Repub­li­can donors, activists, and precinct com­mit­tee offi­cers in which he declared: “There are enough votes in East­ern Wash­ing­ton to over­turn…