Trump and Harris in final stages of preparation for crucial presidential debate in tight race: Live updates

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are currently neck-and-neck in the polls ahead of their crucial first presidential debate on ABC News on Tuesday, with a New York Times/Siena College survey placing the former president ahead of the vice president by a single point on 48 per cent to 47 per cent.

The Republican has meanwhile accused his Democratic rival of hiding from the media.

“The last thing we need for our Nation in Decline is another President who is not smart enough to answer reporters [sic] questions,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform, also promoting a spurious warning from Tucker Carlson about voter fraud in Pennsylvania, seemingly preparing the ground for contesting his ultimate defeat in November’s election.

Trump spent the weekend rallying his supporters in Mosinee, Wisconsin, his first visit to a deep red, rural region of a swing state expected to play a major role in determining the next occupant of the White House.

He used the event to tease the idea of expanding the 25th Amendment to include the possibility of removing a vice president, lied about transgender surgery and warned the mass deporation of illegal immigrants would be “a bloody story”.

Key Points

• Donald Trump and Kamala Harris ‘neck-and-neck’ in latest poll

• Trump accuses Harris of hiding from media and revives election fraud narrative

• Harris hits out at Trump’s Taliban deal as Republicans release damning report on Afghanistan withdrawal

• Republican says press will give Harris debate win even if he ‘destroys’ her

• Trial to begin over Texas ‘Trump Train’ ambush of Biden-Harris campaign bus during 2020 election

Ex-Republican lawmaker Adam Kinzinger would ‘certainly’ join Harris’s Cabinet

16:00 , Joe Sommerlad

The former Illinois representative, who, like Liz Cheney, was effectively drummed out of the Republican Party over his opposition to Trump in the wake of the Capitol riot, has told The Los Angeles Times that he would happily serve in a future Kamala Harris administration.

“I love defense. I love foreign policy. And I think that’s where she’s frankly shown she’s a little more hawkish than Democrats have been, so that would be a good area to bring a standard Republican in,” Kinzinger said at the Toronto International Film Festival, where he is a promoting a new documentary about his break with the GOP entitled The Last Republican.

“I want her to win. I want her to succeed. The most important issue that this country is facing, which doesn’t get enough attention to me, is Ukraine’s ability to defend itself against a Russian invasion. She’s the best counter for that, and I would love to help her in any way achieve that goal.”

Veteran Tulsi Gabbard ‘sickened’ by Harris saying she was ‘honored’ to have Dick Cheney’s endorsement

15:40 , Joe Sommerlad

Gabbard, the former soldier, Hawaii representative and 2020 Democratic presidential contender, who has since gone full-MAGA and is said to be helping Donald Trump with his debate preparations, has been attacking Kamala Harris for accepting Dick Cheney’s endorsement.

Speaking at an event in Colorado Springs with Tucker Carlson on Friday evening, Gabbard told her audience: “I have a very simple message for my Democrat friends, my independent friends, those who may not be sure about who they’re voting for in this election, Dick Cheney has just made the choice very clear, a vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for Dick Cheney, the architect of everything that has gone wrong in the Middle East for the last few decades.

“Her [Harris’s] response to the Dick Cheney announcement today was that she was honored to have his endorsement, and we got military veterans in the house?

“Got a lot of you who probably served in the Middle East like I did, and so it sickened me, Tucker, to read those words today from Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, and Kamala Harris because we have people who we care very much about who were killed in those wars because of Dick Cheney.”

Harris talks small business support and cost of living on Rickey Smiley Morning Show

15:20 , Joe Sommerlad

The Democratic presidential contender called into the nationally-syndicated drivetime morning show earlier today, hoping to reach its considerable audience with her plans to encourage entrepreneurship and help working families.

You can hear her interview in full below.

Meet the man who pretends to be Trump for Harris’s debate prep

15:00 , Joe Sommerlad

He helped Hillary Clinton prepare for her infamous clashes with Donald Trump in 2016 and now he’s helping Kamala Harris do the same.

Here’s Richard Hall on Philippe Reines, the “malevolent George Costanza” impersonating Trump in Harris’s debate preparations.

Meet the man who pretends to be Trump for Kamala Harris’s debate prep

‘Let Trump be Trump’: Inside Harris’s unconventional debate prep

14:30 , Joe Sommerlad

“It can’t be just Biden 2.0 – it’s got to be Harris 1.0,” one Democratic strategist tells Andrew Feinberg as he digs into the debate preparation being done by the Kamala campaign and how it contrasts with her predecessor’s.

‘She needs to let Trump be Trump’: Inside Kamala Harris’s unconventional debate prep

Kimberly Guilfoyle forced to ask audience to clap as MAGA speech falls flat

14:05 , Joe Sommerlad

Yeesh. This is almost as bad as RFK Jr’s latest tortured upload.

Here’s more on Don Jr’s girlfriend having to request her own applause from Gustaf Kilander.

Kimberly Guilfoyle forced to ask audience to clap as awkward speech falls flat

Trial to begin over Texas ‘Trump Train’ ambush of Biden-Harris campaign bus during 2020 election

13:45 , Joe Sommerlad

A jury trial opens in Austin, Texas, today seeking to hold a number of Trump supporters to account for allegedly ambushing a Biden-Harris campaign bus on a state highway during the 2020 presidential election.

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit claim they were terrorised and intimidated when their bus was swarmed by a “Trump Train” convoy of at least 40 vehicles flying “Make America Great Again” banners for more than 90 minutes in what the suit describes as a “madcap game of highway ‘chicken’”.

The plaintiffs are seeking punitive damages under both Texas law and the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, a federal statute intended to shut down political violence and voter intimidation.

Trump says he will vote to legalize marijuana in Florida: ‘It’s time to end needless arrests’

13:25 , Joe Sommerlad

James Liddell has more on the Republican presidential nominee’s liberal position on legalising recreational cannabis in his adopted home state, which puts him at odds with his on-off foe Ron DeSantis, for one.

Trump says he will vote to legalize marijuana in Florida to ‘end needless arrests’

Harris hits out at Trump’s Taliban deal as Republicans release damning report on Afghanistan withdrawal

13:05 , Joe Sommerlad

Kamala Harris’s campaign has hit out at Donald Trump’s deal with the Taliban in retaliation to the damning Republican report on the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.

A day before the first presidential debate, House Republicans have released a scathing report into the US exit from Afghanistan in August 2021, which left behind an estimated 100,000 partners of the US government while 13 American soldiers and 170 civilians were killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul.

The report solely blames the Biden-Harris administration’s “failure to plan for all contingencies” for the disaster but Harris’s campaign has been quick to remind voters how Trump “cut a bad deal” with the Taliban in 2020.

Rhian Lubin reports.

Harris attacks Trump’s Taliban deal as Republicans release Afghan withdrawal report

Harris campaign unveils new debate day Trump attack ad to air on Fox News

12:45 , Joe Sommerlad

“Take it from the people who know him best: Donald Trump is a danger to our troops and our democracy.”

So rumbles the narration in Harris’s new attack ad before cutting to clips of former Trump Cabinet members Mike Pence, Mark Esper, John Bolton and Mark Milley slamming him.

You can watch it for yourself below.

Liz Cheney torches Haley over support for Trump

12:25 , Joe Sommerlad

The former Wyoming representative, a pariah to the MAGA wing of the GOP since chairing the House January 6 committee, is ready to force a reckoning for those Republicans, like the aforementioned Haley, who have come around to supporting Trump for what she argues are purely political reasons.

Here she is on ABC’s This Week yesterday telling Jonathan Karl about her decision to come out for Kamala Harris…

…and here’s John Bowden on her attack on Haley and her careerist ilk.

Liz Cheney torches Nikki Haley over support for Donald Trump

Nikki Haley says Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’ slur is ‘not helpful’

12:05 , Joe Sommerlad

On CBS’s Face the Nation yesterday, the former South Carolina governor and US ambassador to the UN – briefly heralded as an icon of anti-Trump resistance during the primaries before falling laughably in line – launched into a fresh attack on the candidate’s running mate.

“It is not helpful to talk about whether women have children or whether they don’t,” Haley told Margaret Brennan.

“It’s not helpful to say any of those things that are personality-driven, or anything else.”

This was a particularly classic exchange from the same interview:

Here’s more from Gustaf Kilander.

Nikki Haley says JD Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’ slur is ‘not helpful’

Hillbilly Elegy director Ron Howard ‘surprised and disappointed’ by JD Vance

11:45 , Joe Sommerlad

Asked about his 2020 Netflix adaptation of Trump’s running mate’s misery memoir at the Toronto International Film Festival, the veteran moviemaker explained: “We didn’t talk a lot of politics when we were making the movie because I was interested in his upbringing and that survival tale. That’s what we mostly focused on.

“However, based on the conversations that we had during that time, I just have to say I’m very surprised and disappointed by much of the rhetoric that I’m reading and hearing. People do change, and I assume that’s the case. Well, it’s on record.”

Here’s more from Jacob Stolworthy.

Hillbilly Elegy director Ron Howard hits out at ‘disappointing’ JD Vance

RFK Jr shows off ‘dance moves’ in lame Amber Rose social media skit

11:25 , Joe Sommerlad

The former independent candidate turned Trump supplicant has inflicted some disturbing imagery on the electorate in recent months, from the dead bear cub to the chainsawed whale’s head tied to the roof of his car, but this one takes the cake.

An absolutely excruciating watch for your Monday morning. Truly awful.

George W Bush reveals his decision on 2024 presidential endorsement

11:05 , Joe Sommerlad

The 43rd president has said he will not be joining his former vice president Dick Cheney in backing Kamala Harris in November, but nor will he placing an X beside Donald Trump’s name on his ballot sheet come November 5.

Graeme Massie has this on Dubya’s decision to sit on the fence.

George W Bush reveals his decision on 2024 endorsement after Cheney snubbed Trump

Melania complains about Trump’s 2020 defeat and ‘efforts to silence my husband’ in latest book plug

10:45 , Joe Sommerlad

The former first lady is finally venturing into the election race, with less than two months to go until the big day, although seemingly only in the hope of enriching herself further through the sale of a costly new ghostwritten memoir.

Here’s more on Melania from James Liddell.

Melania Trump complains about attempts to ‘silence’ husband in new video

Trump falsely claims children are being forced into gender transition surgery

10:25 , Joe Sommerlad

Speaking in Mosinee, Trump teased the idea of expanding the 25th Amendment to include the possibility of removing a vice president and warned that the mass deporation of illegal immigrants on his watch would be “a bloody story”, a particularly disturbing turn of phrase to throw around so casually.

Even more absurdly, he suggested that children in American schools are being forced to undergo “brutal” gender transition surgery against their will, an utterly hysterical claim for which his own campaign team could provide no evidence whatsoever because it is not actually happening.

Here’s Gustaf Kilander on that particular lie.

Trump falsely claims children are being forced into gender transition ops at school

Trump says media will give Harris debate win even if he ‘destroys’ her

10:05 , Joe Sommerlad

The Republican spent the weekend rallying his supporters in Mosinee, Wisconsin, his first visit to a deep red, mostly rural region of a swing state that could play a major role in determining the next occupant of the White House.

Trump used the event to get his excuses in early regarding the debate, claiming the media will proclaim Harris the winner however it actually plays out.

Graig Graziosi has this report.

Trump says media will give Harris debate win even if he ‘destroys’ her

Trump and Harris ‘neck-and-neck’ heading into crucial debate, new poll finds

09:45 , Joe Sommerlad

The candidates are currently neck-and-neck in the polls, according to a new New York Times/Siena College survey that puts the former president a single point ahead of the current vice president on 48 per cent to 47 per cent.

Here’s Graeme Massie’s report and analysis.

Harris and Trump ‘neck and neck’ heading into crucial debate, says new poll

Truth Social: Trump accuses Harris of hiding from media and revives election fraud narrative

09:25 , Joe Sommerlad

Good morning!

Donald Trump has accused Democratic rival Kamala Harris of hiding from the media ahead of their all-important first presidential debate on ABC News on Tuesday evening.

“The last thing we need for our Nation in Decline is another President who is not smart enough to answer reporters [sic] questions,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Trump has also been busy promoting a spurious warning from Tucker Carlson about voter fraud in Pennsylvania, seemingly preparing the ground for contesting his ultimate defeat in November’s election.

“The 2024 Election, where Votes have just started being cast, will be under the closest professional scrutiny and, WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again,” he froths in another post.

“We cannot let our Country further devolve into a Third World Nation, AND WE WON’T!”

He has further been announcing his support for the legalization of marijuana as a means to ending “needless arrests and incarcerations”, which sounds almost like an honest to goodness policy.

The Gossip Girl-like dynamics of the Supreme Court

09:00 , Ariana Baio

There is perhaps no branch of government that fosters secrecy or harbors sneaky resentment to a degree even Gossip Girl herself would be astonished with, than the Supreme Court.

The highest court in the land has purposefully cast an opaque fog over its internal workings for decades, but in this past term, it was clear from their opinions that there was drama behind the scenes.

At the center of that is Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

If the court itself is Gossip Girl then Barrett is season two Jenny Humphrey. That’s to say, she’s breaking ranks with her OG squad and finding her own voice – although with less goth eyeliner.

The Gossip Girl-like dynamics of the Supreme Court

Kimberly Guilfoyle forced to ask audience to clap as awkward speech falls flat

08:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Kimberly Guilfoyle eventually had to ask her audience at the Florida Republican Party annual dinner to clap for her as her awkward speech fell flat in front of an audience of allies.

It was a moment reminiscent of Jeb Bush’s “please clap” moment during the 2016 campaign.

Guilfoyle, the fiancé of Donald Trump Jr, was speaking at the dinner in Hollywood, Florida when she shared her hope that Democrats would lose seats in Congress and be forced to give up control of the White House.

Kimberly Guilfoyle forced to ask audience to clap as awkward speech falls flat

Warnock responds to JD Vance’s comments on Georgia shooting: Guns make us all ‘sitting ducks’

07:00 , John Bowden

One of Georgia’s senators has responded to Republican vice presidential contender JD Vance after he referred to school shootings as a regrettable “fact of life” in modern society.

Raphael Warnock, who won a six-year term in 2022 after defeating a Republican challenger to secure his first full term in office, appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday after a shooting in his state claimed the lives of two students and two teachers at a high school. Nine others were injured.

He was asked about the comments by Vance, which ignited a media firestorm and were seized upon by Kamala Harris’s campaign as the latest sign of Republicans’ refusal to address such horrific attacks in American schools. The Ohio senator, speaking at a rally in Arizona, lamented, “I don’t like that this is a fact of life” after the shooting took place last week.

Warnock responds to JD Vance’s shooting comments: Guns make us all ‘sitting ducks’

Trump’s psychologist niece says he’s ‘dementing’ in wake of ‘gibberish’ answer on childcare question

06:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Mary Trump, the niece of Donald Trump, has shared her analysis that the former president’s mental health is deteriorating after he struggled to answer a question on childcare.

In a piece on Substack on Sunday, the psychologist argued that Trump is “dementing,” citing his appearance at the Economic Club of New York last week, where he was asked what type of legislation he would push to make childcare affordable.

“Well, I would do that, and we’re sitting down, I was somebody, we had Senator Marco Rubio, and my daughter Ivanka was so impactful on that issue,” Trump began his long, rambling answer. “It’s a very important issue, but I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about that because look, childcare is childcare. There’s something, you have to have it in this country, you have to have it.”

He went on to say that his proposed tariffs on imports would generate more than enough money to pay for childcare, but he did not explain what his actual policy would look like.

Trump’s psychologist niece says he’s ‘dementing’ in wake of ‘gibberish’ answer

Nikki Haley says JD Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’ slur is ‘not helpful’

05:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Former Trump UN Ambassador Nikki Haley acknowledged during a Sunday interview that JD Vance’s comments about “childless cat ladies” are not “helpful.”

Vance has faced criticism for a number of unearthed comments from his past, most notably for telling Fox News host Tucker Carlson in 2021 that the US was being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”

“It’s just a basic fact — you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC [Alexandria Ocasio Cortez] — the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,” he said. “And how does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”

Harris has two stepchildren and Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, adopted twins in August 2021.

Nikki Haley says JD Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’ slur is ‘not helpful’

Trump falsely claims children being forced into gender transition ops at school in rambling fantasy-filled rally speech

04:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Donald Trump falsely claimed yet again that children are the subject of “brutal” gender operations at schools across the US.

“Kamala supports states being able to take minor children and perform sex change operations, take them away from their parents, perform sex change operations, and send them back home,” Trump said in Mosinee, Wisconsin on Saturday afternoon.

“Can you imagine you’re a parent and your son leaves the house and you say, ‘Jimmy, I love you so much. Go have a good day in school’ and your son comes back with a brutal operation,” he added. “Can you even imagine this? What the hell is wrong with our country?”

There’s no evidence this has ever happened or been planned. In states where gender-affirming surgery is legal for people under the age of 18, parental consent is required.

Trump falsely claims children are being forced into gender transition ops at school

John Fetterman says Joe Biden would have beaten Donald Trump again

03:00 , John Bowden

John Fetterman, one of Joe Biden’s loudest defenders during calls from within his own party to step down, still believes that the incumbent president could have beaten Donald Trump a second time.

The freshman senator from Pennsylvania elected in 2022, was one of the many Democrats who refused to call for Biden to step aside in the wake of a whispery, wandering performance at a June debate with Trump in Atlanta.

But Fetterman, who suffered a stroke and battled his own issues with speech impairments in the final days of his winning 2022 campaign, took things a step further as he suggested that Biden’s critics in the Democratic Party were helping Trump win — a charge that seemed at odds with polling that showed Biden behind the former president long before the outpouring of Democratic whinging began.

John Fetterman says Joe Biden would have beaten Donald Trump again

Walz touts abiding support for LGBTQ+ rights: ‘Why would I stop anybody else from marrying the person they love?’

02:00 , Eric Garcia

On Saturday Minnesota Governor Tim Walz took a break from campaigning in swing states to address the largest pro-LGBTQ+ rights group in the country about his first run for Congress in 2006 in a Republican district when he was asked about whether he supported civil unions for gay couples.

“I said, ‘sure, if that’s your thing,’” Walz told attendees at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual dinner on Saturday evening. “But I said, my marriage, my wife, Gwen is the most important thing in my life. I love her deeply. Why would I stop anybody else from marrying the person they love? That makes no sense.”

At the time, many Democrats had run away from supporting same-sex marriage and had a tenuous relationship with gay rights at best. Two years before, George W Bush had won re-election by supporting a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman. Shortly after, Walz won his race in 2006 and people praised him for winning despite supporting abortion rights and same-sex marriage.

Walz touts his record supporting LGBTQ+ rights in difficult times

Cheney explains her decision to back Harris: ‘The right vote to make this time around’

01:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Liz Cheney, the former Republican congresswoman, appeared on ABC’s This Week on Sunday to speak about her decision to back Kamala Harris, warning of an “unrecoverable catastrophe” if former President Donald Trump returns to the White House.

“I’ve been voting for 40 years. My first vote I ever cast was for Ronald Reagan in 1984. I’ve never voted for a Democrat and it tells you, I think, the stakes in this election,” she said.

She urged voters to listen to Harris “talk about her vision for this country, her vision for the future … If you’re talking about a national security set of issues, and you care about America’s leadership role in the world, a vote for Vice President Harris is the right vote to make this time around.”

Harris and Walz set for ‘New Way Forward’ swing state tour after ABC debate

Monday 9 September 2024 00:00 , Andrew Feinberg

Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will follow up on Harris’s Tuesday face-off against Donald Trump by embarking on a whirlwind tour of swing states in hopes of seizing momentum off her debate performance this week.

The Harris-Walz campaign says the vice president and her running-mate will criss-cross the country following Tuesday night’s debate to make appearances in each individual media market in every single swing state over a four-day period next week.

The candidates’ spouses, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz, will also make a series of appearances in support of the campaign in the coming days.

Harris and Walz set for ‘New Way Forward’ swing state tour after ABC debate

Kimberly Guilfoyle forced to ask audience to clap as awkward speech falls flat

Sunday 8 September 2024 23:30 , Gustaf Kilander

Kimberly Guilfoyle eventually had to ask her audience at the Florida Republican Party annual dinner to clap for her as her awkward speech fell flat in front of an audience of allies.

It was a moment reminiscent of Jeb Bush’s “please clap” moment during the 2016 campaign.

Guilfoyle, the fiancé of Donald Trump Jr, was speaking at the dinner in Hollywood, Florida when she shared her hope that Democrats would lose seats in Congress and be forced to give up control of the White House.

Kimberly Guilfoyle forced to ask audience to clap as awkward speech falls flat

New Mexico governor to campaign for Harris in Virginia ahead of debate

Sunday 8 September 2024 23:00 , Gustaf Kilander

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham will campaign for the Harris-Walz team in Northern Virginia on Monday ahead of Tuesday’s debate.

There she will hold “fireside chats” to “highlight the stark contrast between Vice President Harris’ vision for a New Way Forward and Trump’s Project 2025 agenda,” the Harris campaign said in an advisory.

Lujan Grisham will take part in a Women for Harris event to speak about abortion rights and a Latinos con Harris-Walz event where she’ll “highlight how Trump’s Project 2025 would make life harder and more expensive for Latino families in Virginia and across the country,” the campaign added.

Harris says she’s ‘ready’ for debate

Sunday 8 September 2024 22:32 , Andrew Feinberg

The vice president, wearing all black, a hat, and a scarf, and the Second Gentleman, wearing a Harris/Walz sweatshirt, walked past reporters as part of what took on the feel of an impromptu procession, preceded by and followed by aides and security personnel both on foot and in vehicles.

At first, she did not answer questions about how she would respond to Trump at their upcoming debate and said “thank you” in the reporters’ direction.

The Independent asked if she is ready for the debate. The vice president turned, made a thumbs-up gesture up and replied: “Ready!”

Warnock responds to JD Vance’s comments on Georgia shooting: Guns make us all ‘sitting ducks’

Sunday 8 September 2024 22:30 , John Bowden

One of Georgia’s senators has responded to Republican vice presidential contender JD Vance after he referred to school shootings as a regrettable “fact of life” in modern society.

Raphael Warnock, who won a six-year term in 2022 after defeating a Republican challenger to secure his first full term in office, appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday after a shooting in his state claimed the lives of two students and two teachers at a high school. Nine others were injured.

He was asked about the comments by Vance, which ignited a media firestorm and were seized upon by Kamala Harris’s campaign as the latest sign of Republicans’ refusal to address such horrific attacks in American schools. The Ohio senator, speaking at a rally in Arizona, lamented, “I don’t like that this is a fact of life” after the shooting took place last week.

Warnock responds to JD Vance’s shooting comments: Guns make us all ‘sitting ducks’

Liz Cheney torches Nikki Haley over support for Donald Trump

Sunday 8 September 2024 22:00 , John Bowden

Liz Cheney is ready to force a reckoning for those Republicans who have come around to support Donald Trump for what she says are purely political reasons.

Anti-Trump Republicans including Cheney have become increasingly vocal in the past few months as Kamala Harris has ascended to the top of the Democratic ticket; emboldened by the new vigor her party has found in her wake. Trump, now running for the presidency for a third time, is poised to either pull off a massive political comeback or suffer his second defeat in as many presidential election cycles — to say nothing of the defeats his hand-picked candidates suffered in 2022’s midterms.

His enemies on the right, despite his dominating victory in the Republican primary earlier this year, still smell blood in the water and are now looking to Harris to deal an electoral deathblow this November.

Liz Cheney torches Nikki Haley over support for Donald Trump

NC gov says if Harris wins his state, she wins the White House

Sunday 8 September 2024 21:30 , Gustaf Kilander

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, who was in the race to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate before asking that he not be considered, told CBS’s Face the Nation that if Harris wins his state, she’ll win the White House.

The last time a Democrat won the Tar Heel state was in 2008, when Barack Obama won it for the Democrats for the first time since Jimmy Carter ran in 1976.

Cooper told CBS that if Harris wins North Carolina, “she is the next president of the United States.”

“It’s close here in North Carolina. It always is,” he added. “This was Biden-Harris’s closest loss in 2020, only 1.3%. So the fact that Kamala Harris, as Vice President of the United States, has been to North Carolina 17 times shows that she cares about our state.”

“She’s got a plan to lower costs for North Carolinians, particularly in this childcare arena, drug pricing. We’re excited about the economic plan that she has … and I think North Carolinians will respond to it,” the governor said.

“When we continue to get this information out to the American public, and to people here in North Carolina, that Kamala Harris has an economic plan that’s going to help lower the cost for everyday people, that’s going to help families thrive, that is going to protect women’s reproductive freedom. I think at the end of the day, that’s going to be what works here,” he added.

Harris campaign touts Republican support

Sunday 8 September 2024 21:00 , Gustaf Kilander

The Harris campaign noted in a press release on Sunday the amount of support from Republicans the vice president has received, such as from former Vice President Dick Cheney, his daughter, former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, her former January 6 Select Committee colleague Adam Kinzinger, former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan, former Trump White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, and former Mike Pence advisor Olivia Troye.

They added that Harris has the support of more than 230 alumni of George W Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney.

“As hundreds of Republican leaders have already realized, Vice President Harris is offering a New Way Forward for all Americans who reject Donald Trump’s threats to our freedom and his dangerous Project 2025 agenda,” the campaign said. “Between now and Election Day, Team Harris-Walz will continue making the case to conservative, independent, and moderate voters that they have the choice to put their country and democracy first and leave Donald Trump’s toxic chaos and division behind.”

‘The Republicans have nominated someone who is depraved,’ Cheney says

Sunday 8 September 2024 20:30 , Gustaf Kilander

Harris and Trump ‘neck and neck’ heading into crucial debate, says new poll

Sunday 8 September 2024 20:00 , Graeme Massie

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are running neck and neck ahead of this week’s high-stakes presidential debate, according to a new poll.

The vice president and her Republican rival are separated by just one point days before they take the debate stage in Pittsburgh, the poll by The New York Times/Siena College found.

The poll was taken between September 3 and September 6 and found 47 percent of likely voters backing Harris. Meanwhile, 48 percent of likely voters backed Trump in the poll.

Tuesday night’s ABC News debate will be the first for Harris but the second for Trump after he took on Joe Biden in June.

Harris and Trump ‘neck and neck’ heading into crucial debate, says new poll

VIDEO: Harris campaign unveils ‘New Way Forward’ ad ahead of debate with Trump

Sunday 8 September 2024 19:30 , Reann Philogene

The Gossip Girl-like dynamics of the Supreme Court

Sunday 8 September 2024 19:00 , Ariana Baio

There is perhaps no branch of government that fosters secrecy or harbors sneaky resentment to a degree even Gossip Girl herself would be astonished with, than the Supreme Court.

The highest court in the land has purposefully cast an opaque fog over its internal workings for decades, but in this past term, it was clear from their opinions that there was drama behind the scenes.

At the center of that is Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

If the court itself is Gossip Girl then Barrett is season two Jenny Humphrey. That’s to say, she’s breaking ranks with her OG squad and finding her own voice – although with less goth eyeliner.

The Gossip Girl-like dynamics of the Supreme Court

Cheney explains why she backs Harris

Sunday 8 September 2024 18:44 , Gustaf Kilander

Harris turns to her favorite foods in effort to show a more private side and connect with voters

Sunday 8 September 2024 18:30 , AP

One of the biggest challenges for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in the final stretch of the campaign is introducing herself to voters before her Republican rival, Donald Trump, has a chance to define her.

Until her sudden election to the top of the Democratic ticket this summer, Harris was still a somewhat unknown figure in national politics, driven in part by her aversion to opening up and embracing the spotlight. And since she’s become the nominee, Republicans have criticized Harris for not doing many interviews or giving enough specifics on her policy plans.

But the vice president is sharing personal details about her childhood, cooking and food to show her more private side.

Harris turns to her favorite foods in effort to connect with voters