Wednesday, September 4, 2024. Annette’s News Roundup.
Kamala is always busy.
Memorable moments of when Kamala and Joe were in Pittsburgh on Labor Day. And she was also in Detroit.
You may not be a union member, but thank unions for the five-day workweek.
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) September 2, 2024
You may not be a union member, but thank unions for the eight-hour workday.
You may not be a union member, but thank unions for sick leave, paid family leave, and vacation time.
Let me tell you something: @KamalaHarris and I are damn proud to have protected the pensions of over one million union workers and retirees when I signed the Butch Lewis Act.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 2, 2024
Not only did we restore the full amount—we got them their back pay as well.
.@KamalaHarris believes as I do that unions are the spine of this economy. She will be a historic, pro-union president.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 2, 2024
Folks, we've got one more job to do together. Join us in this fight: https://t.co/FKzIXhmOeg
Biden with a fantastic endorsement of Kamala Harris, " I promise, if you elect Kamala Harris as president, it will be the best decision you have ever made." pic.twitter.com/KrUEXuibrm
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) September 2, 2024
Touch to watch. 👇
VP @KamalaHarris takes the stage in Detroit—with union leaders, including Shawn Fain and Randi Weingarten, standing behind her—as her campaign kicks off a Labor Day blitz across the country. pic.twitter.com/RcOvtpNFqQ
— Fritz Farrow (@FritzFarrow) September 2, 2024
When I am President, we will pass the PRO Act and end union-busting once and for all.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) September 2, 2024
Harris opposes US Steel's sale to a Japanese firm during joint Pennsylvania event with Biden
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris used a joint campaign appearance with President Joe Biden in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania on Monday to say that U.S. Steel should remain domestically owned — concurring with the White House’s monthslong opposition to the company’s planned sale to Japan’s Nippon Steel.
Her comments came during a rally before cheering union members marking Labor Day in the industrial city of Pittsburgh, where Harris said U.S. Steel was “an historic American company and it is vital for our country to maintain strong American steel companies.”
“U.S. Steel should remain American-owned and American-operated, and I will always have the backs of America’s steelworkers,” she said.
That echoes Biden, who repeated Monday what he’s said since March — that he opposes U.S. Steel’s would-be sale to Nippon, believing it would hurt the country’s steelworkers. It also overlaps with Republican former President Donald Trump. It’s little surprise that Harris would agree with Biden on the issue, but it nonetheless constitutes a major policy position for the vice president, who has offered relatively few of them since Biden abandoned his reelection bid and endorsed his vice president in July.(Associated Press)
Bask in the glow of who our Presidential candidate is.
Then do something to help her and Tim win.
One more thing. Or two.
Watch this ad.👇
BREAKING: Kamala Harris just released the most powerful ad you’ll see this cycle. Retweet to make sure all swing voters see this impactful video. pic.twitter.com/hP5cu5UoYJ
— Kamala’s Wins (@harris_wins) September 3, 2024
Up and down the ballot 💪 pic.twitter.com/qaa3gKmL1X
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 3, 2024
The Harris campaign will send $10 million each to the House and Senate Democratic campaign arms, $2.5 million to the body that helps elect state legislative Democrats and $1 million each to the Democratic Governors Association and the Democratic attorneys general campaign arm, it said. (Source - New York Times)
Like the Harris - Walz campaign, do everything you can to make the House Blue and keep the Senate Blue, so Kamala can effect change for the American people. She needs a majority in both Houses of Congress to govern.
Who the GOP is.
International Electrical Workers President Kenneth Cooper: "When the Senate was all tied up on the rescue of Americans' pension plans, it was only tied up for one reason. We could not find a Republican senator who would vote for American workers." pic.twitter.com/c956jczvb3
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) September 2, 2024
Vance Championed 2017 Report on Families From Architects of Project 2025
JD Vance, as he was dipping his toe into politics, praised the Heritage Foundation report — 29 essays opposing abortion and seeking to instruct Americans on how to raise children — as “admirable.”
Years before he became the Republican vice-presidential nominee, JD Vance endorsed a little-noticed 2017 report by the Heritage Foundation that proposed a sweeping conservative agenda to restrict sexual and reproductive freedoms and remake American families.
In a series of 29 separate essays, conservative commentators, policy experts, community leaders and Christian clergy members opposed the spread of in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments, describing those treatments as harmful to women. They praised the rapidly expanding number of state laws restricting abortion rights and access, saying that the procedure should become “unthinkable” in America. And they cited hunger as a “great motivation” for Americans to find work.
Mr. Vance, then known as the author of a best-selling memoir, became a champion of the project. He wrote the introduction and praised the volume as “admirable,” and was the keynote speaker at the public release of the report at Heritage’s offices in Washington.
The report was released just months after Donald J. Trump became president, as social conservatives were laying the foundation for an aggressive agenda restricting sexual freedom and reproductive rights. Those policies became a hallmark of the Trump administration and Mr. Vance’s political career. (New York Times)
Who the GOP candidate for President is.
Trump confessed to a crime, claiming a right he never had.
Touch to watch. 👇
Trump claims he had "every right" to interfere in election
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) September 2, 2024
Watch the full video here: https://t.co/cz4Mb4gB9Q pic.twitter.com/Q48wYWODUE
He again announced the mad and authoritarian idea that as President he has the right to suspend the Constitution.
Yet again, Donald Trump calls for suspending the US Constitution so he can be restored to power. Will this be front-page news? pic.twitter.com/UAz3mVjdve
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) September 3, 2024
A former president saying he is the law and above the law is completely unAmerican.
— Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads/Insta)🌻 (@AWeissmann_) September 3, 2024
1. there is no evidence and has never been evidence of such fraud, in spite of Trump promising that he had such proof and would disclose it months and months ago.
2. Even if there were, he has to… https://t.co/FoqcmffYhS
In recent days, the Republican candidate for president has falsely claimed public schools perform sex change operations, doctors execute babies and that he has every right to interfere with elections. Where are the corresponding stories about his fitness for office?
— Chris Bury (@ChrisBuryNews) September 2, 2024
Call or write your local newspaper or broadcaster and demand this be covered.
Have you noticed he makes up stuff!
Trump says, "Your kid goes to school and comes home a few days late with an operation."
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) September 1, 2024
I'll give CashApp $1000 to anyone that shows proof of a middle school or high school that operated on a child and changed their gender.pic.twitter.com/McG4wakYTz
Trump hates Labor. Watch👇
Trump on union workers: “They get their little 5 percent, they get another 2 percent... All of a sudden they’re making more money than the people that own the company” pic.twitter.com/zpH3OMYZKz
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 2, 2024
Fox guest: Kamala Harris has gotten the endorsement of every major union across the country for the simple fact that she stands with labor. Trump broke his promises to workers and tried to pack the labor board with anti-labor activists pic.twitter.com/TL1Ubdsi5q
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 3, 2024
Fear of losing in 2024 is stressing out more of MAGA than Trump.
They want us to believe they sing a different tune. We won’t be fooled.
Touch to watch. 👇
GOP Sen. Cotton: To my knowledge, all Republicans in Congress support IVF
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 1, 2024
(The Senate voted in June on the Right to IVF Act and nearly every single Republican, including Tom Cotton and JD Vance, voted to block it) pic.twitter.com/k0cKJOJsPi
Touch to watch. 👇
JD Vance: I don't think that I know any Republican, at least not a Republican with a brain, that's trying to take birth control away from people.
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) September 1, 2024
Jake Tapper replies, "I mean, I could provide a list for you if you want it." @atrupar
pic.twitter.com/tH105Pi6rd
The Paralympics go on.
Ezra Frech's first Paralympic medal of his career is GOLDEN! 🥇#ParisParalympics pic.twitter.com/oFFswkPQBe
— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) September 2, 2024
THAT FIRST GOLD MEDAL FEELING 🥇
— Team USA (@TeamUSA) September 2, 2024
Ezra Frech is a Paralympic champion. #ParisParalympics pic.twitter.com/nzpQQdbONF
Touch to watch. 👇
History in the making 🇺🇸
— Team USA (@TeamUSA) September 2, 2024
Today, Miles Krajewski and Jayci Simon will compete for Team USA’s first-ever medal in badminton (Paralympic or Olympic).
Watch the Teenage Dream Team go for gold at 4:10am ET on @peacock!#ParisParalympics pic.twitter.com/vzC3eAIkTR
Campaigning in Florida for Harris-Walz.
Fighting for Reproductive Freedom bus tour.
West Palm Beach yesterday
-Sen. Amy Klobuchar
-Campaign Head Julie Chavez Rodriguez
-Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
-Senatorial candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
-DNC Chair Jaime Harrison
-Ana Navarro
-Reproductive rights activist Anya Cook
Touch to watch. 👇
BREAKING: West Palm Beach, Florida, a traditionally Republican stronghold, is packed and energized the first stop of the Kamala Harris Freedom Tour in Florida. Retweet so all Americans, and especially the media, see the energy and enthusiasm in Florida.pic.twitter.com/dQjWHevwyb
— Kamala’s Wins (@harris_wins) September 3, 2024
A recent poll found 69 percent of Floridians plan to vote for Amendment 4, which protects the right to abortion. After flip flopping several days in a row, Donald Trump says he’s against the amendment. So today, Kamala Harris takes the fight to Florida.pic.twitter.com/Stbny6He5T
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) September 3, 2024
Florida is in play. The tour will head to Jacksonville today.
Vice President Harris will be in New Hampshire today.
More Republican voices for Kamala. Some new. Some old.
WOW!
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) September 3, 2024
John McCain's son Jimmy McCain just announced that he has registered as a Democrat, and greatly chastised Donald Trump.
Jimmy McCain enlisted in the Marine Corps 17 and currently serves as an intelligence officer in the 158th Infantry Regiment.
True American Patriot! pic.twitter.com/HTUCOoUHxD
BREAKING: In a stunning moment on CNBC, former PA GOP Senator Pat Toomey says he won’t be voting for Trump in November:
— Trump L’s (@Trump_Losses) September 3, 2024
“When you lose an election and you try to overturn the results so that you can stay in power, you lose me. You lose me at that point.”pic.twitter.com/pX0O1fZmvp
GOP Sen. Mitt Romney on the danger of a second Trump term:
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) September 3, 2024
“He would not have the generals around him as he did last time, people of judgment & experience…restraining his impulses. Instead, he’d have people around him encouraging his impulses…”
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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 11. He will now be sentenced sometime around September 18th.
And now a word from our future Vice President.
School pictures of two mighty fine school teachers.
As a former teacher, nothing beats that first day of school feeling. It’s all about hope and possibility.
— Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) September 3, 2024
Wishing all students and teachers a great school year! pic.twitter.com/eqwbLIrHnM