Harris leading Trump by 6% among likely voters – poll
Kamala Harris is leading Donald Trump by 6 points, 53% to 47%, among likely voters, according to a new poll by Marquette Law School.
Among registered voters, 52% said Harris is the choice for president while Trump is the choice of 48%.
Moreover, since becoming the Democratic nominee, Harris is seen favorably by 47% and unfavorably by 50% of registered voters, while 3% say they haven’t heard enough, according to the survey.
The survey was conducted July 24-Aug. 1, 2024, interviewing 879 registered voters nationwide, with a margin of error of +/-4.1 percentage points, Marquette University Law School said, adding that for likely voters, the sample size is 683 with a margin of error of +/-4.7 percentage points.
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Pelosi says life “goal” is to prevent Trump regaining White House
Joanna Walters
Nancy Pelosi has said she will need to come to terms with the role she played in Joe Biden dropping out of his re-election campaign – while also saying it was all in service of keeping Donald Trump out of the White House, her new “life goal”.
The former Speaker of the House, sitting California congresswoman and almost immortally powerful Democratic party grandee talked to reporters a little earlier.
She said that having a part in the change at the top of the Democratic presidential ticket for 2024 was chiefly about ensuring the best prospects that Trump and the Republicans won’t win this November.
She said about Trump:
How can I say this in the nicest possible way: My goal in life was that man would never step in the White House again,” the Associated Press reports.
Pelosi refers to Trump, variously, as Bozo, a snake-oil salesman, whatisname and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the news agency noted. She was talking about her new book The Art of Power, My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House, which the Guardian scooped last week. Read on….
Interim summary
Hello, US politics blog readers, it’s a lively day for news and there is more to come, so stay with us and we’ll bring you the developments as they happen. Donald Trump is due to hold a press conference at 2pm ET.
Here’s where things stand:
Hillary Clinton is all over X today in support of the Kamala Harris and Tim Walz Democratic ticket for the White House, defending Walz’s military record. She mocked Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance for posing with Air Force Two as if he’ll one day fly in it as the veep, with Clinton reminding people of his anti-choice stance on reproductive rights.
Donald Trump praised Walz’s handling of the mass protests and some riots that followed the murder of George Floyd by police in his state in 2020, while the-then president was on a phone call with state governors, according to a resurfaced audio clip. This contradicts Trump now slamming Walz for a weak response.
Kamala Harris is leading Donald Trump by six points, 53% to 47%, among likely voters, according to a new poll by Marquette Law School. Among registered voters, 52% said Harris is the choice for president while Trump is the choice of 48%.
Harris and Walz’s campaign has released a new Latino-focused ad in English and Spanish called “Determination.” The one-minute ad, which aims to target Latino voters, centers on Harris’s track record as a prosecutor, state attorney general, senator and vice president.
The Democratic duo are continuing their campaign blitz today with a scheduled address at an United Auto Workers event in Detroit, following an energized rally in the city last night. Harris’s scheduled address before the UAW comes amid the union’s endorsement of her and Walz.
Hillary Clinton is speaking out in defense of Tim Walz who has come under fire from Republicans over his 24-year military record in the army national guard.
Writing on Thursday in response to Republican accusations that Walz retired in 2005 to avoid being deployed to Iraq, Clinton said:
Republicans are re-running an old tactic and trying to smear a veteran who’s also a Democrat.
Please pass this on to counter their lies:
Tim Walz submitted his retirement request to the U.S. Army National Guard months prior to notification of his unit’s deployment.
Republicans are re-running an old tactic and trying to smear a veteran who’s also a Democrat.
Please pass this on to counter their lies:
Tim Walz submitted his retirement request to the U.S. Army National Guard months prior to notification of his unit’s deployment. https://t.co/IdZmwES6hG
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 8, 2024
In response to the Republicans for Harris coalition launched across the country this week, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s campaign released the following statement on Thursday:
“As part of the launch, dozens of Republican leaders – including former elected officials and members of Donald Trump’s own administration – held events across the battlegrounds to endorse Vice President Harris and rally fellow Republicans to defeat Trump.
While Trump and Vance continue to turn off independent and Republican voters, Team Harris-Walz has made clear that there’s a home in our campaign for Republican voters who care deeply about the future of our democracy, standing strong with our allies against foreign adversaries, and working across the aisle to get things done for the American people.”
In a new tweet on Thursday ahead of her address with workers from the United Auto Workers union in Detroit, Michigan Kamala Harris wrote:
“This campaign is not just about us versus Donald Trump. Our campaign is about fighting for the future.”
Since launching her campaign trail and choosing Tim Walz as her running mate, Harris and her team have been framing herself and Walz as “joyful warriors” in contrast to Trump and JD Vance, both of whom have been decried as “weird” by Democrats including Walz.
Martin Pengelly has more for the Guardian on Donald Trump’s previous praises towards Tim Walz during the 2020 George Floyd racial justice protests:
Walz told Politico he and Trump had many calls in 2020. A source close to Walz told the Guardian the episode Trump described actually happened in April, early in the Covid-19 pandemic, after Trump posted incendiary tweets about state public health measures and more than a month before the George Floyd protests and riots.
In the call with governors on 1 June, the AP and ABC reported, Trump also told Walz, regarding the riots, “I don’t blame you. I blame the mayor”, a reference to Jacob Frey, the Democratic mayor of Minneapolis.
Trump added: “Tim, you called up big numbers and the big numbers knocked [the rioters] out so fast, it was like bowling pins.”
That was of a piece with Trump’s incendiary tone in a 29 May tweet, in which he said: “These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!”
For the full story, click here:
Trump ‘very happy’ with Walz’ handling of George Floyd protests – resurfaced audio
In a resurfaced audio clip from 2020, Donald Trump praised Tim Walz’s handling of the George Floyd protests while on a phone call with governors.
Speaking on the call, Trump said, “What they did in Minneapolis was incredible. They went in and dominated, and it happened immediately,” in apparent reference to the national guard that Walz deployed following the protests.
He went on to add, “I was very happy with the last couple of days, Tim… You called up big numbers and the big numbers knocked them out so fast, it was like bowling pins.”
The resurfaced audio of Trump’s praises contradicts Republicans’ new attack line against Walz as many accuse him worsening the situation.
On Wednesday, JD Vance said that Walz “allowed rioters to burn down” businesses while House majority leader Steve Scalise said that Walz “let rioters burn Minneapolis to the ground in 2020.”
In response to JD Vance’s post on X of him walking on the tarmac on Wednesday alongside people who appear to be his aides and security detail – which he captioned as “This Entourage reboot is going to be awesome,” Hillary Clinton wrote:
“This entourage is on its way to block women from crossing state borders for health care.”
In 2022, JD Vance called for a “federal response” to block women from travelling for abortions, as well as pushed the baseless taking point that George Soros-funded planes were transporting Black women across state lines for the procedure.
With Tim Walz being thrust into the national spotlight, his handling of George Floyd’s killing by police is coming back into view.
The Guardian’s Gloria Oladipo reports:
For his handling of George Floyd’s killing by police, Tim Walz has largely been commended by progressives both nationwide and on the local level. The vice-presidential candidate and Minnesota governor’s role in the 2020 case has come back into view since being selected as Kamala Harris’s running mate on Monday.
Many have credited Walz for tapping Keith Ellison, the attorney general, to prosecute the case, which resulted in an unlikely conviction of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of Floyd while on duty. Former officers J Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao were later convicted for violating Floyd’s civil rights.
“At the time, the Hennepin county attorney [Mike Freeman] was someone who the community did not have any trust in being able to try the case effectively,” said Elianne Farhat, executive director of the political advocacy group TakeAction Minnesota. “So the community and George Floyd’s family raised the demand that the case be moved to the attorney general. What we saw is that [Ellison] and his team led a powerful case and those police officers were ultimately held accountable.”
For the full story, click here:
Angela Giuffrida
The Italian rightwing newspaper Il Tempo has come under fire for racism after featuring an image on its front page of Kamala Harris wearing a Native American feathered headdress alongside the headline: “The challenge against Donald, hunt for the white man.”
The headline was in reference to Harris’ running mate, Tim Walz, and intended to depict Harris as picking a white man to try and win over support from Donald Trump voters.
The front page was slammed as racist by critics, who also pointed out that Harris is not of Native American origin.
Francesco Strazzari, a professor of international relations at Sant’Anna University in Pisa, wrote on X: “How racial tropes work: ignorance runs so deep that Italy’s rightwing newspaper Il Tempo ignores that that Kamala Harris’ mother was from Madras, India,” and not Native American.
How racial tropes work: ignorance runs so deep that Italy’s rightwing newspaper Il Tempo ignores that Kamala Harris’s mother was from Madras, India. Kamala is portrayed on frontpage as Native Indian under the title ‘white manhunt’. pic.twitter.com/ADvZSlazyB
— francesco strazzari (@franxstrax) August 7, 2024
Tommaso Cerno, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, defended the front page, saying the headdress was chosen as a “symbol par excellence of all America’s minorities.” He accused Italy’s left of incorrectly accusing him of confusing Harris’ ethnicity. “Total idiocy!” he said in a video posted on X.
Harris leading Trump by 6% among likely voters – poll
Kamala Harris is leading Donald Trump by 6 points, 53% to 47%, among likely voters, according to a new poll by Marquette Law School.
Among registered voters, 52% said Harris is the choice for president while Trump is the choice of 48%.
Moreover, since becoming the Democratic nominee, Harris is seen favorably by 47% and unfavorably by 50% of registered voters, while 3% say they haven’t heard enough, according to the survey.
The survey was conducted July 24-Aug. 1, 2024, interviewing 879 registered voters nationwide, with a margin of error of +/-4.1 percentage points, Marquette University Law School said, adding that for likely voters, the sample size is 683 with a margin of error of +/-4.7 percentage points.
Just within the last two hours, Donald Trump has fired off six posts on Truth Social, each one angrier than the last.
In addition to accusing Kamala Harris of refusing to do interviews “because her team realizes she is unable to answer questions,” Trump vowed to “expose Kamala during the debate the same way I exposed Crooked Joe, Hillary, and everyone else during debates.”
Trump then lamented about media coverage of the size of his rallies, saying:
“If Kamala has 1,000 people at a Rally, the Press goes ‘crazy,’ and talks about how ‘big’ it was – And she pays for her ‘Crowd.’ When I have a Rally, and 100,000 people show up, the Fake News doesn’t talk about it, THEY REFUSE TO MENTION CROWD SIZE. The Fake News is the Enemy of the People!”
Writing in capitalised letters, Trump also said that this election is about the “ECONOMY, INFLATION, OPEN BORDER (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION), RESPECT FOR OUR NATION, PREVENTING WORLD WAR III AND A 1929 STYLE DEPRESSION.”
Harris-Walz campaign releases new Latino-focused ad called ‘Determination’
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s campaign has released a new Latino-focused ad in English and Spanish called “Determination.”
The one-minute ad, which aims to target Latino voters, centers on Harris’s track record as a prosecutor, state attorney general, senator and vice president.
Multiple voiceovers in the ad say:
“When you’re raised by an immigrant mother, you learn what’s possible with determination. And determination is how Kamala Harris went from working in McDonald’s to prosecutor, state attorney general, US senator and our vice president in only one generation.”
Describing the ad, Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz said:
“This ad buy also sends a clear signal that vice president Harris and governor Walz are leveraging the historic outpouring of grassroots support we’ve seen, and using it to earn the support of the Latino vote. Because it’s determination that will win this election.”
This ad is part of a historic, two-week, seven-figure paid media blitz targeting Latino voters — a testament to Team Harris-Walz’s commitment to earning the Latino vote, the campaign said.
“Determination” will run on TV, radio, and digital platforms in English and Spanish in battleground states with an emphasis on high-viewership events that skew toward Latino voters, including the Olympic Games, Major League Baseball games, game shows, high-ranked telenovelas, and La Liga de Fútbol and Leagues Cup matches, it added.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to continue campaign blitz with UAW event in Detroit
Good morning,
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are continuing their campaign blitz today with a scheduled address at an United Auto Workers event in Detroit following an energized rally in the city on Wednesday night.
Harris’s scheduled address before the UAW comes amid the union’s endorsement of her and Walz. Last week, the UAW president, Shawn Fain, hailed Harris’s record of “delivering for the working class” and in response to Harris’s pick of Walz as her running mate earlier this week, Fain said Walz is “one of us”.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has been firing off a series of posts on Truth Social this morning, one of which includes him announcing a press conference at 2pm ET in Mar-a-Lago – probably to lambast Harris and Walz over their progressive policies.
With Harris’s campaign gaining momentum across the country – much to Trump’s ire, a new survey by Marquette University Law School showed that among likely voters, Harris leads Trump 53% to 47%, or 6 points.
Here are other developments in US politics:
Joe Biden is set to call Hawaii governor Josh Green at 12.30pm ET to mark one year since the deadly Maui wildfires.
Far-right online attacks against Walz are focusing on a conspiracy theory that he changed Minnesota’s flag to mimic Somalia’s.
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