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  • Harris is leaning on some of the biggest names in Democratic politics to close out her campaign

    DAN MERICA and ZEKE MILLER|Oct 25, 2024

    CLARKSTON, Ga. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is enlisting some of her most high-profile surrogates in the closing days of the campaign, hoping those names will help energize her supporters to vote early in the 2024 election. On Thursday, Harris will headline a Georgia rally that will include a performance by Bruce Springsteen and an appearance by former President Barack Obama, still one of the biggest names in Democratic politics. Harris' rally in Clarkston — an eastern Atlanta suburb — is at a high school football stadium where the a...

  • Trump wanted generals like Hitler's and said Nazi leader 'did some good things,' John Kelly says

    DAN MERICA|Oct 23, 2024

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's longest-serving chief of staff is warning that the Republican presidential nominee meets the definition of a fascist and that while in office, Trump suggested that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler "did some good things." The comments from John Kelly, the retired Marine general who worked for Trump in the White House from 2017 to 2019, came in interviews published Tuesday in The New York Times and The Atlantic. They build on past warnings from former top Trump officials as the election enters its final two weeks. K...

  • Long before gay marriage was popular, Kamala Harris was at the forefront of the equal rights battle

    DAN MERICA and CHRIS MEGERIAN|Sep 13, 2024

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Two decades ago, when a Democratic presidential nominee wouldn't dream of endorsing gay marriage, a newly elected district attorney named Kamala Harris was performing one of the first same-sex unions in the United States. It was the so-called Winter of Love in San Francisco. The mayor at the time, Gavin Newsom, had directed the county clerk to approve gay marriages even though there was no law on the books recognizing them. His act of rebellion prompted a bipartisan political backlash, but Harris had no hesitation. "You c...

  • GOP network props up liberal third-party candidates in key states, hoping to siphon off Harris votes

    BRIAN SLODYSKO and DAN MERICA|Aug 30, 2024

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Italo Medelius was leading a volunteer drive to put Cornel West on North Carolina's presidential ballot last spring when he received an unexpected call from a man named Paul who said he wanted to help. Though Medelius, co-chairman of West's "Justice for All Party," welcomed the assistance, the offer would complicate his life, provoking threats and drawing him into a state election board investigation of the motivations, backgrounds and suspect tactics of his new allies. His is not an isolated case. Across the country, a n...

  • Older Americans prepare themselves for a world altered by artificial intelligence

    DAN MERICA|Aug 14, 2024

    NORTHFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The students — most with gray hair, some with canes, all at least in their 60s — couldn't believe what they were hearing. "Oh, my God," whispered a retired college professor. "Does it come with viruses?" wondered a bewildered woman scribbling notes in the second row. A 79-year-old in a black-and-white floral shirt then asked the question on many minds: "How do you know if it is fake or not?" This is how older adults — many of whom lived through the advent of refrigeration, the transition from radio to television and the...

  • Democrats wanted an agreement on using artificial intelligence. It went nowhere

    DAN MERICA|May 31, 2024

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic National Committee was watching earlier this year as campaigns nationwide were experimenting with artificial intelligence. So the organization approached a handful of influential party campaign committees with a request: Sign onto guidelines that would commit them to use the technology in a "responsible" way. The draft agreement, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, was hardly full of revolutionary ideas. It asked campaigns to check work by AI tools, protect against biases and avoid using AI t...