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  • Kamala Harris says Trump's comment on women 'is offensive to everybody'

    WILL WEISSERT and COLLEEN LONG|Nov 1, 2024

    PHOENIX (AP) — Kamala Harris said Thursday that Donald Trump's comment that he would protect women whether they "like it or not" shows that the Republican presidential nominee does not understand women's rights "to make decisions about their own lives, including their own bodies." "I think it's offensive to everybody, by the way," Harris said before she set out to spend the day campaigning in the Western battleground states of Arizona and Nevada. She followed up those remarks at her rally in Phoenix: "He simply does not respect the freedom of w...

  • Harris appears on 'Saturday Night Live' as mirror image of Maya Rudolph with election looming

    AAMER MADHANI and COLLEEN LONG|Nov 1, 2024

    NEW YORK (AP) — Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance on "Saturday Night Live" in the final days before the presidential election, playing herself as the mirror-image double of Maya Rudolph's version of her in the show's cold open. The first lines the candidate spoke as she sat across from Rudolph, their outfits identical, were drowned out by cheers from the audience. "It is nice to see you Kamala," Harris told Rudolph with a broad grin she kept throughout the sketch. "And I'm just here to remind you, you got this." In sync, the two said s...

  • Harris says she's ready if Trump tries to prematurely declare victory, isn't worried about sexism

    COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER|Oct 23, 2024

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday that her team is prepared to challenge Donald Trump if he tries to prematurely declare victory in the 2024 election — but she's first focused on beating the Republican nominee. Harris spoke to NBC News just two weeks before Election Day, as part of a media blitz meant to deliver her closing argument before as many persuadable voters as possible. She said she was not concerned about the role sexism could play in the election, as she stands to be the first woman elected to the White Hou...

  • Harris urges Black churchgoers in Georgia to head out to vote and gets an assist from Stevie Wonder

    COLLEEN LONG and WILL WEISSERT|Oct 18, 2024

    JONESBORO, Ga. (AP) — Kamala Harris on Sunday summoned Black churchgoers to turn out at the polls and she got a big assist from music legend Stevie Wonder, who rallied congregants with a rendition of Bob Marley's "Redemption Song." Harris visited two Atlanta area churches as part of a nationwide push known as "souls to the polls." It's a mobilization effort led by the National Advisory Board of Black Faith Leaders, which is sending representatives across battleground states to encourage early voting. After services, buses took congregants s...

  • Liz Cheney helps Harris seek moderate votes as they paint Trump as a dangerous choice

    COLLEEN LONG and CHRIS MEGERIAN|Oct 18, 2024

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kamala Harris teamed up with Liz Cheney on Monday to make a bipartisan appeal to Republican voters uneasy about Donald Trump, describing the former president as a malignant force that needs to be excised from American politics. The Democratic vice president said at an event in the Philadelphia suburbs that Trump "has been using the power of the presidency to demean and to divide us" and "people are exhausted with that." "People around the world are watching," Harris said. "And sometimes I do fret a bit about whether we as A...

  • Trump and Harris offer new details about policies and strategy in dueling interviews

    STEVE PEOPLES and COLLEEN LONG|Oct 16, 2024

    WASHINGTON (AP) — As the presidential race moves into its final weeks, Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump embarked on an interview blitz that offered new details about their policy priorities and their political strategies. In recent days, Harris has sat with Charlamagne tha God, whose radio show is especially popular among younger and Black audiences, and will be interviewed on Fox News, typically a safe haven for Republicans. Trump, meanwhile, participated in a contentious interview with the editor of Bloomberg News at an e...

  • Biden says he doesn't know whether Israel is holding up peace deal to influence 2024 US election

    COLLEEN LONG|Oct 4, 2024

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden had terse words for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, and said he didn't know whether the Israeli leader was holding up a Mideast peace deal in order to influence the outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. "No administration has helped Israel more than I have. None. None. None. And I think Bibi should remember that," he said, referring to the Israeli leader by his nickname. "And whether he's trying to influence the election, I don't know, but I'm not counting on that." Biden, in a r...

  • Harris pledges ongoing federal support as she visits North Carolina to survey Helene's aftermath

    COLLEEN LONG and AYANNA ALEXANDER|Oct 4, 2024

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris pledged ongoing federal support and praised the "heroes among us" as she visited North Carolina on Saturday in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, her second trip in four days to the disaster zone. The vice president was in Charlotte one day after a visit to the state by Republican Donald Trump, who is spreading false claims about the federal response to the disaster. Harris opened her visit by attending a briefing with state and local officials, where she thanked "those who ar...

  • Harris, Biden take in Helene's destruction in separate visits to Carolinas, Georgia

    CHRIS MEGERIAN and COLLEEN LONG|Oct 2, 2024

    AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris praised the workers straining to "meet the needs of people who must be seen, who must be heard" on Wednesday, as she and President Joe Biden surveyed Hurricane Helene 's path of destruction in separate visits to Georgia and the Carolinas. Biden flew over toppled trees, twisted metal and towering piles of debris in the normally tourist friendly downtown of Asheville as he took an aerial tour of some of the hardest-hit parts of North Carolina. Nearly 200 miles to the south in Georgia, Harris was i...

  • Trump escalates attacks on Harris' mental fitness and suggests she should be prosecuted

    ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and COLLEEN LONG|Sep 27, 2024

    ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump escalated his personal attacks on his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, on Sunday by repeating an insult that she was "mentally impaired" while also saying she should be "impeached and prosecuted." Trump's rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, took on similar themes as an event one day earlier that he described himself as a "dark speech." He told a cheering crowd that Harris was responsible for an "invasion" at the U.S.-Mexico border and "she should be impeached and prosecuted for her a...

  • Harris trolls Trump at Vegas rally and LA fundraiser, says her crowds are 'pretty big'

    WILL WEISSERT and COLLEEN LONG|Sep 27, 2024

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris poked at Donald Trump over crowd sizes, his refusal to debate again and his privileged background on Sunday as she hauled in campaign cash in California and held a raucous rally at the same Nevada venue where the Republican nominee had appeared just two weeks ago. During the presidential debate, Harris appeared to get under the former president's skin when she said people were leaving his rallies early because of his rambling speeches. And she's kept it up on the campaign trail. The vice p...

  • Harris focusing on personal stories as she campaigns on abortion rights

    COLLEEN LONG and AMANDA SEITZ|Sep 20, 2024

    ATLANTA (AP) — For the first time since she ascended to the top of the Democratic ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris is set to give a speech focused squarely on abortion rights and she'll do so in Georgia, where news reports have documented women's deaths in the face of the state's six-week ban. "It is a time of mourning, but it's also a time where great action can come out of this," said Park Cannon, a Georgia state lawmaker and a doula who provides guidance and support to pregnant woman during labor. ProPublica reported this week that t...

  • Trump was the subject of an apparent assassination attempt at his Florida golf club, the FBI says

    ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and COLLEEN LONG|Sep 13, 2024

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI said Donald Trump was the target of "what appears to be an attempted assassination" at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday, just nine weeks after the Republican presidential nominee survived another attempt on his life. The former president said he was safe and well. Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said the U.S. Secret Service agents fired at a man pointing an AK-style rifle with a scope as Trump was on the course. Bradshaw said the gunman also had two backpacks hanging on a fence and a GoPro c...

  • Walz says Gaza demonstrators are protesting for 'all the right reasons' while condemning Hamas

    COLLEEN LONG|Sep 6, 2024

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz said Thursday that those protesting American support for Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza are doing so for "all the right reasons," as the Democratic ticket looks to balance its support for Israel with the humanitarian plight of civilians in the war-torn enclave. Walz' comments came in an interview with a local Michigan public radio station — a state with a large Muslim American population that is also a potentially pivotal swing state in this November's election. His comments app...

  • In first sit-down interview of presidential campaign, Harris says voters ready for 'new way forward'

    ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG|Aug 30, 2024

    SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday that voters were ready for "a new way forward," as she was questioned along with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, in their first major television interview of their presidential campaign. "First and foremost, one of my highest priorities is to do what we can to strengthen and support the middle class," she said. "When I look at the aspirations, the goals, the ambitions of the American people, I think that people are ready for a new way forward." The interview with C...

  • Harris introduces new running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as the 'vice president America deserves'

    COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER|Aug 7, 2024

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kamala Harris introduced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to the nation at a raucous rally Tuesday in battleground Pennsylvania that was aimed at building momentum for the newly minted Democratic presidential ticket in the sprint toward Election Day. "He's the kind of person who makes people feel like they belong and then inspires them to dream big. ... That's the kind of vice president America deserves," Harris said while standing with Walz in Philadelphia. Taking the microphone after Harris, Walz revved up the crowd for the r...

  • Rally dates are set. Venues are chosen. The only thing missing for Harris' blitz is her VP choice

    COLLEEN LONG|Aug 2, 2024

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The dates are set. The venues are chosen. The only thing missing from this week's campaign blitz with Vice President Kamala Harris and her 2024 running mate is the name of the running mate. After a weekend spent interviewing finalists, Harris must decide on her wingman before the two set off Tuesday on a tour across key battleground states where they will introduce the new Democratic ticket to voters and highlight the stakes of the election. Everything about her campaign has been rapid-fire out of necessity. She's only been a...

  • Focused on legacy, Biden calls out Trump and says how civil rights led him into politics

    COLLEEN LONG|Jul 26, 2024

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — No longer on the campaign trail, President Joe Biden on Monday delivered a speech at the LBJ Presidential Library designed to help cement his legacy. Slightly more than a week after dropping out of this year's election, Biden marked the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act by speaking out for the rule of law and democratic principles. All the while, he warned about the threat he sees if Republican Donald Trump returns to the White House. "No one is above the law," Biden said. Biden followed his denunciations of Trump w...

  • Secret Service director steps down after assassination attempt against ex-President Trump at rally

    COLLEEN LONG|Jul 24, 2024

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the Secret Service resigned Tuesday in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump that unleashed an outcry about how the agency failed in its core mission to protect current and former presidents. Kimberly Cheatle, who had served as Secret Service director since August 2022, faced growing calls to resign and several investigations into how a gunman was able to get so close to the Republican presidential nominee at an outdoor campaign rally in Pennsylvania. "I take full r...

  • Joe Biden faces increasing pressure to quit the race, but has spent a lifetime overcoming the odds

    COLLEEN LONG|Jul 19, 2024

    WASHINGTON (AP) — To borrow a favorite phrase from the man himself, President Joe Biden is at an inflection point. Is his on-the-ropes reelection campaign about public service or his ego? About securing his legacy or shaping the future? Such opposing forces of American politics have been clashing with each other since his awful debate with Donald Trump. Biden now is weighing whether to bow to the mounting pressure to step aside. His decision will be based not just on this moment but on his long history in public life and the extraordinary p...

  • Biden drops out of 2024 race after disastrous debate inflamed age concerns. VP Harris gets his nod

    ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG|Jul 19, 2024

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House on Sunday, ending his bid for reelection after a disastrous debate with Donald Trump that raised doubts about the incumbent's fitness for office. The unprecedented announcement, delivered less than four months before the election, immediately upended a campaign that both political parties view as the most consequential in generations. The president — intent on serving out the remainder of his term in office — quickly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harri...

  • Biden heads into a make-or-break stretch for his imperiled presidential campaign

    COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER|Jul 5, 2024

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday opened a critical stretch in his effort to salvage his imperiled reelection campaign, facing a growing sense that he may have just days to make a persuasive case that he is fit for office before Democratic support for him completely evaporates. In the aftermath of Biden's disastrous debate performance last week against Republican Donald Trump, some financial backers were holding off or canceling upcoming fundraisers, according to a person familiar with the plans who spoke to The Associated Press...

  • To a defiant Biden, the 2024 race is up to the voters, not to Democrats on Capitol Hill

    COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER|Jul 5, 2024

    WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — To a defiant President Joe Biden, the 2024 election is up to the public — not the Democrats on Capitol Hill. But the chorus of Democratic voices calling for him to step aside is growing, from donors, strategists, lawmakers and their constituents who say he should bow out. The party has not fallen in line behind him even after the events that were set up as part of a blitz to reset his imperiled campaign and show everyone he wasn't too old to stay in the job or to do it another four years. On Saturday, a fifth Dem...

  • Biden campaign's reset after disastrous debate looks a lot like business as usual

    COLLEEN LONG and WILL WEISSERT|Jun 28, 2024

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's reset after his disastrous debate performance is looking more like a return to business as usual. Even as his campaign works to quell Democratic anxiety and reassure spooked donors, Biden has been putting the focus on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump as a threat to the nation, and trying to get back to doing the job of president. The president's schedule this week includes a briefing on extreme weather, a campaign reception, a Medal of Honor ceremony and the traditional July 4th White House b...

  • Gathered at Camp David, Biden's family tells him to stay in the presidential race and keep fighting

    COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER|Jun 28, 2024

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's family used a gathering at Camp David to urge him to stay in the race and keep fighting despite his dreadful debate performance, and some members criticized how his staff prepared him for the faceoff, according to four people familiar with the discussions. Biden spent Sunday sequestered with first lady Jill Biden, his children and his grandchildren. It was a previously scheduled trip to the presidential retreat in Maryland for a photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz for the upcoming Democratic National C...

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