Vice President Kamala Harris is beginning to vet about a dozen possible candidates to be her running mate as she approaches one of most consequential decisions of her new presidential candidacy.
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Vice President Kamala Harris, grappling with how to keep early 2024 Presidential election momentum alive, is also preparing for a crucial week that includes her most critical decision yet: choosing a running mate.
VP’s campaign launches ‘Republicans for Harris’
The crowd as Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to a campaign rally, July 30, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
Over the weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign launched “Republicans for Harris” as she looks to win over Republican voters put off by Donald Trump’s candidacy.
The program will be a “campaign within a campaign,” according to Harris’ team, using well-known Republicans to activate their networks, with a particular emphasis on primary voters who backed former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.
▶Read more about the program, which will kick off with events this week in Arizona, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Hospitality workers’ union endorses Harris
The hospitality workers’ union UNITE HERE endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president, a rejoinder to Republican Donald Trump’s effort to woo restaurant and hotel workers by promising to make their tips tax-free.
The endorsement includes a commitment by the union to have its members knock on more than 3.3 million doors for Harris in swing states.
Trump tears into Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp again
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Over the weekend, Donald Trump picked a new fight with Georgia’s Republican governor as he campaigned in the key swing state where he’s looking to avenge his narrow 2020 loss — a defeat he continues to blame on GOP officials for not giving into his false theories of election fraud.
Trump attacked Gov. Brian Kemp on his social media site before his Saturday rally and said Kemp should be “fighting Crime, not fighting Unity and the Republican Party.”
At his Atlanta rally, Trump assailed Kemp in a roughly 10-minute tirade, blaming him for his loss to Democratic President Joe Biden and for not stopping a local district attorney from prosecuting him and several associates for his efforts to overturn the results.
▶Read more about how Georgia is likely to see another closely contested election
Two rallies. Two Americas.
This combination of photos taken at campaign rallies in Atlanta shows Vice President Kamala Harris on July 30, 2024, left, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump on Aug. 3. (AP Photo)
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump just held dueling rallies four days apart in the same Georgia location.
The competing events were staged three months before Election Day in the state that produced the closest margin of the 2020 race for the White House. On policy, tone, the types of voters in attendance and even the music playlists, the rallies offered not just opposing visions of the country but starkly different versions of it.
It’s a snapshot in a way of how a divided nation might embrace a Trump comeback or a Harris ascension.
▶Read more about how the dueling rallies in the same Atlanta arena showcase America’s deep divides.
Harris’s seven-state battleground tour begins tomorrow
Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks at a Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority gathering in Houston, July 31, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Harris and her running mate are set to launch into an aggressive, seven-state battleground tour that begins tomorrow in Philadelphia and winds through Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada.
▶Read more about Harris’ crucial week ahead.