Vice President Kamala Harris chose Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as his running mate, seeking to strengthen the Democratic ticket in the Midwestern states.
With the two tickets to the main parties now decided, the campaign is set to last 90 days, and the Rust Belt and the Sun Belt are the main fronts. Both the Harris-Walz and Trump-Vance campaigns will be in action in the key states of Michigan and Wisconsin on Wednesday for their respective battlefield state tours.
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Thursday’s news conference would be her first public appearance since Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee and chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate.
The former president announced the press conference at 2pm EDT on his Truth Social network and later posted that he was looking forward to debating Harris. He had teased a presidential debate announcement earlier this week after pulling out of the scheduled ABC News debate. Trump has said he would prefer the debate to be on Fox News, but on Wednesday he was willing to reconsider ABC News.
“I’m going to expose Kamala during the debate the same way I exposed Crooked Joe, Hillary, and everyone else during the debates,” he said on Truth Social. “I just think Kamala will be easier.”
Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, criticized Harris for not holding a press conference or giving interviews since President Joe Biden stepped aside and she launched her presidential bid. Harris sometimes responds to shouted questions when boarding or exiting the plane for campaign stops.
Five secretaries of state are asking Elon Musk to fix an AI chatbot on social media platform X, saying in a letter sent Monday that it has spread electoral disinformation.
Top election officials in Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Washington told Musk that X’s AI chatbot, Grok, produced false information about state voting deadlines shortly after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race.
Although Grok is only available to subscribers of premium versions of X, the misinformation was shared across multiple social media platforms and reached millions of people, according to the letter. The chatbot’s false voting deadline information also referenced Alabama, Indiana, Ohio and Texas, although their secretaries of state did not sign the letter. Grok continued to repeat the false information for 10 days before it was corrected, the secretaries said.
The letter urged X to immediately fix the chatbot “to ensure voters have accurate information in this critical election year.” This would include instructing Grok to send users to CanIVote.organ election information website run by the National Association of Secretaries of State, when asked about the U.S. elections.
