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What's happening today on the campaign trail
- Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to reveal her running mate tomorrow ahead of their evening rally in Philadelphia, two sources familiar with the plan told NBC News. Her campaign said this evening that she hasn't yet decided on her VP pick.
- Former President Donald Trump was interviewed by livestreamer Adin Ross, the latest in a streak of appearances with controversial influencers. His running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, is planning a string of campaign appearances this week to counter Harris' battleground push.
- Meanwhile, a state agency in New York indicated today that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could have faced a fine for disposing of a dead bear in Central Park in 2014, but the statute of limitations has expired.
Harris is talking about immigration more, and her allies think it could be a political advantage
All of a sudden, Harris is talking about the border — and relishing it.
As Harris prepares to barnstorm battleground states this week along with her soon-to-be-announced running mate, her campaign is banking on an issue that, until recently, Democrats had ceded to Republicans and Trump: immigration.
“The vice president has a compelling story to tell about prosecuting transnational gangs and drug traffickers as the attorney general of a border state,” a campaign official said. “That record will make it harder for the Trump camp’s attacks on her to stick.”
Nancy Pelosi says she hasn’t spoken to Biden since he dropped out
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the former House speaker, said in an interview tonight that she hasn't spoken to Biden since he dropped his re-election bid last month.
Asked whether her relationship with Biden is OK, Pelosi told CNN, " I hope so, but he knows."
“Look, I have loved Joe Biden, respected him for over 40 years," Pelosi said tonight. "I think he has made one of the biggest contributions to our country in the shortest period of time of any president you can name.”
NBC News previously reported that Pelosi played a key role in efforts to persuade Biden to step aside in the presidential race.
The selloff in stock markets and recession fears put the economy front and center in the presidential race once again. It comes as Harris is expected to name her running mate tomorrow. NBC News’ Gabe Gutierrez reports.
‘Squad’ member Cori Bush faces Democratic primary putting a spotlight on Israel
Democratic Rep. Cori Bush greeted volunteers and supporters two days before tomorrow's primary election with a buoyant chant: “I believe that we will win!”
Bush is known as a fighter; it’s how she went from being an unhoused single mom protesting on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to becoming a prominent member of the so-called Squad of progressive House members in Washington. But now, the activist-turned-politician is fighting to avoid losing a primary against a well-funded challenger — four years after she came to Washington by defeating the then-incumbent in a primary.
“I’m just trying to make sense of why so much money would be spent in our congressional race when our district has so many needs,” an exasperated Bush told NBC News in an interview on a sweltering summer day.
Tim Walz alludes to VP vetting experience at Minneapolis fundraiser
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz alluded to his experience being vetted as Harris' potential running mate at a Democratic fundraiser tonight in Minneapolis where he also touted his record.
“I think all of you know you don’t wake up as a schoolteacher just angry about something and figure out how to get elected to Congress and become the governor and then ... and then life comes at you fast, whatever happens!” he said in what appeared to be a reference to the vetting process.
Walz said Harris “can handle herself, but we’ve got to have her back." He touched on protecting reproductive rights and Social Security and preventing tax cuts for the wealthy — all key talking points for the Harris campaign.
Walz also mentioned the Democratic practice of referring to Trump and Vance as “weird,” telling the crowd that the trend attributed to him “had a viral moment, but it wasn’t a slur to call these guys weird — it’s an observation.”
Walz appeared to make a pitch for more moderate Democrats, saying: “We’ve got an opportunity to bring folks back in. Because I was very clear about this. I did not call Republicans ‘weird.’ They’re my neighbors; they’re the people that I love. There’s folks out there that we need to give them some choices.”
Chuck Schumer eyes opportunities to pass deepfake and AI bills as elections near
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has spent the past year raising the alarm about the need for lawmakers to regulate artificial intelligence.
Just last week, tech billionaire Elon Musk, a Trump backer, shared a parody deepfake video to his nearly 200 million followers on X featuring audio of Harris saying things she had never said.
Without guardrails for using artificial intelligence to depict political candidates, Schumer and others fear it could lead to a Wild West situation in which deepfakes of Harris, Trump and others would proliferate in the media landscape — and undermine voters’ faith and trust in candidates, elections and American democracy.
Harris campaign tells supporters she hasn't chosen her VP pick yet
The Harris campaign said in a text message to her supporters tonight that Harris has not yet made a decision on her running mate.
The text message provided a link for supporters to sign up to be a part of the “exclusive list of supporters who will be notified immediately when the news breaks.”
Harris has no public events scheduled for tomorrow until she departs Washington in the afternoon and heads to Philadelphia for the first campaign event with her eventual running mate. She is scheduled to speak at 5:30 p.m. ET.
Harris campaign teases VP pick with new yard sign
The Harris Victory Fund has a “Harris-Running Mate Yard Sign” available for purchase under the “What’s New” section of its web store.
The sign features Harris’ name, though her soon-to-be running mate’s name is concealed, for now, with a piece of tape and three question marks in the photo posted onlineonline. It is available for pre-order, with an expected release date of Sept. 5, according to the item description.
Harris is expected to announce her running mate tomorrow, two sources familiar with the process said. The pair will appear at a rally in the evening in Philadelphia.
RFK Jr. could have faced a fine for dumping dead bear cub in Central Park
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could have been hit with a fine for dumping a dead bear cub in New York’s Central Park, but the state agency that investigated the bizarre incident said the statute of limitations for the decade-old offense has long since expired.
The State Department of Environmental Conservation “led the 2014 investigation and forensic analysis into the Central Park bear cub,” it said in a statement today.
The discovery of the dead cub in the middle of Manhattan made headlines in October 2014, but investigators at the time were not able to determine how it got there.
Mixed-race voters say Trump’s attacks on Harris’ race are painfully familiar
After Trump told journalists Wednesday that his presidential opponent, Harris, “turned Black” for political gain, his comments have affected how many multi-race voters are thinking about the two candidates.
“She was only promoting Indian heritage,” Trump said in an interview at the National Association of Black Journalists convention last week. “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black.”
“Is she Indian or is she Black?” he asked.
She’s both.
