Is anyone listening to this Kamala interview! Holy shit 😂😂😂 what an absolute disaster. Whoever approved this is getting fired for sure. Trump and Kamala combined don’t have enough money for the attack ads Trump is going to make out of this! A total blithering idiot. I can’t believe how bad she is.
1994 : Memphis 1995 : New Orleans 1996 : Seattle
1998 : St Louis, Birmingham, Knoxville
2000 : Memphis, Nashville, St Louis
2003 : Irvine 1+2, Vegas, Bridge School 1+2, Santa Barbara
2005 : Missoula, Vancouver, Gorge 2006 : LA 1+2, Vegas
2008 : W Palm Beach, Tampa, Who Rock Honors, EV LA 2
2009 : LA 1, LA 4, EV 1 Nashville 2011 : EV Long Beach
2012: EV Vegas 1+2
2013 LA 1+2 2018 Prague, Wrigley 2 2020 Phoenix, SD
After reading into it more, I will say I am at least partially wrong. I was trying to see if I could find specific examples of the threats when I came across the following.
However, the governor did say that many of the emails originated from the same foreign country in an attempt to "mess with the United States." So this may be the result of foreign interference as much as people targeting immigrants.
We should work backwards and try to find out why foreigners who want to interfere would suddenly target Springfield, OH.
We know why. For the record, I never defended his comments. I first asked what evidence is there they were targeting immigrants because a lot of schools received threats last week. I had to read about 8 or 10 articles to find that quote about the emails. Had someone responded with that, I would have conceded sooner.
Is anyone listening to this Kamala interview! Holy shit 😂😂😂 what an absolute disaster. Whoever approved this is getting fired for sure. Trump and Kamala combined don’t have enough money for the attack ads Trump is going to make out of this! A total blithering idiot. I can’t believe how bad she is.
lol...yes I listened and you must think trump's conferences are great. You're delusional from listening to so much covfefe.
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Is anyone listening to this Kamala interview! Holy shit 😂😂😂 what an absolute disaster. Whoever approved this is getting fired for sure. Trump and Kamala combined don’t have enough money for the attack ads Trump is going to make out of this! A total blithering idiot. I can’t believe how bad she is.
Is anyone listening to this Kamala interview! Holy shit 😂😂😂 what an absolute disaster. Whoever approved this is getting fired for sure. Trump and Kamala combined don’t have enough money for the attack ads Trump is going to make out of this! A total blithering idiot. I can’t believe how bad she is.
What’s the issue?
Well, politifact is having a hard time keeping up with all her true statements, for one.
She hasn't called anyone "nasty," and the interviewers never asked her if she was really black, either.
After reading into it more, I will say I am at least partially wrong. I was trying to see if I could find specific examples of the threats when I came across the following.
However, the governor did say that many of the emails originated from the same foreign country in an attempt to "mess with the United States." So this may be the result of foreign interference as much as people targeting immigrants.
We should work backwards and try to find out why foreigners who want to interfere would suddenly target Springfield, OH.
We know why.
We do?
Also, since you brought it up, what's the relevance of the threats coming from a foreign nation?
After reading into it more, I will say I am at least partially wrong. I was trying to see if I could find specific examples of the threats when I came across the following.
However, the governor did say that many of the emails originated from the same foreign country in an attempt to "mess with the United States." So this may be the result of foreign interference as much as people targeting immigrants.
We should work backwards and try to find out why foreigners who want to interfere would suddenly target Springfield, OH.
We know why.
...what's the relevance of the threats coming from a foreign nation?
Man, if that isn't an existential question. I can't wait to read the answer.
Is anyone listening to this Kamala interview! Holy shit 😂😂😂 what an absolute disaster. Whoever approved this is getting fired for sure. Trump and Kamala combined don’t have enough money for the attack ads Trump is going to make out of this! A total blithering idiot. I can’t believe how bad she is.
Is anyone listening to this Kamala interview! Holy shit 😂😂😂 what an absolute disaster. Whoever approved this is getting fired for sure. Trump and Kamala combined don’t have enough money for the attack ads Trump is going to make out of this! A total blithering idiot. I can’t believe how bad she is.
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Totally off the rails! Trump, Vance, Putin, and Lukashenko combined don't have the advertising dollars to cover the ads that will come out of that interview! I spit out my cat burrito, it was so bad!
Is anyone listening to this Kamala interview! Holy shit 😂😂😂 what an absolute disaster. Whoever approved this is getting fired for sure. Trump and Kamala combined don’t have enough money for the attack ads Trump is going to make out of this! A total blithering idiot. I can’t believe how bad she is.
What’s the issue?
Well, politifact is having a hard time keeping up with all her true statements, for one.
She hasn't called anyone "nasty," and the interviewers never asked her if she was really black, either.
The clips I'm seeing she seems measured and thoughtful.
Is anyone listening to this Kamala interview! Holy shit 😂😂😂 what an absolute disaster. Whoever approved this is getting fired for sure. Trump and Kamala combined don’t have enough money for the attack ads Trump is going to make out of this! A total blithering idiot. I can’t believe how bad she is.
What’s the issue?
Well, politifact is having a hard time keeping up with all her true statements, for one.
She hasn't called anyone "nasty," and the interviewers never asked her if she was really black, either.
The clips I'm seeing she seems measured and thoughtful.
If you don’t rant and rave like a lunatic, you’re not normal.
Is anyone listening to this Kamala interview! Holy shit 😂😂😂 what an absolute disaster. Whoever approved this is getting fired for sure. Trump and Kamala combined don’t have enough money for the attack ads Trump is going to make out of this! A total blithering idiot. I can’t believe how bad she is.
What’s the issue?
Well, politifact is having a hard time keeping up with all her true statements, for one.
She hasn't called anyone "nasty," and the interviewers never asked her if she was really black, either.
The clips I'm seeing she seems measured and thoughtful.
Is anyone listening to this Kamala interview! Holy shit 😂😂😂 what an absolute disaster. Whoever approved this is getting fired for sure. Trump and Kamala combined don’t have enough money for the attack ads Trump is going to make out of this! A total blithering idiot. I can’t believe how bad she is.
What’s the issue?
Well, politifact is having a hard time keeping up with all her true statements, for one.
She hasn't called anyone "nasty," and the interviewers never asked her if she was really black, either.
The clips I'm seeing she seems measured and thoughtful.
If anything, the comment convinced a few more people to tune in.
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Yeah Silver has been the one Trump friendly model.
However I have been reading how he is giving equal weight to right wing leaning polling places like this Patriot Polling which is one of the worst out there according to 538 (ranked 249 out 282 total pollsters) in swing states. There is a lot of chatter about how his new company is owned by Peter Theil (billionaire Trump supporter) and that it's affiliated with polymarket--the betting on politics place.
Local coverage here in Philly of Kamala's interview today.
You may be surprised to learn that none of what our maga friend portrayed earlier seemed to have happened. Seemed like a mundane...dare I say normal political event. A complete 180 from the shit show that was Trump's appearance at the last one.
Kamala Harris says she is ‘working to earn’ votes of Black men during wide-ranging NABJ interview in Philly
Vice President Kamala Harris' interview with the National Association of Black Journalists in Philadelphia covered guns, the Israel-Hamas war, and Trump's targeting of Haitian immigrants.
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks with the National Association of Black Journalists at WHYY in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024.Monica Herndon / Staff Photographer
by Layla A. Jones, Julia Terruso, Sean Collins Walsh, and Fallon RothUpdated Sept. 17, 2024, 5:49 p.m. ET
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Published Sept. 17, 2024, 5:00 p.m. ET
Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday in Philadelphia that she isn’t treating Black male voters as a monolith amid signs that former President Donald Trump has made inroads with the demographic.
“I’m working to earn their vote, not assuming I’m going to have it because I’m Black,” Harris said during an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists.
It was one of her first live interviews since she became the Democratic standard-bearer following President Joe Biden’s decision to end his reelection campaign. Harris broke little new ground and offered few specifics on policy proposals when pressed by moderators. But she escaped the 45-minute event largely unscathed despite weeks of criticism about her avoiding unscripted interviews with journalists.
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The event could not have been more different than Trump’s July sit-down with the same organization, in which he clashed with moderators and drew widespread criticism for questioning when Harris “became Black.” (Harris, whose mother is Indian and whose father is Jamaican, has long embraced both aspects of her heritage.)
Harris’ latest visit to Philadelphia came 49 days before Election Day in a race in which both candidates are targeting Pennsylvania as a must-win state.
Harris’ interview was hosted by WHYY and moderated by Gerren Gaynor of TheGrio television network, Eugene Daniels of Politico, and Tonya Mosley of NPR. Before an audience of NABJ members and students from historically Black colleges and universities, the vice president answered questions on topics ranging from job creation and abortion to the Israel-Hamas war and U.S. gun violence.
She reiterated her support for a ban on assault rifles, which are often used in high-profile mass shootings, and noted that she and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are both gun owners.
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“We’re not trying to take any guns away from anyone, but we do need an assault weapons ban,” she said.
Asked which other policies she believed could address the epidemic of gun violence in the U.S. — where 59% of homicides and violent crimes are perpetrated with handguns — Harris acknowledged there are “very few solutions we haven’t thought of.”
She said universal background checks would help, although those would cover only legally purchased guns. She also stressed the need to end gun-show loopholes that allow dealers in some states to sell guns without performing background checks.
”I myself protested at a gun show 10, 15 years ago about the gun-show loophole and why we need to close that,” she said.
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On the Israel-Hamas war, Daniels noted that Harris has been praised for emphasizing the humanity of Palestinians in her public statements on the issue. But he questioned whether there are any substantive differences between her approach and Biden’s, which progressive critics of the war have said has failed to hold Israel accountable.
“Is there a specific policy change as president that you would do?” he said.
Harris reiterated her support for a cease-fire agreement to end the bloodshed.
“We need to get this deal done, and we need to get it done immediately. That is my position and that is my policy,” Harris said, without articulating a difference between her plans and Biden’s policy.
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Harris also addressed the apparent assassination attempt targeting Trump on Sunday, saying she spoke with him about the ordeal on Tuesday. The foiled plot was the second time Trump has been targeted by a gunman during the campaign, following his being shot in the ear during a July rally in Butler, Pa.
“I checked on him to see if he was OK, and I told him what I said publicly: ‘There’s no place for political violence in our country,’” Harris said.
Harris also addressed her own safety, especially in reference to an incident on Jan. 6, 2021, where a pipe bomb was found outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters while she was inside.
She said she feels confident in the ability of the Secret Service to protect her safety: “Yes, I feel safe. I have Secret Service protection,” she said.
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But she then pivoted to saying that many other people feel unsafe because of GOP policies and rhetoric, such as LGBTQ residents who feel targeted by Republican state officials in Florida, and immigrants who have been the subject of false and demonizing anecdotes by Trump.
Harris said Trump’s repeatedly debunked false claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, are “a crying shame.”
“I mean, my heart breaks for this community,” Harris said, citing how schools in Springfield had to be evacuated due to threats.
”You cannot be entrusted with standing behind the seal of the president of the United States of America engaging in that hateful rhetoric that, as usual, is designed to divide us as a country,” Harris said.
Harris’ visit coincided with a four-day White House conference on HBCUs in Philadelphia, which Biden addressed the previous day.
Morgan State University senior Zakaiya Williams took a bus from Maryland to Philadelphia to see Harris speak Tuesday. Before the event began, she said she was most interested in Harris’ responses on the Israel-Hamas war.
After Harris spoke, Williams felt her response to questions about the conflict in Gaza fell flat.
“She didn’t answer as head-on as I thought she would,” Williams said.
Howard University senior Danilo Wrightsell said the campus is abuzz with support for Harris’ presidential campaign, which coincides with the anniversary of the historically Black university’s 100th homecoming. Harris is a Howard alum and pledged Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at the school in 1986.
“A lot of people are really excited about her,” he said. “There’s a big thing of pride going on on campus.”
Is anyone listening to this Kamala interview! Holy shit 😂😂😂 what an absolute disaster. Whoever approved this is getting fired for sure. Trump and Kamala combined don’t have enough money for the attack ads Trump is going to make out of this! A total blithering idiot. I can’t believe how bad she is.
I don't think I've ever said this before. So we
do these rallies. They're massive rallies. Everybody loves, everybody stays
till the end. By the way, you know, when she said that, well, your rallies
people leave. Honestly, nobody does. And if I saw them leaving, I'd say, and
ladies and gentlemen make America great again and I'd get the hell out, ok?
Because I don't want people leaving. But I do have to say so I give these long
sometimes very complex sentences and paragraphs but they all come together. I
do it a lot. I do it with raising cane. That story. I do it with the story on
the catapults on the aircraft carriers. I do it with a lot of different
stories. When I mentioned Doctor Hannibal Lecter. I'm using that as an example
of people that are coming in from Silence of the Lambs. I use it. They say it's
terrible. So they say so I'll give this long complex area for instance that I
talked about a lot of different territory… You know, for a town hall, there's a
lot of people but the fake news likes to say, the fake news likes to say, oh,
he was rambling. No, no, that's not rambling. That's genius. When you can
connect the dots. Now, now, Sarah, if you couldn't connect the dots, you got a
problem. But every dot was connected and many stories were told in that little
paragraph
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1994 : Memphis 1995 : New Orleans 1996 : Seattle
1998 : St Louis, Birmingham, Knoxville
2000 : Memphis, Nashville, St Louis
2003 : Irvine 1+2, Vegas, Bridge School 1+2, Santa Barbara
2005 : Missoula, Vancouver, Gorge 2006 : LA 1+2, Vegas
2008 : W Palm Beach, Tampa, Who Rock Honors, EV LA 2
2009 : LA 1, LA 4, EV 1 Nashville 2011 : EV Long Beach
2012: EV Vegas 1+2
2013 LA 1+2 2018 Prague, Wrigley 2 2020 Phoenix, SD
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
KH - I was raised as a middle class kid, my Mom saved up money so we could buy our first house <insert cackle> I worked at McDonalds.
Thank you Kamala, great answer
1994 : Memphis 1995 : New Orleans 1996 : Seattle
1998 : St Louis, Birmingham, Knoxville
2000 : Memphis, Nashville, St Louis
2003 : Irvine 1+2, Vegas, Bridge School 1+2, Santa Barbara
2005 : Missoula, Vancouver, Gorge 2006 : LA 1+2, Vegas
2008 : W Palm Beach, Tampa, Who Rock Honors, EV LA 2
2009 : LA 1, LA 4, EV 1 Nashville 2011 : EV Long Beach
2012: EV Vegas 1+2
2013 LA 1+2 2018 Prague, Wrigley 2 2020 Phoenix, SD
What would you do differently than President Biden to solve the Israel/Hamas conflict?
KH - We need a ceasefire. And we are working around the clock to free the hostages and negotiate a ceasefire. (Around the clock for nearly a year now 🤦♂️)
1994 : Memphis 1995 : New Orleans 1996 : Seattle
1998 : St Louis, Birmingham, Knoxville
2000 : Memphis, Nashville, St Louis
2003 : Irvine 1+2, Vegas, Bridge School 1+2, Santa Barbara
2005 : Missoula, Vancouver, Gorge 2006 : LA 1+2, Vegas
2008 : W Palm Beach, Tampa, Who Rock Honors, EV LA 2
2009 : LA 1, LA 4, EV 1 Nashville 2011 : EV Long Beach
2012: EV Vegas 1+2
2013 LA 1+2 2018 Prague, Wrigley 2 2020 Phoenix, SD
1994 : Memphis 1995 : New Orleans 1996 : Seattle
1998 : St Louis, Birmingham, Knoxville
2000 : Memphis, Nashville, St Louis
2003 : Irvine 1+2, Vegas, Bridge School 1+2, Santa Barbara
2005 : Missoula, Vancouver, Gorge 2006 : LA 1+2, Vegas
2008 : W Palm Beach, Tampa, Who Rock Honors, EV LA 2
2009 : LA 1, LA 4, EV 1 Nashville 2011 : EV Long Beach
2012: EV Vegas 1+2
2013 LA 1+2 2018 Prague, Wrigley 2 2020 Phoenix, SD
Whaa whaa whaaa them liberals are shooting at me I need at least 12 special opts units guarding me while a golf cause you know I’m the chosen one God has told me so whaaa whaaa 👋👋
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1998 : St Louis, Birmingham, Knoxville
2000 : Memphis, Nashville, St Louis
2003 : Irvine 1+2, Vegas, Bridge School 1+2, Santa Barbara
2005 : Missoula, Vancouver, Gorge 2006 : LA 1+2, Vegas
2008 : W Palm Beach, Tampa, Who Rock Honors, EV LA 2
2009 : LA 1, LA 4, EV 1 Nashville 2011 : EV Long Beach
2012: EV Vegas 1+2
2013 LA 1+2 2018 Prague, Wrigley 2
2020 Phoenix, SD
For the record, I never defended his comments. I first asked what evidence is there they were targeting immigrants because a lot of schools received threats last week. I had to read about 8 or 10 articles to find that quote about the emails. Had someone responded with that, I would have conceded sooner.
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana
She hasn't called anyone "nasty," and the interviewers never asked her if she was really black, either.
Also, since you brought it up, what's the relevance of the threats coming from a foreign nation?
LOL
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Keep it up, I guess?
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
For the sake of transparency, theres a Nate Silver projection thats cut off at #6 and has Trump ahead with better odds and a 2 vote EV win (Heres the tweet https://x.com/iapolls2022/status/1836118037352571195?s=46&t=tEb3Tq-PS2p6-_C2Unvq5w), but my screen grab couldn't capture everything because the tweet is too long.
However I have been reading how he is giving equal weight to right wing leaning polling places like this Patriot Polling which is one of the worst out there according to 538 (ranked 249 out 282 total pollsters) in swing states. There is a lot of chatter about how his new company is owned by Peter Theil (billionaire Trump supporter) and that it's affiliated with polymarket--the betting on politics place.
Anyway...the guys who run this particular polling outfit are teenagers.
https://patriotpolling.com/about-us
Seems a little fishy to me.
You may be surprised to learn that none of what our maga friend portrayed earlier seemed to have happened. Seemed like a mundane...dare I say normal political event. A complete 180 from the shit show that was Trump's appearance at the last one.
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/kamala-harris-nabj-interview-philadelphia-20240917.html
Kamala Harris says she is ‘working to earn’ votes of Black men during wide-ranging NABJ interview in Philly
Vice President Kamala Harris' interview with the National Association of Black Journalists in Philadelphia covered guns, the Israel-Hamas war, and Trump's targeting of Haitian immigrants.
by Layla A. Jones, Julia Terruso, Sean Collins Walsh, and Fallon RothUpdated Sept. 17, 2024, 5:49 p.m. ET
Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday in Philadelphia that she isn’t treating Black male voters as a monolith amid signs that former President Donald Trump has made inroads with the demographic.
“I’m working to earn their vote, not assuming I’m going to have it because I’m Black,” Harris said during an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists.
It was one of her first live interviews since she became the Democratic standard-bearer following President Joe Biden’s decision to end his reelection campaign. Harris broke little new ground and offered few specifics on policy proposals when pressed by moderators. But she escaped the 45-minute event largely unscathed despite weeks of criticism about her avoiding unscripted interviews with journalists.
» READ MORE: Donald Trump questioned Kamala Harris’ racial identity and returned to Pa. for the first time since his assassination attempt
The event could not have been more different than Trump’s July sit-down with the same organization, in which he clashed with moderators and drew widespread criticism for questioning when Harris “became Black.” (Harris, whose mother is Indian and whose father is Jamaican, has long embraced both aspects of her heritage.)
Harris’ latest visit to Philadelphia came 49 days before Election Day in a race in which both candidates are targeting Pennsylvania as a must-win state.
Harris’ interview was hosted by WHYY and moderated by Gerren Gaynor of TheGrio television network, Eugene Daniels of Politico, and Tonya Mosley of NPR. Before an audience of NABJ members and students from historically Black colleges and universities, the vice president answered questions on topics ranging from job creation and abortion to the Israel-Hamas war and U.S. gun violence.
She reiterated her support for a ban on assault rifles, which are often used in high-profile mass shootings, and noted that she and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are both gun owners.
“We’re not trying to take any guns away from anyone, but we do need an assault weapons ban,” she said.
Asked which other policies she believed could address the epidemic of gun violence in the U.S. — where 59% of homicides and violent crimes are perpetrated with handguns — Harris acknowledged there are “very few solutions we haven’t thought of.”
She said universal background checks would help, although those would cover only legally purchased guns. She also stressed the need to end gun-show loopholes that allow dealers in some states to sell guns without performing background checks.
”I myself protested at a gun show 10, 15 years ago about the gun-show loophole and why we need to close that,” she said.
On the Israel-Hamas war, Daniels noted that Harris has been praised for emphasizing the humanity of Palestinians in her public statements on the issue. But he questioned whether there are any substantive differences between her approach and Biden’s, which progressive critics of the war have said has failed to hold Israel accountable.
“Is there a specific policy change as president that you would do?” he said.
Harris reiterated her support for a cease-fire agreement to end the bloodshed.
“We need to get this deal done, and we need to get it done immediately. That is my position and that is my policy,” Harris said, without articulating a difference between her plans and Biden’s policy.
Harris also addressed the apparent assassination attempt targeting Trump on Sunday, saying she spoke with him about the ordeal on Tuesday. The foiled plot was the second time Trump has been targeted by a gunman during the campaign, following his being shot in the ear during a July rally in Butler, Pa.
“I checked on him to see if he was OK, and I told him what I said publicly: ‘There’s no place for political violence in our country,’” Harris said.
Harris also addressed her own safety, especially in reference to an incident on Jan. 6, 2021, where a pipe bomb was found outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters while she was inside.
She said she feels confident in the ability of the Secret Service to protect her safety: “Yes, I feel safe. I have Secret Service protection,” she said.
But she then pivoted to saying that many other people feel unsafe because of GOP policies and rhetoric, such as LGBTQ residents who feel targeted by Republican state officials in Florida, and immigrants who have been the subject of false and demonizing anecdotes by Trump.
Harris said Trump’s repeatedly debunked false claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, are “a crying shame.”
“I mean, my heart breaks for this community,” Harris said, citing how schools in Springfield had to be evacuated due to threats.
Trump has doubled down on anti-immigrant rhetoric, spreading falsehoods about towns including Charleroi, Pa., a small borough in Washington County.
”You cannot be entrusted with standing behind the seal of the president of the United States of America engaging in that hateful rhetoric that, as usual, is designed to divide us as a country,” Harris said.
Harris’ visit coincided with a four-day White House conference on HBCUs in Philadelphia, which Biden addressed the previous day.
Morgan State University senior Zakaiya Williams took a bus from Maryland to Philadelphia to see Harris speak Tuesday. Before the event began, she said she was most interested in Harris’ responses on the Israel-Hamas war.
After Harris spoke, Williams felt her response to questions about the conflict in Gaza fell flat.
“She didn’t answer as head-on as I thought she would,” Williams said.
Howard University senior Danilo Wrightsell said the campus is abuzz with support for Harris’ presidential campaign, which coincides with the anniversary of the historically Black university’s 100th homecoming. Harris is a Howard alum and pledged Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at the school in 1986.
“A lot of people are really excited about her,” he said. “There’s a big thing of pride going on on campus.”
KH - I was a middle class kid, we were proud of our lawn.
1998 : St Louis, Birmingham, Knoxville
2000 : Memphis, Nashville, St Louis
2003 : Irvine 1+2, Vegas, Bridge School 1+2, Santa Barbara
2005 : Missoula, Vancouver, Gorge 2006 : LA 1+2, Vegas
2008 : W Palm Beach, Tampa, Who Rock Honors, EV LA 2
2009 : LA 1, LA 4, EV 1 Nashville 2011 : EV Long Beach
2012: EV Vegas 1+2
2013 LA 1+2 2018 Prague, Wrigley 2
2020 Phoenix, SD
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
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KH - I was raised as a middle class kid, my Mom saved up money so we could buy our first house <insert cackle> I worked at McDonalds.
Thank you Kamala, great answer
1998 : St Louis, Birmingham, Knoxville
2000 : Memphis, Nashville, St Louis
2003 : Irvine 1+2, Vegas, Bridge School 1+2, Santa Barbara
2005 : Missoula, Vancouver, Gorge 2006 : LA 1+2, Vegas
2008 : W Palm Beach, Tampa, Who Rock Honors, EV LA 2
2009 : LA 1, LA 4, EV 1 Nashville 2011 : EV Long Beach
2012: EV Vegas 1+2
2013 LA 1+2 2018 Prague, Wrigley 2
2020 Phoenix, SD
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KH - We need a ceasefire. And we are working around the clock to free the hostages and negotiate a ceasefire. (Around the clock for nearly a year now 🤦♂️)
1998 : St Louis, Birmingham, Knoxville
2000 : Memphis, Nashville, St Louis
2003 : Irvine 1+2, Vegas, Bridge School 1+2, Santa Barbara
2005 : Missoula, Vancouver, Gorge 2006 : LA 1+2, Vegas
2008 : W Palm Beach, Tampa, Who Rock Honors, EV LA 2
2009 : LA 1, LA 4, EV 1 Nashville 2011 : EV Long Beach
2012: EV Vegas 1+2
2013 LA 1+2 2018 Prague, Wrigley 2
2020 Phoenix, SD
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1998 : St Louis, Birmingham, Knoxville
2000 : Memphis, Nashville, St Louis
2003 : Irvine 1+2, Vegas, Bridge School 1+2, Santa Barbara
2005 : Missoula, Vancouver, Gorge 2006 : LA 1+2, Vegas
2008 : W Palm Beach, Tampa, Who Rock Honors, EV LA 2
2009 : LA 1, LA 4, EV 1 Nashville 2011 : EV Long Beach
2012: EV Vegas 1+2
2013 LA 1+2 2018 Prague, Wrigley 2
2020 Phoenix, SD