Vice President Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in the first Reuters poll taken since she became the presumptive nominee, following President Joe Biden's decision to drop out of the race. "Vice President Kamala Harris opened up a marginal two-percentage-point lead over Republican Donald Trump after President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and passed the torch to her," the Reuters'/Ipsos poll found . "The poll, conducted on Monday and Tuesday, followed both the Republican National Convention where Trump on Thursday formally accepted his party's nomination and the Biden announcement on Sunday he was leaving the race and endorsing Harris.
" Harris lead Trump 44 percent to 42 percent in the Reuters national poll. Though the difference was within the margin of error (3 percent), it's an improvement on a Reuters poll taken July 15-16, before Biden quit the race, where Harris and Trump were tied at 44 percent. Also positive for Harris: "When voters in the survey were shown a hypothetical ballot that included independent presidential candidate Robert F.
Kennedy Jr., Harris led Trump 42 percent to 38 percent, an advantage outside the margin of error. Kennedy, favored by 8 percent of voters in the poll, has yet to qualify for the ballot in many states ahead of the Nov.
5 election." It's also an improvement on a Reuters poll taken July 1-2, when Trump led by one percentage point. "Some 56% of registered voters agreed with a statement that Harris, 59, was "mentally sharp and able to deal with challenges," compared to 49% who said the same of Trump, 78," the poll found.
Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president quickly after Joe Biden left the race, and now has endorsements from all major Democrats except former President Barack Obama. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) argued that electing Donald Trump — the man largely responsible for stripping federal abortion rights from women — was "the best thing we can do" for "female empowerment.
" During an interview on Tuesday, Real America's Voice host Charlie Kirk asked Mace how Trump would attract women voters after Vice President Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. "She's going to try to win back suburban voters and run strictly on female empowerment," Kirk explained. "How do you think we should counter that or at least preempt what is going to be a nasty identity politic-driven campaign season?" "Getting behind Donald Trump is the best thing that we can do," Mace replied.
"He is the guy that has preempted all of these issues concerning women." The lawmaker suggested Trump had "preempted" attacks on his abortion record by adding IVF and contraception access to the Republican platform. "He's the one that personally called me and asked me to get on stage at the convention," she recalled.
"And I'm a suburban mom. I'm a single mom." "And that's the kind of leader our nation needs because Kamala Harris is never going to tell you her position on abortion," Mace added.
"Donald Trump is willing to have this conversation. He supports women. ALSO READ: Milwaukee girded for massive convention protests.
But they got something else . "He had many women in his cabinet and in his administration. He can run on women's issues.
" As president, Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices who were vital to reversing Roe v. Wade , which protected abortion rights at the federal level. "After 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I was able to kill Roe v.
Wade , much to the 'shock' of everyone," the former president bragged earlier this year. Watch the video below from Real America's Voice. CONTINUE READING Show less Minnesota's Democratic Governor Tim Walz, who is rumored to be a potential running mate for Vice President (and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee) Kamala Harris, recently slammed Sen.
J.D. Vance (R-OH) on one of his major biographical claims.
During a Tuesday interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe , Walz blasted Vance over his claims of expertise on rural America, and contrasted it with his own experience of growing up in a town of 400 people with "24 kids in my graduating class" where "12 were cousins." "People like J.D.
Vance know nothing about small-town America," Walz said. "He gets it all wrong. It's not about hate.
" READ MORE: 'Less integrity than a Boeing 737': Comedian 'Liberal Redneck' recounts night out with JD Vance In his memoir Hillbilly Elegy , Vance wrote about his background growing up in a lower-income suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was exposed as a child to relatives in the grip of addiction and mired in poverty. However, Vance ended up enlisting in the military and eventually enrolled at Yale Law School before becoming a venture capitalist in San Francisco, California. Vance's selection as former President Donald Trump's 2024 running mate prompted comedian Trae Crowder (also known as "the liberal redneck") to suggest Vance was a fraud .
Walz expressed a similar sentiment on Morning Joe, and accused Trump and Vance of pitting rural Americans against each other. "Their policies are what destroyed rural America. They divided us.
They're in our exam rooms, they're telling us what books to read, and I think what Kamala Harris knows is, bringing people together around the shared values: Strong public schools, strong labor unions that create the middle class, healthcare that's affordable and accessible," he continued. "I think this is going back to the bread-and-butter [issues], getting away from this division." "We do not like what has happened where we can't even go to Thanksgiving dinner with our uncle because you end up in some weird fight that is necessary," he added.
"That's not what people are interested in." That remark was celebrated by writer P.E.
Moskowitz, who tweeted that "'funding schools and bridges instead of making people so insane with social issues that they’re impossible to talk to at [T]hanksgiving' is probably the best political strategy [I]’ve heard in a long time." READ MORE: JD Vance calls for Judge Merchan and his daughter to be subpoenaed so GOP can 'punish' them Vance's claims of being connected to rural America and Appalachia in particular also ruffled the feathers of Governor Andy Beshear (D-KY), who roasted the Ohio Republican over the weekend. Beshear, who is also on the list of prospective running mates for Harris, notably didn't say no when asked if he would join the ticket.
"I think if somebody calls you on that, then what you do is at least listen, and I want the American people to know what a Kentuckian is and what they look like, cause J.D. Vance ain't from here," he said.
Watch Walz's segment below, or by clicking this link . READ MORE: 'Last straw': JD Vance's best friend reveals moment he switched from Never Trump to MAGA CONTINUE READING Show less Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani raised some eyebrows last week when he traveled to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in pricey first-class seats . The reason that this was surprising was that Giuliani had declared bankruptcy after being hit with a $148 million judgement for defaming Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss after the 2020 presidential election.
Now CNN reports that Giuliani's trip to Milwaukee was bankrolled by the media company owned by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell , who is also facing multiple multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuits for false claims he made about Dominion Voting Systems stealing the 2020 election from former President Donald Trump. "Lindell told CNN on Tuesday that Giuliani is an employee of the media company, but declined to say how much he was being paid for the job, which he said started July 1," notes CNN. Lindell also defended giving first-class seats to Giuliani, as well as his girlfriend and his personal assistant who also joined him at the RNC.
“It’s not like he’s living the life of luxury,” Lindell said of Giuliani. “We’ve got a company thing where that’s just what we do.” ALSO READ: For sale: How much influence does $50,000 buy you at the Republican convention? The report adds that, in addition to the $148 million that he owes to Freeman and Moss, Giuliani also owes $350,000 to a forensic accountant.
Giuliani's presence at the RNC has his creditors swarming and trying to get a better insight into his finances. "Creditors have been attempting to trace Giuliani’s expenditures around the RNC," CNN writes. "They have only been able to obtain so far transactions of Giuliani’s personal debit card – not cards he typically uses for charges.
That revealed only nominal purchases by the former mayor in Milwaukee, such as two charges for less than $100 at a hotel, according to a person familiar with the payment." CONTINUE READING Show less.
