Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, in an effort to bolster the Democratic ticket in Midwestern states.
Now that both major parties have chosen their cards, the campaign will play out as a 90-day sprint, and the Rust Belt and the Sun Belt are important fronts. Both the Harris-Walz and Trump-Vance campaigns will be on the road Wednesday in the key states of Michigan and Wisconsin for their respective guided tours of the state of the battlefields.
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Thursday’s news conference would mark his first public appearance since Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee and chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate.
The former president announced the 2 p.m. EDT press conference on his Truth Social network, then posted that he would like to debate Harris. He had made an announcement about the presidential debate earlier this week after backing out of the planned ABC News debate. Trump had said he would prefer the debate to take place on Fox News, but on Wednesday he indicated a willingness to reconsider ABC News.
“I will expose Kamala in the debate the same way I exposed Crooked Joe, Hillary and everybody else in the debates,” he said on Truth Social. “I just think Kamala will be easier.”
Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance has criticized Harris for not holding a news conference or sitting down for interviews since President Joe Biden stepped aside and she launched her bid for the presidency. Harris has sometimes fielded shouted questions as she boards and disembarks her plane for campaign stops.
Five foreign ministers are urging Elon Musk to fix an AI chatbot on social media platform X, they say in a letter sent on monday that it has spread election misinformation.
The top election officials from Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Washington told Musk that X’s KI chatbot, Grok, false information produced about the state’s voting deadlines shortly after President Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race.
Although Grok is only available to subscribers of the premium versions of X, the misinformation was shared across multiple social media platforms and reached millions of people, the letter said. The chatbot’s false information about the voting deadline also referenced Alabama, Indiana, Ohio and Texas, although their secretaries of state did not sign the letter. Grok continued to repeat the false information for 10 days before correcting it, the ministers said.
The letter called on X to immediately fix the chatbot “to ensure voters have accurate information in this crucial election year.” That would include directing Grok to direct users to CanIVote.orga voting information website maintained by the National Association of Secretaries of State, when asked about the U.S. elections.
