Special Counsel Jack Smith has filed a new criminal complaint against Donald Trump on his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election which retains the same criminal charges but limits the charges against him following a Supreme Court ruling that granted past presidents broad immunity. The new indictment, filed Tuesday, removes part of the charge that accused Trump of trying to use the Justice Department’s law enforcement powers to overturn his election loss.
Meanwhile, as vice president Kamala Harris starts her autumn campaign for the White House, she can look to history and hope for better luck than others in her position who have tried the same thing. Since 1836, there has only been one sitting vice president, George HW Bush in 1988has been elected to the White House.
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Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign says she will launch a new advertising campaign that aims to connect former President Donald Trump with the conservative “Project 2025” he wants to distance himself from.
The first ad claims that Trump is “out to control” voters, juxtaposing Trump quotes with ominous screenshots of the plan. It’s part of Harris’ $370 million in digital and television ad reservations between Labor Day and Election Day.
The ad will air in all key states and in the television market surrounding Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, a move the Trump campaign has made at times, ostensibly in an attempt to influence the former president’s social media habits.
Project 2025, led by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, is a detailed 920-page manual for governing under the next Republican administration, including ousting thousands of civil servants and replaced by Trump loyalists to reverse the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of drugs used in abortions.
Trump has attempted to distance himself from Project 2025, posting on social media that he has not seen the plan and “has no idea who is responsible for it, and, contrary to our very well-received Republican Platform, had nothing to do with it.”
The high costs of caring for children and the elderly have led to women out of the labor forcedevastated family finances and left professional caregivers behind low wage jobs — while economic growth slows.
That families suffer is not in dispute. With the economy emerging as a theme in this presidential election, Democratic and Republican candidates have outlined ideas to cut costs, revealing their divergent views on families.
On this point, the two candidates have one thing in common: Both presidential candidates – and their running mates – have at one point expressed support for an expanded child tax credit.
Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris has indicated she plans to continue building the ambitions of the administration of outgoing President Joe Bidenwho wanted to pour billions of taxpayer dollars into making child care and home care more affordable for seniors and disabled adults. She has not codified any of those plans into a formal policy platform. But in a speech earlier this month, she said her vision included: increase in child benefit.
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican, has refused to answer questions about how he would make child care more affordable, even though it was an issue he raised during his own administration. His running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, has a long history of pushing policy that would encourage Americans to start families.
As Vice-Chairman Kamala Harris starts her autumn campaign for the White House, she can look to history and hope for better luck than others in her position who have tried the same thing.
Since 1836, there has only been one sitting vice president, George HW Bush in 1988has been elected to the White House.
Among those who tried and failed were Richard Nixon in 1960, Hubert Humphrey in 1968 and Al Gore in 2000. All three lost in close elections marked by issues ranging from war and scandal to crime and the subtleties of televised debates. But two other factors proved crucial for any vice president: whether the incumbent was well-liked and whether the president and vice president had a productive relationship.