Donald Trump brings his message to a somewhat unexpected place on Wednesday: the suburbs of New York.
The Republican presidential candidate and former president is traveling to Uniondale, Long Island, an area that could be crucial to his party maintaining control over the HouseHis party is trying to protect 18 Republicans in Democratic-leaning districts that Joe Biden won in 2020.
Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to speak at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s 47th annual leadership conference in Washington and has trips planned to Michigan and Wisconsin later in the week.
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A 22 year old woman who has a advocate of abortion rights After being raped by her stepfather as a child, she tells her story in a new campaign ad for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Hadley Duvall says in voiceover that she’s never had a full night’s sleep in her life — her stepfather began abusing her when she was 5 and impregnated her when she was 12. As she speaks, images of Duvall as a child flash across the screen. The ad’s soundtrack is a song by Billie Eilish, who endorsed the vice president on Tuesday.
“I remember thinking, ‘I have to get out of my skin. I can’t be myself right now. This can’t be it,’” Duvall says. “I didn’t know what to do. I was a child. I didn’t know what it meant to be pregnant. But I had options.”
The ad is part of an ongoing effort by the Harris campaign to highlight the growing consequences of Roe’s overturning, including that some states have abortion restrictions with no exceptions for rape or incest. Women in some states are suffering from increasingly dangerous medical care, and the first reported case of a woman dying from delayed reproductive care surfaced this week.
Voters in northern New Jersey will hold a special election for the U.S. House of Representatives to fill the seat left vacant when Rep. Donald Payne Jr. died earlier this year.
Newark City Council President LaMonica McIver, Democratic, and Republican Carmen Bucco are vying for the seat in the heavily Democratic and predominantly black 10th Congressional District. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy set up the special election under state law after Payne died in April. He had served in the House for more than two decades.
Wednesday’s election will determine who will serve out the remainder of Payne’s term, which ends Jan. 3, 2025. The regular election process, held in parallel, will determine who fills the seat afterward. McIver and Bucco are also on the ballot for full terms in the seat, along with third-party candidates.