Category: Elections

Kari Lake Holds Press Conference with Trump Campaign in Advance of Kamala Harris’s Visit to Arizona, Tangles with Mainstream Media

Rachel Alexander
Kari Lake

Kari Lake and the Trump campaign held a press conference on Thursday in anticipation of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s visit to the state on Friday. Lake, who is running for U.S. Senate and emceed the event, got into it with several members of the mainstream media who asked her questions, and criticized their lack of coverage of important events. Several officials joined Lake speaking, along with a Democratic couple who lost their teenage son to fentanyl.

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Lake addressed Harris’s event Friday evening at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, her vice presidential pick. “We know that Kamala Harris is coming to Arizona again tomorrow, and again, she won’t visit the border. The border czar won’t be visiting the border. Apparently the only wall that she supports is her VP pick by the name of Walz, I guess.” The attendees, who were mostly standing behind her holding campaign signs, laughed loudly.

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McCormick Brands Harris, Walz and Casey ‘Dangerously Soft’ on Crime in Ad Blasting 2020 Response to Riots

Tom Pappert
Dave McCormick, Tim Walz, Kamala Harris, Bob Casey

Republican U.S. Senate nominee Dave McCormick released a new ad for his Pennsylvania election that declares Vice President Kamala Harris, Governor Tim Walz, and Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) are “dangerously soft on criminals” and highlighted their response to the 2020 riots that followed the death of George Floyd.

“Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and Bob Casey are dangerously soft on criminals,” wrote McCormick in a post to the social media platform X.

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Democrats Have Outspent Republicans on Ads in Almost Every Major Senate Race So Far

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Sen. Sherrod Brown with Sen. Jon Tester in front of the U.S. Capitol (composite image)

Democrats had outspent Republicans on advertisements in every competitive Senate race except for Ohio as of Wednesday, Axios reported.

Republicans are losing the ad spending race in Pennsylvania, Montana, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona and Michigan, though have spent slightly more in Ohio, leading their Democratic rivals by a margin of $158.4 million to $152 million, according to Axios. The Republican spending advantage in Ohio may be slightly misleading as their roughly $6 million spending advantage in Ohio is the product of considerable ad spending during the state’s competitive Republican primary, as reflected in Federal Election Commission records.

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Kash Patel: Harris-Walz Campaign is a ‘Complete Government Gangster Deep State Operation’

Kaitlin Housler
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz

Former Chief of Staff to the U.S. Secretary of Defense Kash Patel said Kamala Harris being inserted as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee after incumbent President Joe Biden exited the race is a precise example of a “complete government gangster deep state operation.”

Patel – who stars in the new War Room documentary “Government Gangsters” which “pulls back the curtain on the sinister world of corrupt bureaucrats, government officials, and their media accomplices” – said the Democratic Party and the media’s coverup of Biden’s diminished capabilities to carry out the job as commander in chief before pushing the incumbent out of the 2024 race and inserting Harris as the nominee is the “absolute form of governing gangsterism.”

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America First Legal Sues Maricopa County for Refusing to Remove Noncitizens and Illegal Immigrants from Their Voter Rolls Before the Election

Rachel Alexander

America First Legal (AFL) filed a lawsuit on Monday against Maricopa County, including Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, for failing to remove noncitizens and illegal immigrants from their voter rolls. AFL sent letters to election officials in all 15 Arizona counties in July, demanding they fulfill their legal obligations within a week or AFL would sue them. 

The complaint says 35,273 registered voters in Arizona had failed to provide proof of citizenship and were registered as federal-only voters as of April 2024, a number that continues to increase, according to a report from Maricopa County. That report revealed that between April 1 and July 3, the numbers increased from 21,595 to 26,108, a jump of 21 percent. Additionally, the complaint cited a July 2024 survey of likely voters in Arizona and five other states, which found that over 1 percent said they are not U.S. citizens. AFL stated that recent races in Arizona have been decided by margins of less than 1 percent.

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Former Trump Campaign Spokesman Steve Cortes Stresses Importance of Exposing Harris-Walz ‘Radical’ Records Going into 2024 Election

Kaitlin Housler
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz

Steve Cortes, former senior spokesman and strategist for the 2016 and 2020 Trump campaigns and current head of the League of American Workers, said it is critical that Republicans expose Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’ “radical” records while in public office leading up to the November 5 general election.

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Commentary: Kamala’s Abuse of Staff Exemplifies Leftist Culture

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Kamala Harris

Long before fate made Kamala Harris the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for U.S. President, the Washington Post published an article critical of how she treats staff. The article, published in December of 2021, reported high staff turnover and claimed it “opens up questions about her management style.”

What were they thinking? Very recent top search results on the Washington Post’s coverage of Harris only pull up glowing tributes. In the past two weeks, here are just a few: “Kamala Harris is making politics fun again — for Democrats,” “Democrats make a change and find their hope,” “Kamala Harris and the coconut tree of hope,” “Kamala Harris’s life, career and firsts from AG to the vice presidency,” “Kamala Harris’s powerful laughter in the face of weirdness,” “Kamala Harris walks into the storm — and keeps her footing,” “How Kamala Harris’s early career prepared her for this moment.”

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Commentary: The Real President for the Middle Class

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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris

President Joe Biden talked incessantly about his “middle class out” economic strategy. Given his record, it would have been more accurate to call it the “middle class down and out” plan. Inflation has eroded away any income gains under Biden’s presidency.

Now Vice President Kamala Harris has her own riff on this theme. Her campaign motto is “Building up the middle class.” It isn’t exactly “Make America Great Again,” but Democrats don’t have a lot of time to come up with anything catchier, given that Harris was reluctantly chosen as the 8th-inning relief pitcher for Old Joe, who had long ago lost his fastball.

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Former Minnesotan Erin Haust Warns: Governor Tim Walz Is ‘Outrageously Radical’ and ‘Dangerously Inadequate’

Kaitlin Housler
Tim Walz

Erin Haust, a digital marketing expert and former journalist who recently moved from Minnesota to Tennessee, is warning voters about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as the governor was tapped by Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris to be her running mate in the 2024 election.

Haust, who lived in Minnesota for 12 years before deciding to move to the Volunteer State, said Walz handled the COVID-19 pandemic by ordering excessive lockdowns and mismanaging funds.

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New American Greatness Poll: Battlegrounds Are a Dead Heat

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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in front of The White House (composite image)

Brand new polling across the battleground states shows that Biden’s exit has tightened the presidential race, with Kamala Harris at a narrow 47-46 percent advantage in a head-to-head matchup, with 7 percent undecided. Harris is also +1 percent in a multi-candidate ballot test across the battlegrounds.

The American Greatness poll was conducted by North Star Opinion Research and interviewed 1400 likely voters, 200 per state in Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North Carolina.

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Dave McCormick Suggests Harris Campaign Sidelined Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro over ‘Strong Stand on Israel,’ ‘Jewish Background’

Tom Pappert
Josh Shapiro

Republican U.S. Senate nominee Dave McCormick argued on Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris decided against selecting Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro to complete the Democratic presidential ticket due to the governor’s “strong stand on Israel” and “Jewish background.”

In a post to the social media platform X, the McCormick campaign revealed the candidate made the remarks during a Jewish community round table in Philadelphia after Harris selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to complete her ticket.

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Cheryl Fritze: Kamala Harris’ VP Pick to ‘Certainly’ Influence Michigan’s Muslim Voting Population

Kaitlin Housler
Tim Walz

Cheryl Fritze, director of News Operations for Michigan News Source, said she believes Kamala Harris’ decision to choose Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate in the 2024 presidential election will “certainly” influence Michigan’s notable population of Muslim voters leading up to the November 5 general election.

Fritze noted how Dearborn, Michigan, is home to the largest population of Arab American Muslims in the country. This population has demanded a ceasefire between Israeli and Hamas forces in Gaza and is “upset” with the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of the situation.

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In Mesa County, Colorado Clerk Trial, Prosecution’s Partisan Witness Sobs, Other Witnesses Backtrack

Rachel Alexander
Stephanie Wenholz testifies

The third fully live streamed day of the trial against former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters featured testimony from a partisan election employee who sobbed for about five minutes while speaking, as well as backtracking from other witnesses when cross-examined by Peters’ attorney. Peters is being prosecuted for her role in attempting to take a video of a software update on Dominion voting machines. She was concerned that overriding the election files with the upgrade would violate both state and federal law requiring retention of files for 22-25 months. 

Stephanie Wenholz, the elections manager for Mesa County, broke down in tears when asked about the day she found out that the Colorado Secretary of State’s (COSOS) office was investigating Mesa County over the incident. Although Wenholz admitted that Peters instructed employees not to speak with law enforcement, but to direct them to her and her attorneys instead, Wenholz said she contacted Detective James Cannon, the chief investigator for the Mesa County District Attorney. 

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Commentary: Voting Against Antisemitism in the Ilhan Omar Race

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Rep Ilhan Omar

All eyes are on Minnesota, now that Vice President Harris has picked Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate in November. But that is not the only North Star State race voters should be watching.

Unbeknownst to many, Minnesota has an open primary system. This means that, according to Ballotpedia, “a voter can participate in the party primary of his or her choice.” Whether residents of the district are Republicans, Independents, or Democrats they can all vote in the Ilhan Omar primary on August 13th.

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Arizona Democrat Endorsed by Sens. Mark Kelly, Elizabeth Warren Trails Pro-Crypto Opponent Six Days After Primary

Tom Pappert
Raquel Teran, Yassamin Ansari

Former Arizona State Senator Raquel Terán was behind on Monday by just 67 votes to former Phoenix Vice Mayor Yassamin Ansari in the race for Arizona’s 3rd Congressional district, despite Terán receiving the support of U.S. Senators Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Representative Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ-07), and a number of nationally respected Democrats.

After 42,659 ballots for the Arizona Democratic Party primary for the state’s 3rd Congressional district were tallied by election workers, Ansari was found to have received 19,031 votes compared to Terán’s 18,964, giving the former Phoenix official a 67-vote lead and both candidates with about 44 percent of the vote.

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Former County GOP Chair Behind Pennsylvania Chapter of ‘Republicans for Harris’ Currently on House Arrest for DUI Conviction

Tom Pappert
Ann Womble in front of a rally for Kamala Harris (composite image)

One of the Pennsylvania Republicans selected on Sunday by the presidential campaign for Vice Presidential Kamala Harris to run the commonwealth’s chapter of Republicans for Harris is former Lancaster County Republican Committee chair Ann Womble, who pleaded guilty to driving while under the influence of alcohol in June.

Named as one of two leaders of Republicans for Harris in Pennsylvania by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Monday, Womble will reportedly help the Biden campaign reach Republicans who supported former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley during the Republican Party’s primary.

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Trump Campaign Raked in Nearly $140 Million in July

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Donald Trump Rally

Former President Donald Trump announced Thursday his campaign has raised nearly $140 million for July.

Within an fundraising update for the month of July, Trump’s campaign stated they’ve pulled in a total of $138.7 million, thus providing a cash on hand total of $327 million. The new numbers come after Trump was confirmed as the GOP’s presidential nominee at the Republican National Committee in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and notably after the failed assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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Two-Thirds of Arizona Lawmakers Unchallenged in Primary

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Vote sign

The highest level of Arizona’s uncontested incumbents since 2018 dominated Tuesday’s primary election. According to a report by Ballotpedia, 317 of the 488 July elections were uncontested – 65 percent.

Of the nine congressional district seats, four incumbents went uncontested. These include 5th Congressional District Republican Incumbent Rep. Andy Biggs, who will face Democrat Katrina Schaffner in the general election, District 4 Democratic Incumbent Greg Stanton, who will face Republican Kelly Cooper in the general election, District 7 Democratic Incumbent Raul Grijalva who will go against Republican Daniel Francis Butierez and District 9 Republican incumbent Paul Gosar who will go against Democrat Quacy Smith.

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Election Red Flag: Postal Service Watchdog Warns Some Mailed Ballots May Be Delayed, Not Counted

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Ballot

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) failed to deliver political and election mail on time between 2% and 3% of the time during the 2024 primaries and the mail service’s chief watchdog warns in a new audit that some mailed ballots might be delayed or not counted in the November election because workers aren’t following required procedures.

“We found that Postal Service personnel did not always comply with policy and procedures regarding all clear certifications, Election and Political Mail logs, and audit checklists,” the Postal Service Inspector General warned in a report made public this week. “In addition, we identified processes and policies that could pose a risk of delays in the processing and delivery of Election and Political Mail.

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Prosecution’s Key Witness in Trial Against Former Mesa County Clerk Repeatedly Claims He Doesn’t Remember Much

Rachel Alexander

The trial against former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters wrapped up its first week on Friday, featuring testimony by witnesses for the prosecution including IT professional Gerald Wood. Peters, who is charged with crimes related to making a copy of an election database since she was concerned that not keeping the files for two years would violate the law, hired Wood to help her with technical issues, but Wood repeatedly stated he couldn’t remember much when her attorney cross-examined him. 

Wood, who ended up not performing any work for Peters, spent much of his time on the witness stand distancing himself from the appearance that he was involved with Peters bringing in an outside IT expert to observe an upgrade of the Dominion voting machine software, since prosecutors alleged that a leak of computer bios passwords took place after IT expert Conan Hayes allegedly used Wood’s key card to enter the area where the upgrade was performed.

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Michigan Secretary of State Announces ‘Panic Button’ for Poll Workers Ahead of Election

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Election Day

Michigan Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson this week announced that the state would implement a “panic button” system for the November election permitting election officials to quickly alert law enforcement in the event of a threat.

“I don’t believe this is announced yet, but we will be rolling out a panic button type of communication for every election worker if clerks work with us, to implement it in their particular voting location to be able to text if something occurs,” Benson said Monday.

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Virginia A.G. Jason Miyares Demands Answers from Democrat Fundraising Platform ActBlue over Fraud Allegations

Tom Pappert
Jason Miyares and Act Blue

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares on Friday sent a letter to ActBlue, the top fundraising platform for Democrats and liberal issues, demanding answers over the money laundering and fraud allegations levied by journalist James O’Keefe and his O’Keefe Media Group.

Miyares posted his letter to the social media platform X, confirming his office questioned ActBlue over allegations of “fraudulent, deceptive, and/or otherwise illegal acts,” including “hundreds of thousands of dollars of contributions through individual donors” in Virginia who purportedly donated “in volumes that are facially implausible and appear suspicious.”

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Never Trumpers Lose Big in Tennessee GOP Primary

Tom Pappert
Andy Ogles and Courtney Johnston

The Never Trump donors who assembled to oppose Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) in the Thursday Republican primary for Tennessee’s 5th Congressional district were trounced by the incumbent, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump more than one year prior to the election.

Ogles’ victory came despite the incumbent being out raised by his opponent, Metro Councilwoman Courtney Johnston, who also benefited from more than $600,000 in advertising from the Conservatives with Character super PAC, whose treasurer told The Tennessee Star its primary purpose was to see the Trump-endorsed incumbent defeated.

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RNC Chair Declares Virginia ‘Competitive’ for Trump Campaign, Evidenced by ‘Trailblazer’ Youngkin

Tom Pappert
Glenn Youngkin

The chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) confirmed the party considers Virginia “competitive” for former President Donald Trump in his campaign to retake the White House in November, pointing toward the 2021 victory by Governor Glenn Youngkin as evidence conservatives can still win statewide elections in the commonwealth.

RNC Chair Michael Whatley told the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Wednesday that Virginia will be competitive for the Trump campaign after Youngkin showed “how a Republican can win Virginia” with his 2021 victory.

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First Two Prosecution Witnesses in Trial of Former Colorado Elections Clerk Referred Disparagingly to Conservative News Site

Rachel Alexander

The trial against former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters over her efforts combating election fraud began this past week where two witnesses for the prosecution testified all day made disparaging remarks about The Gateway Pundit, a conservative news site.

The prosecution’s first witness, James Cannon, who identified himself as the chief investigator for the Mesa County District Attorney, said The Pundit was “a conspiracy site.” The prosecution’s second witness, Jesse Romero, who described himself as the voting systems manager for the Colorado Secretary of State’s (COSOS) Elections Division, said the news site posted an article with a “bombastic title.”

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Faith and Freedom Coalition Executive Director Tim Head Details Pros and Cons of Democratic Presumptive Nominee Kamala Harris’ Reported Top VP Picks

Kaitlin Housler
Josh Shapiro and Mark Kelly

Tim Head, the national executive director of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, detailed the potential advantages and disadvantages that the two frontrunner candidates reportedly being eyed by Vice President Kamala Harris to be her running mate in the 2024 presidential election would bring to the table in regards to voter turnout.

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Arizona Governor Hobbs Labels Some Republicans ‘White Supremacists’ in Post-Primary Warning to Voters

Christy Kelly
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs

Governor Katie Hobbs released a statement on Tuesday after Arizona’s primary elections, labeling Arizona state Republicans as “insurrectionists, white supremacists, and indicted fake electors.

“Insurrectionists” refers to the January 6 riot. The Supreme Court ruled that federal prosecutors improperly charged hundreds of people with obstruction. The majority opinion noted that the government’s expansive construction “would criminalize a broad swath of prosaic conduct, exposing activists and lobbyists alike to decades in prison.”

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JD Vance Calls Kamala Harris a ‘Phony’ at Packed Rally in Glendale

Rachel Alexander
JD Vance in Glendale, Arizona

Two weeks after being selected by Donald Trump as his vice presidential running mate, Senator JD Vance (R-Ohio) held a rally attended by thousands in Glendale. Thousands more were turned away from entering the auditorium at Arizona Christian University after waiting hours in line. Kari Lake spoke to wild cheering and standing ovations, and other speakers included Arizona Republican Party Chair Gina Swoboda, Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen (R-Gilbert,) Senator Janae Shamp (R-Surprise), Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL-13), and Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes. 

Vance began his speech, “Just over a month ago, President Trump wiped the floor with Joe Biden on the debate stage. A massive drop of the President’s mental incapacity and he saved America four more years ago.” 

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Arizona U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly Will Not Join Vice President Kamala Harris in Philadelphia Ahead of Rumored Running Mate Announcement

Tom Pappert
Mark Kelly

Arizona U.S. Senator Mark Kelly confirmed in a Wednesday interview he has no current plans to travel to Pennsylvania on Tuesday after the presidential campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly suggested its vice presidential candidate will be selected in Philadelphia on that date.

After the Harris campaign confirmed a tour of battleground states, which will include both Harris and her vice presidential running mate, Kelly was asked by a panel of hosts on MSNBC about the reports claiming he is on the short list possible candidates to share a ticket with Harris.

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McCormick Warns Harris ‘Wants to Ban Fracking’ in Pennsylvania After Casey Touts ‘New Energy Sources’ Pushed by White House

Tom Pappert
Dave McCormick and Bob Casey

Republican U.S. Senate nominee Dave McCormick on Wednesday issued a statement warning that Vice President Kamala Harris “wants to ban fracking” in Pennsylvania, and suggested Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) would enable her if reelected.

McCormick’s campaign released his statement after Casey was asked about Harris’ prior pledge to ban fracking, and demurred by stating Harris “contributed greatly to our development of new energy sources.”

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New Poll: Trump Leads Harris by Four Points Nationally

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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in front of The White House (composite image)

President Donald Trump outperforms Vice President Kamala Harris in a head-to-head matchup, according to a new poll.

The Harvard/Harris poll released Tuesday was taken after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and asked respondents: “If the 2024 election for President were held today and it was between Donald Trump, the Republican and Kamala Harris, the Democrat, who would you vote for?”

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Kamala Harris Reportedly to Announce VP in Philadelphia Speech amid Speculation over Gov. Josh Shapiro

Tom Pappert
Josh Shapiro and Kamala Harris

Campaign spokesmen for Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly confirmed to media outlets Wednesday that the candidate intends to share a Philadelphia stage with her vice presidential nominee on Tuesday.

The Harris campaign’s reported plan for Harris to announce her vice presidential nominee on Tuesday comes as Governor Josh Shapiro, who is serving his first term as Pennsylvania’s governor, is reportedly among the top names considered by Harris to complete her ticket ahead of the Democratic Party’s convention in August.

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