vice-president Kamala Harris and her new running mate will hold a rally in Arizona as part of their tour of electoral battlegrounds, visiting a state where Harris passed over a prominent Democrat in favor of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Arizona Senator Mark Kellya former astronaut and gun control advocate, was a leading contender for the running mate position.
Meanwhile, the former president Donald Trump is visiting Montana for a rally in support of Republican Senate candidate Tim Sheehy. The former president is hoping to clear up some unfinished business from 2018, when he campaigned repeatedly in Big Sky Country in a failed attempt to oust Democratic incumbent Sen. Jon Tester.
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Georgia Gov. Kemp calls Trump’s attacks ‘noise’, says he’s still focused on winning
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp insists he won’t be bogged down by Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump intra-party attacks following Kemp’s refusal to help overturn the 2020 presidential election.
The Republican governor called Trump’s recent attacks at a campaign rally in Atlanta and on the Truth Social platform “a lot of noise” and jokingly compared Trump to a tropical storm.
“This big storm came through the state this week — and now we’re dealing with Tropical Storm Debby,” Kemp said at conservative radio host Erick Erickson’s annual conference, “The Gathering,” in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood.
Kemp reiterated his pledge to support the GOP nominee and renewed his warnings that Republicans should stop focusing on the 2020 election and false claims that Biden won Georgia and the national election because of fraud.
“We’re going to use our political operation to win Georgia despite past grievances,” Kemp told Erickson, adding that the effort would “help Republicans up and down the ticket.”
Of course, Kemp’s political operation is focused on competitive Georgia legislative districts that are critical to maintaining Republican majorities on Capitol Hill, meaning potential Republican voters in other areas of the hotly contested state may not be reached by Kemp’s organization until November.
Throughout the discussion with Erickson, Kemp did not mention Trump’s name.
Democrats, Republicans head to western Wisconsin with high stakes down the stretch
For a brief moment this weekFierce competition for swing voters in the swing state of Wisconsin converged on the tarmac at the tiny Chippewa Valley Regional Airport.
A few minutes after the vice president Kamala Harris arrives with his new running mate Tim Walz for their first campaign stop in the state, the Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance He arrived. He crossed the tarmac to see Air Force Two, narrowly missing Harris.
The close political encounter might be considered mere coincidence if it were happening anywhere other than Wisconsin, one of the few states that will not only determine the winner of the presidential race but could also shape the balance of power in Congress. But it sent a much stronger signal, showing that both parties understand the importance of a region that could tip the balance of power in multiple ways.
Harris, Walz head to Arizona, where a vice presidential runner-up could still make a difference
vice-president Kamala Harris and her new running mate will hold a rally in Arizona on Friday as part of their tour of electoral battlegrounds, visiting a state where Harris edged out a leading Democrat in favor of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Arizona Senator Mark KellyFormer astronaut and gun control advocate, was a leading vice presidential candidate. He won two tough races in politically divided Arizona.
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By ignoring Kelly, Harris may also have lost an opportunity to win over people like Gonzalo Leyva, a 49-year-old landscaper from Phoenix. Leyva plans to vote for former President Donald Trump, a Republican, but says he would have supported a Harris-Kelly ticket.
“I prefer Kelly 100 times over,” said Leyva, a lifelong Democrat who became an independent early in Trump’s term. “I don’t think he’s as extreme as the others.”
Trump travels to Montana to try to unseat Sen. Tester after failing to unseat the Democrat in 2018
With control of the Senate potentially at stake, Donald Trump is traveling to Montana on Friday in hopes of addressing some of the unfinished business since 2018, when he campaigned repeatedly in Big Sky Country in an unsuccessful attempt to oust incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester.
Tester has tried to convince voters that he sees eye-to-eye with Trump on many issues, mirroring his successful strategy of six years ago. who worked in a non-presidential election This year he faces a more critical test this fall with Tester’s opponent, Tim Sheehy, former Navy SEALtrying to tie the three-term incumbent to Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
A victory for the Harris-Walz ticket would also mean the nation’s first female Native American governor.
If Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are elected this fall, not only would a woman of color lead the country for the first time, but a Native American woman would also govern a state for the first time in U.S. history.
Peggy Flanagan, Minnesota’s lieutenant governor and a citizen of the White Earth Ojibwe Band, is poised to become the state’s next governor if Walz resigns to accept the role of vice president of the United States. Her rise to power has been closely watched by indigenous people in Minnesota and across the country, who see her as a champion of policies that positively impact Native Americans.
