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Congressional Republicans are wary of using diversity, equity and inclusion politics to criticize Vice President Harris, with some urging former President Trump to stick to “the issues.”

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said Trump’s path to victory is through arguing the issues and not getting bogged down in racial politics. His comments came after Trump mentioned Harris’ race during an event with the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago.

“The campaign is, needs to be, must be about the issues, and there’s plenty to talk about. I just think that’s where the focus needs to be. That’s how we’re going to win in November,” Thune told reporters when asked about Trump’s remarks.

Trump appeared to crack jokes about Harris’ heritage during his remarks to the NABJ, expressing confusion about whether she was Indian or black.

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Congressional Republicans are wary of using diversity, equity and inclusion politics to criticize Vice President Kamala Harris, with some urging former President Trump to stick to “the issues.” (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“I’ve known her a long time indirectly. Not directly very much,” Trump said. “She was always of Indian heritage. And she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black. And now she wants to be known as Black.”

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“So I don’t know, is she Indian, or is she Black?” he added.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has urged Republican lawmakers not to go down the DEI route when attacking Harris. (REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein)

House Speaker Mike Johnson has urged Republican lawmakers not to go down the DEI route when attacking Harris as well.

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“This election … is going to be about policies, not personalities. This isn’t personal with regard to Kamala Harris,” Johnson said in a press conference last week.”Her ethnicity, her gender, has nothing to do with this whatsoever.”

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump

Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., jumped on Trump’s comments almost immediately on Wednesday. 

“I’ll tell you what it’s not: It’s not surprising. This is who Donald Trump is. This is the politics of insult, of revenge and resentment and retribution, and I suspect we’ll hear that all the way until November,” he said.

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“I think at the end of the day the people of America are going to reject that. They know what Kamala Harris represents,” he continued.

“Here’s a woman who is the daughter of a Jamaican man and an East-Asian immigrant mother. She went to Howard University. She’s married to a Jewish man,” Warnock added. “She embodies in her life story the American covenant, E Pluribus Unum, out of many, one. Donald Trump doesn’t understand that.

A closer look at the Supreme Court’s 2023 term, from October 2023 to July 2024, provides a more nuanced picture than critics would have Americans believe, according to numbers crunched by veteran court watchers Adam Feldman and Jake Truscott of SCOTUS Blog.

Here’s a breakdown of how the justices — six conservatives and three liberals — have been voting during this time period.

Decision breakdown

In the 2023 term, the Supreme Court heard 62 cases, two of which were dismissed. Of the 60 cases decided, the court issued 27 unanimous decisions compared to 22 decisions with a 6-3 split. The recurring 6-3 split has often been viewed as a clear indicator of the court’s conservative leanings, but the reality is more complex, according to the SCOTUS Blog’s analysis findings.

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Half of the 6-3 decisions, 11 out of 22, broke down along the familiar conservative-liberal split. However, this term saw a notable increase in 6-3 decisions with mixed ideological coalitions. Unlike previous terms, where 6-3 splits often fell along predictable conservative-liberal lines, this term featured a more varied pattern.

Carrie Severino, a lawyer and author of “Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court,” noted in a Fox News Digital interview that, during this SCOTUS term, “about 40% of the decisions were unanimous.

Former President Trump faces a ruling over his immunity claim at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. (Getty Images)

“That’s not the type of pattern you’d expect if the court was some kind of hard right extremists,” she said. “First and foremost, looking at what the law in the Constitution requires and making decisions on that basis. And that sometimes means cases where the results, you could say, look conservative because maybe there’s conservative litigants on one side of the case or liberal litigants of the other, but that’s not what the court is or should be looking to.

“Now, that hasn’t stopped an unrelenting campaign of negative ads against the court, which is very damaging to the institution and, I think, is cynical and short-sighted,” she added. “But the fact of the matter is this is a court that’s incredibly principled.”

Since the conservative supermajority formed in 2020, this term had the most ideological splits compared to previous years, excluding landmark cases from 2021. This indicates that while the conservative bloc still wields significant influence, the ideological composition of 6-3 decisions has become less predictable.

Justice voting frequencies

Chief Justice John Roberts was most frequently in the majority this term at 96%, surpassing Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was second at approximately 95%. Justice Amy Coney Barrett remained the third most frequent at 92%. On the liberal side, justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson were less frequently in the majority this term, with Kagan and Sotomayor tied at the lowest frequency of 71%.

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Pro-life women celebrate after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade outside the Supreme Court in Washington June 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Notable 6-3 decisions

Several high-profile 6-3 decisions illustrate the ideological diversity of the SCOTUS:

• Trump v. United States: Addressed the prosecution of Trump over attempts to block the 2020 election results.
• Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless Inc. v. Dept. of Commerce: Focused on the power of federal agencies.
• City of Grants Pass, Ore. v. Gloria Johnson: Dealt with homeless encampments in public spaces.
• Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy: Concerned SEC tribunals.
• Garland v. Cargill: Involved a bump stock ban.
• Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP: Addressed voting maps.

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A protester outside the Supreme Court in Washington June 29, 2023.  (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Meanwhile, attacks on the Supreme Court persist. This week, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are calling on Congress to impose term limits and a code of conduct on the Supreme Court while also drafting limits on presidential immunity.

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Biden wants to impose a term limit of 18 years for justices. Once fully adopted, it would allow presidents to appoint new justices once every two years. Biden argued the new Supreme Court code of conduct should require justices to “disclose gifts, refrain from public political activity, and recuse themselves from cases in which they or their spouses have financial or other conflicts of interest.”

Fox News Digital’s Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report. 

A conservative congressman who has twice filed articles of impeachment against Vice President Kamala Harris is grabbing national attention as Tennessee holds primary elections on Thursday.

Republican Rep. Andy Ogles, a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus and a vocal critic of President Biden’s administration, is facing a primary challenge from Nashville councilwoman Courtney Johnston as he seeks a second term representing Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District.

After filing articles of impeachment against both the president and Harris last year, Ogles filed impeachment articles against the vice president a second time after she replaced Biden at the top of the Democrats’ national ticket.

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Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., talks with reporters after a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, November 7, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) (Getty Images)

Ogles faced several controversies two years ago, as he came out on top in a crowded nine-candidate Republican primary in the redrawn 5th District, which includes southern parts of Nashville and surrounding suburbs and rural areas.

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While they’re similar in supporting conservative policies, Johnston is taking aim at Ogles as a “do-nothing grandstander” who she argues is “mired in scandals.”

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump dances as he wraps up a campaign rally, Saturday, July 27, 2024, in St. Cloud, Minn. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

But Ogles enjoys the support of former President Trump, the party’s 2024 Republican presidential nominee, as well as House Speaker Mike Johnson and Sen. Bill Hagerty.

Johnston has the backing of many establishment Republicans, including former Sens. Bill Frist and Bob Corker, and former Gov. Bill Haslam.

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The winner of the GOP primary will face Democrat Maryam Abolfazli in November’s general election.

Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee speaks during Day 1 of the Republican National Convention, at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 15, 2024.  (REUTERS/Mike Segar)

Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a former House member who’s seeking a second six-year term in the Senate, is the clear favorite as she faces a GOP primary challenge from Tres Wittum, a former state Senate policy analyst who came in last in the 5th Congressional District primary two years ago that was won by Ogles.

There’s a crowded primary field for the Democratic Senate nomination.

There are also primaries for seats in the state Senate and House, where Republicans hold super majorities in the red-dominated state.

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There was a fiery test yesterday, not just for Donald Trump but for the National Association of Black Journalists.

The organization, which has “journalists” in its name, did not fare well in my view.

Nor was it Trump’s finest hour.

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But I will say this: I don’t buy the post-game commentary that Trump went to the Chicago gathering to appeal to his MAGA base by picking a fight with Black folks.

Keep in mind that when Joe Biden was still running, Trump drawing Black support in the polls at levels not seen for a Republican in decades. Obviously the passing of the torch to Kamala Harris scrambles that calculation.

Trump’s view, as I see it, was that he was stepping into the lion’s den, knowing he’d get some negative questions but hoping he’d get some credit for showing up and highlighting such initiatives as helping finance historically Black colleges and universities.

Former President Trump’s appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists convention proved testy for both himself and the organization. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

But on the NABJ side, there was something of a revolt at the opportunity to question a former president who heads the Republican ticket.

The group’s co-chair resigned, in part because of the invitation.

April Ryan, who constantly tangled with Trump and is now a White House reporter for The Grio, tweeted that the invite “is an affront to what this organization stands for and a slap in the face to the Black women journalists (NABJ journalists of the year) who had to protect themselves from the wrath of this Republican presidential nominee who is promoting an authoritarian agenda that plans to destroy this nation.”

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No bias there, right?

This is how the panel, which included Fox’s Harris Faulkner, began.

ABC’s Rachel Scott didn’t so much ask a question as deliver an indictment.

Trump’s exchange with Rachel Scott of ABC was less of a Q&A than it was a dressing-down by the senior congressional correspondent. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

“You have pushed false claims about some of your rivals,” she said. “From Nikki Haley to former President Barack Obama, saying that they were not born in the United States, which is not true. You have told former congresswomen of color who were American citizens, to go back to where they came from. You have used words like animal and rabbit to describe black district attorneys. You’ve attacked black journalists, calling them a loser, saying the questions that they ask are, quote, stupid and racist. You’ve had dinner with a white supremacist at your Mar-a-Lago resort. So my question sir, now that you are asking black supporters to vote for you. Why should black voters trust you after you have used language like that?”

Trump’s response: “Well first of all, I don’t think I’ve ever been asked a question in such a horrible manner. First question. You don’t even say ‘hello, how are you?’ Are you with ABC? Because I think they’re a fake news network, a terrible network. And I think it’s disgraceful that I came here in good spirit. I love the black population of this country.”

Trump also said he was invited under false pretenses because he was told he had to be there in person. But yesterday, after rejecting a virtual appearance by Harris, the group changed its mind and allowed it.

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Trump’s biggest misstep came after another question by Rachel Scott.

“Do you believe,” she asked, “that Vice President Kamala Harris is only on the ticket because she is a black woman?”

Trump’s response: “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black. And now she wants to be known as black. So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she black?”

Scott interjected: “She has always identified as Black. She went to a historically Black college.”

“I respect either one,” Trump said, “but she obviously doesn’t because she was Indian all the way. And then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went. She became a Black person.”

Questioning the racial identity of a Black woman who went to Howard University is not the way to win friends in that community. 

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But it was not a great day for NABJ either.

Meanwhile, I was scrolling through X the other day – yes, it’s part of the job – and within a couple of minutes came across plenty of controversial past stances by Harris.

“THE ROOT: ’Should black people get reparations?’  

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“Kamala Harris says mandatory gun confiscation is ‘a great idea’ — then says she’ll do it by executive action within her ‘first 100 days.’”

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“Here’s Kamala bragging about her work to ensure ‘every transgender inmate in the prison system’ has access to taxpayer-funded gender reassignment surgeries.”

These were originally posted by the RNC, the Trump campaign or conservative groups – but have drawn remarkably little media attention.

Unlike Vice President Harris, Trump has at least demonstrated a willingness to take on the press. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Now this might surprise you – I don’t think most voters particularly care about flip-flops. After all, Donald Trump used to be a Democrat. He used to be pro-choice. He donated money to Harris when she was a California official.

Most Americans want to know what you’re going to do tomorrow, not what you said four or five years ago.

And while the mainstream media don’t much care, it helps to offer an explanation.

When I interviewed Donald Trump, I asked why he had tried to ban TikTok as president and now supports it. He said it would unfairly help Facebook, which people can buy or not, but at least he had a rationale. 

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Harris has made no attempt to do that, in part because she’s basically taking no questions (though she regularly talks to her traveling press corps off the record). That was a major criticism of the president, for reasons we now more fully understand.

And that gave the Trump campaign an opening to counter her taunts on why he won’t commit to debating her:

“It has been ten days since Kamala’s coup to force Crooked Joe Biden off the ballot, but she hasn’t done a single interview nor press conference…The only logical conclusion is that she’s terrified.

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“Is Kamala trying to make history as the first major nominee to take zero questions from the press?”

I really hope that’s not the case. 

A trio of Cuban American House Republicans is comparing President Biden to some of Latin America’s most notorious autocrats over his proposal to transform the Supreme Court.

Florida GOP Reps. Maria Salazar, Mario Diaz-Balart and Carlos Gimenez recorded a video earlier this week arguing that Biden’s plan falls in line with methods used by former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and current President Nicolás Maduro, whose recent re-election was widely denounced by the international community as illegitimate. 

Salazar said Biden’s plan “is outrageous” and “goes against the system, the American exceptionality, that we all enjoy.”

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A trio of House Republicans compared President Biden, right, to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. (Getty Images)

“I mean, look, we’ve seen this happen in history time and time again. When somebody, for political reasons, tries to change the institutions – the Supreme Court, by the way, has been instrumental in maintaining the rule of law and democracy in this country,” Diaz-Balart said.

“It is highly dangerous, unacceptable, and that is real threat to democracy and to all of the freedoms that we enjoy in the United States.”

Gimenez chimed in, adding, “We had a great example of a threat to democracy yesterday, when the Maduro regime invalidated an election and tried, or is trying to, stay in power.”

“What’s the first thing that Hugo Chávez did when he became president 24 years ago? He actually reformed the Supreme Court of Venezuela, so he made things legal for himself,” Gimenez continued. “Touching the judicial system is one way to maintain power, and so this is really, really dangerous for the national security, for our security, and the security of democracy here in the United States.”

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The trio also compared him to longtime Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. (REUTERS)

Salazar then jabbed Democrats’ warnings that former President Trump represents a threat to democracy, adding, “The president of the United States is saying that he wants to change the democracy. Not President Trump, but President Biden. So be very careful, because touching the Supreme Court is touching the core of the American system.”

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Biden detailed his plan for a binding code of ethics as well as a constitutional amendment limiting presidential immunity and mandated term limits for Supreme Court justices in an op-ed published in the Washington Post on Monday.

The plan was near-universally heckled by Republicans, but Biden’s Democratic allies, who have been pushing for similar or more radical Supreme Court changes, praised the initiative.

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The video is part of the fallout from President Biden’s Supreme Court overhaul proposal. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

“Clear ethics violations and increasing politicization have made clear that SCOTUS is broken – and that reform is urgently needed to restore Americans’ faith in the integrity of the Court,” Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., who has proposed legislation on the issue, wrote on X.

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However, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., signaled that any such changes would not be taken up by a GOP-controlled House.

“This proposal is the logical conclusion to the Biden-Harris Administration and congressional Democrats’ ongoing efforts to delegitimize the Supreme Court. Their calls to expand and pack the Court will soon resume,” Johnson said Monday. “This dangerous gambit of the Biden-Harris Administration is dead on arrival in the House.” 

ATLANTA — Standing in front of a crowd of over 10,000 people in battleground Georgia’s capital and largest city, Vice President Kamala Harris went on offense over an issue that she and President Biden have been playing plenty of defense over the past couple of years.

Harris, near the top of her 18-minute speech on Tuesday, took aim at former President Trump over the issue of border security, which many Republicans see as the vice president’s political Achilles heel.

“In this campaign, I will proudly put my record against his,” Harris said, before highlighting her border security efforts as California attorney general.

Harris argued that Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, “has been talking a big game about securing our border, but he does not walk the walk.”

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Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, holds a rally in Atlanta on Tuesday. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)

She pointed to a border security bill with some bipartisan support that was making its way through Congress earlier this year before Republicans turned against the measure after prompting from Trump.

“It was all set to pass, but at the last minute Trump directed his allies in the Senate to vote it down,” Harris said. 

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She charged that the former president “tanked the bipartisan deal because he thought it would help him win an election” and pledged that “as the president I will bring back the border security bill that Donald Trump killed.”

Trump, his campaign and allied groups have repeatedly criticized Harris over the past week and a half — since she replaced Biden at the top of the Democrats’ national ticket — over the surge of migrants across the nation’s southern border during the Biden administration.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally in Atlanta on Tuesday. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Harris was tasked by Biden in 2021 with leading the diplomatic outreach to tackle the “root causes” of migration in Central American countries. It led to her being dubbed the “border czar” both by the media and Republican opponents, although the White House has rejected that description.

The Harris campaign says they are not scared to pick a fight over immigration and border security.

However, Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News that they “relish the opportunity” to “go head-to-head” with Harris over the issue.

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The Trump campaign quickly took to social media to respond to the comments by the vice president at her rally.

“Kamala is actually *BRAGGING* about her record on immigration. HERE ARE THE FACTS: As Border Czar, Kamala ferried 15+ million illegals directly into our communities. She thinks illegal immigration “is NOT a crime.” She wants to abolish ICE. She thinks you’re stupid,” the Trump campaign claimed.

Hours earlier, the Trump campaign — in its first major ad blitz of the general election — charged that Harris had “failed us” in securing the border.

Responding to the ad, Harris campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa reiterated the theme that Trump had a heavy hand in “killing the toughest border deal in decades.”

“As a former district attorney, attorney general, and now vice president, Kamala Harris has spent her career taking on and prosecuting violent criminals and making our communities safer. She’ll do the same as president,” Moussa emphasized.

As the vice president was arriving at the Georgia State Convocation Center in downtown Atlanta — the same venue where Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance will hold a rally on Saturday — the Harris campaign put up a new video that spotlights border security. 

The video argued that Harris “helped lead the way to record low border crossings and has spent her entire career keeping our communities safe” and charged that Trump “sided with drug traffickers and the cartels to block the strongest, fairest reforms to secure the border in decades.”

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The Trump campaign instantly pilloried the video.

“Every statement in Kamala’s border ad is an absolute lie. The truth is that President Trump handed the most secure border in history to the Biden-Harris Administration, and they opened it up by erasing every one of his good policies,” the Trump campaign charged. “As Border Czar, Kamala Harris has overseen the worst immigration crisis in American history, enabling drug cartels to smuggle deadly fentanyl across our border and allowing more than 11 million illegal criminals and terrorists from all over the world to enter our country. “

Vance — at two stops in Nevada on Tuesday — turned up the volume on his attacks on Harris over border security. In Reno, he pledged that “in six months, we’re going to re-elect Donald J. Trump president of the United States. And when we do, we’re going to launch the largest deportation program in American history. If you came here illegally, you got to go back.”

Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, speaks during a campaign event in Reno, Nevada, on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

On Thursday, Vance will hold a campaign event in Arizona along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Democratic National Committee, in response to Vance’s comments, fired off an email titled “JD Vance Doesn’t Care About Border Security – He Followed Trump’s Orders to ‘Kill’ Bipartisan Border Deal.”

Picking a fight on border security may not seem to some like a smart strategy for the vice president’s team.

However, a Harris campaign official told Fox News that they are not scared to go on offense on immigration and on the border and charged that Trump does not have any credibility on the issue.

The Trump campaign is happy to have the fight.

“We relish the opportunity for President Trump, who created the most secure border in history, to go head-to-head with failed Border Czar Kamala Harris, who has overseen the worst border crisis in history,” Leavitt argued. “On the issue of immigration in every single poll, President Trump dominates Harris because Americans know the truth about their records.”

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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pumped up spectators poured out of Harrisburg’s New Holland Arena Wednesday following a fiery Trump rally marking the former president’s first campaign event in Pennsylvania after narrowly escaping an assassin’s bullet in Butler County.

Inside, former President Donald Trump railed on Vice President Kamala Harris as “the architect of the border invasion,” her history of support for far-left policies – “She wants to turn us into a Communist country” — and her tenure as a California prosecutor. 

Outside, supporters decked out in American flags and Trump slogans shared with Fox News Digital their elation after witnessing the former president following his near assassination.

“It was our first time at a Trump rally and wow,” Bill and Amy said. “It’s almost better than any concert I’ve been to! It’s all love.”

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Supporters voiced why their want Trump to win in November. (Fox News Digital)

“He’s been my president from day one – it never stopped,” Marsha Felman said. “He’s the man to do the job. He’s done it once, and he can do it again.”

“I’ve been feeling pumped since 2016,” another ardent supporter said.

WATCH:

One supporter highlighted the need for voters to get out and vote on November 5, saying, “We need to pray and vote.”
Chuck Winton, who drove up from Maryland, said that Vice President Kamala Harris is a liar.

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“She lies a lot,” he said. “Calling herself a candidate for president when she has not even been nominated.”

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Trump filled the arena with a capacity crowd and called a moment of silence before the 7,600 in attendance in memory of Corey Comperatore, who was killed in the July 13 assassination attempt.

Former President Trump, while speaking at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, publicly thanked the woman who created a chart he was referencing when he was shot in an assassination attempt, saying she saved his life.

Trump was nearly killed at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13 when a gunman opened fire from a roof. As Trump was speaking, he referenced a large chart showing immigration data. He turned his head ever so slightly, and a bullet grazed his ear. 

On Wednesday, Trump was talking about immigration again, specifically about the border and human trafficking, when he brought up the now-famous chart.

“You know, this chart saved my life. Where is that chart? I love that chart,” Trump said. “I’m going to sleep with that chart for the rest of my life. That chart … you know the amazing thing? You know, the people that operate the computers and all the brilliant equipment we have backstage.”

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Former President Trump reacts after being shot in the ear at a rally in Pennsylvania July 13. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)

He then spoke about the woman who created the chart, calling her “great” and saying she should come up on stage.

Trump called the woman to the stage, and she walked up.

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During a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, former President Trump introduced the woman who created the chart he looked at when a bullet grazed his ear in Butler, Pa., July 13. (Fox News)

“She’s never done this before. She saved my life in a sense,” Trump said. “I said you saved my life. Here she is. Wow.”

Trump then whispered something into her ear, and she walked up to the microphone to say “Hi” before walking offstage.

“She’s a computer genius,” Trump added. “She saved my life.”

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The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for the woman’s name or for comment.

Alina Habba, a legal spokesperson for former President Donald Trump, accused Vice President Kamala Harris of breaking the law by “co-conspiring” to hide President Biden’s cognitive decline during a speech on Wednesday.

Habba was speaking to a crowd of Trump supporters at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, when she made the comments. The lawyer now serves as a senior adviser to Trump’s re-election campaign.

“President Trump has been and is innocent of any crime other than loving this country,” Habba began.

“Let me tell you, Kamala,” she continued. “You are committing a crime because the only co-conspirator I know of the Biden-Harris administration is you, and you have lied to us about President Biden for the last three and a half years.”

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Alina Habba accused Vice President Kamala Harris of “committing a crime” during a pro-Trump speech in Pennsylvania.

The crowd cheered while Habba delivered the speech.

“The truth always comes out,” she added. “So let me just tell you, America. Her policies are the same ones we’ve been living in for three and a half years, so don’t get it twisted. They don’t work.”

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Alina Habba has served as Trump’s legal advisor. (Getty Images)

Trump and Harris have been throwing jabs at each other in recent days as the 2024 presidential election nears. 

Biden dropped out earlier in July after concerns about his age intensified. 

He almost immediately endorsed Harris.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at her Presidential Campaign headquarters in Wilmington, DE, U.S.,  July 22, 2024.   (Erin Schaff/Pool via REUTERS)

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Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment. 

Fox News Digital’s Greg Wehner contributed to this report.

EXCLUSIVE: Project 2025, the right-leaning Heritage Foundation’s vision for building a “better country for all Americans” during a conservative presidential administration, will be releasing a response to critics who have characterized the endeavor as far-right and extreme.

While former President Trump has repeatedly denied any collaboration with Project 2025, its detractors are primarily on the left, Heritage Foundation officials said Wednesday.

The officials exclusively shared with Fox News Digital the dozens of fact checks they plan to roll out to blunt false claims about the framework.

The foundation — founded by former congressional aide Ed Feulner, who offered a vision of a publicly-accessible, market-driven think tank for conservatives — has released similar frameworks in election years dating back to the 1980s.

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The Heritage Foundation flag flies over a building in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

While Trump’s campaign has warned “it will not end well” for anyone directly linking him to the framework overall, many left-wing figures have launched specific attacks on the 900-plus pages of proposals. 

In regard to the GOP nominee, however, the makers of Project 2025 will attempt to point to multiple media fact checks confirming Trump is not behind it.

Also called the “Presidential Transition Project,” the dossier claims to be explicitly independent of the Trump campaign, and Heritage Foundation officials routinely reference “conservative” goals, not “Republican,” “Libertarian” or other distinctly partisan ends.

However, numerous figures involved in Project 2025, including recently departed director Paul Dans, have connections to the last Trump administration. Dans was a top staffer in the Office of Personnel Management.

The project’s stated goal is to “rescue the country from the grip of the radical left.”

In one of the instances of false characterizations Project 2025 will cite, Vice President Kamala Harris claimed in her first campaign rally as presumptive Democratic nominee that the framework calls for cutting Social Security. 

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Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts addresses delegates during the second day of the National Conservatism conference at the Emmanuel Centre in London on May 16, 2023. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Despite the Trump campaign’s warnings, Harris cited “Donald Trump” when referencing what the framework wants to accomplish.

“[He] intends to cut Social Security and Medicare,” Harris said Tuesday in Wisconsin.

Project 2025 plans to respond by highlighting CNN’s own fact check, which points out the term “Social Security” appears only a few times in the nearly 1,000 pages and never in reference to cuts.

Heritage Foundation spokesperson Mary Vought said Project 2025 proposes “no changes to Social Security.”

Vought told the outlet Harris should “follow her own advice and read the book, instead of promoting lies and disinformation.”

Officials with the project also plan to respond to claims vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, is a partner in the framework amid his prospective boss’s criticisms.

Vance has written a foreword to Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’ upcoming book, wherein he writes that the nonprofit is not “some random outpost on Capitol Hill,” but the “most influential engine of ideas for Republicans from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump.”

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JD Vance, a U.S. senator from Ohio and a 2024 Republican vice presidential candidate, and his wife Usha Vance greet attendees during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on July 15. (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images)

Meanwhile, Project 2025 intends to blunt another Harris claim that the manual includes restrictions on in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and contraception. Citing PolitiFact, Project 2025 plans to point out the term “IVF” never appears in the document.

Responding chiefly to Harris’ claims, Roberts said the presumptive Democratic nominee’s claims are “breathtaking in [their] dishonesty.”

“It’s so blatant that even corporate media outlets like CNN are calling out her lies. She has no policy record to run on, except her shambolic tenure as border czar,” he asserted.

Roberts said Project 2025 is being barraged by “two sets of lies. First, that Project 2025 is connected with the Trump campaign. It’s not,” he said. “Second, that Project 2025 proposes all manner of wild, extreme policies. It doesn’t. Dozens of independent fact checks prove that [Harris] is lying, along with an army of paid influencers online. But the truth will win out in the end.”

For his part, Trump has expressed his disagreement with the faction of the right that opposes IVF after an Alabama court ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law.

Project 2025 does, however, provide recommendations on limiting access to abortion.

Project 2025 also plans to respond to critics who have pointed to a widely disseminated post later found to be satire that claimed it sought to mandate “period passports” that track women’s menstrual cycles under penalty of law.

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An official with the project pointed Fox News Digital to a Reuters fact check that confirmed the claim was erroneously taken seriously online.

Other fact checks Project 2025 officials seek to roll out include responses to claims the framework seeks to end gay marriage and makes references to “valid family” structures, though it does seek to promote “stable and flourishing married families.”

Project 2025 also seeks to introduce changes to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration, not to abolish it, as some critics have claimed.

In another regard, Starbucks’ decision to provide coffee to first responders at the Republican National Convention led to outrage at the Seattle-based brewer. Upset patrons began claiming it is therefore backing Project 2025 and called for boycotts.

Project 2025 spokesman Noah Weinrich told fact-checker Verify the claim is “purely misinformation.”

The Harris campaign lashed out at former President Trump before he appeared on stage this afternoon at a National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) event, accusing the former president of “demeaning” the organization’s members in the past.

“Ahead of Donald Trump’s conversation at NABJ today – let’s remember exactly who this man is. Not only does Donald Trump have a history of demeaning NABJ members and honorees who remain pillars of the Black press, he also has a history of attacking the media and working against the vital role the press play in our democracy,” reads a statement by Harris campaign Black Media Director Jasmine Harris, which provided several links to instances of confrontations Trump had with NABJ members during his time as president.

The statement came as Trump appeared at the NABJ convention in Chicago on Wednesday, where he sat down for an interview moderated by three journalists, including Fox News’ Harris Faulkner.

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Former President Trump and Vice President Harris (Getty Images)

But the former president’s appearance at the event has caused controversy, with critics questioning the organization’s decision to invite Trump.

The decision to invite Trump was defended by NABJ President Ken Lemon, who acknowledged “the concerns expressed by our members” but argued “it is important for us to provide our members with the opportunity to hear directly from candidates and hold them accountable.”

“It has always been our policy to ensure that candidates know that an invitation is not an endorsement. We also agreed that while this race is much different – and contentious – so are the consequences,” Lemon said in a statement.

Former President Trump is shown during a campaign event in Pickens, South Carolina, on July 1, 2023. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

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Nevertheless, the Harris campaign argued that Trump would “lie about his record” and the “real harm he’s caused the Black community” during his appearance at the convention.

“He will lie about the skyrocketing Black unemployment and Black uninsured rates our communities suffered from when he was president,” Harris said. “He’ll lie about his failed response to the pandemic that cost Black Americans our lives and our livelihoods. He’ll lie about skyrocketing crime under his leadership and make grand claims about putting checks in people’s pockets when we know his Project 2025 agenda would cost our families thousands.”

During the event, Trump clashed with ABC News reporter Rachel Scott, complaining that the journalist opened the interview with a “nasty question” and calling her TV network “fake news.”

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“A lot of people did not think it was appropriate for you to be here today,” Scott said. “You have told four congresswoman of color who were American citizens to go back to where they came from. You have used words like ‘animal’ and ‘rabbit’ to describe Black attorneys. You’ve attacked Black journalists, calling them a ‘loser,’ saying the questions that they asked are ‘stupid and racist.’”

“I don’t think I have ever been asked a question in such a horrible manner,” Trump fired back. “I think it’s disgraceful that I came here in a good spirit. I love the Black population of this country; I’ve done so much for the Black population of this country.”

Meanwhile, the NABJ was not able to coordinate with Vice President Harris to have her appear at the convention, with Lemon saying in the statement that the organization had been trying to work out a way for her to appear since before she became the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee.

Vice President Harris (Erin Schaff/Pool via REUTERS)

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“We were advised by her campaign at the time that her schedule could not accommodate this request. The last update we were provided (earlier this week) was that Harris would not be available in person or virtually during our Convention,” Lemon said. “We are in talks about virtual options in the future and are still working to reach an agreement.”

Reached for comment by Fox News Digital, a Harris campaign spokesperson pointed to an NABJ statement that the vice president and organization were hoping to schedule a Q&A session in September.

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The Trump and Harris campaigns mixed it up on X on Wednesday afternoon after the former president’s heated appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists’ conference in Chicago, and the Republican vice presidential nominee blasted Vice President Harris as a “coward.”

“Trump lobbed personal attacks and insults at Black journalists the same way he did throughout his presidency, while he failed Black families and left the entire country digging out of the ditch he left us in,” Harris campaign spokesperson Michael Tyler said in a statement after the event.

“Today’s tirade is simply a taste of the chaos and division that has been a hallmark of Trump’s MAGA rallies this entire campaign,” Tyler continued. “It’s also exactly what the American people will see from across the debate stage as Vice President Harris offers a vision of opportunity and freedom for all Americans. All Donald Trump needs to do is stop playing games and actually show up to the debate on September 10.”

Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, fired back, saying the former president “walked right into the NABJ conference and showed he had the courage to take tough questions, while Kamala Harris continues to hide from any scrutiny or unfriendly media like the coward she is.”

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During the event, Trump clashed with ABC News reporter Rachel Scott, accusing her of asking a “nasty question” and referring to the Disney-owned network as “fake news.”

Trump participated in a Q&A with Scott, Semafor reporter Kadia Goba and Fox News Channel anchor Harris Faulkner. The event caused ripples before it began because many Black journalists objected to Trump even being invited in the first place. Once it began, Scott kicked things off by “addressing the elephant in the room.”

“A lot of people did not think it was appropriate for you to be here today,” Scott said. “You have pushed false claims about some of your rivals, from Nikki Haley to former President Barack Obama, saying that they were not born in the United States, which is not true. You have told four congresswomen of color who were American citizens to go back to where they came from. 

“You have used words like animal and rabid to describe Black district attorneys. You attack Black journalists, calling them a loser, saying the questions that they ask are, quote, stupid and racist. You’ve had dinner with a White supremacist at your Mar-a-Lago resort. So, my question, sir, now that you are asking black supporters to vote for you, why should Black voters trust you after you have used language like that?”

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Former President Trump clashed with ABC News reporter Rachel Scott, accusing her of asking a “nasty question” and referring to the Disney-owned network as “fake news” at the National Association of Black Journalists’ convention in Chicago on Wednesday. (Fox News)

Trump shot back at Scott, saying he’s “never been asked a question in such a horrible manner.”

“I love the Black population of this country,” Trump said. “I’ve done so much for the Black population of this country, including employment, including opportunity zones, with Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, which is one of the greatest programs ever for Black workers and Black entrepreneurs. I’ve done so much, you know. And I say this, historically Black colleges and universities were out of money.”

“And let me go a step further,” Trump added. “I was invited here, and I was told my opponent, whether it was Biden or Kamala. I was told my opponent was going to be here. It turned out my opponent isn’t here. You invited me on under false pretense.

“And then you were half an hour late, just so we understand. I have too much respect for you to be late. They couldn’t get their equipment working or something.”

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Former President Trump appears at the National Association of Black Journalists’ convention in Chicago on Wednesday. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

“Mr. President, I would love if you could answer the question,” Scott said, again asking why Black voters should trust him for another term. 

“I think it’s a very nasty question,” Trump shot back. “I have answered the question. I have been the best president for the Black population since Abraham Lincoln.”

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Former Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton attended NABJ conventions in the past, either as presidents or presidential candidates.

Trump posted on Truth Social following the NABJ event, saying of Scott, “The questions were Rude and Nasty, often in the form of a statement, but we CRUSHED IT!”

Fox News Digital’s Brian Flood and Landon Mion contributed to this report. 

The state of Virginia has been hit by another violent crime, allegedly committed by an illegal immigrant, amid an ongoing debate about “sanctuary” policies across the country and in some parts of the state.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed to Fox News that the suspect arrested for the fatal carjacking of a grandmother in Virginia on Sunday is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador.

Jose Aguilar-Martinez, 21, is charged in the fatal Sunday encounter that resulted in the death of 54-year-old Melody Waldecker, a grandmother, FOX 5 DC reported. 

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Melody Waldecker and Jose Aguilar-Martinez (Handout)

According to the Loudon County Sheriff’s Office, Aguilar-Martinez is accused of carjacking Waldecker on July 28. Investigators determined she was struck by her own vehicle as the suspected carjacker fled the scene. ICE confirmed that Aguilar-Martinez entered the U.S. as a “gotaway,” meaning he entered the U.S. without being captured by Border Patrol. 

The agency said it has placed a detainer request on him with local authorities, which is a request that he be transferred into ICE custody when he is eventually released from local custody.

The sheriff’s office said in an update that Aguilar-Martinez had a California driver’s license. California is a sanctuary state and has a policy that allows illegal immigrants to obtain licenses.

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The incident follows another crime allegedly involving immigrants in the state. At least two of the men accused of murdering a man and leaving his body near a walking trail in Oakton, Virginia, are illegal immigrants, ABC 7 reported.

Maudin Anibal Guzman-Videz is a Honduran native who entered in 2018 and was released into the U.S., before being ordered removed in 2019 yet remained in the country, according to a statement provided to Fox News Digital by ICE.

According to the agency, he has multiple detainers against him in Fairfax County, but those have not been honored. He has a rap sheet that includes a conviction for assault and entering to commit burglary. However, the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office told 7News that ICE did not send a detainer to its office.

It has also issued a lengthy statement outlining how it defers to the state attorney general’s opinion that a detainer is only a request, and that it will only honor a detainer if ICE also has a judicial warrant.

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“ICE knows that should they wish to take one of these offenders into custody, all that is required on their part is a judicial warrant authorizing arrest. ICE is notified every time an undocumented immigrant is taken into our custody. Yet, time and again, they make no effort to secure a warrant that would give judicial authority to detain. This inaction is a failure of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, not of the Sheriff’s Office,” the office said.

“The status of a person as an inmate or an undocumented immigrant does not diminish their right to be free from unlawful seizure, nor does it eliminate their access to due process and equal protection,” the sheriff wrote.

That has brought criticism from other officials in the state, who called the reasoning a “cop-out.” The Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office has had 725 undocumented immigrants in jail over the past year, but only three were transferred to ICE, according to 7 News.

ICE confirmed to Fox News Digital that a second subject arrested in the incident, Wilmer Adalid Guzman-Videz, is an illegal immigrant from Honduras who entered illegally in 2022 and was released with a notice to appear. He was arrested in Washington, D.C., and ICE has lodged a detainer with the city’s police.

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Virginia is seen as a potential swing state, with some polls suggesting it could be in reach for former President Trump; and illegal immigration has consistently registered as a top issue of concern for voters ahead of the 2024 election. 

Fox News’ Bill Melugin, Landon Mion and Louis Casiano contributed to this report.

President Trump told a crowd on Wednesday that Vice President Harris “became a Black person,” after years of identifying as Indian, when a reporter asked him a question related to her race.

Trump was speaking at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) on Wednesday afternoon when ABC News’ Rachel Scott asked the former president if he agreed with Republican lawmakers who have characterized Harris as a “DEI” or diversity, equity and inclusion, hire. 

Former President Trump appears at a rally at the Van Andel Arena on July 20, 2024 in Grand Rapids, Michigan (left). Vice President Harris speaks to NCAA Champion Teams on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. (right). (Left: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images, Right: Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“I’ve known her for a long time, indirectly, not directly… and she was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage,” Trump said. “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black. And now she wants to be known as Black. So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?”

The vice president’s mother was born in India and her father is a Black man from Jamaica. 

Harris’s campaign communications director, Michael Tyler, released a statement about Trump’s comments shortly after the event.

“The hostility Donald Trump showed on stage today is the same hostility he has shown throughout his life, throughout his term in office, and throughout his campaign for president as he seeks to regain power and inflict his harmful Project 2025 agenda on the American people,” Tyler said. “Trump lobbed personal attacks and insults at Black journalists the same way he did throughout his presidency – while he failed Black families and left the entire country digging out of the ditch he left us in. Donald Trump has already proven he cannot unite America, so he attempts to divide us.

“Today’s tirade is simply a taste of the chaos and division that has been a hallmark of Trump’s MAGA rallies this entire campaign,” Tyler added. “It’s also exactly what the American people will see from across the debate stage as Vice President Harris offers a vision of opportunity and freedom for all Americans. All Donald Trump needs to do is stop playing games and actually show up to the debate on September 10.”

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre also responded to Trump’s comments, saying what he said is “insulting,” adding, “No one has any right to tell someone who they are.”

“How they identify, that is no one’s right. It is someone’s own decision,” Jean-Pierre said. “Only she can speak to her experience.  Only she can speak to what it’s like. She’s the only person that can do that. And I think it’s insulting for anybody. It doesn’t matter if it’s a former leader, a former president. It is insulting.

“She is the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris,” she added. “We have to put some respect on her name here.”

Trump posted on Truth Social following the NABJ event, writing: “The questions were Rude and Nasty, often in the form of a statement, but we CRUSHED IT!”

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What’s happening…

-Tlaib ally mourns assassination of top Hamas leader…

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The Israel Defense Forces revealed Wednesday four reasons why it killed Fuad Shukr, the Hezbollah commander responsible for a drone strike that left 12 children and teens dead over the weekend in northern Israel. 

Shukr served as a senior adviser to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah at the time of his death in an IDF strike on Tuesday in southern Beirut. The IDF says its fighter jets “eliminated the Hezbollah terrorist organization’s most senior military commander [Shukr]” in Lebanon’s capital city. 

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The IDF claims to have ‘eliminated’ Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr after a targeted strike in Beirut. (IDF Spokesman’s Unit)

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A comparison of polls taken before and after President Biden’s decision to end his re-election bid depicted the fledgling Vice President Kamala Harris campaign gaining momentum with one notable exception.

Harris, who could be the first Black female president and first president of South Asian descent, lost ground to Biden among Black voters, according to a recent analysis.

Delving into the crosstabs, or categorized responses, in New York Times/Siena polling from July 2 and July 24, Biden performed five points better than former President Trump with Black voters.

In the July 2 survey, Biden enjoyed 56% support among Black voters to Trump’s 13% — or a gap of 43 points.

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Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump. (Getty Images)

However, in the latest poll wherein Harris replaced Biden as the Democratic name, the vice president garnered support from 65% of Black respondents compared to Trump’s 17%. That calculates to a 48-point spread and a difference of five.

The disparity was first highlighted in a larger comparison of the two overall polls by Harvard Institute of Politics polling director John Della Volpe.

In a chart titled, “Harris Sees Dramatic Improvement Among Young Voters, Hispanics, Independents,” the MSNBC contributor depicted how Harris enjoyed a 29-point swing in her favor over Biden with voters aged 18-29.

Hispanic voters polled by the Times swung Harris’ way 33 points, and overall registered voters moved seven points her way – offering a 49-49 tie with Trump.

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Democrats and liberal media pundits are dismissing polls showing former President Trump’s gains among Black voters. (Felipe Ramales for Fox News Digital)

However, Washington Free Beacon editor Peter Hasson posted Della Volpe’s chart and flagged the fact it also showed Harris losing five points among Black voters to Trump, whom Democrats often brand as racist or discriminatory against minorities.

During an address in Philadelphia earlier this month, Harris claimed Trump “stokes hate” and “incites fear.” Trump, however, has often highlighted relevant parts of his presidential record, such as working with Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., to establish “opportunity zones” in minority communities.

For his part, Trump has made overtures to the Black community during his current campaign, including announcing a planned trip to Chicago this week to join a question-and-answer session with the National Association of Black Journalists.

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He also will hold a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania – the majority-Black capital of the Keystone State. It will be his first event in the commonwealth since he was nearly assassinated about three hours westward in Butler on July 13.

Following a 2016 rally near Lansing, Michigan, Trump was lambasted from his left for ruminating aloud to Black voters with Democratic proclivities in underserved communities, “What the hell do you have to lose?”

His opponent at the time, Hillary Clinton, called the remark, “so ignorant, it’s staggering.”

Biden notably told a New York radio show popular within the Black community in 2020 that “if you have a problem figuring out whether you are for me or Trump, then you ain’t Black.”

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is reportedly urging Wall Street donors to make their donations immediately due to a rule that limits donations to certain presidential tickets.

Harris’ campaign has reportedly been citing an SEC rule that bans some employees of financial institutions from contributing to a presidential ticket that includes a sitting governor, leading many on Wall Street to conclude her pick will be a governor, Axios reported Wednesday.

Harris’ campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

The five candidates considered most likely to secure a spot on Harris’ ticket are currently Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Mark Kelley, D-Ariz., Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. If the indications are correct, however, the three governors could be the ones to watch.

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Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is reportedly urging Wall Street donors to make their donations immediately due to a rule that limits donations to certain presidential tickets. (REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein)

“Any reporting on developments or updates in Vice President Harris’ running mate search are premature and speculative,” a campaign spokesman told Axios.

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Harris could select her running mate as soon as this week. Democrats surged to support her presidential campaign after President Biden bent to party pressure to drop out of the race. Her campaign has announced that she will have a running mate by the time she appears at a rally in Philadelphia next week.

Vice President Kamala Harris could select her running mate as soon as this week. Democrats surged to support her presidential campaign after President Biden bent to party pressure to drop out of the race. (Erin Schaff/Pool via REUTERS)

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It remains to be seen whether Democrats’ enthusiasm for Harris’ campaign can continue through Election Day. Harris has already improved over Biden in polls against former President Trump, but she is still trailing in most.

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Harris is expected to officially win the Democratic nomination sometime before Aug. 7. The Democratic National Convention will begin on Aug. 19, which comes after the required certification date for some states.

Presumptive Democratic nominee for president Vice President Kamala Harris will be rallying in Philadelphia next week with her highly anticipated running mate pick. Harris is expected to announce her running mate by Monday.

On Tuesday, Aug. 6, Harris will hold her first rally with her VP pick in Philadelphia during the campaign’s four-day, battleground state tour. Harris and her vice presidential nominee will hit Michigan and Arizona, too. 

The campaign’s decision to rally in Pennsylvania on the first day suggests Harris’ running mate may be Gov. Josh Shapiro, who has been floated at the top of the list of possible running mates in recent weeks. 

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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at West Allis Central High School on July 23, 2024 in West Allis, Wisconsin. Harris made her first campaign appearance as the party’s presidential candidate with an endorsement from President Biden. (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

Elected as Pennsylvania attorney general in 2016 and re-elected in 2020, Shapiro gained national recognition for his investigations into sexual abuse allegations within the Catholic Church and his legal challenges against several Trump-era policies, including the Muslim travel ban, the rollback of ACA contraceptive coverage and environmental deregulation.

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Vice President Kamala Harris was tasked early on in the Biden administration with addressing the root causes of mass migration from Central and South America. (REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt/Pool)

The vice presidential short list also includes Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks during a campaign event with President Biden, not pictured, at the Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg)

Following President Biden’s early July suspension of his re-election bid and his endorsement of Vice President Harris, all eyes are now on her imminent choice for the crucial vice presidential role.

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Harris and her vice presidential pick will also visit Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia and Nevada to court voters in these crucial battleground states. 

As of now, the Harris campaign has still “made no decision on a running mate,” according to a campaign statement Tuesday night, Reuters reported. 

During Vice President Kamala Harris’ run for president in the 2020 election cycle, the then-California senator proposed a new health care plan that had potentially high costs for the American middle class.

An archived version of Harris’ campaign website reviewed by Fox News Digital details her “Medicare For All Plan,” which Harris, who personally authored the proposal, promised would provide “comprehensive health insurance that covers every American.”

Harris cited fellow presidential primary rival Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Medicare For All plan as the model for how to pay for her plan, with the then-California senator specifically pointing to an “income based premium paid by employers, higher taxes on the top 1%, taxing capital gains at the same rate as ordinary income, among others.”

Harris also provided a link to the Sanders plan, which included a 7.5% payroll tax increase for employers and a 4% increase in income taxes on households making over $29,000.

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Vice President Kamala Harris. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

While Harris praised the Sanders plan for having “good options,” she accused the Vermont senator of going too far with the 4% tax increase, instead proposing that the new tax only apply to households making over $100,000.

“I would tax Wall Street stock trades at 0.2%, bond trades at 0.1%, and derivative transactions at 0.002%. Think of it like this: that’s a $2 fee on a $1,000 trade by investors and big banks,” Harris continued. “I would also end foreign tax shelters by taxing offshore corporate income at the same rate as domestic corporate income. Together, these proposals would raise well over $2 trillion over ten years, more than enough to make up the difference from raising the middle class income threshold.”

However, the proposed 7.5% bump to employer payroll taxes and 4% tax hike on households over $100,000 was panned by critics, including those who ended up joining Harris in a future President Biden administration.

Then-Biden Deputy Campaign Manager Kate Bedingfield, who would go on to serve as the White House communications director from 2021-2023, called the plan a “Bernie Sanders-lite Medicare for All and a refusal to be straight with the American middle class, who would have a large tax increase forced on them with this plan.”

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Despite Harris’ pledge to target employers and high-income households with the burden, some experts argue the cost would mostly be borne by middle-class workers.

Thomas Savidge, a research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research, told Fox News Digital that any payroll tax increase to employers is likely to be passed on to employees in the form of lower wages.

Vice President Kamala Harris. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

“The cost of payroll tax increases are ultimately borne by employees,” Savidge said. “Increases in payroll taxes on employers take money away that could have been used to increase employee pay, offer better benefits, or hire additional staff.”

Savidge noted that the 4% increase in income taxes would cover a large percentage of the American middle class and would be especially harmful in the current economic environment, where concerns over inflation already have many tightening their belts and spending less.

According to U.S. Census Bureau data, over 37% of U.S. households make over $100,000 and could be impacted by the tax, representing a large chunk of middle-class workers.

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Savidge also argued that the Harris proposal represents the most “extreme” way to tackle American concerns over the cost of health care, noting that such a plan would distort the market while having significant impacts on wait times and quality of care.

“This is an extreme way to go about it,” Savidge said. “It’s going to end up making the problems that we have much worse.”

Harris’ current campaign website does not yet include her platform, and the new Democratic nominee also has yet to unveil a new health care plan.

The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital inquiry on whether Harris stood by the plan or if she would support one similar to it in this campaign.

Sen. JD Vance speaks at a press conference on May 13, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah, File)

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However, the Harris proposal was slammed by the office of Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who the Trump campaign has touted as its “policy attack dog on Kamala Harris.” 

“After four years of sky-high inflation rushing household budgets, the last thing the American people need is another tax hike from Kamala Harris, Vance spokesman William Martin told Fox News Digital. “Her middle class tax increase would hit millions of households, and has drawn comparisons to Bernie Sanders from this in her own party. There is no place for her weak, failed and dangerously liberal agenda in the White House.”

Vice President Kamala Harris caused a wave of criticism on social media after appearing to suddenly use a southern accent during a speech in Atlanta.

“You all helped us win in 2020 and we gonna do it again in 2024,” Harris, who is from California, told Atlanta rally goers while seemingly debuting the new accent.

The accent immediately caught the attention of critics on social media, who accused the presumptive Democratic nominee of pandering to her audience.

“Kamala Harris went to speak in Atlanta and now has a southern accent,” OutKick founder Clay Travis said on X, including a clip of the moment. “Why do people do this? It’s just so transparently fake.

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Vice President Kamala Harris. (Reuters/Hannah Beier)

“Do people do this with any other regional accents?” Travis questioned in a subsequent post. “I don’t think so. No one goes to Massachusetts and suddenly talks like a Kennedy. It’s only the South.”

Travis’ post garnered several replies from critics of the vice president’s accent.

“It’s what sociopaths do,” one reply said.

“It’s called mirroring and it is a strong narcissistic tendency,” another user said.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event at Westover High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on July 18, 2024. (ALLISON JOYCE/AFP via Getty Images)

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The moment also caught the attention of conservative columnist Ian Haworth.

“Kamala Harris’s fake southern accent puts Hillary Clinton to shame,” Haworth said on X, referencing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s widely mocked use of a southern accent at various stages of her career in politics.

The viral moment comes as Harris continues to try her footing on the trail after being elevated to the top of the Democratic ticket last week, with Georgia being one of the key swing states likely to decide November’s election.

Former President Trump won the state by just over five percentage points in 2016, only to have President Biden narrowly flip it to his column by less than one percentage point in 2020.

Former President Trump. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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The state figures to be one of the closest races again in 2024, with the Real Clear Politics polling average showing Trump with a narrow 3.6 point lead over Harris on Wednesday.

The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment.