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Fox News cuts off Kamala Harris' first campaign speech after she comes for Donald Trump

Fox News declined to air Vice President Kamala Harris's first presidential campaign speech in its entirety, pulling the plug soon after she attacked Republican nominee Donald Trump.

During an event in Wisconsin, Harris said she would challenge Trump's record "any day of the week."

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Watch: 'Hell, she's impressive': Harris praised for energetic Wisconsin speech

Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a speech before an enthusiastic crowd in Milwaukee on Tuesday that earned plaudits from many progressive political observers — as well as relief about the contrast she delivers between herself and both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

Harris, who was endorsed by Biden on Sunday after he announced that he would be dropping out of the 2024 race, delivered a fiery address that touched on themes ranging from voting rights to reproductive freedoms to gun safety.

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Furious columnist hits out at N.Y. Times for report on Black voters' view of Kamala Harris

Black pundits and columnists are already predicting the racism that will surface from some of the top media outlets in the country as they try to cover a candidate of color in the presidential race.

Writing for "The Nation," legal expert Elie Mystal shredded the New York Times for a report they titled: "Some Black Voters Say They Wonder if a Black Woman Can Win."

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'Word salad': MAGA lawmaker mocked for 'convoluted' rant against Kamala Harris

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) tried out a new attack on Vice President Kamala Harris to Fox News correspondent Chad Pergram on Tuesday — and it appeared to land with a thud on social media.

Harris is now the presumptive nominee to replace President Joe Biden, who dropped out of his bid for a second term this weekend amid concerns over his age and fitness, and threw his support behind his vice president shortly after, with delegates and Democratic voters overwhelmingly signaling support for her. This has left allies of former President Donald Trump, like Donalds, caught off guard after they spent months preparing to attack Biden in the general election.

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Just In: Harris leads Trump in first poll taken since Biden quit

Vice President Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in the first Reuters poll taken since she became the presumptive nominee, following President Joe Biden's decision to drop out of the race.

"Vice President Kamala Harris opened up a marginal two-percentage-point lead over Republican Donald Trump after President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and passed the torch to her," the Reuters/Ipsos poll found. "The poll, conducted on Monday and Tuesday, followed both the Republican National Convention where Trump on Thursday formally accepted his party's nomination and the Biden announcement on Sunday he was leaving the race and endorsing Harris."

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Nancy Mace: Trump is 'the best thing we can do' for 'female empowerment'

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) argued that electing Donald Trump — the man largely responsible for stripping federal abortion rights from women — was "the best thing we can do" for "female empowerment."

During an interview on Tuesday, Real America's Voice host Charlie Kirk asked Mace how Trump would attract women voters after Vice President Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

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'Know nothing' J.D. Vance schooled by governor furious over portrayal of rural America

Minnesota's Democratic Governor Tim Walz, who is rumored to be a potential running mate for Vice President (and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee) Kamala Harris, recently slammed Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) on one of his major biographical claims.

During a Tuesday interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Walz blasted Vance over his claims of expertise on rural America, and contrasted it with his own experience of growing up in a town of 400 people with "24 kids in my graduating class" where "12 were cousins."

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Revealed: Here's who paid for 'bankrupt' Rudy Giuliani's first-class tickets to the RNC

Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani raised some eyebrows last week when he traveled to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in pricey first-class seats.

The reason that this was surprising was that Giuliani had declared bankruptcy after being hit with a $148 million judgement for defaming Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss after the 2020 presidential election.

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Busted: 9 high-profile Republicans exposed as having Project 2025 ties

The amount of attention the far-right Heritage Foundation and its authoritarian Project 2025 playbook for the next Republican administration have been getting is also ensnaring several major GOP figures.

On Tuesday, Democratic election attorney Marc Elias' Democracy Docket website delved into the ties nine high-ranking Republicans have to Project 2025.

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Schumer and Jeffries gleefully endorse Harris in joint presser as Trump melts down

Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both smiling and appearing gleeful and excited, publicly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for President Tuesday.

President Joe Biden, recovering from a week-long stretch of Covid, announced he will address the nation Wednesday evening in a primetime special to explain his decision for ending his re-election campaign. As Democrats across the board get their ducks in a row, Donald Trump appeared to melt down late Tuesday morning in a series of angry rapid-fire social media posts.

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Robert Menendez to resign from Senate after corruption conviction: report

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) said he plans to resign his congressional post after a New York City jury found him guilty of federal corruption charges, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

Menendez told associates he plans to step down in late August, according to the the Times.

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Trump plans to welcome Netanyahu to Mar-a-Lago after speech to Congress

Donald Trump will welcome Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to his resort home at Mar-a-Lago the same day he addresses the U.S. Congress.

The prime minister will speak to Congress on Wednesday and then is scheduled to meet at the White House with president Joe Biden, who has been recovering from Covid-19, and Trump claimed on his Truth Social platform that Netanyahu would visit his Palm Beach, Florida, resort later that day.

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Trump rants about wild conspiracy theory in furious Truth Social post

Former President Donald Trump spiced up his rantings against Vice President Kamala Harris Tuesday afternoon with a new conspiracy theory about President Joe Biden.

The convicted felon and former president could not resist the urge to attack Biden — no longer his opponent in the 2024 election — when he took to Truth Social Tuesday afternoon.

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