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Vance agrees to Oct. 1 debate of VP candidates with Walz on CBS
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Vance agrees to Oct. 1 debate of VP candidates with Walz on CBS

By Jared Mitovich | Politico Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance agreed to debate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Oct. 1 on CBS, locking in a match-up between the Republican and Democratic nominees for vice president. On Wednesday, Walz had publicly agreed to the October debate in CBS’s New York City studios. “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell and “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan will moderate the forum. Vance added that he had agreed to debate Walz on CNN on Sept. 18, writing, “The American people deserve as many debates as possible, which is why President Trump has challenged Kamala to three of them already.” Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump last week committed to a Sept. 10 debate hosted by ABC, but Trump has continued to challenge Harris to join him for...
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‘I just say: Be careful’: Justice Neil Gorsuch of Colorado says of Biden’s Supreme Court proposals
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‘I just say: Be careful’: Justice Neil Gorsuch of Colorado says of Biden’s Supreme Court proposals

By Josh Gerstein | Politico Justice Neil Gorsuch is pushing back against President Joe Biden’s recent proposals to restructure the Supreme Court. “I just say: Be careful,” Gorsuch warned in an interview that aired on “Fox News Sunday.” Less than a week after Biden announced he was reversing course and supporting 18-year term limits for justices and legislation to create a binding ethics code for the high court, the first of President Donald Trump’s three Supreme Court appointees encouraged Americans to think long and hard before taking steps that might undermine the independence of the judicial system. READ THE FULL STORY AT POLITICO
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Kamala Harris ‘a bad vice president’ and ‘a worse president’: J.D. Vance defines his messaging role in race
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Kamala Harris ‘a bad vice president’ and ‘a worse president’: J.D. Vance defines his messaging role in race

By Jared Mitovich | Politico J.D. Vance has been trying out different responses to the wave of scrutiny he’s faced since becoming Donald Trump’s running mate. Now, he’s downplaying his own relevance to the election entirely. “My attitude is, it doesn’t really matter, as much as this hits my ego,” Vance said in an interview on the “FULL SEND PODCAST” released Friday. “People are going to vote primarily for Donald Trump or for Kamala Harris. That’s the way these things go. I think my job over the next few months is to just drive home the message that Kamala Harris has been a bad vice president, and she’d be a worse president.” READ THE FULL STORY AT POLITICO
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Guida: How J.D. Vance brought the Culture War to helping kids
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Guida: How J.D. Vance brought the Culture War to helping kids

By Victoria Guida | Politico Vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance says people without kids should pay higher taxes. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, a Connecticut Democrat, says we need to fight child poverty. Sen. Mitt Romney, a onetime Republican presidential nominee, says we need to support marriage and families as core pillars of society. It might not sound like it, but they’re all describing versions of the same policy, refracted through a culture war. READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT POLITICO Editor's note: Opinions expressed in commentary pieces are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the management of the Rocky Mountain Voice, but even so we support the constitutional right of the author to express those opinions.
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Trump indeed was struck by would-be assassin’s bullet in Butler, Penn., FBI says
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Trump indeed was struck by would-be assassin’s bullet in Butler, Penn., FBI says

By The Associated Press, via Politico Nearly two weeks after Donald Trump’s near assassination, the FBI confirmed Friday that it was indeed a bullet that struck the former president’s ear, moving to clear up conflicting accounts about what caused the former president’s injuries after a gunman opened fire at a Pennsylvania rally. “What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject’s rifle,” the agency said in a statement. The one-sentence statement from the FBI marked the most definitive law enforcement account of Trump’s injuries and followed ambiguous comments earlier in the week from Director Christopher Wray that appeared to cast doubt on whether Trump had actually been hit by a bulle...
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Former President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama endorse Harris bid for President
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Former President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama endorse Harris bid for President

By MYAH WARD | Politico Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama threw their support behind Vice President Kamala Harris’ bid for the White House on Friday. The Harris campaign announced the endorsement with a video showing the vice president on a phone call with the Obamas. In the video, Michelle Obama said she is proud of Harris and that this election will be “historic,” before the former president shared they were endorsing her. “We called to say, Michelle and I couldn’t be prouder to endorse you and do everything we can to get you through this election and into the Oval Office,” he said. READ THE FULL STORY AT POLITICO
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Ready or not, DNC gives would-be Harris rivals three days to declare, could push for VP pick in a week
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Ready or not, DNC gives would-be Harris rivals three days to declare, could push for VP pick in a week

By ELENA SCHNEIDER | Politico If anyone is going to challenge Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic presidential nomination, they have only until this weekend to do it. Delegates to the Democratic National Convention rules committee approved the virtual roll call on Wednesday, moving ahead with a July 30 deadline for candidates seeking to collect delegate signatures to appear on the virtual roll call. The virtual roll call, which must be completed by Aug. 7 to comply with Ohio ballot access deadlines, could start as early as next Thursday. The compressed timeline — nominating Harris less than two weeks after President Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race — nearly guarantees the vice president’s path to the nomination, given the wide swath of support she’s picked...
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‘Time for Joe to go’: Growing number of Democrats want Biden out of race
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‘Time for Joe to go’: Growing number of Democrats want Biden out of race

By MIA MCCARTHY and IRIE SENTNER | Politico A new wave of Democrats has renewed calls for President Joe Biden to drop out of the race on Friday — a sudden burst of new defectors at the end of a week of crisis for the Biden campaign that’s been defined by leaks and backchannel conversations about the president’s potential exit. It’s a signal that the party has run out of patience and believes a decisive moment is at hand — and the latest indication that Biden has failed to staunch the flood of Democrats urging him to step aside since his disastrous debate performance on June 27. Since then, more than 30 Democrats have called on him to step down while top Congressional leaders are reportedly urging him to reconsider his decision to remain in the race behind closed doors. READ THE FU...
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Two days after surviving assassination attempt, Trump gets hero’s welcome at RNC
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Two days after surviving assassination attempt, Trump gets hero’s welcome at RNC

By MIA MCCARTHY | Politico The party didn’t embrace him in 2016. Covid-19 kept everything virtual in 2020. But on Monday night, two days after an assassination attempt that almost claimed his life, Donald Trump received an adoring hero’s welcome on night one of the Republican National Convention. It was a drumbeat of wins for Trump, who saw the dismissal of his classified documents case, announced his long-awaited vice presidential pick and was formally announced as his party’s presidential nominee all before the evening programming.  But a surprise appearance from the former president — with a bandage covering his bullet-grazed ear — stole the show on Monday night. The president appeared emotional, sitting next to his newly picked running mate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and...
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Biden tells Colorado Rep. Jason Crow: ‘I don’t want to hear that crap’
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Biden tells Colorado Rep. Jason Crow: ‘I don’t want to hear that crap’

By SARAH FERRIS | Politico President Joe Biden gave a forceful and defensive response to centrist Democrats who raised concerns about his reelection campaign in a Saturday meeting, and in one tense exchange dismissed one lawmaker’s concerns as “crap.” Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), a respected centrist in the Democratic caucus, told Biden that people want a strong leader so they can feel safe on national security. “I don’t want to hear that crap,” Biden said in response to Crow’s suggestion that voters did not have confidence in his national security credentials, raising his voice in a forceful defense of his foreign policy record, including the rebuilding of NATO, according to three people familiar with the remarks granted anonymity to discuss the private meeting. READ THE FULL ST...
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