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Kamala Harris‘ campaign continues to go all-in with its new attack line on Donald Trump and JD Vance, repeatedly describing the pair as “weird,” ahead of the looming Democratic convention next month.
The party’s sudden unification has been on display across the broadcast and cable news networks over the weekend, with surrogates for the vice president discussing three issues: the strength of Harris’s resume, Joe Biden’s proposed Supreme Court reform, and the perceived weirdness of Trump and Vance.
“[Trump] Praised dictators because he wants to be one; Trump is clearly worried he made the wrong pick in JD Vance; Trump is old and quite weird?” a recent statement from the campaign read. “If anyone wants an alternative, Kamala Harris is offering one.”
It comes as the Harris team said it has raised $200 million in donations in its first week since the vice president was officially endorsed by Biden to be the Democratic presidential nominee.
The campaign said that since last Sunday, it had seen “unprecedented” support from across the US, with more than 170,000 volunteers joing the campaign and plans to mobilize 2,300 in key battleground states.
The 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) is due to take place from August 19 to 22.
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Trump says he doesn’t care if he mispronounces Kamala Harris’s name
Former President Donald Trump said during a speech on Friday that he doesn’t care if he mispronounces the name of his general election opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Chicago police chief says out-of-town police won’t be posted in city during DNC
Outside police agencies that will help to secure the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago next month will not be posted in city neighborhoods, Police Superintendent Larry Snelling said on Thursday as federal authorities released maps of convention security perimeters.
The renewed attention on out-of-town police comes after Ohio officers stationed in Milwaukee for the Republican convention last week fatally shot a man at a park not far from the Fiserv Forum.
Here’s more.
Trump ‘couldn’t care less’ about mispronouncing Kamala Harris’ name
Donald Trump said during a speech on Friday that he doesn’t care if he mispronounces the name of his all-but-certain political rival in November.
After mispronouncing her name on a number of occasions, Trump is facing claims that he’s doing it on purpose.
Appearing on Friday at the Turning Point USA Believers Summit in West Palm Beach, Florida, the former president said that there are seven ways of saying Harris’s name.
“By the way, there are numerous ways of saying her name, they were explaining to me, ‘you can say Kamala, you can say Kamala’, I said, ‘don’t worry about it. It doesn’t matter what I say. I couldn’t care less if I mispronounce it’,” Trump said.
“Some people think I mispronounce it on purpose, but actually, I’ve heard it said about seven different ways.”
Harris makes surprise appearance at San Diego ComicCon
Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance in a more unlikley place… San Diego Comic-Con.
The vice president surpsised fans of The Simpsons with a pre-recorded video message on Saturday during the long-running Fox animated show’s panel, after creator Matt Groening introduced her as a “superfan,” according to Deadline.
“We must move forward, not backward, upward, not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom,” said Harris, per the outlet.
Harris was quoting the 1996 episode Treehouse of Horror VII, in which space aliens Kang and Kodos attemot to invade earth by impersonationg Bob Dole and Bill Clinton during the 1996 presidential election.
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Source: independent.co.uk
