From The Washington Post…..
Vice President Kamala Harris returned Thursday to North Carolina, a battleground state that has been just beyond the grasp of Democratic presidential candidates since Barack Obama briefly turned it blue in 2008. The Washington Post’s polling averages find Harris and former president Donald Trump tied there. Trump campaigned Thursday in Arizona, a state he narrowly lost to Joe Biden four years ago. It is a must-win state for the Republican ticket this year….
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Loomer most notably joined Trump as he made multiple stops Wednesday to mark the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, standing nearby as Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), met with firefighters in New York City. Just last year, Loomer posted a video on X that called the 9/11 assault on the United States an “inside job.”…
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Multiple times during Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz’s rally here attendees chanted, “We’re not eating cats” to the cadence of “We’re not going back.”
“It would be funnier, too, if it wasn’t so dangerous,” Walz said in response. A bomb threat was made Thursday at several buildings in the Ohio city at the heart of a false rumor about immigrants eating Americans’ pets, amplified by the two candidates on the Republican ticket….
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A majority of U.S. adults who say they watched Tuesday night’s presidential debate say that Vice President Kamala Harris won, according to a new poll from the (London) Times/Ipsos.
Some 55 percent of poll respondents who had said they watched the debate thought Harris won, compared with former president Donald Trump’s 25 percent. Eleven percent said there was a tie and 9 percent said they were not sure who won….
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The White House News Photographers Association says Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign has cut the number of journalists who travel with the Democratic nominee from 13 to nine — an “unprecedented reduction in access,” according to a letter addressed to half a dozen Harris staffers and the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. The letter says that the reduction disproportionately affected news photographers, whose ranks in the travel pool fell from four to one….
image…Vice President Kamala Harris campaigns in North Carolina on Thursday. (Logan Cyrus/For The Washington Post)