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☆ The Harris Campaign Begins
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Kamala Harris has an opportunity that would not have been available to President Biden if he’d been the Democratic nominee. She can reintroduce herself to voters in ways that address their biggest complaints about Biden’s record and the Democratic Party. She is Biden’s vice president, after all. Yesterday, a Republican political group urged candidates to criticize Harris as a radical, while JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, told a rally, “The Biden record is the Kamala Harris record.”Still, Harris is not Biden, and she can subtly distance herself from his record and emphasize what she would do differently. Hubert Humphrey surged in the 1968 race after he belatedly separated himself from Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam policies.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Biden, he’d, Harris, JD Vance, “, ”, George H.W, Bush, Ronald Reagan, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Organizations: Democratic, Democratic Party, Republican, Biden Locations: Vietnam

☆ The surprise election that could be a model for Democrats in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

I talked to Samuel Freedman, a Columbia Journalism School professor, about his recent book about Humphrey and the 1948 Democratic convention in Philadelphia. The book’s title, “Into the Bright Sunshine,” is taken from a line in Humphrey’s rousing speech on civil rights. In 1968, the Democratic Party was operating under old rules in which primary voters actually had relatively little direct effect on delegates. When Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats bolted from the Democratic Party in 1948, that’s the beginning of the vast majority of the White South becoming Republicans, stepping away from the Democratic Party. Show me a major Republican politician in the MAGA movement who is a fervent supporter of civil rights legislation.

Persons: Joe Biden, Hubert Humphrey, Republican Richard Nixon, Humphrey, uninspiring, Harry Truman, Thomas Dewey, Samuel Freedman, Freedman, Biden, Truman WOLF, Donald Trump, FREEDMAN, Truman, – Henry Wallace, Strom Thurmond, Jill Stein, Minneapolis Hubert H, Lyndon, George McGovern, FDR hadn’t, Brown, Ed, WOLF, there’s, Martin Luther King, It’s, Lyndon Johnson, Bobby Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, I’m, Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Byron Donalds, Abraham Lincoln, Adlai, Stevenson, Barry Goldwater, Nixon’s, Ronald, Reagan’s, Willie Horton, Jim Crow, MAGA, Mitt Romney’s, George Romney, William Scranton, Edward Brooke, that’s Organizations: CNN —, House, Republican, Minneapolis, Columbia Journalism School, Democratic, Democratic Party, Civil Rights Movement, RFK Jr, Democratic National Convention, Civil, Chicago, CNN, Civil Rights, Southern Democrats, South Carolina Democrat, Republicans, South, JFK, Trump, Republican Party –, LBJ, Southern, Republican Party, Michigan Gov, Pennsylvania Gov, NAACP Locations: Israel, Chicago, Vietnam, New York, Philadelphia, America, ‘, Harlem, Minneapolis, Alabama, Southern, Montgomery, ’, Florida, Lincoln, Massachusetts

☆ Opinion | Vivek Ramaswamy Is Very Annoying. It’s Why He’s Surging in the Polls.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Cupp called him, in a column: “Obnoxious. The Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight and Ipsos polled likely Republican primary voters before and after last week’s debate. Following his performance, Ramaswamy’s favorability rating rose from 50 percent to 60 percent, even though his unfavorability rating rose even more, from 13 percent to 32 percent. Participants in a CNN focus group of Iowa Republicans declared him the debate’s winner, as did a poll released on Thursday from JL Partners. The day after the debate, his campaign reportedly raised more than $1 million.

Persons: Vivek Ramaswamy, Josh Barro, Ramaswamy, Vivek, CNN’s, Cupp, Matt Lewis, Seinfeld, Ipsos, Donald Trump, pollsters, Trump, Fox News’s “, ”, Ron DeSantis, Lyndon Johnson’s, ’ ”, Paul Ryan Organizations: Republican, Trump, Daily, Republican Party, The Washington Post, CNN, Iowa Republicans, JL Partners, Fox Locations: Harvard, Florida

☆ Biden’s granddaughter Naomi ties knot in White House wedding
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

It’s the first White House wedding with a president’s granddaughter as the bride, and the first one ever on the South Lawn. Naomi Biden walks to the White House in Washington, D.C. with first lady Jill Biden and President Joe Biden on Oct. 11, 2021. The couple, who have been living at the White House, was set up by a mutual friend about four years ago in New York City and have been together ever since, the White House said. The White House announced the wedding in a statement following the small, private wedding in the Rose Garden. The White House Correspondents Association, which advocates for press access to the White House and the president, said it was “deeply disappointed” that the White House declined its request for press coverage of Naomi Biden’s wedding.

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