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Kamala Harris said she offered “too much information” on the phone call from President Joe Biden after he revealed he was abandoning his re-election bid, during the first interview of her presidential campaign on Thursday.
Harris sat alongside her running mate Tim Walz at Kim’s Cafe, a local Black-owned restaurant in Savannah, Georgia, to speak with CNN’s Dana Bash. In the 27-minute long unscripted interview, she declared that her “values” were unchanged, despite some reversals on key policy positions surrounding immigration and fracking.
Harris also pledged to appoint a Republican to her cabinet if elected president and brushed off Donald Trump’s offensive remarks about her recently “turning Black”.
Walz defended previous comments surrounding his military record and fertility treatment, and said he was “grateful” for sharing an “emotional moment” with his son Gus at the Democratic National Convention last week.
Trump accused Biden and Harris of “gross incompetence” and accused them of killing 13 military personnel that died in a terrorist attack during the US’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. It comes as Trump’s campaign team continue to face backlash for allegedly being involved in an “altercation” during a wreath-laying ceremony in Arlington on Monday.
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Former President Donald Trump will hold a rally at the Cambria County War Memorial in Johnstown, Pennsylvania at 4.30pm ET.
He will then arrive in Washington DC at 8pm for a fire-side chat with Tiffany Justice, the co-founder of far-right political organisation Moms for Liberty.
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will be carrying the torch on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris today as he heads out west after the Harris-Walz tour bus made its final stop in Georgia yesterday.
He is slated to deliver remarks at campaign events in San Francisco, California, before traveling to Aspen, Colorado, according to the White House.
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Trump to address far-right Moms for Liberty in Washington DC today
Donald Trump will speak to ultra-conservative political organization Moms for Liberty in a fire-side chat in Washington DC on Friday.
The former president will sit down with its co-founder, Tiffany Justice, at 8pm this evening after holding a rally Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Trump will hope to galvanise support from its 130,000 members during his fly-by visit to the capital during the group’s summit.
Moms for Liberty, which serves on the advisory board for Project 2025, spearheaded efforts to cull lessons surrounding LGBTQ+ identity and structural racism from classrooms. It also petitioned to remove transgender accommodations from schools.
The address risks alienating many of Trump’s more moderate voters who believe the group’s beliefs are too extreme.
Trump, however, previously said that Moms for Liberty is “no hate group”, telling them: “You are joyful warriors, you are fierce, fierce patriots. You’re not a threat to America.”
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Harris revealed to the network’s Dana Bash that the president told her he was stepping aside when she had invited family over.
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Trump accuses Biden and Harris of ‘killing’ US troops
Donald Trump directly accused President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of killing US troops in the wake of his campaign team facing backlash after an alleged altercation at Arlington National Cemetery earlier this week.
On Monday, the former president arrived at the Virginia cemetery for a wreath-laying ceremony for 13 fallen service members killed in a terrorist attack during US’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.
While speaking about a so-called “migrant invasion” at a rally in Potterville, Michigan, on Thursday, Trump segued to defend his staffers following an alleged physical and verbal altercation between them and a cemetery worker.
Trump then made a stark claim that Biden and Harris – who were in office during the US military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 – were responsible for the deaths of the 13 military personnel killed in the suicide attack.
“Joe Biden killed their children, by incompetence – shoulda never happened,” he said in his fiery tirade.
“Kamala killed their children. Just as though they had a gun in their hand, by gross incompetence.”
Source: independent.co.uk
