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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., condemned antisemitism during his speech on the second night of the Democratic National Convention (DNC), while anti-Israel agitators raged outside the arena, leading to several arrests. 

Even so, Schumer’s speech chiefly took aim at former President Trump as a source of anti-Jewish rhetoric in American politics.

“As the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in American history, I want my grandkids — and all grandkids — to never face discrimination because of who they are,” Schumer said.

While the senator was delivering his speech, pro-Hamas rioters were burning the American flag outside the United Center in Chicago.

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Sen. Chuck Schumer speaks while anti-Israel agitators protest in Chicago. (Reuters/Mike Segar | AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

However, Schumer took aim at former President Trump in his remarks, casting the GOP presidential nominee as a significant culprit in American politics for furthering antisemitism.

“But Donald Trump, this is a guy who peddles antisemitic stereotypes. He even invited a white supremacist to Mar-a-Lago. But unfortunately, his prejudice goes in all directions: he fuels Islamophobia, and issued a Muslim ban as President. Tonight folks, I am wearing this blue square, to stand up against antisemitism, to stand up to all hate,” he said. 

“Our children, our grandchildren — no matter their race or creed or gender or family — deserve better than Donald Trump’s American carnage.”

ANTI-ISRAEL DEMONSTRATORS BURN AMERICAN FLAG OUTSIDE CHICAGO CONSULATE ON 2ND NIGHT OF DNC

Pro-Hamas demonstrators clash with police in front of the Consulate General of Israel in Chicago on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. The protests are timed to coincide with the Democratic National Convention in the Windy City. (Fox News Digital)

Meanwhile, the backdrop of his remarks came as just under two miles from the convention center, anti-Israel demonstrators burned an American flag and chanted “Free Palestine” outside a building in Chicago that houses the Israeli consulate. Protesters were against U.S. support for Israel and other progressive causes.  

Officers handcuffed at least four people from the protest and led them away after protesters charged a line of police officers, who pushed the demonstrators back. 

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Pro-Hamas demonstrators gather in front of the Consulate General of Israel in Chicago on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. (Fox News Digital)

Israel supporters, including some relatives of people kidnapped by Hamas, gathered earlier in the day at a pro-Israel art installation not far from the consulate to call on U.S. leaders to continue backing Israel and pushing for the release of hostages. 

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More protests are planned throughout the week, but attendance at the main rally on Monday was far below estimates of organizers who had predicted more than 20,000 would show up.

Fox News Digital’s Bradford Betz and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report. 

Michelle Obama said during her speech on the second night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago Tuesday that her parents “were suspicious of folks who took more than they needed.”

But critics quickly pointed out how she conveniently omitted that the Obamas have an estimated net worth of $70 million, as well as luxury real estate holdings in Chicago, Hawaii, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. 

The former first lady began her DNC speech by saying the last time she was in her hometown of Chicago was to memorialize her mother, the woman “who showed me the meaning of hard work and humility and decency” and “who set my moral compass high and showed me the power of my own voice.” 

“She and my father didn’t aspire to be wealthy. In fact, they were suspicious of folks who took more than they needed,” Michelle Obama said. “They understood that it wasn’t enough for their kids to thrive if everyone else around us was drowning. So my mother volunteered at the local school.” 

Her mother “always looked out for the other kids on the block” and “was glad to do the thankless, unglamorous work that for generations has strengthened the fabric of this nation,” Michelle Obama continued. “The belief that if you do unto others, if you love thy neighbor. If you work and scrape and sacrifice, it will pay off. If not for you, then maybe for your children or your grandchildren.” 

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Former First Lady Michelle Obama speaks during the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024.  (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“You see, those values have been passed on through family farms and factory towns, through tree-lined streets and crowded tenements, through prayer groups and National Guard units and social studies classroom. Those were the values my mother poured into me until her very last breath,” she said. “Kamala Harris and I built our lives on those same foundational values. Even though our mothers grew up an ocean apart, they shared the same belief in the promise of this country.” 

One X user, who goes by ProudArmyBrat, decried the perceived hypocrisy to her more than 463,600 followers. 

“The Obama’s have a net worth of $70 million. They own 4 luxurious properties: – Washington DC home bought for $8.1M – Martha’s Vineyard home bought for $11.75M – Beachfront home in Hawaii bought for $8.7M – Chicago home bought for $1.65M,” she wrote. “Getting really tired of multi-millionaires preaching about the evils of money and greed.” 

Trump War Room, the official account of former President Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, also shared a clip of Michelle Obama’s speech. 

“Michelle Obama says her parents ‘were suspicious of folks who took more than they needed.’ She has a net worth of $70 million and lives in a mansion in Martha’s Vineyard,” the account wrote to its 2 million followers.

Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume said “the speech of the night was Michelle Obama,” but also noted the disconnect from the former first lady’s message and her elite lifestyle.

Former President Barack Obama gestures to former first lady Michelle Obama as he arrives to speak on stage during the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 20, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois.  (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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“She is an extraordinarily impressive woman, former first lady of the United States. You can see why members of the Democratic Party always kind of hoped that maybe she’d step in and run for president,” he said. “It does however, I have to say this, get a little rich when she starts talking about hope.”

“Remember she famously said when her husband was on the cusp of winning his party’s nomination it was the first time in her life that she had felt hope because of what he brought and what he was bringing,” Hume said. “Here she is tonight saying it again. I can’t imagine why somebody who’s had the life she had, a product of Princeton and Harvard Law School, an elite law firm, the first lady of the United States, with a magnificent house on Martha’s Vineyard worth about $12 million and another one going up in Hawaii, why it is that she’s so hopeless all the time and has to have her hope revived by the goings-on in the Democratic Party.” 

MIchelle Obama declared in her speech Tuesday: “America, hope is making a comeback.” 

Former President Barack Obama greets former first lady Michelle Obama as he arrives to speak on stage during the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 20, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois.  (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

She then tore into Trump, a sharp shift from the 2016 convention speech in which she told her party, “When they go low, we go high.”

“His limited and narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hardworking, highly educated, successful people who also happened to be Black,” Michelle Obama said of Trump.

She was followed by her husband, Barack Obama, the first Black president in U.S. history. He insisted the nation is ready to elect Harris, who is of Jamaican and Indian heritage and would be the nation’s first female president. He also called Trump “a 78-year-old billionaire who hasn’t stopped whining about his problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago.”

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“It’s been a constant stream of gripes and grievances that’s actually gotten worse now that he’s afraid of losing to Kamala,” he said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

Randall Terry is a lifelong pro-life activist who founded the Operation Rescue group, which he headed until 1991. He and the group were known for their controversial tactics targeting abortion clinics, blocking entrances and staging raucous protests as Terry and associates racked up dozens of arrests and enormous sums in civil judgments along the way.

In 2024, Terry won the Constitution Party nomination for president and is running to make the sanctity of human life the focal point of his campaign, with an advertising strategy explicitly designed to boost the Trump campaign and hurt the Democrats.

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“My mission is still the same, and that is to make it a criminal act to kill a human being from conception until birth. For that to happen, you have to be in the political realm. You have to be a lawmaker,” he said. “I am not going to win the presidency. I’m not running to win. I’m running to be the margin of defeat … in the swing states. Because I’m a federal candidate, I can run television ads 60 days from the election, and the TV stations are required by law to take them, so I can target Catholic and African-American voters in Wisconsin, in Michigan, in Pennsylvania.”

Randall Terry at FreedomFest in Las Vegas (Fox News)

He dismisses the argument that he is likely to serve as a spoiler, taking disproportionately more votes from Trump in the election.

“My candidacy is based around the three Ds: defend children, defeat the Democrat nominee, destroy the Democrat[ic] Party. That’s the mission. And for every one voter that leaves voting for Trump, for me, there’s going to be 20 that leave the Democrats because of the way our ads are targeted, because of our messaging. So, Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader, he has thrown in with us. He’s raising money for us. And he has said every Republican in America should be giving you money. You’re the secret weapon, because we can torpedo the Democrats with this message, which ultimately is going to end up helping Trump.”

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Terry’s economic policies focus on reducing regulation and taxation and boosting energy production and independence.

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in York, Pa., Monday. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

“The Constitution Party’s economic policy is simple: less regulation, lower taxes,” he said. “Stop putting a gun to people’s head to pay for your favorite giveaway. America had averaged a 1% tax on the entire populace up until 1913, with the exception of the Civil War when they were retiring war debt. When we had incredibly low taxes, low government regulations, we became the economic wonder of the world,” he said. “And now, with so much government regulation and so much taxes, we are driving business to foreign shores, or we’re bankrupting it. You want to have a great and free and prosperous country? Drill, baby, drill, open up the pipeline. Bring fuel here. … Make us energy independent. Become an exporter of oil and tell Saudi Arabia and Venezuela bye-bye.”

Terry said he is concerned that the Ukraine conflict is serving as a distraction from the machinations of China, which he views as a far greater threat.

“I think that Putin’s obsession with the ancestral territorial parts of Russia is what is driving him. And the question is, how much American treasure, how much American blood … are we prepared to be shed in these conflicts? And that, to me, is where we have real and honorable disagreements. We’re sitting by while China is ready to become literally the dominant force in the world. China is poising themselves to be the dominant force militarily and economically. … We’re sitting by while China is preparing to take over Taiwan and to become the military and economic powerhouse of the world, but we’re obsessing over Russia and Ukraine. I smell a rat.”

Terry believes that the emerging Moscow-Beijing axis will enable the export of tyranny and continues to pose a significant threat to the West. He also argues that failed American policies have driven the two powerhouses together.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping (Sergei Bobylev/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP/File)

“Historically, the Russian communists and the Chinese communists have not gotten along,” he said. “We are driving Russia into the arms of China. We have far more in common with the Russians historically with our connection to Christianity, Russian Orthodoxy,” he said, “but they are discussing, now openly, breaking the stronghold of the American dollar over oil. Once oil is no longer forced by law, by international treaties to be traded in dollars, all bets are off.”

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“We don’t even know what’s going to happen at that point. And if they come up with some kind of a new triumvirate or any coalition between Russia, which has massive oil fields that are untapped, China, which is a massive economic powerhouse, and then maybe Iran or some other heavy oil producing [country] … they’re going to be able to tell the West, ‘Go to hell, we’ll do whatever we want.’ And they will be exporting their political tyranny, and they will be not just in control of Hollywood but in control of small governments.”

A national poll finds that the 2024 vice presidential nominees are both still fighting to make themselves known to the U.S. voting public. 

The poll, conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, shows 4 out of 10 Americans don’t know enough about Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to form an opinion. 

The same goes for about 3 out of 10 Americans regarding Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice presidential nominee.

WALZ VS. VANCE: NEW POLL REVEALS WHICH VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE IS FAVORED AMONG VOTERS

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the running mate of Vice President Kamala Harris, attends a rally at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Walz is currently enjoying a higher level of support among U.S. adults, maintaining a 36% favorability rating compared to Vance’s 27%. 

This is compounded by Vance’s higher unfavorability rating among those polled, with 44% holding an unfavorable view compared to Walz’s 25%.

Vance’s popularity within the Republican Party is on the rise. In mid-July, only 3 out of 10 Republicans reported favorable feelings towards the Ohio senator as former President Donald Trump’s running mate — 6 out of 10 didn’t know enough about him.

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The current polling finds that Vance’s support within the Republican Party has doubled to 6 out of 10 among Republicans — mostly attributable to a rise in awareness about him and his policies.

Similarly, the AP-NORC poll found Walz maintains favorable opinions with 6 out of 10 Democrats, with approximately 3 out of 10 not knowing enough about him to form an opinion. 

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Republican vice presidential candidate, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, speaks at NMC-Wollard Inc. / Wollard International in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. (Adam Bettcher/Getty Images)

The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll was conducted from Aug. 8 to Aug. 12. 

It surveyed 1,164 adults via the NORC “probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel,” which it describes as “designed to be representative of the U.S. population.” Its margin of error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.

CHICAGO – Former first lady Michelle Obama returned to familiar ground during her Tuesday speech to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, delivering her third DNC speech in a row squarely aimed at denouncing former President Trump. In Tuesday night’s address, Obama took swipes at Trump’s inheritance of “generational wealth” and suggested that race was the reason he opposed her husband’s presidency.

“For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us,” the former first lady said about Trump’s view of her husband’s political career. “See, his limited, narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hardworking, highly educated, successful people who happened to be Black.”

“Wait,” Obama said, interrupting the applause from the crowd. “I want to know. I want to know — who’s going to tell him, who’s going to tell him that the job he’s currently seeking might just be one of those Black jobs?”

Obama continued, “Look, it’s his same old con. The same old con. Doubling down on ugly misogynistic, racist lies as a substitute for real ideas and solutions that will actually make people’s lives better.”

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Former first lady Michelle Obama gestures onstage during Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 20, 2024. (REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz)

Obama, taking a shot at Trump, said that Vice President Kamala Harris “understands that most of us will never be afforded the grace of failing forward.”

“We will never benefit from the affirmative action of generational wealth,” Obama said. “If we bankrupt the business, if we bankrupt a business or choke in a crisis, we don’t get a second, third or fourth chance. If things don’t go our way, we don’t have the luxury of whining or cheating others to get further ahead. No. We don’t get to change the rules so we always win.”

Obama continued, “If we see a mountain in front of us, we don’t expect there to be an escalator waiting to take us to the top. No. We put our heads down. We get to work. In America, we do something. And throughout her entire life, that’s what we’ve seen from Kamala Harris. The steel of her spine, the steadiness of her upbringing, the honesty of her example and, yes, the joy of her laughter and her light.”

HILLARY CLINTON BLASTS TRUMP’S LEGAL WOES AMID ‘LOCK HIM UP’ CHANTS IN DNC SPEECH: ‘ONLY CARES ABOUT HIMSELF’

Former first lady Michelle Obama attends Opening Night celebrating “50 years of equal pay” during Day One of the 2023 U.S. Open at Arthur Ashe Stadium. (Jean Catuffe/GC Images)

Slamming Trump at a Democratic convention is not new to the former first lady, who took shots at him in her speech at the 2020 convention saying that his White House operates in “chaos” and without “empathy,” while urging voters to cast their ballots for Joe Biden like their lives depended on it.

Four years earlier, when Trump was squaring off against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Obama likewise took aim at the Republican challenger.

“So don’t let anyone ever tell you that this country isn’t great, that somehow we need to make it great again,” Obama said in her 2016 convention speech in Philadelphia.  “Because this, right now, is the greatest country on Earth.”

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the American Federation of Teachers’ 88th National Convention on July 25, 2024 in Houston. (Montinique Monroe/Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached out to the Trump campaign for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

“So, consider this to be your official ask,” Obama told delegates Tuesday in Chicago. “Michelle Obama is asking you — no, I’m telling ya’ll to do something. Because, you all, this election is going to be close in some states. Just a handful. Listen to me. A handful of votes in every precinct could decide the winner.”

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“So we need to vote in numbers that erase any doubt. We need to overwhelm any effort to suppress us. Our fate is in our hands. In 77 days, we have the power to turn our country away from the fear, division and smallness of the past. We have the power to marry our hope with our action. We have the power to pay forward the love, sweat and sacrifice of our mothers and fathers and all those who came before us. We did it before y’all, and we sure can do it again.”

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.

Democrat presidential candidate Vice President Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are shown during a stop on their campaign bus tour in Rochester, Pa., on Aug. 18, 2024. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

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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.”

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Democrat presidential candidate Vice President Harris and running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz are shown at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 19, 2024. (Reuters/Mike Segar)

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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.

Democrat presidential candidate Vice President Harris and running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz are shown as President Biden addresses delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 19, 2024. (Reuters/Brendan Mcdermid)

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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.

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In the video introduction to Rep. Jamie Raskin’s, D-Md., speech on Monday evening, the Democratic National Convention aired a parody narration of an opening segue from “Law & Order.”

“In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police who investigate crime, and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders,” the narration went, in similar form to the NBC standard.

The video went on to paint former President Trump as a criminal defendant on the program, with the narrator saying, “He lies, he rips off workers, he sexually abuses women.”

“[T]o take on this case, we need a president who has spent her life prosecuting perpetrators like Donald Trump,” the narration continues, clearly referring to Vice President Kamala Harris.

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Vice President Kamala Harris clasps her hand in the air with President Biden at the Democratic National Convention, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Harris has recently called out her opponent in a similar light: “I know Donald Trump’s type.”

Prior to her time in the Senate, she served as California attorney general and San Francisco County district attorney. She notably won her attorney general’s race by the narrowest margin in state history.

In 2009, Harris wrote a book: “Smart on Crime,” which sought to “mak[e] the criminal justice system truly, not just rhetorically, tough.”

In the interim, she made several comments critical of the state of law enforcement and has been criticized by Republicans for actions including soliciting donations for the Minnesota Freedom Fund – which paid bail for Minneapolis riot suspects.

During a June 2019 presidential candidates’ forum hosted by the Poor People’s Campaign (PPC), Harris joined Hialeah, Florida, Mayor Wayne Messam and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., for a panel hosted by PPC’s Liz Theoharis and MSNBC pundit Joy Reid.

In response to a multi-tiered question by Theoharis, Harris said, “On the issue of militarization of police, I have a long-standing record of saying we need to demilitarize police, and we really need to get to a point where communities frankly don’t need a law enforcement response to what’s happening in their communities because they are safe communities.”

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Sen. Kamala Harris speaks during a news conference unveiling policing reform and equal justice legislation at the U.S. Capitol on June 8, 2020. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

CNN and other networks have recently flagged Harris’ past statements on policing, as the left-leaning network revisited her June 2020 comments on a New York radio show that the Defund the Police movement “rightly sa[id] we need to take a look at these budgets and figure out whether it reflects the right priorities.”

The Democrat also said some municipalities were “militarizing police” while “defunding public schools.”

In 2020, Harris sparred with then-“View” host Meghan McCain, after the Republican scion pressed the future vice president as to whether she supports “defunding the police.”

Harris replied by asking how McCain would define defunding police, while separately offering that the U.S. needs to “reimagine how we are achieving public safety.”

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“And to have cities where one-third of their entire budget is going to policing, but yet there’s a dire need in those same cities for mental health resources, for resources going into public schools, for resources going into job training and job creation. Come on.”

During a discussion with celebrities Andy Cohen and Laverne Cox in 2020, Harris said the “status quo thinking” that more police on the street translates to safer streets is wrong.

“It is outdated, and it is actually wrong and backward to think that more police officers will create more safety,” she added on an episode of Chris Hayes’ MSNBC program.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris campaign for comment but did not receive a response at press time.

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.”

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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?

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at Precision Components Group, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in York, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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.

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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.

Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Trump National Bedminster Clubhouse on August 15, 2024 in Bedminster, New Jersey. In his second news conference in a week, Trump attacked Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris as recent polls in battleground states show gains for Democrats.  (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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. 

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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.) 

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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 – and for that matter, Tim Walz – a total pass on refusing to do interviews, as if that’s not their job.

A month ago, Biden was expecting to be giving his acceptance speech in Chicago, rather than being shamefully pushed so late that he finished at 12:30 a.m. ET, with BS excuses about how there was just too much applause during the night. That’s how quickly things can change in politics.

Some critics in the media are saying that Trump has gotten boring, that what seemed fresh and tough and entertaining in 2016 now appears stale and familiar. Maybe, but Trump didn’t win that year by running on immigration and crime, he won based on his anti-establishment persona – exactly the sort of charge being aimed at Kamala.

The widespread assumption that Trump would cruise to victory, especially after the failed assassination, has been replaced by a media consensus that Harris is riding a cultural wave that will swamp him.

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But that’s faulty logic. Trump still has the easier path to the magic 270. He’s still neck and neck with Harris in the battleground states after all the negative stuff dumped on him, including a criminal conviction.

And he’ll eventually figure out how to undermine Harris, even if it means cycling through one strategy after another until something works. That is, and has always been, the Trump way. 

Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., coasted to victory in the Republican primary for Wyoming’s at-large congressional district Tuesday night. 

Wyoming is one of six states to only have one statewide district, along with Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota and Vermont.

Harriet currently serves on the Natural Resources and Judiciary Committees, running her re-election campaign on issues such as securing the border, protecting the Second Amendment and fighting for federal land management reform. 

Former President Trump endorsed Hageman before she ousted former Rep. Liz Cheney in the 2022 midterms.

WYOMING MAYORAL CANDIDATE PROMISES TO LET OPENAI BOT GOVERN CAPITAL CITY, FACES BACKLASH FROM TECH GIANT

Republican congressional candidate Harriet Hageman speaks at a campaign event in Wyoming. (Natalie Behring/Getty Images)

Hageman faced GOP opposition from Steven Helling, an attorney from Casper, who ran for the seat in 2022 as a Democrat.

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During his last congressional bid, Helling pushed a “Democrats for Trump” campaign, but did not win the Democratic nomination.

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

Rep. Mary Peltola, a Democrat, is shown before a debate for Alaska’s sole U.S. House seat on Oct. 26, 2022, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

The Associated Press didn’t make a call on the 4th place finisher. None of the remaining candidates broke the 1% mark.

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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.

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 

Former U.S. President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks during Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., August 20, 2024.  (REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer)

“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. 

Former US President Barack Obama, left, arrives to speak next to former US First Lady Michelle Obama during the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. The Democratic National Convention this week marks the ceremonial crowning of Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as the party’s presidential nominees, capping off a whirlwind month for Democrats who quickly coalesced behind the new ticket after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race in July.  (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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. 

US President Joe Biden, left, and Vice President Kamala Harris on the Truman Balcony of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, July 4, 2024. (Tierney L. Cross)

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. 

(L-R) Vice President Kamala Harris and Former President Barack Obama attend an event to mark the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act in the East Room of the White House on April 5, 2022 in Washington, DC. With then-Vice President Joe Biden by his side, Obama signed ‘Obamacare’ into law on March 23, 2010. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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. 

US Vice President Kamala Harris delivers the keynote speech at the American Federation of Teachers’ 88th National Convention in Houston, Texas, on July 25, 2024.  (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

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. 

WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 5: Former President Barack Obama hugs Vice President Kamala Harris during an event to mark the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act in the East Room of the White House on April 5, 2022 in Washington, DC. With then-Vice President Joe Biden by his side, Obama signed ‘Obamacare’ into law on March 23, 2010. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) (Getty Images)

“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 House, she will have an outstanding partner in Gov. Tim Walz.” 

HARRIS CELEBRATES ‘CEREMONIAL’ CHICAGO DNC ROLL CALL VOTE FROM MILWAUKEE RALLY

Walz also has ties to Obama going back years. Obama, when he served as an Illinois senator, was one of the few high-profile Democrats in the nation to campaign for Walz at the dawn of his career in 2006. Walz was elected to the House where he served from 2007 to 2019, when he was sworn-in as governor of the Gopher State. 

“I just remember standing on that stage, and we were coming off it, and there was someone there who was a supporter of mine who said, ‘Stop, let me take a picture,’” Walz said in 2017 of how Obama traveled to Minnesota to support him during his first congressional run in 2006. 

MEET KAMALA HARRIS’ RUNNING MATE WHO CALLED REPUBLICANS ‘WEIRD PEOPLE’

U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz hold a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., August 20, 2024.  (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

The pair, as well as then-Hennepin County Attorney Amy Klobuchar, took a photo together, which Walz framed and hanged in his house, he told the MinnPost in 2017. 

 “A future congressman, a future senator, and a future president,” Walz said he captioned the photo, noting that Obama was one of the few high-profile Democrats at the time to support him back in 2006. 

Obama also took shots at former President Donald Trump during his speech, painting him as power hungry. 

“The truth is, Donald Trump sees power as nothing more than a means to his ends. He wants the middle class to pay the price for another huge tax cut that would mostly help him and his rich friends. He killed a bipartisan immigration deal written in part by one of the most conservative Republicans in Congress that would have helped secure our southern border because he thought trying to actually solve the problem would hurt his campaign,” he said. 

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“He doesn’t seem to care if more women lose their reproductive freedom since it won’t affect his life. And, most of all, Donald Trump wants us to think that this country is hopelessly divided between us and them, between the real Americans who, of course, support him, and the outsiders who don’t.”

Harris is slated to take the DNC stage on Thursday evening, when she will deliver her acceptance speech for the Democratic Party’s nomination before the DNC concludes. 

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Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich contributed to this report. 

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.

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Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris is shown on a screen as she speaks from a Milwaukee rally, on Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention  at the United Center, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., August 20, 2024.  (REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid)

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.

Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz hold a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 20, 2024.  (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

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?”

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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.

President Joe Biden stands with Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and first lady Jill Biden during the first day of the Democratic National Convention, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago.  (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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.”

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CHICAGO – Vice President Kamala Harris celebrated the “ceremonial” roll call vote nominating her as the Democratic Party’s nominee on Tuesday evening during a rally in Milwaukee, which is located about a 90-minute drive from the DNC’s host city of Chicago. 

“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 told the rally crowd in Milwaukee. 

“I thank everyone there and here for believing in what we can do together. We are so honored to be your nominees. This is a people power campaign, and together we will chart a new way forward,” she added. 

Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz are in Milwaukee Tuesday evening for a rally in the city that hosted the Republican National Convention just last month. 

BIDEN REHASHES DEBUNKED TRUMP CHARLOTTESVILLE CLAIM IN LATE-NIGHT DNC SPEECH

U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz hold a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., August 20, 2024.  (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

Just about 100 miles south of the Wisconsin city, thousands of Democrats are gathered in Chicago for the DNC, which kicked off on Monday. The roll call vote on Tuesday evening was ceremonial and non-binding, as Democrats moved to nominate Harris and Walz earlier this month. 

Tuesday’s DNC speech line-up is stacked with high-profile Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, former first lady Michelle Obama, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and others. 

BIDEN SAYS DNC ANTI-ISRAEL AGITATORS ‘HAVE A POINT,’ RIPS TRUMP AS ‘NOT WORTHY’ OF OVAL OFFICE

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during the Democratic National Convention Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago.  (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

The DNC officially kicked off on Monday, when Harris delivered surprise remarks, while former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also took the stage in support of the Harris-Walz ticket. 

President Biden delivered Monday’s final speech, which wrapped up after midnight on the East Coast, as the president celebrated Harris’ run after he dropped out of the race last month amid mounting concern of his mental acuity and age. Biden endorsed Harris shortly after dropping out. 

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, left, clasps her hand in the air with President Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

“Selecting Kamala was the very first decision I made before I became when I became our nominee, and it was the best decision I made my whole career,” Biden said on Monday in his late-night speech. 

“We’ve not only gotten to know each other, we’ve become close friends. She’s tough, she’s experienced, and she has enormous integrity, enormous integrity. Her story represents the best American story.”

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Harris is slated to take the stage for her official acceptance speech for the nomination on Thursday evening in Chicago. 

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Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., the Sunshine State’s senior senator, successfully staved off a primary challenge Tuesday night and will be the GOP’s nominee for re-election in November.

Scott, a former health care executive, also previously launched an intraparty bid to succeed Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as the Republican leader in the upper chamber.

Scott barely survived a challenge from current NASA administrator Bill Nelson by about one-eighth of a percentage point in his 2018 race.

U.S. Senate Candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell speaks during a press conference on June 24, 2024, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Scott now faces the winner of the Democrat primary, former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell.

RICK SCOTT RESPONDS TO BIDEN ATTACKS: UNFIT FOR OFFICE

A noted swing state for decades, Florida has been increasingly shifting comfortably toward the Republican column in recent races.

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images/File)

In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Bush v. Gore put an end to the tallying of “hanging chads” on paper ballots as the Sunshine State narrowly went to pick then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush in the presidential election.

These days, the state has reliably re-elected statewide Republicans, including Gov. Ron DeSantis, who trounced former Rep. Charlie Crist, D-Fla., in 2022.

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., speaks at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 16, 2024. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)

Scott has been a reliable ally of former President Trump and currently sits on the Senate Homeland Security, Budget, Aging and Armed Services committees.

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On his campaign website, primary challenger John Columbus described himself as a “modern millennial Florida man with a big dream and patriotic spirit.”

Columbus said he wants America to remain a “beacon of freedom” and that a change is needed in Washington, D.C.

Republican presidential candidate former President Trump pumps his fist after speaking at a campaign rally in Wilkes Barre, Pa., on Aug. 17, 2024. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Meanwhile, Keith Gross said he was running to buck the “Washington Uniparty” and that “spineless RINO Republicans have sold our country out to foreign nations and corrupt insiders.”

Gross also plugged his support for Trump.

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz survived a primary challenge Tuesday backed by his nemesis, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. 

McCarthy spent $3 million on Aaron Dimmock’s campaign against Gaetz. Dimmock is a former Navy aviator and director of the Missouri Leadership Academy. 

Last year, Gaetz led a group of eight Republicans to oust McCarthy from the speakership with the help of Democratic members, spawning a feud between the two. 

McCarthy’s attacks on Gaetz stem from a House Ethics Committee investigation into alleged sexual misconduct and drug use. But the allegations aren’t new, and Gaetz had a loyal following in his district, making Tuesday’s result the likely outcome.

KEVIN MCCARTHY SAYS MATT GAETZ SHOULD GET PROFESSIONAL HELP AFTER VIRAL SPAT: ‘HE LOOKS VERY UNHINGED’

Rep. Matt Gaetz, F-Fla., speaks on the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee July 17, 2024.  (Reuters/Mike Segar)

As of this summer, Gaetz is still under investigation by the House Ethics Committee. The bipartisan committee, led by Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., issued a statement in June saying that it needs to further review allegations against Gaetz involving sexual misconduct, illicit drug use and accepting improper gifts.

WHY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS DECIDE THEY ‘GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE’

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy donated $3 million to Gaetz’s rival. (Getty Images)

The committee also accused Gaetz of being uncooperative with its probe and said it had “difficulty in obtaining relevant information” from him.

Gaetz has denied all the allegations. 

STRATEGISTS PIN GOP SENATE HOPES ON TRUMP BASE COMING ‘HOME’ AHEAD OF ELECTION

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., appears onstage on the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum July 16, 2024, in Milwaukee. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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Pro-life groups countered Planned Parenthood’s mobile abortion clinic Tuesday morning by staging a protest against its services and presenting an alternative van equipped with an ultrasound machine and abortion pill reversal medication.

John Mize, CEO of Americans United for Life, was one of the pro-life individuals outside the clinic just a few blocks away from the Democratic National Convention (DNC), attempting to talk to women going into the Planned Parenthood van about their options. 

“This is a very serious and a very complex situation that’s being trivialized by Planned Parenthood,” Mize told Fox News Digital. “It’s being diminished, and it’s being disrespected, the fact that this is a very complicated, very complex decision that these women are making, and, unfortunately, it’s a carnival. They have blow-ups. They have food trucks. It’s a bit of a show, unfortunately, and it diminishes the severity and significance of vulnerable women.”

CHICAGO GETS ‘WEIRD’ FOR DNC WITH ABORTION TRUCKS, INFLATABLE IUD AND FREE VASECTOMIES, CONSERVATIVES SAY 

Pro-life activists protest where Planned Parenthood has a mobile van offering free vasectomies and medicinal abortions near the Democratic National Convention in Chicago Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. (Fox News Digital)

Planned Parenthood Great Rivers of St. Louis announced in an X post that a bus is headed to the DNC in Chicago on Aug. 19-20 to offer free services. As of Tuesday, a Planned Parenthood worker told Fox News Digital it was only performing medicinal abortions and was fully booked. 

“Here we come, Chicago!  Our mobile health clinic will be in the West Loop with @ChiAbortionFund & @TheWienerCircle Aug 19-20, providing FREE vasectomies & medication abortion,” the post said. “EC will also be available for free without an appointment.” 

Protesters outside the clinic held signs that said “Abortion takes a human life” and “It’s Not Too Late.” Women who left the Planned Parenthood van declined to talk to the media.

Across the street from where Planned Parenthood had its mobile setup alongside a vibrant taco truck blasting music, another pro-life group set up shop with its own van decked out with ultrasound equipment and abortion-reversing drugs.

Bridget Van Means, CEO of Thrive Nation, a national network of pro-life health care, headed the van’s operations.

CHICAGO GETS ‘WEIRD’ FOR DNC WITH ABORTION TRUCKS, INFLATABLE IUD AND FREE VASECTOMIES, CONSERVATIVES SAY 
 

“We support women whether they choose motherhood, which, of course, we champion. We’re also with them if they choose abortion. We know there can be a lot of heartbreak after that, and so we’re able to support them,” Van Means told Fox News Digital Tuesday. 

“We have had a few people come by,” Van Means added. “The women are so tense, and they’re so upset, and this is a little bit of a circus over here. They have blow-ups. They’re giving away hot dog coupons with the abortion. They have a food truck. We really think it does not provide the appropriate level of respect or dignity to women who are very upset.”

SOFTENED ABORTION LANGUAGE IN TRUMP-APPROVED GOP PLATFORM IRKS SOME SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES

Democrats have made the issue of abortion a central theme in campaigns across the country this election year, including warning that Republican control of Congress, in tandem with another four years in the White House for former President Trump, would mean a nationwide ban.

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Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade and Vice President Kamala Harris stepping in to replace President Biden, the Democratic Party has doubled down on rhetoric surrounding a “woman’s right to choose.”

On day one of the DNC, abortion took center stage. Several speakers spoke at length about it being one of the central issues of the Democratic Party’s 2024 platform. 

Fox News Digital’s Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report. 

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The Chicago Police Department recorded eight shootings, four of which were fatal, and one armed robbery on Monday, the first day of the Democratic National Convention in the Windy City.

That compares to a total of 26 shooting incidents involving 30 total victims, five of whom died over the weekend leading up to the DNC as local and federal officials offered additional protection during the convention and mass protests in downtown Chicago … Read more

Demonstrators face off with Chicago PD after they breach the barrier outside the United Center where the DNC is being held in Chicago, Ill., Monday, Aug. 19 2024.  (Fox News Digital)

White House

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and his wife, first lady Gwen Walz, have clarified that they conceived their children not through IVF, as the governor had previously said or implied in interviews, but through another fertility treatment. 

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, took to social media platform X, formerly Twitter, to seize on the revelation and ask, “Who lies about something like that?” after asserting that Walz had deceived the public about having children via IVF, adding to his earlier attack that Walz had “lied” about his service in the National Guard. 

But the Harris-Walz campaign hit back at Vance:

“The Trump campaign’s attacks on Mrs. Walz are just another example of how cruel and out of touch Donald Trump and JD Vance are when it comes to women’s healthcare,” Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson Mia Ehrenberg told Fox News Digital. “Infertility is a deeply personal journey, but the Governor and Mrs. Walz came forward to share their story because they know that MAGA attacks on reproductive rights are putting all fertility treatments at risk.”

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Harris campaign spokesperson Mia Ehrenberg argued to CNN that Tim Walz “talks how normal people talk. He was using commonly understood shorthand for fertility treatments.” The couple did not receive in vitro fertilization (IVF) but instead intrauterine insemination (IUI). 

In a statement shared with media, Gwen Walz said that the journey through fertility treatments is riddled with anxiety, agony and “desperation that can eat away at your soul.” 

Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz look on as President Joe Biden addresses delegates on Day one of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, Ill., Aug. 19, 2024.  (REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid)

“I cannot fathom the cruelty of politicians who want to take away the freedom for couples to access the care they need,” she said. “After seeing the extreme attacks on reproductive health care across the country — particularly, the efforts in Alabama that jeopardized access to fertility treatments — Tim and I agreed that it was time to formally speak out about our experience.”

“Like so many who have experienced these challenges, we kept it largely to ourselves at the time — not even sharing the details with our wonderful and close family,” Gwen Walz explained. “The only person who knew in detail what we were going through was our next-door neighbor.”

“She was a nurse and helped me with the shots I needed as part of the IUI process. I’d rush home from school, and she would give me the shots to ensure we stayed on track.”

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Tim Walz stated during an interview with MSNBC in July that he had IVF to thank for their children, saying, “Thank God for IVF, my wife and I have two beautiful children.” In other instances, Walz referred to “fertility treatments” and stressed that the issue of IVF rights remained “personal” for him due to the struggles he and his wife went through to have their children. 

Tim Walz has made his support of IVF a central cause after the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos created by IVF treatments should be considered children, which would lay the groundwork for further legislation on treatments. Embryos that have been fertilized but go unused are often discarded, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Then-Rep. Tim Walz and his wife, Gwen, talk about when they met as teachers in Nebraska in the living room of their Mankato home, Sunday, July 8, 2018. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

The “embryo disposal decision” deals with the question of storage after successful childbearing. Many couples end up donating good-quality embryos to a research program, but discarding fertilized embryos remains a common practice. 

IVF requires the removal of several eggs and fertilization outside the body before transfer into the uterus, while IUI directly injects the sperm into the uterus. IUI also involved “washing” sperm to separate them from seminal fluid to increase the number of sperm transferred and increase chances of successful fertilization, according to Cleveland Clinic Health Essentials.

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Former President Donald Trump shortly after the Alabama ruling stressed, “We want to make it easier for mothers and fathers to have babies, not harder! That includes supporting the availability of fertility treatments like IVF in every state in America.” 

A model of the female reproductive system and an embryo transfer catheter, in the office of Vitaly Kushnir, M.D., at West Coast Fertility Centers, photographed Feb. 29, 2024, in Fountain Valley, CA.  ((Photo by Jay L. Clendenin/for The Washington Post via Getty Images))

“Today, I am calling on the Alabama Legislature to act quickly to find an immediate solution to preserve the availability of IVF in Alabama,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social following the decision. “The Republican Party should always be on the side of the Miracle of Life – and the side of Mothers, Fathers, and their Beautiful Babies.”

The correction issued by the Harris-Walz campaign is another they have had to make regarding previous statements Tim Walz has made, including clarification on his National Guard service. 

The team altered its biography of Tim Walz on the campaign website amid ongoing scrutiny of Walz’s service, changing it from saying he was a “retired Command Sergeant Major” to “served as a command sergeant major.”

Tim Walz retired from the Guard after nearly 25 years of service, but his rank was reduced months later, leaving him as a master sergeant. 

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National Guard officials have said that he retired before fulfilling requirements for the position, including coursework at the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy. The subsequent lower rank was due to benefit requirements and a technicality.

The Trump-Vance campaign did not respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment by the time of publication. 

Fox News Digital’s Adam Shaw contributed to this report. 

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., is urging House GOP leaders to hold a chamber-wide vote on impeaching President Biden days after a highly anticipated report accused the commander in chief of committing impeachable offenses.

“I’ve felt that way for a long time. I’m on the Oversight Committee, I’ve seen all of the evidence up close and personal. It is without a doubt that he used his office when he was vice president to enrich his family as pay for play,” Donalds told Fox News Digital. “That’s public corruption.”

Referencing the phone call with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy that precipitated the first impeachment of former President Trump, Donalds added, “Listen, if a phone call is quote-unquote, an impeachable offense, then public corruption absolutely is. I think the House should hold that vote.”

House Republicans released a 292-page report on Monday, a joint effort by the House Oversight Committee, House Judiciary Committee and House Ways and Means Committee, arguing Biden engaged in “impeachable conduct.”

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Rep. Byron Donalds is urging the House to hold a vote on impeaching President Biden. (Getty Images)

Those committees have been working on a monthslong investigation into whether Biden helped enrich himself and his family through foreign business deals while he was vice president.

Donalds’ public pressure is significant; while a majority of House Republicans have publicly accused Biden of at least acting improperly, it’s not clear that House leaders would risk forcing their most vulnerable GOP members to take such a weighty vote with just a razor-thin majority in the chamber.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., indicated in March that criminal referrals could be the end of the road for the probe. He told Newsmax the House “would vote to impeach Joe Biden right now,” but “the best path to accountability is criminal referrals.”

In his statement on the impeachment report on Monday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., praised the investigation as “thorough, diligent and thoughtful” but made no mention of a House-wide vote. Johnson himself has previously said he believes Biden is guilty of wrongdoing.

Donalds appeared to reference his colleagues’ hesitation when he told Fox News Digital he would make the case for an impeachment vote to Johnson the next time he spoke with the GOP leader.

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President Biden hugs his son Hunter Biden during the Democratic National Convention Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

“It’ll definitely probably come up, and we’ll see where it is,” Donalds said. “And look, I know members, they all are trying to figure out what they’re going to do in their re-elections, but we have a responsibility to hold the executive branch accountable. That is the job of Congress.”

“I think one of the reasons why a lot of people are losing faith in our institutions is because it appears that people at the top of our politics just get away with everything and are never held accountable. And that’s wrong.”

In their report, Republicans said there is “overwhelming evidence” that Biden participated in a “conspiracy to monetize his office of public trust to enrich his family.” They alleged that the Biden family and their business associates received tens of millions of dollars from foreign interests by “leading those interests to believe that such payments would provide them access to and influence with President Biden.” 

The committees said the Biden family and its associates received more than $27 million from foreign individuals or entities since 2014.

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It’s not clear if House Speaker Mike Johnson will hold a vote. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

They also alleged that the Biden family leveraged Biden’s position as vice president to obtain more than $8 million in loans from Democratic benefactors. The loans “have not been repaid and the paperwork supporting many of the loans does not exist and has not been produced to the committees.”

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The White House said in response to the report, “This failed stunt will only be remembered for how it became an embarrassment that their own members distanced themselves from as they only managed to turn up evidence that refuted their false and baseless conspiracy theories. The American people deserve more from House Republicans, and perhaps now they will finally join President Biden in focusing on the real issues that American families actually care about.”

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment on Donalds’ remarks.

The House GOP is setting its sights on a handful of Democratic candidates who have been bankrolled by left-wing billionaires whose money has also gone toward promoting what Republicans call “soft-on-crime” policies.

At least eight Democratic House candidates who have positioned themselves as left-of-center or moderate have received donations from the same wealthy liberals who poured thousands into promoting progressive crime policies in states like California and Florida, campaign finance records show.

All eight are also running in competitive districts, making them prime targets for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the House Republicans’ campaign arm.

“Defund the police donors backed up the Brink’s truck to bankroll the campaigns of extreme House Democrats,” NRCC spokesman Will Reinert told Fox News Digital. “If elected, these far-left Democrats will work hand in hand with San Francisco liberal Kamala Harris to send violent crime rates soaring, reward felons and punish cops for trying to keep communities safe.”

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Republicans are ramping up their election messaging on crime and law enforcement support. (Getty Images)

Among the eight is Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kan., one of the most vulnerable Democrats this election cycle — the most recently available campaign finance data shows Davids received $3,300 in April from Quinn Delaney, a California billionaire who runs the nonprofit Akonadi Foundation.

The Akonadi Foundation committed $12.5 million to an Oakland-based initiative whose goals include closing youth prisons and taking police officers out of schools, according to its website.

Delaney also spent hundreds of thousands to help elect progressive Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon, whose progressive reforms have been accused of making residents feel less safe during his tenure.

Delaney along with California megadonor Patty Quillin were named as two of four billionaires who “channeled $22 million toward criminal justice ballot measures and allied candidates the previous two years,” Politico wrote in 2021.

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Quillin and her husband, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, also donated $1 million to support a California measure to end the cash bail system and replace it with a risk-based assessment.

Recent campaign finance records show Quillin donated $3,300 to Will Rollins, a former prosecutor running against Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Calif.

Delaney and Quillin also both gave $3,300 to Adam Gray, who is running to unseat Rep. John Duarte, R-Calif.

Gray, a former state lawmaker, has also received two $6,600 checks from Django Bonderman and Cale Bonderman respectively, both of whom donated significantly to support a 2018 Florida ballot initiative to grant most felons the right to vote.

Rep. Sharice Davids received a donation from Django Bonderman, a member of the billionaire Bonderman family (Getty Images)

Django Bonderman is also linked to Mountain Philanthropies, which Influence Watch has classified as a left-wing dark money group that has supported causes promoting leniency in criminal justice.

Campaign finance records show the Bondermans have also donated similar amounts to George Whitesides, who is running against Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Calif.; Laura Gillen, who is challenging Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, R-N.Y.; Monica Tranel, who is challenging Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont.; and former House Rep. Mondaire Jones, who is running to unseat Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y.

The Bondermans have also donated $3,300 each to Oregon state Rep. Janelle Bynum, who is challenging Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Ore.

Django Bonderman has given small amounts to more moderate members of the House GOP as well, giving $1,000 each to Reps. Dave Joyce, R-Ohio, and Steve Womack, R-Ark., in late June. 

A spokesperson for Womack said he returned the donation.

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“Voters have to remember what happened when George Soros funded all of those left-wing DAs,” John Feehery, a former aide to ex-Speaker Dennis Hastert and current partner at EFB Advocacy told Fox News Digital.

“Crime spiraled out of control. The same principle applies to these candidates. They will do what the billionaires want and the results won’t be pretty.”

Feehery argued there was a dissonance between such Democrats running more moderate campaigns while accepting funds from progressive sources. “They can try, but voters know where their bread is buttered,” he said.

Rep. Steve Womack, a Republican from Arkansas, also got a donation from Bonderman, but Womack said it was returned. ( Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Crime and perceptions of public safety are likely to play a critical role in suburban districts where Republicans have hammered big-city Democrats as soft on crime. 

Democrats, particularly in competitive districts, have sought to dispel those arguments during this election cycle.

Both Gray and Rollins have touted campaign endorsements from local law enforcement in their areas. Gray has support from both the district attorney and the sheriff of Merced County, while Rollins is endorsed by the Palm Springs Police Association.

“As a former federal prosecutor with the support of local law enforcement, I understand more than most that defendants should be detained if they’re a danger to our communities, that Prop 47 needs to be repealed so that cops aren’t put in the position of rearresting the same people for theft crimes again and again, and that our police officers need all of the support they can get to keep our families safe,” Rollins told Fox News Digital. “I believe no one is above the law and that we should fund both local police and federal law enforcement.”

He also knocked rival Calvert for once claiming the FBI was “infiltrated” by “rot” and for House GOP proposals, not led by him, that would have seen funding cut to various law enforcement offices.

Tranel, meanwhile, told Fox News Digital, “Over half of my donors are from Montana, while only 7% of Zinke’s contributions came from Montanans. If we’re going to talk about donors, let’s look at Ryan Zinke, who took money from a company controlled by the Chinese Communist Party that has bought up US farmland and voted to make it harder for Montana ranchers to compete with China and drive up the cost of living. Montanans deserve a representative who stands up for them, not one who continues to exploit Montana for their own personal profit.”

Republicans are seeking to make crime a central focus of this election, including former President Trump, who made remarks on the issue Tuesday afternoon. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Zinke’s campaign pointed out that Tranel also received donations from Jonathan Soros and his wife, adding, “Ryan Zinke continues to outperform perennial failed candidate Monica Tranel in every aspect of this campaign. Talk about a liberal afraid to be truthful to voters, she refuses to acknowledge that her top client wants to defund the police, she refuses to answer questions about her support for her VP nominee who let criminals burn Minneapolis to the ground, and her presidential nominee who tried to bail them out of jail.”

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“And on the point of Tranel’s statement — Congressman Zinke is the only person in this race who has actually taken action against the Chinese buying farmland, whereas Monica Tranel is pushing American’s reliance on Chinese-made solar, wind and EVs,” the campaign added.

In Oregon, Bynum previously touted her support for recriminalizing fentanyl possession after the state’s controversial decision to ease drug penalties, which has since been reversed.

“Voters can see right through the NRCC’s weak falsehoods for what they are: a lame attempt to hide the fact that it’s only been House Republicans who’ve voted for cuts to cripple local law enforcement and make our communities less safe, all while rewarding their convicted felon presidential nominee,” Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) spokesperson Viet Shelton told Fox News Digital.

The remaining candidates did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.