The Latest: Project 2025’s director steps down, and Trump says Harris ‘doesn’t like Jewish people’
The Director of the Heritage Foundation Project2025 The vision for a complete overhaul of the federal government has been abandoned after criticism from Donald Trump’s campaign, which sought to distance itself from the program that was put in place by many of the former president’s allies and former advisers.
Paul Dans’ departure comes after the project “completed exactly what it set out to do,” according to foundation President Kevin Roberts, who has become one of the effort’s leading spokesmen. He plans to lead Project 2025 going forward. Democrats have turned the project into a key election-year weapon, pointing to its ultraconservative policy blueprint as a glimpse of how extreme a different Trump administration could be.
Trump’s campaign has announced that he will travel to Atlanta on Saturday for a rally at the same location where Vice President Kamala Harris attended. held on a Tuesday evening.
Competing presidential candidates’ ads portray Democrat Harris as “fearless,” while an ad by Republican Trump criticizes the vice president over problems at the U.S. southern border.
And Trump said in an interview On Tuesday, she said on WABC radio that Harris “doesn’t like Jewish people” and appeared to agree with a host who called her Jewish husband, Doug Emhoff, “a worthless Jew.”
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Vice President Kamala Harris appears to have motivated Democrats in the early days of her candidacy, with a surge of warm feelings that spanned multiple groups, including some key Democratic constituencies that had been lukewarm on President Joe Biden, according to a new poll.
About 8 in 10 Democrats say they would be very or somewhat satisfied if Harris were the Democratic presidential nominee. The poll, by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, was conducted after Biden dropped out of the race.
The rapidly changing views among Democrats in such a short time underscores how quickly the party has rallied behind Harris as its standard-bearer.
Kari Lake has won the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Arizona, setting up a fierce battle against Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego for a seat that could be crucial in deciding control of the Senate.
Lake defeated Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb on Tuesday, who argued he was the more electable and best candidate to secure the border. But Lamb ultimately struggled to raise the money needed to put his case before voters.
Gallego ran unopposed in the Democratic primary for Senate. Lake, a former local news anchor, built a national profile in Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement with an unsuccessful 2022 bid for Arizona governor.
Vice President Kamala Harris told a cheering, jubilant, packed arena in Atlanta on Tuesday that the next 98 days will be a battle, but she will win in November.
She mocked Donald Trump for wavering on whether to show up for their upcoming debate. In Georgia, the state that gave Biden his narrowest margin of victory in 2020, Harris mocked her rival and Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance as “just weird” and derided their policies as backward, outdated and dangerous.
Harris will travel to the battleground states next week with her yet-to-be-named running mate, according to a campaign itinerary. Campaign officials stress that the vice president has not yet made her decision, but the itinerary confirms her plans to announce it soon.
The recently announced Democratic slate of candidates will appear jointly in Philadelphia, western Wisconsin, Detroit, Raleigh (North Carolina), Savannah (Georgia), Phoenix and Las Vegas.