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© Morry Gash and Manuel Balce Ceneta, Related Press
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Democratic enthusiasm for Harris tempered by ‘realism’
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By all measures, Vice President Harris’s marketing campaign launch has been a convincing success, as she’s seamlessly overtaken President Biden’s marketing campaign operations whereas rejuvenating a once-downtrodden Democratic Celebration.
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Harris drew 3,000 exuberant supporters to her first marketing campaign rally within the essential battleground of Wisconsin on Tuesday.
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Practically 40,000 people registered to vote within the days following Biden’s resolution to step apart, a lot of them younger Democrats, in response to Vote.org.
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Home Democrats say they’ve new hope of winning a majority.
- About 8 in 10 Democrats agree that Harris, who already has sufficient delegates to win the nomination, ought to be the occasion’s standard-bearer.
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Hollywood has turned the money spigot back on, and greater than $100 million has flowed into Harris’s marketing campaign coffers this week alone.
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Harris’s entrance shakes up a stagnant race. Former President Trump appeared headed for a landslide victory with Biden on the ticket.
- Democrats have eliminated the query of Biden’s age and health for workplace, and successfully turned the tables on Trump, who turns into the oldest-ever nominee for president.
So why are the identical Democrats who known as on Biden to drop out instantly pumping the brakes on the hype practice?
“I nonetheless charge [Trump] a reasonably substantial favourite on this race simply due to the electoral challenges,” Democratic strategist David Axelrod mentioned on his podcast “Hacks on Faucet.”
“This has been an actual change in temper in occasion and round a rustic, however we acquired to be just a little cautious. About 10 % an excessive amount of triumphalism occurring, and you already know, it’s going to be a really tough race…that pleasure has acquired to be tempered with realism, and the realism is she has a troublesome marketing campaign on, and as you say, she’s acquired a number of issues she’s acquired to perform on the similar time,” Democratic strategist James Carville mentioned on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
These remarks come as a new CNN poll finds Trump main Harris by 3 factors nationally.
Their remarks draw consideration to Harris’s marketing campaign report, in addition to the work she has forward of her in constructing a coalition to defeat Trump with simply greater than 100 days to go earlier than the election.
- Harris has by no means acquired a vote in a Democratic presidential main. Regardless of coming into the 2020 presidential race to nice hype and big fundraising numbers, she dropped out earlier than any votes had been solid.
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Her approval rating has tracked near Biden’s, which is at historic lows.
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Harris received her first statewide race to be legal professional basic by lower than 1 level over a Republican in deep blue California. She cruised to reelection, and in addition simply received her Senate race.
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The early standard knowledge is that Harris will win again some Black, Hispanic and younger voters which have been contemplating Trump amid Biden’s polling collapse. However that’s but to bear out within the polls, and Harris’s larger problem may be in successful over the white working class voters within the Rust Belt and Midwest that swung from Trump in 2016 to Biden in 2020.
From the Cook Political Report’s Amy Walters:
“Coalescing the bottom solely will get you thus far. To win in states like Pennsylvania, Harris wants to have the ability to win over swing voters in white, working-class areas like Erie and Scranton in Pennsylvania.”
The Harris marketing campaign launched a memo Wednesday outlining its pathway to victory.
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It appears just like Biden’s pathway, with the “Blue Wall” states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania taking part in an important position. That leaves little or no margin for error.
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The Harris marketing campaign believes they’ll make up floor in numerous Solar Belt states, similar to North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, the place “the Vice President’s benefits with younger voters, Black voters, and Latino voters can be necessary to our a number of pathways to 270 electoral votes.”
Republicans consider they’ve some efficient traces of assault towards Harris, who will take over a lot of the Biden administration’s baggage on the border, inflation and price of residing.
Dave McCormick, the GOP’s Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, laid out one other angle that many Republicans view because the blueprint for going after Harris.
McCormick’s new advert, which is playing across Pennsylvania, highlights Harris’s leftward flip within the 2020 primaries, the place she mentioned she would eliminate the filibuster to cross the Inexperienced New Deal, ban fracking and offshore drilling, decriminalize unlawful border crossings, “begin from scratch” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, assist a compulsory gun buyback program and eradicate personal well being care.
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Hillary Clinton: How Harris can win and make historical past.
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The Hill: Harris’ report is as unhealthy as Biden’s.
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USA Today: What did Harris learn about Biden’s well being and when did she understand it?
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New York: Democrats may need to take JD Vance significantly.
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Netanyahu deal with roils Washington
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s afternoon deal with to a joint session of Congress provoked turmoil in Washington, D.C., and sharply divided lawmakers amid Israel’s conflict with Hamas in Gaza.
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Tens of hundreds protested within the streets across the Capitol. Police made scores of arrests, together with some throughout the Home gallery. Police clashed with protesters in a chaotic scene at Union Station, the place a U.S. flag was burned and Palestinian flags had been hoisted on flagpoles.
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The Watergate Resort, the place Netanyahu stayed, needed to be sanitized after protesters launched maggots and worms inside.
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Many Democrats — and some Republicans — boycotted the deal with. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), who’s Palestinian American, attended the deal with and held up an indication that mentioned “Responsible of Genocide.” Republicans are livid, with Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) calling Tlaib “an absolute shame.”
- Elon Musk attended as a visitor of Netanyahu’s.
- Vice President Harris is touring and didn’t attend. She and President Biden will meet individually with Netanyahu privately later this week.
- Some lawmakers who boycotted the speech, together with Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), are assembly with the households of these held hostage by Hamas.
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Former President Trump will meet with Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago later this week.
Netanyahu’s 53-minute speech was virtually secondary to the response it provoked:
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Netanyahu described a “day after” imaginative and prescient for Gaza as soon as Hamas is defeated. He mentioned it ought to be led by a civilian administration of Palestinians in a “demilitarized and deradicalized” territory.
- “A few of these protestors maintain up indicators saying ‘Gays for Gaza’. They may as properly maintain up indicators that say ‘Chickens for KFC’.”
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“As we communicate we’re actively engaged in intensive efforts to safe their [hostages’] launch. I’m assured they’ll succeed. A few of these efforts are going down proper now. I need to thank President Biden for his tireless efforts to launch the hostages.”
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Netanyahu thanked Trump for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and for forging the Abraham Accords, which established relations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
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Netanyahu known as on the U.S. to “quick monitor” navy assist to Israel. He didn’t rule out navy motion towards Hezbollah amid rising tensions on Israel’s northern border.
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GOP’s DEI assaults on Harris backfire
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Some Republicans are attacking Vice President Harris as a “DEI rent” who solely acquired forward due to the colour of her pores and skin, frightening backlash from Democrats, the media and people within the GOP who view the assault line as inappropriate and offensive.
Home Democrats may censure Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) for calling Harris a “DEI” rent.
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Burchett instructed Sirius XM’s “The Laura Coates Present” on Wednesday that he wished he hadn’t mentioned it, “nevertheless it was the reality.”
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Reps. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) and Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) have made comparable remarks about Harris, who’s of Jamaican and Indian descent. “Intellectually, simply actually type of the underside of the barrel…I feel she was a DEI rent. And I feel that that is what we’re seeing, and I simply do not assume that they’ve anyone else.” — Hageman to reporter Josh Rultenberg
Politico reviews that Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) urged Republicans in a non-public assembly to not focus on Harris’s race or gender.
“This shouldn’t be about personalities. It ought to be about coverage. And we’ve got a report to check. This has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the competence of the particular person operating for president, the relative energy of the 2 candidates and what concepts they’ve on methods to resolve America’s issues. And I feel in that comparability, we’ll win in a landslide.”
Biden and Democrats have talked overtly about the necessity to promote Black girls into positions of management, together with within the runup to his choice of Harris as vice chairman and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court docket.
However the insinuation from Republicans is that Harris and Jackson had been solely promoted due to their race and gender, reasonably than for his or her private {and professional} accomplishments.
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) instructed CNN that the GOP remarks are clear “racist canine whistles.”
“Everytime you hear DEI, I need you to consider the N-word. I need you to consider racial slurs. That’s what they really imply.” -Frost
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who mentioned he disagrees with Variety, Fairness and Inclusion insurance policies, instructed MSNBC’s “Meet the Press NOW” that the DEI assaults are “completely silly and dumb.”
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Legislation enforcement releases new particulars on Trump taking pictures
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FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed new particulars across the safety lapses that led to the assassination try on former President Trump.
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Shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks flew a drone across the rally web site solely hours earlier than he tried to kill Trump.
- Crooks was in a position to fireplace eight photographs earlier than he was killed by a sniper. He additionally had explosives and a distant transmitter.
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On the day of the taking pictures, Crooks did a web based search to learn how distant Lee Harvey Oswald was from former President Kennedy on the day of his assassination.
- Wray mentioned the FBI nonetheless doesn’t have a “clear image” of Crooks’s motives.
Pennsylvania Police Commissioner Christopher Paris additionally revealed some new particulars.
From The Hill’s Eden Teshome:
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The Secret Service assigned native police pofficers to safe the surface perimeter of the rally, together with the constructing Crooks scaled.
- Two law enforcement officials left their put up overlooking the roof Crooks shot from after the 20-year-old was recognized as a suspicious particular person.
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Native legislation enforcement recognized Crooks as a suspicious particular person when he didn’t enter the safe space of the rally. This data was handed alongside by means of unofficial channels. Paris mentioned he didn’t know why it was not communicated by means of formal channels.
NBC News reports that the Trump marketing campaign will maintain indoor rallies going ahead on the urging of the Secret Service.
MEANWHILE … Republicans say Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the rating member on the Homeland Safety Committee, should be barred from the duty power investigating the assassination try for introducing a invoice that may have stripped Trump of his Secret Service safety due to his felony convictions.
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Biden to ship remarks in prime-time Oval Workplace deal with
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President Biden will deal with the nation for the primary time since dropping out of the presidential race and backing Vice President Harris for the Democratic nomination.
Biden is ready to ship remarks from the Oval Workplace at 8 p.m. ET tonight amid swirling questions on his well being and his resolution to finish his presidential marketing campaign with simply greater than 100 days to go.
Biden, who has been recovering from COVID-19 at residence in Delaware, is going through calls from Republicans to resign from workplace. Some within the GOP have made the case that if he’s not match to run for workplace, he’s not match to run the nation.
The Hill’s Brett Samuels has five things to watch for in Biden’s address.
Watch the speech live HERE.
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Home headed for early recess amid GOP funding woes
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Home Republicans canceled votes subsequent week and can start an recess early after abandoning an ambitious timeline to cross all 12 of their annual funding payments.
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Republicans had hoped to cross all 12 funding payments earlier than August recess, however the course of was upended final week after a small group of Republicans sunk the invoice to fund the legislative department.
- The funding course of has been hamstrung by the inclusion of riders pertaining to social points, similar to reproductive rights.
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A deliberate vote to fund the Division of Vitality was abrupty cancelled on Tuesday night time.
“When you could have a state of affairs the place the Democrats all vote no on each appropriations invoice, you finally hit a wall as a result of, you already know, we’ve got just a few of our personal members that vote towards a few of these payments…We’ve handed about 70 % of all authorities funding over to the Senate. Sooner or later, it’s time for the Senate to start out doing their work.” -Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.)
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“Netanyahu does not need to step foot within the Capitol,” Mustafa Barghouti for The Hill.
“Netanyahu deal with comes at a pivotal second,” by Paul Teller for The Washington Examiner.
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26 days till the Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago.
48 days till the second presidential debate.
104 days till the 2024 basic election.
180 days till Inauguration Day 2025.
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Wednesday
- Trump holds a marketing campaign rally at 6 p.m. in Charlotte, N.C.
- Biden delivers remarks from the Oval Workplace at 8 p.m. ET.
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