Kamala Harris Is Not an Ideas Candidate Vice President Kamala Harris is an ideas candidate. That's what a string of recent opinion pieces about her economic agenda try to convince us of anyway. In a Tuesday column, The Washington Post's Heather Long writes that she sees in Harris' "opportunity economy"—that grab bag of subsidies to businesses large and small, 09/20/2024 - 7:40 am | View Link
VP Harris "Proud" to Have Taylor Swift Support (Despite Super Bowl) During Wired's interview, VP Kamala Harris shared that she was "very proud" to get Taylor Swift's endorsement (despite Super Bowl LVIII). 09/20/2024 - 3:37 am | View Link
NYT Strands today: hints, spangram and answers for Friday, September 20 Strands is a tricky take on the classic word search from NYT Games. If you're stuck and cannot solve today's puzzle, we've got help for you here. 09/20/2024 - 1:30 am | View Link
Five Issues Where Kamala Harris Flip-Flopped Vice President Kamala Harris has backed away from some of her more liberal positions between her time as a California senator to her second presidential campaign. She says her values haven’t changed. 09/19/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
“Speaker Mike Johnson signaled that former President Donald Trump could soften on his calls to shut down the federal government if a measure requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote is not attached to a short-term spending bill,” CBS News reports.
“There’s a real possibility that Kamala Harris wins the presidency and Democrats lose the Senate in November – in which case she’ll almost surely run into trouble stocking a Cabinet and the courts,” Semafor reports.
“Republicans are already vowing to block progressive nominees Harris might choose, push her Supreme Court picks to the right and potentially stop some of her lifetime judicial appointments, if they win back the Senate and she defeats Donald Trump – a split presidential-year election outcome that hasn’t happened for decades.”
“Many in the GOP are in a fighting mood after seeing President Joe Biden push his nominees through over the past several years, thanks to a slim Senate Democratic majority.”
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“Nebraska appears unlikely to adopt a winner-take-all model of awarding Electoral College votes, despite renewed pressure from prominent Republicans, according to a key state senator,” the Omaha World Herald reports.
“That pressure included a visit to the state by U. S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and a letter supporting the change signed by all five members of Nebraska’s congressional delegation Wednesday.”
“State Sen.
Kamala Harris retook the lead over Donald Trump in Nate Silver’s forecast model for the first time in more than three weeks, 51% to 49%, but the race is essentially a tossup.