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CBS News reports: A majority of Democratic delegates has voted to select Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s nominee for president in a virtual roll call vote, her campaign and the Democratic Party said Friday, cementing her status at the top of the ticket heading into November. The Democratic National Committee began the formal process for selecting the nominee …

The Guardian reports: Kamala Harris’s campaign has brought in a staggering $310 million in July, more than double the $137 million that Donald Trump’s campaign raised last month, according to a new report. On Friday, Politico reported that Harris’s campaign and other affiliated committees have $377m in cash on hand, marking a $50 million advantage over Trump’s total funds of …

Politico reports: Trump’s remarks came on a day that in many ways marked the beginning of the final sprint of the campaign — with Harris in Houston on the brink of choosing a running mate and Vance deployed at a rally in Glendale, Arizona. And they featured echoes of his 2016 run for office, with some allies like Laura Loomer …

Bloomberg News reports: Kamala Harris has wiped out Donald Trump’s lead across seven battleground states, as the vice president rides a wave of enthusiasm among young, Black and Hispanic voters, according to the latest Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll. Harris was backed by 48% of voters to 47% for Trump — a statistical dead heat — in the swing states that …

Atlanta’s Fox affiliate reports: Vice President Kamala Harris is making her first stop in Atlanta as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president on Tuesday. Harris landed late Tuesday afternoon at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport ahead of an evening rally. This is Harris’s first visit since President Joe Biden bowed out of the 2024 race. She has visited about a half-dozen …

“To be a little stark about this, I think we have to go to war against the anti-child ideology that exists in our country. Not enough people have accepted that if they put their entire life’s meaning into their credential, into where they went to school, into what kind of job they have ― if you put all of your …

Reuters reports: Vice President Kamala Harris will tour battleground states next week with her vice presidential candidate, two sources familiar with the planning said on Tuesday, a signal the selection process for her running mate is coming to a close. The short list of candidates under consideration include Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, U.S. Senator Mark Kelly …

Axios reports: Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 campaign said Tuesday that it is spending $50 million on paid media ahead of the Democratic National Convention. The major ad buy comes as Harris works to capitalize on the momentum she’s built after President Biden’s exit from the race, and as former President Trump ramps up his ad spending over the next …

Bloomberg News reports: Billionaire financier Ken Griffin is spending tens of millions of dollars to back Republican primary candidates across the US, but records show he has so far resisted contributing to Donald Trump — the former president leading an ideological overhaul of the GOP. Griffin’s position as an established force in Republican fundraising has sometimes put him at odds …

Bloomberg News reports: Marianne Williamson said she failed to meet the deadline to challenge Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination, effectively ending her longshot bid. “We did everything possible to stand for a blitz primary, an open convention and so forth. Yet the way things worked there truly was no way, and all we could have done is …

The Hill reports: Vice President Harris’s campaign is doubling down on its attacks against former President Trump, accusing him of backtracking on the next presidential debate. Campaign communications director Michael Tyler said, in a statement first shared with The Hill, that Harris will be at ABC’s Sept. 10 debate — to which Trump and President Biden had both previously agreed …

Fox News reports: Vice President Kamala Harris has seen her favorability among American voters rise dramatically in the aftermath of President Biden dropping out of the race, a new poll shows. Harris’ overall favorability rose from 35% to 43% compared to a week earlier, while the vice president’s unfavorability rating fell from 46% to 42%, according to the results of …

Reuters reports: Former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle endorsed Kamala Harris’ bid for president on Friday in a roughly one-minute long video that captured a private phone call between the couple and the current vice president. “We called to say Michelle and I couldn’t be prouder to endorse you and to do everything we can to get you …

The Washington Post reports: The Kamala Harris ad blitz has launched. Future Forward, the largest Democratic-leaning super PAC, will spend $50 million on advertising in six states over the next three weeks to introduce the vice president and boost her candidacy before the Democratic nominating convention in Chicago begins, the group announced Thursday. American Bridge 21st Century, the second-largest independent …

The Associated Press reports: Vice President Kamala Harris told reporters on Thursday that she’s “ready to debate Donald Trump.” She accused him of “backpedaling” away from a previous agreement for a debate hosted by ABC News on Sept. 10. “I think the voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in this race on the debate stage,” she said …

NBC News reports: Kamala Harris will appear on the season nine finale of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” advocating for voting. Set to air this Friday on Paramount+, the episode will begin with a special appearance from the vice president. “Each day we are seeing our rights and freedoms under attack, including the right of everyone to be who they …

The Guardian reports: The Harris for President campaign has launched its first official video, less than a week after US President Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the race and his vice-president Kamala Harris said she was running for the nomination. The ad caps a week during which Harris also broke funding records and quickly clinched enough delegate …

Politico reports: In the two days since Biden dropped out, Vote.org saw its highest levels of new voter registrations of the whole cycle: 38,500 people signed up, a 700 percent spike and higher even than when TAYLOR SWIFT made an Instagram post. Most were 34 and under. Vote.org, the largest get-out-the-vote technology platform in the nation, hopes to register 8 …

Axios reports: Vice President Harris’ sudden presidential candidacy is quickly galvanizing a massive and politically powerful network of Black women who have long been described as the “backbone” of the Democratic Party. About 93% of Black women who voted in 2020 supported Biden, according to an AP survey of 110,000 voters. But this marks the first time the top of …

Hillary Clinton writes for the New York Times: History has its eye on us. President Biden’s decision to end his campaign was as pure an act of patriotism as I have seen in my lifetime. It should also be a call to action to the rest of us to continue his fight for the soul of our nation. The next …