September 30, 2024

Monday, September 30,2024. Annette’s News Roundup.

Has there ever been a campaign as smart as Kamala-Walz!

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Harris-Walz Campaign kicks off HBCU Homecoming Tour to reach Black voters

In an effort to reach more young Black voters ahead of election day, Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz have kicked off their Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Homecoming Tour. They're targeting institutions in the key battleground states.

With less than 40 days to go until the vote is in for the next President of the United States, Harris and Trump have been fighting fiercely to win over the undecided voters in the swing states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Nevada.

Both candidates have recognized the key to winning the election is also in appealing to Gen-Z and millennials.

In fact, there has been a recent spike in voter registration among young people. Voters under the age of 35 accounted for 81% of new registrations on National Voter Registration day, according to Vote.gov.

Homecoming is a unique time of year on an HBCU campus. It's not just a celebration of history and culture, but a time to honor the leaps and bounds Black Americans have made for a fair shot at higher education.

The current student body is always visited by hundreds, sometimes thousands of alumni – including famous ones. The proud graduates with children often bring the next generation of HBCU leaders to enjoy the football games and family-friendly campus events.

Harris and Walz' tour began at Winston-Salem State University on Sept. 28. The campaign hosted a tailgate in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene for the WSSU vs. Bowie State University game in North Carolina.

Of all the stops, Howard University's is expected to be extra special. Not only is VP Harris a proud Bison, but she's also a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., a historically Black sorority which was founded on the D.C. campus in 1908. Alumni will be celebrating the school's historic 100th homecoming alongside the Democratic candidate for president.

The pair will round out the tour with three stops in Georgia for Clark Atlanta and SpelHouse.

Here are the HBCUs and corresponding dates on their schedule:

Sept. 28 – Winston-Salem State University
Oct. 12 – Lincoln University
Oct. 12 – Virginia State University
Oct. 19 – Howard University
Oct. 19 – North Carolina A&T State University
Oct. 19 – Clark Atlanta University
Oct. 26 – Morehouse College
Oct. 26 – Spelman College
More campus visits may be pending.
(FoxAtlanta.com)

Vice President Harris in Nevada on Sunday night.

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The Times reports - The Harris campaign said it raised $55 million this weekend, between a pair of fund-raisers in Los Angeles today and San Francisco yesterday headlined by the vice president. Harris has consistently outraised Donald Trump since replacing President Biden on the ticket, giving her an advantage on the airwaves and online, as well as in her get-out-the-vote operation in battleground states.

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Trump remarks in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin over the weekend make clear why media, his family, his party should stage an intervention, though this has been true for years.

I am reposting some of his remarks, including some rude, disgusting name-calling.

Here is the video of the name-calling by him, the Republican nominee for President of the United States.

Trump calling the Vice President “mentally disabled” at least elicited some reactions.

Even some Republicans disliked Trump’s behavior, though no one -Democrat or Republican - paid attention to how off the rails many of his remarks in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania on Saturday were.

Trump draws criticism from Republicans for his demeaning insults of Harris.

Former President Donald J. Trump drew criticism from several fellow Republicans on Sunday for his demeaning insults of Vice President Kamala Harris, a day after he called her “mentally disabled” and “mentally impaired” at a rally.

Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, pushed back on Mr. Trump’s remarks on Sunday. “I just think the better course to take is to prosecute the case that her policies are destroying the country,” Mr. Graham said on CNN, adding that he did not think Ms. Harris was crazy but did think her policies were.

Representative Tom Emmer — a Minnesota Republican who has been helping Senator JD Vance of Ohio, Mr. Trump’s running mate, prepare for his upcoming debate — also sought to distance himself from Mr. Trump’s personal attacks. “I think we should stick to the issues,” Mr. Emmer said on ABC News.

Larry Hogan, a former Republican governor of Maryland who is currently running for the Senate, offered a sharper rebuke.

“I think that’s insulting not only to the vice president, but to people that actually do have mental disabilities,” Mr. Hogan, who has often criticized Mr. Trump in the past, said on CBS News. “I’ve said for years that Trump’s divisive rhetoric is something we can do without.”

Steven Cheung, the communications director for the Trump campaign, did not directly address Mr. Trump’s insults or the critical responses they had prompted. He instead argued that Ms. Harris’s record on immigration and border security made her “wholly unfit to serve as president.”

In a statement, Mr. Cheung added that “her abhorrent dereliction of duty” at the border allowed criminals to “pour into our country to terrorize communities.”

Mr. Trump has long made personal attacks against Ms. Harris, even as some campaign advisers and Republican allies have urged him to stick to bread-and-butter policy issues that appeal to large swaths of voters. He has often demeaned her and questioned her racial identity, but at a rally in Prairie du Chien, Wis., on Saturday, he escalated those attacks, with a series of insults questioning her mental fitness.

“Joe Biden became mentally impaired,” Mr. Trump said. “Kamala was born that way.”

Mr. Trump’s remarks — which he himself described as “dark” — came a day after Ms. Harris delivered one of her party’s toughest speeches in a generation on immigration and border security. Mr. Trump repeated some of the insults at a rally Sunday afternoon in Erie, Pa., saying “there’s something wrong with Kamala.”

Democrats also seized on his comments. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois criticized Mr. Trump’s remarks as “name-calling” on CNN.

“Whenever he says things like that, he’s talking about himself but trying to project it onto others,” Mr. Pritzker said.

Eric Holder, the former attorney general who served in the Obama administration, went further, suggesting that Mr. Trump’s comments indicated “cognitive decline.”

“Trump made a great deal of the cognitive abilities of Joe Biden,” Mr. Holder said on MSNBC. “If this is where he is now, where is he going to be three and four years from now?”

After Mr. Trump’s remarks on Saturday, the Harris campaign declined to comment on his personal attacks. A campaign spokeswoman, Sarafina Chitika, said in a statement that Mr. Trump offered “darkness” to voters rather than inspiration.

Just hours after Mr. Trump made the remarks, “Saturday Night Live” was joking about them as it opened its 50th season. “I cannot believe that Trump admitted he lost the debate to a mentally disabled person,” Colin Jost said on the show’s “Weekend Update” segment.

The American Association of People with Disabilities, a nonpartisan advocacy group, criticized Mr. Trump’s comments as both inaccurate and harmful.

“Trump holds the ableist, false belief that if a person has a disability, they are less human and less worthy of dignity,” Maria Town, the group’s president and chief executive, said in a statement. “Presidential history indicates that we’ve had many presidents who had disabilities.” (New York Times).

What else did Trump say.

Also from the Times - For the second day in a row, Trump pushed an emerging falsehood in his attempt to blame Vice President Kamala Harris for the opioid epidemic. “She even wants to legalize fentanyl,” he said during his rally in Erie, Pa.

In Erie - Trump falsely suggested that Black voters disapprove of Vice President Kamala Harris, whose polling lead with the key voting bloc remains decisive but is not as strong as it was for President Biden during the 2020 election. “They hate her,” he claimed. “They hate her.”

Trump also admitted as an employer, he wouldn’t pay overtime. While this anti-labor admission on its own does not sound nuts, it is also “off” from the man who has claimed “no taxes for overtime pay” as his policy to woo worker votes.

Labor reacts.

He made an appeal for violence… specifically police violence.

Here are other segments from his weekend speeches.

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Why isn’t he being denounced or at least ridiculed or both!

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New Harris-Walz ads.

This one about the border.

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Reminder #1. Here in full inactive life is information about Tuesday’s Vice Presidential debate.

Touch.👇

Guess what else happens on Tuesday?
Former President Jimmy Carter turns 100.

Watch President Biden. 👇

Watch Jimmy Carter’s grandson.👇

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Reminder #2. Your Daily Reminder.

Trump is a convicted felon.

On May 30th, he was found guilty on 34 felony counts by the unanimous vote of 12 ordinary citizens.

The Convicted Felon Donald J. Trump was scheduled to be sentenced on July 11th and September 18th. He will now be sentenced on November 26.

Plus here is another crazy person, like Trump.

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Make a plan to DO SOMETHING!

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