The Latest: Harris and Trump paint different pictures for voters as the White House intensifies
Vice-Chairman Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are painting very different photos as they meet voters on the campaign trail. Harris, in turn, promotes “joy” — branding the Democratic ticket, which includes her running mate, Minnesota’s governor. Tim Walz“as joyful warriors.”
Trump, meanwhile, has promoted a more bleak picture for Republicans, saying at a news conference last week that “there are a lot of bad things coming.”
Voters will have more confidence in both the candidates and their running mates in the coming days.
Walz will hold his first solo events this week. On Tuesday, he travels to Los Angeles to speak at the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees convention, and then visits a series of fundraisers across the country.
Trump will give a live interview on Monday on X, the social platform from which he was banned for nearly two years following the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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Former President Donald Trumps The presidential campaign said Saturday that the site had been hacked and suggested that Iranian actors were involved in the theft and distribution of confidential internal documents.
The campaign did not provide specific evidence of Iranian involvement, but the claim comes a day after Microsoft a report issued describing the attempts of foreign agents to interfere in the case. American campaign in 2024.
It cited a case of an Iranian military intelligence agency that in June “sent a spearfishing email to a senior presidential campaign official from a hacked email account of a former senior adviser.”
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung blamed the hack on “foreign sources hostile to the United States.” A spokesman for the National Security Council said in a statement that it takes any report of improper foreign interference “extremely seriously” and condemns any government or entity that attempts to undermine confidence in U.S. democratic institutions, but said it was deferring to the Justice Department’s discretion on the matter.
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Tim Walz is hosting his first solo events as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate. He travels to Los Angeles on Tuesday to speak at the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees convention, followed by a series of fundraising events across the country.
After his speech in Los Angeles, the Minnesota governor will tour five states in three days, starting with a fundraiser in Newport Beach, California.
He will headline two more fundraisers in Denver and Boston on Wednesday, and will speak at fundraisers the following day in Newport, Rhode Island, and Southampton, New York.
Harris introduced Walz as her running mate at a joint rally in Philadelphia last week, and the pair subsequently campaigned together in Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and Nevada. The vice president will campaign with Biden in Maryland this week, and has also pledged to flesh out her policy proposals on the economy.