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Harris is promoting her resume and her goals rather than race as she courts Black voters
By COLLEEN LONG, MAKIYA SEMINERA and MATT BROWNUpdated 8:37 PM CDT, September 14, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — While President Joe Biden was hosting a celebration of Black excellence at the White House with lawmakers, advocates and celebrities this past week, Kamala Harris was instead headed off to campaign in Pennsylvania.
The nation’s first Black vice president spoke with voters there about supporting small businesses, building more housing and expanding the child tax credit. She said the country “needs a president of the United States who works for all the American people.”
What she did not do was spend time talking about her race or gender or the prospect that she would be the nation’s first Black and South Asian woman to be president if she defeated Republican Donald Trump.
As Harris courts voters, she embodies her identity as a woman of color rather than making it an overt part of her pitch, choosing instead to emphasize her policies and resume. ...
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How a false rumor about pets in Ohio and Laura Loomer’s presence helped derail Trump’s planned attacks on Harris | CNN Politics
Donald Trump wanted to spend this week attacking one of Democratic rival Kamala Harris’ biggest political vulnerabilities. Instead, he spent most of the week falsely claiming that migrants are eating pets in a small town in Ohio and defending his embrace of a far-right agitator whose presence is...
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JD Vance shares post about immigrants cooking pets in Dayton, Ohio; city refutes it
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JD Vance says it would be 'very hard' for Trump to win without North Carolina
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3 US citizens detained in Venezuela over alleged plot against government, interior minister says
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Harris leads Trump in post-debate polls ahead of race’s final stretch - Washington Examiner
Vice President Kamala Harris is opening a small advantage over former President Donald Trump following this week’s debate.
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September 14, 2024, presidential campaign news | CNN Politics
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump continue to make their pitch to voters with less than eight weeks until Election Day. Follow here for the latest live updates on the 2024 campaign.
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The anti-abortion activist urging followers to abandon Trump
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It was ‘tough on China’ week in Congress, one of the few issues both parties agree on
Lawmakers took up more than two dozen mostly Republican-led measures aimed at countering Beijing’s technological, political and economic influence.
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Venezuela arrests US military member and Spain, Czech nationals for ‘destabilization’
A Venezuelan official said Saturday that US, Czech and Spanish nationals were arrested on suspected links to alleged plans to destabilize the country.
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Ohio police dispute new allegations immigrants are eating pets in Dayton
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Trump campaign unveils outreach strategy targeting swing-state voters who don’t regularly vote - Washington Examiner
The GOP leader's campaign's new strategy reportedly has a simple concept: Get vocal Trump supporters who don't often vote to the polls on Nov. 5.
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