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Our mother might be white, he told us, but in this country, that fact was irrelevant to how we would be seen and treated. I cannot say exactly how I knew I was Black before my dad sat us down, but I knew. With my white family I was not white but part white. With my Black family and in the rest of America, I was Black. In American society, this race rule is so embedded that it is not even questioned.
Persons: Donald J, Trump, Kamala Harris, Organizations: Republican Locations: America, Mississippi, Loving, Virginia, Iowa
When former President Donald J. Trump walked onto the stage at his rally in Atlanta on Saturday, fog machines shot white plumes of smoke into the air, heralding his arrival. If you looked closely, you could almost imagine steam pouring out of his ears, too. All week long, something had been giving him the vapors. “Crazy Kamala,” he fumed a minute into his speech. It was the first major rally of her newborn campaign, and she had two rappers (Quavo and Megan Thee Stallion) on hand to hype up her crowd.
Persons: Donald J, Trump, Kamala, , Kamala Harris, Megan Thee Organizations: Georgia State University Convocation Locations: Atlanta
“Obviously, we have eyes.”That was the somewhat jaded response by Larhonda Marshall, a 42-year-old health care worker from Chicago, about all the attention being paid to Vice President Kamala Harris’s racial identity. As a Black woman herself, Ms. Marshall said that the symbolism of a Harris victory would surely be on her mind as she considers her vote for president. And she wishes the Harris supporters who keep mentioning it would drop it. “I’m tired of hearing it,” Ms. Marshall said. I just want what’s best for the country.”This week, after former President Donald J. Trump claimed falsely that Ms. Harris “happened to turn Black” only recently, the vice president did not attempt to clarify the obvious: that she has, in fact, been Black all her life.
Persons: Larhonda Marshall, Kamala Harris’s, Marshall, Harris, “ I’m, Ms, “ That’s, Donald J, Trump, Harris “ Locations: Chicago
While campaigning this past week, Senator JD Vance of Ohio called Vice President Kamala Harris a “phony” who “grew up in Canada,” as former President Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, continued raising false and incendiary questions about the presumed Democratic nominee’s racial identity. “Kamala Harris grew up in Canada,” Mr. Vance said during a campaign stop in Arizona on Wednesday. “They don’t talk like that in Vancouver or Quebec or wherever she came from.”Ms. Harris did, indeed, move to Montreal as a 12-year-old with her sister in 1976, when their mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was recruited to conduct breast-cancer research at Jewish General Hospital and to teach at McGill University’s medical school. Over the next five years, Kamala Harris continued to shuttle between Quebec’s largest city and California to stay with her father, Donald J. Harris, an economist at Stanford, and a family friend during holidays and vacations.
Persons: JD Vance, Kamala Harris, , , Donald J, Trump, “ Kamala Harris, ” Mr, Vance, Ms, Harris, Shyamala Gopalan Organizations: Republican, Jewish General Hospital, McGill, Stanford Locations: Ohio, Canada, Arizona, Vancouver, Quebec, Montreal, Quebec’s, California
After nearly eight months in limbo, former President Donald J. Trump’s federal election interference case sprang back to life on Saturday as the judge overseeing it scheduled a hearing in Washington for Aug. 16 to discuss next steps. At the hearing, the judge, Tanya S. Chutkan, will discuss with Mr. Trump’s lawyers and prosecutors in the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, how each side would like to proceed with a complicated fact-finding mission the Supreme Court ordered last month. The order was part of its landmark ruling granting Mr. Trump broad immunity against criminal prosecution for acts arising from his presidency. A key element of that decision requires Judge Chutkan to sort through the 45-page indictment accusing Mr. Trump of plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and decide which of its many allegations can move forward to trial and which arise from official acts of his presidency and will have to be tossed out.
Persons: Donald J, Tanya S, Jack Smith, Trump, Chutkan, Mr Organizations: Supreme Locations: Washington
How JD Vance Thinks About Power
  + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Matt Flegenheimer | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
In September 2021, JD Vance offered two predictions about former President Donald J. Trump and one piece of advice. Mr. Trump would run again in 2024, Mr. Vance said. And when he did, Mr. Vance counseled, he needed the right people around him this time. “Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people,” Mr. Vance said on a podcast. “Then when the courts stop you, stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did,” Mr. Vance said, citing a (possibly apocryphal) quotation long attributed to America’s seventh president, “and say: ‘The chief justice has made his ruling.
Persons: JD Vance, Donald J, Trump, Vance, Mr, Andrew Jackson, , Organizations:
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
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
Former President Donald J. Trump suggested without evidence on Saturday that Georgia’s Republican governor was hampering his efforts to win the battleground state in November, a claim that carried echoes of Mr. Trump’s attempt to overturn his defeat to President Biden there in 2020. “In my opinion, they want us to lose,” Mr. Trump said, accusing the state’s governor, Brian Kemp, and its secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, who is also a Republican, of being disloyal and trying to make life difficult for him. Mr. Trump lost to Mr. Biden by roughly 12,000 votes in Georgia in 2020. Last year, the former president was indicted by an Atlanta grand jury on charges related to his efforts to subvert the results of that election in that state. On Saturday, he complained that he might have avoided legal jeopardy if Mr. Kemp and Mr. Raffensperger had cooperated with his attempts to reverse the 2020 results.
Persons: Donald J, Trump, Trump’s, Biden, ” Mr, Brian Kemp, Brad Raffensperger, , Kemp, Raffensperger Organizations: Republican, , Georgia State University Convocation, Mr Locations: Atlanta, Georgia
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
Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign said it raked in a whopping $310 million in its July fundraising efforts — more than double the amount raised by former President Donald Trump last month. Harris’ fundraising numbers mark the latest sign of how transformative and energizing the change to the top of the Democratic ticket has been among grassroots and high-dollar supporters. A majority of that $310 million haul, more than $200 million, was raised in the first week of Harris’ candidacy, the campaign said in a statement, with two-thirds of the fundraising coming from first-time donors to the campaign. The campaign also said it has $377 million cash on hand, while the Trump campaign has $327 million cash on hand. Read more here.
Persons: Kamala Harris ’, Donald Trump, Harris, Harris ’, Trump, outraised, Read Organizations: Democratic
In May, former President Donald Trump declared that he was the only person who could obtain the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich from a Russian prison. That’s the way it should be, or this situation will get worse and worse.”Facts First: Trump’s claim that he gave opposing countries “NOTHING” to secure the freedom of American prisoners is false. “The previous administration also conducted prisoner exchanges. It’s not easy.”FactCheck.org debunked this Trump claim about his record on securing the release of American prisoners abroad when he previously made it in 2022. Read more here about four prisoner exchanges under Trump.
Persons: Donald Trump, Evan Gershkovich, Joe Biden, Gershkovich, Trump, , Jake Sullivan, John Kirby, Whelan, Trevor Reed, Biden, , , You’ve, It’s, FactCheck.org, Read Organizations: Wall Street, Biden White House, National Security, CNN, Trump Locations: Russia
While loath to criticize any specific swap, current and former U.S. officials worry that strongmen like President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia are exploiting America’s willingness to horse-trade for its citizens. “I worry about the incentive this gives nations to abduct Americans,” said Adam Hickey, a former deputy assistant attorney general in the national security division of the U.S. Justice Department. Speaking of the trend toward hostage trades generally, he added: “I don’t see how this doesn’t lead to an escalation or increase” in the practice by foreign governments. But practical alternatives are hard to come by, Mr. Hickey and other experts concede. In response to Thursday’s deal, former President Donald J. Trump suggested that President Biden had set a “bad precedent” by paying too high a price to Mr. Putin.
Persons: , loath, Vladimir V, Putin, gunning, , Adam Hickey, Hickey, Donald J, Trump, Biden Organizations: U.S . Justice Locations: Russia, Moscow, Russian, Germany, Berlin
She is not one of us. When former President Donald J. Trump challenged Vice President Kamala Harris’s racial identity at a public forum on Wednesday — and again on social media the next day — that was the message at the core of his remarks. It is a tactic that has long been part of the underside of American politics: presenting an opponent as somehow “other” or “not one of us” — someone who cannot be trusted or truly known. But while this has been a recurrent theme in American campaigns for at least a century, Mr. Trump has taken it to a new level, historians and analysts said. Mr. Trump has personally led the effort, explicitly falsifying the biography of his opponent and invoking race and gender in ways no modern major-party leader has done before.
Persons: Donald J, Trump, Kamala Harris’s, Trump’s, Barack Obama, Obama’s, Obama —, Hawaii — Locations: Hawaii
“This was one of Birmingham’s white-whale buildings,” Mr. Flachsbart said of a former Red Cross office that had been renovated into 192 rental residences. (“One of the greatest programs ever for Black workers and Black entrepreneurs,” he called the incentive in an appearance this week at a National Association of Black Journalists conference.) But the relatively low-income areas covered by the incentive, known as opportunity zones, didn’t benefit equally. On Mr. Flachsbart’s tour of new projects in downtown Birmingham, the stops dry up in the historically African American northwest quadrant. There, developable lots and vacant buildings haven’t received as much of the capital flowing toward the buzzier parts of downtown.
Persons: Alex Flachsbart, Mr, Flachsbart, Donald J, Trump, , haven’t Organizations: Red, Democrats, National Association of Black Journalists Locations: Alabama, Birmingham
What’s Uniting, and Dividing, Native Voters in ArizonaNative American voters were key to helping Democrats clinch Arizona in 2020. But in this election, many Native voters say they feel exhausted, disappointed and torn about how to vote. But overall it was frustration and anxiety that we heard as we talked with more than four dozen voters around Phoenix and on the Navajo Nation, the country’s largest reservation, about their concerns. Many voters felt like they had been left out of the state’s growing economy, with unemployment for Native Americans almost double the national average. Most of the voters we spoke to said no, but some were willing to give him another shot.
Persons: Kamala Harris, Al Yazzie, Biden, Donald J, Trump, Lewis Fort, Dorothy Denetsosie Gishie, Clissene Lewis Clissene Lewis Dorothy Denetsosie Gishie Dorothy Denetsosie, Caleb Dash, Lewis Clissene Lewis Caleb Dash Caleb Dash Clissene Lewis Clissene Lewis “, Donald Trump, , Jan, , I’m, You’re, ” You’re, we’re, “ Trump, Caleb Dash Caleb Dash, MakanaLani, MakanaLani Pike Dorothy Denetsosie Gishie Dorothy Denetsosie, Pike Caleb Dash Caleb Dash Kyle Mitchell Diné, Kyle Mitchell Diné, Dorothy Denetsosie Gishie Dorothy Denetsosie, Caleb Dash Caleb Dash Kyle Mitchell Kyle Mitchell “, Sandra Willeford, Sandra Willeford Darrell Acothley, Darrell Acothley Organizations: Voters, Arizona Native, Democrats, Arizona, Democratic, Phoenix, Navajo Nation, Government, Lewis Fort McDowell, Maricopa Indian, , White, Tribal Youth, Maricopa Indian Community Locations: Arizona, Navajo, Washington, Lewis Fort McDowell Yavapai, Caleb Dash Salt, Pima, Maricopa Indian, Maricopa, MakanaLani Pike, Salt, Phoenix
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
See Where Countersnipers Could Have Stopped the Trump Rally GunmanWhere countersnipers were stationed — and where they were not — has emerged as a point of contention in assessing security failures at the July 13 assassination attempt at a rally for former President Donald J. Trump. Countersniper locations Locations with better views of gunman Water tower Gunman Countersnipers inside building Secure perimeter Trump N Countersniper locations Locations with better views of gunman Water tower Gunman Countersnipers inside building Secure perimeter Trump N Countersniper locations Locations with better views of gunman Water tower Gunman Countersnipers inside building Secure perimeter Trump N Source: Beaver County E.S.U. There were four locations where countersnipers were stationed near the rally, according to Beaver County planning documents. If countersnipers had been positioned atop the water tower, here is what they would have seen. Trump Gunman Countersnipers were inside this building, but the roof offered a better view Trump Gunman Countersnipers were inside this building, but the roof offered a better view Trump Gunman Countersnipers were inside this building, but the roof offered a better view The New York TimesIn the House hearing, Representative Carlos Gimenez of Florida questioned the decision to place countersnipers inside — a position that provided a limited line of sight, unless the countersnipers were sticking their heads out of the windows.
Persons: countersnipers, Donald J, Charles E, Thomas Matthew Crooks, Crooks, Eli Crane, Christopher Paris, Trump, Kimberly Cheatle, Countersnipers, Carlos Gimenez, Ronald L, Rowe Jr, Organizations: Trump Rally, Trump, The New York Times, House, Republican, NAVY, Pennsylvania State Police, Secret Service, New York Times Locations: Beaver, Beaver County, Arizona, Florida
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.
Persons: Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Kennedy, Donald J, Trump, Charles Gantt, Gantt, Kamala Harris, , He’s, Organizations: Republicans, Democrats, Republican, PAC, , Democrat, Democratic, The New York Times, SAG, Trump, The Times, “ RFK, Kennedy, YouTube Locations: Philadelphia, Arizona, America, Michigan, Pennsylvania
A few hours after Donald J. Trump falsely claimed that she suddenly decided to become “a Black person,” Ms. Harris reminded the crowd at a Black sorority convention in Houston that Mr. Trump was resorting to a familiar script. That tactic nullified an implication that being Black is something that needs to be authenticated, explained, disavowed or defended. Like Ms. Harris, my father is the child of an Indian mother and a Black father. “My mother understood very well that she was raising two black daughters,” Ms. Harris wrote in “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey,” her 2019 memoir. “She knew her adopted homeland would see Maya and me as black girls, and she was determined to make sure we would grow into confident, proud black women.”
Persons: Kamala Harris didn’t, Donald J, Trump, Ms, Harris, , “ divisiveness, , ” Ms Locations: Houston, Trinidad and Tobago
Former President Donald J. Trump, the Republican candidate for the 2024 presidential race, promised lower interest rates — which a president does not actually control — if he is elected. Asked on Wednesday what he would do on “Day 1” of a new presidency during a panel at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago, Mr. Trump said one priority would be to “drill, baby, drill,” the shorthand tagline he has adopted for promoting oil and gas production in the United States. “I bring energy way down, I bring, interest rates are down, I bring inflation way down,” Mr. Trump expanded. The president exerts no direct control over interest rates. The Federal Reserve sets a key policy rate, which then trickles out to influence borrowing costs across the economy, and the Fed is independent from the White House.
Persons: Donald J, Trump, , ” Mr Organizations: Republican, National Association of Black Journalists, Federal Reserve Locations: Chicago, United States
When former President Donald J. Trump questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’s racial identity on Wednesday, he lifted a longstanding and false line of attack from the fringes of political discourse to the very center of a presidential campaign. For years, rivals and critics have lodged accusations that Ms. Harris shifts her personal identity to her political advantage, and that she is, in fact, not who she claims to be. Those attacks, based on falsehoods, misinformation and conspiratorial notions, have increased dramatically in the week and a half since she emerged as the Democrats’ all-but-certain standard-bearer. Just hours after President Biden announced that he would not seek a second term, the right-wing agitator Laura Loomer posted on the social media site X that Ms. Harris “pretends to be black” as part of what she called a “delusional, Democrat DEI quota.”The next day, Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host who spoke at the Republican National Convention last month, said on his popular interview show that the vice president was “sort of Black, sort of Indian.” The rapper Lil Pump, a Trump supporter who has some 20 million followers across Instagram, TikTok and X, said on Sunday that “Kamala Harris isn’t even black…she’s Indian.”
Persons: Donald J, Trump, Kamala Harris’s, Harris, , Biden, Laura Loomer, Harris “, Tucker Carlson, “ Kamala Harris isn’t, Organizations: Fox News, Republican, Convention, Trump Locations: Instagram
Former President Donald J. Trump in a conversation with reporters at the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago. Credit... Akilah Townsend for The New York Times
Persons: Donald J, Trump, Akilah Townsend Organizations: National Association of Black Journalists, Chicago . Credit, The New York Locations: Chicago .
When former President Donald J. Trump questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’s racial identity in Chicago on Wednesday, he neglected a reality: that the country’s demographics have changed in recent decades, as more than 12 percent of Americans now identify as multiracial. Beneath that fact is another, lesser-known shift. They are part of a jump in multiracial Americans that demographers have tracked for decades, a marked rise that reflects the steadily increasing diversity of the U.S. population. The numbers of Latino and Asian people have risen sharply since the 1990s, and so has the rate of marriage between people of different races. This has resulted in more multiracial children.
Persons: Donald J, Trump, Kamala Harris’s, Harris Organizations: New York Times Locations: Chicago, India, Jamaica
After a week of oversights and failures, the officers protecting former President Donald J. Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., still had one last chance to get it right. It began when a local police officer peered over the roof of the AGR International warehouse near the rally grounds and found the suspicious man he and other officers were hunting. Ninety minutes of confusion about Thomas Crooks’s intentions and whereabouts had ended in an instant. “Long gun!” the officer broadcast over the local law enforcement radio system, according to congressional testimony from ‌the Secret Service this week. It was urgent news that should have instantly traveled to a command center shared by the local police and the Secret Service, and then to agents close enough to throw their bodies in front of Mr. Trump.
Persons: Donald J, Trump, peered, Thomas Crooks’s, Organizations: Service Locations: Butler, Pa
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