The two presidential candidates are using the week before their debate to sharpen their economic messages on who could do more for the middle class. Vice President Kamala Harris will discuss its policy plans in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Wednesday, while Donald Trump will deliver a speech at the Economic Club of New York on Thursday.
Harris will use the New Hampshire campaign stop to make a proposal expanding tax benefits for small businessesa pro-business plan that could soften her previous calls for wealthy Americans and big corporations to pay higher taxes. Trump, meanwhile, is betting that Americans will be hungry for trillions of dollars in tax cuts — and that growth will be so fantastic that worrying about budget deficits won’t be worth it.
The candidates will debate next week in what will be their first meeting ever. The nation’s key swing state, Pennsylvania, will begin in-person proxy voting the following week. Early voting will open in at least four states by the end of the month, with another dozen states set to follow in mid-October.
In just 62 days, the final votes will be cast to determine which of them will lead the most powerful nation in the world.
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By his own account, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance’s conversion to Catholicism in 2019 provided a spiritual fulfillment he couldn’t find in his Yale education or his successful career.
It was also a political conversion.
Catholicism offered him a new way of looking at the addictions, family breakdown and other societal ills he described in his 2016 bestseller, “Hillbilly Elegy.”
“I felt desperate for a worldview that understood our bad behavior as simultaneously social and individual, structural and moral; that recognized that we are products of our environment; that we have a responsibility to change that environment, but that we are still moral beings with individual duties,” he wrote in an essay from 2020.
Through his conversion, Vance also came into close contact with a Catholic intellectual movement that some critics saw as reactionary or authoritarian. This movement was little known to the American public until Vance emerged nationally as the Republican vice-presidential candidate.
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A federal judge on Tuesday denied Donald Trump’s request to intervene in his New York hush-money trial, thwarting the former president’s latest attempt to overturn his felony conviction and delay his sentence.
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled that Trump had not met the burden of proof required to have a federal court take over the case from the state court where it was being heard.
Hellerstein’s ruling came hours after Manhattan prosecutors filed objections to Trumps attempt to delay post-trial decisions while seeking federal court intervention.
In a letter to the judge The Manhattan district attorney, who presided over the case in court, argued that he was not legally obligated to delay making decisions after the trial and to wait for Hellerstein to rule.
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