Vice President Kamala Harris has had a busy 24 hours after being endorsed as President Joe Biden’s Democratic presidential nominee. She secured enough delegates to win the party’s nomination and raised more than $81 million, a record sum for the 2024 political cycle.
Meanwhile, the director of the Secret Service left his job after security failures at a rally where a 20-year-old armed man tried to assassinate the former president donald trump. Kimberly Cheatle was facing growing calls to resign and multiple investigations into how the shooter managed to get so close to the Republican presidential candidate.
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President Joe Biden says he is grateful for Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle’s decades of public service and says he will soon name a new leader for the agency.
In a statement shortly after Cheatle announced her resignation over the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, Biden said Cheatle “selflessly dedicated herself and risked her life to protect our nation” and said he wishes her “all the best.”
“The independent review into what happened on July 13 continues and I look forward to evaluating its conclusions,” Biden said. “We all know that what happened that day can never happen again.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson says the firing of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was “overdue” and should have happened at least a week ago.
The news of Cheatle’s resignation came as Johnson and Republican leaders wrapped up their weekly news conference Tuesday morning.
“I’m happy to see it,” Johnson said. “I’m happy to see that she answered the call of both Republicans and Democrats. Now we have to pick up the pieces. We must rebuild the American people’s faith and trust in the Secret Service as an agency.”
On Tuesday, Johnson and Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries announced the formation of a bipartisan task force to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump and the security failures that led to it.
Minutes after news of Cheatle’s resignation broke, Trump posted a statement on social media saying: “The Biden/Harris administration did not adequately protect me and I was forced to take a bullet for democracy. IT WAS MY GREAT HONOR TO DO THIS!”
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment on Cheatle’s resignation. It was unclear whether Trump’s post was a reaction to news of the Secret Service director’s resignation.
The director of the Secret Service is stepping down in the wake of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, which sparked growing protests over how the agency tasked with protecting current and former presidents could fail in its core mission.
Kimberly Cheatle has served as director of the Secret Service since August 2022.
Cheatle announced his departure in an email he sent to staff. Cheatle had been facing growing calls for his resignation and multiple investigations into how the shooter managed to get so close to the Republican presidential candidate at an outdoor campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
House Republicans are quickly shifting their focus from President Joe Biden to his potential successor, Vice President Kamala Harris, and her work on immigration.
Rules Committee Chairman Michael Burgess, R-Texas, said his panel will adopt an emergency resolution Tuesday that focuses on “the flaws in the border czar’s position and how it has negatively impacted our fellow citizens across the country.” ”.
The panel’s action would prepare the sentencing resolution for a full House vote later this week.
Harris was in charge at the start of the Biden administration, combating migration challenges at the U.S. southern border and working with Central American countries to address the root causes of the problem.
“She is responsible for the biggest failure of this administration,” said House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La.
The Biden administration has trumpeted progress at the border. Arrests for illegally crossing the border with Mexico fell 29% in June, the lowest month of Joe Biden’s presidency.
MILWAUKEE — Wisconsin Republican leaders are casting Vice President Kamala Harris as an “extreme liberal” who is out of step with most voters in the swing state just hours before she makes a campaign stop there on Tuesday.
“Kamala Harris’ favoritism is just as bad as Joe Biden’s favoritism,” Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Brian Schimming said at a news conference before Harris’ event at a high school outside Milwaukee. “So they are trading one bad candidate for another bad candidate in the hopes that the people of this state and this country don’t realize where they really stand on the issues.”
Schimming and other Wisconsin Republicans argue that Harris was named “border czar” and blame her for the unauthorized crossings, citing Biden’s mandate to work on migration issues early in his term. Schimming also cited Harris’ co-sponsorship of Senator Bernie Sanders “Medicine for All” proposal for national health insurance.
“She was one of the most extreme liberals when she served in the U.S. Senate,” Schimming said. “Much needs to be discovered about her position on critical issues facing this country. … There is issue after issue where Kamala Harris is not in sync with the people of Wisconsin and the people of America.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries issued a joint statement in support of a bipartisan task force to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
The House could vote as early as Wednesday to establish the task force, which will be made up of seven Republicans and six Democrats. Outrage over the security failures that occurred to prevent the shooting came from both sides of the political aisle.
“The task force will have subpoena authority and will act quickly to establish the facts, ensure accountability and ensure such failures never happen again,” Johnson and Jeffries said.
A week after Elon Musk endorsed Donald Trump for president, President Joe Biden’s team used Musk’s social platform X – as well as more neutral spaces like Facebook and Instagram – to announce that he is ending his re-election campaign.
It’s a testament to how ingrained the platform has become among powerful players in the political and media world, as well as users looking for news and live updates from major events.
Although Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, along with TikTok, have many more users, X users say that keeping up with the news is not the reason they use these platforms, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.
X is the exception: most users of the site say that following the news is the reason they use it and about half say they receive news regularly from there.
“X is where the story happens,” X CEO Linda Yaccarino posted on Sunday, with a screenshot of Biden’s announcement. Although one comment pointed out that the same message was also posted on other social media platforms, the narrative remains important to X and his much-lauded efforts to become a “digital square”.
Read more about how X remained a reference for Democrats
Trump is again complaining about debate plans, suggesting he may not be as confident facing Harris as he was with Biden.
The former president said he would debate Biden “anytime, anywhere, anywhere,” but on Tuesday morning Trump complained for the second time since Biden dropped out that ABC News is “not worthy of holding a debate”.
He suggested moving the debate to Fox News Channel, which is seen as a friendlier venue for him.
Vice President Kamala Harris is making its first visit to a swing state on Tuesday after gaining enough support from Democratic delegates to win his party’s nomination to challenge former Republican President Donald Trump, two days after President Joe Biden dropped his bid for re-election.
As the Democratic Party continues to rally around her, Harris is traveling to Milwaukee, where she will hold her first campaign rally since launching her campaign on Sunday with Biden endorsement. Harris has raised more than $100 million as of Sunday afternoon and has won support from Democratic officials and political groups.
Tuesday’s visit was scheduled before Biden ended his campaign, but it took on new resonance as Harris prepares to take up her party’s mantle against Trump and seeks to project calm and confidence after weeks of Democratic Party confusion about Biden’s political future.
Read more about the visit and how Wisconsin is part of Democrats’ plans for 2024.
Vice President Kamala Harris has secured the support of enough Democratic delegates to become her party’s nominee against Republican Donald Trump, according to a reportAssociated Press polltaken following President Joe Biden’s decision to drop his re-election bid.
Harris, who was endorsed by Biden minutes after he announced he would not accept the Democratic nomination, worked to quickly secure the support of her party’s donors, elected officials and other leaders, and has so far received the support of at least 2,214.
However, the AP is not calling Harris the presumptive new candidate. That’s because convention delegates are still free to vote for the candidate of their choice at the August convention or if Democrats hold a virtual roll call before the meeting in Chicago.
Tatum Watkins, a 19-year-old college student from southwest Iowa and a DNC delegate, said she appreciates, as a young woman, that Harris speaks openly about issues like reproductive rights and is “much closer” in age to a whole new age. generation of voters.
“She’s leaning too much into what’s popular right now,” Watkins said. “I’ve seen that her brand is what can I best describe as summer brat.”
Watkins said it energized and excited her and other young Iowans, making what will be their first voting experience in a presidential election “even better.”
The mood among many House Democrats quickly improved when lawmakers returned to Washington with Biden handing the election to Harris.
“I have never been more optimistic about America because of her leadership, her selflessness, her putting country first,” said Representative Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania.
“And then Kamala – wow! – I’m excited,” she said. “I’m hearing from my constituents and staff that they’re very excited.”
She said one way for Harris to approach campaigning in a swing state like hers would be to choose Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro as her running mate for vice president.
President Biden is expected to return to the White House tomorrow after spending six days at his Delaware beach house convalescing from COVID-19. Biden fell ill while campaigning in Las Vegas last week and went to his vacation home to isolate.
Meanwhile, Vice President Harris will head to the battleground state of Wisconsin as her campaign for the White House gains momentum.
The event in Milwaukee will be his first full campaign event since announcing his candidacy on Sunday.
