Vice President Kamala Harris delivered the first policy-focused speech of her 2024 campaign on Friday in North Carolina, where she outlined a plan to lower costs for households over the next four years.
Harris has taken significant criticism from Republicans for failing to produce a detailed policy platform thus far. Her Friday remarks focused on lowering housing, grocery, and healthcare prices and other costs while conceding that “many” people have yet to feel the economic wins claimed by the Biden administration.
“It will be my intention to build on the foundation of this progress. Still, we know that many Americans don’t yet feel that progress in their daily lives,” she declared before thousands in Raleigh. “Costs are still too high, and on a deeper level, for too many people, no matter how much they work, it feels so hard to just be able to get ahead. As president, I will be laser-focused on creating opportunities for the middle class that advance their economic security, stability, and dignity.”
Harris’s proposals, which the campaign outlined ahead of her remarks, include $25,000 in down payment assistance for all first-time homebuyers and new tax breaks tacked on to the construction of “starter homes.”
On food prices, the vice president vowed to institute a federal ban on price-gouging for groceries, promising strict penalties for companies that engage in anticompetitive practices.
Furthermore, Harris said she will continue to push for legislation that would make President Joe Biden’s expanded child tax credit permanent, saving up to $6,000 per child.
Former President Donald Trump‘s campaign heartily criticized “Comrade Kamala” and her proposals Friday afternoon.
“It’s hard to overstate how disastrous of an idea it is to let D.C. bureaucrats dictate the price of groceries in cities, suburbs, and rural communities across the country — dismantling necessary supply-and-demand signals of the free market and ultimately leading to higher prices for consumers,” the campaign claimed in a statement.
You can watch Harris’s remarks in full below.
2024-08-16 20:26:00, http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2Fcampaigns%2Fpresidential%2F3124691%2Fharris-concedes-costs-too-high-first-policy-speech-campaign%2F?w=600&h=450, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered the first policy-focused speech of her 2024 campaign on Friday in North Carolina, where she outlined a plan to lower costs for households over the next four years. Harris has taken significant criticism from Republicans for failing to produce a detailed policy platform thus far. Her Friday remarks focused on,
Vice President Kamala Harris delivered the first policy-focused speech of her 2024 campaign on Friday in North Carolina, where she outlined a plan to lower costs for households over the next four years.
Harris has taken significant criticism from Republicans for failing to produce a detailed policy platform thus far. Her Friday remarks focused on lowering housing, grocery, and healthcare prices and other costs while conceding that “many” people have yet to feel the economic wins claimed by the Biden administration.
“It will be my intention to build on the foundation of this progress. Still, we know that many Americans don’t yet feel that progress in their daily lives,” she declared before thousands in Raleigh. “Costs are still too high, and on a deeper level, for too many people, no matter how much they work, it feels so hard to just be able to get ahead. As president, I will be laser-focused on creating opportunities for the middle class that advance their economic security, stability, and dignity.”
Harris’s proposals, which the campaign outlined ahead of her remarks, include $25,000 in down payment assistance for all first-time homebuyers and new tax breaks tacked on to the construction of “starter homes.”
On food prices, the vice president vowed to institute a federal ban on price-gouging for groceries, promising strict penalties for companies that engage in anticompetitive practices.
Furthermore, Harris said she will continue to push for legislation that would make President Joe Biden’s expanded child tax credit permanent, saving up to $6,000 per child.
Former President Donald Trump‘s campaign heartily criticized “Comrade Kamala” and her proposals Friday afternoon.
“It’s hard to overstate how disastrous of an idea it is to let D.C. bureaucrats dictate the price of groceries in cities, suburbs, and rural communities across the country — dismantling necessary supply-and-demand signals of the free market and ultimately leading to higher prices for consumers,” the campaign claimed in a statement.
You can watch Harris’s remarks in full below.
, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered the first policy-focused speech of her 2024 campaign on Friday in North Carolina, where she outlined a plan to lower costs for households over the next four years. Harris has taken significant criticism from Republicans for failing to produce a detailed policy platform thus far. Her Friday remarks focused on lowering housing, grocery, and healthcare prices and other costs while conceding that “many” people have yet to feel the economic wins claimed by the Biden administration. “It will be my intention to build on the foundation of this progress. Still, we know that many Americans don’t yet feel that progress in their daily lives,” she declared before thousands in Raleigh. “Costs are still too high, and on a deeper level, for too many people, no matter how much they work, it feels so hard to just be able to get ahead. As president, I will be laser-focused on creating opportunities for the middle class that advance their economic security, stability, and dignity.” Harris’s proposals, which the campaign outlined ahead of her remarks, include $25,000 in down payment assistance for all first-time homebuyers and new tax breaks tacked on to the construction of “starter homes.” On food prices, the vice president vowed to institute a federal ban on price-gouging for groceries, promising strict penalties for companies that engage in anticompetitive practices. Furthermore, Harris said she will continue to push for legislation that would make President Joe Biden’s expanded child tax credit permanent, saving up to $6,000 per child. Former President Donald Trump‘s campaign heartily criticized “Comrade Kamala” and her proposals Friday afternoon. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER “It’s hard to overstate how disastrous of an idea it is to let D.C. bureaucrats dictate the price of groceries in cities, suburbs, and rural communities across the country — dismantling necessary supply-and-demand signals of the free market and ultimately leading to higher prices for consumers,” the campaign claimed in a statement. You can watch Harris’s remarks in full below., , , https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/harris-economy-1.webp, Washington Examiner, Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-favicon-32×32.png, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feed/, Christian Datoc,
Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) delivered his first solo speech as the 2024 vice presidential nominee Tuesday and directly addressed the recent controversy regarding his military record.
Walz, who was tapped to serve as Vice President Kamala Harris‘s running mate just one week ago, delivered remarks at the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, where he told the crowd he was “damn proud” of his family’s history of military service.
Walz has proven to be a fundraising boon to the Harris ticket. The campaign announced it raised more than $36 million in the initial 24 hours after Harris announced Walz as her selection on top of more than $300 million raised in July.
However, former President Donald Trump, his running mate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), and their allies have spent the past week digging into and attacking Walz over apparent inconsistencies regarding his service, specifically his decision to retire from a 24-year-long National Guard career just months before his unit was deployed to Afghanistan.
Reports also resurfaced multiple videos of Walz stating he carried “weapons of war” in warafter winning his first congressional election. Walz was never deployed to an active combat zone while deployed overseas, and the governor does not appear to have ever corrected statements incorrectly defining his military record.
“With my dad’s encouragement, a guy who served in the Army during the Korean War, I signed up for the Army National Guard two days after my 17th birthday,” Walz, who also spent his years in the military teaching back home in Minnesota, told the AFSCME crowd Tuesday afternoon. “Then, in 2005, I felt the call of duty again, this time giving service to my country in the halls of Congress. My students inspired me to run for that office, and I was proud to make it to Washington.”
“I was a member of the Veterans Affairs Committee and a champion of our men and women in uniform. I’m going to say it again as clearly as I can, I am damn proud of my service to this country,” he continued. “I firmly believe you should never degenerate another person’s service record. To anyone brave enough to put on that uniform for our great country, including my opponent, I just have a few simple words: Thank you for your service and sacrifice.”
Walz’s apparent olive branch to Vance belies a relationship that will only grow more heated over the final months of the election.
Democratic operatives specifically told the Washington Examiner that, in addition to his progressive policy bona fides, Walz was selected as Harris’s running mate to help her with middle-aged white men in the Midwest and to attack Vance.
During his introductory speech last week in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Minnesota governor said he “can’t wait” to debate Vance before jokingly alluding to unfounded internet rumors about the junior senator from Ohio performing sex acts on furniture in his youth.
Reporting on Walz’s military service and accompanying accusations of stolen valor have received mixed reviews from the veteran community and appear to predictably split along party lines.
A number of members of his old unit, including his commanding officer, have accused the governor of cowardice and disavowed his actions, but a group of more than 1,000 veterans and military families signed an open letter Tuesday claiming to be “appalled at Donald Trump and JD Vance’s politically motivated attacks” against Walz.
“JD Vance’s recent comments attacking Governor Walz’s service record are disrespectful and deeply disappointing, especially given Vance’s own service — which we are also profoundly grateful for,” the letter, first obtained by USA Today, reads. “But given Donald Trump’s long record of expressing disdain for service members, veterans, and their families, it’s unsurprising that his running mate has stooped to such lows.”
Following Tuesday’s remarks, Walz will begin a fundraising tour of his own that will see him hit the following five states over the next three days: California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island.
You can watch Walz’s Tuesday remarks in full below.
2024-08-13 22:05:00, http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2Fcampaigns%2Fpresidential%2F3120478%2Fwalz-defends-military-record-first-solo-speech%2F?w=600&h=450, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) delivered his first solo speech as the 2024 vice presidential nominee Tuesday and directly addressed the recent controversy regarding his military record. Walz, who was tapped to serve as Vice President Kamala Harris‘s running mate just one week ago, delivered remarks at the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees,
Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) delivered his first solo speech as the 2024 vice presidential nominee Tuesday and directly addressed the recent controversy regarding his military record.
Walz, who was tapped to serve as Vice President Kamala Harris‘s running mate just one week ago, delivered remarks at the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, where he told the crowd he was “damn proud” of his family’s history of military service.
Walz has proven to be a fundraising boon to the Harris ticket. The campaign announced it raised more than $36 million in the initial 24 hours after Harris announced Walz as her selection on top of more than $300 million raised in July.
However, former President Donald Trump, his running mate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), and their allies have spent the past week digging into and attacking Walz over apparent inconsistencies regarding his service, specifically his decision to retire from a 24-year-long National Guard career just months before his unit was deployed to Afghanistan.
Reports also resurfaced multiple videos of Walz stating he carried “weapons of war” in warafter winning his first congressional election. Walz was never deployed to an active combat zone while deployed overseas, and the governor does not appear to have ever corrected statements incorrectly defining his military record.
“With my dad’s encouragement, a guy who served in the Army during the Korean War, I signed up for the Army National Guard two days after my 17th birthday,” Walz, who also spent his years in the military teaching back home in Minnesota, told the AFSCME crowd Tuesday afternoon. “Then, in 2005, I felt the call of duty again, this time giving service to my country in the halls of Congress. My students inspired me to run for that office, and I was proud to make it to Washington.”
“I was a member of the Veterans Affairs Committee and a champion of our men and women in uniform. I’m going to say it again as clearly as I can, I am damn proud of my service to this country,” he continued. “I firmly believe you should never degenerate another person’s service record. To anyone brave enough to put on that uniform for our great country, including my opponent, I just have a few simple words: Thank you for your service and sacrifice.”
Walz’s apparent olive branch to Vance belies a relationship that will only grow more heated over the final months of the election.
Democratic operatives specifically told the Washington Examiner that, in addition to his progressive policy bona fides, Walz was selected as Harris’s running mate to help her with middle-aged white men in the Midwest and to attack Vance.
During his introductory speech last week in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Minnesota governor said he “can’t wait” to debate Vance before jokingly alluding to unfounded internet rumors about the junior senator from Ohio performing sex acts on furniture in his youth.
Reporting on Walz’s military service and accompanying accusations of stolen valor have received mixed reviews from the veteran community and appear to predictably split along party lines.
A number of members of his old unit, including his commanding officer, have accused the governor of cowardice and disavowed his actions, but a group of more than 1,000 veterans and military families signed an open letter Tuesday claiming to be “appalled at Donald Trump and JD Vance’s politically motivated attacks” against Walz.
“JD Vance’s recent comments attacking Governor Walz’s service record are disrespectful and deeply disappointing, especially given Vance’s own service — which we are also profoundly grateful for,” the letter, first obtained by USA Today, reads. “But given Donald Trump’s long record of expressing disdain for service members, veterans, and their families, it’s unsurprising that his running mate has stooped to such lows.”
Following Tuesday’s remarks, Walz will begin a fundraising tour of his own that will see him hit the following five states over the next three days: California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island.
You can watch Walz’s Tuesday remarks in full below.
, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) delivered his first solo speech as the 2024 vice presidential nominee Tuesday and directly addressed the recent controversy regarding his military record. Walz, who was tapped to serve as Vice President Kamala Harris‘s running mate just one week ago, delivered remarks at the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, where he told the crowd he was “damn proud” of his family’s history of military service. Walz has proven to be a fundraising boon to the Harris ticket. The campaign announced it raised more than $36 million in the initial 24 hours after Harris announced Walz as her selection on top of more than $300 million raised in July. However, former President Donald Trump, his running mate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), and their allies have spent the past week digging into and attacking Walz over apparent inconsistencies regarding his service, specifically his decision to retire from a 24-year-long National Guard career just months before his unit was deployed to Afghanistan. Reports also resurfaced multiple videos of Walz stating he carried “weapons of war” in war after winning his first congressional election. Walz was never deployed to an active combat zone while deployed overseas, and the governor does not appear to have ever corrected statements incorrectly defining his military record. “With my dad’s encouragement, a guy who served in the Army during the Korean War, I signed up for the Army National Guard two days after my 17th birthday,” Walz, who also spent his years in the military teaching back home in Minnesota, told the AFSCME crowd Tuesday afternoon. “Then, in 2005, I felt the call of duty again, this time giving service to my country in the halls of Congress. My students inspired me to run for that office, and I was proud to make it to Washington.” “I was a member of the Veterans Affairs Committee and a champion of our men and women in uniform. I’m going to say it again as clearly as I can, I am damn proud of my service to this country,” he continued. “I firmly believe you should never degenerate another person’s service record. To anyone brave enough to put on that uniform for our great country, including my opponent, I just have a few simple words: Thank you for your service and sacrifice.” Walz’s apparent olive branch to Vance belies a relationship that will only grow more heated over the final months of the election. Democratic operatives specifically told the Washington Examiner that, in addition to his progressive policy bona fides, Walz was selected as Harris’s running mate to help her with middle-aged white men in the Midwest and to attack Vance. During his introductory speech last week in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Minnesota governor said he “can’t wait” to debate Vance before jokingly alluding to unfounded internet rumors about the junior senator from Ohio performing sex acts on furniture in his youth. Reporting on Walz’s military service and accompanying accusations of stolen valor have received mixed reviews from the veteran community and appear to predictably split along party lines. A number of members of his old unit, including his commanding officer, have accused the governor of cowardice and disavowed his actions, but a group of more than 1,000 veterans and military families signed an open letter Tuesday claiming to be “appalled at Donald Trump and JD Vance’s politically motivated attacks” against Walz. “JD Vance’s recent comments attacking Governor Walz’s service record are disrespectful and deeply disappointing, especially given Vance’s own service — which we are also profoundly grateful for,” the letter, first obtained by USA Today, reads. “But given Donald Trump’s long record of expressing disdain for service members, veterans, and their families, it’s unsurprising that his running mate has stooped to such lows.” Following Tuesday’s remarks, Walz will begin a fundraising tour of his own that will see him hit the following five states over the next three days: California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER You can watch Walz’s Tuesday remarks in full below., , , https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/walz-defends-record.webp, Washington Examiner, Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-favicon-32×32.png, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feed/, Christian Datoc,
Vice President Kamala Harris is taking her first major step to rebut GOP criticisms that she is running a light-on-substance campaign for president with a policy-oriented speech on Friday focused on cutting costs for voters.
Harris’s initial weeks of campaigning reinvigorated Democratic voters who were apathetic about the prospect of another term under President Joe Biden. She has enjoyed a cash surge and packed rallies in battleground states across the country.
But her campaign rollout has also come with a dose of criticism. She has distanced herself from some of the more controversial positions she held during her 2020 run for president, including Medicare for All, but she has not laid out a concrete agenda for how she would govern in office.
Harris has given hints she would largely carry forward the agenda Biden laid out for his first term in the White House, including a bipartisan immigration deal he promised to sign despite it failing in the Senate.
But a Friday campaign stop in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she will lay out in detail how to “lower costs for middle-class families and take on corporate price-gouging,” will be among her first serious attempts to counter that critique.
Harris herself told reporters over the weekend that her platform will “be focused on the economy and what we need to do to bring down costs and also strengthen the economy overall.”
Multiple veteran Democratic strategists told the Washington Examiner that they believe Harris’s delay in publishing a campaign platform is merely a factor of the short window she has had to get her campaign off the ground. Harris announced her run for president three weeks ago, teeing up a three-month sprint to Election Day.
“In many ways, this isn’t a typical campaign. Settling on an official platform takes serious time, and that’s the one resource Vice President Harris hasn’t had this cycle,” one strategist said.
A second Democratic operative pointed to parts of Biden’s unrealized agenda, such as codifying Roe v. Wade into law, making the expanded child tax credit permanent, and reinstating the 1994 ban on “assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines, to argue that Harris plans to “carry the torch forward.”
But Republicans, who point out her campaign wiped the policy-focused page from Biden’s 2024 website, have used the ambiguity to claim that Harris’s policies are radically progressive. One ally of former President Donald Trump’s campaign said her lack of a detailed platform is an effort to “pull the wool” over voters’ eyes.
A third Democratic strategist, speaking on the condition of anonymity, downplayed Harris reversing her positions from 2020, chalking them up to her trying to assert her individuality in a crowded primary field. Harris previously suggested illegal border crossings should be decriminalized and that fracking should be banned in the United States, among other positions she has since disavowed.
“Vice President Harris is Bay Area-made, and the progressive wing of the party can’t knock her credentials,” the operative said. “But I think, suspect, that one thing she’s learned these past four years is that the White House must radiate a certain sense of consensus. Just like President Biden, Vice President Harris is trying to unify this country, and once she has a base to stand on, that’s when she can truly start instituting true systemic change voters want to see.”
Nonetheless, the Trump campaign has begun deploying clips of her past remarks in advertising while arguing that her 2020 stances reflect where she really stands on the issues. Her decision to avoid interviews with the press has opened up another line of attack for Republicans who claim she wants to hide from scrutiny.
Part of the Harris approach has been to lean on Biden’s record in the White House. She will appear alongside him in Prince George’s County, Maryland, on Thursday, the first time the pair will campaign together, even if informally, since swapping out the top of the ticket in July.
“While Donald Trump is wedded to the extreme ideas in his Project 2025 agenda, Vice President Harris believes real leadership means bringing all sides together to build consensus,” Harris campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz said in a statement.
But Harris has also attempted to neutralize popular policies Trump has put forward by embracing them herself. Over the weekend, she came out in support of eliminating taxes on tips, a proposal Trump has used to attract service industry workers in the battleground state of Nevada.
“This was a TRUMP idea,” the former president wrote on Truth Social in response to Harris. “She has no ideas, she can only steal from me.”
“She sounds more like Trump than Trump, copying almost everything. She is conning the American public, and will flip right back. I will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! There will be no flipping!!!” he added.
2024-08-13 17:42:00, http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2Fcampaigns%2Fpresidential%2F3119486%2Fharris-pivots-economy-combat-light-substance-complaint%2F?w=600&h=450, Vice President Kamala Harris is taking her first major step to rebut GOP criticisms that she is running a light-on-substance campaign for president with a policy-oriented speech on Friday focused on cutting costs for voters. Harris’s initial weeks of campaigning reinvigorated Democratic voters who were apathetic about the prospect of another term under President Joe,
Vice President Kamala Harris is taking her first major step to rebut GOP criticisms that she is running a light-on-substance campaign for president with a policy-oriented speech on Friday focused on cutting costs for voters.
Harris’s initial weeks of campaigning reinvigorated Democratic voters who were apathetic about the prospect of another term under President Joe Biden. She has enjoyed a cash surge and packed rallies in battleground states across the country.
But her campaign rollout has also come with a dose of criticism. She has distanced herself from some of the more controversial positions she held during her 2020 run for president, including Medicare for All, but she has not laid out a concrete agenda for how she would govern in office.
Harris has given hints she would largely carry forward the agenda Biden laid out for his first term in the White House, including a bipartisan immigration deal he promised to sign despite it failing in the Senate.
But a Friday campaign stop in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she will lay out in detail how to “lower costs for middle-class families and take on corporate price-gouging,” will be among her first serious attempts to counter that critique.
Harris herself told reporters over the weekend that her platform will “be focused on the economy and what we need to do to bring down costs and also strengthen the economy overall.”
Multiple veteran Democratic strategists told the Washington Examiner that they believe Harris’s delay in publishing a campaign platform is merely a factor of the short window she has had to get her campaign off the ground. Harris announced her run for president three weeks ago, teeing up a three-month sprint to Election Day.
“In many ways, this isn’t a typical campaign. Settling on an official platform takes serious time, and that’s the one resource Vice President Harris hasn’t had this cycle,” one strategist said.
A second Democratic operative pointed to parts of Biden’s unrealized agenda, such as codifying Roe v. Wade into law, making the expanded child tax credit permanent, and reinstating the 1994 ban on “assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines, to argue that Harris plans to “carry the torch forward.”
But Republicans, who point out her campaign wiped the policy-focused page from Biden’s 2024 website, have used the ambiguity to claim that Harris’s policies are radically progressive. One ally of former President Donald Trump’s campaign said her lack of a detailed platform is an effort to “pull the wool” over voters’ eyes.
A third Democratic strategist, speaking on the condition of anonymity, downplayed Harris reversing her positions from 2020, chalking them up to her trying to assert her individuality in a crowded primary field. Harris previously suggested illegal border crossings should be decriminalized and that fracking should be banned in the United States, among other positions she has since disavowed.
“Vice President Harris is Bay Area-made, and the progressive wing of the party can’t knock her credentials,” the operative said. “But I think, suspect, that one thing she’s learned these past four years is that the White House must radiate a certain sense of consensus. Just like President Biden, Vice President Harris is trying to unify this country, and once she has a base to stand on, that’s when she can truly start instituting true systemic change voters want to see.”
Nonetheless, the Trump campaign has begun deploying clips of her past remarks in advertising while arguing that her 2020 stances reflect where she really stands on the issues. Her decision to avoid interviews with the press has opened up another line of attack for Republicans who claim she wants to hide from scrutiny.
Part of the Harris approach has been to lean on Biden’s record in the White House. She will appear alongside him in Prince George’s County, Maryland, on Thursday, the first time the pair will campaign together, even if informally, since swapping out the top of the ticket in July.
“While Donald Trump is wedded to the extreme ideas in his Project 2025 agenda, Vice President Harris believes real leadership means bringing all sides together to build consensus,” Harris campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz said in a statement.
But Harris has also attempted to neutralize popular policies Trump has put forward by embracing them herself. Over the weekend, she came out in support of eliminating taxes on tips, a proposal Trump has used to attract service industry workers in the battleground state of Nevada.
“This was a TRUMP idea,” the former president wrote on Truth Social in response to Harris. “She has no ideas, she can only steal from me.”
“She sounds more like Trump than Trump, copying almost everything. She is conning the American public, and will flip right back. I will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! There will be no flipping!!!” he added.
, Vice President Kamala Harris is taking her first major step to rebut GOP criticisms that she is running a light-on-substance campaign for president with a policy-oriented speech on Friday focused on cutting costs for voters. Harris’s initial weeks of campaigning reinvigorated Democratic voters who were apathetic about the prospect of another term under President Joe Biden. She has enjoyed a cash surge and packed rallies in battleground states across the country. But her campaign rollout has also come with a dose of criticism. She has distanced herself from some of the more controversial positions she held during her 2020 run for president, including Medicare for All, but she has not laid out a concrete agenda for how she would govern in office. Harris has given hints she would largely carry forward the agenda Biden laid out for his first term in the White House, including a bipartisan immigration deal he promised to sign despite it failing in the Senate. But a Friday campaign stop in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she will lay out in detail how to “lower costs for middle-class families and take on corporate price-gouging,” will be among her first serious attempts to counter that critique. Harris herself told reporters over the weekend that her platform will “be focused on the economy and what we need to do to bring down costs and also strengthen the economy overall.” Multiple veteran Democratic strategists told the Washington Examiner that they believe Harris’s delay in publishing a campaign platform is merely a factor of the short window she has had to get her campaign off the ground. Harris announced her run for president three weeks ago, teeing up a three-month sprint to Election Day. “In many ways, this isn’t a typical campaign. Settling on an official platform takes serious time, and that’s the one resource Vice President Harris hasn’t had this cycle,” one strategist said. A second Democratic operative pointed to parts of Biden’s unrealized agenda, such as codifying Roe v. Wade into law, making the expanded child tax credit permanent, and reinstating the 1994 ban on “assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines, to argue that Harris plans to “carry the torch forward.” But Republicans, who point out her campaign wiped the policy-focused page from Biden’s 2024 website, have used the ambiguity to claim that Harris’s policies are radically progressive. One ally of former President Donald Trump’s campaign said her lack of a detailed platform is an effort to “pull the wool” over voters’ eyes. A third Democratic strategist, speaking on the condition of anonymity, downplayed Harris reversing her positions from 2020, chalking them up to her trying to assert her individuality in a crowded primary field. Harris previously suggested illegal border crossings should be decriminalized and that fracking should be banned in the United States, among other positions she has since disavowed. “Vice President Harris is Bay Area-made, and the progressive wing of the party can’t knock her credentials,” the operative said. “But I think, suspect, that one thing she’s learned these past four years is that the White House must radiate a certain sense of consensus. Just like President Biden, Vice President Harris is trying to unify this country, and once she has a base to stand on, that’s when she can truly start instituting true systemic change voters want to see.” Nonetheless, the Trump campaign has begun deploying clips of her past remarks in advertising while arguing that her 2020 stances reflect where she really stands on the issues. Her decision to avoid interviews with the press has opened up another line of attack for Republicans who claim she wants to hide from scrutiny. Part of the Harris approach has been to lean on Biden’s record in the White House. She will appear alongside him in Prince George’s County, Maryland, on Thursday, the first time the pair will campaign together, even if informally, since swapping out the top of the ticket in July. “While Donald Trump is wedded to the extreme ideas in his Project 2025 agenda, Vice President Harris believes real leadership means bringing all sides together to build consensus,” Harris campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz said in a statement. But Harris has also attempted to neutralize popular policies Trump has put forward by embracing them herself. Over the weekend, she came out in support of eliminating taxes on tips, a proposal Trump has used to attract service industry workers in the battleground state of Nevada. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER “This was a TRUMP idea,” the former president wrote on Truth Social in response to Harris. “She has no ideas, she can only steal from me.” “She sounds more like Trump than Trump, copying almost everything. She is conning the American public, and will flip right back. I will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! There will be no flipping!!!” he added., , , https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/harris-tax.webp, Washington Examiner, Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-favicon-32×32.png, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feed/, Christian Datoc,
President Joe Biden held his first public event Thursday since last week, when he celebrated the successful prisoner swap with Russia.
The president welcomed the 2023 World Series champion Texas Rangers to the White House East Room, where he celebrated the team’s historic playoff run after failing to win the division last summer.
“As you know, it’s been 50 years since this franchise left Washington,” the president stated, noting how the Rangers franchise originated in Washington before relocating to Arlington, Texas. “Now, you’re back in the nation’s capital as World Champions, and you deserve it.”
President Joe Biden arrives at a White House ceremony alongside Texas Rangers general manager Chris Young (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Rangers manager Bruce Bochy and President Joe Biden hold a custom jersey courtesy of the Texas Rangers (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
“What you do matters because that’s America at its best,” Biden continued. “Congratulations to the World Champion Texas Rangers, and good luck for the rest of the season.”
Following Biden’s brief remarks, Rangers manager Bruce Bochy gifted the president a jersey bearing his name and the number 46, along with a pair of cowboy boots.
Texas Rangers manager Bruce Bochy gifts President Joe Biden a custom jersey and pair of boots (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Prior to the East Room event, and shortly after a meeting in the White House situation room, Biden mingled with the Rangers players.
The president told them where he had come from and joked that if the players wanted to follow him to the Middle East with their bats, they would be welcome to help, a person in the room told the Washington Examiner.
SCOOPLET: Biden met with the Texas Rangers shortly after this meeting in the Situation Room and ahead of the East Room World Series event
Person in the room tells me POTUS joked that if the players wanted to follow him to the Middle East with their bats, they’re welcome to help https://t.co/eEh54n5Ume
Biden has kept an extremely low profile since ceding the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination to Vice President Kamala Harris. Veteran Democratic operatives told the Washington Examiner that the best way the president can help Harris is by staying out of the limelight.
The president exited Thursday’s event without stopping to answer questions from reporters and immediately departed the White House for an event at the Harris, formerly Biden, campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware.
The president will then travel to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he will remain through the weekend.
2024-08-08 21:42:00, http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2Fwhite-house%2F3115877%2Fbiden-honors-world-series-champs-first-public-event-week%2F?w=600&h=450, President Joe Biden held his first public event Thursday since last week, when he celebrated the successful prisoner swap with Russia. The president welcomed the 2023 World Series champion Texas Rangers to the White House East Room, where he celebrated the team’s historic playoff run after failing to win the division last summer. “As you,
President Joe Biden held his first public event Thursday since last week, when he celebrated the successful prisoner swap with Russia.
The president welcomed the 2023 World Series champion Texas Rangers to the White House East Room, where he celebrated the team’s historic playoff run after failing to win the division last summer.
“As you know, it’s been 50 years since this franchise left Washington,” the president stated, noting how the Rangers franchise originated in Washington before relocating to Arlington, Texas. “Now, you’re back in the nation’s capital as World Champions, and you deserve it.”
President Joe Biden arrives at a White House ceremony alongside Texas Rangers general manager Chris Young (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Rangers manager Bruce Bochy and President Joe Biden hold a custom jersey courtesy of the Texas Rangers (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
“What you do matters because that’s America at its best,” Biden continued. “Congratulations to the World Champion Texas Rangers, and good luck for the rest of the season.”
Following Biden’s brief remarks, Rangers manager Bruce Bochy gifted the president a jersey bearing his name and the number 46, along with a pair of cowboy boots.
Texas Rangers manager Bruce Bochy gifts President Joe Biden a custom jersey and pair of boots (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Prior to the East Room event, and shortly after a meeting in the White House situation room, Biden mingled with the Rangers players.
The president told them where he had come from and joked that if the players wanted to follow him to the Middle East with their bats, they would be welcome to help, a person in the room told the Washington Examiner.
SCOOPLET: Biden met with the Texas Rangers shortly after this meeting in the Situation Room and ahead of the East Room World Series event
Person in the room tells me POTUS joked that if the players wanted to follow him to the Middle East with their bats, they’re welcome to help https://t.co/eEh54n5Ume
Biden has kept an extremely low profile since ceding the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination to Vice President Kamala Harris. Veteran Democratic operatives told the Washington Examiner that the best way the president can help Harris is by staying out of the limelight.
The president exited Thursday’s event without stopping to answer questions from reporters and immediately departed the White House for an event at the Harris, formerly Biden, campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware.
The president will then travel to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he will remain through the weekend.
, President Joe Biden held his first public event Thursday since last week, when he celebrated the successful prisoner swap with Russia. The president welcomed the 2023 World Series champion Texas Rangers to the White House East Room, where he celebrated the team’s historic playoff run after failing to win the division last summer. “As you know, it’s been 50 years since this franchise left Washington,” the president stated, noting how the Rangers franchise originated in Washington before relocating to Arlington, Texas. “Now, you’re back in the nation’s capital as World Champions, and you deserve it.” President Joe Biden arrives at a White House ceremony alongside Texas Rangers general manager Chris Young (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Rangers manager Bruce Bochy and President Joe Biden hold a custom jersey courtesy of the Texas Rangers (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) “What you do matters because that’s America at its best,” Biden continued. “Congratulations to the World Champion Texas Rangers, and good luck for the rest of the season.” Following Biden’s brief remarks, Rangers manager Bruce Bochy gifted the president a jersey bearing his name and the number 46, along with a pair of cowboy boots. Texas Rangers manager Bruce Bochy gifts President Joe Biden a custom jersey and pair of boots (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Prior to the East Room event, and shortly after a meeting in the White House situation room, Biden mingled with the Rangers players. The president told them where he had come from and joked that if the players wanted to follow him to the Middle East with their bats, they would be welcome to help, a person in the room told the Washington Examiner. SCOOPLET: Biden met with the Texas Rangers shortly after this meeting in the Situation Room and ahead of the East Room World Series event Person in the room tells me POTUS joked that if the players wanted to follow him to the Middle East with their bats, they’re welcome to help https://t.co/eEh54n5Ume — Christian Datoc (@TocRadio) August 8, 2024 Biden has kept an extremely low profile since ceding the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination to Vice President Kamala Harris. Veteran Democratic operatives told the Washington Examiner that the best way the president can help Harris is by staying out of the limelight. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER The president exited Thursday’s event without stopping to answer questions from reporters and immediately departed the White House for an event at the Harris, formerly Biden, campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware. The president will then travel to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he will remain through the weekend., , , https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/biden-boots.webp, Washington Examiner, Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-favicon-32×32.png, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feed/, Christian Datoc,
WILMINGTON, Delaware — Since President Joe Biden bowed out of the 2024 presidential race, he’s faded into the background as his hand-picked successor takes on more official duties.
In the two weeks since he announced on social media he wouldn’t seek a second term, Biden has held few public events. The commander in chief watched from the sidelines as the Democratic Party united behind Vice President Kamala Harris as the new presumptive nominee.
The remarkable changing of the guard is unfolding because Democrats deemed it necessary to have a shot at stopping former President Donald Trump from returning to the White House. Biden, who said he chose saving democracy over “personal ambition,” not only became a lame-duck president but took on a supporting role to his vice president.
“He’s fading into the sunset,” one Democratic strategist told the Washington Examiner.
Biden’s retreat comes as Harris must create some distance from her boss as she reenergizes the party’s voters and donors with the chance to make history as the first woman president. She’s leaning into her pre-Washington resume as a California prosecutor who can stand up to Trump, a convicted felon.
It’s a delicate tightrope of respecting Biden’s legacy while keeping him out of the spotlight during the final months of the election due to his unpopularity and the public’s concerns about his age and mental fitness.
President Joe Biden, left, and Vice President Kamala Harris arrive for a campaign event at Girard College, Wednesday, May 29, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Joe Lamberti)
Multiple veteran Democratic operatives told the Washington Examiner that the best way for the president to help his 2020 running mate is to simply stay out of the way.
“President Biden has accomplished more in four years than most presidents do in eight,” one strategist claimed. “He saved the country from COVID-19 and Donald Trump, but, respectfully, he needs to officially pass the torch. Voters must be able to equate Vice President Harris with all of the wins this administration has notched, and I feel like having him out on the stump for her could undermine those efforts.”
Republicans, in an attempt to slow Harris’s surge in popularity, have levied new attacks of late claiming the vice president was looped in on an effort to obscure the seriousness of Biden’s aging from voters. A second Democratic operative said that they believed that narrative would “only pick up steam” if the president remained in the public eye.
A third Democratic operative suggested that any appearances Biden makes on the campaign trail might gloss over some of the self-inflicted wounds Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), have committed over the past two weeks.
Vance’s debut on the campaign trail earned him the particularly damning label from Democratic critics as “weird.” The tone and content of Trump’s Wednesday appearance at a panel during the National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago drew sharp criticism.
“I love Joe Biden, but when he was the nominee, it was much easier for Trump to seem on the ball,” a Democratic strategist told the Washington Examiner. “But what we saw onstage Wednesday has Republicans regretting all those calls for cognitive tests for elected officials.”
The Harris campaign did not answer questions about whether Biden’s time away from the public eye marked a conscious campaign strategy. The president does appear to be giving Harris plenty of room to spread her wings.
He departed the White House on Friday for his private home in Wilmington, Delaware, where he will remain through Monday, and is expected to travel to Rehoboth Beach again in August, though White House officials have not yet announced that second trip to Delaware this month.
The president has held only a smattering of noteworthy public events after deciding to bow out of seeking a second term. The first came during his official Oval Office address explaining his decision back on July 25. The second occurred last week, when he outlined three major proposed reforms to the Supreme Court.
His third, and arguably most important, public appearance was a two-for-one. Thursday afternoon, Biden announced the safe returns of three Americans, Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan, and Alsu Kermasheva, from Russian captivity before greeting the three of them when they touched down on U.S. soil late Thursday night. Harris joined him on the tarmac to share in the celebration.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris greet reporter Evan Gershkovich at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, following his release as part of a 24-person prisoner swap between Russia and the United States, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
His questions from the press now are about Harris, such as who should be her running mate.
“I’ll let her work that out,” Biden said Friday.
In addition to her campaigning across the country, Harris has stepped up her official duties over the past two weeks. Most notably, the vice president served as the de facto head of state during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the United States, his first since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack.
Harris met separately with Netanyahu at the White House. She told the Israeli leader flat out that “it is time” to end the war in Gaza, a distinctly sharper message than Biden’s past statements on the conflict, before delivering a national address on the issue.
The Gershkovich prisoner swap Thursday underscored just how delicately Democrats and the Biden-Harris team are handling the president’s situation.
According to the White House, the exchange, which brought the total number of unjustly detained Americans abroad that Biden has freed as president to 70, was the product of months of closed-door personal diplomacy on the part of the president and represents a highlight of his term in office.
“Today’s exchange is a feat of diplomacy that honestly could only be achieved by a leader like Joe Biden,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters during Thursday’s press briefing. “The president was himself personally engaged in the diplomacy that brought this about.”
Sullivan’s comments, however, caused reporters in the room to ask about Harris’s role in the exchange.
“Both President Biden and Vice President Harris have made the return of unjustly detained Americans hostage — American hostages an absolute priority,” he responded. “I’ve sat in the Oval Office more times than I can count over the course of the past years, providing briefings and updates on this and getting peppered with questions by both the president and the vice president; thinking through the strategy; iterating the approach, which she was a participant in very much — a core member of the team that helped make this happen.”
The ultimate sign that Biden is stepping off stage, won’t come until later this month at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Even before Harris received enough delegate votes on Friday to earn the party’s nomination, party officials switched up the convention’s speaking schedule.
Biden, while he was still running, had been slated to deliver the keynote address on Thursday, the closing night of the convention.
He’ll now speak on Monday in a curtain-raiser address before the convention shifts toward Harris and the future of the party.
2024-08-03 11:00:00, http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2Fwhite-house%2F3109675%2Fbiden-recedes-background-harris-starring-role%2F?w=600&h=450, WILMINGTON, Delaware — Since President Joe Biden bowed out of the 2024 presidential race, he’s faded into the background as his hand-picked successor takes on more official duties. In the two weeks since he announced on social media he wouldn’t seek a second term, Biden has held few public events. The commander in chief watched,
WILMINGTON, Delaware — Since President Joe Biden bowed out of the 2024 presidential race, he’s faded into the background as his hand-picked successor takes on more official duties.
In the two weeks since he announced on social media he wouldn’t seek a second term, Biden has held few public events. The commander in chief watched from the sidelines as the Democratic Party united behind Vice President Kamala Harris as the new presumptive nominee.
The remarkable changing of the guard is unfolding because Democrats deemed it necessary to have a shot at stopping former President Donald Trump from returning to the White House. Biden, who said he chose saving democracy over “personal ambition,” not only became a lame-duck president but took on a supporting role to his vice president.
“He’s fading into the sunset,” one Democratic strategist told the Washington Examiner.
Biden’s retreat comes as Harris must create some distance from her boss as she reenergizes the party’s voters and donors with the chance to make history as the first woman president. She’s leaning into her pre-Washington resume as a California prosecutor who can stand up to Trump, a convicted felon.
It’s a delicate tightrope of respecting Biden’s legacy while keeping him out of the spotlight during the final months of the election due to his unpopularity and the public’s concerns about his age and mental fitness.
President Joe Biden, left, and Vice President Kamala Harris arrive for a campaign event at Girard College, Wednesday, May 29, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Joe Lamberti)
Multiple veteran Democratic operatives told the Washington Examiner that the best way for the president to help his 2020 running mate is to simply stay out of the way.
“President Biden has accomplished more in four years than most presidents do in eight,” one strategist claimed. “He saved the country from COVID-19 and Donald Trump, but, respectfully, he needs to officially pass the torch. Voters must be able to equate Vice President Harris with all of the wins this administration has notched, and I feel like having him out on the stump for her could undermine those efforts.”
Republicans, in an attempt to slow Harris’s surge in popularity, have levied new attacks of late claiming the vice president was looped in on an effort to obscure the seriousness of Biden’s aging from voters. A second Democratic operative said that they believed that narrative would “only pick up steam” if the president remained in the public eye.
A third Democratic operative suggested that any appearances Biden makes on the campaign trail might gloss over some of the self-inflicted wounds Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), have committed over the past two weeks.
Vance’s debut on the campaign trail earned him the particularly damning label from Democratic critics as “weird.” The tone and content of Trump’s Wednesday appearance at a panel during the National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago drew sharp criticism.
“I love Joe Biden, but when he was the nominee, it was much easier for Trump to seem on the ball,” a Democratic strategist told the Washington Examiner. “But what we saw onstage Wednesday has Republicans regretting all those calls for cognitive tests for elected officials.”
The Harris campaign did not answer questions about whether Biden’s time away from the public eye marked a conscious campaign strategy. The president does appear to be giving Harris plenty of room to spread her wings.
He departed the White House on Friday for his private home in Wilmington, Delaware, where he will remain through Monday, and is expected to travel to Rehoboth Beach again in August, though White House officials have not yet announced that second trip to Delaware this month.
The president has held only a smattering of noteworthy public events after deciding to bow out of seeking a second term. The first came during his official Oval Office address explaining his decision back on July 25. The second occurred last week, when he outlined three major proposed reforms to the Supreme Court.
His third, and arguably most important, public appearance was a two-for-one. Thursday afternoon, Biden announced the safe returns of three Americans, Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan, and Alsu Kermasheva, from Russian captivity before greeting the three of them when they touched down on U.S. soil late Thursday night. Harris joined him on the tarmac to share in the celebration.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris greet reporter Evan Gershkovich at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, following his release as part of a 24-person prisoner swap between Russia and the United States, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
His questions from the press now are about Harris, such as who should be her running mate.
“I’ll let her work that out,” Biden said Friday.
In addition to her campaigning across the country, Harris has stepped up her official duties over the past two weeks. Most notably, the vice president served as the de facto head of state during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the United States, his first since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack.
Harris met separately with Netanyahu at the White House. She told the Israeli leader flat out that “it is time” to end the war in Gaza, a distinctly sharper message than Biden’s past statements on the conflict, before delivering a national address on the issue.
The Gershkovich prisoner swap Thursday underscored just how delicately Democrats and the Biden-Harris team are handling the president’s situation.
According to the White House, the exchange, which brought the total number of unjustly detained Americans abroad that Biden has freed as president to 70, was the product of months of closed-door personal diplomacy on the part of the president and represents a highlight of his term in office.
“Today’s exchange is a feat of diplomacy that honestly could only be achieved by a leader like Joe Biden,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters during Thursday’s press briefing. “The president was himself personally engaged in the diplomacy that brought this about.”
Sullivan’s comments, however, caused reporters in the room to ask about Harris’s role in the exchange.
“Both President Biden and Vice President Harris have made the return of unjustly detained Americans hostage — American hostages an absolute priority,” he responded. “I’ve sat in the Oval Office more times than I can count over the course of the past years, providing briefings and updates on this and getting peppered with questions by both the president and the vice president; thinking through the strategy; iterating the approach, which she was a participant in very much — a core member of the team that helped make this happen.”
The ultimate sign that Biden is stepping off stage, won’t come until later this month at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Even before Harris received enough delegate votes on Friday to earn the party’s nomination, party officials switched up the convention’s speaking schedule.
Biden, while he was still running, had been slated to deliver the keynote address on Thursday, the closing night of the convention.
He’ll now speak on Monday in a curtain-raiser address before the convention shifts toward Harris and the future of the party.
, WILMINGTON, Delaware — Since President Joe Biden bowed out of the 2024 presidential race, he’s faded into the background as his hand-picked successor takes on more official duties. In the two weeks since he announced on social media he wouldn’t seek a second term, Biden has held few public events. The commander in chief watched from the sidelines as the Democratic Party united behind Vice President Kamala Harris as the new presumptive nominee. The remarkable changing of the guard is unfolding because Democrats deemed it necessary to have a shot at stopping former President Donald Trump from returning to the White House. Biden, who said he chose saving democracy over “personal ambition,” not only became a lame-duck president but took on a supporting role to his vice president. “He’s fading into the sunset,” one Democratic strategist told the Washington Examiner. Biden’s retreat comes as Harris must create some distance from her boss as she reenergizes the party’s voters and donors with the chance to make history as the first woman president. She’s leaning into her pre-Washington resume as a California prosecutor who can stand up to Trump, a convicted felon. It’s a delicate tightrope of respecting Biden’s legacy while keeping him out of the spotlight during the final months of the election due to his unpopularity and the public’s concerns about his age and mental fitness. President Joe Biden, left, and Vice President Kamala Harris arrive for a campaign event at Girard College, Wednesday, May 29, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Joe Lamberti) Multiple veteran Democratic operatives told the Washington Examiner that the best way for the president to help his 2020 running mate is to simply stay out of the way. “President Biden has accomplished more in four years than most presidents do in eight,” one strategist claimed. “He saved the country from COVID-19 and Donald Trump, but, respectfully, he needs to officially pass the torch. Voters must be able to equate Vice President Harris with all of the wins this administration has notched, and I feel like having him out on the stump for her could undermine those efforts.” Republicans, in an attempt to slow Harris’s surge in popularity, have levied new attacks of late claiming the vice president was looped in on an effort to obscure the seriousness of Biden’s aging from voters. A second Democratic operative said that they believed that narrative would “only pick up steam” if the president remained in the public eye. A third Democratic operative suggested that any appearances Biden makes on the campaign trail might gloss over some of the self-inflicted wounds Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), have committed over the past two weeks. Vance’s debut on the campaign trail earned him the particularly damning label from Democratic critics as “weird.” The tone and content of Trump’s Wednesday appearance at a panel during the National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago drew sharp criticism. “I love Joe Biden, but when he was the nominee, it was much easier for Trump to seem on the ball,” a Democratic strategist told the Washington Examiner. “But what we saw onstage Wednesday has Republicans regretting all those calls for cognitive tests for elected officials.” The Harris campaign did not answer questions about whether Biden’s time away from the public eye marked a conscious campaign strategy. The president does appear to be giving Harris plenty of room to spread her wings. He departed the White House on Friday for his private home in Wilmington, Delaware, where he will remain through Monday, and is expected to travel to Rehoboth Beach again in August, though White House officials have not yet announced that second trip to Delaware this month. The president has held only a smattering of noteworthy public events after deciding to bow out of seeking a second term. The first came during his official Oval Office address explaining his decision back on July 25. The second occurred last week, when he outlined three major proposed reforms to the Supreme Court. His third, and arguably most important, public appearance was a two-for-one. Thursday afternoon, Biden announced the safe returns of three Americans, Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan, and Alsu Kermasheva, from Russian captivity before greeting the three of them when they touched down on U.S. soil late Thursday night. Harris joined him on the tarmac to share in the celebration. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris greet reporter Evan Gershkovich at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, following his release as part of a 24-person prisoner swap between Russia and the United States, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) His questions from the press now are about Harris, such as who should be her running mate. “I’ll let her work that out,” Biden said Friday. In addition to her campaigning across the country, Harris has stepped up her official duties over the past two weeks. Most notably, the vice president served as the de facto head of state during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the United States, his first since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack. Harris met separately with Netanyahu at the White House. She told the Israeli leader flat out that “it is time” to end the war in Gaza, a distinctly sharper message than Biden’s past statements on the conflict, before delivering a national address on the issue. The Gershkovich prisoner swap Thursday underscored just how delicately Democrats and the Biden-Harris team are handling the president’s situation. According to the White House, the exchange, which brought the total number of unjustly detained Americans abroad that Biden has freed as president to 70, was the product of months of closed-door personal diplomacy on the part of the president and represents a highlight of his term in office. “Today’s exchange is a feat of diplomacy that honestly could only be achieved by a leader like Joe Biden,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters during Thursday’s press briefing. “The president was himself personally engaged in the diplomacy that brought this about.” Sullivan’s comments, however, caused reporters in the room to ask about Harris’s role in the exchange. “Both President Biden and Vice President Harris have made the return of unjustly detained Americans hostage — American hostages an absolute priority,” he responded. “I’ve sat in the Oval Office more times than I can count over the course of the past years, providing briefings and updates on this and getting peppered with questions by both the president and the vice president; thinking through the strategy; iterating the approach, which she was a participant in very much — a core member of the team that helped make this happen.” The ultimate sign that Biden is stepping off stage, won’t come until later this month at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Even before Harris received enough delegate votes on Friday to earn the party’s nomination, party officials switched up the convention’s speaking schedule. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER Biden, while he was still running, had been slated to deliver the keynote address on Thursday, the closing night of the convention. He’ll now speak on Monday in a curtain-raiser address before the convention shifts toward Harris and the future of the party. , , , https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Joe-Biden-steps-back-Kamala.webp, Washington Examiner, Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-favicon-32×32.png, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feed/, Christian Datoc,
Former President Donald Trump tore into Vice President Kamala Harris‘s track record on crime, claiming the former prosecutor is only “tough on guys like” him because she is his 2024 opponent.
Trump traveled to Hershey, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday for his first rally in the state since the attempt on his life in Butler earlier this month.
Harris has taken to propping up her record as a prosecutor and attorney general of California to contrast herself with Trump, who was found guilty in Manhattan court of 34 counts of business fraud in May.
“In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds: predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain,” she said during a rally last week in Wisconsin. “So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type.”
Like in recent visits, the former president opened his rally with a moment of silence for Corey Comperatore, the Trump supporter killed in Butler by would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crookes, before tearing into Harris.
“She’s a defund the police radical trying to pass herself off as a tough-on-crime prosecutor,” Trump said of Harris. “She wasn’t tough on crime. She’s only tough on guys like me because they want to go after their political opponents.”
The narrative that the Biden administration and its allies are prosecuting Trump to keep him out of the White House has been a centerpiece of his reelection bid.
“They’re just weak on crime. They don’t mind if somebody murders somebody,” Trump continued. “You can kill somebody now. Our country is sick. The mindset of our country is sick, and we’re not going to let her do to Pennsylvania what she did to California.”
Despite Harris’s recent campaign tactics, her record in law enforcement hurt her during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, with progressives questioning her commitment to criminal justice reform.
Harris also flirted with the “defund the police” movement and supported ending cash bail during the 2020 blowback to the death of George Floyd, which also cost her with moderate Democrats who gravitated to President Joe Biden during her previous White House bid.
2024-08-01 00:25:00, http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2Fcampaigns%2Fpresidential%2F3106893%2Ftrump-harris-isnt-tough-crime-only-guys-like-me%2F?w=600&h=450, Former President Donald Trump tore into Vice President Kamala Harris‘s track record on crime, claiming the former prosecutor is only “tough on guys like” him because she is his 2024 opponent. Trump traveled to Hershey, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday for his first rally in the state since the attempt on his life in Butler earlier this month.,
Former President Donald Trump tore into Vice President Kamala Harris‘s track record on crime, claiming the former prosecutor is only “tough on guys like” him because she is his 2024 opponent.
Trump traveled to Hershey, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday for his first rally in the state since the attempt on his life in Butler earlier this month.
Harris has taken to propping up her record as a prosecutor and attorney general of California to contrast herself with Trump, who was found guilty in Manhattan court of 34 counts of business fraud in May.
“In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds: predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain,” she said during a rally last week in Wisconsin. “So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type.”
Like in recent visits, the former president opened his rally with a moment of silence for Corey Comperatore, the Trump supporter killed in Butler by would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crookes, before tearing into Harris.
“She’s a defund the police radical trying to pass herself off as a tough-on-crime prosecutor,” Trump said of Harris. “She wasn’t tough on crime. She’s only tough on guys like me because they want to go after their political opponents.”
The narrative that the Biden administration and its allies are prosecuting Trump to keep him out of the White House has been a centerpiece of his reelection bid.
“They’re just weak on crime. They don’t mind if somebody murders somebody,” Trump continued. “You can kill somebody now. Our country is sick. The mindset of our country is sick, and we’re not going to let her do to Pennsylvania what she did to California.”
Despite Harris’s recent campaign tactics, her record in law enforcement hurt her during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, with progressives questioning her commitment to criminal justice reform.
Harris also flirted with the “defund the police” movement and supported ending cash bail during the 2020 blowback to the death of George Floyd, which also cost her with moderate Democrats who gravitated to President Joe Biden during her previous White House bid.
, Former President Donald Trump tore into Vice President Kamala Harris‘s track record on crime, claiming the former prosecutor is only “tough on guys like” him because she is his 2024 opponent. Trump traveled to Hershey, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday for his first rally in the state since the attempt on his life in Butler earlier this month. Harris has taken to propping up her record as a prosecutor and attorney general of California to contrast herself with Trump, who was found guilty in Manhattan court of 34 counts of business fraud in May. “In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds: predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain,” she said during a rally last week in Wisconsin. “So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type.” Like in recent visits, the former president opened his rally with a moment of silence for Corey Comperatore, the Trump supporter killed in Butler by would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crookes, before tearing into Harris. “She’s a defund the police radical trying to pass herself off as a tough-on-crime prosecutor,” Trump said of Harris. “She wasn’t tough on crime. She’s only tough on guys like me because they want to go after their political opponents.” The narrative that the Biden administration and its allies are prosecuting Trump to keep him out of the White House has been a centerpiece of his reelection bid. “They’re just weak on crime. They don’t mind if somebody murders somebody,” Trump continued. “You can kill somebody now. Our country is sick. The mindset of our country is sick, and we’re not going to let her do to Pennsylvania what she did to California.” CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER Despite Harris’s recent campaign tactics, her record in law enforcement hurt her during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, with progressives questioning her commitment to criminal justice reform. Harris also flirted with the “defund the police” movement and supported ending cash bail during the 2020 blowback to the death of George Floyd, which also cost her with moderate Democrats who gravitated to President Joe Biden during her previous White House bid., , , https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/trump-harris-tough.webp, Washington Examiner, Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-favicon-32×32.png, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feed/, Christian Datoc,
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), former President Donald Trump‘s 2024 running mate, heartily attacked Vice President Kamala Harris in battleground Nevada on Tuesday.
Vance has hit the campaign trail hard since being selected as Trump’s running mate during the Republican National Convention earlier in July, but his claims that “crazy cat ladies” in the Democratic Party are propping up Harris’s White House bid drew sharp condemnation last week.
On Tuesday, at the first of two Nevada rallies, Vance instead opted to go after Harris’s “dangerously liberal” track record, including past statements from her short-lived 2020 presidential campaign, and instead contrast them with his humble upbringing in rural Ohio.
“Kamala Harris has broken, I think, that foundational promise that if you work hard and play by the rules, you ought to be able to live a good life in this country now. That’s why so many Americans no longer believe that their children will be better off than they are, and I hate to say it, if we elect Kamala Harris, they’re going to be right,” he declared Tuesday.
Vance specifically recounted his childhood and being raised by his grandmother Bonnie Blanton Vance, whom he affectionately referred to as “Mamaw.”
“I grew up in a family where things were often tight and tough, but I made it because, first of all, this is a great country that provides opportunities to its citizens, and we are grateful for it. Now, I also made it, of course, because I was raised by a tough old bird I called Mamaw,” he continued. “I’m so grateful for all the strong women out there, especially the strong grandmas and the strong moms.”
Vance got off to a rocky start as Trump’s top surrogate, but reports and Republican insiders indicate there are no plans for the Republican vice presidential nominee to pull any punches.
However, Vance’s Tuesday afternoon rally was mocked by the Harris campaign after a “Vance” signage emblazoning the front of his podium slipped off its hold in the middle of his remarks.
“Status of the Trump-Vance campaign right now,” the Harris campaign tweeted alongside a video of the incident.
2024-07-30 22:01:00, http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2Fcampaigns%2Fpresidential%2F3105162%2Fvance-attacks-dangerously-liberal-harris-touting-his-family-roots%2F?w=600&h=450, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), former President Donald Trump‘s 2024 running mate, heartily attacked Vice President Kamala Harris in battleground Nevada on Tuesday. Vance has hit the campaign trail hard since being selected as Trump’s running mate during the Republican National Convention earlier in July, but his claims that “crazy cat ladies” in the Democratic Party are,
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), former President Donald Trump‘s 2024 running mate, heartily attacked Vice President Kamala Harris in battleground Nevada on Tuesday.
Vance has hit the campaign trail hard since being selected as Trump’s running mate during the Republican National Convention earlier in July, but his claims that “crazy cat ladies” in the Democratic Party are propping up Harris’s White House bid drew sharp condemnation last week.
On Tuesday, at the first of two Nevada rallies, Vance instead opted to go after Harris’s “dangerously liberal” track record, including past statements from her short-lived 2020 presidential campaign, and instead contrast them with his humble upbringing in rural Ohio.
“Kamala Harris has broken, I think, that foundational promise that if you work hard and play by the rules, you ought to be able to live a good life in this country now. That’s why so many Americans no longer believe that their children will be better off than they are, and I hate to say it, if we elect Kamala Harris, they’re going to be right,” he declared Tuesday.
Vance specifically recounted his childhood and being raised by his grandmother Bonnie Blanton Vance, whom he affectionately referred to as “Mamaw.”
“I grew up in a family where things were often tight and tough, but I made it because, first of all, this is a great country that provides opportunities to its citizens, and we are grateful for it. Now, I also made it, of course, because I was raised by a tough old bird I called Mamaw,” he continued. “I’m so grateful for all the strong women out there, especially the strong grandmas and the strong moms.”
Vance got off to a rocky start as Trump’s top surrogate, but reports and Republican insiders indicate there are no plans for the Republican vice presidential nominee to pull any punches.
However, Vance’s Tuesday afternoon rally was mocked by the Harris campaign after a “Vance” signage emblazoning the front of his podium slipped off its hold in the middle of his remarks.
“Status of the Trump-Vance campaign right now,” the Harris campaign tweeted alongside a video of the incident.
, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), former President Donald Trump‘s 2024 running mate, heartily attacked Vice President Kamala Harris in battleground Nevada on Tuesday. Vance has hit the campaign trail hard since being selected as Trump’s running mate during the Republican National Convention earlier in July, but his claims that “crazy cat ladies” in the Democratic Party are propping up Harris’s White House bid drew sharp condemnation last week. On Tuesday, at the first of two Nevada rallies, Vance instead opted to go after Harris’s “dangerously liberal” track record, including past statements from her short-lived 2020 presidential campaign, and instead contrast them with his humble upbringing in rural Ohio. “Kamala Harris has broken, I think, that foundational promise that if you work hard and play by the rules, you ought to be able to live a good life in this country now. That’s why so many Americans no longer believe that their children will be better off than they are, and I hate to say it, if we elect Kamala Harris, they’re going to be right,” he declared Tuesday. Vance specifically recounted his childhood and being raised by his grandmother Bonnie Blanton Vance, whom he affectionately referred to as “Mamaw.” “I grew up in a family where things were often tight and tough, but I made it because, first of all, this is a great country that provides opportunities to its citizens, and we are grateful for it. Now, I also made it, of course, because I was raised by a tough old bird I called Mamaw,” he continued. “I’m so grateful for all the strong women out there, especially the strong grandmas and the strong moms.” Vance got off to a rocky start as Trump’s top surrogate, but reports and Republican insiders indicate there are no plans for the Republican vice presidential nominee to pull any punches. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER However, Vance’s Tuesday afternoon rally was mocked by the Harris campaign after a “Vance” signage emblazoning the front of his podium slipped off its hold in the middle of his remarks. “Status of the Trump-Vance campaign right now,” the Harris campaign tweeted alongside a video of the incident. Status of the Trump-Vance campaign right now pic.twitter.com/AE16SNbF8V — Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) July 30, 2024, , , https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/vance-harris.webp, Washington Examiner, Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-favicon-32×32.png, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feed/, Christian Datoc,
Contrary to recent reports, President Joe Biden is not exiting the 2024 race, according to his campaign chairwoman, Jen O’Malley Dillon.
Multiple outlets reported Thursday that the president, who is isolating in Delaware with COVID-19, is slowly coming to terms with his polling and could make way for a new Democratic nominee as early as this weekend.
O’Malley Dillon sat for a 15-minute interview with MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Friday in which she rejected those claims and attempted to outline Biden’s path to victory.
O’Malley Dillon did, on multiple occasions, acknowledge Biden’s “slippage in support” following his first debate with former President Donald Trump but claimed the campaign is “built for the close election that we’re in.”
“I’m not here to say that this hasn’t been a tough several weeks,” she said. “It was close in 2020. It’s going to be close in 2024.”
As for the recent string of leaks regarding Democrats’ shadow campaign to push Biden from the ticket, O’Malley Dillon claimed there are just as many Democrats, including at the grassroots level, who want to move forward with nominating Biden.
“The broad coalition of people that stand with the president is bigger and wider than the people that don’t want him to run, and those are the people that are doing the work in the states that really matter,” she claimed. “We can bring home the people that have some concerns, are a little undecided today, because when they see those two head-to-head and the visions they have for this country, there is no doubt in my mind that the American people are going to be with Joe Biden.”
Despite the president’s repeated commitments to run in 2024, new reports continue to surface about his gradual shift to an exit.
NBC News claimed Friday morning that Biden’s immediate family members have begun holding conversations about how the president can gracefully bow out of the election.
President Joe Biden is reportedly preparing to endorse a set of major reforms to the Supreme Court, marking a sharp departure from his previously held positions on the judiciary.
According to a Tuesday report from the Washington Post, the president, who is campaigning in Nevada, is finalizing plans to back establishing term limits for Supreme Court justices and instituting a new, enforceable code of ethics.
Two people briefed on Biden’s plans also told the Washington Post that Biden is still on the fence about calling for an end to blanket immunity for presidents, just weeks after the Supreme Court issued its immunity ruling that gave former President Donald Trump a victory when it decided presidents have “absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority” and “presumptive immunity” for all official acts.
The White House and Justice Department declined to comment on the report.
The president has been critical of the Supreme Court’s apparent swing to the right in recent years after being handed major losses on abortion, student loan debt, and more.
“This decision today has continued the court’s attack in recent years on a wide range of long-established legal principles in our nation, from gutting voting rights and civil rights to taking away a woman’s right to choose, to today’s decision that undermines the rule of law of this nation,” Biden said in direct response to the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling.
Carrie Severino, the president of the conservative judicial advocacy group Judicial Crisis Network, told the Washington Examiner that Biden’s potential reforms would require congressional authorization and are “constitutional nonstarters.”
“We all realize the kind of electoral nightmare Joe Biden is living right now. But this is not going to solve it, and he seems to be throwing a bone to some of the top ticket items of left-wing dark money groups, maybe trying to help, hoping to reassure or reinvigorate some of his donors, who I’m sure are concerned at this point. But there’s no way this is going to happen,” Severino, a former clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas, stated.
“President Biden is right to lay out an ambitious plan that provides an important first step to repair and strengthen our democracy, which continues to be weakened by the unchecked corruption, partisanship, and lawlessness exhibited by justices on the Supreme Court,” Alex Aronson, executive director of Court Accountability Action, who in June appeared at a roundtable of House members to discuss the mounting ethics crisis at the Supreme Court, told the Washington Examiner in a statement. “We look forward to reviewing the details of proposals to impose term limits and establish an enforceable ethics code, both of which are important steps in the right direction.”
As president, Biden, a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has largely avoided endorsing court reforms proposed by Democrats over the past three years, specifically an effort by progressives following the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision to expand the Supreme Court’s bench.
But Biden has also faced a steady chorus of voices from within his own party to make way for a younger, nimbler 2024 Democratic nominee, and his shift on court reforms marks the second olive branch Biden has extended to Democratic power players and voters in as many days.
Tuesday morning, the White House announced a proposal that would see corporate landlords lose out on tax breaks if they don’t install 5% rent caps for already existing units.
The proposal would only affect landlords with more than 50 units in their portfolio but has virtually no prospects of advancing through Congress given the Republican majority in the House of Representatives.
Monday forced President Joe Biden‘s campaign and supporters to strike a balance between lowering the nation’s political temperature following the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump and launching renewed attacks against Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Trump’s running mate.
Biden made the easy call over the weekend to immediately pause all ad reservations and outbound campaign communications following the Trump assassination attempt and urged voters in a nationally televised address to “lower the temperature” surrounding the election.
However, Vance’s selection appeared to mark the end of campaign officials’ brief silence on the airwaves.
Biden campaign Chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon in a Monday statement claimed that the reason Trump settled on Vance was “because Vance will do what Mike Pence wouldn’t on January 6: bend over backwards to enable Trump and his extreme MAGA agenda, even if it means breaking the law and no matter the harm to the American people.”
Later Monday afternoon, O’Malley Dillon, campaign spokesman T.J. Ducklo, and top Biden surrogate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) additionally attempted to tie Vance and Trump to Republican efforts to further curtail abortion nationwide.
The campaign also lifted its temporary pause on fundraising, sending multiple solicitations to supporters through emails and a tweet from the president’s account all pegged to Vance’s selection as Trump’s running mate.
Bidenworld allies had previously voiced concerns about the president’s campaign options moving forward and questioned how long Biden can afford to sit on the sidelines given questions about his fitness for office.
The Biden campaign declined to comment on this story beyond confirming that the president’s pause on paid advertising still stands.
Multiple Democratic operatives, however, told the Washington Examiner that Biden campaign officials and White House staff were caught off guard by the Saturday attempt on Trump’s life.
Democrats had developed a “robust” slate of counterprograming to run alongside the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this week, according to people familiar with the planning of those efforts.
The Trump assassination attempt, and Biden’s decision to halt outgoing campaign messaging while Trump recovers, upended those plans.
Biden himself and a number of top Democratic lawmakers have urged voters to “lower the temperature” surrounding politics following the attack on Trump.
“There is no place in America for this kind of violence, for any violence ever. Period. No exceptions. We can’t allow this violence to be normalized,” the president stated Sunday night. “Unity is the most elusive goal of all, but nothing is important as that right now. We’ll debate and we’ll disagree. That’s not going to change. But it’s going — we’re not going to lose sight of the fact who we are as Americans.”
“We have to reduce the rhetoric and the tone. I’d urge folks to turn off their phones and get off of social media today. And take some time with your family and reflect on who we are as a nation and who we want to be,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) said that morning in an interview on Meet the Press.
“President Biden sets the tone for his campaign, but there’s also a sense of urgency from aides to continue with this momentum,” one veteran Democratic strategist told the Washington Examiner.
Following the first 2024 debate with Trump, Biden launched a full-court press aimed at easing concerns about his candidacy among Democratic power players.
Biden’s outreach slowed, though never fully bottled, the drip of Democratic lawmakers calling on the president to exit the race, and a string of polls published over the weekend showed Biden remaining competitive with Trump.
Fox News now shows Trump up one on the president following the debate, compared to a 2-point Biden lead heading into Atlanta.
Trump also led Biden by 2 points in the NBC News poll, the same margin he held over the president in NBC’s previous poll in April.
And CBS News’s latest battleground poll shows Trump up 2 points over Biden across seven critical swing states, virtually unchanged from the week prior.
“The president appears to have fended off the worst calls for change atop the ticket, and the campaign needs to press his advantage,” a Democratic operative close to the Biden campaign assessed. “But now, everything’s out the window.”
A third Democratic operative sounded anxious about how resuming Biden’s regularly scheduled campaign programming might alienate some voters shocked by the assassination attempt on Trump, and even inflame voices blaming the administration for the attack.
Several prominent Republicans have openly accused Democrats’ rhetoric of fomenting violence against Trump.
“Today is not just some isolated incident,” Vance claimed over the weekend. “The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination.”
“For weeks Democrat leaders have been fueling ludicrous hysteria that Donald Trump winning re-election would be the end of democracy in America,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), who, like Trump, was also previously shot in an act of targeted political violence, wrote in a press release. “Clearly we’ve seen far left lunatics act on violent rhetoric in the past. This incendiary rhetoric must stop.”
Reporters pressed White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on those claims during Monday’s press briefing, but she stopped short of saying that Biden regretted any of his past rhetoric framing Trump as a threat to democracy.
Later, in an interview with NBC News’s Lester Holt, Biden expressed regret over his use of the term “bullseye” when describing Trump.
Biden stressed that he wasn’t speaking literally and only meant to focus attention on Trump. His use of the word was scrutinized following the attempted assassination of Trump on Saturday, and it resulted in his backtracking.
The campaign and Democratic National Committee are expected to resume their RNC counterprogramming later this week.
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