'Searching for bright spots': CNN's Abby Phillip describes Harris team's silence

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'Searching for bright spots': CNN's Abby Phillip describes Harris team's silence
Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at North Western High School in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., September 2, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign has fallen into radio silence as they search for any remaining path for outstanding votes to deliver them an election victory, CNN's Abby Phillip told Jake Tapper on Tuesday evening.

"Let me just give you a gut check here about what we are hearing here, as we've been sitting here reporting from the Harris headquarters," said Phillip. "And I think the operative word right now is silence. There's not a lot being said, because the Harris team appears to be searching for bright spots in the map, as these results very very, very slowly come in."

At the moment, she said, some Harris aides still believe she has a path to pulling out a win in Georgia, "but it is very, very close."

Ultimately, Phillip added, "the blue wall still remains the best option for her in this moment. That's just, Jake, where things stand right now. Usually, as the night goes on, the campaign is trying to spin these numbers as they come out ... there's been a slowdown in that spin, because they really are digging into these numbers as they are coming in and trying to understand what's left out there for them, especially in these big urban centers, Jake."

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Tommy Tuberville takes Trump's border wall idea to another level during wild interview

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) doesn't think a wall at the southern border is enough. He thinks a wall might be needed around his own state.

Tuberville made the suggestion on Wednesday while speaking on "The Charlie Kirk Show," the podcast created by and still named after the murdered founder of Turning Point USA.

"If we don't straighten out this country's voting and immigration system, we're not going to make it," said Tuberville. "It's going to be over."

"I'm going to go back to Alabama, and hey, we might build a 30-foot wall around our state," he added.

Tuberville is currently running for governor of Alabama, one of a number of Republican senators who have decided not to pursue another term in their current office this year.

He has faced a number of controversies, including allegations that he secretly lives in Florida.

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Onlookers astonished as GOP governor tells Trump crowd to stop booing dead cop

The internet was stunned Wednesday after Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo had to tell a crowd of Trump supporters not to boo a fallen police officer.

Lombardo was speaking in Las Vegas touting Trump accounts when he mentioned police officer Austin Abdelnabi, a Marine veteran who died following a shootout with a suspect on Tuesday.

"So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi," said Lombardo, who was interrupted by booing.

"No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away," Lombardo said.

The crowd quieted down as Lombardo said he wanted to offer a moment of silence for Abdelnabi.

On social media, critics called out the crowd's reaction to hearing the officer's name and their immediate response.

"The booing of what sounds like a foreign (and no doubt in the man's mind, 'Islamic') name really speaks volumes about the mindset of some Trump supporters. Even when Trump is gone, this white Christian nationalist section of US society will still remain," Dr. Steven Buckley, lecturer in Digital Media Sociology at City St. George's at the University of London, wrote on Bluesky.

"It’s a Klan Rally. These people only have to hear a name that their lizard brains process as sounding Arabic and hate immediately pours out," Bluesky user Danielle Blake, a political commentator who self-identifies as a "British social Democrat" and has more than 1,500 followers, wrote.

"Are they booing because they think he's a Muslim? That'd be really crappy," Amanda Berry, a progressive political commentator and veteran, wrote on X.

"Oh my....even their racism is racist," writer and editor Keith Murphy posted on X.

Trump's DHS targets children to boost mass deportation: report

The Jewish Family and Community Services of Pittsburgh, or JFCS, and six immigrant clients filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and USCIS.

According to The Guardian, JFCS alleges the Trump administration deliberately targets unaccompanied children for rapid deportation to increase removal statistics.

"What a society will tolerate happening to children, they will tolerate happening to anyone," said Dana Gold, JFCS’s chief operating officer.

The suit claims children are being deported despite qualifying for legal protections, including Special Immigrant Juvenile, or SIJ, status or T nonimmigrant status for trafficking survivors.

Since June, JFCS reports immigration judges have ordered child removals rather than granting time to pursue legal pathways, even when SIJ status was already approved.

Hearings are scheduled with minimal notice and compressed into biweekly sessions.

Two plaintiffs include a 17-year-old trafficking survivor from Guatemala, deported while her T-status application was pending, and a 19-year-old Vietnamese asylum seeker deported despite approved SIJ status.

The government ended legal representation contracts for 20,000 unaccompanied children, forcing many to face judges without lawyers.

DHS stated it is "laser-focused on protecting children," adding, "All illegal aliens receive due process."

The Executive Office for Immigration Review did not comment.

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