Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are both heading to key states they hope to win, both looking to widen their narrow path to victory in a tight presidential campaign.
Harris has targeted North Carolina, where she is scheduled to hold rallies in Charlotte and Greensboro on Thursday.
President Trump is heading to Tucson, Arizona, to try to stabilize his campaign, which is still struggling to regroup nearly two months after Harris became the Democratic nominee to replace President Joe Biden.
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“60 Minutes” is set to premiere its quadrennial interview special with presidential candidates in less than a month, and it’s hoping for the best after its 2020 interview with former President Donald Trump went awry.
With no other debates scheduled between President Trump and Democratic rival Vice President Kamala Harris after Tuesday’s event in Philadelphia, the “60 Minutes” debate will be one of the few remaining opportunities for voters to evaluate the two candidates back-to-back.
Sunday News Magazine will be doing this on Monday, October 7th, as CBS will be broadcasting the American Music Awards the day before.
Neither candidate has yet agreed to appear, but their campaigns are talking to CBS, said Bill Owens, executive producer of “60 Minutes.” Trump campaign spokesman Stephen Chung said, “Stay tuned” when asked about the candidates’ plans. The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to an AP inquiry.
A Gallup analysis of more than two decades of polling data found that young women’s attitudes are the most liberal they’ve been in decades.
In the past few years, about four in 10 young women aged 18 to 29 have described their political views as liberal, compared to about three in 10 20 years ago.
For many young women, a liberal identity is not just a new label. Gallup found that the percentage of young women with liberal views on the environment, abortion, race relations and gun laws has also increased by double digits.
“Young women aren’t simply identifying as liberal because they like the term, or because they feel more comfortable with it, or because someone they admire uses it,” said Lydia Saad, Gallup’s director of American social research. “They’re actually becoming much more liberal in terms of actual outcomes.”
Former Michigan governors and elected officials from both parties are joining a broad effort to combat misinformation and attacks on voting and ballot counting in several key states ahead of the upcoming presidential election.
The Democracy Defense Project also includes former officials from several states, including Georgia, where then-President Donald Trump sought to overturn his 2020 election defeat. Their goal is to build trust in elections through radio and TV ads, media outreach, and local engagement.
“Wherever necessary, we will speak out together when people question the integrity or accuracy of our votes. We trust our system and we do not like people who spin self-serving narratives,” former Michigan Gov. James Blanchard told The Associated Press ahead of the Michigan chapter’s official launch Thursday.
Joining Blanchard, a Democrat who served as governor from 1983 to 1991, Michigan’s team includes former Republican Gov. John Engler, former Democratic Lieutenant Governor John Cherry and former Republican Rep. Mike Bishop.
Florida Democrats made bold claims last week about their chances in a state that has become increasingly conservative in recent years, but so far they have failed to back up their words with the kind of money needed to win there.
“Florida is in the race,” declared former Miami Rep. Debbie Mucarcel-Powell as she began a bus tour in Boynton Beach to defend women’s reproductive rights. Mucarcel-Powell was chosen by the Florida Democratic Party to challenge incumbent Republican Sen. Rick Scott for one of the few Senate seats the GOP is defending this election cycle.
According to data from AdImpact, which tracks ad spending by political campaigns and their surrogates, Republicans have spent $12.7 million in Florida’s U.S. Senate races through Sept. 11, outpacing Democrats by nearly 4 to 1, with $3.2 million spent. Based on ad space currently booked through the general election, that margin is expected to widen.
