Dems praise Harris-Walz ticket at DNC, while Chicago voters tout support for Trump
Vice President Kamala Harris will formally accept her party's nomination tonight in Chicago, Illinois, on the final day of the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
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Former President Donald Trump on Thursday took aim at Vice President Harris' handling of the crisis at the southern border, just hours before she is due to address the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
"The millions of Illegal Aliens pouring into our Country because of Comrade Harris, our “Border Czar,” and her Open Border Policies, are taking the jobs of our Black and Hispanic workers and families," he said on Truth Social.
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Former President Trump has repeatedly argued that Kamala Harris is an ultra-liberal and has insulted the vice president as "comrade Kamala" in the month since she replaced President Biden atop the Democrats' 2024 ticket.
But top Harris surrogates argue that the attacks from the former president won't fly with American voters.
"That boat doesn’t float. It just doesn’t float," Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., told Fox News Digital on Thursday, hours ahead of the vice president's nomination acceptance speech on the final evening of the Democratic National Convention, which is being held in Chicago.
Booker, a leading ally of Harris in the Senate, pointed to legislation he has co-authored with the vice president that they have successfully ushered through Congress and into law.
Read more from Paul Steinhauser on Trump's nickname for VP Harris.
Former President Bill Clinton delivered a speech at the Democratic National Convention. His endorsement came after President Biden announced his decision not to seek re-election and gave his support to Vice President Kamala Harris.
"Donald Trump has been a paragon of consistency. He is still dividing, he is still blaming, he is still belittling other people. He creates chaos and then he sort of curates it as if it were precious art," Clinton said at the DNC."He mostly talks about himself. So the next time you hear him, don’t count the lies, count the ‘I’s,'" he continued.
"He is like one of those tenors, opening up before he walks on stage like I did, trying to get his lungs open by singing, ‘me, me, me, me, me.’"
"When Kamala Harris is president, every day will begin with 'you, you, you, you,'" Clinton remarked, contrasting what he implies is Trump's egocentrism with Harris' focus on the American people.
Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had previously expressed support of the Democratic nominee.
"We are honored to join the President in endorsing Vice President Harris and will do whatever we can to support her," they said in a joint statement in July.
Vice President Harris' economic agenda includes a recently announced push to enact controls for alleged "price gouging" by food and grocery companies and prevent them from reaping "excessive profits." But the plan lacks details about how those terms would be defined and enforced.
Harris' campaign released a document Friday saying that if she's elected, her administration would work with Congress to "advance the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries; set clear rules of the road to make clear that big corporations can't unfairly exploit consumers to run up excessive profits on food and groceries."
A Harris-Walz administration would also look to secure "new authority for the FTC and state attorneys general to investigate and impose strict new penalties on companies that break the rules," according to the document.
However, the Harris campaign's plan doesn't include a definition of how "price gouging" would be defined or what would constitute "excessive profits" in the eyes of regulators. Nor does it describe how companies accused of wrongdoing could remediate the issue.
FOX Business reached out to the Harris campaign for more details about how her proposal would be enacted and did not receive a response prior to deadline.
This is an excerpt from an article from Fox Business' Eric Revell.
Protesters outside the Democratic National Convention spoke to Fox News about their views on the 2024 candidates, with some saying they don't plan to vote for either.
"I couldn't possibly vote for 'Genocide Joe' and I couldn't possibly vote for Donald Trump," one protester said. "They're both parties of imperialism and racism, and so, no, absolutely I won't be voting in November."
"I probably won't be voting for either of those two parties, because they represent the ruling class – Democrats or Republicans," another DNC protester said. The same protester added that many who have been rallying against Israel outside the convention "don't really believe her strategies of, like, 'good vibes.' That's not really how you fix a broken economic system."
Others said they were undecided on who they plan to vote for in November but that a near-term ceasefire could change that.
"I have about nine weeks left and I am expecting more of the president," the undecided protester stated. "Blinken was in the Middle East a few days ago and we are expecting a ceasefire soon. If that happens then the vote could change as well."
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., dodged a question Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) from Fox News Digital about whether she'd support restrictions for late-term abortions, as abortion remains a key platform issue for the party.
"Congresswoman, would you support restrictions for late-term abortions?" Fox News Digital asked Waters, who endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on day one of the DNC. Waters can be seen on video turning away and ignoring the question.
Abortion has been a central issue of the Democratic Party's 2024 re-election bid with Harris and Gov. Tim Walz at the top of the ticket, as each night speakers have taken turns calling for expanded federal abortion access.
Late-term abortions, which typically occur in the third-trimester, have been an issue often evaded by Democratic lawmakers.Planned Parenthood's free mobile clinic, parked just a couple of blocks from the United Center in Chicago – where the DNC is taking place – underscored the Democrats' message of widespread accessibility to abortion.
Read more from Jamie Joseph on Democrats and abortion limits.
MN Gov. Tim Walz gestures at a Wisconsin rally.
Former President Donald Trump's campaign called out a veiled dig at running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, made by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz at the Democratic National Convention.
Walz, who formally accepted the Democratic vice presidential nomination Wednesday night, addressed the United Center in Chicago by speaking of his upbringing in the Midwest.
"Now, I grew up in Butte, Nebraska, a town of 400 people. I had 24 kids in my high school class, and none of them went to Yale," Walz said, prompting laughter from the audience. "But I'll tell you what.
Growing up in a small town like that, you'll learn how to take care of each other. That that family down the road, they may not think like you do. They may not pray like you do. They may not love like you do. But they're your neighbors. And you look out for them, and they look out for you."
The Trump War Room X account posted a clip of Walz's remark about Yale, where Vance attended law school.
"Walz: ‘I had 24 kids in my high school class and none of them went to Yale,’" Trump War Room noted, adding, "Weird flex!"
The Chicago Police Department recorded nine shootings involving 10 victims, one of whom died on Wednesday, and a stabbing on the third day of the Democratic National Convention in the city.
The violence comes as police have managed to mostly contain the chaos in and around the convention site. That compares to five shootings involving 12 victims with one fatality on Tuesday and eight shootings, four of which were fatal, on Monday.
Over the weekend leading up to the convention in downtown Chicago, 26 shooting incidents involving 30 total victims, five who died, were recorded.
"Our officers are out there. They're out there. They're highly visible. And we have officers not only along the corridors downtown, in and around the venues of the Democratic National Convention, but also in our neighborhoods to continue to protect our people who are living in areas that are the most vulnerable," Chicago Police Department Superintendent Larry Snelling said during a Monday press conference. "Our officers are protecting the entire city."
A Jewish attendee at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) said that she was "annoyed" at President Biden's remarks on Monday.
Biden said that the anti-Israel protesters outside the convention center "have a point" while delivering his speech on the first night of the Democratic event.
"I think with all the hatred, there is no point. It’s not acceptable. In terms of what Biden said I was actually a little annoyed at that," the woman told Fox News Digital at the DNC.
She added that while she thinks that "everyone has the right to voice their opinion. What I don’t agree with is doing harm to each other."
The attendee also touched on Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, one of the Jewish candidates who had been vetted as Vice President Harris' potential running mate before Harris chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
"Being a Jewish woman, I was hoping that a Jewish man would actually take the position," she said. "I’m really happy that there’s progress in terms of having a woman as the next president of the United States."
Fox News' Julia Johnson contributed to this post.
Gov. Timothy Walz of Minnesota speaks at a rally in August 2024 (Getty)
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said that the network's fellow hosts, reporters and commentators gave Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz a round of applause and cheered for him during his Democratic National Convention (DNC) speech on Wednesday night.
"I had no idea it was going to be like that," Maddow said Wednesday night after Walz formally accepted his party's nomination for vice president. "The room in here, in terms of our little crowd at MSNBC mothership, everybody got out of their seats and started stamping and clapping."
Former football players from Mankato West High School, where Walz once coached, appeared on stage Wednesday night at the DNC to support him in a moment that was being widely shared online.
After Walz finished his speech, Maddow said that the moment was electrifying for her and other MSNBC hosts in the room.
"I was probably six feet away from half the football team on this side of the stage," MSNBC reporter Jacob Soboroff said when asked by Maddow what the energy in the DNC event hall was like.
"The wattage of the smiles on their faces, it just screamed, ‘I cannot believe I am standing on this stage right now, in front of the … United States of America," he said. "It was a really incredible thing to experience."
Fox News Digital's Jeffrey Clark contributed to this report.
The mother of an American hostage, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was captured by Hamas during its attack on Israel Oct. 7, 2023, broke down in tears during her DNC speech."
On October 7, Hersh and his best friend Aner went to a music festival in the south of Israel," Rachel Goldberg-Polin began. "As rockets began to fall, Hersh, Aner and 27 other festival goers took refuge in a 5-foot by 8-foot bomb shelter."
"Hersh’s left forearm, his dominant arm, was blown off before he was loaded onto a pickup truck and stolen from his life," Hersh’s mother continued.
Jon Polin, Hersh Goldberg-Polin's father, then said, "This is a political convention. But bringing our only son and all of the cherished hostages is not a political issue. We are also profoundly thankful to you, the millions of people in the United States and all over the world who have been sending love, support, and strength to the hostage family."
Hersh’s mother concluded with a heartfelt message: "Hersh, if you can hear us. We love you. Stay strong. Survive."
Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump. (Photo by Nic Antaya/Getty Images)
Former President Trump will react to Vice President Harris' speech at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) live on Truth Social.
"I will be doing a LIVE PLAY BY PLAY on TRUTH Social of Comrade Kamala Harris’ Speech tonight at the Democrat National Convention in Chicago. We will start at 10 P.M., Eastern, and be covering and commenting on some of the earlier Speeches made, prior to hers," Trump said in a post on Thursday ahead of the fourth and final day of the convention.
Trump also accused his 2024 Democratic opponent of "stealing" the nomination from President Joe Biden.
"She became the Nominee without receiving one Vote, stealing the Nomination from Crooked Joe Biden who earned it by getting 14 Million Votes. I am no fan of Biden, who was the Worst President in the History of the United States and, likewise, she is considered to be the Worst Vice President (and Border “Czar”) in the History of the United States, but Biden got “shafted.” We will expose all of her Radicalism, the horrible job she did at the Border, Crime, and Foreign Relations, and her Weaponization against her Political Opponent, using corrupt Prosecutors and Courts in New York, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta," the former president said. "I hope everybody will be following along on TRUTH, tonight!"
Harris will deliver her DNC nomination speech from the United Center in Chicago on Thursday.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker, D-Ill., says that the 2024 presidential race is the "most important election of our lifetimes."
The governor told Fox News Digital at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) that he will be campaigning for the Harris-Walz ticket in swing states, such as Arizona, ahead of election day.
"We've got to go make sure that people understand that this election is the most important election of our lifetimes, and I mean that literally. The team on the other side wants to end democracy," Pritzker told Fox of the Trump-Vance campaign.
Pritzker, referring to former President Trump, added that he doesn't think voters want "an economy that is just built for his billionaire friends like Elon Musk."
"People want an economy that helps them reach the middle class, or succeed, start a small business, or do well for their families. That's what Democrats are fighting for," he said.
Fox News' Paul Steinhauser contributed to this post.
A breakfast for delegates attending the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was interrupted Wednesday morning after maggots were allegedly slipped into their food intentionally, WGN first reported.
The DNC 2024 Joint Information Center also confirmed the incident to Fox News Digital and acknowledged the food contamination.
Officials said multiple unknown female offenders are alleged to have entered a building and placed unknown objects onto tables containing food.
The offenders are believed to have then left the area and one victim was treated and released on-scene, officials said.
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Stepheny Price.
Overhead view of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
Thursday marks the final day of the Democratic National Convention and it is slated to be one of the most anticipated nights thus far with Vice President Kamala Harris capping off the event with a formal address.
In addition to an address from Harris, Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., will also address the convention Thursday. Outgoing Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Mich., and former member of Congress Gabby Giffords will make an appearance as well.
The final night’s theme is titled “For Our Future.” It will feature victims of gun violence, and lawmakers pushing for state and national gun control measures, according to NBC news. Giffords, the wife of Sen. Kelly, is a staunch gun control advocate who in 2011 was shot and almost killed after a shooter opened fire on her and her staff in Tucson, Arizona.
Several of Thursday’s speakers will include individuals previously considered by Harris to be her running mate, including Sens. Warren and Kelly, as well as Gov. Whitmer who said she was “honored” to be sharing the stage with Harris.
During an interview from the United Center last night, Sen. Warren responded in the affirmative when asked if America was ready for a female president.
“We are not the same nation we were before 2016,” Warren insisted. “I see America as having changed. I think this is, not just Kamala Harris’s moment, I think this is the moment [to elect a woman] for the United States of America – and I’m loving it.”
Vice President Harris and President Biden at the DNC
Third Baptist Church of San Francisco Pastor Amos Brown will deliver the prayer at the Democratic National Convention.
As the Washington Post reported, prior to his current prominence as a reverend and friend of Vice President Kamala Harris, both Bay Area figures were aspiring politicians in the 1990s.
Both were aligned with Mayor Willie Brown who suggested Harris aid Amos Brown's municipal supervisor campaign, the paper reported. Three decades later, Amos Brown is primed to offer the invocation preceding Harris' acceptance of the Democratic nomination.
Amos Brown, the current president of the San Francisco NAACP, is in the spotlight after he revealed during a recent interview that Harris called him shortly after President Biden announced that he was dropping his re-election bid. Harris wanted Brown to pray for her and her husband during the biggest campaign of her career.
Brown, who said he has known Harris and her family for more than two decades and was one of Harris' guests to attend her inauguration in 2021, could be a major liability for her campaign as his past sermons and anti-America rhetoric start to surface. Harris previously praised Brown for being "on this journey with me every step of the way."
"America, America, what did you do – either intentionally or unintentionally – in the world order, in Central America, in Africa where bombs are still blasting?" Brown said days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the Free Beacon reported.
In an April 2008 op-ed for SFGate, Brown defended Wright and claimed that the soundbites from Wright's previous sermons were being "mischaracterize[d]" by the media. He responded to the San Francisco Chronicle piece by saying the reporter characterized his and Wright's style of preaching as similar, but Brown rejected the description of their tone as "fiery."
"If White preachers - Billy Graham, Pat Robinson, Jerry Falwell and others - can exercise their freedoms, and sometimes say the wrong things - as the facts document - we should be able to say the right things on the behalf of social justice and peace, and not be demonized by detractors," he added.
Wright previously blamed Jews in 2009 for keeping him from talking with Obama after he won the White House. He has also made a number of other inflammatory remarks, including when he said after 9/11 that "America’s chickens are coming home to roost."
Fox News' Andrew Mark Miller and Cameron Cawthorne contributed to this report.
Chicago skyline
Voters from the South Side of Chicago, where former President Barack Obama met his wife Michelle in the 80's, gave varying opinions on the 2024 presidential race, including several Black voters who vehemently defended former President Trump and suggested that his recent uptick in Black support in the polls is legitimate.
"I’m a Trump fan," Lavar Williams told Fox News Digital outside a Walmart on Doty Avenue as Democrats gathered for their convention at the nearby United Center. "Everybody else I feel like they have a leash on them. Trump don’t have no leash on him."
Meanwhile, disabled Navy veteran and Englewood neighborhood property owner Billy Johnson told Fox Digital that he is still undecided on who he will vote for, but nonetheless he praised former President Donald Trump as an "economic genius," while calling Harris "dangerous."
"That lady is dangerous. I mean, [Kamala] Harris can pull up information on you that most presidents can’t. You know, she can pull things, documents and stuff. It’s scary. Her access to Secret Service, CIA and all of that makes her one of the most dangerous presidents we might ever have. I wouldn’t worry about her foreign affairs policy, I would just fear for whoever comes up against her," Johnson said.
Fox News Digital also spoke to Nas, the owner of Z-Best catering in Chicago, who criticized Harris's prosecutorial record.
"I ain’t goin’ to lie to you, I know her background, what she has done, I know she’s locked up a lot of people off of just weed cases and stuff like that, just sending people away, so I really don’t care for her to be honest with you."
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., defended the vice president against "comrade Harris" label from former President Donald Trump.
"That boat doesn't float," Booker told Fox News Digital at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago.
"I know the things we've worked on together, and it's not sexy stuff. It's how can you clean up the environment so less people are dying of cancer. How do you help farmers out," Booker told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. "There are so many very pragmatic things that she's worked on, and a lot of it bipartisan. We're coming out of a presidency with the biggest bipartisan bills on the most controversial things from guns to infrastructure to science and technology."
Booker mentioned that the Senate recently worked on a bipartisan immigration bill.
"The only reason that bill didn't pass out of the senate was because Donald Trump said not to do it," the Democrat said. "So he is the barrier for pragmatic problem solving, Kamala Harris is the antidote."
Fox News' Paul Steinhauser contributed to this post.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a shot at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) speaking line-up two days after her speech there in Chicago.
Ocasio-Cortez urged the Democratic Party to change course on their response to the Israel-Hamas conflict as agitators continue to gather outside their convention.
The Democratic representative from New York is urging her party to "center" Palestinians at the DNC in Chicago this week in an effort to affirm "shared humanity" on both sides of the ongoing conflict.
ANTI-ISRAEL DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUE NEAR DNC FOR 3RD NIGHT AS CROWDS GATHER IN LARGER NUMBERS
"Just as we must honor the humanity of [Israelis taken hostage], so too must we center the humanity of the 40,000 Palestinians killed under Israeli bombardment," Ocasio-Cortez said via social media on Wednesday. "To deny that story is to participate in the dehumanization of Palestinians."
"The [Democratic Party] must change course and affirm our shared humanity," she added.
Ocasio-Cortez made the comment in response to author Ta-Nehisi Coates' observation that no Palestinian Americans were set to address the convention.
Fox News Digital's Timothy Nerozzi contributed to this report.
The Walz family joins their dad Tim on stage at day three of the Democratic National Convention
"My kids keep me humble," Walz said in a post on X that shared a video of his kids holding up bunny ears behind his head during an interview from the Democratic National Convention.
His two kids, Gus, 17, and Hope, 23, went viral on Day 3 of the convention for their emotional response to their dad's address after he formally accepted the nomination to be Kamala Harris' vice presidential candidate.
Hope could be seen making the heart sign with her hands after Walz called his family his "entire world." Gus, meanwhile, was moved to stand up and repeatedly mouthed the words, "That's my dad!" The reaction instantly went viral, particularly after people began learning for the first time he has ADHD, a non-verbal learning disorder and an anxiety disorder.
Hope, who calls herself a vegetarian and is currently a social worker in Montana, graduated high school in 2019, while Gus is still in school and living with his mom and dad. The two kids frequently appear on their dad's social media account.
In 2019, Walz turned to his daughter, Hope, to help raise awareness about legislation he was trying to pass as governor of Minnesota that banned the use of cellphones while driving. The two starred in a comedic PSA-type video, where they bantered and joked while promoting the new law. Meanwhile, Walz credited his son on Instagram that same year with helping the family rescue their dog Scout, a 3-month old Black Labrador.
Former President Trump gave heated criticism of Vice President Kamala Harris' economic plans in a Thursday interview with "Fox & Friends."
Harris has floated plans to impose price controls on groceries and other goods under the guise of banning "price gouging." Trump argued that price controls have never been beneficial.
"Price controls have been used, many, many times over the years, usually by dictators and all, but they've been used many times. They've never, ever worked," Trump said. "They've always led to huge inflation and lack of--You don't get anything and you end up with empty stores. They are a disaster. 38 different cases, 38 cases were abject total failures."
Trump also rebutted claims from Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz that he would endorse a national ban on abortion. He instead argued that he is pro-life but is content to allow states to impose their own policies regarding abortion.
"There will not be a federal ban. This is now back in the states where it belongs," Trump said. "And again, every Democrat, every Republican, everybody wanted Roe v Wade terminated and brought back to the states, then about ten years ago they started talking about the number of weeks and the number of this and that."
"No, right now it's in the hands of the people. The people in the individual states are voting. I did something that's going to bring our country together eventually, but because they lie so much at this convention, they make it sound like it's I want to I want a federal ban. It won't happen. It's not going to happen."
Trump went on to say that he and his running mate, JD Vance, are "leading in the polls.""Nov. 5 is the most important day," Trump said, adding that if he doesn't win, "We won't have a country."
CHICAGO — Legendary talk show host Oprah Winfrey made a surprise appearance at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, when she slammed former President Trump and his vice president 24 years after she suggested he would make a good president.
"We know all the old tricks and tropes that are designed to distract us from what actually matters," Winfrey told the crowd at the United Center. "But we are beyond ridiculous tweets and lies and foolery. These are complicated times, people, and they require adult conversation. And I welcome those conversations because civilized debate is vital to democracy, and it is the best of America."
In another veiled shot at Trump, Winfrey said, "Now, there's a certain candidate that says if we just go to the polls this one time, that we'll never have to do it again. Well, you know what? You're looking at a registered independent who's proud to vote again and again and again because I'm an American. And that's what Americans do. Voting is the best of America."
Winfrey also took aim at Trump's running mate, Sen. JD Vance, who faced criticism over comments about "childless cat ladies."
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News Digital's Andrew Mark Miller.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, took the reins in the governor’s office in January 2019, meaning he led the state through the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic spiral and the historic inflation levels that wracked the U.S. as markets rebounded.
Walz referenced the issue of inflation in his April 2023 state of the state address to the Minnesota House of Representatives, where he also unveiled his universal free school lunches plan.
“No parent in Minnesota should have to settle for second-best when it comes to our public schools. And with rising costs putting financial pressure on educators and school boards across the state, it’s high time we tied school funding to inflation to make sure nobody has to start cutting corners,” he said.
“On top of that, our plan invests billions more in our education system, including a more than 10 percent increase to the general education funding formula over the next four years to support the heroic work of our great teachers. And it includes enough money to provide universal school meals so no child in Minnesota has to learn on an empty stomach.”
AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)
Vice President Kamala Harris has previously supported the rolling back of Trump-era border policies, but appears to be taking a stronger position on the crisis at the southern border as her presidential campaign rolls on.
The border has proven to be a top issue among voters nationwide.
The Democratic nominee recently put out a campaign ad, titled, "Tougher," where she talks about her current stance on the issue.
"Kamala Harris has spent decades fighting violent crime. As a border state prosecutor, she took on drug cartels and jail gang members for smuggling weapons and drugs across the border," a narrator in the new ad says. “As vice president, she backed the toughest border control bill in decades. And as president, she will hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking.”
"Fixing the border is tough, so is Kamala Harris," a voice in the ad can be heard saying.
Harris was criticized in 2022 for suggesting that "the border is secure," despite high volumes of illegal immigrants coming through it.
A CNN fact checker called out Democrats for spreading misinformation about former President Trump and the Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025" on Thursday.
CNN referenced footage from Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., speaking at the DNC in Chicago Wednesday night.
"[Trump] has, with his friends, said the quiet parts out loud--but not only said them out loud, he wrote a book about it. What's it called? Project 2025," Blunt said.
"That is false. Trump did not write Project 2025," CNN's Daniel Dale said. "The big policy document published by the Heritage Foundation thinktank lists dozens of people as authors, editors, contributors. Donald Trump is not among them."
Democrats have sought for weeks to use the policy document in attacks against the former president, arguing policies in it are radical.
Trump himself referenced the project in a Thursday interview on Fox News, saying he was not familiar with the document and hasn't read it.
Former President Trump responded to rumors that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is planning to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race and endorse him on Thursday.
Trump made the comments during a Thursday morning interview with Fox and Friends.
"Mr. president, yesterday there was a big announcement. Big rumors are spreading that RFK Jr might be dropping out, might be endorsing you. His spokesperson said they will give a live address tomorrow about his path forward. And now there are rumors that he might join you at this rally in Arizona tomorrow to announce that he's supporting you. What's the truth?" Fox host Ainsley Earhardt asked.
"I've known him for a long time. He's a as you know, he's a little different kind of a guy. Very smart guy, a very good person. If he endorsed me, I would be honored by it. I would be very honored by it. He really has his heart in the right place. He is a respected person. Women love some of his policies and I guess some people don't like some of his policies," Trump said. "But overall...They treated him very badly. I think he would have, you know, he goes around saying he would have beaten Biden in the primary."
RFK is set to made a formal address on Friday, the day after the conclusion of the DNC in Chicago.
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Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will debate on Sept. 10 hosted by ABC News, the network announced earlier this month.
The announcement came shortly after Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, said he had proposed three debates with three television networks and that he agreed on certain dates in September.
TRUMP SAYS KAMALA HARRIS WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN FOX NEWS DEBATE ON SEPT. 4
Trump is rejoining the ABC debate days after posting on his social media network that he would not appear on the network, citing a lawsuit he has filed, the Associated Press reported.
His decision sets up a highly anticipated moment in an election where President Biden’s first debate against Trump led to Biden dropping out of the race and endorsing his running mate, Harris, to lead the ticket.
“I think it’s very important to have debates,” Trump said earlier this month. “I look forward to the debates because I think we have to set the record straight.”
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Days after the tragic events in Israel on Oct. 7, nine House Democrats voted against a resolution condemning Hamas and supporting Israel’s right to defend itself, including Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Andre Carson, I-Ind., Summer Lee, D-Pa., Al Green, D-Texas, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Delia Ramirez, D–Ill. Reps. Cori Bush, D-Mo., and Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., both of whom lost their primary battles amid massive efforts from pro-Israel groups to have them removed, also voted against the measure.
Democratic lawmakers have also been unafraid to rub elbows with radical anti-Israel groups and their leaders that express support for Hamas.
OMAR BREAKS 'SQUAD' LOSING STREAK WITH PRIMARY VICTORY
For instance, Nihad Awad, executive director and co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said she was “happy to see” Hamas’s Oct. 7 invasion. Meanwhile, Tlaib had no qualms about being the keynote speaker for a CAIR hosted event in January, Lee engaged in fundraising alongside the group in March, and roughly a month after Hamas’s attack California Governor Gavin Newsom met with representatives from the group’s California chapter.
Tlaib was censured in November by her colleagues in the House of Representatives over her anti-Israel rhetoric, which included her use of the phrase, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” which is often considered a “rallying cry” used by Hamas.
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Parade of prominent speakers on Day 1
Speakers on Monday night included Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Joe Biden.
Speakers celebrated Biden's presidency but also hyped up Vice President Kamala Harris. Biden's speech was ultimately delayed for hours. It was initially scheduled for prime time, but he was pushed later and later as speakers took up more time. His speech didn't conclude until after midnight.
BIDEN REPORTEDLY STILL 'STUNNED AND P----D' ABOUT BEING PUSHED ASIDE
Many critics slammed the event planners for forcing the president to wait, with some observers saying it is just more evidence that Democrats have thrown out Biden in favor of Harris.
Meanwhile, anti-Israel protesters swarmed around the Chicago venue, with some of them breaking through police barriers. The widespread protests threw a wrench in Democrats' hopes to present a united front behind Harris at the convention.
Barack Obama praised Biden on Day 2
Former President Obama took the stage in Chicago and praised President Biden just weeks after reportedly helping oust Biden from his re-election effort.
"It's been 16 years since I had the honor of accepting this party’s nomination for president. And I know that's hard to believe since I haven’t aged a bit, but it’s true. And looking back, I can say without question that my first big decision as your nominee turned out to be one of my best. And that was asking Joe Biden to serve by my side as vice president," Obama said on Tuesday evening from the DNC.
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"Other than some common Irish blood, Joe and I come from different backgrounds. But we became brothers. And as we worked together for eight – sometimes, pretty tough – years, what I came to admire most about Joe wasn’t just his smarts and experience, but it was his empathy and his decency. And his hard-earned resiliency and his unshakable belief that everyone in this country deserves a fair shot."
Tim Walz delivered the keynote address on Day 3 of the DNC
Walz was joined by other major speakers like former President Bill Clinton and Oprah Winfrey.
Walz has faced criticism regarding his service in the National Guard in the weeks since Harris announced him as her running mate. Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, the senator from Ohio, and others have criticized Walz for retiring only months before his unit was deployed to Iraq.
This week Walz faced a letter from military veterans and lawmakers who echoed Vance's criticism of his exit from the military.
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In the letter, the lawmakers call the office of vice president "a position that requires the trust of the American people and a solemn commitment to duty on behalf of the United States of America.""As veterans who have served our nation, we feel compelled to address your egregious misrepresentations and urge you to come clean to the American people."
Fox News' Emma Colton and Charles Creitz contributed to this report.
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Chicago, thanks in part to its geographical centrality, is the most popular city when it comes to major party political conventions.
Between 1860 and 1996, Chicago hosted 14 Republican Party national nominating conventions and 11 Democratic Party conventions.
After a near three-decade drought, Chicago is hosting the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois as well as the state's congressional delegation and Chicago city officials were instrumental in helping to land the convention. And one of their selling points was the vast number of hotel rooms in Chicago, which means that the thousands of delegates, officials, and journalists covering the confab would be able to stay within the city limits.
That is far from the case for many political conventions. Just last month, some delegates and journalists were housed in hotels far from downtown Milwaukee, site of the 2024 Republican National Convention.
The abundance of hotel rooms in downtown Chicago means that there will be easy access to both of the convention's venues - the United Center, an arena on the city's West Side where the prime time programming will take place, and McCormick Place, which is downtown near Lake Michigan, where daytime events will occur.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, delivered the keynote address at the DNC in Chicago Wednesday night, blasting former Vice President Trump and Sen. JD Vance.
Walz joined former President Bill Clinton in attacking Trump's time in office. Clinton also noted that Trump is older than he is despite the years since his service.
Meanwhile, Walz progressive gubernatorial record was seized on by Republicans after he became Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, had a much more moderate reputation when he first arrived in Congress in 2007.
Walz had flipped Minnesota’s red-leaning 1st congressional district and unseated a GOP incumbent to win the seat.
His early years saw an “A” rating from the National Rifle Association, a grade that later became an “F,” and Walz broke with most of his party to oppose a $700 billion bank bailout in 2008, according to NPR.
His initial introduction to national politics, however, came in 2004, when he volunteered on John Kerry’s unsuccessful presidential campaign.
Walz’s political activism was sparked shortly before that when he took a group of his students to a George W. Bush re-election rally, where one of his students was questioned by security for having a sticker promoting Kerry on their wallet, according to MinnPost.
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