Kamala Harris

Ex-Bush strategist shares who he feels is in prime position ahead of presidential election

Former George W. Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd, a numbers guy, said he thinks Vice President Kamala Harris is in a stronger position heading into the election than Donald Trump.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday, Dowd said he doesn't think Americans are actually "undecided" — "I think they're unmotivated."

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Never-Trumpers troll J.D. Vance with video of Trump calling Harris supporters 'garbage'

Republicans were shocked — shocked — that President Joe Biden might have called former President Donald Trump's supporters "garbage," and the Lincoln Project handed them their winnings.

The Lincoln Project played out a classic "Casablanca" scene Wednesday by trolling Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) with a video of Trump insulting supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris after he complained about the comment.

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Tim Scott promised Trump big cash to reach Black voters — but delivered little: analysis

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott (R) promised Donald Trump that he would raise buckets of money, but as of Wednesday had yet to come up with the cash, a new report reveals.

Scott's Great Opportunity PAC, launched this summer, promised to deliver Trump $14 million to help his GOP pal reach out to Black voters, Politico reported Wednesday.

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Harris just triggered Trump's 'lizard brain' with big campaign rally: analysis

Former President Donald Trump thought he scored a win with his Madison Square Garden rally — then Vice President Kamala Harris put him in his place, wrote former conservative pundit Jonathan Last in a lengthy Threads post.

Trump was already on the defense over the racist optics of one of his rally speakers attacking the island of Puerto Rico, then Harris showed Trump she could beat him at his own game — and that "scared the crap out of him," argued Last.

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'These are all lies': Analyst unpacks Trump's dark obsession with Harris' intelligence

A political analyst Wednesday revealed why he believes former President Donald Trump can't stop obsessing with Vice President Kamala Harris' intelligence.

Salon writer Chauncey DeVega dug through decades of rhetorical history to reveal a disturbing pattern that ends with Trump's attacks on the Black woman challenging his right to return to the White House in 2025.

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Trump presents 'far more fundamental threat to conservatism' than Harris: GOP speechwriter

A former speechwriter for multiple Republican presidents said this week former President Donald Trump presents a greater risk to his party than Vice President Kamala Harris.

Peter Wehner, who served as a speechwriter under three Republican presidents — Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush — made no secret of his total disdain for Trump and the far-right MAGA movement in an Atlantic opinion piece released Tuesday night.

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'Are you actually offended?' Dem hurls Trump's words in Republican's face during CNN clash

A Democratic strategist laughed in a Republican's face Wednesday morning as he tried to cast President Joe Biden's rhetoric as offensive and inappropriate — and received a swift fact check from the CNN anchor serving as referee.

Julie Roginsky did not try to hide her disdain for Lance Trover, former spokesperson for Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND), and his argument that Biden's "garbage" comment was equivalent to former President Donald Trump's rhetoric casting foes as "the enemy within."

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The View celebrates Harris DC speech: 'It didn’t look like a white nationalist rally'

The co-hosts of "The View" were excited to see the footage from the Washington, D.C., rally on Tuesday night at the White House Elipse.

Former Donald Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin said that she was grateful to see Vice President Kamala Harris reclaim the space that was used on Jan. 6, 2021, before the crowd marched to the Capitol for the violent attack.

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Trump already gearing up to 'contest PA election result' if Harris wins: analyst

One of the most closely watched swing states on Election Night 2024 will be Pennsylvania, where Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have been campaigning aggressively in the hope of winning the state's 19 electoral votes.

Pennsylvania has gone Democrat in most of the United States' post-1980s presidential elections. But Trump carried Pennsylvania in 2016 before losing it to now-President Joe Biden four years later in 2020.

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'You're lying to people!' Fed-up CNN guest twice cuts off GOP strategist in tense exchange

A Republican strategist twice clashed with a supporter of Kamala Harris in the opening minutes of CNN's "NewsNight" on Tuesday night, with the two trading barbs over the latter's interruption.

The exchange happened during a discussion on Vice President Kamala Harris' closing argument speech and came between Scott Jennings, a senior CNN political commentator who served as special assistant to former President George W. Bush, and Leigh McGowan, a social media influencer who uses the handle PoliticsGirl.

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'Damn good': Rachel Maddow heaps praise as Harris reached out with 'strength personified'

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow lavished praise on Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign speech at the Ellipse, which she delivered Tuesday night to an estimated 75,000 people.

The rally — held at the site of former President Donald Trump's famous "Stop the Steal" rally just before the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was a clear attempt to turn the page on the former president's tenure — but also, said Maddow, to show just what kind of a president Harris can be in her own right.

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‘Political malpractice’: Republican on CNN sours on Kamala Harris' final pitch to voters

A Republican strategist with a background in political event planning wasn’t impressed by the optics of Kamala Harris’ speech Tuesday night at the Ellipse in Washington D.C.

“I plan political events for a living, and I think this was political malpractice to put her in front of this White House,” Brad Todd, a GOP strategist and media consultant, said on CNN moments after Harris’ concluded her speech, billed as her campaign’s closing argument.

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'Stop pointing fingers, start locking arms': Kamala Harris stirs with closing arguments

Vice President Kamala Harris called for America to rise above the division and partisan hatred it has seen since former President Donald Trump took office at her rally at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C.

Harris, who has earned the endorsement of a growing list of moderate Republicans united with Democrats against Trump's MAGA movement, said that people will always debate policy — but that the country must return to a place where people can accept each other's opponents are good people who mean well for America.

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