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☆ Still-stunned Democrats begin to squint toward their future
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-10 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

CNN —Pick one word to describe Republicans and Donald Trump, the focus group moderator asked, and one word to describe Democrats and Kamala Harris. “Donald Trump is a uniquely more popular figure, but what is it about him that makes him that way? Former President Donald Trump gestures during a campaign rally in Waco, Texas, on March 25, 2023. But what Democrats face is much deeper than the usual finger-pointing by a losing campaign or speculation about the next set of presidential primary candidates. It goes beyond easy comments about talking more to the working class when Democrats lost ground among nearly every demographic in the presidential race.

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In the final weeks of the campaign, Trump kept supporters at a Michigan rally waiting for hours after he detoured to Texas to record Rogan’s show. And then many of them suddenly found themselves running Harris’ campaign. “This has been an historic partnership in which these teams have worked together extraordinarily well,” said a White House official who has been there from the beginning. “Not enough people understand the importance of that,” a Trump campaign official said of the Kennedy nod. It was the first energizing move that the campaign had since the switch-out.”A Democrat close to the Harris campaign said: “Brat summer had to end.

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☆ Harris couldn't escape Biden's unpopularity
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-07 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Kamala Harris' advisors said she struggled to dig herself out of a hole. Related Video Can Kamala Harris win over Democrats after Joe Biden drops out of 2024 presidential election? Throughout the 2024 race, Trump posted some of his highest approval numbers since he launched his first presidential run in 2015. AdvertisementEvan Roth Smith, the lead pollster at BluePrint, said there's no doubt that Biden's unpopularity impacted Harris. The Trump campaign didn't forget."

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☆ Where Harris’ campaign went wrong
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-06 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

It was a moment that encapsulated one of the biggest challenges facing her campaign – which, in the end, proved insurmountable. CNN spoke with over a dozen senior Harris campaign aides both in the Wilmington, Delaware, campaign headquarters and on the ground in the states, as well as multiple volunteers and local elected officials, over the course of the final weeks of the race. Vice President Kamala Harris makes her way to board Air Force Two before departing Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, Wisconsin on September 20. Biden could have taken on a role as steward and elder statesman, rather than a guy the Harris campaign never knew quite what do with. And those tensions manifested from almost the start of this short campaign, in the internal wrangling over who Harris should pick as her running mate.

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☆ Trump offers darkness, Harris offers optimism on election eve in America
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —The tumultuous 2024 election is ending with a contrast that encapsulates America’s fateful choice on election eve. The vice president also proposes reforms to improve the lives of working Americans — but hers are less revolutionary than Trump’s. If she loses Pennsylvania, Harris would need a combination of other swing states, including Georgia, Nevada and Arizona, where poll averages also show no clear leader. But the findings, which suggested a shift toward Harris from the previous Iowa Poll in September, also showed the vice president with a strong advantage among women. If such a pattern is repeated nationwide, the vice president could be headed to victory if she can limit her deficit to Trump among White males especially.

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America PAC has been tasked with much of the pro-Trump canvassing operation as his campaign focuses its efforts on a more limited effort targeting so-called low-propensity voters. “I know it’s been flagged for America PAC that this has been transpiring,” an operative formerly on the effort said. As some of that data spilled into public view last month, an operative close to the effort said: “All hell has broken loose” inside the PAC. Through late October, America PAC had spent upward of $54 million on Blitz’s services, according to Federal Election Commission filings — more than the PAC has on the three other vendors combined. America PAC ended its relationships this summer with two other prominent GOP-aligned canvassing firms that were knocking on doors as part of its effort.

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☆ Kamala Harris: A jittery campaign makes big plans to clinch a narrow win
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

To get there, the campaign is finalizing marquee, attention-grabbing events showcasing Harris, with symbolic backdrops aimed at driving home the message. JB Pritzker, a Harris campaign co-chair. Harris supporters wear custom “Kamala is brat” shirts at a rally in Milwaukee on August 20, 2024. The Harris aides CNN spoke to expressed a jittery self-confidence, but they also kept using phrases such as“jump ball” and “down to the wire” and the occasional emoji with nauseous green cheeks. But some Harris voters and even some on-the-ground operatives and volunteers are.

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Yet he isn’t all that impressed with Obama, the nation’s first Black president, nor Harris, who would be the second. “He’s only gaining support with Black men.”Democrats have been unnerved by recent polls that show Harris’ numbers sagging among Black voters, particularly young Black men. At a pair of rallies in Tucson and Las Vegas in recent days, Obama drew thousands of cheering supporters, though the turnout among young Black men appeared sparse. He came to hear Obama speak and as he stood in line for the event on campus, he said he didn’t see Obama as a figure who would be especially influential with young Black men. Trump is a white 78-year-old, but he possesses a “charisma” that some younger Black men find appealing, he added.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Charles Johnson, Johnson, Barack Obama, Obama, Harris, Donald Trump, Trump, ” Johnson, “ He’s, Black, he’ll, podcasters, Ronald Reagan, Joe Biden, David Plouffe, “, ”, Joel Benenson, pollster, ‘ You’ve, ’, It’s, Henry Louis Gates Jr, he’s, Lauren Hitt, Miles Covington, hasn’t, didn’t, ” Covington, “ They’re, He’s, Stephen A . Smith, Obama isn’t, Biden, JB Pritzker, ” Pritzker, “ I’ve, Kalid Meky, Meky, Harris ’, ” “ Obama, “ I’m, Kamala Organizations: Democratic, University of Arizona, Black, Trump, Emerson College, Obama, Black Harvard University, White House, New York Times, Siena College, Harris —, Illinois Locations: TUCSON, Ariz, America, Tucson, Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Harris, “, California, Central Park

☆ Harris taps Cheney for ‘blue wall’ tour as she courts undecided independents, moderate Republicans
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-21 | by ( Eric Bradner | Ebony Davis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Harris looks to ‘paint a picture’ for undecided votersSuburban moderates are far from the only group Harris’ campaign is targeting in the race’s closing days. As the Harris campaign tries to make inroads with men, podcasts like Joe Rogan’s are still under consideration, a source familiar with the matter said. “No matter your party, no matter who you voted for last time, there is a place for you in this campaign,” Harris said last week. She appealed to moderate voters and women in their 2024 primary — including many of the same voters Harris’ campaign is targeting in the race’s late stages. Trump’s campaign has been touting Haley’s endorsement in battleground states.

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☆ As Harris turns 60, Democrats cast Trump as old and ‘unhinged’
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-20 | by ( Eric Bradner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Vice President Kamala Harris turns 60 on Sunday – and, her campaign wants voters to know, that makes her 18 years younger than Donald Trump. Harris’ campaign is increasingly questioning the former president’s mental and physical fitness in the final weeks of the 2024 presidential race. “He’s becoming increasingly unstable and unhinged, and it requires that response,” Harris told reporters Saturday in Detroit. Top Harris allies have also leaned into the strategy of casting Trump as old and mentally unfit in recent days. “He’s talking about Hannibal Lecter, he’s talking about this, he’s talking about that.”Trump, at times, seems to tie migrants who seek asylum in the United States to the character of Lecter being detained at an insane asylum.

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The anxiety abated for a bit when Vice President Kamala Harris replaced him on the ticket and her poll numbers spiked. With Harris' numbers stagnant now for weeks, many Democrats are once again fretting that the election is slipping away and that Donald Trump may yet regain power. Harris appears to be OK with the collective jitters, recognizing that if Democrats fear they might lose, they're more apt to show up at the polls and help her win. Polling shows that neither Harris nor Trump has built a lead outside the margin of error. Claims that Harris is an underdog amount to “a liberal plot to get us overconfident on the Trump side,” he added.

Persons: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Harris, Donald Trump, Trump, —, can’t, That’s, “ She’s, she’s, Hillary Clinton, ”, John McLaughlin, “, She’s, ” Harris, Biden, “ You’ve, you’ve, ” David Plouffe, Barack Obama, “ Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, strode, — Obama, — Clinton, Ellen DeGeneres, “ Hamilton, Lin, Manuel Miranda Organizations: WASHINGTON, Trump, Democratic, Fox News, IGN Locations: West Palm Beach , Florida, Greenville , North Carolina, Detroit, Erie , Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Greenville, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Seattle

☆ Obama’s reemergence on the campaign trail for Harris comes as he recognizes his own legacy is at stake
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-13 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

This past Wednesday alone, he recorded 21 videos for the Harris campaign. Obama acolytes have spent the last eight years rationalizing Trump as the last gasp backlash to the Democrat and his presidency. While most of the party leaders Harris called that Sunday afternoon, including Bill Clinton, and immediately pledged support, Obama held off. Harris advisers knew Obama and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi favored an open process to find a new nominee. And according to people who know about the conversations, he checks in with several of his own closest aides now helping run Harris’ campaign, such as current campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon and his own 2008 campaign manager, David Plouffe.

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☆ Trump backs out of ‘60 Minutes’ primetime interview, CBS says
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Brian Stelter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Former President Donald Trump has backed out of a previously scheduled interview with “60 Minutes,” the most-watched newsmagazine in the United States, CBS News said Tuesday evening. “After initially accepting 60 Minutes’ request for an interview with Scott Pelley, former President Trump’s campaign has decided not to participate,” CBS said. In a statement, the Trump campaign denied it had agreed to the “60 Minutes” interview. 60 Minutes begged for an interview, even after they were caught lying about Hunter Biden’s laptop back in 2020. In October 2020, Trump sat down with “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl and abruptly ended the interview when he apparently objected to Stahl’s questions.

Persons: Donald Trump, “, Ohio Sen, JD Vance, Kamala Harris’s, Tim Walz, Harris, ” Trump, spokespeople, Scott Pelley, Trump’s, ”, Trump, Bill Whitaker, Hunter, Steven Cheung, ” Cheung, David Plouffe, Lesley Stahl, Alayna Treene Organizations: New, New York CNN, CBS News, CBS, Minnesota Gov, Democratic, Trump, Veteran CBS, ” CBS, “ Locations: New York, United States

☆ Why a scandal consuming a Trump protégé could harm the ex-president in North Carolina
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

And Democrats have several times thought North Carolina was ripe to pick off in recent elections — only for it to stubbornly stay red. But his new problems quickly pushed North Carolina even further to the forefront of the presidential race. How Trump can mitigate the damageThe KFile investigation about Robinson landed the Trump campaign with a suddenly breaking crisis. Mark Robinson walks past former President Donald Trump after being introduced at a Trump campaign event in Asheboro, North Carolina, on August 21, 2024. Those 16 electoral votes would open hugely significant possibilities for Harris, but Democrats have seen their hopes dashed in North Carolina before.

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☆ How Harris aims to keep drawing eyeballs as the hard campaigning begins
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Michigan and Wisconsin are looking like the best of the bunch for Harris, according to the campaign’s internal numbers. As pumped as Harris aides are about her debate performance earlier this week, they don’t think it changed any of that. “There’s a quiet confidence and security in what we’re doing and the mission, but no one thinks we have this in the bag,” said a Harris campaign aide. We’ll definitely be having some fun,” an Obama aide told CNN. The former president will kick off his work at a fundraiser he’s hosting for Harris next week in Los Angeles.

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☆ Why Trump ditched a debate rematch – for now
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

After Tuesday’s onstage meeting, Harris had said that she and her opponent owed it to voters to debate again. Harris’ senior campaign adviser, David Plouffe, blasted Trump on X as “chicken man.”The Republican nominee often changes his mind. He asked, “Wasn’t ‘The Apprentice’ a great show, though?” and wistfully reminisced about the final night of his election campaign in 2016. Will Trump stick to his refusal to debate Harris again? But Bryan Lanza, a senior Trump campaign advisor, insisted that this was a tactical decision.

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“Obamacare was lousy health care. Harris senior adviser David Plouffe promised Wednesday that voters will hear more about Trump’s health care comments. “He promised us a health care plan back in 2015. But he still wants to basically throw tens of millions of people off health care,” Plouffe said on MSNBC. I say: How are we going to fix the system?”Asked if he supports Trump's call to reopen the ACA fight, No.

Persons: WASHINGTON, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, “ Obamacare, It’s, ” Trump, “, ”, didn’t, Trump’s, Trump, Harris, Biden, David Plouffe, ” Plouffe, Barack Obama, Sen, John McCain, I’ve, Joe Biden, hasn’t, ” Sen, Rick Scott, Republican Sen, John Barrasso, Obama’s Organizations: Affordable, ACA, Republicans, MSNBC, “, GOP, Trump, Democrats, Republican Locations: Trump, Wyoming

☆ Trump is falsely claiming that Kamala Harris' rally crowd is AI generated. Unfortunately for him, the hype for Harris is very, very real.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Tim Walz aboard arriving for a campaign rally on Wednesday in Romulus, Michigan. Harris speaking with supporters during the campaign rally at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. The crowds of supporters at Harris' rally in Michigan. Harris walking on stage to a large crowd during a campaign rally at in Glendale, Arizona on Friday. Representatives for Trump and Harris did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.

Persons: —, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, He's, Harris, Kamala, Tim Walz, Carlos Osorio, Julia Nikhinson, Walz, Julia Nikhinson Harris, Julia Nikhinson David Plouffe, Trump, " Walz, it's, Martin Luther King Jr, htc5hBRgQR — Zachary Petrizzo, influencer Logan Paul, Paul, I'm Organizations: Service, Business, Air Force, Gov, Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, CNBC, Guardian, Trump, Trump YouTube, Business Insider Locations: Michigan, Romulus , Michigan, Glendale , Arizona, Las Vegas, Glendale, Bozeman , Montana

☆ Trump spreads false conspiracy theory about Harris’ Detroit crowd size
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Eric Bradner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The false claims about attendance at Harris’ event come as Trump navigates the contours of a changed presidential race, with the vice president riding a wave of new Democratic enthusiasm after replacing President Joe Biden atop the ticket. Anyone who does that will cheat at ANYTHING!”However, photos and videos of the event — including videos captured with CNN’s cameras — reflect a sizable audience for Harris’ Wednesday event. The crowd filled a large hangar and spilled onto the sprawling tarmac where Air Force Two had stopped. “She should be disqualified because the creation of a fake image is ELECTION INTERFERENCE. Lavora Barnes, chairwoman of the Michigan Democratic Party, shared on X a photo from the event showing her speaking to a large crowd before Harris was introduced.

Persons: Donald Trump, ”, Kamala Harris ’, Harris, Joe Biden, “, Hany Farid, Julia Nikhinson, David Plouffe, ” Trump, Kamala, ‘, ’, Lavora Barnes, Barnes, ” Harris, Tim Walz, Detroit “, ” Barnes, CNN’s Kate Sullivan, Jeff Zeleny Organizations: CNN, Democratic, Trump, GOP, Air Force, University of California, LinkedIn, Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, Michigan Democratic Party Locations: Kamala Harris ’ Michigan, Detroit, ”, Berkeley, Romulus , Michigan

☆ How a VP pick shaped U.S. politics for decades: From the Politics Desk
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( The Politics Desk | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

In today’s edition, we report on how Vice President Kamala Harris’ search for a running mate is nearing the finish line. In case that wasn’t already clear from the vetting, the interviews and the obsessive media attention, consider the long — and still lengthening — list of ways one selection shaped decades of national politics. The pick influenced not just Obama’s electoral victories and the Obama administration but also every successive presidential election since then. And it could keep doing so for years, as Vice President Kamala Harris prepares to make her choice Tuesday. And Harris’ running mate selection could anoint the Democratic Party’s next presidential favorite, potentially into the 2030s.

Persons: Kamala Harris ’, Scott Bland, Barack Obama’s, Joe Biden, Obama, Kamala Harris, Obama’s, David Plouffe, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump’s, Biden, Harris, Sen, Evan Bayh, Tim Kaine, —, Cori Bush, Julie Tsirkin, Kyle Stewart, “ I’m, ”, Bush, Wesley Bell, Bell, Louis County’s, Israel —, Jamaal Bowman, J D, Lou Organizations: NBC, White House, Capitol, Democratic, Virginia Gov, Kyle Stewart Democratic, NBC News, Israel, Justice Department Locations: Israel, Indiana, Ferguson, Washington, U.S, York, Gaza

That level of intensity in a short period of time necessitated a crew of hardened professionals, several sources with knowledge of Harris' strategy said. Next week, a major campaign swing, then the convention and then it’s the debate,” one person with knowledge of Harris’ strategy said. Mitch Stewart will act as a senior adviser on battleground states, and Palmieri will serve as senior adviser to the second gentleman. “In Wisconsin, we have had more online volunteer sign-ups since July 21st than between January 1st and July 20th,” a Harris campaign aide said. “That’s a game-changer to a ground game in a small state like Nevada,” Molly Forgey, a Nevada Democratic strategist, said.

Persons: Kamala Harris ’, David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s, Stephanie Cutter, Jennifer Palmieri —, Harris, Joe Biden’s, Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, Obama, Mitch Stewart, Palmieri, Brian Fallon —, ”, Pete Giangreco, Biden, Trump, “, Cutter, Jen O’Malley Dillon, Julie Rodriguez, “ Harris, Molly Forgey, Forgey, there’s, —, Chris Korge, he's Organizations: Democratic, White, Trump, “, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Congressional, Committee, ”, Nevada Democratic Locations: “, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, “ In Wisconsin, Philadelphia, ” In Nevada

☆ Kamala Harris Hires Top Obama Advisers, Building Out Campaign
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Shane Goldmacher | Reid J. Epstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Vice President Kamala Harris, who formally won enough delegates to secure the Democratic Party nomination on Friday, is remaking a campaign hierarchy originally built to re-elect President Biden by adding several new advisers to the top ranks of her staff, including David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama’s first presidential run. The hirings and promotions continue a whirlwind period for Ms. Harris, who is expected to meet in person with prospective candidates to be her running mate this weekend. The list is said to have narrowed to a half-dozen and the accelerated vetting process, conducted by an outside law firm, is now complete. Her campaign has suggested it will unveil her running mate by Tuesday evening, when the new ticket will hold a rally in Philadelphia to kick off a five-day battleground state tour. Many of the other new additions to Ms. Harris’s team are veterans of the Obama and Hillary Clinton campaigns.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Biden, David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s, Donald J, Trump, Harris, Harris’s, Obama, Hillary Clinton Organizations: Democratic Party Locations: Wilmington, Del, Philadelphia

☆ Harris eyes changes at campaign headquarters while wary of drama
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Edward-Isaac Dovere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

But now it has to retool to elect Kamala Harris, who’s a Black and South Asian woman in the year 2024,” said one aide at campaign headquarters. Never have the people on what was, until Sunday afternoon, the very small core team around Harris felt so popular. That, they know, has to change immediately, but will happen as Harris’ staff is asked to step in. Retaining hard fought Harris equilibriumLike Biden, Harris doesn’t have a history of running great or well-functioning campaigns, whether that was her Senate race in 2016 or her 2020 presidential run that didn’t even survive until December of 2019. So at least for now, the campaign staff are trying to hold to a line that deputy campaign manager and digital outreach specialist Rob Flaherty used on a call Monday afternoon that senior staff held.

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☆ Democrats are freaking out after Biden's debate performance
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewPresident Joe Biden wanted the earliest major presidential debate in history. Biden turned in a performance so disastrous that prominent Democrats are questioning if the president can even go on. Advertisement"It was a really disappointing debate performance from Joe Biden," Kate Beddingfield, Biden's former White House communications direction, said shortly after Axelrod. I loved Joe Biden, I worked for Joe Biden," Jones said. Related storiesOne former White House aide told Politico that Biden's performance was "terrible."

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☆ On MSNBC, the mood turns somber following Biden’s debate performance
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Hadas Gold | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“It’s kind of a DEFCON 1 moment,” David Plouffe, former President Barack Obama’s campaign manager, told MSNBC star Rachel Maddow following the debate. The people who were texting with me were very concerned about President Biden seeming extremely feeble, seeming extremely weak,” Reid said. And while MSNBC’s hosts pointed to the flood of lies from Trump during Thursday night’s debate, the conversation continually returned to Biden’s performance. “President Biden is a good man who capped a long career in public service with a successful presidential term. “Predictably, Biden’s poor performance led to some chatter about his stepping down and letting someone else be the nominee.

Persons: CNN —, Alex Wagner, ” Wagner, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Joe Biden’s, Trump, ” David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s, Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, Biden, “, ” Reid, ”, Nicolle Wallace, ” Wallace, Chris Hayes, Nicholas Kristof, “ Joe Biden, —, ” David Corn, Mother Jones, ” Mehdi Hasan, ” Hasan, Symone Sanders Organizations: CNN, MSNBC, Democratic, Fox News, Republican, Trump, ” New York Times, Biden Locations: Atlanta, America

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