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Election 2024 updates: RFK Jr. planning to leave 2024 race by end of week: Sources
(CHICAGO) -- Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday unveiled her economic platform, her first major policy rollout since becoming the Democratic nominee.Former President Donald Trump on Thursday held a press conference in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he said he's "entitled" to insult his Democratic opponent because he doesn't respect her…
How to watch, what to know about the 2024 DNC
(CHICAGO) -- The Democratic National Convention kicked off on Monday, Aug. 19 in Chicago -- during which Democratic Party delegates are set to support Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after their unconventional path to the party's nomination.During the four-day convention, Democratic heavyweights are…
Michelle Obama, Oprah set the stage for Kamala Harris as she accepts historic nomination
(CHICAGO) -- Vice President Kamala Harris has rarely discussed her gender or racial identity on the 2024 campaign trail -- not even responding directly to Donald Trump falsely questioning whether she was truly Black.But at the Democratic National Convention this week, trailblazing Black women have set the stage for Harris…
Some of Chicago’s young voters talk 2024 presidential election at the DNC
(CHICAGO) -- Perhaps no demographic group has had more ink spilled about it this election year than young voters. Traditionally a Democratic group, 18- to 29-year-olds soured on Joe Biden's presidency faster than many other groups — and that was before the war between Israel and Hamas touched off protests…
Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger set to round out slate of GOP speakers at DNC supporting Harris
(CHICAGO) -- Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger is in a unique position as a Republican: On Thursday, he is set to deliver a prime-time speech on the final day of the Democratic National Convention, speaking in support of Vice President Kamala Harris before she accepts her party's nomination for president.Kinzinger, who…
Harris’ ‘working-class’ McDonald’s experience highlighted at DNC, on campaign trail
(CHICAGO) -- McDonald's -- and politics?Vice President Kamala Harris having worked there in college has repeatedly been brought up by speakers at the Democratic National Convention -- almost as if it's on a menu -- and her campaign is using it as a symbolic, shorthand way of connecting her experience…
Why Clinton’s claim that Democratic presidents created more jobs than Republicans is slightly misleading
(CHICAGO) -- Former President Bill Clinton made an astounding claim at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night about the relative success of Democratic presidents when compared to their Republican counterparts in the area of job creation. The statistic is misleading, however.“Since the end of the Cold War in 1989,…
DNC refuses to put Palestinian American speaker on convention stage, advocates say
(CHICAGO) -- Outside the United Center in Chicago, while former President Bill Clinton had taken the stage on the third night of the Democratic National Convention, delegates from the uncommitted movement, whose support of Vice President Kamala Harris is contingent on her support of an arms embargo on Israel, announced…
Trump to slam Harris on immigration during rally in battleground Arizona
(SIERRA VISTA, Ariz.) -- On the same day Vice President Kamala Harris is set to give her formal acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, former President Donald Trump will be focusing on the topic he has criticized Harris for the most: immigration.Trump will spend the day on…
Three key objectives Harris is expected to touch on during DNC speech
(CHICAGO) -- Vice President Kamala Harris is setting out to achieve three key objectives in her highly anticipated Democratic National Convention speech Thursday night, according to a campaign official.The vice president will tell her story of being raised by a working mother in a middle-class neighborhood -- sharing how her…