Election 2024 live updates: Trump, Harris campaign in Pennsylvania | AP News

Vice President Kamala Harris and Former President Donald Trump are both hitting the campaign trail Saturday in Pennsylvania.

Harris will deliver a keynote address at a town hall in Philadelphia hosted by APIAVote, an advocacy group focused on mobilizing Asian American voters. First Lady Jill Biden is also expected to campaign in Pittsburgh.

Trump will hold a rally in Butler, outside of Pittsburgh.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is encouraging Democrats to rally behind Biden to deny Trump another term as president.

In a New York Times opinion piece, the progressive senator called Biden “the most effective president in the modern history of our country.” Sanders said despite his disastrous debate performance, he’s the strongest candidate to defeat Trump.

Sanders said he disagrees with Biden on multiple issues, but believes that with an effective campaign he can “not only defeat Mr. Trump but beat him badly.”

He called Trump a “demagogue and pathological liar,” and said, “it’s time for Democrats to stop the bickering and nit-picking,” and band together to win the election.

Harris is speaking this afternoon at a town hall in Philadelphia hosted by APIAVote an advocacy group focused on mobilizing Asian American voters.

Harris is the first person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president.

The speech is part of efforts by the campaign to mobilize Asian American voters.

Andrew Peng, a spokesperson for Harris said the campaign knows the power of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander voters and has made historic investments across languages to reach them.

Harris’s speech shows “we won’t take any vote for granted this November,” Peng said.

Around the country, conservative groups are systematically attempting to challenge the legitimacy of large numbers of voter registrations before the presidential election.

It’s part of a wider effort raising questions about the integrity of this year’s election as former President Donald Trump repeatedly claims, without evidence, that his opponents are trying to cheat.

The tactics include mass door-knocking campaigns, special software and a crush of lawsuits.

Voting rights groups and Democrats say the efforts aim to shake faith in the results of the 2024 election and lay the legal groundwork to challenge the results.

Those behind the reviews cast them as good government endeavors intended to help local election offices clean up the rolls.

Democrats fighting to keep hotly contested Senate seats are trying to minimize any damage to their own races, in many cases by saying as little as possible about Biden in public.

Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey has long been seen as one of the safest Democratic bets, but this week even he brushed aside questions about how Biden’s debate performance might affect his race.

In Republican-leaning Montana, Jon Tester took a more skeptical stance than in the past, saying Biden must prove he’s up to the job.

The party is defending far more Senate seats than Republicans, including in the swing states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada and Arizona.

Workers in Milwaukee temporarily renamed a street “Donald J. Trump Way,” as part of the setup for the Republican National Convention.

The problem? The signage covered Herb Kohl Way, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported.

Kohl was a Democratic U.S. Senator for 24 years, owner of the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks and one of the city’s best-loved citizens.

After a local television reporter took a photo of the change, Democratic Mayor Cavalier Johnson said he asked organizers to take down the temporary signage.

It’s a reflection of the tension building in the Democratic leaning city days before the opening of the Republican National Convention.

Facebook has lifted restrictions imposed on former president Donald Trump in the wake of the January 6 attack.

This puts Trump on equal footing on the platform with President Joe Biden.

The social media giant initially banned Trump from using its platforms in 2021 after his supporters stormed the Capitol. They later eased the ban and put some restrictions on him.

Now, those are gone too.

The company said Friday the restrictions were put in place under “extreme and extraordinary circumstances” of the Capitol attack. Trump had not done anything to run afoul of them, and the company believes people should be able to hear from presidential nominees “on the same basis,” said Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs.

For all the usual stagecraft, the Republican National Convention that opens Monday is different from Donald Trump’s previous nominating affairs.

In 2016 and 2020, Trump was the underdog heading into fall and faced criticism from within his own party. This year, he will accept the Republican nomination with his party in lockstep behind him and Democrats in turmoil over President Joe Biden’s viability.

There will be the usual convention tasks throughout the four days. Delegates, almost 2,400 of them, must approve a platform and formally designate the presidential ticket: Trump and his yet-to-be-named running mate. They’ll hear from both national candidates and a slew of others rallying support for Trump and taking aim at Democrats.

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Nancy Pelosi’s phone lit up the night of President Joe Biden’s debate performance with a question that has yet to be fully resolved: Now what?

The uproar that has shaken the 2024 election, and siphoned attention away from Trump and his MAGA agenda, leaves Democrats at a painful standstill, at odds over whether to stick with Biden as their presumptive nominee or press on with the once-unthinkable option of trying to persuade the president to end his reelection campaign.

Pelosi as the former House speaker, along with Rep. Jim Clyburn, a veteran leader of the Congressional Black Caucus, are playing oversized roles as generational allies of the 81-year-old president but also trusted voices from Capitol Hill who can bring frank concerns to Biden. Their work, in public and private, is giving space to the current congressional leadership headed by House Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to navigate the Biden question and the party’s political future.

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