Harris first one-on-one reviews policies on economy, reproductive rights
Kamala Harris’s first network one-on-one covered familiar ground – her proposals for the economy, her vision to protect and restore reproductive rights, and the dangers her opponent would pose should he win a second term.
The interview was generally softball, on a friendly network – though MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle did gently push back on Harris’s points about the Trump vs Biden economy.
Harris’s strongest point came at the end of the half hour, when she discussed reproductive rights. “Donald Trump is also the person who said women should be punished for exercising a decision that they rightly should be able to make about their own body and future,” she said – saying that women couldn’t trust the former president.
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A bipartisan Senate report found the Secret Service made “preventable” errors in securing Donald Trump’s July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where an assassin opened fire, killing an attendee and wounding the former president.
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Trump said he will return next month to the Butler, Pennsylvania venue where a gunman tried to assassinate him in July.
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Congress is on track to pass legislation to fund the government until 20 December, with the Senate’s Democratic leader Chuck Schumer saying he hopes to send Joe Biden the bill by the end of the day.
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One of the country’s largest Muslim voter-mobilization groups, Emgage Action, has endorsed Kamala Harris for president in what it said “represents an especially difficult moment for Muslim Americans.”
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A new CNN poll published on Wednesday, has leading Trump by 12 points among likely voters under the age of 35. Polls have also suggested that Trump is losing his edge on economic issues.
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The AARPfound that Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, was trailing his Democratic challenger in a survey taken before news broke of his history of making lewd statements on pornography websites.
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Kamala Harris’s first network one-on-one covered familiar ground – her proposals for the economy, her vision to protect and restore reproductive rights, and the dangers her opponent would pose should he win a second term.
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The interview was generally softball, on a friendly network – though MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle did gently push back on Harris’s points about the Trump vs Biden economy.
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Harris’s strongest point came at the end of the half hour, when she discussed reproductive rights. “Donald Trump is also the person who said women should be punished for exercising a decision that they rightly should be able to make about their own body and future,” she said – saying that women couldn’t trust the former president.
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On the economy, Harris is once again shifting her tone to one that is empathetic to Americans’ struggle to make ends meet.
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While Joe Biden struggled to convince voters that the underpinnings of the economy were strong, even as they struggled to keep up with the cost of living, Harris has focused on addressing the issues head on.
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In the interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, she said:
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Homeownership for too many people in our country now is elusive. You know, gone is the day of everyone thinking they could actually live the American dream. So part of my vision for the economy is: let’s deal with some of the everyday challenges that people face, and address them with commonsense solutions such as affordable housing.
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MSNBC is now airing a rare one-on-one interview with Kamala Harris, her first solo network interview since she became the Democratic presidential nominee.
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We’ll be following along here.
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The bill will now go to Joe Biden for a signature. The 78-18 vote quickly followed the House’s approval.
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Republican House speaker Mike Johnson unveiled the legislation this weekend, this time without Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (Save) act, a controversial proposal that would require people to show proof of citizenship when they register to vote. Donald Trump had urged Republicans to double down on their demand to include the measure.
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But this version of the bill will avert a pre-election shutdown, punting it until December 20.
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Later this evening, Kamala Harris will sit down with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle for her first one-on-one network interview since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.
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In a preview of the pre-recorded interview, Harris discusses corporate taxes. Earlier on MNSBC, Ruhle signaled that the vice president would delve into details and specifics of her plans and the impact of Donald Trump’s economic plans (including his proposed tariffs).
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“She is laying out a detailed economic plan, because she’s got a problem,” Ruhle said, namely that voters keep saying they don’t know enough about her proposals. “So her challenge and what she did today and what she did when we sat down, is trying to make people understand her vision … serves everyone,” she said.
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MSNBC EXCLUSIVE: Vice President Kamala Harris discusses raising corporate taxes. "It's about paying their fair share," she said in a one-on-one interview with Stephanie Ruhle.
Watch the full interview at 7PM ET on a special edition of @allinwithchris and @11thHour. pic.twitter.com/jqzGudwfQq
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 25, 2024
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The US House passed a three-month government funding package on Wednesday, sending the bill to the Senatewith just days left to avert a shutdown set to begin next Tuesday.
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The vote was 341 to 82, with 132 Republicans and 209 Democrats supporting the legislation. All 82 votes against the bill, which will extend government funding until 20 December, came from House Republicans.
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Republican House speaker Mike Johnson revealed the legislation on Sunday after his original funding proposal failed to pass last week. Johnson’s original bill combined a six-month funding measure with the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (Save) act, a controversial proposal that would require people to show proof of citizenship when they register to vote. Fourteen House Republicans and all but two House Democrats voted against that bill last Wednesday, blocking its passage.
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Read the full story here:
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Mark Cuban, who attended Harris’s speech at the Economic Club in Pittsburgh, praised the vice-president’s pitch as “better for business”.
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Cuban, the entrepreneur and investor who rose to prominence as owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team and star of the reality TV show Shark Tank, lauded Harris for discussing AI and other emerging technologies and her plans to encourage entrepreneurs in an interview with MSNBC.
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“Every single person in this country has that entrepreneur in them,” he said. “And she’s going to lift them up.”
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Trump meanwhile, “has no interest in really finding out what it takes to be successful with any policy,” Cuban said.
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"He had no interest in really finding out what it takes to be successful with any policy… That's where we kind of diverged and went in our different directions and he hasn't changed."
Mark Cuban on why he is supporting Kamala Harris over Donald Trump this November. pic.twitter.com/Eg6CTuJbZq
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 25, 2024
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Cuban has been a big supporter of Harris.
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Harris, in turn, had largely catered this speech to business owners and centrists who may have identified with pro-business Republican candidates in the past, and may be turned off by Donald Trump’s inscrutable economic agenda.
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Warning that the US’s rivals, particularly China, are catching up to it, Kamala Harris said that the “third pillar” of her economic plan would be focused on ensuring the country is the leader in technological innovation, and on cutting red tape that slows down the completion of projects.
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“The third pillar of our opportunity economy is leading the world in the industries of the future and making sure America, not China, wins the competition for the 21st century,” Harris said.
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She then elaborated on the types of technologies her administration would prioritize:
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I will recommit the nation to global leadership in the sectors that will define the next century. We will invest in biomanufacturing and aerospace, remain dominant in AI and quantum computing, blockchain and other emerging technologies, expand our lead in clean energy innovation and manufacturing, so the next generation of breakthroughs from advanced batteries to geothermal to advanced nuclear are not just invented, but built here in America by American workers.
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Turning to unions, she promised to “double the number of registered apprenticeships by the end of my first term”. Harris also proposed eliminating “degree requirements while increasing skills development”, something she said she would do for federal workers.
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She then turned to the pace of construction in the United States, which she argued was too slow:
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But the simple truth is, in America, it takes too long and it costs too much to build. Whether it’s a new housing development, a new factory or a new bridge, projects take too long to go from concept to reality. It happens in blue states, it happens in red states, and it’s a national problem. And I will tell you this, China is not moving slowly. They’re not and we can’t afford to either.
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Lowering costs was “the first pillar” of her economic policy, and now Kamala Harris is getting into her “second pillar”, which she said was “investing in American innovation and entrepreneurship”.
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“There has been no incubator for unleashing human potential like America, and we need to guard that spirit,” the vice-president said.
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Her plan to do that involves making it easier for entrepreneurs to get loans:
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We can make it easier for our small businesses to access capital. On average, it costs about $40,000 to start a new business, but currently, the tax deduction for startups is only $5,000.
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So, currently, for startup costs, the tax deduction is $5,000. Well, in 2024 it is almost impossible to start a business on $5,000 which is why as president, I will make the start-up deduction 10 times richer, and we will raise it from $5,000 to $50,000 tax deduction and provide low- and no-interest loans to small businesses that want to expand.
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She also set the goal of generating 25m new applications for small businesses by the end of her first term, which would be in January 2029.
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Kamala Harris is now talking about the sorts of policies she would pursue as president, reiterating pledges she has previously made to assist families with childcare costs, cut taxes for the middle class and spur the construction of affordable housing:
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Under my plan, more than 100 million Americans will get a middle-class tax break that includes $6,000 for new parents during the first year of their child’s life to help families cover everything from car seats to cribs. We’ll also cut the cost of childcare and elder care, and finally, give all working people access to paid leave, which will help everyone caring for children, caring for aging parents and that sandwich generation, which is caring for both.
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She then went into her plan to lower housing costs, a major concern for both her and Donald Trump:
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We will also go after the biggest drivers of cost for the middle class and work to bring them down. And one of those, some would argue, one of the biggest is the cost of housing. So here’s what we will do. We will cut the red tape that stops homes from being built and take on, in addition, corporate landlords who are hiking rental prices and, yes, and we will work with builders and developers to construct 3 million new homes and rentals for the middle class, because increasing the housing supply will help drive down the cost of housing.
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Then we will also help first time homebuyers just get their foot in the door with the $25,000 down payment assistance.
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Trump’s policy on housing has centered on mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, who he argues have increased demand for housing and, therefore, costs. Here’s more about that:
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Kamala Harris began by recounting how the economy grew and unemployment stayed low under Joe Biden’s presidency, then pivoted to acknowledging the toll inflation has taken on Americans.
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“Over the past three and a half years, we have taken major steps forward to recover from the public health and economic crisis we inherited. Inflation has dropped faster here than the rest of the developed world. Unemployment is near record low levels,” she said.
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“But let’s be clear, for all these positive steps, the cost of living in America is still just too high. You know it, and I know it, and that was true long before the pandemic hit.”
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Donald Trump will return to the Butler, Pennsylvania venue where a gunman tried to assassinate him in July, the ex-president’s campaign just announced.
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Trump will return on 5 October “to hold a rally on the very same ground where he came within a quarter of an inch of losing his life less than three months ago”, the campaign said.
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“During his visit, President Trump will honor the memory of Corey Comperatore, who heroically sacrificed his life to shield his wife and daughters from the bullets on that terrible day. President Trump will also recognize the two other Americans who were wounded by the shooter, David Dutch and James Copenhaver. He will express his deep gratitude to law enforcement and first responders, and thank the entire community for their outpouring of love and support in the wake of the attack.”
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His campaign went on to liken Trump’s survival of the assassination attempt to New York’s rebuilding of the World Trade Center after it was destroyed in the 9/11 attacks:
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President Trump’s return to Butler will stand as a tribute to the American spirit. In America, we do not let monsters like that evil assassin have the last word. Every time our nation is struck by attack or hardship, we rally, we persevere, and we prevail. When terrorists knocked down our towering skyscrapers, we rebuilt taller. When our communities are ravaged by fire, storm, or natural disaster, we pull together and come back stronger. And when a shooter attacked our democracy and tried to end this movement, President Trump will return to the site, joined by tens of thousands of proud citizens, and together, they will celebrate a unifying vision for America’s future in an event like the world has never seen before.
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We’re a few minutes away from Kamala Harris taking the stage in Pittsburgh, where she’ll make a speech billed as outlining her economic policies.
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The vice-president has lately been campaigning on creating an “opportunity economy”. Under Joe Biden, she championed his wide-ranging economic proposals, which led to Congress passing legislation to improve the nation’s infrastructure, encourage the growth of the semiconductor industry, lower prescription drug prices and fight climate change.
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But several other ideas Biden supported, such as raising the minimum wage to $15 per-hour, strengthening protections for organized labor and providing more government assistance to children and families, were not enacted, leaving it up to Harris to decide whether to pursue them, if elected as president.
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Harris is speaking in the second largest city of a swing state where polls show neither her nor Donald Trump has an advantage with voters. We’ll let you know what she has to say.
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A new CNN poll published on Wednesday, has Democratic nominee Kamala Harris leading former president Donald Trump by 12 points among likely voters under the age of 35.
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The survey also found that “female likely voters younger than 35 prefer Harris over Trump” 53% to 39%, but male likely voters are more closely divided.
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Though Harris is leading among young people, CNN reports that the vice-president’s lead among under 35 year olds is smaller than the lead president Joe Biden had in 2020, when he was up 21 points among that same age group.
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One of the country’s largest Muslim voter-mobilization groups, Emgage Action, has endorsed Kamala Harris for president.
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In an announcement posted to their website on Wednesday, the Muslim advocacy group said that the upcoming election “represents an especially difficult moment for Muslim Americans.”
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The group voiced their concerns over the escalating crisis in the Middle East and mentioned the deaths of more than 40,000 Palestinians who have been killed in the last 11 months, as well as all those in Gaza who have been displaced. The group criticized the Biden Administration for providing ongoing military support and supplying weapons to Israel.
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“In November, we have the opportunity to change course and turn our outrage into action” the statement reads.
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The group’s endorsement of Harris on Wednesday, “is not an agreement with Vice President Harris on all issues,” the statement reads, “but rather, an honest guidance to our voters regarding the difficult choice they confront at the ballot box.”
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The group also said:
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We are pledging to do all that we can to ensure that the next administration listens to our communities and takes our calls for peace, justice and safety seriously. We know that will not be Donald Trump. We have always been clear-eyed about the danger Trump’s brand of authoritarianism represents for Muslim Americans, America, and the world. This is why in 2020 we embarked on a historic campaign to make sure that Muslim Americans played a decisive role in ensuring that Donald Trump was a one-term president.
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The group added that recognized “the responsibility to defeat Trump” and urged people not to vote for third-party candidates, arguing that while some third-party candidates had “aligned themselves with our community, we are clear-eyed that none of them have a realistic pathway to victory in November.”
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“As it stands today, the most effective way to change policy and advance peace, justice and ensure Palestinian self-determination is to push the Democratic Party” the statement added.
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A bipartisan Senate report found the Secret Service made “preventable” errors in securing Donald Trump’s July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where an assassin opened fire, killing an attendee and wounding the former president. The agency came in for criticism from lawmakers of both parties, after the homeland security committee’s investigation found agents’ communications struggles hampered their ability to respond when it became clear a gunman was at the rally. Meanwhile, new polling of Pennsylvania and North Carolina confirms Trump and Kamala Harris remain locked in a close race to win the swing states’ electoral votes.
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Here’s what else has happened today so far:
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Congress is on track to pass legislation to fund the government until 20 December, with the Senate’s Democratic leader Chuck Schumer saying he hopes to send Joe Biden the bill by the end of the day.
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The AARPfound that Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, was trailing his Democratic challenger in a survey taken before news broke of his history of making lewd statements on pornography websites.
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Battleground states North Carolina and Pennsylvania remain very close in the presidential race, new polls released today indicate.
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An AARP North Carolina poll shows Donald Trump leading Kamala Harris, with 50% support to the vice-president’s 47% in a head-to-head matchup – within the survey’s margin of error. The group took a close look at the leanings of voters over 50, finding they prefer Trump by nine percentage points over Harris.
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In Pennsylvania, the Monmouth University Polling Institute found Harris leading Trump, with 47% support among registered voters compared to the ex-president’s 45% support. That finding was also within the margin of error.
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PENNSYLVANIA VOTER POLL: Support for 2024 presidential candidates.
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40% definitely / 8% probably
44% definitely not / 6% probably notDONALD TRUMP:
38% definitely / 7% probably
46% definitely not / 7% probably nothttps://t.co/wGM6Soqg2Upic.twitter.com/oarq1nu21O— MonmouthPoll (@MonmouthPoll) September 25, 2024
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The Senate’s Democratic leader Chuck Schumer just announced that by the end of the day, he expected Joe Biden to be able to sign legislation to keep the government open through the November presidential election.
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“Americans can breathe easy that, because both sides have chosen bipartisanship, Congress is getting the job done. We will keep the government open. We will prevent vital government services from needlessly coming to a halt,” Schumer said in remarks on the Senate floor.
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He noted that the Republican-controlled House of Representatives is expected to this afternoon vote on a bill to fund the government until 20 December. “Once the Senate receives the House bill, we will immediately move to its consideration. We hope to vote early this evening, with final passage set at 60 votes. So if all goes well in the House, the Senate should be sending President Biden a bill before the end of today,” the New York Democrat said.
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Last week, Republican House speaker Mike Johnson tried and failed to pass a bill tying government funding with a measure, demanded by Donald Trump, to require people prove their citizenship when registering to vote. The measure’s failure raised the possibility of a standoff over government funding ahead of the 5 November presidential election, but Johnson ultimately decided to drop the non-citizen voting bill, paving the way for Congress to officially ward off a shutdown today.
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“This is a good outcome for the country. There will be no shutdown because finally, at the end of the day, our Republican colleagues in the House decided to work with us,” Schumer said.
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Shifting to campaign news, MSNBC just announced that Kamala Harris will speak with host Stephanie Ruhle this evening from Pittsburgh, in what will be the vice-president’s first solo interview with a television network since launching her presidential campaign:
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JUST ANNOUNCED: @VP Harris will join @MSNBC host @SRuhle in Pittsburgh for her first one-on-one network interview since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.
Watch the full interview tonight at 7pmET on MSNBC.
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CNN interviewed Harris earlier this month alongside her running mate, Tim Walz. Since then, she has done a small number of interviews, mostly with local outlets or those catering to specific audiences, such as Hispanic radio host Stephanie “Chiquibaby” Himonidis, and Wired, the tech magazine.
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The Secret Service’s ability to protect Donald Trump at his Butler, Pennsylvania rally was hampered by a range of communications failures, including faulty radios and a lack of ability to quickly get in touch with state and local police on the scene, the Senate homeland security committee found in its interim report into the assassination attempt.
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The radios used by agents were known to be faulty, and the report found at least one instance of an agent giving his radio to a colleague whose device was not working. There was also no system for the Secret Service to quickly communicate with the local police agencies on the scene, and the agency did not “adequately consider” local law enforcement’s plans at the rally.
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The committee also found that Secret Service employees responsible for planning the security of the rally “deflected blame”, and claimed that all decisions were made jointly with local law enforcement, with no single individual responsible.
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Good morning, US politics blog readers. The Secret Service made “preventable” errors at Donald Trump’s July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania that was marred by an assassination attempt, the Senate homeland security committee found in its interim report into the incident released this morning. The report said that a warning from local police of a shooter on the roof of a building overlooking the rally was not relayed to the Secret Service, that a Secret Service counter-sniper who saw officers running towards the building with guns drawn did not think to tell his colleagues to pull Trump off stage, and that law enforcement agencies on the scene used different radio channels to communicate.
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It’s the latest damning finding about the failures by the Secret Service to safeguard Trump at one of his trademark outdoor campaign rallies. An internal report from the agency last week detailed similar communications breakdowns, and the Senate report’s release comes a day after prosecutors announced a charge of attempted assassination against a man arrested in Florida last week for allegedly plotting to shoot Trump at his golf course. We’ll tell you more about the Senate’s finding, and the reaction to them, later in the day.
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Here’s what else is happening today:
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Kamala Harris will lay out her vision for the economy with a speech in Pittsburgh expected at 3.15pm ET. Trump did the same yesterday in battleground state Georgia, where he proposed high tariffs and lower taxes he said could bring back jobs from overseas. Economists are skeptical of his plan.
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Congress is expected to late this afternoon approve a spending bill that will keep the government open till 20 December, forestalling a shutdown in the weeks before the November election.
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The UN general assembly continues in New York, with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy set to address world leaders. You can follow our live blog on the latest Ukraine news here.
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Today’s recap
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Harris first one-on-one reviews policies on economy, reproductive rights
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Harris lays out economic vision in rare TV interview
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Kamala Harris sits down for rare one-on-one interview
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Senate passes stopgap funding bill
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Harris to sit for first one-on-one interview since becoming Democratic presidential nominee
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US House passes government funding package to avert shutdown
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Mark Cuban says Harris economic plan is ‘better for business’
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Eyeing competition from China, Harris vows to make US leader in emerging technologies like AI, quantum computing
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Harris announces plan to promote entrepreneurship
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Harris restates pledge for middle-class tax cut, childcare, affordable housing subsidy
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‘The cost of living in America is still just too high’ despite economy’s success, Harris says
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Trump says he will hold rally on site of Pennsylvania assassination attempt
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Harris to outline economic policies with speech in swing state Pennsylvania
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Harris leads Trump among young voters by 12 points – CNN poll
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One of largest Muslim voter-mobilization groups in US endorses Harris
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North Carolina, Pennsylvania remain toss ups in presidential race, polls show
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‘There will be no shutdown’, Democratic Senate leader Schumer says
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Harris to sit for interview with MSNBC
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Secret Service plagued by communications failures at Trump’s Pennsylvania rally, report finds
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Senate finds ‘preventable’ Secret Service errors in preparing for Trump Pennsylvania rally where assassin opened fire
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Today’s recap
New polling of Pennsylvania and North Carolina confirms Trump and Kamala Harris remain locked in a close race to win the swing states’ electoral votes. In a speech in Pittsburgh, and in a one-one-one network interview MBSNC, Harris doubled down on her economic message – outlining policies to to boost businesses and middle class families.
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A bipartisan Senate report found the Secret Service made “preventable” errors in securing Donald Trump’s July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where an assassin opened fire, killing an attendee and wounding the former president.
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Trump said he will return next month to the Butler, Pennsylvania venue where a gunman tried to assassinate him in July.
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Congress is on track to pass legislation to fund the government until 20 December, with the Senate’s Democratic leader Chuck Schumer saying he hopes to send Joe Biden the bill by the end of the day.
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One of the country’s largest Muslim voter-mobilization groups, Emgage Action, has endorsed Kamala Harris for president in what it said “represents an especially difficult moment for Muslim Americans.”
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A new CNN poll published on Wednesday, has leading Trump by 12 points among likely voters under the age of 35. Polls have also suggested that Trump is losing his edge on economic issues.
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The AARP found that Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, was trailing his Democratic challenger in a survey taken before news broke of his history of making lewd statements on pornography websites.
Harris first one-on-one reviews policies on economy, reproductive rights
Kamala Harris’s first network one-on-one covered familiar ground – her proposals for the economy, her vision to protect and restore reproductive rights, and the dangers her opponent would pose should he win a second term.
The interview was generally softball, on a friendly network – though MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle did gently push back on Harris’s points about the Trump vs Biden economy.
Harris’s strongest point came at the end of the half hour, when she discussed reproductive rights. “Donald Trump is also the person who said women should be punished for exercising a decision that they rightly should be able to make about their own body and future,” she said – saying that women couldn’t trust the former president.
Harris dug into Trump by calling him “not very serious” – contrasting her plans and specific with Trump’s vague reliance on tariffs to boost the economy.
Kamala Harris to MSNBC: "Frankly, and I say this in all sincerity, he's just not very serious about how he thinks about some of these issues. And one must be serious and have a plan that's not just a talking point ending in an exclamation at a political rally." pic.twitter.com/GnZYPq8Z3R
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 25, 2024
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Kamala Harris to MSNBC: “Frankly, and I say this in all sincerity, he’s just not very serious about how he thinks about some of these issues. And one must be serious and have a plan that’s not just a talking point ending in an exclamation at a political rally.” pic.twitter.com/GnZYPq8Z3R
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 25, 2024
The vice president has brought back some of her most effective lines against Trump – including ones that seemed to cause the former president to lose his cool during the debate. Earlier in the interview she once again referenced the size of his crowds – referencing things he’s said at “a small rally somewhere”.
So far, the vice-president’s interview covers much of what she outlined in her speech today in Pittsburgh, delving into plans to boost the middle class, cut childcare and housing costs.
Much of this, Ruhle said earlier on MSNBC, is aimed at squelching criticism that Harris has not provided enough detail or specifics on her plans for the economy – perhaps her weakest issue in the race against Donald Trump.
Harris lays out economic vision in rare TV interview
On the economy, Harris is once again shifting her tone to one that is empathetic to Americans’ struggle to make ends meet.
While Joe Biden struggled to convince voters that the underpinnings of the economy were strong, even as they struggled to keep up with the cost of living, Harris has focused on addressing the issues head on.
In the interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, she said:
Homeownership for too many people in our country now is elusive. You know, gone is the day of everyone thinking they could actually live the American dream. So part of my vision for the economy is: let’s deal with some of the everyday challenges that people face, and address them with commonsense solutions such as affordable housing.
Kamala Harris sits down for rare one-on-one interview
MSNBC is now airing a rare one-on-one interview with Kamala Harris, her first solo network interview since she became the Democratic presidential nominee.
We’ll be following along here.
Senate passes stopgap funding bill
The bill will now go to Joe Biden for a signature. The 78-18 vote quickly followed the House’s approval.
Republican House speaker Mike Johnson unveiled the legislation this weekend, this time without Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (Save) act, a controversial proposal that would require people to show proof of citizenship when they register to vote. Donald Trump had urged Republicans to double down on their demand to include the measure.
But this version of the bill will avert a pre-election shutdown, punting it until December 20.
Andrew Roth
The US House speaker, Mike Johnson, has demanded that Ukraine fire its ambassador to Washington as the feud between Donald Trump and Volodymr Zelenskyy escalated and Republicans accused the Ukrainian leader of election interference.
In a public letter, Johnson demanded that Zelenskyy fire the Ukrainian ambassador, Oksana Markarova, over a visit to a munitions factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania, last week where the Ukrainian president thanked workers for providing desperately needed shells to his outgunned forces.
Johnson complained that Markarova had organised the visit to the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant as a “partisan campaign event designed to help Democrats”. The event was attended by the Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, a Democrat who has campaigned in support of Kamala Harris.
“The facility was in a politically contested battleground state, was led by a top political surrogate for Kamala Harris, and failed to include a single Republican because – on purpose – no Republicans were invited,” Johnson wrote in a letter on congressional letterhead addressed to the Ukrainian embassy.
“The tour was clearly a partisan campaign event designed to help Democrats and is clearly election interference,” the letter continued. “This shortsighted and intentionally political move has caused Republicans to lose trust in Ambassador Markarova’s ability to fairly and effectively serve as a diplomat in this country. She should be removed from her post immediately.”
On the same day, Trump in a campaign event in North Carolina attacked Zelenskyy directly and accused him of “refusing” to negotiate a peace deal with Vladimir Putin.
In another preview of Harris’s interview, the vice-president talks about Donald Trump’s economic record and the impact of his proposed policies.
In the segment, Harris repeats the claim that Trump left her and Biden with the “worst economy since the Great Depression, when you look at the employment numbers”. When Ruhle presses her on the fact that Trump’s economy included the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, which threw the economy into chaos – Harris says that even before the pandemic, Trump “lost manufacturing jobs” and plants, before touting jobs created during the Biden administration.
This needs context. As Ruhle points out, the pandemic had a big impact. The unemployment rate was at 14.8% in April 2020, which was the highest since the Great Depression. But the economy began to recover under the Trump administration, and unemployment dropped to 6.4% by the time Trump left office.
It is true that the US lost manufacturing jobs under Trump even before the start of the pandemic. In 2019, the country lost about 43,000 manufacturing jobs according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Under the Biden administration, meanwhile, the US added about 765,000 manufacturing jobs (as of July this year), though the job growth in the sector slowed over the past year.
This will be a tricky topic for Harris. Through Trump is losing his polling advantage on economic issues, and voters appear to have more faith in Harris on the economy than they did in Biden, she will have to defend the administrations record over while also convincing voters that she’ll be able to do better as president.
Harris to sit for first one-on-one interview since becoming Democratic presidential nominee
Later this evening, Kamala Harris will sit down with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle for her first one-on-one network interview since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.
In a preview of the pre-recorded interview, Harris discusses corporate taxes. Earlier on MNSBC, Ruhle signaled that the vice president would delve into details and specifics of her plans and the impact of Donald Trump’s economic plans (including his proposed tariffs).
“She is laying out a detailed economic plan, because she’s got a problem,” Ruhle said, namely that voters keep saying they don’t know enough about her proposals. “So her challenge and what she did today and what she did when we sat down, is trying to make people understand her vision … serves everyone,” she said.
MSNBC EXCLUSIVE: Vice President Kamala Harris discusses raising corporate taxes. "It's about paying their fair share," she said in a one-on-one interview with Stephanie Ruhle.
Watch the full interview at 7PM ET on a special edition of @allinwithchris and @11thHour. pic.twitter.com/jqzGudwfQq
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 25, 2024
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US House passes government funding package to avert shutdown
Joan E Greve
The US House passed a three-month government funding package on Wednesday, sending the bill to the Senatewith just days left to avert a shutdown set to begin next Tuesday.
The vote was 341 to 82, with 132 Republicans and 209 Democrats supporting the legislation. All 82 votes against the bill, which will extend government funding until 20 December, came from House Republicans.
Republican House speaker Mike Johnson revealed the legislation on Sunday after his original funding proposal failed to pass last week. Johnson’s original bill combined a six-month funding measure with the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (Save) act, a controversial proposal that would require people to show proof of citizenship when they register to vote. Fourteen House Republicans and all but two House Democrats voted against that bill last Wednesday, blocking its passage.
Read the full story here:
Callum Jones
In Racine county, Wisconsin, the Guardian’s Callum Jones looked at Donald Trump’s promises to “rebuild the economy” and how they panned out.
Less than 30 miles south of the Fiserv Forum, the Wisconsin convention center where Republicans confirmed Donald Trump as their nominee for president for the third time, lies the site of a project Trump predicted would become “the Eighth Wonder of the World”.
While still in office, the then president traveled to Mount Pleasant in Racine county to break ground on a sprawling facility that the electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn had agreed to build – in exchange for billions of dollars’ worth of subsidies.
Flanked by local allies and executives from the company, Trump planted a golden shovel in the ground. “America is open for business more than it has ever been open for business,” he proclaimed in June 2018, as FoxConn promised to invest $10bn and hire 13,000 local workers.
Highways were built and expanded. Homes were razed. The area – a former manufacturing powerhouse – was primed for revitalization in a deal that seemed to underline the executive prowess of America’s most famous businessman, an image that has helped maintain many voters’ confidence that he could steer the US economy more competently than his rival, Kamala Harris, and could win him the White House again come November.
But on a recent drive around the site, fields of long grass and weeds stretched as far as the eye could see. Trees marked where houses used to stand. The Eighth Wonder was nowhere to be seen.
“Everyone was very skeptical it was going to happen,” said Wendy DeBona, a local Uber and Lyft driver, 53. “And then, of course, look what happened.”
Foxconn all but pulled the plug in April 2021, blaming “unanticipated market fluctuations” as it drastically cut back its plan and struck a new deal, through which it committed to spend $672m on a campus that would create about 1,400 jobs.
Today, a striking glass globe stands over what the firm did, eventually, build. What work is actually taking place there is the subject of local speculation; the company did not respond to a request for comment.
Trump had left office by the time Plan A fell through. “They dug a hole with those golden shovels, and then they fell into it,” Joe Biden, his successor, suggested earlier this year. “Foxconn turned out to be just that: a con.”
But one section of the site is a hive of activity, with cranes, diggers, trucks, lorries and tractors visible from the road. Biden himself visited in May, as Microsoft announced it would invest $3.3bn into a new data center on part of the land abandoned by Foxconn. The project is set to create 2,300 union construction jobs, and the tech giant has also pledged to build a new academy with a local technical college, through which more than 1,000 students will be trained in five years “to work in the new data center and IT sector jobs created in the area”.
So did Biden do what Trump didn’t? It depends on whom you ask. Who is better for the economy will be a crucial question in Wisconsin, a must-win swing state in the race for the White House. The state backed Barack Obama in 2012, Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020. As Trump pledges to “rebuild” the US economy by cutting taxes, boosting wages and creating jobs, those attempting to persuade Racine county to reject him believe his role in the Foxconn debacle has shifted the dial.
Donald Trump’s campaign has already responded to Harris’s speech, pointing back to Joe Biden’s economic record.
“She’s had three and a half years to prove herself, and she has failed. Personal savings are down, credit card debt is up, small business optimism is at a record-low, and people are struggling to afford homes, groceries and gas,” said Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign national press secretary. “ONLY President Trump will Make America WEALTHY Again” (emphasis hers).
Although small business optimism remains low, it is not at a record low.
As Marketplace explains:
National Federation of Independent Business’ newest small-business optimism index is out. The good news? The index rose more than two points in July, and small businesses feel the most optimistic they have since February 2022. The less good news? Optimism is still below the survey’s 50-year average.
The challenge for Trump’s campaign will be holding Harris accountable for the economy under Biden. Polls are increasingly finding that voters are willing to give Harris the benefit of the doubt – and hear her out.
Mark Cuban says Harris economic plan is ‘better for business’
Mark Cuban, who attended Harris’s speech at the Economic Club in Pittsburgh, praised the vice-president’s pitch as “better for business”.
Cuban, the entrepreneur and investor who rose to prominence as owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team and star of the reality TV show Shark Tank, lauded Harris for discussing AI and other emerging technologies and her plans to encourage entrepreneurs in an interview with MSNBC.
“Every single person in this country has that entrepreneur in them,” he said. “And she’s going to lift them up.”
Trump meanwhile, “has no interest in really finding out what it takes to be successful with any policy,” Cuban said.
"He had no interest in really finding out what it takes to be successful with any policy… That's where we kind of diverged and went in our different directions and he hasn't changed."
Mark Cuban on why he is supporting Kamala Harris over Donald Trump this November. pic.twitter.com/Eg6CTuJbZq
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 25, 2024
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“He had no interest in really finding out what it takes to be successful with any policy… That’s where we kind of diverged and went in our different directions and he hasn’t changed.”
Mark Cuban on why he is supporting Kamala Harris over Donald Trump this November. pic.twitter.com/Eg6CTuJbZq
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 25, 2024
Cuban has been a big supporter of Harris.
Harris, in turn, had largely catered this speech to business owners and centrists who may have identified with pro-business Republican candidates in the past, and may be turned off by Donald Trump’s inscrutable economic agenda.