Vice President Kamala Harris gave President Joe Biden a metaphorical salute and a word of gratitude on Monday night ahead of his speech , in which he'll endorse her at the top of the ticket and highlight his own achievements. "We are forever grateful to you," Harris told a raucous crowd at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. “Thank you, Joe.
" As she thanked the president, the crowd erupted into chants of ”U-S-A!" Harris' short speech continued with her saying she sees the "beauty of our great nation." ALSO READ: ‘Absolutely essential’: Son of Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes is all in for Kamala Harris "People from every corner of our country," she said, "United by a shared vision for the future of our country." Harris declared the nation will move "forward with optimism hope and faith, and guided by our love of country.
” She finished repeating her campaign slogan: “When we fight, we win.” Former President Donald Trump has sought to cast Vice President Kamala Harris as antisemitic by asserting that Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was only passed over as the Democrats' presidential running mate because he is Jewish.
But in speaking to CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Monday during the first night of the Democratic National Convention, Shapiro stamped that out hard. Moreover, he lashed out at Trump for trying to use him as a political prop. "Trump claims that antisemitism played a role in you not ultimately being selected as the vice president," said Collins.
"What's your response to that?" "Donald Trump has absolutely no credibility to speak on that issue," said Shapiro. "He is a person who's acted bigoted, he is a person who spreads hate, and he is a person who routinely divides people in this country. Listen, when folks marched in Charlottesville, and quite literally said with Tiki torches in their hand, 'Jews will not replace us,' what did Donald Trump say? He said, there are good people on both sides .
" "I want to be crystal clear about something: antisemitism played absolutely no role in the dialogue I had with the vice president," Shapiro continued, adding that while antisemitism exists in America and among some fringe Democrats, "We need to stand up and speak out against hate in all forms. Antisemitism, Islamophobia, racism, any form of hatred and bigotry has no place. And what I want to see from leaders is what Kamala Harris is doing, and what I try and do every day.
Speaking and acting with moral clarity. Something that Donald Trump is bankrupt on." ALSO READ: Donald Trump deep in debt while foreign money keeps coming: disclosure "He has no moral clarity, and he has absolutely no business opining on this issue, given his track record," Shapiro said.
Shapiro was one of a small handful of finalists for Harris' running mate, with many political strategists hopeful he would lock down the critical swing state of Pennsylvania due to his popularity as governor there. Ultimately, Harris chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz , partly because of Walz's charisma and partly because Harris' team had reportedly been concerned Shapiro might upstage her .
Watch the video below or at the link here. The Georgia State Election Board Monday finalized a rule Monday that gives local officials more power to dispute certifying election results by adopting a new ballot counting policy that critics contend could disrupt the presidential election in November. The new rule requiring election workers to manually count votes to reconcile any discrepancies was approved Monday by the election board’s conservative members by a 3-2 vote, carried by the three Republican board members recently praised by former President Donald Trump .
Critics claim that Republican state election board members are making it easier to contest Georgia’s election results if Trump once again fails to win. The rule change approved Monday requires election workers to manually count ballots to reconcile the total number of votes with the total number of voters prior to certifying results. Three election board members pushing through the change, Janice Johnston, Janelle King, and Rick Jeffares, voted Monday to require election workers to reconcile any discrepancies prior to election certification.
State election board member Sara Tindall Ghazal, a Georgia Democratic Party appointee, and Chairman John Fervier, a nonpartisan member appointed by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp this year, opposed the rule Monday. Under the change, ballots will be counted by hand in order to ensure that the total number of ballots cast is not greater than the total number of voters who submitted ballots.
The rule proposal was submitted in July by Salleigh Grubbs, chairwoman of the Cobb County Republicans, who disagreed with the argument that the new rule is intended to delay the 2024 election results if Trump loses Georgia to Harris in November. Grubbs said Monday that legal protocol had to be worked out before she presented the rule this close to the November election. She refuted claims that she intends to disrupt the election process by pushing to implement the rule change this close to the Nov.
5 Election Day. Instead, the changes are to protect the integrity of elections this year and beyond, she said. “We have to have assurance, as Georgians, that what we see printed on our ballot is exactly (accurate) and the only way to do that is by a handwritten affiliation on the precinct level,” Grubbs said at Monday’s virtual board meeting.
Voting rights organization Fair Fight slammed the new rule, claiming it was crafted by Trump supporters who continue to undermine confidence in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results. In 2020, the incumbent Republican President Donald Trump was defeated in Georgia by Democrat Joe Biden by fewer than 12,000 votes. “Trump and his MAGA allies have taken over the Georgia State Election Board to try and give a veneer of legality to their illegal scheme to disrupt the certification of Georgia’s 2024 election results,” Fair Fight CEO Lauren Groh-Wargo said in a statement.
“Many of Trump’s key election denier allies and Republican Party operatives are behind these illegal, anti-freedom changes to Georgia election rules, and it’s all with the goal of helping Trump win the Peach State, even if he doesn’t earn a majority of Georgians’ votes.” Last week, the Georgia State Election Board approved a new rule giving counties the opportunity to verify that the tabulation and canvassing were accurate and complete before certifying the results. The new rule makes certification a mandatory process prior to the election results being verified by the secretary of state’s office.
The actions of the newly constituted election board was described as a “mess” by Georgia GOP Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger after the three conservative members held a July meeting that came under fire for violating the state’s open meetings law. Tindall Ghazal questioned the decision to make significant rule changes at the same time counties are accepting absentee ballot requests for the upcoming Nov. 5 general election.
“We can’t be making these changes at the last minute,” Tindall Ghazal said. “This is exactly what undermines confidence in elections.” GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX Georgia Recorder is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity.
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Follow Georgia Recorder on Facebook and X . Ahead of President Joe Biden's unprecedented speech Monday night at the Democratic National Convention , former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi explained her reasoning in helping push him out of the presidential race, saying she "took a punch for the children." Biden, 81, in May awarded Pelosi, 84, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and called her the "greatest speaker of the House of Representatives in history.
" But after a disastrous debate performance in June against former President Donald Trump , Pelosi pushed Biden to exit the race . According to a New York Times report last week, the two hadn't spoken since he stepped aside, and multiple reports indicated he was unhappy with her. On Monday night, CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked Pelosi about her new book — and the fact that she hadn't spoken to the president.
ALSO READ: Harris has figured out Trump’s greatest liability "It was four weeks and one day ago that he stepped aside. And I know that it's been very difficult for him. That's been made very clear by some of his top aides," said Tapper.
Tapper asked her about any "residual bad blood," noting that Anita Dunn said Monday that no one wants to fight Pelosi, "'at this time.'" "Sometimes you just have to take a punch for the children," said Pelosi with a laugh, adding that she hadn't heard Dunn's comments before the question. Anchor Dana Bash also laughed, and asked, "Who's punching right now?" "He made the decision for the country," said Pelosi.
"My concern was not about the president, it was about his campaign, as he has seen, with the exuberance, the excitement that has come forth in our country." Watch the clip below or at this link ..
