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Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailVC action likely to accelerate after the election, says Lerer Hippeau's Ben LererBen Lerer, Lerer Hippeau managing partner, joins CNBC's 'Money Movers' to discuss how AI is impacting the venture capital landscape, how big of an effect the election may have on private market environment, and more.
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In the past, such a drumbeat of controversy in the final weeks of the campaign might have given voters pause, even prompting shifts in the race. “We are on overload with wild stories every news cycle,” said David Kochel, a longtime Republican strategist and a veteran of several presidential campaigns. You can’t keep up with it all, so a lot of people just tune it out.”Adding to it all was a moment far outside his control: Mr. Trump faced a second assassination attempt. It is unclear what — if anything — could reshuffle the race in such a fiercely polarized nation. In fact, views of Mr. Trump have improved from earlier this year when he was leading Mr. Biden, with more voters viewing him favorably now than they did several months ago.
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Harris Wants America to See Itself in Her
  + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Lisa Lerer | Erica L. Green | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
With her acceptance of the Democratic nomination for president, Kamala Harris simultaneously made American history and invited the nation to help her craft the next chapter of it. In the most consequential speech of her career, Ms. Harris asked Americans to see her as the embodiment of the country’s traditional values, rather than a rejection of them. It was a message intended to reassure voters that, as much as her background and identity represent change, Ms. Harris also represents a through line to the nation’s founding ideals. And they offered an explicit counterargument against an opponent who is promising Americans a return to an idealized and insular past dominated by a white Christian male majority. While she didn’t mention her race and gender, Ms. Harris offered an implicit understanding that some Americans may be uncomfortable with being led by a Black woman.
Persons: Kamala Harris, Harris, Hillary Clinton Organizations: Democratic
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailGood companies are getting financed albeit at lower levels than prior years, says Ben LererBen Lerer, Lerer Hippeau managing partner, joins 'Money Movers' to discuss the impact of recent market volatility on venture capital funding, why Lerer believes the venture capital firm is having a good year, and if companies are being 'marked' correctly.
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Vice President Kamala Harris leads former President Donald J. Trump in three crucial battleground states, according to new surveys by The New York Times and Siena College, the latest indication of a dramatic reversal in standing for Democrats after President Biden’s departure from the presidential race remade it. Ms. Harris is ahead of Mr. Trump by four percentage points in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, 50 percent to 46 percent among likely voters in each state. The surveys were conducted from Aug. 5 to 9. The polls, some of the first high-quality surveys in those states since Mr. Biden announced he would no longer run for re-election, come after nearly a year of surveys that showed either a tied contest or a slight lead for Mr. Trump over Mr. Biden. [On question after question, the poll finds that voters don’t seem to have major reservations about Kamala Harris, Nate Cohn writes.]
Persons: Kamala Harris, Donald J, Trump, Biden’s, Harris, Biden, Nate Cohn Organizations: The New York Times, Siena College, Mr Locations: Wisconsin , Pennsylvania, Michigan
Follow live updates on the 2024 election here. JB Pritzker of Illinois released a nearly four-minute video this week promoting his accomplishments in office. Tim Walz of Minnesota and Andy Beshear of Kentucky were scheduled to appear at last-minute simultaneous events on Monday afternoon in Minneapolis and Chicago. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was also set to do a fund-raiser on Saturday night in New Hampshire. It is all for an audience of one: Vice President Kamala Harris.
Persons: JB Pritzker, Mark Kelly of Arizona, Gabrielle Giffords, Tim Walz, Minnesota, Andy Beshear, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Harris Organizations: Illinois, Transportation Locations: Kentucky, Minneapolis, Chicago, New Hampshire
The law firm hired by the Harris campaign to investigate potential vice-presidential candidates has completed its work, leaving the final decision — the most important yet of the still-new campaign — squarely in Vice President Kamala Harris’s hands. Covington & Burling, the Washington law firm tasked with the vetting, completed the job on Thursday afternoon and turned over its findings to Ms. Harris, according to two people briefed on the process. The Harris campaign has suggested it will announce the decision by Tuesday evening, when the vice president and her to-be-named running mate begin a five-day tour of presidential battleground states, starting in Philadelphia. Several of the contenders, including Govs. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania and Andy Beshear of Kentucky, canceled events this weekend, reflecting both a desire to be available for those conversations and to avoid drawing additional speculation from the news media about their chances.
Persons: Harris, Kamala Harris’s, Josh Shapiro, Andy Beshear Organizations: Burling, Pennsylvania Locations: Washington, Philadelphia, Kentucky
The audience of Black journalists was prepared for a combative exchange well before Donald J. Trump took the stage on Wednesday for an interview at their annual gathering in Chicago. Yet when Mr. Trump, just minutes in, began questioning Vice President Kamala Harris’s racial identity, there was an instant ripple of reaction — a low rumble that grew into a roar of disapproval. “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” Mr. Trump said of Ms. Harris, whose mother was Indian American and whose father is Black. The moment was shocking, but for those who have followed Mr. Trump’s divisive language, it was hardly surprising.
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Everything is different now for Democrats. Their crowds are dancing. The celebrities — from Southern rappers to Hollywood actors — are showing up. And by the time Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage on Tuesday night in Atlanta for what her aides billed as the kickoff for her new-and-improved campaign, it was clear that President Biden had been left a distant memory — a name not even mentioned in her remarks. “The momentum in this race is shifting,” she declared from behind a lectern embossed with the vice-presidential seal.
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Over three chaotic weeks, America lived through an assassination attempt, a political convention and a dramatic exit from the presidential ticket. But even — or perhaps especially — in these wild times, the political world is clinging to what it knows: lists of names and wild speculation. Although Vice President Kamala Harris has officially been a presidential candidate for less than four days, the parlor game over her running mate is well underway. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, speaking at a Monday event hosted by an asphalt manufacturer outside Pittsburgh. The governor, whose name frequently tops the roster of potential picks, proceeded to dodge 13 minutes of shouted questions about his vice-presidential aspirations — or lack thereof.
Persons: America, Kamala Harris, , Josh Shapiro Organizations: Pennsylvania Locations: Pittsburgh
Powerful leaders of the Democratic establishment quickly embraced Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday after President Biden’s shocking exit from the race, hoping that a seamless succession could end a month of damaging chaos and transform a contest widely believed to be tipping toward Republicans. With breathtaking speed, she took control of Mr. Biden’s enormous political operation and contacted Democratic leaders in Congress and state houses to ask for their support. The Biden campaign formally renamed itself “Harris for President,” giving her immediate access to an account that had $96 million in cash at the end of June. On an internal call, the Biden campaign’s leaders told staff members that they would now work for Ms. Harris. “I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party — and unite our nation — to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda,” Ms. Harris said in a statement.
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Donald J. Trump has long been a man undone by himself. He imperiled his presidency and political campaigns with personal grudges, impulsiveness and an appetite for authoritarianism. But on Thursday night, with his right ear still bandaged five days after he was wounded by a would-be assassin’s bullet, Mr. Trump attempted a politically cunning transformation. He opened his address by casting himself as a unifying figure, promising to bridge political divides he had long delighted in deepening. “The discord and division in our society must be healed — we must heal it quickly,” Mr. Trump said on the Republican convention’s final night.
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Vice President Kamala Harris tried to buck up the Democratic Party’s biggest donors on Friday, telling about 300 of them that there was little to worry about in President Biden’s campaign. Ms. Harris spoke to the group at a time of extraordinary turmoil among Democrats, with many hoping that she will replace Mr. Biden as the party’s nominee. But several listeners said they found the meeting overall to be of little value and even, at times, condescending, believing that the message ignored donors’ legitimate concerns about the Biden-led ticket. Ms. Harris, of course, is in a delicate position: She must demonstrate loyalty to her boss but also be prepared to jump immediately to the top of the Democratic ticket if Mr. Biden were to withdraw. It is something I feel strongly you should all hear and should take with you when you leave.
Persons: Kamala Harris, Biden’s, Harris, Biden, , Ms, Organizations: Democratic, Mr, Biden
2024 at a Crossroads
  + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Shane Goldmacher | Lisa Lerer | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The 2024 presidential race hurtled toward a consequential crossroads on Thursday, as top Democrats ratcheted up pressure to deny President Biden his party’s nomination while bullish Republicans prepared for a balloon drop to formally select a bandaged Donald J. Trump as their standard-bearer. An extraordinary three weeks in American politics took another surprise turn, after the White House announced on Wednesday that Mr. Biden had contracted Covid, forcing the president into physical isolation just as his presidential candidacy hung in the balance. A race that not long ago seemed a staid rematch came to a dramatic pivot point after a head-spinning series of events: a disastrous debate late last month that made longstanding questions about Mr. Biden’s age unavoidable, and then a shocking attempted assassination of Mr. Trump less than 48 hours before the start of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. For a fleeting few hours on Wednesday, the two presidents presented starkly dueling images that fed into the very story line Republicans were unspooling at their convention — that Mr. Trump was strong and Mr. Biden was weak. One was flying to his beach house on Air Force One to enter seclusion as his party fractured around him; the other was welcomed as a wounded hero by thousands of cheering supporters, some of whom bandaged their ears in a show of solidarity.
Persons: Biden, Donald J, Trump, Mr Organizations: Republicans, White, Republican National Convention, Air Force Locations: Milwaukee
Leaders of the Democratic National Committee are moving swiftly to confirm President Biden as his party’s presidential nominee by the end of July, according to four people briefed on the matter who insisted on anonymity to discuss the sensitive deliberations. The move would formalize Mr. Biden as the nominee at a moment when Democrats are torn over whether he should run again after his poor debate performance. Since May, he has been set to be confirmed through a virtual roll call, weeks before the Democratic National Convention in August. But as Mr. Biden faces persistent doubts from within his party, some delegates involved with the behind-the-scene bureaucratic process are eager to end the public conversations about his future that are unfolding during a fiercely contested campaign.
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As the Republican convention opens on Monday, Democrats find themselves in a state of suspended animation and dread that the election could be tilting further away from President Biden. While there have been no new public calls from congressional Democrats for Mr. Biden to drop out since the assassination attempt on former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday, many in the party maintain grave concerns about the president’s ability to win. The last three weeks have been a cascade of fast-moving and damaging events for Mr. Biden. The shooting on Saturday complicated what Mr. Biden’s campaign believes is one of its most potent campaign messages: that Mr. Trump poses an immediate and active threat to American democracy. Mr. Trump’s in-the-moment response — the raised fist and bloodied face that instantly became a defining image — sent Democrats into yet another tailspin.
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“I will Never Surrender!” Mr. Trump wrote in a text message to supporters. And Mr. Trump is preparing to name his running mate and formally claim his party’s nomination for the third consecutive election. Vance of Ohio, who is on the shortlist of candidates that Mr. Trump is considering as a running mate, wrote on X. “An assassination attempt is contrary to everything we stand for as a nation,” Mr. Biden said. Mr. Trump had assured Malphine Fogel, who lives in Butler County, that he would help get her son home.
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But leaning into the microphone and whispering to dramatize his defiance, Mr. Biden made clear that he did not foresee this happening. “No poll says that.”He seemed to open the door to an alternative, then swiftly shut it. Sure, “other people can beat Trump,” he said, but it would be too hard to “start from scratch.”The president’s first news conference since the debate amounted to a competent presentation, if not a compelling performance. But it remained in doubt whether it was enough to stop the bleeding of Democratic support that has threatened to hemorrhage. Minutes after he left the stage, the drip-drip-drip of Democratic members of Congress calling for him to step aside continued unabated.
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Numerous officials, lawmakers and strategists in President Biden’s own party increasingly see his candidacy as unsustainable — and their private anxieties are slowly but steadily spilling into public view, interviews with more than 50 Democrats this week showed. Growing swaths of Democrats now believe that by remaining on the ticket, the president is jeopardizing their ability to maintain the White House and threatening other candidates up and down the ballot. “I have less and less confidence in this campaign’s ability to win this race,” Representative Scott Peters, Democrat of California, said in an interview. “If we know we’re going to lose, we would be foolish not to look at another course.”Representative Angie Craig, Democrat of Minnesota, urged Mr. Biden on Saturday to step aside as the Democratic nominee. “I do not believe that the president can effectively campaign and win against Donald Trump,” she said in a statement.
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President Biden and his advisers rushed to stem the first serious defections inside the Democratic Party since his shaky debate last week, as leading Democrats lent legitimacy to questions about his mental acuity and raised the specter of replacing him atop the ticket. Mr. Biden’s operation hoped to assert fresh control on Wednesday, holding a call with a group of Democratic governors, in person and virtually, as he seeks to shore up support after days of private hand-wringing went public in sudden and quick succession. On Tuesday, Mr. Biden suffered his first formal call to resign from the race from a Democratic member of Congress. But a private set of polls from a pro-Biden super PAC leaked to the news site Puck showed the president losing ground — around two percentage points — across all the most important battleground states. He was also now trailing in New Mexico, New Hampshire and Virginia, three states that were not seen a year ago as likely even to be contested seriously by Republicans.
Persons: Biden, wringing, Mr, Biden “, Nancy Pelosi, Puck Organizations: Democratic Party, Democratic, Biden, PAC Locations: New Mexico , New Hampshire, Virginia
Later on Friday, top White House aides worked the phones, with Mr. Biden’s chief of staff, Jeff Zients, calling the Democratic leader of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, to check in, according to a person familiar with the call. And by the afternoon, the Biden campaign had transformed its weekly all-staff call into a virtual pep talk to dispel any doubts creeping into the campaign offices in Wilmington, Del., and beyond. “Nothing fundamentally changed about this election last night,” said Quentin Fulks, Mr. Biden’s deputy campaign manager, according to a recording of the all-staff meeting. “We’re going to get punched. We’re going to punch back.
Persons: Biden, Jen O’Malley Dillon, Biden’s, Jeff Zients, Chuck Schumer, , Quentin Fulks, “ We’re Organizations: White, Democratic, Senate Locations: Wilmington, Del
The debate between Donald J. Trump and President Biden had analysts in Asia fretting. During Thursday night’s debate, President Biden told former President Donald J. Trump that the United States is the “envy of the world.”After watching their performance, many of America’s friends might beg to differ. In Europe and Asia, the back-and-forth between the blustering Mr. Trump and the faltering Mr. Biden set analysts fretting — and not just about who might win the election in November. Image Mr. Biden leaving the debate stage. Kasit Piromya, Thailand’s foreign minister from 2008 to 2011 and a former ambassador to the United States, lamented the state of American politics.
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On Today’s Episode:Democrats Lean on Abortion Rights Message for Anniversary of End of Roe, by Katie GlueckFor Biden and Trump, a Debate Rematch With Even Greater Risks and Rewards, by Lisa Lerer, Shane Goldmacher, Jonathan Swan and Maggie HabermanPilgrim Deaths in Mecca Put Spotlight on Underworld Hajj Industry, by Emad Mekay and Vivian NereimGunmen Attack Synagogues and Churches in Russian Republic, by Anton Troianovski and Ivan Nechepurenko
Persons: Lean, Roe, Katie Glueck, Trump, Lisa Lerer, Shane Goldmacher, Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman Pilgrim, Emad Mekay, Vivian Nereim, Anton Troianovski, Ivan Nechepurenko Organizations: Biden Locations: Mecca, Russian Republic
The debate between President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump this week will be the highest-stakes moment of their rematch, plunging two presidents into an extraordinarily early confrontation before a divided and angry nation. For Mr. Biden, the debate in Atlanta offers an opportunity to remind voters of the chaos of his predecessor’s leadership, his criminal convictions and to warn of an even darker future should he win a second term. For Mr. Trump, it’s a chance to make his case that America has grown more expensive, weaker and more dangerous under his successor. A notable misstep — a physical stumble, a mental lapse or a barrage of too-personal insults — could reverberate for months, because of the unusually long period until they meet again for the second debate in September. “This is a big inflection point,” said Karl Rove, a leading Republican strategist who guided George W. Bush’s two successful presidential runs.
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Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailThere will be a number of 'mini bubbles' as AI scales: Lerer Hippeau's Eric HippeauEric Hippeau, Lerer Hippeau managing partner, joins 'Money Movers' to discuss AI, Nvidia, the IPO market, and more.
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