VP
@KamalaHarris
takes the stage at the historically Black Zeta Phi Beta Sorority’s Grand Boulé in Indianapolis to roaring applause from thousands of women.
Vice President Kamala Harris lands at Joint Base Andrews after a battleground states tour that took her to five states (PA, WI, MI, AZ, NV) in five days. She’s wearing a USA jacket.
Lines of people waiting to get into Pres. Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris’s event in Maryland—their first joint appearance since the shuffle at the top of the Democratic ticket . Folks are still getting in line.
New:
@KamalaHarris
, surrounded by family and staff & donning a Howard hoodie, made over 100 calls over 10 hours from the Naval Observatory on Sunday, a source familiar said. One of the calls was to her pastor, Amos Brown III, who prayed over her, the source added.
VP
@KamalaHarris
leaving the White House complex a few minutes ago ahead of a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, tonight—her first one in the battleground state since launching her campaign.
An age divide: As President Biden takes the stage, Morehouse College alumni on the left give him a standing ovation, while the graduating class remains in their seats.
Churchgoer Susie Jackson said the protest during Biden’s speech at Mother Emanuel was “frightening,” adding it made them relive the 2015 shooting.
“It wasn't the time and place. If they did it outside, that was fine, but not right there on our holy grounds.” (h/t
@gabdulhakim_
)
A bit of personal career news: I’m thrilled to be joining
@ABC
as a campaign producer/reporter covering the Biden and Williamson campaigns, and the White House! I’m looking forward to this next adventure.
VP
@KamalaHarris
takes the stage in Detroit—with union leaders, including Shawn Fain and Randi Weingarten, standing behind her—as her campaign kicks off a Labor Day blitz across the country.
.
@VP
Kamala Harris visited a first-time homeowner in Charlotte, North Carolina’s historically Black neighborhood of Grier Heights to talk about affordable energy-efficient homes and reducing costs. The vice president is scheduled to announce clean energy grants later today.
On each call, Harris “made clear that she was extremely grateful for the President's endorsement, but plans to work hard to earn the Democratic nomination in her own right,” the source familiar said.
VP
@KamalaHarris
and Gov.
@Tim_Walz
visiting a campaign field office in Phoenix. Folks there are making handmade signs.
One sign read: “Coconut > Orange”
Harris laughed when a supporter said it was inspired by her now viral “fall out of a coconut tree” moment.
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@VP
Kamala Harris stopped by the Mecklenburg County Democratic Party while in Charlotte, North Carolina, for a campaign event.
“You know we’re winning this election, right?” Harris said.
“We can take nothing for granted… it takes hard work,” she later said.
Asked by
@ABC
News why Biden is not debating his Democratic primary challengers—Marianne Williamson and Robert F. Kennedy Jr:
“President Biden is the Democratic nominee…” Richmond said.
VP Harris is holding her first rally in Madison, Wis., since getting into the race. She was introduced by Teamsters Joint Council 39 President Bill Carroll. They bucked the national union & endorsed her. The campaign said the venue is at capacity with more than 10,500 attendees.
Pres. Joe Biden's campaign assailed former Pres. Donald Trump's plan to speak with union workers in Detroit next week amid the UAW strike against the big three U.S. car manufacturers.
“No self-serving photo op can erase Trump’s four years of abandoning union workers…”
Pres. Trump is expected to skip the second Republican primary debate on Sept. 27, and will instead visit Detroit to deliver a speech in front of union workers, according to a senior adviser.
Biden in Pennsylvania: “When I look at the economy, I don't see through the eyes of Mar-a-Lago, I see it through the eyes of Scranton. ... Folks, trickle-down economics failed the middle class. It’s failed America. And the truth is Trump embodies that failure.”
Pres. Biden on Saturday’s shooting in Jacksonville:
“We must refuse to live in a country where Black families going to the store or Black students going to school live in fear of being gunned down because of the color of their skin.”
New: In a statement to ABC News, Pres. Joe Biden’s Democratic primary challenger Marianne Williamson defends the president against an impeachment inquiry and accuses Speaker Kevin McCarthy of “weaponizing the Constitution” and “playing a political game.”
Williamson’s statement:
Biden’s campaign would not commit that to debating whomever the Republicans nominate next year.
“We have not had a conversation about that at all. I'm sure one day we will, but it's not today and I don't have any news on that,” campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond told reporters.
VP
@KamalaHarris
is addressing the American Federation of Teachers convention in Houston. The union’s political arm earlier handed out “Kamala Harris For President” and “Thank you President Biden” signs.
“It is good to be in the house of labor,” Harris says.
President Joe Biden's campaign is making the case for Vice President Kamala Harris' spot on the Democratic ticket in a strategic memo to donors, supporters and political strategists obtained exclusively by
@ABC
, as she courts the party's base.
Marianne Williamson calls the National Organization for Women’s endorsement of Pres. Joe Biden “genuinely ridiculous.”
The group endorsed Biden this morning just minutes before Williamson delivered the keynote address at their Georgia chapter’s annual conference.
A long line of people waiting to get inside
@KamalaHarris
’s rally in Savannah, Ga., as she wraps her two-day bus trip to the southeastern part of the battleground.
New:
@KamalaHarris
has secured the necessary votes from party delegates during Democrats’ virtual roll call to officially become the party’s nominee, DNC chair Jaime Harrison just announced.
Harris becomes the first woman of color to be a major party’s presidential nominee.
Donald Trump's niece Mary, who has been fiercely critical of her uncle and will represent Joe Biden in the debate spin room, said in a statement that it is "crucially important" for voters to know of Trump's "narcissism and cruelty" and "pathological need to dominate others."
VP
@KamalaHarris
takes the stage at a rally in Glendale, Ariz., where the campaign says there are more than 15,000 people, and is welcomed to an extended standing ovation. Here’s a fraction of it:
First to ABC: Vice President Kamala Harris will soon be hitting the road for a monthlong college tour. The trip underscores both the value Democrats are placing on younger voters and the more forceful role Harris is seeking to play.
w/
@rachelvscott
“Yes We Kam!”
Voters in Wisconsin expressing their support for
@KamalaHarris
ahead of her rally in Milwaukee—her first since becoming the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee.
New: VP
@KamalaHarris
will hold a fundraiser in San Francisco on Sunday that raised more than $12 million, a campaign spokesperson said. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi will speak at the fundraiser for which that nearly 700 people RSVP’d, the spokesperson added.
New: VP Kamala Harris spoke with PA Gov. Josh Shapiro, someone whose name has come up as a possible vice-presidential pick, Sunday afternoon, someone familiar with the conversation confirmed to
@ABC
. She also spoke with House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, the source said.
The Biden campaign reacts to Trump’s projected victory in the New Hampshire primary:
“Donald Trump is headed straight into a general election matchup where he’ll face the only person to have ever beaten him at the ballot box: Joe Biden.”
BREAKING: The U.S. House of Representatives votes to impeach President Donald J. Trump. Trump becomes the third president to be impeached in the country’s 243-year history.
While students are away because of
#COVID19
, UCF plans to pick our next university president.
Today, 30 Student Body Senators sent a letter to the Board of Trustees calling for transparency and forthrightness.
Just now: Morehouse College valedictorian DeAngelo “DJ” Fletcher calls for “an immediate and permanent cease-fire in the Gaza Strip” with President Joe Biden sitting right behind him. Biden then joins the crowd in applauding after Fletcher’s remark.
The Harris campaign says it and the Michigan Democratic Party has secured 35,000 volunteer signups in the state since Aug. 1. Gov. Tim Walz was in Grand Rapids today for a volunteer appreciation event.
Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign touting coalescing support among elected Democrats in its first official press release— complete with a new logo.
5:59 p.m.: “Now, my mission is serving Arizonans.” (Deleted.)
6:52 p.m.: “I’ve learned that when your country asks you to serve, you always answer the call.”
New: First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19, while Pres. Joe Biden tested negative, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced.
.
@POTUS
and
@VP
take the stage together at their first joint event since Biden dropped out and endorsed Harris. They’re at a packed gym in Largo, MD, touting efforts to lower prescription drug costs.
New: The RNC had some level of involvement in a plan to implement a change to the nomination process that critics argue benefits former President Donald Trump, Michigan’s Republican Party chair tells ABC News.
w/
@brittanys
and
@ibellamurray
DNC Chair Jaime Harrison took shots at Republicans and defended President Joe Biden's record as Democrats blitz Wisconsin ahead of Wednesday night's GOP primary debate.
"It is going to be like watching a Stephen King movie…” he said.
Too old to hold office?
As questions have been raised more frequently about his age, Pres. Joe Biden's retort has been: "Watch me."
And he's being watched.
w/
@AllyHutzler
New: Right out of the gate, the
@KamalaHarris
campaign looking to define the race between the former prosecutor and former Pres. Donald Trump.
“Vice President Kamala Harris has held criminals accountable her entire career – and Donald Trump will be no different.”
A “Vote Union Strong - Harris Walz” projection on the side of a building in Pittsburgh as seen from the Pirates/Nationals game.
Harris is in town for prep ahead of Tuesday’s ABC debate.
@marcorubio
@All100Senators
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless. James 1:26
Disgraceful scenes in U.S. Congress. The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power.
New: VP Kamala Harris spoke with PA Gov. Josh Shapiro, someone whose name has come up as a possible vice-presidential pick, Sunday afternoon, someone familiar with the conversation confirmed to
@ABC
. She also spoke with House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, the source said.
First to ABC: The Biden campaign is slamming Ron DeSantis’s culture war fights as a “contrived political stunt,” in its first on the record comments on the Florida governor.
It comes after DeSantis said that “not everyone really knows what wokeness is.”
@BethanyAdamec
@capitalweather
Good afternoon, Bethany! What a photo! I'm with CBS News. We're working on a story on cicadas popping up across the east. May we please use this photo? Thank you.
Asa Hutchinson made his first interjection of the night on abortion:
“This is too important of an issue that I have to address,” Hutchinson said before going on to say a national ban on abortion is “certainly fine” since Biden has pushed to protect abortion rights federally.
Yesterday, after 12+ years, I reunited with my elementary school media specialist, Ms. O’Dell. She was the faculty adviser for our morning news show, WJAZ News, and my first “boss.” 1/
New: From Detroit to Albuquerque, Democratic members of Congress across the country are holding events this summer around their party's efforts to eliminate so-called "junk fees," believing it can translate into wins in 2024.
w/
@maryaliceparks
Breaking: 19-year-old Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau was at a
#BLM
protest last week, according to reports. Salau is now a missing person,
@TallyPD
announces.
Pres. Biden, touted Democrats’ Tuesday night victories, shrugged off recent polling, and pitched himself against Trump, especially on abortion rights, with one year until the election.
w/
@selinawangtv
@libbycathey
@gabdulhakim_
Harris is expected to call for U.S. Steel to “remain domestically owned and operated and stress her commitment to always have the backs of American steel workers,” at an event in Pittsburgh on Monday, a campaign official said. It mirrors Biden’s position from March.
NEW: Coach Heupel announces initiative to help UCF football players build their brands. This comes after Governor DeSantis signed a bill earlier this year allowing student-athletes to profit off their name and likeness.
@UCFKnightly
At the Iowa State Fair today, Marianne Williamson continued to make Hunter Biden’s legal troubles an issue in the campaign.
“Anyone should be able to see this gives further evidence that the president is a weak candidate and makes us more vulnerable in 2024.”
h/t
@abcnewsnick
Is anyone going to acknowledge that Pete Davidson believes that UCF is the middle of nowhere despite Orlando being the most visited city in the country?
Haitian voters are rarely talked about, but they may decide who wins Florida and the White House.
Hear out what some Haitian voters are saying about the election on today’s
@UCFKnightly
broadcast at 1 p.m. on Spectrum Channel 734.