The Vice Presidential Campaigns Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump argue ahead of their important debate on September 10 on whether microphones must be muted except for the candidate whose turn it is to speak. The former president suggested Sunday that he might not appear for the debate, which was hosted by ABC.
Trump on Monday took aim at Harris’ role in foreign policy, tie her up to the chaotic withdrawal from the Afghan war on the third anniversary of the suicide bombing that killed 13 American soldiers.
Meanwhile, Harris’ campaign said it has now raised money $540 million and saw an increase in donations during the Democratic National Convention last week.
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Republican candidate for vice president JD Vance say Donald Trump would not support a national ban on abortion if elected president and would veto any such legislation if it reached his desk.
“I can absolutely promise that,” Vance said when asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” if he could promise that Trump would not impose such a ban. “Donald Trump believes that we want the individual states and their individual cultures and their unique political sensitivities to make those decisions, because we don’t want a nonstop federal conflict over this issue.”
The Ohio senator also stressed that Trump, the former president who is this year’s Republican presidential nominee, would veto such legislation if it were to pass Congress.
“I mean, if you don’t support it as president of the United States, you should basically veto it,” he said in an interview that aired Sunday.
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Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination “on behalf of all whose stories could only be written in the greatest nation on earth.” America, Barack Obama thundered“is ready for a better story.” JD Vance insisted that the Biden administration “is not the end of our story,” and Donald Trump called on fellow Republicans to “write our own exciting chapter of the American story.”
“This week,” comedian and former Obama administration speechwriter Jon Lovett said Thursday on NBC, “it was about a story.”
In American political discourse, this kind of talk from both sides is not surprising — even fitting. Because in the 2024 campaign season, as in American culture as a whole, the notion of “narrative” is ubiquitous.
This year’s political conventions, like so many of their kind, were curated collections of elaborate stories carefully spun to achieve one goal: get elected. But beneath them was a fierce, high-stakes battle over how to tell the biggest story of all: the story of America that would be, as Harris called it, “the next great chapter in the most extraordinary story ever told.”
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When Minnesota Governor Tim Walz When Walz took the stage to welcome a conference of clean-energy advocates in Minneapolis in May, he was quick to note that his state now gets just over half of its energy from renewable sources. In the next breath, Walz said Minnesota would never get to 100 percent — a goal he helped set — without changing what he called “antiquated” permitting laws.
“There are things we do that are too burdensome, that don’t fit where we are today, that add cost and that make it harder to get to where we need to be,” Walz told the trade group American Clean Power.
A few weeks later, he signed legislation to speed things up. Developers no longer have to demonstrate that a clean energy project — that is, solar and wind, storage and transmission projects — is needed as part of Minnesota’s energy system. And they no longer have to study alternative sites and transmission line routes — a requirement that would have effectively doubled the potential opponents to a project.
Walz’s efforts to solve a major obstacle to the clean energy transition nationwide have gained renewed attention since he was appointed Kamala Harris’ running mate. His experience pushing similar laws in Minnesota could position him as a leader on climate issues if Harris wins in November.
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