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Right-wing host smears Kamala Harris and tells Black voters: ‘She's not one of you’

Nikki Stanzione, a host at the far-right Right Side Broadcasting Network, told Black voters that Vice President Kamala Harris isn't one of them — and" isn't even married" to one of them — during her channel's commentary leading up to former President Donald Trump's rally in North Carolina.

That rally marked the first that Trump has held since President Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the race for re-election, throwing his full support behind the vice president to succeed him. At the rally, Trump pledged that "I'm not going to be nice" and vowed to unload on Harris on the campaign trail.

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Irate Trump rails that gag order prevents him from unleashing attacks on Kamala Harris

Former President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account on Wednesday to whine that he can't say everything he wants about Vice President Kamala Harris, his likely opponent in November, because of a gag order imposed on him in his legal cases.

"The Gag Order unConstitutionally placed on me is interfering with my Campaign against Lyin’ Kamala Harris," Trump raged. "This is a FIRST in American History - A Highly Conflicted Democrat Judge putting a Gag Order on the Leading Candidate for President to benefit my Democrat Opponent."

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'They never mention our crowds!' Trump whines media favors Kamala Harris’ rallies

Donald Trump clearly wasn’t happy with news coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris’ recent rally and quickly complained about “fake news media” distorting the size of the event at his campaign event Wednesday.

“They never mention our crowds!” Trump said, to boisterous applause from the crowd.

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'Anyone ever see Trump laugh?' Analyst says those who don't laugh 'probably sociopaths'

One of the attacks Republicans have deployed against Kamala Harris is making fun of her laugh, a similar tactic used against Hillary Clinton, who was described in 2016 as "cackling," a sound a witch would make.

Republican Party social media accounts posted a video of Harris chuckling with the caption, "Kamala Harris brought her cackle to Milwaukee: 'Good afternoon, Wisconsin! Ha ha ha ha!'"

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'About a dozen' people in contention to become Kamala Harris' running mate: report

Vice President Kamala Harris' search for a running mate is more expansive than previously reported.

According to CBS News, "about a dozen" people are being considered to join her on the ticket — many of them already widely reported, but others not.

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MSNBC host pleads with Republicans to continue insulting Kamala Harris as 'DEI hire'

Current House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and former speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) begged their party to stop attacking Vice President Kamala Harris's race and gender because it is hurting them.

But on Wednesday, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace sarcastically begged the GOP to continue promoting her as a "DEI hire," a pseudonym — which many have blasted as racist — insinuating she's an unqualified Black woman hired over other qualified candidates. Wallace spent years in Republican politics and served in George W. Bush's White House.

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'Harsh': Fox Business guest gets pushback for smearing Kamala Harris with sexual slur

A guest on Fox Business recently smeared Vice President Kamala Harris by implying that she owed her political success to giving sexual favors.

The Daily Beast reports that Fox Business guest Alec Lace described Harris as "the original Hawk Tuah girl," which is a reference to a viral video in which features a woman making a sound effect related to giving a man oral sex.

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Harris weighing running mate Republicans can't help but say 'stupid things about': report

Most of the discussions about Vice President Kamala Harris' potential running mate center on four key candidates: Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA), Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY), Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC), and Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ). But there might be more names in the mix — including one unorthodox choice.

According to MSNBC reporting, Harris is also considering Pete Buttigieg, the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor and current Biden administration Secretary of Transportation. Buttigieg, an openly gay veteran who has been at the forefront of President Joe Biden's efforts to implement the largest infrastructure bill in decades and respond to various disasters like airline meltdowns and train derailments, has gained a reputation for defending the administration on Fox News, and has at times been a lightning rod for sometimes-homophobic criticism from the right.

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'One step away from calling her uppity': Fox News accused of racist swipe at Kamala Harris

An anchor on "Fox & Friends" Wednesday morning caused an explosion of controversy when he appeared to attack Vice President Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, using racially charged language — although it's unclear exactly what he said and Fox News has denied it.

Brian Kilmeade specifically took issue with Harris' decision to give a speech to Zeta Phi Beta, a historically Black sorority, in Indianapolis. Harris herself is a former member of the historically Black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha, which she often cites as formative to her identity and whose members are helping her fundraise.

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Young voter registration spikes to record numbers in 48 hours after Harris takes helm

New voter registration spiked to record levels in the first 48 hours after president Joe Biden ended his presidential campaign.

The nonpartisan Vote.org website saw its highest level of new voter registrations of the 2024 election cycle in the first two days after Biden dropped out and endorsed vice president Kamala Harris, with 38,500 people signing up – a 700 percent spike, reported Politico Playbook.

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Kamala Harris brings with her 'unique weapons' to be used against Trump: NBC analyst

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday, NBC's Ali Vitali told co-host Mika Brzezinski that Donald Trump is facing a completely different landscape than when he battled Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election now that it appears he will face Vice President Kamala Harris.

With Harris now likely to be the Democratic nominee after President Joe Biden discontinued his campaign, Vitali suggested the VP has in hand a set of "unique weapons" she can bring to bear that Clinton did not have at her disposal.

Referring to a piece she wrote for NBC, she explained, "She is a different candidate watching her the last few days than when I covered her in 2019 and 2020 and certainly after her first year in the white house, many people are paying attention to that."

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"But I also think it's really important to just point out the ways in which the landscape has changed," she elaborated. "I think the way that we talk about not just women being elected in 2018 and the Dobbs decision in 2022, but most of the experts and leaders I spoke to for this piece said you just look at a place like Michigan where it is mostly women elected throughout the upper ranks of leadership in that state, starting and stemming from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. That tells a larger story to people that women can win when they run."

"Voters just have to vote for them and I think that that is a really important proof point as we talk about Harris as not just a historic candidate, which she is, but someone who can just seem to be electable," she added.

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'DEI' just a 'pseudonym' for racial slur: CNN expert

Democratic strategist Ameshia Cross said what many have thought in recent days as Republicans flock to insult Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris as a "DEI hire," among other thinly veiled race-based attacks.

“America has awoken around what this is,” Cross told a CNN panel Tuesday night. “It is being used as a pseudonym for the n-word when we're talking about black people.”

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'Brazen money grab': Trump team hits Harris camp with FEC complaint over Biden's war chest

Former President Donald Trump's campaign reportedly filed a complaint Tuesday accusing President Joe Biden and his likely successor to the Democratic nomination Kamala Harris of violating campaign finance laws.

The complaint, filed with the Federal Election Commission, claims money raised by Biden's re-election campaign cannot be handed to Harris' campaign.

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