Vice President Kamala Harris ' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz , was questioned by CNN's Dana Bash during their joint interview on Thursday evening about the numerous Republican accusations that he distorted various aspects of his personal background. Walz owned up to "mistakes" — but also insisted people keep sight of the real issues at stake in the election.
"You had to clarify that you had said that you and your wife used IVF, but it turned out you used a different kind of fertility in order to have children," said Bash. "And then when you ran for Congress in 2006, your campaign repeatedly made false statements about a 1995 arrest for drunk and reckless driving. What do you say to voters who aren't sure whether they can take you at your word?" "Well, I've been very public," said Walz.
"I think they can see my students come out, former folks I've served with, and they do vouch for me. I certainly own my mistakes when I make them." ALSO READ: The real reason corporate media won't cover Trump's attacks on democracy "The one thing I'll tell you is, I wish this country wouldn't have to do this," said Walz.
"I spoke about our infertility issues because it's health, and families know this, and I spoke about the treatments that were available to us that had those beautiful children there. That's quite a contrast. And folks that are trying to take those rights away from us.
And so I think people know who I am. They know that record. They've seen that I've taught thousands of students.
I've been out there and I won't apologize for speaking passionately, whether it's guns in schools or protecting reproductive rights." "The contrast could not be clearer between what we're running against, the vice president's position on this ..
. and I think most Americans get it if you've been through that, I don't think they're cutting hairs on IVF or IUI," said Walz. "I think they're cutting hairs on an abortion ban and the ability to be able to deny families the chance to have a beautiful child.
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com Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris shook her head in her first sit-down interview and needed just four words to take down Republican nominee Donald Trump's widely criticized attack on her racial identity. Speaking at a convention with the National Association of Black Journalists last month, Trump told the audience: "I did not know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. Is she Indian or is she Black ?" When shown the clip, Harris flattened his comments needing just a handful of words in the CNN clip, which aired Thursday night.
ALSO READ: The real reason corporate media won't cover Trump's attacks on democracy "Same old tired playbook," she said, adding with a laugh: "Next question, please." "That's it?" anchor Dana Bash followed up. "That's it.
" Watch Harris' response below or at this link . Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris revealed what she'll do on "day one" in the White House , should voters elect her on Nov. 5.
In her first sit-down interview as the candidate at the top of the ticket, Harris told CNN anchor Dana Bash she has a "number of things" she'd like to accomplish. Among her top priorities: boost the middle class. "When I look at the aspirations, the goals, the ambitions of the American people, I think that people are ready for a new way forward in a way that generations of Americans have been fueled by hope and by optimism.
" ALSO READ: The real reason corporate media won't cover Trump's attacks on democracy Harris added she thinks it's sad that the former president — whom she didn't name — has been pushing "an agenda and in an environment that is about diminishing the character and the strength of who we are as Americans. Really dividing our nation. And I think people are ready to turn the page on that.
" When pressed again on what she'd do on day one, Harris said she'd implement her economic plan, in which she laid out "a number of proposals" including one that would raise taxes on the wealthy and another aimed at combatting price-gouging. Watch the clip below or at this link . Donald Trump has made it clear that he fully supports North Carolina lieutenant governor and GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson — who has a "long history of wildly radical and unhinged moments," according to The New Republic's Greg Sargent.
During a June 30 speech at a White Lake, North Carolina church, the first Black lieutenant governor of the state said : "Some folks need killing. It's time for somebody to say it. It's not a matter of vengeance.
It's not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It's a matter of necessity." In an op-ed published by Rolling Stone Thursday, columnist Jay Michaelson — who describes himself as "a queer rabbi" — says he finds it "personally unsettling that" Robinson's remarks "have not drawn more condemnation, and that no one is asking Trump about them.
" Michaelson notes that before becoming lieutenant governor, Robinson "built his name on being an internet troll, especially on Facebook. He has spread lunatic conspiracy theories about Jews, like claiming that Jewish people created Black Panther ' to pull the shekels out of your Schvartze [the Yiddish N-word] pockets' and that the Holocaust is being exaggerated for political purposes." The Rolling Stone columnist highlighted the fact that not only does Trump back Robinson, he even declared that the gubernatorial hopeful is "better than Martin Luther King" during a North Carolina rally earlier this year.
ALSO READ: The real reason corporate media won't cover Trump's attacks on democracy "While Robinson himself is trailing badly in the polls — down by 14 points, as of Thursday — Trump is running neck-and-neck with Kamala Harris in North Carolina’s presidential race," Michaelson notes, adding: "There is zero accountability; Trump isn’t even asked about him." He emphasizes, "Even by 2024 standards, this isn’t normal," and although "Robinson’s theology is his own business" — if the far-right candidate insists on marrying "that theology to the coercive and carceral power of the state, then it becomes everyone else’s too." Furthermore, Michaelson adds : "As with Robinson’s racist, antisemitic, and homophobic beliefs, he’s entitled to be a paranoid internet troll if that’s what he wants to do with his life — but as lieutenant governor, and now a candidate for governor, he has the power to turn these lunatic beliefs into actual policies that affect people’s lives.
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