As racist and sexist attacks fly, Republicans grapple with how to dim Kamala Harris’ rising star
In interviews with nine Republican lawmakers and 11 Black Republican women who back Trump, eight said personal attacks on Harris should be avoided. While guarded in their comments and emphasising their continued support for Trump, several expressed worry over the tenor of the attacks and whether the onslaught could harm Republicans at the ballot box.
‘Gen Z’ rock US with ‘Kamalove’ as youth-led groups say Harris will energise young voters
Since Sunday, statements have poured out from youth-led organisations across the country, including in Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, California, Minnesota, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, as leaders thanked Biden for stepping aside and celebrated the opportunity to organize around a new candidate. On Friday, a coalition of 17 youth-led groups endorsed Harris.
How jailed Mexican drug lord El Chapo’s son lured rival gang’s kingpin Zambada into FBI dragnet
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the two agencies who carried out the operation, scrambled agents from their local El Paso offices and barely reached the airport by the time the private plane was landing, according to a fifth source, a US official who declined to give further details on the arrests.
Kamala Harris builds momentum as Barack and Michelle Obama endorse, give her crucial support
The Obamas are perhaps the last major party figures to endorse Harris formally, a reflection of the former president’s desire to remain, at least publicly, a party elder operating above the fray. The Obamas remain prodigious fundraising draws and popular surrogates at large campaign events for Democratic candidates.
Why Vice President Kamala Harris is using Beyoncé’s ‘Freedom’ as her campaign song
The Biden-Harris creative team wrote the script for Harris’ video on Tuesday, based on her speech at campaign headquarters on Monday. Harris recorded the voiceover while on the road in Indianapolis Wednesday afternoon.
Republicans worry about Trump’s loose mouth and misogynism, urge party to avoid racist and sexist attacks on Harris
President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he was withdrawing from the race. In a memo on the state of the race on Tuesday, Trump campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio argued the fundamentals of the campaign had not changed now that Harris appears increasingly likely to be the Democratic nominee.
VP Kamala Harris is sure to win Democratic ticket, but her mother’s native India is cautious about her prospects
When Kamala Harris was sworn in as vice president in the US, residents in her maternal family’s ancestral village in southern India watched in real time, setting off fireworks, holding up portraits of her and wishing her a long life. But, four years later, as she works to become the...
Kamala Harris candidature excites Black voters, inspire hope and cause panic she takes centre stage
President Joe Biden’s support of Kamala Harris and the immediate coalescing of other party leaders around her makes her the prohibitive favourite to replace him at the top of the presidential ticket. But in interviews in Atlanta, where voters helped flip Georgia for Democrats four years ago, some Black voters were nervous.
US Secret Service chief admits failure in Trump shooting, insists she’s the best to lead the agency
Republican and Democratic lawmakers called on her to resign, calls that she rebuffed, saying at one point, “I think that I am the best person to lead the Secret Service at this time.”
Biden’s legacy: ‘History will treat Biden kinder than voters had…he defeated a president who placed himself above our democracy’
Joe Biden never figured out how to inspire the world’s most powerful country to believe in itself, let alone in him. He lost the confidence of supporters in the 90-minute debate with Trump, even if pride initially prompted him to override the fears of lawmakers, party elders and donors who were nudging him to drop out. Then Trump survived an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, and, as if on cue, pumped his fist in strength. Biden, while campaigning in Las Vegas, tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday and retreated to his Delaware beach house to recover.
