WORLD NEWS: KAMALA HARRIS TO NAME RUNNING MATE TODAY
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As she gets ready for a tour of US battleground states intended to convert enthusiasm surrounding her presidential bid into long-term support that will propel her to victory, Kamala Harris will announce her running mate as early as Monday.
Every route to the White House passes through a few swing states. Harris will begin her five-day campaign in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, the largest state, to gain momentum for her November 5 meeting with Republican Donald Trump.
“At this moment, we face a choice between two visions for our nation: one focused on the future and the other on the past… This campaign is about people coming together, fueled by love of country, to fight for the best of who we are,” she posted on X.
The nation’s first black female vice president will be in complete control of her party going into the national convention in Chicago in two weeks after garnering enough delegates’ votes to win the Democratic nomination.
The 59-year-old career prosecutor has destroyed funding records, drawn sizable audiences, and controlled social media in just two weeks of campaigning. She has also erased the polling leads Trump had accumulated prior to President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race.
The vice presidential candidate will be announced at any time before her rally on Tuesday night in Philadelphia, the capital of Pennsylvania, with the unidentified nominee.
The Keystone State is the most prized real estate among the closely fought battlegrounds that decide the Electoral College system.
It is part of the “blue wall” that carried Biden to the White House in 2020, alongside Michigan and Wisconsin — two states where Harris is due to woo crowds on Wednesday.
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Pennsylvania is governed by 51-year-old Democrat Josh Shapiro, a frontrunner in the so-called “veepstakes” shortlist that also includes fellow state governors Tim Walz and Andy Beshear, as well as Arizona Senator Mark Kelly and US transport secretary Pete Buttigieg.
While Biden made high-minded appeals for a return to civility and the preservation of democracy, Harris has focused on the future, making voters’ hard-fought “freedom” the touchstone of her campaign.
She and her allies have also been more aggressive than the Biden camp — mocking Trump for reneging on his commitment to a September 10 debate and characterizing the convicted felon as an elderly crook and “weird.”
While she has disavowed some of the leftist positions she took during her ill-fated 2020 primary campaign, Harris hasn’t given a wide-ranging interview since jumping into the race, and rally-goers will look for more detail on her plans for the country.
Meanwhile Trump and his Republicans have struggled to adapt to their new adversary or hone their attacks against Harris — at first messaging that she was dangerously liberal on immigration and crime, before suggesting she was lying about being Black.
AFP
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