Harris campaign approves rules for Trump debate: report
Dani Anguiano
Kamala Harris’ campaign has approved the rules for the upcoming debate with Donald Trump.
The rules for the Sept. 10 debate between the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates will also include muting microphones, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The two campaigns have disagreed over whether microphones should be turned off when it is not the candidate’s turn to speak. The Harris campaign has previously argued for live microphones, arguing that it would “allow ample substantive exchange between the candidates.”
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Updated 18.05 EDT
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Below is video of Kamala Harris’ remarks regarding the Georgia school shooting earlier today.
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Tim Walz and the Harris campaign criticized Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance for an awkward encounter at a doughnut shop.
The Democratic vice presidential nominee said: “Look at me. I have no problem picking out a doughnut.”
The remark was a reference to a recent visit by Vance to a doughnut shop where the Republican candidate stumbled through his order and said, “Ask for anything that makes sense.”
U.S. Senator Tina Smith of Minnesota also spoke out:
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Updated at 16:54 EDT
Biden and Harris visit Ground Zero
The White House announced that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will visit Ground Zero in New York to commemorate the September 11 attacks.
The president and vice president also plan to visit the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, officials said in a press release. President Donald Trump is also reportedly considering visiting the 9/11 Memorial in New York on the anniversary, according to The New York Times.
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Updated 16.21 EDT
Rachel Raingan
A Republican-led House committee has subpoenaed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, seeking documents and communications related to a massive fraud scheme by nonprofits using pandemic relief funds meant to feed children.
The subpoenas were sent to Walz, Minnesota Education Secretary Willie Jett, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Agriculture Inspector General Phyllis Fong, NBC News first reported.
The House Education and Labor Committee sent a letter to Walz saying it was investigating the USDA and Minnesota Department of Education’s oversight of federal child nutrition programs, as well as Feeding Our Future, a group that has allegedly embezzled more than $250 million in pandemic relief funds.
The subpoena does not require Walz to appear before the committee in person, but sets a deadline of September 18 to provide documents.
Five people involved in the scheme were convicted earlier this year of trying to bribe jurors by placing bags containing $120,000 in cash in their homes. A total of 70 people have been indicted in connection with the scheme.
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Updated on 16.04 EDT
The Harris campaign has not said whether Kamala Harris would support mandating that automakers make only electric or hydrogen-powered vehicles by 2035, a policy she advocated for during the 2020 presidential campaign.
According to Axios, Harris’ campaign has sent conflicting messages about her position on mandates for automakers, a key issue in key battleground states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, where many autoworkers are based.
In a lengthy “fact-check” email last week that addressed several issues, a campaign spokesman included the sentence, “Harris does not support an electric vehicle mandate,” suggesting she had changed her previous position, without elaborating.
Asked to clarify Harris’ position, her campaign reportedly declined to comment.
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Updated at 15:55 EDT
The Trump campaign raised $130 million in August and said it had $295 million in cash on hand at the end of the month.
Fundraising in August was down slightly from the previous month. The Trump campaign said it raised $138.7 million in July and had $327 million in cash on hand at the end of the month.
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Updated at 15:55 EDT
When Kamala Harris mentioned Donald Trump during a campaign speech in New Hampshire, a member of the audience yelled “Put him in jail!”
“The courts will handle that, and we’ll handle that in November,” Harris responded.
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Updated at 15:35 EDT
Harris vows to make tax code ‘fairer’ in New Hampshire speech
Kamala Harris says she will make the US tax system “fairer” while prioritizing investment and innovation.
“Billionaires and big corporations must pay their fair share of taxes,” she tells supporters. “That’s why I support a minimum tax on billionaires and corporations paying their fair share of taxes.”
She says her administration will ensure the wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share, while taxing capital gains “at rates that reward investment in American innovators, founders and small businesses.”
Under my plan, if you make over $1 million a year, the tax rate on long-term capital gains would be 28% because we know that when government encourages investment, it leads to broad-based economic growth, creates jobs and strengthens our economy.
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Updated 16.08 EDT
Kamala Harris said she would also invest in small businesses and innovators across America, noting that “talent exists across our country,” but not everyone has access to funding, venture capital, or expert advice.
If elected, he said his administration would expand access to venture capital, support innovation hubs and business incubators, and increase federal contracting with small businesses, with a particular focus on rural small businesses.
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Kamala Harris says she will also help existing small businesses grow by offering low- or no-interest loans to small businesses that want to expand.
She also pledges to “cut red tape that can make it unnecessarily difficult to start and grow small businesses.”
For example, Harris said she would make it cheaper and easier for small businesses to file taxes.
Let’s cut out some of the bureaucracy in the process and make it easier for people to do things that actually benefit the economy as a whole.
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Updated 15.25 EDT
Kamala Harris begins by talking about what she calls the “opportunity economy,” which she envisions as one in which “everyone can compete and have a real chance to succeed.”
She has said that America’s small businesses are a “critical foundation to our entire economy” and that if elected, she would like to see 25 million new small business applications by the end of her first term.
To achieve this, Harris said he would lower the cost of starting a new business. He said it costs about $40,000 to start a new business, but currently the tax credit for new businesses is just $5,000.
Harris has proposed expanding the startup tax credit to $50,000, which she said is essentially a “tax credit for small business startups.”
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Updated 15.26 EDT
Harris called the Georgia school shooting “a senseless tragedy on top of so many other senseless tragedies.”
Speaking at a campaign event in New Hampshire, Kamala Harris began her speech by talking about the Georgia high school shooting.
“We are still gathering information about what happened, but we know there have been many deaths and injuries,” Governor Harris told supporters. “Our hearts are with the students, teachers and their families.”
She said Wednesday’s shooting was “a senseless tragedy on top of so many senseless tragedies,” adding that it was “outrageous” that parents should have to send their children to school wondering whether they would come home alive.
It doesn’t make sense. It really doesn’t make sense. We have to stop this and end the epidemic of gun violence in this country for good.
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Updated on 15.16 EDT
Harris speaks at a campaign event in New Hampshire
Senator Kamala Harris just appeared at a campaign event outside a New Hampshire brewery where she will reportedly unveil an economic plan that includes a small increase in capital gains taxes.
Harris was speaking from behind a bulletproof glass enclosure after the Secret Service added protective measures to outdoor campaign events following the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump in July.
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Updated 15.09 EDT