The director of the Heritage Foundation Project 2025 The vision of a complete overhaul of the federal government renounced following backlash from Donald Trump’s campaign, which sought to reject the program created by many of the former president’s allies and former advisers.
Paul Dans’ departure comes after the project “completed exactly what it set out to do,” said foundation president Kevin Roberts, who has emerged as the effort’s chief spokesman. The project is a key cudgel for the election year, pointing to the ultra-conservative policy project as a glimpse of how extreme another Trump administration could be.
Trump’s campaign announced that he will travel to Atlanta on Saturday for a rally at the same location as Vice President Kamala Harris. held on a Tuesday night.
The presidential candidates’ dueling ad campaigns portray Democrat Harris as “fearless,” while an ad from Republican Trump criticizes the vice president for problems at the US southern border.
And Trump said in an interview Tuesday on radio station WABC that Harris “doesn’t like Jewish people” and appeared to agree with a host who called her Jewish husband, Doug Emhoff, “a crappy Jew.”
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Activists in Chicago said that former President Donald Trump is “not welcome” in the country’s third largest city and that they will protest in front of the hotel where he is scheduled to speak National Association of Black Journalists.
Activist groups, including the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, said they are unsure how many will attend Wednesday’s protest. The rally is expected to begin shortly before noon, when Trump will be interviewed by a panel of reporters.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will also attend the same convention hours after Trump. Johnson said in a post on the social media platform X that his administration’s values and practices “are in complete opposition to former President Donald Trump’s agenda.”
The first-term Democratic mayor says he wants to assure the public that city agencies and departments are “fully prepared to maintain security during his scheduled visit.”
During his 2016 campaign, Trump canceled a rally in Chicago over security concerns after protesters packed the arena where he was scheduled to speak.
Kamala Harris has place a load in Wisconsin’s most powerful Democratic stronghold, Dane County, where enthusiasm and voluntary support for President Joe Biden were waning.
Voters in Madison, the county’s famously liberal heartland, pointed to what they described in interviews as Harris’s more vocal attention to specific Democratic priorities, as well as her younger age and livelier style, helping to restore her enthusiasm in a place where the party must post overwhelming margins to sustain the swing state.
Biden won 75% of the vote in the county, Wisconsin’s fastest growing, in 2020, defeating Trump by 181,000 votes and winning the state by less than 21,000.
With less than 100 days until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris faces challenges when presenting their political ideas.
Republicans are trying to unseat her by reminding voters of her liberal stances from her unsuccessful 2020 primary campaign as well as branding her with controversies from President Joe Biden’s administration.
At the same time, Harris wants to build on the achievements of the Biden era while charting her own path to maximize her chances of defeating Republican Donald Trump. It’s a delicate dance that she will need to execute at high speed in an unprecedented political situation.
However, Trump’s invitation to address the National Association of Black Journalists sparked intense debate within the organization and a flurry of arguments online.
Trump’s acceptance of the invitation has led at least one high-profile member of the group to resign as convention co-chair and others to argue that their convention could become a platform for Trump to make false claims or be seen as winning. NABJ endorsement.
News executives were concerned in the first half of the year that consumers expressed relatively little interest in the upcoming election. That has now changed.
There is evidence that interest began to rise after an extraordinary series of news stories. These include the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden’s decision not to seek re-election and Vice President Kamala Harris’ rapid rise as the Democratic nominee.
Taboola says its measurement of news sites shows interest is rising. Fox News was the most obvious beneficiary of the increased attention, with July being the most-watched month since November 2020.
Vice President Kamala Harris appears to have energized Democrats in the early days of her candidacy, with the surge of warm feelings extending to several groups, including some key Democratic constituencies that were lukewarm toward President Joe Biden, according to a new poll.
About 8 in 10 Democrats say they would be very or somewhat pleased if Harris became the Democratic nominee for president. The AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll was conducted after Biden dropped out of the race.
The rapid shifts in opinion among Democrats in such a short space of time underscore how quickly the party has rallied around Harris as its standard-bearer.
Lake Kari has won the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Arizona, starting a fierce battle against Democratic U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego for a seat that could be crucial in deciding control of the Senate.
Lake on Tuesday defeated Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, who he said was the most electable and best candidate to secure the border. But Lamb ultimately struggled to raise the money needed to present his case to voters.
Gallego ran unopposed in the Democratic primary for Senate. Lake, a former local news anchor, built a national profile on Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement with an unsuccessful 2022 bid for governor of Arizona.
Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday in a lively, loud and packed Atlanta arena that the next 98 days will be a struggle, but that she will win in November.
She mocked Donald Trump for wavering on whether he would attend the next debate. In Georgia, the state that gave Biden his narrowest margin of victory in 2020, Harris mocked her rival and Trump running mate, JD Vance, as “just weird” and derided his policies as backward, outdated and dangerous.
Harris will travel to swing states next week with her yet-to-be-named running mate, according to a campaign itinerary. Campaign leaders emphasize that the vice president has not yet made her decision, but the calendar confirms her plans to announce it soon.
The newly announced Democratic ticket will appear jointly in Philadelphia; western Wisconsin; Detroit; Raleigh, North Carolina; Savannah, Georgia; Phoenix and Las Vegas.
