COLUMBIA, S.C. — Vice President Kamala Harris will make one last swing through South Carolina ahead of Saturday’s Democratic presidential primary, capping the president’s Palmetto State campaign at an HBCU.
Harris will headline a get-out-the-vote event at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg on Friday, the state’s largest public HBCU and is part of President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign to reach out to Black voters in the state.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison, who is originally from Orangeburg, also is scheduled to speak at the event.
Former CNN broadcaster Jim Acosta warned that President Donald Trump could be considered a "vandal" accused of damaging federal property — just as the president has threatened to others over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
Acosta spoke with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) about the president's threat to arrest and charge anyone who damaged the remodeled monument during an episode of "The Jim Acosta Show" on Wednesday. He suggested Trump could be facing questions over vandalism.
"The Trump administration is talking about how destroying federal property is a crime, and it's true," Acosta said. "There is a law that says you can't destroy federal property. And I think if it's over $1,000 or something like that, it becomes potentially a felony and you could go to prison for 10 years."
Raskin responded to the comment.
"And we want restitution for that," Raskin explained. "We want the felon vandal who destroyed government property to pay for it. So that's hundreds of millions of dollars of damage that Trump did unilaterally, lawlessly, with no permit at all — bulldozing the White House. And now he's asking for a billion dollars from us to build his gold ballroom, for which Congress never appropriated any money. We didn't legislate that. And it's Congress that decides on the disposition of federal property."
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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and President Donald Trump engaged in a heated confrontation at a Senate GOP luncheon Wednesday, according to multiple political reporters citing insiders at the event.
MS NOW congressional correspondent Mychael Schnell described the scene.
"Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) confronted President Trump over the Iran memorandum of understanding, a source familiar with the lunch conversation tells me @MSNOWNews," Schnell wrote in a post on X.
Trump interrupted Cassidy as he characterized the war as a "blunder," and the two continued exchanging arguments while other senators attempted to intervene.
Trump also criticized Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) for missing the previous day's war powers vote, though McCormick was attending a Trump rally and the resolution passed regardless.
According to Semafor's Burgess Everett, an attendee used vulgar language to describe the meeting as "a total cluster."
The confrontation occurred hours after Trump vowed to block a bipartisan affordable housing bill that Congress had passed the night before.
A fiery clash exploded during a CNN live broadcast between two political commentators on Wednesday in a debate over where the United States and its political parties are headed.
Political analyst Charles Blow and Alyssa Farah Griffin, a strategist and former Trump administration official, got in a heated back-and-forth over the direction of the Republican and Democratic parties on a panel with CNN anchor Kasie Hunt.
"The moment that you elected Donald Trump and you watch what he has done in the first year of his administration — no one, no one can make the argument that someone is too extreme," Blow said.
Griffin interjected and pushed back, then Blow fired back a response. He referenced what Special Envoy and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner said at Charlie Kirk's memorial service.
"You go back and listen to what Kushner said at Kirk's memorial service, go back and listen to the full thing, and tell me that is not a full-fledged white power speech," Blow said.
Griffin pushed back on Blow's comments.
"The vast majority of Americans do not want our country to become a race to the bottom in politics," Griffin said.
