The Latest: Trump promotes falsehoods while Harris is scrutinized for her shifting policy stances
The Republicans’ running mates Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris are coming under increasing scrutiny as the presidential election approaches.
Republican Senator JD Vance of Ohio ends a series of failed charities he started after the successful publication of “Hillbilly Elegy,” while Minnesota DUI arrest Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat, from almost 30 years ago has attracted attention, especially from his opponents.
Meanwhile, members of Congress are urging Pentagon leaders to ensure that the military is not drawn into politics during presidential elections and that active-duty troops are not illegally used as domestic police forces.
The 2024 presidential election will be the first since the January 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol, which were intended to prevent President Joe Biden victory by being certified.
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Yesterday, Trump gave his second press conference in the span of a few weeks as he adjusts to a new, vigorous Democratic nomination process in preparation for next week’s Democratic National Convention.
At his New Jersey golf club, he mixed lies about the economy with misleading statements and deeply personal attacks on his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.
“As a result of Kamala’s inflation, price increases cost the average household a total of $28,000. … When I left office, I left Kamala and corrupt Joe Biden with a growing economy and no inflation. Mortgage rates were about 2%. Gasoline was $1.87 a gallon. … Harris and Biden blew it all up.”
The claims, however, were exaggerated or misleading. Prices did rise during the Biden-Harris administration, but $28,000 is much higher than independent estimates. Moody’s Analytics calculated last year that price increases over the past two years cost the average American household $709 per month. That would equate to $8,500 per year.
Politicians often recalibrate their positions in light of changing public opinion and circumstances. Vice President Kamala Harris is no exception in the twenty years she has been in office.
She has taken opportunistic and sometimes contradictory positions as she climbed the political ladder.
In addition to reversing course on fracking and bail, Harris has also changed course on issues like health care (she supported a plan to abolish private health insurance (before she was against it), immigration and arms control.
The Trump-Vance campaign says the Republican vice presidential nominee is preparing to take over what’s left of the modest charitable effort He began helping people in Appalachia after writing “Hillbilly Elegy.”
Vance founded two nonprofits in 2016 to address problems in Ohio and other Rust Belt states.
They should focus primarily on increasing employment, improving mental health care and combating the opioid crisis.
The original organization ceased to exist within five years, and Vance put the rest on hold when he successfully ran for Senate in 2022.
Now that the governor of Minnesota… Tim Walz is vice-chairman Kamala Harris ′ His running mate, his 1995 drunken driving arrest in Nebraska — long before he entered politics — is getting renewed attention.
Walz was a 31-year-old teacher at the time he was stopped the night of September 23, 1995, near Chadron, Nebraska. He pleaded guilty in March 1996 to a reduced charge of reckless driving.
Members of Congress are urging the Pentagon’s top two leaders to ensure the military is not dragged into politics during the presidential election and that active-duty troops are not used illegally as domestic police force.
In a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Gen. C.Q. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, lawmakers asked defense leaders to confirm that U.S. law prohibits the use of troops for civilian law enforcement and that they may not carry out unlawful orders.
The concerns come as the campaign gets underway: the first presidential election since the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol, which was aimed at preventing Joe Biden’s victory from being certified.
Trump continues to claim that fraud cost him the 2020 election, even though his own attorney general, tells And to research found no evidence for that. And he continues is being accused of unlawfully plotting to overturn the election results.