Harris campaign launches new ad tying Trump to Robinson scandal in battleground North Carolina: Live
Trouble for Republicans in North Carolina can only be good news for Democrats who haven’t won state since 2008
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Kamala Harris’s campaign has released a new ad seeking to tie Donald Trump to embattled North Carolina Lt Gov Mark Robinson, engulfed in a scandal relating to online posts on a porn forum.
There are reports that Robinson will not be attending a Trump rally organized in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Saturday, suggesting the former president’s campaign team may be trying to distance him from the scandal.
Meanwhile, Harris told Oprah Winfrey that she would shoot an intruder in her home as the vice president addressed gun violence, the cost of living, reproductive rights, and immigration in an event on Thursday evening.
The pair sat down for their “Unite for America” live-streamed rally in Michigan before an in-person and remote audience that included the likes of Chris Rock and Julia Roberts.
Also on Thursday, Trump said that Jewish American voters will bear “a lot” of blame if he loses the election, he told the Israeli-American Council National Summit in Washington on Thursday.
Today, Harris will rally voters in the key battlegrounds of Marietta, Georgia, and Madison, Wisconsin, while Trump is holding a fundraiser in Miami, Florida.
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“We are addressing these threats with the seriousness they warrant and are taking immediate steps to ensure the security of both our community and our employees,” Mayor Rob Rue said in a statement. “Our commitment to preventing harm is unwavering.”
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‘If somebody breaks into my house they’re getting shot'
Harris advocates for assault weapons bans, universal background checks, and red flag laws
Addressing school shootings and gun violence, Harris said, “We just need to apply common sense.”
“I think for far too long on the issue of gun violence, some people have been pushing a really false choice to suggest you're either in favor of the Second Amendment or you want to take everyone's guns away. I'm in favor of the Second Amendment and I'm in favor of assault weapons bans, universal background checks, red flag laws,” she added.
‘You’re looking at a mother that is broken'
Shanette, the mother of Amber Nicole Thurman, who died two years ago at the age of 28 after delays in her care as doctors wrestled with Georgia’s restrictive abortion laws, spoke out during a Unite for America event on Thursday night.
“Initially, I did not want the public to know my pain,” the mother said. “I wanted to go through in silence, but I realized that it was selfish. I want you all to know Amber was not a statistic. She was loved by a family, a strong family, and we would have done whatever to get my baby, our baby, the help that she needed.”
“You're looking at a mother that is broken,” she added.
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In Photos: Kamala Harris greets Oprah Winfrey at Unite for America event
Harris slams Trump for blocking bipartisan border bill
Kamala Harris blasted Donald Trump for making sure that the bipartisan border bill didn’t pass.
“Here's what that border security bill would have done. It would have put 1,500 more border agents at the border. Let me tell you, those border agents are working around the clock,” she said. “It would have just been about giving them some support and relief, which is probably why the border agents actually endorsed the bill.”
She added: “It would have allowed us to stem the flow of fentanyl. And I'm looking at people from all over the country here, so I don't need to tell the folks who are watching this what fentanyl has done to families, to kids in our country.”
The bill would have allowed us to have more resources to prosecute transnational criminal organizations, and it would have been part of the solution.
And Donald Trump called up those folks and said, ‘Don’t put that bill on the floor for a vote.’
He blocked the bill. And you know, why does he prefer to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem?
Harris takes the stage
Kamala Harris took the stage at the Unite for America event, saying “This movement, that is about reminding each other that we have so much more in common than what separates us, is so critically important, and this is about the strength of who we are as Americans.”
She added: “This movement that we're in about, as I like to say, seeing in the face of a stranger, a neighbor.”
‘You all know the stakes, or you wouldn’t be here,’
Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said, “First of all, this campaign is so inspired by the grassroots organizations that have come together like this, and it is making us stronger as a campaign to work together.”
“We have 47 days left, and you all know the stakes, or you wouldn't be here,” she added. “And while we have this extraordinary growing enthusiasm that the Vice President and Governor Walz are seeing everywhere, we are still in a margin-of-error race. It's tied.”
It’s tied right here in Michigan. It’s tied in all the battleground states. So it’s going to take all of us to build a pathway, many pathways, to 270 electoral votes. That’s what we’re focused on.
The campaign in every state, we have to register more people. We have to mobilize our voters to turn out to vote, and then we have got to go persuade those people that still don’t know enough about the vice president and her vision for the future.
And if we do that together, all of us, we’re going to get over the top, but it’s really going to take all of us and to make sure that you’re working in your own lives have those hard conversations in big and small ways, we’re going to inch our way over the finish line because we’re going to be able to do it together.
‘I choose experience and fortitude over something else'
Khalil Thompson, the founder of “Win With Black Men,” said on Thursday night that “brothers, men who are watching this and enjoying this moment, you have a choice. I choose experience and fortitude over something else. I come from a litany of amazing Black women.”
“We have a chance to do a performance review and give a promotion to the best-qualified candidate to be president United States,” he added.
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