Kamala Harris

House Republicans hire ex-Trump officials from fake electors plot to oversee election: CNN

Two onetime campaign officials tied to former President Donald Trump's 2020 fake electors plot have been hired by House Republicans to oversee national elections, according to a new report.

The Committee on House Administration, which will play a key role when Congress certifies the election on Jan. 6, has hired former Trump campaign lawyer Joshua Findlay and operative Thomas Lane, CNN reported Thursday.

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'Hell no!' Guy with Trump tattoo says he's voting Harris

A voter with a Trump tattoo etched into his bicep told a columnist he’s voting for Harris.

The man, who the writer met at a truck stop in Nevada as he drove through 15 states in an effort to grasp at how grassroots voters are thinking, said he’d voted for the ex-president twice — but no more.

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'Insecure and weak': Shock move sees Trump dumped by GOP mayor from heart of Bible belt

Voters in a strong red state have received a dire warning from their capital's Republican mayor not to elect former President Donald Trump.

Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt, a lifelong Republican, wrote in the Philadelphia Citizen Thursday why he cannot vote for Trump. "I will vote for virtue," he wrote.

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'It's horse crap!' CNN's Jim Acosta loses cool as Republican parrots Trump claims

CNN's Jim Acosta faced off against Georgia Republican Party chairman Josh McKoon on Thursday as the host questioned whether the GOP would accept the election results.

McKoon was rattling off details around early voting, saying that Donald Trump was, in his opinion, winning Georgia in the early vote and would likely win the state.

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'Crop cut': Trump accused of hypocrisy after Fox News edits his barbershop remarks

Vice President Kamala Harris' supporters have questions for Donald Trump about the "crop cut" Fox News gave the former president at a Bronx barbershop and the election interference accusations he hurled at CBS.

A CNN report Thursday revealing Fox News edited Trump's "rambling comments" during a New York City campaign event spurred outrage that came just days after the former president threatened "60 Minutes" for editing an interview with Harris.

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'I hope that is a TV ad': Obama adviser singles out Harris' CNN town hall winning message

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Jim Messina – who served as President Barack Obama's campaign manager in 2012– pointed to one moment during Vice President Kamala Harris' CNN town hall where she delivered what he believes is the winning message for Democrats.

Appearing on CNN on the night which had been set aside for a debate with Donald Trump, only for him to balk after he flopped during his one face-to-face with his opponent in October. Harris took advantage of the change in format to make her case to voters.

According to Messina, she made a compelling case with one brief statement

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"John [Heilemann] brought up the town hall last night on CNN," he began. "I think there was a perfect distillation of the last ten days last night when she looked at the camera and said, 'Let's be very clear, Donald Trump has an enemy's list, and I have a to-do list for the American voter.'"

"Right," co-host Willie Geist replied.

"That's their 'close.' I hope that is a TV ad tomorrow," he elaborated. "It's a perfect distillation of, 'I'm in it for you, and he is in it for him.' That's the closing argument that people need to understand."

"We're sitting here in an absolutely tied race with a very small amount of voters who are sitting undecided – a lot of people saying, 'Am I going to vote?' That distillation, that frame is exactly what the Harris campaign wants and Trump is playing into it.," he added.

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'October surprise': MSNBC's Morning Joe flags 'Donald Trump's biggest problem right now'

On Thursday morning, "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough launched into an extensive monologue detailing why he thinks Donald Trump's third bid for the White House is in trouble.

Using a bombshell report from Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg that noted the former president wants his military leaders to be much more like the Nazi generals who launched World War II and helped him slaughter millions of Jews, the MSNBC host claimed the "October surprise" expected by political observers is Trump's own words coming back to haunt him.

Addressing his panel, he remarked, "Some pathetic people that are trying to cozy up to Donald Trump, who are trying to blame Jeffrey Goldberg, trying to blame General [John] Kelly for a, quote, 'October surprise' that they're making up. Of course. Imagine that: people actually questioning the integrity of those two. Questioning the integrity of General Kelly."

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"But, no, those aren't the October surprises," he elaborated. "The October surprises are what Donald Trump says and what he has said every time he has opened his mouth. The October surprise is that Donald Trump has said he is going to arrest his Democratic opponents. The October surprise is that Donald Trump has said he is going to use the army and is going to use the national guard against his political opponents –– that's the October surprise."

Continuing in that vein, he added, "The October surprise is that Donald Trump has called Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, called his Democratic opponents the enemies from within," before later stating, "But it is Donald Trump who said that Nancy Pelosi is more an enemy to America than Kim Jong-un, than Xi, than Putin, and all the other communist leaders and dictators that want to destroy America –– that's the October surprise. That's Donald Trump's biggest problem right now."

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Trump is 'throwing personal punches' instead of sticking to his closing argument: analysis

A news analysis from NBC News makes the case that former President Donald Trump is sabotaging his closing argument by lobbing personal attacks at Vice President Kamala Harris rather than focusing on core issues.

The analysis, written by Jonathan Allen and Katherine Doyle, writes that Trump is "throwing more personal punches at Vice President Kamala Harris" instead of trying to show voters how he would be better at handling immigration and inflation.

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Town hall ignites fierce debate: Why must Harris be 'flawless' while Trump goes 'lawless?'

A town hall analysis breaking down the policies Kamala Harris was asked about Wednesday night abruptly flipped into a discussion about the inconsistencies in how the vice president and Donald Trump are being treated, with one CNN panelist declaring: “They’re not taking the same exam.”

“He gets to be lawless, she has to be flawless. That’s what's unfair. That's what's unfair tonight,” said former Obama White House official Van Jones. “They're not taking the same exam. Look, she has policies, she may not articulate them perfectly every time…but she’s fighting for actual ideas that will help real people and he’s talking about people’s penises, and so they are not taking the same exam and that’s pissing people off – it’s pissing me off.”

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'Warped mind!' Trump rages at Harris' 'rhetoric' after she agrees he's a fascist

Former President Donald Trump took to his app to rage against Kamala Harris following the vice president's town hall in Pennsylvania, reverting back to calling her "comrade" and saying she has a "warped mind."

CNN moderator and anchor Anderson Cooper asked Harris if she believes Trump is a "fascist," in line with statements recently made by Mark Milley and John Kelly, Trump's former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former White House chief of staff, respectively.

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CNN anchor: Some fear Kamala Harris didn't 'close the deal' at swing state town hall

A CNN anchor told panelists on Wednesday night that some fear Vice President Kamala Harris may not have "closed the deal."

Harris fielded questions in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, from undecided voters in the area about two weeks before the election. Topics ranged from the Biden administration's record on immigration to the economy.

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‘We did the right thing’: Kamala Harris pressed on administration’s record on immigration

Kamala Harris at a town hall on Wednesday found herself vigorously defending the Biden administration’s immigration record from a CNN host’s repeated grilling on the timing of the executive actions taken this year.

The moment came after a Drexel University student’s question about immigration, which Harris answered by saying: “America’s immigration system is broken, and it needs to be fixed. And it’s been broken for a long time.”

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'People are frankly exhausted': Harris reaches out to disaffected Republicans at town hall

At Vice President Kamala Harris' town hall in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, she was confronted by an anti-Trump Republican voter who wanted to understand what she would do to reach out to voters who feel politically homeless — and Harris had a lot to say.

"As someone who hasn't fully committed to either party, how do you plan to address the concerns of independent voters and anti-Trump Republicans like myself, who feel left out of the polarized political landscape, and what specific actions would you take to bridge the political divide and create more unity?" asked Bryn Mawr College student Natasha Kwiatkowski.

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