How Harris’ White bid House is attracting record-high funding and groundswell of support for Democrats
Swing states are where elections are won and lost. Reuters has identified seven states as playing an outsized role in determining the winner of the presidential election and their electoral college votes could go either way. Six of the seven have had enough polls conducted to calculate an overall trend for each candidate and tell the story of a very close race. Nevada did not have enough data.
Harris questions Trump’s democratic credentials, casts Republican flagbearer as unfit to be US president
Harris made a direct call to Republicans who don’t support Trump to put aside party labels and to support her over Trump, who denied his loss to Biden in the 2020 election, which inspired the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.
Confusion, upset and fear are hallmarks of shrinking White majority in US as multiracial demographics surge
Vice President Kamala Harris campaigns in Milwaukee, on August 20, 2024. America has long been a self-styled “melting pot” of people who trace their origins around the world, but in practice some states legally segregated citizens by race until the civil rights laws of the 1960s and laws prohibiting interracial marriage were not overturned until 1967. Credit: Reuters
After US top diplomat fails to secure Middle East Biden ceaseefire Biden calls Netanyahu over urgency for peace deal
The United States has ordered a guided missile submarine be deployed to the Middle East and ordered the Abraham Lincoln strike group to accelerate its deployment to the region to be on hand to bolster Israel’s defence.
Bill Clinton tears into Trump at Democratic convention that introduced Harris’ running mate Walz to Americans
Many Americans had never heard of Tim Walz until Harris made him her running mate. In his first weeks of campaigning, he’s charmed supporters with his background and helped to balance Harris’ coastal background as a cultural representative of Midwestern states whose voters she needs this fall.
America’s Choice 2024: Investors in US analysing possible market impact of a Harris administration
Higher taxes could also bite into corporate profits. Each percentage point change in the statutory domestic corporate tax rate should shift S&P 500 earnings by slightly less than 1 per cent, strategists at Goldman Sachs said.
Trump’s bid to sell ‘Make America Safe Again’ is rebuffed by Democratic convention that dwelt on his felony record
Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas skewered Trump on Monday night as “a career criminal, with 34 felonies, two impeachments and one porn star,” a reference to his payments to an adult film actress at issue in his New York conviction for business fraud.
How Barack and Michelle Obama roused crowd for Harris at Democratic National Convention
At 63, Barack Obama loomed large in the messy deliberations that led Biden to step out of the race last month and endorse Harris, his vice president. Harris, 59, has ridden a historic whirlwind in which her campaign has broken records for fundraising and packed arenas with supporters.
How Harris’ series of meetings with Obamas reshaped Democrat’s push against Trump
Democrats have coalesced around Harris as opinion polls swing in the party’s favour, but a month ago some were openly questioning whether she was the right choice to beat Republican candidate Donald Trump when President Joe Biden was forced out of the race after a halting debate performance.
US President Biden gets rousing ovation from Democrats as he endorses Vice President Harris
The president recalled the 2017 “unite the right” rally, when torch-carrying white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, an episode he cites as cementing his decision to run for president in 2020 despite his ongoing grief over the death of his son Beau Biden.
