Kamala Harris

  • OPINION: Does corruption affect support for democracy?

    As we near the end of a “mega election” year in which as many as 2 billion people will cast ballots globally, concerns about the health of democracy are growing. Among the most frequently cited threats to democratic systems are increased discontent with political parties, the spread of disinformation, despair about the future, and a…

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  • There has been a furious backlash among staff at The Washington Post following the decision to stop endorsing presidential candidates at elections. The staff union at the newspaper has released a statement, saying they are “deeply concerned” about the decision, particularly given “the role of an editorial board” is, in part, to “endorse candidates to…

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  • Trump again uses woman’s name to refer to gay male journalist

    Donald Trump has again referred to a gay CNN journalist with a woman’s name. He first referred to CNN anchor Anderson Cooper – one of the most prominent openly gay journalists in the US – as “Allison Cooper” in a post on social media on Friday morning. He followed this up during a rally on…

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  • Why Michigan is so important – and why Harris and Trump are there

    With about 8.4 million registered voters and 15 electoral college votes of the 270 needed to win, Michigan is one of seven competitive states that will decide the election. For Kamala Harris, it’s part of the so-called “Blue Wall”, which is considered the Democrats’ best chance of winning, along with Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Donald Trump…

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  • Queen Bey has returned the favor. Almost seven months after Vice President Kamala Harris cheered on Beyoncé’s newly released album, “Cowboy Carter,” saying she had “redefined a genre and reclaimed country music’s Black roots,” the global superstar said it was time for “America to sing a new song” and elect Harris. On Friday, Beyoncé, who was joined by singer and…

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  • Harris campaign: Obama finding it difficult with young black voters

    If there’s a prototypical Kamala Harris voter it might seem to be Charles Johnson, a 23-year-old Black college student. Johnson is informed and politically engaged; he went to hear former President Barack Obama speak Friday at a Democratic campaign rally on the University of Arizona campus. Yet he isn’t all that impressed with Obama, the…

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  • Trump ‘demeans’ office of US president by using expletive – Harris

    US Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday said her election rival Donald Trump “demeans” the office of the president with his use of coarse language, a day after the Republican insulted her using an expletive. Speaking in an interview aired on US broadcaster MSNBC, Harris said Trump’s comment was an insult to the office and…

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  • LEWD RHETORIC: Trump facing backlash over ‘wrong choice of words’

    Even by his haywire standards, Donald Trump’s latest rhetoric and behavior is erratic, autocratic and vulgar and hints at four years of unpredictable leadership that may lie ahead if he’s elected president in 15 days. Vice President Kamala Harris and top Democrats are seizing on the Republican nominee’s bizarre antics to inject new urgency and a…

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  • With early voting underway in multiple states and Election Day less than three weeks away, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are recalibrating their efforts to secure victory in November. While recent polls show Trump improving his position in key swing states, the race remains a coin toss. Without a second debate to generate a potentially campaign-defining moment,…

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  • Why Trump went live on ‘Fox & Friends’ – but canceled NRA speech and interviews with NBC, CNBC

    With less than three weeks to go before the 2024 presidential election, both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have been doing a barrage of media interviews and political events in addition to their campaign rallies. But several interviews that Trump had scheduled this week were scrapped, including an interview with NBC and an appearance on CNBC’s Squawk…

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  • Harris: Israel must do more to facilitate flow of aid into Gaza

    Israel must do more to facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza, says Kamala Harris. Citing a UN report that says no food has entered northern Gaza in two weeks, the vice president said Israel must “urgently” do more to address the situation. “Civilians must be protected and must have access to food, water,…

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  • MENTALLY IMPAIRED: Trump says American voters won’t forgive Harris on border policy

    Vice President Kamala Harris “can never be forgiven” for “erasing our border,” former President Donald Trump insisted during a rally in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin Saturday, where he railed about a report indicating that hundreds of thousands of convicted criminals have been allowed to be in the United States under her watch. “It’s a total disqualifier,…

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  • How escalation of Middle East crisis will affect Harris votes

    Democrats, who are already divided over the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, are becoming more concerned the war has spread, which will further separate the party and cost Vice President Kamala Harris votes, according to party strategists. Progressives who are dissatisfied with the Biden administration’s policies on the Middle East might choose not to…

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  • Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are deadlocked nationally among likely voters, according to a new set of polls from The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Siena College. The surveys, conducted almost entirely before the second assassination attempt on Trump in little more than two months, also found that Harris…

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  • Donald Trump maintains 2-point lead over Kamala Harris in latest Rasmussen Poll

    Former President Donald Trump maintains a 2-point lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in the race for the White House in the first Rasmussen Reports survey conducted since the candidates’ Sept. 10 debate. Asked “who would you vote for?” there were 49% of voters backing Trump and 47% backing Harris, Rasmussen poll results show. Another 2% say they would vote…

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  • Trump calls Harris the ‘worst vice president’ ever

    Donald Trump said during his debate with Kamala Harris that she has been the “worst vice president in the history of our country.” So, Miami Herald asked two scholars who have studied the vice presidency if that was so. Harris, vice president since 2021, was rated 11th of 18 modern vice presidents in a study by Justin Vaughn,…

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