Author: Reporter

The most turbulent presidential campaign in generations is now set to play out as a 90-day sprint across two fronts: the Rust Belt and the Sun Belt. With her choice of a Midwestern governor as a running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris pushed to shore up “Blue Wall” states — Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania — that Democrats need to win 270 electoral votes and keep the White House. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, had already signaled that she would also contend in Sun Belt states that increasingly seemed out of reach for President Joe Biden. Harris, the first Black...

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign on August 4 was launching “Republicans for Harris” as she looks to win over Republican voters put off by convicted felon Donald Trump’s toxic candidacy. The program will be a “campaign within a campaign,” according to Harris’ team, using well-known Republicans to activate their networks, with a particular emphasis on primary voters who backed former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. The program will kick off with events this week in Arizona, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Republicans backing Harris will also appear at rallies with the vice president and her soon-to-be-named running mate this coming week,...

Donald Trump said he was pulling out of a scheduled September debate with Vice President Kamala Harris on ABC and instead wanted them to face off on Fox News, making it increasingly unlikely that the candidates would have a fact-to-face confrontation on a public stage before the November election. In a series of Truth Social posts on August 2, the Republican nominee and convicted felon said his agreement to a September 10 debate on ABC “has been terminated” because he will no longer face Democratic President Joe Biden, who ended his campaign last month after a disastrous performance in...

After nearly a near year of careful planning, organizers of the Democratic National Convention are in a mad dash to accommodate a new nominee, a re-crafted program, and a highly compressed deadline to pull everything off as though this was the plan all along. With President Joe Biden now out of the race and Vice President Kamala Harris pursuing the party’s nomination, a dramatic role reversal for the two is likely to play out before a nationally televised audience when around 5,000 delegates, 12,000 volunteers, and 15,000 media members gather for four days in Chicago starting August 19. Harris...

Outside police agencies that will help secure the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August will not be posted in city neighborhoods, Police Superintendent Larry Snelling said recently, as federal authorities released maps of convention security perimeters. The renewed attention on out-of-town police comes after Ohio officers in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention earlier in July fatally shot a man at a park not far from the downtown convention site. As many as 500 officers, mostly from Illinois agencies, will travel to Chicago to boost DNC security. They’ll be directing traffic and working at the numerous checkpoints around...