donald trump will hold a rally and speech in North Carolina on Wednesday, saying his campaign is considered a significant economic speech. Set in a Democratic city surrounded by heavily Republican mountain counties, the event has national and local implications for the former president.
About that, Kamala Harris’ The presidential campaign will launch a $90 million advertising effort over the next three weeks to introduce the Democrat to voters and sharpen the contrast with Trump. The media buy marks his campaign’s biggest investment in messaging to voters, with just two and a half months until Election Day in November.
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A pro-Trump lawyer facing criminal charges in Michigan inappropriately accessing voting equipment after the 2020 presidential election was disqualified from representing a prominent financier of electoral conspiracy theorists which is being sued by Dominion Voting Systems.
Michigan attorney Stefanie Lambert has been representing Patrick Byrne, the founder of Overstock.com, in a defamation lawsuit brought against him by Dominion, a major target of conspiracy theories about former President Donald Trump’s election defeat. 2020.
Lambert was disqualified from the case on Tuesday after admitting to releasing thousands of confidential discovery documents that she agreed to keep private.
Because of Lambert’s actions, documents that all parties “agreed to keep confidential have now been widely shared in the public domain,” U.S. District Court Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya wrote in a 62-page opinion.
Republican millionaire businessman Eric Hovde and Democrat Senator Tammy Baldwin They don’t waste time chasing each other.
Hovde easily won the Republican Party nomination Tuesday, officially setting the field in Wisconsin’s closely watched Senate race. The Wisconsin battleground seat is seen as essential for Democrats, who know they must win there if they want to maintain majority control of the Senate. A Republican victory would dramatically increase their chances of gaining an advantage in an electoral scenario in which Democrats defend many more Senate seats this year.
Hovde is banking on her deep pockets and former President Donald Trump’s endorsement to unseat Baldwin, a liberal Democrat who has honed her ability to appeal to key independent and moderate voters.
Baldwin launched a rural tour of Wisconsin on Wednesday with a stop at a farm in Merrill before a brewery tour in Chippewa Falls on a key swing area from western Wisconsin. Hovde aired two positive new ads featuring his wife and others touting his charity work and your battle against multiple sclerosis.
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.
Turnout in Tuesday’s election in Wisconsin was the highest in 60 years for a presidential one-year party primary, with more than 26% of the state’s voting-age population voting, based on unofficial results.
THE election has been scheduled by voters rejecting two constitutional amendments that sought to limit the governor’s power to spend money and deciding two highly contested congressional primaries. The election was also the first under newly drawn legislative maps, creating dozens of competitive races as well as other fierce contests for local offices.
The city of Madison, a Democratic stronghold, had a 45% turnout — the biggest party turnout drop in at least 40 years, the earliest the clerk’s office has records.
A proposed amendment to New York’s constitution aimed at protecting access to abortion is a crucial part of Democrats’ plans to increase voter turnout in the state this fall and potentially flip vital congressional districts.
But there may be a problem: the electoral issue does not mention the word “abortion.”
Discussions began Wednesday over a lawsuit that Democrats hope will force election officials to include the term in an explanation of the amendment that voters will see when they vote.
The unusual legal effort begins weeks after the state Board of Elections decided late last month to use the measure’s technical language literally rather than interpret it in its explanation to voters.
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.
The DNC said Wednesday that “DemPalooza” events will be held daily at McCormick Place. The convention itself will take place at the United Center.
“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.
“DemPalooza” will also feature an exhibit with vendor booths and interactive spaces for attendees to make friendship bracelets, get a “Kamala Harris” manicure, listen to podcasts or watch performances by local artists.
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.
Both parties are rushing to define Harris as her prepares to accept Democratic nomination at the party convention next week. The poll suggests she carries some of the same baggage that weighed down President Joe Biden before he ended his re-election bid, but has advantages over Trump when compared to each other. And Democrats keep being much happier about her candidacy than about Biden’s.
Kamala Harris’ The presidential campaign is launching a $90 million advertising effort over the next three weeks to introduce the Democrat to voters and sharpen the contrast with Republican Donald Trump.
The media buy marks his campaign’s biggest investment in messaging to voters, with just two and a half months until Election Day in November. This comes on the heels of a US$50 million worth of ads booked last month, shortly after Harris replaced President Joe Biden at the top of the party list.
Harris’ campaign is driven by a run of fundraising since the move, and is now moving to spend the money in an effort to combat what had been very heavy spending by Trump and his allies in the days after Biden’s departure.
Harris’ team said the ad campaign will focus on the vice president’s personal narrative, her career as a prosecutor in California, her commitment to taking on powerful interests and a contrast to what she called Harris’s “extreme and dangerous agenda.” Trump.
donald trump will have another opportunity Wednesday to recalibrate his bid for a presidential comeback, this time with a rally and speech in North Carolina that his campaign is billing as a significant economic speech.
Set in a Democratic city surrounded by heavily Republican mountain counties, the event has national and local implications for the former president.
Republicans hope Trump will focus scattered arguments and attacks on the vice president Kamala Harris as Democrats elevated her as a presidential candidate. Twice last week, Trump fumbled that opportunity, first in a one-hour press conference at his estate in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, and then at a 2.5 hour conversation on social media platform with CEO Elon Musk.
The latest attempt comes in the state that gave Trump the closest margin of victory at the state level four years ago and is once again expected to be a battleground in 2024.
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