Walz to accept Democrat vice presidential nomination on night 3 of DNC
CHICAGO — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is expected to formally accept the Democrat vice presidential nomination on Wednesday night after Vice President Harris announced him as her running mate this month. Walz is expected to address the third night of the convention under the theme of “A Fight for Our Freedoms.” Walz was elected to the House in 2006 and re-elected five times, representing Minnesota’s 1st congressional district, a mostly rural district covering the southern part of the state that includes a number of midsize cities. During his last two years on Capitol Hill, he served as ranking member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee. He won election as governor of Minnesota in 2018 and re-election four years later. CLICK HERE FOR FOX NEWS UPDATES FROM THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION In 1981, Walz enlisted in the Army National Guard soon after graduating from high school. He was deployed to Italy to support Operation Enduring Freedom in 2002 before retiring two years later. Walz’s military record has drawn scrutiny, with critics accusing Walz of being misleading when referencing deployments “in support” of Operation Enduring Freedom and public claims that he retired as a command sergeant major when he never completed the necessary coursework to keep the rank and instead retired as a master sergeant. But Walz pushed back against critics last week, saying he was “proud to serve my country, and I always will be.” JD VANCE ACCUSES TIM WALZ OF ‘LYING’ ABOUT MILITARY SERVICE: ‘STOLEN VALOR GARBAGE’ EMOTIONAL JOE BIDEN PASSES TORCH TO KAMALA HARRIS, ENDING 5 DECADES IN ELECTED OFFICE Walz can showcase a slew of progressive policy victories in Minnesota, including protecting abortion rights, legalizing recreational marijuana and restricting gun access to curb shootings. In 2023, Walz signed a law banning “conversion therapy,” which also included prohibiting counselors from withholding recommendations for transgender surgical procedures or hormonal treatments for individuals experiencing gender dysphoria. Another key component of his transgender policy agenda is a law requiring free menstrual products in all public school bathrooms. Often called the “tampon law” in the media, it mandates that tampons and pads be provided at no cost in public schools for grades 4-12 to accommodate transgender students. Walz’s address to the convention Wednesday night will come after former President Clinton makes an appearance. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed the convention Monday night before President Biden gave his speech, a move to formally pass the torch to Vice President Harris as the Democrat presidential nominee. The Clintons quickly endorsed Harris after Biden dropped out of the race last month. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg are also expected to address the convention on Wednesday night. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
Trump, rejecting advice, tries mockery, insults, AI against Kamala, but is it working?
There’s really no other choice but to let Trump be Trump. While Kamala Harris rocked the DNC with an unexpected appearance and short speech to the rapturous crowd, Donald Trump continued to attack his new opponent, sometimes in odd ways. He is ignoring public advice from such close Republican allies as Lindsey Graham. “If you have a policy debate, he wins,” the senator said on “Meet the Press.” “Donald Trump the provocateur, the showman, may not win this election.” PUT POLICY ASIDE: KAMALA HARRIS WILL WIN OR LOSE BASED ON THE EXCITEMENT FACTOR Nikki Haley, who’s only nominally endorsed Trump, delivered a similar message to Fox’s Bret Baier: “The campaign is not going to win talking about crowd sizes. It’s not going to win talking about what race Kamala Harris is. It’s not going to win talking about whether she’s dumb. I think the campaign needs to focus.” With the man he really wanted to run against, Joe Biden, pushed out of prime time to deliver a fiery speech that mainly touted his own accomplishments – and attacked Donald – Trump adopted the mindset that characterizes many White House occupants: If you geniuses are so smart, how come I’m the one who was elected president? That’s especially true of Trump in 2016, when nearly everyone, including Hillary Clinton, was convinced that she would win. Perhaps that’s why she obviously enjoyed taunting Trump at the Chicago convention, smiling contentedly to the chants of “Lock him up!” – a play on the Trump crowds in that campaign shouting that she should be locked up. When Barack Obama clashed with John McCain at a meeting after the 2008 campaign, Obama felt compelled to remind his former adversary that he had beaten him in that race. Trump, who is expanding his operation, bringing in his first campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, and other past loyalists, is trusting his instincts. One of the strangest moves by the 45th president was to use AI to post pictures of women wearing “Swifties for Trump” T-shirts. The women don’t exist. But it came a week after Trump, who seems enamored of Taylor Swift, falsely accused Harris of using AI to artificially create a big crowd at the Detroit airport – which was quickly disproven by wider shots of the thousands of people there. Maybe that was just shtick. And perhaps that term also applies to a fake image depicting Trump and Harris as a couple, with him touching her enormously pregnant bare belly. JD VANCE TEARS INTO DEM GOVERNOR FOR ‘WISHING’ TRAGEDY ON HIS FAMILY More concerning is the video he posted on Truth Social. It begins with a fake image of Harris holding a sign that says “I am a moron.” In a parody version of the Alanis Morissette song “Ironic,” Trump accuses Biden (there’s that name again) of having dementia and says Harris was “pulling the strings to cut his rope.” But that’s the mild part. “Make the ballots fake on election day; no matter who votes, count’s on the take. Spent her whole damn life down on her knees; To be commander in chief, that’s how you say please.” We all know that “down on her knees” is an unmistakable sexual allusion. It’s a reference to her relationship with future San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who she openly dated in the 1990s. (Brown was technically still married but had been separated from his wife for many years; he appointed Kamala to two state boards.) Trump generally has a gut-level feel for an opponent’s weakness. Maybe he believes mockery is the best way to deal with a woman of color. The jabs don’t seem to be landing, but Trump is right that he’s the one who got elected. Everyone else is staff or spectators. The Trump campaign yesterday tried to knock down Harris’ claim that crime was higher during his administration. He cited a 2021 change in the way the FBI estimates crime statistics as making that an apples-and-oranges comparison, and independent reporting backs that up. But as I wrote yesterday, the election is largely not going to turn on wonky arguments about border statistics or price-gouging. Go to Kamala’s home page and there is no listing of policy proposals, none. She may come to regret that. Harris has still offered no explanation of why she abandoned her far-left positions of 2020 – Abolish private health insurance! Ban fracking! – but she’s got to confront that at some point rather than leaving it to unnamed aides. Instead, she’s hoping to ride a wave of excitement – which should be boosted by the star-studded DNC – to a seat behind the Resolute Desk. She is running as a 59-year old happy warrior against Trump, who’s now the old man in the race at 78. But her polling numbers will eventually deflate to earlier levels, and she’ll have to withstand a furious two-month attack by Trump and MAGA World. TRUMP’S ‘SWIFTIES FOR TRUMP’ POST TRIGGERS SOCIAL MEDIA OUTCRY The Trump campaign assailed the first night of the Democratic convention by saying “they would rather talk about President Trump than the problems facing our nation due to Kamala Harris’ failures.” The mentions on Monday night: Trump: 147 times Border: 8 times Economy: 27 times Inflation: 3 times Prices: 5 times Crime: 6 times. The Harris camp, meanwhile, castigated her opponent for comments at a Pennsylvania rally: “Trump’s advisors are desperately trying to get Donald to stick to his script. But he can’t help but veer off into rants about whether or not he and JD Vance are weird, yell that he believes the American dream is dead, and…whatever this was.” (A comment about Russian ships pulling up to New England.) Keep in mind that Trump is also running against a hostile press corps that is quite enamored of Kamala-mentum. Many pundits push the argument that he’s a threat to democracy. I haven’t seen such unbalanced coverage since the Clinton-Gore bus tour of 1992. Most journalists have given Harris –
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Three candidates advance in ranked choice primary for Alaska’s At-Large district
Three candidates advanced to Alaska’s general election to represent the state’s At-Large Congressional District on Tuesday, according to a call by the Associated Press. Alaska has a non-partisan, ranked-choice primary system that selects the four candidates with the most votes, regardless of party, to proceed to the general election. Tuesday’s primary saw 12 candidates vying for a position in the top four, including incumbent Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Ala., who advanced to the general election with 50.7% of the vote. Republican Nick Begich, who ran for the seat against Peltola in 2022, finished in 2nd place with 26.8%. Republican Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom, who was endorsed by former President Trump, was the number three candidate with 19.9% of the votes in the Last Frontier primary. BIDEN SET TO BLOCK MILLIONS OF ACRES IN ALASKA FROM OIL, GAS DRILLING IN EARTH DAY ACTION The Associated Press didn’t make a call on the 4th place finisher. None of the remaining candidates broke the 1% mark. The race also saw David Ambrose, Samuel Claesson, Lady Donna Dutchess, Richard Grayson, Eric Hafner, Gerald Heikes, John Wayne Howe, Richard Mayers, and Matthew Salisbury vying for the seat.
Obama lauds ‘brother’ Biden at DNC weeks after reported role ousting him for Kamala Harris
CHICAGO – Former President Barack Obama took the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago Tuesday evening, where he praised President Biden just weeks after reportedly helping oust Biden from his re-election effort. “It’s been 16 years since I had the honor of accepting this party’s nomination for president. And I know that’s hard to believe since I haven’t aged a bit, but it’s true. And looking back, I can say without question that my first big decision as your nominee turned out to be one of my best. And that was asking Joe Biden to serve by my side as vice president,” Obama said on Tuesday evening from the DNC. “Other than some common Irish blood, Joe and I come from different backgrounds. But we became brothers. And as we worked together for eight – sometimes, pretty tough – years, what I came to admire most about Joe wasn’t just his smarts and experience, but it was his empathy and his decency. And his hard-earned resiliency and his unshakable belief that everyone in this country deserves a fair shot.” FLASHBACK: OBAMA WAS ONE OF EARLIEST BIG-NAME DEMS TO ENDORSE WALZ AT DAWN OF HIS POLITICAL CAREER “History will remember Joe Biden as an outstanding president who defended democracy at a moment of great danger. And I am proud to call him my president, but even prouder to call him my friend,” the 44th president continued of his former vice president. Harris became the Democrat nominee for president upon Biden’s withdrawal from the race after his disastrous June debate performance against former President Donald Trump, which included the president losing his train of thought, stumbling over his words and appearing more subdued than during other public events in recent years. The debate performance opened the floodgates to traditional Democrat allies and legacy media outlets joining conservatives in their concerns over Biden’s mental acuity and age. After the White House and Biden campaign repeatedly denied the president would drop out of the race, Biden announced in a tweet on a Sunday afternoon last month that he was ending his campaign and would carry out his final months in the White House. Ahead of Biden dropping out of the race, Obama allies notably helped lead the charge in calling for the president to get out of the race in favor of a candidate they believed was more suitable to take on Trump. Obama’s former chief campaign strategist, David Axelrod, said last month for example that Biden is “not winning this race.” While actor and longtime friend of the Obamas, George Clooney, called on Biden to drop out of the race in a bombshell op-ed that was published just weeks after the Hollywood star co-hosted Biden, alongside Obama, at a ritzy campaign event in Los Angeles. OBAMA ALLIES, ADVISERS HELPED LEAD THE CHARGE AMONG DEMS LOOKING TO SINK BIDEN AHEAD OF OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Another ally in Obama’s orbit, Jon Favreau, who served as former director of speech writing for Obama, also called on Biden to drop out of the race last month, saying he attended the fundraiser in L.A. with Clooney and Obama and witnessed firsthand Biden’s state of mental acuity. Harris and Walz were notably nearly 100 miles away from the DNC during Obama’s speech, holding a rally in Milwaukee instead. Fox News was told the plan for Harris and Walz to be away from the DNC on Tuesday came together to avoid the optics of Harris appearing alongside one of the figures Biden views as responsible for helping end his reelection bid. “[The] Obamas are still not on the White House good side,” a source familiar with the situation told Fox News. “It would not be helpful to their relationships.” “We are in tricky territory,” this source added. Harris currently has fewer than 76 days to inspire voters to rally behind her White House run, which has notably included adding a bevy of Obama orbit insiders and advisers to her election effort, such as David Plouffe, Eric Holder, and Jennifer O’Malley Dillon. Obama’s connections to Harris run deep, with the pair having a longstanding friendship that stretches back to the early 2000s. Harris was in attendance when Obama announced his candidacy for president in 2007, after first meeting him in 2004 when he was an Illinois state senator running for the U.S. Senate. OBAMA TAKES SUBTLE SWIPE AT VANCE WHILE PRAISING WALZ AS ‘IDEAL’ HARRIS RUNNING MATE Harris was among the first elected Democrats in the nation to endorse Obama’s first run for president in the 2008 election, snubbing Hillary Clinton in favor of the then-Illinois senator. “Barack Obama will be a president who finally ends the era of fear that has been used to divide and demoralize our country,” Harris said during California’s Democratic convention in 2008. As Harris built her political career from San Francisco district attorney to California attorney general and then senator, she was even dubbed “the female Obama” by some political analysts. Obama went on to laud Harris’ political and legal career in California before her vice presidency during his DNC speech. “As a prosecutor, Kamala stood up for children who had been victims of sexual abuse. As an attorney general of the most populous state in the country, she fought big banks and for-profit colleges, securing billions of dollars for the people they had scammed. After the home mortgage crisis, she pushed me and my administration hard to make sure homeowners got a fair settlement. Didn’t matter that I was a Democrat. Didn’t matter she had knocked on doors for my campaign in Iowa – she was going to fight to get as much relief as possible for the families who deserved it,” he said. “Kamala Harris won’t be focused on her problems. She’ll be focused on yours. As president, she won’t just cater to her own supporters and punish those who refuse to kiss the ring or bend the knee. She’ll work on behalf of every American,” he continued. “That’s who Kamala is. And in the White
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Harris energizes crowd in surprise virtual DNC appearance while campaigning in key swing state
MILWAUKEE, WI – Vice President Kamla Harris took the Democrats’ convention on the road on Tuesday, as she and running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz headed to nearby battleground Wisconsin. Speaking in front of a packed Fiserv Forum, the same arena where the Republicans held their national nominating convention one month ago, Harris pointed to her battle against former President Trump, saying “this is not 2016 or 2020,” and warning that “the stakes are higher.” Portions of the rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s largest city and a blue bastion in a crucial purple state, were beamed into the United Center 90 miles south in Chicago, site of the four-night Democratic National Convention. CLICK HERE FOR FOX NEWS UPDATES FROM THE DEMOCRATS’ CONVENTION And the crowd of Democratic activists and supporters in Milwaukee – which the campaign put at over 15,000 – watched portions of the ceremonial nomination roll call from the convention in Chicago on the big screens inside the arena. “The delegates at the Democratic National Convention, well they just completed their roll call. And they have nominated Coach Walz and me to be the next vice president and President of the United States of America,” Harris said to sustained cheers as she came out on stage after the conclusion of the roll call. HARRIS AND TRUMP HOLD DUELING RALLIES IN THE BIGGEST OF THE BATTLEGROUNDS Since replacing President Biden at the top of the Democrats’ 2024 ticket, the vice president has been riding a wave of energy, with a jump in polling and fundraising as the battle with Trump is once again a margin-of-error race. Wisconsin is one of seven swing states that will likely determine the outcome of November’s presidential election. And hours before Harris’ arrival, Trump’s running mate – Sen. JD Vance of Ohio – was campaigning in the southeastern corner of the state. “Wisconsin, we have 77 days until the election. 77 days,” Harris stressed. “And look, we know this is going to be a tight race until the very end. We have some hard work ahead of us. We have hard work ahead of us. But we like hard work.” Harris repeatedly criticized Trump, including over the issue of abortion, a leading issue that has energized Democrats since the overturning two years ago of the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling which had legalized abortion. “Just yesterday, when he was asked if he has any regrets about ending Roe v Wade, Donald Trump, without even a moment’s hesitation, you would think you’d reflect on it for a second. Said no. No regrets,” Harris said as she pointed to an interview by the former president. TRUMP, VANCE, HIT CAMPAIGN TRAIL TO COUNTERPROGRAM HARRIS, WALZ, AND DEMOCRATS’ CONVENTION Walz, in energetic comments ahead of Harris’ appearance, also took aim at Trump as he looked back at last month’s GOP convention and the former president’s nomination acceptance speech. “Donald Trump subjected us to 92 minutes of ranting and raving insanity,” Walz charged. “Now look, they left here riding high. They were feeling good. This thing was over. Well, trust me, Milwaukee, a h-ll of a lot can change in four weeks.” And Walz, taking a verbal shot at the GOP ticket, argued that “you run a campaign based on fear like them, you’re going to run into a little trouble when you run into a campaign that’s based on joy.” The Trump campaign, criticizing Walz’s energetic arrival on stage, wrote in a social media post that “you simply cannot trust a man who gesticulates this wildly. Freak!” At one point during her speech, Harris reiterated her pledge to lower inflation, which has persistently plagued Americans during Biden’s three and a half years in office. “We believe in a future where we lower the cost of living! When I am president, I will bring down the cost of groceries,” the vice president vowed. The Trump campaign, in another social media post, spotlighted the clip and asked “Was there something stopping her from doing that in the 3.5 years she has been in the White House?” The rally by Harris and Walz came one night after the vice president made a little bit of political convention history, as she spoke from the podium at the United Center as she praised Biden. The surprise appearance appeared to be a very rare occurrence of a presidential nominee speaking from the podium ahead of their formal acceptance speech, which is traditionally on the last night of a convention. Biden’s speech at the convention, which capped Monday night’s session, came four weeks and one day after his blockbuster announcement that he was ending his own White House bid and endorsing his vice president to replace him. Twenty-four hours later in Milwaukee, Harris pointed to her boss and said “wasn’t he terrific last night. And I know we are all deeply grateful for his lifetime of service to our nation. Thank you. Joe.” Her comments spurred chants of “thank you, Joe,” throughout the arena.” Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.