With just over two weeks before the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump And Kamala Harris go on campaign in strategic battlegrounds.
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The Biden-Harris administration is allocating $428 million for 14 clean energy production projects in Pennsylvania and other states hit hard by the decline of the U.S. coal industry.
One of the larger grants, $87 million, will go to a Pennsylvania company that will make state-of-the-art linear generators at a factory outside Pittsburgh, a key presidential election battleground.
Linear generators can use any fuel source to produce low-carbon energy for utilities, data centers and industry. Mainspring Energy plans to use Energy Department funds to create enough electricity to power more than 40,000 homes annually. Harris, like Biden, has pledged to help workers displaced by the clean energy transition, a key issue in energy-rich Pennsylvania.
Two weeks off from now on Election Daythe crisis in the Middle East The race for the White House looms, with one candidate struggling to find just the right words to navigate the difficult opposing currents, while the other makes bold claims that the age-old conflict can be quickly put right.
Vice President Kamala Harris has painstakingly – and not always successfully – tried to balance talk of strong support for Israel with harsh condemnations of civilian casualties among Palestinians and others involved in Israel’s wars against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon .
Former President Donald Trump, for his part, insists that none of this would have happened on his watch and that he can make it all go away if he is elected.
Both bid for the votes of Arab and Muslim American voters And Jewish votersespecially in extremely tight races in the battleground states of Michigan and Pennsylvania.
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The past year, Project 2025 has endured as a persistent force in the presidential electionsare extreme right-wing proposals deployed by Democrats as an abbreviation for what Donald Trump might need a second term in the White House.
Even as the former president’s campaign has firmly distanced itself from Project 2025, the sweeping Heritage Foundation’s proposal to undermining the federal workforce and dismantle federal agencies fits closely with his vision. Project 2025’s architects come from within the ranks of the Trump administration, and top Heritage officials briefed Trump’s team on the matter.
It is rare for a complex Policy book of 900 pages to be so dominant in a political campaign. But from its early beginnings at a think tank to its viral spread on social media, the rise, fall and possible revival of Project 2025 demonstrate the policy’s unexpected staying power to brighten an election year and not just threaten Trump . but voting Republicans in races for Congress.
Despite all this, Project 2025 has not disappeared. It exists not only as a policy blueprint for the next government, but also as a database of approximately 20,000 job seekers who staffing a Trump White House and administration and a still-unreleased “180-day playbook” of actions a new president could take on day one.
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In-person early voting begins Tuesday battlefield Wisconsinwith former President Barack Obama and Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz hosting a rally in liberal Madison and Republicans hosting events to encourage casting a ballot Donald Trump before election day.
Trump has lost Wisconsin just below 21,000 votes in 2020, an election with unprecedented early and absentee voting due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris expect a razor-thin margin again in Wisconsin and both parties are urging voters to cast their ballots early.
Trump was very critical of postal voting in previous elections, falsely claiming fraud. But this election, he and his supporters are embracing all forms of voting, including by mail and early in person. Trump himself encouraged early voting earlier this month at a rally in Dodge County, Wisconsin.
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Harris will discuss how her plan will lower costs, increase their chances of homeownership and increase employment opportunities for Latino men in an interview she tapes Tuesday in Washington with Telemundo, the Spanish-language TV network.
The campaign says Harris, running mate Tim Walz and her husband, Doug Emhoff, are giving interviews to several Hispanic media outlets this week in an effort to get her message across to Latino men.
Harris’ Telemundo interview airs Wednesday night.