Harris campaign hits back at Trump comment slamming her handling of the border crisis
Vice President Harris’ presidential campaign is hitting back after former President Donald Trump blasted her handling of the southern border crisis.
Trump said during a recent press call that after Harris was appointed “border czar” that “millions and millions of illegal aliens have invaded our country, and countless Americans have been killed by migrant crime because of her willful demolition of American borders and laws.”
Harris’ campaign fired back at Trump’s comment.
“The only ‘plan’ Donald Trump has to secure our border is ripping mothers from their children and a few xenophobic placards at the Republican National Convention,” Harris campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz told Fox News Digital in a statement.
“He tanked the toughest bipartisan border security deal in a generation because for Donald Trump, this has never been about actually securing the border – it’s always about himself. He can make up whatever lies he wants but the fact is there’s only one candidate in this race who will fight for real solutions to help secure our nation’s border, and that’s Vice President Harris,” Munoz said.
Fox News Digital’s Adam Shaw contributed to this report.
Republicans slam Harris for opting out of Netanyahu address in favor of sorority speech: ‘Shameful’Republicans are blasting Vice President Kamala Harris for declining to preside over Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s joint address to Congress on Wednesday.
Republican lawmakers are criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris’ decision to forego attending Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress, calling it “shameful,” as she opts instead to deliver a speech at a women’s convention.
Netanyahu will deliver an address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday amid Israel’s ongoing 292-day war with the terrorist group Hamas. Harris, the likely Democratic presidential nominee after President Biden dropped out of the 2024 race, declined to preside over the address and will instead speak at the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.’s Grand Boulé in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., called Harris’ decision “inexcusable.”
“She will not be there because she refuses to attend,” Johnson said at a GOP press briefing Tuesday. “She needs to be held accountable for that.”
Vote.org, the largest nonpartisan voting registration platform in the country, saw the single largest number of registrations over a 48-hour period during the 2024 election cycle since President Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, the organization said.
Over a 48-hour period since President Biden’s announcement on Sunday, Vote.org said it saw a roughly 700% increase in daily new voter registrations, totaling over 38,500 in that period.
Young voters, ages 18-34, accounted for 83% of those registrations.
This figure tops even when, last September, a Taylor Swift Instagram post urging followers to register led to 34,000 registrations via Vote.org over 48 hours, the group said.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee, never deleted a social media post that supported Jussie Smollett’s hate crime hoax.
Vice President Kamala Harris once called infamous hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett a victim of an attempted “modern day lynching.
“Now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, Harris to this day has not deleted her 2019 social media post that repeats the false claim, even after the “Empire” actor’s criminal conviction in Illinois for the faked attack.
Smollett claimed two masked men “doused him with bleach, put a rope around his neck and said, ‘This is MAGA country!'” in the heart of Chicago during the 2019 polar vortex.
“[Jussie Smollett] is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know. I’m praying for his quick recovery,” California Sen. Harris posted on X, formerly Twitter, Jan. 29, 2019.
“This was an attempted modern day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate.”
Weeks later, after it became clear police were investigating Smollett for filing a false report, Harris said she was “sad, frustrated and disappointed” by news the actor made “false claims to police.”
Fox News’ Chris Pandolfo and Callie Cassick contributed to this update.
Former President Trump said on Tuesday that he wants to make at least one visit, and possibly more, to the southern border as he seeks to make the ongoing migrant crisis a central issue in his re-election campaign — and draw a contrast with “radical” Vice President Kamala Harris.
“The answer is yes. I will be taking at least another trip or two trips or three trips, whatever is necessary,” he said in response to a question about whether he will visit the border.
He said details were yet to be figured out along with other officials including former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Thomas Homan and former National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd.
“We have a lot of knowledge of the border, I’ve been there many times,” he said.
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Major Biden donor shares concerns over Kamala Harris run, slams Democrats for ‘squandering’ big opportunityBiden donor John Morgan said he is not “enthusiastic” about VP Harris as a candidate and argues Democrats are “squandering” an “unbelievable” opportunity.
Many lawmakers and donors have come out in support of Vice President Kamala Harris following President Biden’s exit from the 2024 race.
However, one Biden megadonor is not “enthusiastic” about the president’s endorsement and is cutting his fundraising efforts.
“You have to be enthusiastic or hoping for a political appointment to be asking friends for money. I am neither,” attorney John Morgan wrote on X Sunday. “It’s others turn now. The donors holding the 90 million can release those funds in the morning. It’s all yours. You can keep my million. And good luck.”Morgan further explained why he won’t support the Harris campaign on “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” Tuesday.
“To go out and have a fundraiser raise 3, 4 or $5 million. It sounds easy, but it’s not easy,” he stressed. “It’s very difficult to do that. You have to have motivation. You have to really believe, or you have to really want something. There has to be a driving force inside of you.”
On Sunday, Biden announced he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential election despite affirming his intentions to stay in the race following his concerning debate performance.
Fox Business’ Madeline Coggins contributed to this update.
Democrat Rep. Emilia Sykes, who is running for re-election in an Ohio district that’s vulnerable for Democrats, ignored questions about Vice President Harris’ record on immigration on Tuesday.
“Hello, Congresswoman, do you think that Kamala Harris did a good job as the border czar,” Sykes was asked in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Sykes ignored the question and kept walking, which prompted a follow-up question.
“Congresswoman, do you think Kamala Harris did a good job as the border czar? Yes or no?”
Sykes responded, taking issue with the pronunciation of Harris’ name, “I don’t know who Kamala Harris is.”
“She’s the vice president,” the questioner responds before Sykes enters her office.
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Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington, D.C., on Monday evening in preparation for his address to Congress on Wednesday. He will hold his first meeting with President Biden on U.S. soil since the Iran-backed terrorist movement Hamas slaughtered nearly 1,200 people on Oct. 7, including some 30 Americans, and took about 250 hostages.
The two leaders have had sharp disagreements over Israel’s prosecution of the war in the Gaza Strip, where Hamas is based. A telling example was Israel’s decision to defy Biden and seek military control over the southern Gaza City of Rafah, the last main stronghold of Hamas battalions and hostages held by the U.S.-designated terrorist entity.
Caroline Glick, an American-Israeli commentator and former adviser to Netanyahu, told Fox News Digital, “Biden’s meeting with Netanyahu finds the two leaders on opposite ends of the spectrum. Like the vast majority of Israelis, Netanyahu remains committed to achieving Israel’s war goals of destroying Hamas as a military and political entity, returning all the hostages, preventing Gaza from ever threatening Israel in the future, and changing the strategic balance in northern Israel completely in Israel’s favor to permit the 80,000 Israeli residents of the border towns with Lebanon to return to their homes safely after living in hotels since they were evacuated in October.”
According to Glick, who lives in Jerusalem, “Biden seeks a cease-fire that achieves none of these goals. In their meeting, Biden will pressure Netanyahu to abandon Israel’s war goals and accept a cease-fire. Netanyahu will seek to secure weapons supplies to ensure Israel has what it requires to win.”
Benjamin Weinthal contributed to this update.
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff clapped back at former President Trump, who criticized his wife, Vice President Kamala Harris, after she launched her presidential campaign.
Trump, who often coins nicknames for his political opponents, dubbed Harris “Laughin’ Kamala” and “Lyin’ Kamala” on his social media platform Truth Social.
“That’s all he’s got?” Emhoff said Tuesday when asked by reporters about the former president’s comments about his wife.
“You heard the Vice President yesterday making the case against Donald Trump,” Emhoff said. “Very clearly laid out the case, directly and in a compelling fashion. But she also laid out a vision for the future. A vision where there’s freedom. Where we’re not having to talk about these issues of today in this post Dobbs Hellscape that Donald Trump created.”
Harris launched her presidential campaign Sunday night after President Biden announced he was suspending his re-election campaign. Harris secured enough delegates Monday night to secure the Democratic Party’s nomination, although the party’s nominee will not formally be selected until next month’s convention in Chicago.
“We’re gonna prosecute the case against Donald Trump and his lies, his gaslighting, during COVID, the dereliction of duty, inciting an insurrection and all those other things,” Emhoff said.
“We’re gonna make that very clear,” Emhoff continued. “She’s gonna be able to make that case. We’re also gonna move on from this type of environment, this Dobbs, where freedoms are taken away, where autonomy is taken away. Where they’re telling you, you can’t read this book. They’re telling you, you can’t learn these facts. They’re telling you, you can’t vote. All that is gonna change, and it must change.”
Fox News Digital’s Landon Mion contributed to this update.
Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn. said Tuesday that the American people are ready to accept a Jewish vice president as the veepstakes is underway in the Democratic Party.
Phillips, who mounted an unsuccessful primary challenge to President Biden only to see Biden later drop out, discussed presumptive Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris’ options as she seeks a running mate, and spoke favorably of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who is Jewish.
“I am a little surprised in this day and age that somehow, maybe, breaking barriers may stop at people of the Jewish faith,” Phillips said Tuesday on NewsNation.
Shapiro is reported to be on Harris’ VP shortlist, but some pundits and reporters have suggested his Jewish faith may be a negative with voters. CNN anchor John King called Shapiro a “risky” choice on the basis of his faith, and former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer told Fox News this week he would be shocked if the Democratic Party nominated a Jewish candidate for vice president.
“The fact of the matter is, you know, we’re Americans,” Phillips said. “Judaism is a faith. It’s a religion, not an ethnicity or a nationality. It’s almost strange and disconcerting that we’re even having the conversation.”
“I think most of us know John King was just reporting the truth,” he added. “Anybody Jewish knows that there are some people who are antisemites, they’re on the left, they’re on the right.”
“I hope she picks Josh Shapiro, I think he’d be a magnificent pick,” Phillips said. He also noted that Harris’ husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, is Jewish.
A veteran and high-ranking Democratic lawmaker claims she was in the dark about President Biden’s intention to resign from the 2024 presidential campaign.
Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters from California spoke to Politico on Monday, saying Biden dropping off the party’s ticket caught her completely off-guard after she “woke up to it on the television.”
“I was angry at first, because we’d worked so hard to give him the kind of support that would cause him to stay,” Waters told Politico. “We had been told up to the last minute that he was going to stay.”
She continued, “After I calmed down, I was alright, because in doing that, he endorsed Kamala [Harris]. And I thought, well, that’s great.”
Waters was a die-hard defender of Biden following his disastrous performance in the first presidential debate that led the U.S. public to question his mental capacities.
She consistently pushed back on any intention to replace the president with a stronger Democratic candidate and told Politico she has “seen him at his best.”
However, Waters has also been a high-profile ally of Harris. The California representative told Politico that she sees Harris as a friend and didn’t hesitate to endorse her.
“I tell you that Trump, the MAGA crowd, racists — I think that they’re going to hit and they’re going to hit hard,” she said of challenges facing Harris. “They’re going to do everything that they can do to try and convince their crowd and others that she should not be the president and he will be dog whistling about a woman and a Black in ways that he knows how to do.”
Fox News Digital’s Timothy H.J. Nerozzi contributed to this update.
Vice President Kamala Harris once called infamous hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett a victim of an attempted “modern day lynching.”
Now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, Harris to this day has not deleted her 2019 social media post that repeats the false claim, even after the “Empire” actor’s criminal conviction in Illinois for the faked attack.
Smollett claimed two masked men “doused him with bleach, put a rope around his neck and said, ‘This is MAGA country!'” in the heart of Chicago during the 2019 polar vortex.
“[Jussie Smollett] is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know. I’m praying for his quick recovery,” California Sen. Harris posted on X, formerly Twitter, Jan. 29, 2019.
“This was an attempted modern day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate.”
Weeks later, after it became clear police were investigating Smollett for filing a false report, Harris said she was “sad, frustrated and disappointed” by news the actor made “false claims to police.”
But her initial comments were a “rush to judgment” that showed a “hasty decision before all the facts are known,” said Eugene Roy, a retired Chicago Police Department chief of detectives with more than 30 years experience on the force.
Harris’ campaign and her White House office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“It’s one thing to express your support for a friend. It’s another thing to use your platform as a government official to prejudge a case before it’s played out. Before all the facts are known,” said Roy, who was featured in the Fox Nation documentary “Jussie Smollett: Anatomy of a Hoax.”
Fox News Digital’s Callie Cassick contributed to this update.
Vice President Kamala Harris has announced that in lieu of co-presiding over the speech to a joint meeting of Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, she will attend a previously scheduled event in Indiana, the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Grand Boule in Indianapolis.
Since it is a Joint Meeting of the House and Senate, the speaker of the House and president of the Senate, who is the vice president, usually preside. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said today that it may be “unprecedented” not to have the vice president preside.
However, there have been multiple instances over the years in which the president pro tempore has presided.
One such instance came during Netanyahu’s 2015 speech to a joint meeting of Congress – the last time Netanyahu spoke to Congress.
Then-Vice President Biden did not co-preside with then-House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. Instead, then-President Pro Tempore of the Senate Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, presided.
In 2011, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard spoke to a joint meeting of Congress. However, then-Vice President Biden did not preside over that meeting, either. It was Boehner and then-President Pro Tempore Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii.
There have been other instances as well. However, it is extremely rare to have someone like Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., the acting chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, preside over a joint meeting of Congress. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., is the president pro tempore of the Senate now. She will also not co-preside with Johnson during the joint meeting.
Fox News’ Chad Pergram contributed to this update.
Vice President Kamala Harris raised $100 million from Sunday afternoon — when President Biden ended his re-election bid and endorsed his vice president to succeed him as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee — through Monday night, her campaign announced on Tuesday morning.
And the Harris campaign also touted that the fundraising in the wake of the president’s blockbuster news came from more than 1.1 million unique donors, with 62% of them first-time contributors.
The Harris campaign has been spotlighting the surge in fundraising, and in an email release on Monday afternoon highlighted that the money raised was the “largest 24-hour raise in presidential history.”
But the Harris campaign hasn’t offered a breakdown of what percentage of the cash haul was raised online by small-dollar donations and what share came from top-dollar donors. The haul includes money raised by the campaign, the Democratic National Committee and joint fundraising committees.
“The historic outpouring of support for Vice President Harris represents exactly the kind of grassroots energy and enthusiasm that wins elections,” campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz said in a statement. “Already, we are seeing a broad and diverse coalition come together to support our critical work of talking to the voters that will decide this election.”
Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this update.
Former President Trump’s campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Tuesday, accusing President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of violating campaign finance laws by transferring his $91 million in fundraising cash to her new campaign.
Biden bowed out of the presidential race on Sunday following weeks of calls for him to leave following a shaky debate performance.
The president endorsed the vice president to run for the Democratic ticket in his place and transferred his millions of dollars in campaign cash over to her.
The Trump campaign argued in the complaint, first reported by The New York Times and obtained by Fox News Digital, that Harris is “seeking to perpetrate a $91.5 million dollar heist of Joe Biden’s leftover campaign cash.”
David Warrington, who serves as general counsel for the Trump campaign, called the act “a brazen money grab that would constitute the single largest excessive contribution and biggest violation in the history of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended.”
“Kamala Harris is in the process of committing the largest campaign finance violation in American history and she is using the Commission’s own forms to do it,” the filing concluded. “The Commission must not and cannot sit idly by while one candidate takes nearly one hundred million dollars from the authorized committee of another, in violation of the Act and the will of the donors who gave the money in the first place.”
Fox News Digital’s Brie Stimson and Andrea Vacchiano contributed to this update.
Since the end of World War II, there have only been three incumbent presidents, all Democrats, who turned down running for a second term: Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden.
The 46th president had faced mounting pressure from his Democrat allies and legacy media outlets to bow out of the race since June 27, when he delivered a botched debate performance against Trump that was riddled with garbled remarks and where the president lost his train of thought and appeared more subdued than during other recent public events.
The debate reignited concern among conservatives and critics that Biden’s mental acuity had slipped, while it marked the beginning of a pressure campaign among Democrats to oust Biden in favor of a candidate they believed is better suited to take on Trump.
Dozens of members of Congress began publicly thanking Biden for his work in the White House and decades in public office while calling on him to pass the torch to another candidate. He made the announcement just more than a week after an assassination attempt on Trump’s life during a rally in Pennsylvania and just days after the Republican National Convention wrapped up in Milwaukee, where Trump was certified as the Republican Party’s nominee.
Shortly after his announcement on Sunday afternoon, Biden endorsed Vice President Harris to pick up the mantle and make a run for the party’s nomination. As of Tuesday, Harris had enough delegates to lock up the nomination, which will be certified by the DNC next month.
Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this update.
President Biden is set to address the nation on Wednesday evening from the Oval Office for the first time since he officially dropped out of the 2024 election.
“Tomorrow evening at 8 PM ET, I will address the nation from the Oval Office on what lies ahead, and how I will finish the job for the American people,” Biden posted to his X account on Tuesday.
Biden had been self-isolating in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, since last Wednesday, when he was diagnosed with COVID-19, which forced him to cancel scheduled events in Las Vegas and fly back to his home in The First State. After suffering “mild symptoms” and “general malaise” after his diagnosis, he received a negative diagnosis on Tuesday of this week and returned to the White House.
His trip back to the nation’s capital on Tuesday marked the first time Biden was seen in public since suspending his re-election bid on Sunday and the first time since being diagnosed with COVID-19 on July 17.
Biden’s address Wednesday is expected to shed additional light on his departure from the 2024 race after he, his campaign and the White House vowed for weeks that Biden would remain in the election cycle and was determined to win in the rematch against former President Trump.
Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this update.
Experts issue stark warning on Biden’s reported support for major change to SCOTUS
Legal experts are crying foul on possible plans that President Biden could support to make drastic changes to the Supreme Court.
Before he abruptly dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the ticket, news reports indicated that Biden was considering supporting legislation that would attempt to impose term limits on Supreme Court justices and a new enforceable ethics code.
Such legislation would be a radical shift for Biden, who has historically resisted calls to expand the high court or push for any substantive changes.
But since the Trump administration, which gave Republican appointees the majority, Biden could be shifting his views to accommodate the more extreme members of his party just months away from the presidential election. Legal experts warn, however, such congressional action “undermines democracy.”
BIDEN TO ANNOUNCE SUPPORT FOR MAJOR CHANGES TO SUPREME COURT AMID OUTRAGE OVER RECENT DECISIONS: REPORT
“The question of whether President Biden and his left wing could impose term limits or age limits on Supreme Court justices by statute alone and not a constitutional amendment is, at best, highly debatable and dependent on the devilish details that have not yet been released,” John Shu, a constitutional attorney and former official in both Bush White Houses, told Fox News Digital.
“Attempting to do so definitely undermines democracy and separation of powers, as well as the Constitution’s very structure. It also tries to delegitimize the court as an institution. A constitutional amendment would be the cleanest way to impose term or age limits on Supreme Court justices, but it’s a terrible idea for many reasons,” he said.
Shu noted that, in the past, Biden was “publicly and strongly against court-packing and placing term limits on federal judges, both of which he called ‘boneheaded.’
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“It is colossally stupid and dangerous to wreck the Constitution and an entire branch of government just because certain people don’t like some of the current court’s rulings,” he added.
Mike Davis, former chief of nominations in the Senate and president of the Article III project, said the reported proposals Biden is considering endorsing are “a radical assault on judicial independence, and a grave threat to democracy, which Biden pretends he’s protecting.”
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It’s unclear if Biden will still pursue such an attempt to alter the court’s structure, with the legalities of such a move in question – and further, if he was considering the legislation for political reasons as the pressure was mounting for him to drop out of the race.
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Carrie Severino, president of JCN, a conservative advocacy organization and author of “Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Court,” said she expects Harris and other Democratic hopefuls “to pledge fidelity to politicizing the court because they’ll be after the same dark money groups that Biden courted.”
“She will likely end up parroting the most extreme policy ideas out there.”
Local cops hint at root cause of Secret Service failures in Trump assassination attempt
A top House Democrat who took part in a bipartisan walk-through of the Butler Farm Show grounds in Pennsylvania, where former President Trump was nearly assassinated, said law enforcement rank-and-file seem apprehensive to speak publicly about “who’s in charge.”
Rep. Lou Correa, D-Calif., said officers who serve are “great people” and that breakdowns that led to the fatal event earlier this month prove interagency clarity in cooperation is badly lacking.
Correa praised Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) Commissioner Col. Christopher Paris for being forthright during Tuesday’s House Homeland Security Committee hearing on the Trump rally shooting. He added that local officials and law enforcement in the Butler area he met with Monday were equally admirable.
Correa said local agency members approached him during a private congressional walk-through and told him they needed to talk some more about what they saw on the ground.
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“A couple of folks there kind of hinted to me that everybody locally is not comfortable going out and giving their opinion,” he said. “But one individual said he’s not quite sure who was in charge.
“There was a local supervisor or council member who said that we need to talk some more. You guys (Congress) need to hear more about what happened and what didn’t happen. They weren’t here [in Washington]. We need to get their opinions and thoughts. Those are the people that were where the rubber meets the road, so to speak,” he said.
Correa added that, comparatively speaking, the Secret Service is a small operation of around 3,600 agents, while Paris said the PSP employs about 6,000.
“The local police and state troopers really are force multipliers, and, in this case, there are some things you need to work on to fix the process,” Correa said.
He said after the House hearing with Paris and his trip to Northwest Pennsylvania the best thing to do is go “back to the drawing board and really start kicking the tires in terms of guidance and Secret Service and what they do and how they address and work with local public safety agencies.”
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“It’s been 40 years since we had an incident like this,” he said, referring to John Hinckley Jr. shooting former President Reagan in front of the Washington Hilton.
“I think over these last 40 years, a lot has changed; protocols maybe, situations, circumstances. And I think we need to ask some tough questions of the Secret Service, not because they’ve done a bad job, but rather because they’re expected to score 100%,” Correa said.
Asked about Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigning earlier Tuesday, Correa said, in practice, her “resignation solves nothing.”
“She apparently did very poor in [Monday’s] hearing. I was not there,” he said. “Her resignation does nothing to fix the problem. I’m going to focus on fixing the problem.”
Fox News Digital also asked the Californian about his former colleague in state government, Vice President Kamala Harris, reportedly earning enough delegates’ support to be considered the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Correa, who served in the California state legislature while Kamala Harris was attorney general, said the important takeaways aren’t his own, but those of other Californians and Americans.
“The issue isn’t what elected Congressman Lou’s reaction is. I think the better gauge of the answer to your question is look at the enthusiasm,” he said, pointing to Harris’ campaign raising nearly $90 million in the time since President Biden bowed out of the race.
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“That is something totally unexpected,” he said.
“Now, as Congressman Lou or former State Senator Lou, I can tell you, I worked with Kamala when she was attorney general. I saw her work on issues like solving sex crimes by funding DNA rape test kits, working on those issues. I saw her work, and I’m excited because her record will be presented to people in this country.
“You’ve got a former attorney general, former top cop of California, now running on her record. So, it’s going to be a good refreshing change in terms of the dynamic.”
Correa added that he has now heard the “age” criticism flip from Biden to Trump, but he also joked that “us older folks do have some things to contribute too.”
Correa was one of three Democrats from his committee to tour the location of the assassination attempt. The other two, ranking member Bennie Thompson of Mississippi and Rep. Glenn Ivey of Maryland, took part in Tuesday’s hearing.
Elon Musk responds to Trump’s $45 million monthly donation claim
Billionaire Elon Musk is denying reports that said he is donating $45 million a month to a super PAC supporting former President Trump each month leading up to the November election.
“What’s been reported in the media is simply not true,” Musk said in an interview with conservative commentator Jordan Peterson. “I am not donating $45 million a month to Trump.”
This comes after The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk was planning to donate $45 million a month to America PAC, which focuses on registering voters and urging swing state residents to vote early and request mail-in ballots as a way to counter Democrats’ “get out the vote” campaigns and on-the-ground efforts.
Trump, in an apparent reference to the report, said at a campaign rally on Saturday that he read Musk was giving him $45 million a month. “He didn’t even tell me about it,” Trump said.
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The Tesla and SpaceX CEO followed up on his comments by saying on Tuesday that he does plan to make donations to America PAC but at a “much lower level.”
“I am making some donations to America PAC, but at a much lower level and the key values of the PAC are supporting a meritocracy & individual freedom,” he wrote on the social media platform X. “Republicans are mostly, but not entirely, on the side of merit & freedom.”
Musk said he helped create America PAC, which he said would support Trump but “is not supposed to be a sort of hyperpartisan.”
“It’s actually the core principles this America PAC are, the intent is to promote the principles that made America great in the first place,” he told Peterson. “I wouldn’t say that I’m, for example, MAGA, or Make America Great Again. I think America is great. I’m more M-A-G, Make America Greater.”
The commitment to making political donations supporting Trump comes despite Musk saying in March that he did not plan to donate to the Trump or Biden campaigns, although Biden has since dropped out of the race and Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to be the Democratic nominee.
Musk endorsed Trump following the assassination attempt against the former president at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month.
“I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery,” Musk wrote on X following the shooting on July 13.
In the interview with Peterson, Musk said he was drawn to Trump because he believed the Republican Party was more in line with his stance on issues such as meritocracy and freedom.
“One of those values being meritocracy, as much meritocracy as possible, so you get ahead as a function of your skill, and nothing else,” Musk said.
He said that he does not follow any “cult of personality” around Trump, but that he believes the former president displayed “great courage” after surviving the assassination attempt.
“I think we need a change in administration,” Musk said.
Musk and Trump have been talking on a more frequent basis in recent months and have become friendly, according to The Wall Street Journal, which also noted that Trump had knowledge of a project Musk was helping organize to prevent voter fraud.
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The tech executive has appeared more favorable toward Trump than Democrats on X, often criticizing the Biden administration while expressing support for the former president.
“About 3 weeks ago, the media told you that Biden was ‘sharp as a tack,'” Musk wrote Tuesday on X followed by an eye roll emoji.
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“2 days ago, the poor guy was basically forced at gunpoint to resign as Dem nominee. His staff weren’t even informed. Now they say Kamala is the best thing ever,” he wrote, accompanied by a facepalm emoji.
Musk also donated $100,000 to a GoFundMe page authorized by Trump to help the victims of the campaign rally shooting and their families. One rally attendee was killed protecting his wife and daughter from gunfire, while two other spectators were injured.
Vulnerable House Dem dodges question on Harris’ border record with bizarre response
Democrat Rep. Emilia Sykes, who is running for re-election in an Ohio district that’s vulnerable for Democrats, ignored questions about Vice President Harris’ record on immigration on Tuesday.
“Hello, Congresswoman, do you think that Kamala Harris did a good job as the border czar,” Sykes was asked in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
Sykes ignored the question and kept walking, which prompted a follow-up question.
“Congresswoman, do you think Kamala Harris did a good job as the border czar? Yes or no?”
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Sykes responded, taking issue with the pronunciation of Harris’ name, “I don’t know who Kamala Harris is.”
“She’s the vice president,” the questioner responds before Sykes enters her office.
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“No surprise: Two days after Sykes endorsed Harris, she pretends not to know her,” former Ohio Republican state Sen. Kevin Coughlin, who is running against Sykes in Ohio’s 13th Congressional District, told Fox News Digital in a statement.
“With Sykes’ support, Harris the Border Czar has created one of the worst humanitarian and security disasters our border has ever seen. I’d pretend not to know her too.”
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In a statement to Fox News Digital, DCCC Spokesperson Aidan Johnson pointed to the mispronunciation of Harris’ name.
“If Republican trackers and Kevin Coughlin are going to ask about the Vice President they should show respect and start pronouncing her name correctly,” Johnson said.
Sykes endorsed Harris for president on Sunday, pledging to work with Democrats to “unify” around her as the nominee.
Sykes, a first-term Democrat who won in 2022 by five points, is defending her seat in a district that includes parts of two counties that President Trump comfortably won in 2020. The Cook Political Report ranks the race as a “Democrat Toss Up.”
‘The Sopranos’ star reacts to celebrities mocking Trump assassination attempt
EXCLUSIVE – Former “Sopranos” star Drea de Matteo is speaking out after certain celebrities poked fun at former President Trump’s assassination attempt last Saturday.
Trump survived an attempt on his life July 13 during a campaign speech in Butler, Pa., after a would-be assassin’s bullet grazed his right ear. He made his first public appearance since the shooting at last week’s Republican National Convention, sporting a bandage over his ear.
Some celebrities found the situation funny. Jack Black’s bandmate Kyle Gass joked at a concert in Australia that his birthday “wish” was for the shooter to not miss Trump next time. Black has since said he was “blindsided” by the comments and canceled the Tenacious D tour. Gass also issued an apology on Instagram, before later deleting the post.
“Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill mocked the size of Trump’s bandage, “calling it ludicrously oversized.”
Matteo said she’s a huge fan of these actors and celebrities, but she’s disheartened by recent comments.
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“Everybody has their right to their opinion, and they have freedom of speech, so here we are,” she told Fox News Digital. “But, again, I’m a liberal. I am a liberal who does not understand how the left has become so rebellious, with not one undertone of peace, love, harmony and compassion. You’re supposed to be the party of inclusivity, of love, of peace. And all of a sudden, these are the rioters. These are the mean-spirited folks out there. And I don’t understand that.”
As for Black’s bandmate Gass, Matteo said it wasn’t so much that she was opposed to him saying anything, but how “jarring” it was to hear the audience laugh, as well as some of the amused reactions in the U.S.
“To hear a portion of America be on board with death,” she said. “And that I don’t understand.”
“Of course it’s hateful rhetoric, but I do think that it goes way deeper than that,” Matteo said of last Saturday’s assassination attempt.
Matteo, an Emmy-winning actress, is known for her roles on “The Sopranos” and, later, “Sons of Anarchy.” Like so many progressives in Hollywood, Matteo said she was once a victim of “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Then she did her own research.
“Say what you want about Trump, and I understand that a lot of people have Trump Derangement Syndrome,” she said. “I was one of them. But people can change. And it’s not that Trump changed, I changed. And I did my research, and I paid more attention to what was going on.”
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Matteo said her “rude awakening” came during the COVID-19 shutdowns and the mandates that came along with them.
“I definitely feel like a lot more truth is going to be on the conservative side right now,” she continued. “Because they want to conserve this country, and rightly so.”
Matteo, who said she supports both Trump and independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has previously spoken out about the Hollywood treatment she’s received for not rallying behind Biden.
“[In the] Sopranos… even though we were critically acclaimed, we were the outcasts. I’m still an outcast. Here I am, they’re going to take me into the woods and shoot me for not endorsing Biden,” she said on “Jesse Watters Primetime” in June, referencing her character Adriana La Cerva’s violent end on the HBO series “The Sopranos.”
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“And all these celebrities going crazy destroying Trump’s character, I think it’s time for all these people to ask themselves why they’re so filled with rage?” de Matteo told Fox News Digital.
Asked whether she thinks there are “quiet” Trump voters in Hollywood, de Matteo said, “I think there’s a lot of them.” But she seemed to doubt that they’ll be more vocal, even in light of the last few weeks of political upheaval, because she said they’re still frightened.
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“It’s sad for me to watch a lot of people still live in that sort of fear,” she said. “Because in the next six months, it’s not going to matter what side you’re on anymore … I think that the whole question of humanity, and the country’s karma, I think that’s really going to be the thing that’s going to either make or break us right now.”
Matteo, who runns her new clothing brand, Ultrafree, said she no longer describes herself as an actor, because she’s currently focused on other causes.
“I don’t care about working in Hollywood anymore,” she said. “I’d rather just talk about this and help more people to recognize that if you’re only going to vote about social issues like abortion, they’re missing the point. And that’s coming from a diehard liberal.”
Trump rally bodycam footage reveals what officers said immediately after shooter killed
Body camera footage recorded during the aftermath of the assassination attempt on former President Trump showed law enforcement discussing how a sniper “lost sight” of gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks.
Sen. Chuck Grassely, R-Iowa, posted the three-minute video on social media Tuesday. The footage shows authorities on the roof of a building in Butler, Pennsylvania, where Crooks was shot dead by snipers.
“Beaver County sniper seen and sent the pictures out. This is him,” one law enforcement officer tells another man, who appears to be a Secret Service agent, on the roof.
“Rifle’s right there, obviously,” another law enforcement officer says as he points at the weapon.
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The first law enforcement officer, whose body camera was recording, said the sniper who spotted Crooks was still in a building nearby, showing where the sniper was located.
“That’s the sniper who sent the original pictures and seen him come from the bike and then set the bag back down and then lost sight of him,” the officer said. “He’s the one who sent the pictures out. I don’t know if you got the same ones I did….”
“I think I did, yeah,” the man who appears to be a Secret Service agent replied. “He’s got his glasses on….”
The footage was obtained from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit, and Grassley posted it on X. Fox News Digital has blurred the image of the body.
The man who appears to be a Secret Service agent asked, “And we have somebody detained, correct?”
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“That I don’t know,” the officer replied.
Another officer said, “There were two people detained on this side.”
“Our guy who was just up here told me that there’s a guy detained who is the owner of the bike. And I said, ‘no, no, that’s the owner of the bike,” the agent said, appearing to point to Crooks’ body.
“We’ve been up here so we wouldn’t know that information,” an officer said.
“We just hauled a– and got over here. We just hopped up on the roof,” another person can be heard saying.
The agent later said the people who were detained had been filming, adding, “Maybe they were involved, maybe they weren’t.”
“The guys that saw them filming go, ‘They were filming us, and then filming the guy up on the roof, and then filming us, and then when the shots started firing, they ran away.’ And I go, ‘Isn’t that what everybody was doing?'” the agent said. “I have no problem detaining them. Detain those guys. Find out who they know. Who they are. Whatever. Again, I’m trying to get clear information to relay back to D.C.”
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Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned Tuesday amid criticism over the security lapses that allowed Crooks to get on a rooftop and get a clear shot of Trump as he was speaking to supporters.
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61-year-old Demi Moore makes a splash with granddaughter on waterfront
Demi Moore enjoyed some family time over the weekend.
Moore, 61, sported a classic white bikini in a candid snap with her granddaughter, Louetta, while celebrating daughter Scout’s birthday by the river with friends.
The “G.I. Jane” actress rocked a small triangle top with matching bottoms resting below her hips as she helped the one-year-old girl walk across a dock in social media photos shared by her eldest child, Rumer Willis.
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Moore’s long black hair cascaded down the side of her shoulder and she wore a navy blue Gap hat to protect her face from the sun.
The girls were in celebration mode for Scout’s 33rd birthday. One fan pointed out the obvious in Rumer’s post, and wrote, “How the F…. Does anyone have a Grandma like Demi Moore?! I die!” Another person wrote in part, “Demi has only inspired me my whole life!’
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“River Monsters for @scoutlaruewillis birthday,” Rumer said along with a host of photos. “No place I would rather be than by your side My leg bruise is courtesy of my first time trick riding on a horse woohoo.”
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Demi’s no stranger to baring her body. In May, she admitted filming a full-frontal nude scene in her latest movie, “The Substance,” was a “vulnerable experience,” but credited costar Margaret Qualley for keeping her mind at ease as she stripped down.
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“We obviously were quite close — naked — and we also got a lot of levity in those moments at how absurd those certain situations were,” she told Variety. “But ultimately, it’s just about really directing your communication and mutual trust.”
“Going into it, it was really spelled out – the level of vulnerability and rawness that was really required to tell the story. And it was a very vulnerable experience and just required a lot of sensitivity and a lot of conversation about what we were trying to accomplish.”
Moore plays Elizabeth Sparkle who, in an attempt to save her fading celebrity, uses a black-market drug that creates a younger version of herself (Qualley). In the film, Moore’s character studies her nude body before using “the substance.”
“And it was a very vulnerable experience and just required a lot of sensitivity and a lot of conversation about what we were trying to accomplish.”
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Sparkle’s character goes on to become disfigured following the abuse she endures from “her other half.” The outlet noted that by the film’s final act, Moore transforms into “a humpback abomination.”
Moore previously appeared nude in 1995’s “The Scarlet Letter.” The following year, she stripped down as a former FBI secretary-turned-exotic dancer in “Striptease.” Moore was paid a then-record-setting $12.5 million for the role, making her the highest-paid actress at the time.
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