Vice-Chairman Kamala Harris has launched a new advertising campaign to highlight its plan to build 3 million new homes in four years, a move aimed at inflationary pressure which also forms a sharp contrast with the Republican Donald Trump’s approach.
Meanwhile, former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has endorsed Trump’s presidential bid, further straying from the party she sought to represent four years ago and allying herself with the Criticism of the GOP candidate of Harris and the chaotic withdrawal from the war in Afghanistan.
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Vice-Chairman Kamala Harris has launched a new advertising campaign to highlight its plan to build 3 million new homes in four years, a move aimed at inflationary pressure which also forms a sharp contrast with the Republican Donald Trump’s approach.
Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, is highlighting her plan in a new, one-minute ad that draws on her personal experience growing up in rented housing while her mother spent a decade saving to buy one. The ad is targeting voters in swing states including Arizona and Nevada. Campaign surrogates are also holding 20 events this week focused on housing issues.
In addition to increasing housing construction, Harris proposes that the government should invest as much as possible $25,000 in Assistance for First-Time Home BuyersThat message could carry weight now, as house prices keep upward pressure on the consumer price index.
The state and national Democratic parties have filed a lawsuit seeking to block two rules recently adopted by the Georgia State Election Board that could be used by county officials to refuse to certify an election, potentially causing delays in the final certification of the state’s results.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in a state judge in Atlanta, alleges that the rules violate a state law that makes certification a mandatory requirement. The lawsuit asks the judge to rule that the rules are invalid because the State Election Board, now dominated by allies of former President Donald Trump, exceeded its statutory authority.
The board’s actions alarm Democrats and voting rights activists, and come against a backdrop of Georgia’s partisan battle over voting procedures that predates even the 2020 presidential election. It’s a fight in yet another state over what has long been an administrative afterthought, state and local governments certification of results.