vice president Kamala Harris will join President Joe Biden in announcing price reductions for popular Medicare drugs. Federal authorities reached agreements with pharmaceutical companies to reduce the price of 10 of the Medicare most popular and most expensive medicines. The medications include the blood thinners Xarelto and Eliquis and the diabetes medications Jardiance and Januvia. Medicines spent 50 billion dollars to cover drugs last year. It’s a historic deal for the Medicare program, which provides health coverage to more than 67 million older and disabled Americans.
Former president donald trumpMeanwhile, he invited reporters to a news conference at his New Jersey golf club — his second in as many weeks. Trump will meet with the press as he intensifies his criticism of Harris for not holding a press conference or giving interviews since the president Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and supported her to replace him. The vice president has barely interacted with reporters since he became the Democratic nominee.
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vice president Kamala Harris has a perceived advantage over the former president donald trump on several leadership qualities, such as honesty, finds an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll, although Americans are slightly more likely to trust Trump when it comes to the economy and immigration.
Nearly half of Americans say “committed to democracy” and “disciplined” are attributes that best describe Harris. About 3 in 10 say these qualities best describe Trump.
About 4 in 10 say Harris is someone who “cares about people like you,” while about 3 in 10 say that about Trump. About 4 in 10 say “honest” best describes Harris and 24% say quality best describes Trump.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Ohio Senator JD Vance have agreed to debate each other on Oct. 1, setting up a showdown of potential vice presidents as early voting in some states begins for the general election.
CBS News posted Wednesday on its X feed that the network had invited Vance and Walz to debate in New York City, presenting four possible dates in September and October as options.
Walz accepted on Wednesday, and Vance responded on Thursday that he would appear on October 1. He also challenged Walz to a date on September 18th.
MADISON, Wis. – Harris plans hold a rally in Milwaukee on Tuesday, in the same place where Republicans gathered to national convention last month.
Harris will hold the event at the Fiserv Forum while the Democratic National Convention is underway about 100 miles south of Chicago, Harris’ campaign said Thursday.
The stop will mark the third time since Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee that she has come to the swing state of Wisconsin, a nod to the state’s importance.
Ohio Senator JD Vance, Trump’s running mate planned to be in Milwaukee on Friday to speak at the Milwaukee Police Association. That would be his second visit to Wisconsin as a vice presidential candidate.
Harris is previewing the economic policy speech she plans to give in North Carolina on Friday, and she’s focusing on corporate price gouging.
Her campaign says Harris plans to push for a federal ban on food and grocery price gouging. She is placing special emphasis on rising meat prices, which she says is responsible for much of the rise in food bills.
Annual inflation reached its lowest level in more than three years. But many Americans still struggle with food prices, which remain 21% above where they were three years ago. Trump has pointed to inflation as a fundamental flaw of the Biden-Trump administration and its energy policies.
donald trump lost your last offer for a new judge in your New York hush money criminal case as he heads toward a major decision and possible sentencing next month.
In a decision published WednesdayJudge Juan M. Merchan refused to step aside and said Trump’s demand was a rehash “riddled with inaccuracies and unsubstantiated assertions” about his ability to remain impartial.
It is the third time that Merchan has rejected such a request from the lawyers of the former president and current Republican candidate. They claim the judge has a conflict of interest because his daughter works as a political consultant for prominent Democrats, including Kamala Harris when she sought the Democrats’ 2020 presidential nomination. Harris is now the party’s nominee against Trump.
The judge’s daughter, Loren Merchan, occasionally met with Harris in 2019 but never “developed a one-on-one relationship” with her, consulting firm founder Mike Nellis told U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, in a letter. Tuesday. The company, Authentic Campaigns Inc., did not work for Harris’ campaign, President Joe Biden’s now-ended reelection bid or the Democratic National Committee in the 2024 election cycle, Nellis said.
The Democratic National Committee will offer a lineup of trainings, panels and other programming it calls “DemPalooza” during the party convention in Chicago next week. The name is a play on the Lollapalooza music festival that Chicago hosts every year.
“DemPalooza” events will range from trainings on how to use organizing tools to election briefings and skills workshops. The DNC says these programs are part of its and Harris’ campaign efforts to organize and reach voters in an evolving media environment and provide opportunities for Democrats to take what they learn to the communities that will decide the November presidential election.
Vice President Kamala Harris was never the “border czar,” as her critics claim.
Biden administration officials say she was assigned to address the “root causes” of migration from the Central American countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, which account for a large share of border crossings.
An analysis of Harris’s work on immigration reveals a more nuanced record than that presented by her critics or allies. He also provides insights into how Harris — who took over as the Democratic standard-bearer when Biden gave up of the presidential race last month – could resolve one of the country’s most troubling concerns.
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Whatever led Vice President Kamala Harris to choose Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, it probably wasn’t a desire to inflame discussions about apostrophes. But it doesn’t take much to get it enthusiastic grammar nerds.
“The lower the stakes, the bigger the fight,” said Ron Woloshun, a California-based creative director and digital marketer who joined the social media fray less than an hour after Harris singled out Walz last week to offer his take on possessive proper nouns. .
The Associated Press stylebook says “use only one apostrophe” for singular proper nouns that end in S: Dickens novels, labors of Hercules, life of Jesus. But not everyone agrees.
Although there is widespread agreement that Walz’s claim is correct, confusion about Harris versus Harris persists. Dreyer’s verdict? Add the ‘s.
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In his first solo appearance as a Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz warned trade union leaders on Tuesday that donald trump would wage war on workers and threaten Medicare and Social Security by launching a fundraising campaign in five states.
He spoke of a bleak future for unions if Trump and the Ohio senator. JD Vance are elected, describing a nation where bargaining rights, overtime pay and other protections would be destroyed. He said Trump and Vance “waged war on working people.”
However, Trump also courted union support. When he accepted the Republican nomination, he said he would rescue the automobile industry from what he called “complete obliteration.”
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