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☆ After Kennedy’s Endorsement of Trump, They Signal a New Alliance
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Kellen Browning | Simon J. Levien | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

One of the most attention-grabbing days of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential bid was also its last. After toiling for months as an electoral afterthought, Mr. Kennedy suspended his long-shot campaign on Friday and endorsed former President Donald J. Trump in a speech in Phoenix carried live by television networks. Then, he traveled across town to speak in front of the largest rally audience since he began his third-party run last year: an audience of 17,000 at a Trump event at an arena in Glendale, Ariz.As he shook hands with Mr. Trump amid bursts of fireworks, Mr. Kennedy was, briefly, the star of the show, a new attraction for the Trump campaign. But it was unclear what impact, if any, Mr. Kennedy’s endorsement of Mr. Trump would have on the 2024 race. Many voters had said they were frustrated with the lack of choice between two unpopular and familiar candidates: Mr. Trump and President Biden.

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There, he told a story of a helicopter ride with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown that Mr. Brown denies. “It was Willie Brown,” Mr. Trump, who spent much of the last year hoping to make gains with Black voters, posted. Ms. Res, who also spoke to Politico, recalled that Mr. Trump liked to say that Mr. Holden had “turned white” from fear, but that it was actually Mr. Trump whose face was ashen. Mr. Brown told him he had never been in a helicopter with Mr. Trump. “He was not fan of hers very much, at that point,” Mr. Trump said.

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☆ Fine-Tuning His Attacks on Harris, Trump Tries Using Her Words Against Her
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( Michael Gold | Simon J. Levien | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As former President Donald J. Trump continues to reach for attacks on his new opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, that might halt her political momentum, he unveiled a new tactic at a rally in Bozeman, Mont., on Friday night, aiming to use Ms. Harris’s own words against her. Interrupting his typical pattern of a digressive and lengthy speech, Mr. Trump played two video compilations of past remarks by Ms. Harris that his campaign hopes will portray her as overly liberal and inept. The first video drew on statements that Ms. Harris made during the 2020 presidential campaign, when she tacked to the left and backed progressive ideas on criminal justice reform. The second was a montage of interviews and speeches that Mr. Trump’s campaign used to mock her speaking style and insult her intelligence. The videos did little to alter the message that the Trump campaign has deployed against Ms. Harris for weeks and that Mr. Trump summed up during his speech on Friday.

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☆ Trump Agrees to a Fox News Debate with Harris on Sept. 4
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Simon J. Levien | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Former President Donald J. Trump said on Friday that he agreed to debate Vice President Kamala Harris on Sept. 4 in an event moderated by Fox News. If it happens, that would be the second presidential debate this election cycle and the first between Mr. Trump and the new Democratic candidate. It was unclear early Saturday if Ms. Harris had agreed to the debate and its terms. Mr. Trump said that the Fox News debate would have a live audience; the previous debate between President Biden and Mr. Trump took place in an empty venue. Though the campaigns agreed to the format of the first debate, Mr. Trump previously bemoaned that there was no crowd.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Kamala Harris, Trump’s, Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, Harris, Biden Organizations: Fox News, Mr, Democratic, Fox Locations: Pennsylvania

☆ Trump Agrees to a Fox News Debate With Harris on Sept. 4
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Simon J. Levien | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Former President Donald J. Trump said late Friday that he agreed to debate Vice President Kamala Harris on Sept. 4 in an event moderated by Fox News. If it happens, that would be the second presidential debate this election cycle and the first between Mr. Trump and the new Democratic candidate. It was unclear early Saturday whether Ms. Harris had agreed to the debate and its terms. Mr. Trump said that the Fox News debate would have a live audience; the previous debate between President Biden and Mr. Trump was hosted by CNN in an empty venue. Though both campaigns agreed to the format of the first debate, Mr. Trump had bemoaned the lack of a crowd.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Kamala Harris, Trump’s, Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, Harris, Biden Organizations: Fox News, Mr, Democratic, Fox, CNN Locations: Pennsylvania

Mr. Shapiro has said his views have evolved in the years since writing an opinion essay critical of Palestinians when he was a college student. Mr. Shapiro, 51, has embraced his Jewish identity and been one of the Democratic Party’s staunchest defenders of Israel at a moment when the party is splintered over the war in Gaza. “Something I wrote when I was 20, is that what you’re talking about?” Mr. Shapiro told a reporter who asked him about it. He has also not shied away from criticizing college administrators over their response to campus antisemitism, including at the University of Pennsylvania. If Ms. Harris chooses Mr. Shapiro to be her running mate, he will become only the second Jewish vice-presidential nominee on a major-party ticket.

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☆ Trump Proposes a Fox News Debate With Harris on Sept. 4
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Simon J. Levien | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Former President Donald J. Trump said late Friday that he agreed with Fox News to debate Vice President Kamala Harris on Sept. 4. If it happens, it would be the second presidential debate this election cycle and the first between Mr. Trump and the new Democratic candidate. It was unclear early Saturday whether Ms. Harris had agreed to the debate and its terms. Mr. Trump said that the Fox News debate would have a live audience; the previous debate between President Biden and Mr. Trump was hosted by CNN in an empty venue. Though both campaigns agreed to the format of the first debate, Mr. Trump had bemoaned the lack of a crowd.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Kamala Harris, Trump’s, Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, Harris, Biden Organizations: Fox News, Mr, Democratic, Fox, CNN Locations: Pennsylvania

The group, set up by Charles Gantt, is funneling money to Republican operatives and funding paid ads, mail and text messages that praise his position on abortion rights. Democrat,” the piece of direct mail, sent to a Democratic voter in Philadelphia and viewed by The New York Times, reads in bold letters. A spokesperson for Mr. Kennedy has not responded, either. Those ads similarly highlight Mr. Kennedy’s position on abortion rights. counterparts, promoting Mr. Kennedy as a supporter of Mr. Trump.

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Ms. Harris told The Washington Post in 2019 that she had long been comfortable with her racial identity. Ms. Harris joined Alpha Kappa Alpha, a sorority for Black women, at Howard University, a historically Black university. Ms. Harris failed California’s bar exam on her first attempt in July 1989, according to her autobiography, and received a letter in November that she had failed, “to my utter devastation.” While she did not address her subsequent exams in the book, Ms. Harris was admitted to the bar in June 1990. Mr. Trump is taking outsize credit. It is also worth noting that Mr. Trump did not request the increased funding that the schools received.

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Some of those contributors are among those involved in a donor collective supporting Mr. Trump. Mr. Buskirk, who made some money in the insurance business, has strong relationships with tech donors. Some of those contributors are among those involved in a donor collective called the Rockbridge Network that Mr. Buskirk created. Its twice-a-year meetings have drawn appearances by Mr. Trump, as well as megadonors including Peter Thiel, Rebekah Mercer, Steve Wynn and David Sacks. Mr. Buskirk gained a following in the Trump orbit with a publication called American Greatness.

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“Kamala Harris will appoint hundreds of extreme far left judges to forcibly impose crazy San Francisco liberal values on Americans nationwide,” Mr. Trump told the crowd. Mr. Biden’s move upended a presidential race that Mr. Trump and his team had been anticipating for years. But Mr. Trump seemed to make a more considered effort on Friday to define Ms. Harris as further to Mr. Biden’s left. Mr. Trump also repeated his false, widely debunked claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, which he has maintained that he won. James Singer, a Harris campaign spokesman, criticized Mr. Trump in a statement for insulting Jewish Americans and lying about the 2020 election.

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☆ Harris Rallies Exuberant Democrats in Wisconsin: ‘The Baton Is in Our Hands’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Reid J. Epstein | Simon J. Levien | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Delivering a jolt of enthusiasm to a party reeling from weeks of infighting, Vice President Kamala Harris rallied Democrats on Tuesday in Wisconsin and laid out a fierce argument against former President Donald J. Trump. Ms. Harris vowed, in her first rally as the de facto Democratic presidential nominee, to defeat Mr. Trump by attacking him as a prosecutor would. She walked out to cheers to the tune of Beyoncé’s “Freedom,” which the singer had allowed her to use. As one attendee put it, the moment felt like a release of months of pent-up Democratic energy. She highlighted the $100 million in contributions since Sunday and took a victory lap for effectively wrapping up the Democratic presidential nomination within 48 hours.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Donald J, Trump, Harris, Biden, “, ” Ms Organizations: Democratic Locations: Wisconsin

☆ A Week After Shooting, Trump Leaves Unity Behind and Returns to Insults and Election Denial
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Michael Gold | Simon J. Levien | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At his first campaign rally since he survived an assassination attempt last week, former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday launched a litany of attacks that suggested his call for national unity in the wake of the shooting had faded entirely into the background. Over the course of an almost two-hour speech in Grand Rapids, Mich., Mr. Trump insulted President Biden’s intelligence repeatedly, calling him “stupid” more than once. He said Vice President Kamala Harris was “crazy” and gleefully jeered the Democratic Party’s infighting over Mr. Biden’s political future. Even as Mr. Trump made numerous false claims accusing his political opponents of widespread election fraud, he presented the continuing push by some Democrats to replace Mr. Biden on their ticket as an anti-democratic effort. By contrast, Mr. Trump — who falsely insisted he won the 2020 election and whose effort to overturn it spurred a violent attack on the Capitol that threatened the peaceful transfer of power — presented himself as an almost martyr trying to protect the United States from its downfall.

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As Sam Brown, a Republican and Army veteran, has campaigned for Nevada’s U.S. Senate seat against Senator Jacky Rosen, he has deployed a potent weapon against his Democratic foe: the unpopularity of President Biden among the state’s voters. Mr. Brown and his campaign have linked Ms. Rosen to Mr. Biden and his policies at every turn, slamming her support for him on the campaign trail and online and even occasionally referring to her as “Jacky Biden.”Now, with Mr. Biden’s future at the top of the Democratic ticket in doubt, Republicans like Mr. Brown, campaigning in competitive down-ballot races that could decide control of Congress, are considering whether they will need to alter their messaging to account for a different Democratic presidential nominee — whether that is Vice President Kamala Harris or another challenger.

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Six Takeaways From the Republican Convention , by Shane GoldmacherPeople Close to Biden Say He Appears to Accept He May Have to Leave the Race, by Michael D. Shear, Peter Baker and Katie Rogers

Persons: Shane Goldmacher, Biden, Michael D, Peter Baker, Katie Rogers Organizations: Republican

On Today’s Episode:Biden Called ‘More Receptive’ to Hearing Pleas to Step Aside, by Carl Hulse, Michael S. Schmidt, Reid J. Epstein, Peter Baker and Luke BroadwaterBiden Tests Positive for Covid, by Michael D. ShearJ.D. Vance Plants His Appalachian Roots in the 2024 Race, by Michael C. BenderAt R.N.C., Senators Berate Secret Service Director Over Assassination Attempt, by Jonathan SwanGunman’s Phone Had Details About Both Trump and Biden, F.B.I. Officials Say, by Glenn Thrush, Jack Healy and Luke BroadwaterA Blind Spot and a Lost Trail: How the Gunman Got So Close to Trump, by David A. Fahrenthold, Glenn Thrush, Campbell Robertson, Adam Goldman and Aric TolerAn Algorithm Told Police She Was Safe. Then Her Husband Killed Her, by Adam Satariano and Roser Toll Pifarré

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On Today’s Episode:Takeaways From Day One of the Republican Convention, by Jonathan WeismanHow J.D. Vance Won Over Donald Trump, by Jonathan Swan and Maggie HabermanBystanders Warned Law Enforcement of the Gunman Two Minutes Before He Began Shooting, Video Shows, by David Botti, Malachy Browne, Haley Willis, Riley Mellen and Dmitriy KhavinJudge Dismisses Classified Documents Case Against Trump, by Alan FeuerThe World Is Pushing Clean Energy. Oil Companies Are Thriving, by Rebecca F. Elliott

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☆ From Skeptic to Superfan: J.D. Vance’s Turnabout on Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Simon J. Levien | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Senator J.D. Mr. Vance was frequently interviewed for his views on the white working-class communities described in his book, full of the types of voters drawn to Mr. Trump’s “Make America Great Again” pitch, and to his insistence that he alone could save a nation in decline. In a 2016 article in The Atlantic, “Opioid of the Masses,” Mr. Vance wrote: “During this election season, it appears that many Americans have reached for a new pain reliever.” He went on: “It enters minds, not through lungs or veins, but through eyes and ears, and its name is Donald Trump.” But, he argued, Mr. Trump was not the solution. By 2018, Mr. Vance’s stance had softened, as he viewed Mr. Trump as speaking, if coarsely, to the frustrations of the people he had written about. By 2022, when Mr. Vance was running for Senate in Ohio, the self-described “Never Trump guy” from six years earlier received a race-changing Trump endorsement.

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On Today’s Episode:Biden Asks America to ‘Lower the Temperature’ After Trump Shooting, by Michael D. ShearHere’s What Is Known About the Suspect Who Tried to Assassinate Trump, by Campbell Robertson, Jack Healy, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Glenn ThrushAfter Shooting at Trump Rally, Officials Say R.N.C. Security Is ‘Ready To Go,’ by Julie Bosman, Ernesto Londoño and Dan SimmonsIsrael Struck Twice in Its Attack on Al-Mawasi, Videos and Photos Show, by Riley MellenPromised Cures, Tainted Cells: How Cord Blood Banks Mislead Parents, by Sarah Kliff and Azeen Ghorayshi

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☆ Target is a 'really good company,' says former Walmart U.S. CEO Bill Simon
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailTarget is a 'really good company,' says former Walmart U.S. CEO Bill SimonFormer Walmart U.S. CEO Bill Simon joins 'Fast Money' with the traders to discuss the key factors impacting the luxury retail market and where the sector is headed.

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The shots rang out at 6:10 p.m. Former President Donald J. Trump clutched his right ear as blood spurted out, then ducked for cover as supporters screamed and Secret Service agents raced to surround and protect him. Within moments, someone shouted “shooter down” and the agents, agitated but in control, began moving Mr. Trump offstage to safety. “Wait, wait, wait, wait,” he called out, then made a point of pumping his fist at the crowd and seemed to defiantly shout, “Fight! The explosion of political violence came at an especially volatile moment in American history and further inflamed an already stormy campaign for the White House. But a male spectator at the rally was killed and two other men were critically wounded, authorities said.

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☆ Live Updates: Trump Safe After Failed Assassination Attempt
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Mike Ives | Simon J. Levien | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

Mr. Trump was rushed off the stage, blood visible around his right ear. The Secret Service said its personnel had killed the shooter. Secret Service agents then rushed Mr. Trump off the stage. Mr. Trump had been showing supporters a chart about the number of border crossings just minutes into his speech when the shots rang out. President Biden, in a nationally televised statement, expressed gratitude that Mr. Trump had been swiftly evacuated and said “There’s no place in America for this kind of violence.” He later spoke to Mr. Trump, according to the White House.

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☆ Report From the Shooting at Trump’s Rally: ‘Get Down! Shots Fired!’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Simon J. Levien | More About Simon J. Levien | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Everyone immediately ducked — myself included. There were screams in the crowd as Mr. Trump ducked to the ground before being surrounded by bodyguards. Around me, people were screaming and saying, “Get down, get down, shots fired.” I ducked under the press stand and remained there — until I heard cheering. I came out and saw Mr. Trump raising his fist defiantly. I saw Mr. Trump led down the stairs of the stage to his left, taken immediately to a vehicle.

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☆ Live Election Updates: Trump Returns to Pennsylvania as Biden Looks to Steady His Campaign
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Chris Cameron | Simon J. Levien | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running for president as an independent, has said that he has “many skeletons” in his closet. Mr. Kennedy declined to comment on the messages or on Ms. Cooney’s allegations. Ms. Cooney was a weekend babysitter — the Kennedys had three children then (a fourth was born later) — and she worked as an intern in his law clinic at Pace. Another time, she said, Mr. Kennedy came into her room shirtless and asked her to rub lotion on his back. Ms. Cooney also described an incident when she was alone at the house with Mr. Kennedy.

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Reid J. Epstein covers campaigns and elections from Washington. Before joining The Times in 2019, he worked at The Wall Street Journal, Politico, Newsday and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. See more on: U.S.

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