Tag Archives: Kamala Harris

The Hill reports: President Biden’s reelection campaign on Wednesday launched Out for Biden-Harris, a new national initiative aimed to mobilize LGBTQ voters. The launch includes a series of virtual organizing and training events focused on reaching new volunteers, especially in battleground states, by engaging surrogates from the community. “LGBTQ+ voters are a force to be reckoned with. They were critical …

“Look, every way you look at it, Hispanics have so many reasons to dump Biden. Harris. The main one is the border. How cynical of an entire Democratic Party to believe that in the nine years since Donald Trump elevated into international consciousness his view on illegal immigration. Build the wall. Be fair to the people here, America first. “Nine …

Axios reports: President Biden will use a stop at a Mexican restaurant in Phoenix today to announce a national program to reach Latino voters — “Latinos con Biden-Harris” — as his campaign rushes to reverse gains that former President Trump appears to be making with Hispanic voters. Why it matters: Four years ago, Biden won Latino voters 2-to-1 over former …

NBC News reports: Vice President Kamala Harris plans to tour a Planned Parenthood clinic in Minnesota that provides abortion services Thursday, according to three sources familiar with the planning. The sources said they believed this was the first time a president or vice president has ever visited a clinic that provides abortion services in U.S. history. Harris plans to tour …

Reuters reports: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris bluntly called out Israel on Sunday for not doing enough to ease a “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza as the Biden administration faces increasing pressure to rein in its close ally while it wages war with Hamas militants. Harris, speaking in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where state troopers beat …

CNN reports: President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Atlanta next week for a tribute service for former first lady Rosalynn Carter. Vice President Kamala Harris and the second gentleman will also attend the Tuesday service. A number of ceremonies are slated to take place next week to celebrate the life of Carter, the wife of …

Florida Politics reports: The 2024 Republican presidential candidate, in his latest appeal to donors, threatens to send “Kamala back to her liberal homeland” in a breezy turn of phrase that is his latest example of disrespect for the person who is one heartbeat away from the presidency. The dog-whistle wordplay comes as part of a larger excoriation of the Joe …

Roll Call reports: As the House devolved into chaos Tuesday over the future of the speakership, the mood in the Senate was decidedly more buoyant as California Democrat Laphonza Butler was sworn in to replace the late Dianne Feinstein, who died last week. Butler entered the chamber to cheers from her family in the gallery, surrounded by Senate Majority Leader …

“Now they attempt to legitimize these unnecessary debates with a proposal that most recently came in of a politically motivated roundtable. Well, I’m here in Florida. I tell you there is no roundtable, no lecture, no invitation we will accept to debate an undeniable fact. There were no redeeming qualities of slavery, right? And as I said last week, when …

Reuters reports: Vice President Kamala Harris criticized Florida “extremists” on Friday for backing educational guidelines that taught “revisionist history” about slavery in the United States. Florida’s board of education approved new guidelines this week with “benchmark clarifications,” including one for middle school students that states “instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their …

“She is literally a heartbeat away from the presidency. Thirty-nine percent had very negative feelings about her, like, hated her.  People are fighting with each other to get to the exit door. This is a woman who was in a position to make it easy for other women behind her to come forward and do the job, where Americans can …

The Washington Post reports: President Biden officially announced his bid for reelection Tuesday morning, saying in a solemn launch video that he wanted to “finish the job” he started when the country was racked by a deadly pandemic, a reeling economy and a teetering democracy. Claiming that his presidency has pulled the country back from the brink on all those …

The Tennessean reports: Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday plans to meet with the three lawmakers who battled for their seats in the Tennessee House of Representatives this week. A White House official confirmed the Vice President’s trip to Nashville, saying Harris is visiting to lift “the voices” of thousands of young votes who have led massive demonstrations at the …

Congress Minutes reports: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the longest-serving woman in Senate history, said she’s been hospitalized for treatment of shingles in San Francisco. She’s missed all the votes this week in the Senate. Democrats enjoy a functional 51-49 edge in the chamber, but are already down one vote as Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) receives treatment for clinical depression. Vice …

Axios reports: The Biden administration has formally determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity during the war in Ukraine, Vice President Kamala Harris said in her speech at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. The Biden administration has already accused Russia of committing war crimes in Ukraine. But it’s the first time the U.S. has formally concluded that Russian …

CNN reports: Pete Buttigieg – whose only political experience before his failed presidential bid was serving as mayor of South Bend, Indiana – who has become the most requested surrogate on the campaign trail for Democratic candidates in the midterms, people familiar with the requests tell CNN. With invitations flowing into the White House and the Democratic National Committee, a …

Axios reports: Internal threats to democracy make the U.S. weaker and open the door for other nations to question the U.S.’ commitment to its purported values, Vice President Kamala Harris told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. Harris pointed to elected officials who refuse to condemn the Capitol riot and secretary of state races being run by people who deny …

NBC News reports: The Senate voted Saturday to advance a sweeping climate and economic bill with the support of all 50 Democrats, bringing long-stalled elements of President Joe Biden’s agenda one step closer to reality. The procedural vote on the filibuster-proof package was 51-50, with all Republicans opposing the motion to begin debate and Vice President Kamala Harris casting the …

The Hill reports: Vice President Harris criticized Republican-led states that have passed dozens of laws targeting LGBTQ youth during a speech at a Capital Pride Festival in D.C. on Sunday. “No one should fear going to a nightclub for fear that a terrorist might try to take them down,” Harris said on Sunday. “No one should fear loving who they …

USA Today reports: Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, the White House said. Harris is not exhibiting symptoms and has not been a close contact to President Joe Biden or first lady Jill Biden, said Kirsten Allen, press secretary to the vice president, in a statement. “She has exhibited no symptoms, will isolate and continue to …