Kamala Harris takes the stage after Tim Walz speaks at Detroit rally – live

Here are the main developments from today:

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  Kamala Harris and Tim Walz took the stage in front of a roaring crowd in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on Wednesday afternoon. “It can’t be said seriously enough, so much is on the line and compounded with everything else that we knew was on the line,” said Harris. Walz echoed similar sentiments, saying: “This election is all about asking that question, which direction will this country go in? Donald Trump knows the direction he wants to take it.”

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  Twelve thousand people attended the Eau Claire rally, according to the Harris campaign.

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  Later, the pair attended a rally in Detroit, Michigan. It was the biggest of the campaign so far, Walz said. Harris shut down chants of “lock him up” by rallygoers, and chants, reportedly by Gaza protestors, that interrupted her speech. Three speakers had to call for medics for people in the crowd, which appeared to be heat-related.

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  In the 24 hours since Walz was announced as the Democrats’ vice-presidential nominee, the campaign raised $36m, it told reporters. The campaign made nearly $1m on Tuesday simply from selling Chappell Roan-style camouflage hats that say “Harris Walz”.

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  Slightly before Harris and Walz’s rally, JD Vance held his own campaign event, also in Eau Claire. He spoke to his background and about how his mother is now in recovery from the opioid addiction that affected his whole childhood. He also blamed Harris for not securing the border toughly enough.

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  In response to a question on whether he thinks it matters that Harris chose Walz, Vance replied: “What does Kamala Harris’s selection of Tim Walz say about her? Well, I think it says one, she’s leaning into the defund the police radicalism of the last few years. Two, she’s leaning into the open borders policies of last year … And then the final point that I’d say is it says that she bent the knee to the Hamas caucus of the Democrat party.”

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  During his campaign in Shelby Township, Michigan, Vance continued to stick to Trump and Republicans’ attack line questioning Harris’s biracial identity, saying: “Donald Trump said something very simple, totally inoffensive but frankly obviously true to me which is that Kamala Harris is a chameleon. She’s a fake …”

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  Trump called into Fox & Friends this morning, for half an hour of softball questions teeing up invective about Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, Democrats’ supposed antisemitism and other matters. On whether he will debate Harris, Trump said: “We’ll be debating I guess in the pretty near future, it’s going to be announced fairly soon, but we’ll be debating her.”

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  Vance said at a campaign event that he would like to debate Harris in August, and suggested he was not interested in debating his Democratic vice presidential counterpart, Tim Walz.

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  Vance also attracted both positive and negative reactions on social media for a campaign stunt in which he walked across the tarmac towards Kamala Harris’ plane, and told reporters waiting for Harris that he wanted to check out Air Force 2, which would soon be his plane, and that Harris should talk to the media more.

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Harris enters to huge applause. “We are doing this,” she says. “Good evening Detroit”.

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This is her fifth time in Michigan this year.

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“They try and steal the joy from this country”, Walz says of the GOP. “Our next president brings the joy, she emanates the joy.”

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“It’s been a pretty interesting 24 hours, I’ll be honest,” he says. And he doesn’t know how to express the feeling of walking out into these crowds.

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He says this is the largest rally of the campaign so far.

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Tim Walz is walking onto stage now in Detroit – the song playing is Bruce Springstein’s Born to Run.

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“Wow”, he says.

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On 10 July, less than two weeks before Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race, Kamala Harris attended a boulé: the annual or biannual gathering of all of the members of a sorority. But this wasn’t just any sorority, it was Alpha Kappa Alpha, the historic Black sorority Harris joined in college, and one of the Divine Nine – also known as the Pan-Hellenic Council – the most powerful Black sororities in America.

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“To my line sisters, the 38 Jewels of Iridescent Splendor: Oh, you are such an incredible part of my journey,” she said.

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AKA was founded in 1908 at Harris’s alma mater, Howard University, as a support network for Black women, who at the time faced increasing racial discrimination. Harris’s aunt was a soror in 1950. Among the sorority’s alumna were Coretta Scott King, Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou. For her Vogue cover in 2021, Harris was photographed in front of a background of draped fabric in AKA’s colours, salmon pink and apple green, and wearing its signature accessory – a pearl necklace.

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In the two weeks since Biden stood down, and then became the presumptive nominee, Harris has spoken at two more Black sorority events. Last week, at the Sigma Gamma Rho’s 60th International Biennial Boulé, that she addressed Trump’s comments earlier that day questioning her race.

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“When I look out at everyone here, I see family,” she said.

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The political power of Black Greek letter organisations is not lost on Harris. She is in many ways proof of their influence: when Biden endorsed Harris as his choice for vice-president in 2020, AKA members raised hundreds of thousands of dollars through individual donations of $19.08, an amount that refers to AKA’s founding year. They helped get out the vote among Black voters – famously organising the “Stroll to the Polls” campaign, in which sorority members filmed themselves dancing and walking to polling stations – a demographic that was crucial to getting Biden elected.

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Here’s an updated summary of today’s key events and statistics:

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  Kamala Harris and Tim Walz took the stage in front of a roaring crowd in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on Wednesday afternoon. “It can’t be said seriously enough, so much is on the line and compounded with everything else that we knew was on the line,” said Harris. Walz echoed similar sentiments, saying: “This election is all about asking that question, which direction will this country go in? Donald Trump knows the direction he wants to take it.”

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  Twelve thousand people attended the Eau Claire rally, according to the Harris campaign.

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  In the 24 hours since Walz was announced as the Democrats’ vice-presidential nominee, the campaign raised $36m, it told reporters. The campaign made nearly $1m on Tuesday simply from selling Chappell Roan-style camouflage hats that say “Harris Walz”.

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  Slightly before Harris and Walz’s rally, JD Vance held his own campaign event, also in Eau Claire. He spoke to his background and about how his mother is now in recovery from the opioid addiction that affected his whole childhood. He also blamed Harris for not securing the border toughly enough.

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  In response to a question on whether he thinks it matters that Harris chose Walz, Vance replied: “What does Kamala Harris’s selection of Tim Walz say about her? Well, I think it says one, she’s leaning into the defund the police radicalism of the last few years. Two, she’s leaning into the open borders policies of last year … And then the final point that I’d say is it says that she bent the knee to the Hamas caucus of the Democrat party.”

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  During his campaign in Shelby Township, Michigan, Vance continued to stick to Trump and Republicans’ attack line questioning Harris’s biracial identity, saying: “Donald Trump said something very simple, totally inoffensive but frankly obviously true to me which is that Kamala Harris is a chameleon. She’s a fake …”

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  Trump called into Fox & Friends this morning, for half an hour of softball questions teeing up invective about Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, Democrats’ supposed antisemitism and other matters. On whether he will debate Harris, Trump said: “We’ll be debating I guess in the pretty near future, it’s going to be announced fairly soon, but we’ll be debating her.”

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  Vance said at a campaign event that he would like to debate Harris in August, and suggested he was not interested in debating his Democratic vice-presidential counterpart, Tim Walz.

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  Vance also attracted both positive and negative reactions on social media for a campaign stunt in which he walked across the tarmac towards Kamala Harris’s plane, and told reporters waiting for Harris that he wanted to check out Air Force 2, which would soon be his plane, and that Harris should talk to the media more.

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Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign launched with a cryptic “brat” endorsement from Charli xcx.

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As Minnesota governor Tim Walz, a recent TikTok favorite, joined the Democratic ticket, the Democrats are also nodding to another pop star of the summer, midwest princess Chappell Roan, also known as “your favorite artist’s favorite artist”.

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Her camoflauge hats appear to have inspired the latest Harris-Walz campaign hats, which have already proved very popular, Teen Vogue reports:

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scooplet: the Harris-Walz campaign tells @teenvogue nearly $1 million worth of camo hats were bought yesterday (an initial run of 3000 hats sold out in 30 minutes) https://t.co/8lusus9tXn

— Versha Sharma (@versharma) August 7, 2024

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I cannot tell you what the popularity of these hats means for the gen Z turnout in this election, but it’s worth noting that Roan is very campy and very queer, and Walz’s resume includes being both a high school football coach and the faculty adviser to the school’s Gay Straight Alliance in 1999.

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Harris campaign raises $36m in the day after announcing Walz as her running mate.

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In the 24 hours after Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her vice-presidential pick, the campaign raised $36m, it told reporters.

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In July, the campaign raised a total of $310m, ABC News reported. (Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the race on 21 July, a Sunday, and endorsed Harris as his replacement.)

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Harris/Walz campaign setting up in this airport hangar in Detroit for rally tonight. They’re heading here from WI.
Harris campaign says it raised $36 million in the 24 hours since the running mate announcement. campaign said it raised $310 million in July pic.twitter.com/XVWqQcV1Qg

— Selina Wang (@selinawangtv) August 7, 2024

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Yesterday, the Harris campaign announced it had raised $20m in the first hours since Walz was announced as the Democrats’ vice-presidential candidate, CBS News reported.

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Update: In the first 24 hours since Governor Walz was announced as Vice President Harris' running mate, Team Harris-Walz has raised $36 million dollars. https://t.co/ywlQzLqYhl

— Weijia Jiang (@weijia) August 7, 2024

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Here’s a look at where things stand:

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  Kamala Harris and Tim Walz took the stage in front of a roaring crowd in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on Wednesday afternoon. “It can’t be said seriously enough, so much is on the line and compounded with everything else that we knew was on the line,” said Harris. Walz echoed similar sentiments, saying: “This election is all about asking that question, which direction will this country go in? Donald Trump knows the direction he wants to take it.”

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  Slightly before Harris and Walz’s rally, JD Vance held his own rally, also in Eau Claire. He spoke to his background and how his mother is now in recovery from the opioid addiction that affected his whole childhood. He also blamed Harris for not securing the border toughly enough.

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  In response to a question on whether he thinks it matters that Harris chose Walz, Vance replied: “What does Kamala Harris’s selection of Tim Walz say about her? Well, I think it says one, she’s leaning into the defund the police radicalism of the last few years. Two, she’s leaning into the open borders policies of last year … And then the final point that I’d say is it says that she bent the knee to the Hamas caucus of the Democrat party.”

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  In an endorsement post on Twitter/X, Barack Obama wrote of Walz: “Governor Walz doesn’t just have the experience to be vice president, he has the values and the integrity to make us proud. And as we saw last night, @KamalaHarris and @Tim_Walz make a great team.”

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  During his campaign in Shelby Township, Michigan, JD Vance defended Donald Trump’s attacks on Harris’s biracial identity. He said: “I was not bothered at all by what President Trump said. I didn’t take it as an attack on Kamala Harris’s biracial background at all.”

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  JD Vance continued to stick to Trump and Republicans’ attack line questioning Harris’s biracial identity, saying: “Donald Trump said something very simple, totally inoffensive but frankly obviously true to me which is that Kamala Harris is a chameleon. She’s a fake …”

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  Trump called into Fox & Friends this morning, for half an hour of softball questions teeing up invective about Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, Democrats’ supposed antisemitism and other matters. On whether he will debate Harris, Trump said: “We’ll be debating I guess in the pretty near future, it’s going to be announced fairly soon, but we’ll be debating her.”

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  Cori Bush lost her Democratic primary after pro-Israel pressure groups spent millions of dollars to unseat her over criticisms of Israel’s war on Gaza. St Louis prosecutor Wesley Bell defeated Missouri’s first Black female member of Congress with about 51% of the vote. Bush, a member of the progressive “Squad”, took about 46%.

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“We are joyful warriors,” Kamala Harris said, in apparent reference to Tim Walz’s comment yesterday that she has brought “joy” back to the campaign trail.

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She added:

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“Because we know that while fighting for a brighter future may be hard work, hard work is good work …

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We believe in a future where we lower the cost of living for America’s families so that they have a chance, not just to get by, but to get ahead. Because while our economy is doing well by many measures, prices for everyday things like groceries, are still too high. You know it, and I know it.”

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“We settle our political differences not through violence but through our votes,” said Tim Walz.

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He added:

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“The question is pretty simple. This election is all about asking that question, which direction will this country go in? Donald Trump knows the direction he wants to take it. He wants to take us back. He wants to do the things that he saw. But be very clear.

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Don’t believe him when he plays dumb. He knows exactly what he’s talking about. He knows exactly what Project 2025 will do in restricting and taking our freedoms. He knows that it rigs the economy for the super rich if he gets a chance to go back to the White House. It will be far worse than it was four years ago.”

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Long lines are forming in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, before Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s much-anticipated rally, according to photos and videos posted on social media:

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Three hours until Harris and Walz are set to appear in Eau Claire and this is the line of cars to get to the rally…

1.5 miles away. pic.twitter.com/kwyqikAqNV

— Sabrina Rodríguez (@sabrod123) August 7, 2024

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A look at the crowd lining up for Harris/Walz in Eau Claire, WI. They’ll be joined by WI Gov Tony Evers, Sen Tammy Baldwin, and musician Bon Iver (Eau Claire native). JD Vance also in town speaking at same time. Full coverage today on @CBSNews and @WCCO pic.twitter.com/uy7InTX7Ro

— Adam Duxter (@AdamDuxter) August 7, 2024

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Spectators were seen waiting for Harris and Walz to appear:

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JD Vance is also set to hold a rally in Eau Claire around the same time as Harris as Walz – and will be hoping for good turnout.

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Video posted on social media appeared to show a much thinner crowd during his earlier campaign stop in Shelby Township, Michigan.

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JD Vance's Michigan rally could've been an email. https://t.co/HxColcM5Nz

— Christopher Hale (@chrisjollyhale) August 7, 2024

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In an endorsement post on X, Barack Obama wrote of Tim Walz:

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“Governor Walz doesn’t just have the experience to be vice president, he has the values and the integrity to make us proud. And as we saw last night, @KamalaHarris and @Tim_Walz make a great team.

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Now let’s do everything we can – volunteer, donate, organize – from now until November to help them get elected.”

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Governor Walz doesn’t just have the experience to be vice president, he has the values and the integrity to make us proud. And as we saw last night, @KamalaHarris and @Tim_Walz make a great team. 
 
Now let’s do everything we can – volunteer, donate, organize – from now until… pic.twitter.com/M4339rHmVq

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 7, 2024

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During his campaign in Shelby Township, Michigan, JD Vance defended Donald Trump’s attacks on Kamala Harris’s biracial identity, saying that he saw no problem with the former president’s comments at the NABJ conference last week where he said Harris “happened to turn Black”.

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In response to a question on how he would explain Trump’s attacks, JD Vance, who is married to Usha Vance, an Indian American lawyer, and has biracial children, said:

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“I was not bothered at all by what President Trump said I didn’t take it as an attack on Kamala Harris’s biracial background at all.

n

What I took it as was an attack on Kamala Harris being a chameleon. She pretends to be one thing when she’s in front of one audience, she pretends to be something else when she’s in front of another audience and I think he was observing the basic foundational reality that Kamala Harris pretends to be something different, depending on which audience she’s speaking to.”

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Vance: I was not bothered at all by what President Trump said I didn't take it as an attack on Kamala Harris’ biracial background at all pic.twitter.com/SPu5j56v7s

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 7, 2024

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Here is video of Donald Trump describing his shock at Kamala Harris’s vice-president pick, Tim Walz:

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"I can't believe it. … I could not be more thrilled."

— Donald Trump is very happy that Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz as her VP pick pic.twitter.com/tMUxSekadZ

— The Recount (@therecount) August 7, 2024

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Speaking to Fox News, Trump said he “could not be more thrilled”.

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Martin Pengelly reported further on Trump’s Fox News interview for the Guardian, writing earlier this morning:

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“Trump also claimed to have saved Walz from ‘thousands’ of pro-Trump protesters with ‘the American flags and the Maga flags’ who Trump said ‘surrounded’ Walz’s house in summer 2020, when Minnesota saw protests and rioting prompted by the police murder of George Floyd.”

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Donald Trump called into Fox & Friends this morning, for half an hour of softball questions teeing up invective about Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, Democrats’ supposed antisemitism and other matters. Here are some of the highlights …

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  On Tim Walz for vice-president: Trump said he was surprised Harris picked the Minnesota governor, who he predictably slammed for being extremely progressive, repeatedly comparing him to Bernie Sanders. Trump also claimed to have saved Walz from “thousands” of pro-Trump protesters with “the American flags and the Maga flags” who Trump said “surrounded” Walz’s house in summer 2020, when Minnesota saw protests and rioting prompted by the police murder of George Floyd. Trump said Walz asked him to “put out the word that I’m a good person”, so Trump did and the crowd went home. “And he called me back and he thanked me very much, that’s my only thing I’ve ever had to deal with him,” said Trump, who in 2019, as president, appointed Walz to the bipartisan Council of Governors.

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  On Josh Shapiro missing out: Trump said he was “no big fan” of the Pennsylvania governor but “would have said it would have been a better choice” for Harris to pick him. Claiming to be leading in Pennsylvania – contestable, at least – Trump also agreed with his hosts that antisemitism, stoked by Shapiro’s positions on Israel and Gaza, played a role in Shapiro missing out. “I think that any Jewish person who votes for a Democrat … should have their head examined,” said Trump – a man whose own alleged antisemitic remarks memorably include the contention, “The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. Those are the kind of people I want counting my money. No one else.” Trump also claimed, in the same answer, to be in with a chance of winning New York. Polling there shows Harris pulling clear.

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  On whether he will debate Harris: Trump fringed close to making news when he said: “We’ll be debating I guess in the pretty near future, it’s going to be announced fairly soon, but we’ll be debating her.” Trump had agreed a second debate with Joe Biden on ABC News but has said he will only debate on Fox News. Harris says it has to be ABC. “I would like to say my preference would be Fox but we have to debate,” Trump said, adding: “I think debates are very important as they should be exposed just like Biden was exposed.” It’s true Biden’s catastrophic debate display against Trump in June hastened the end of the president’s candidacy for re-election. But Harris – who Trump complained the media wanted to “build up into the next Margaret Thatcher, liberal version” – would be a very different opponent.

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More follows…

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Donald Trump has attacked Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in an interview with Fox and Friends on Wednesday morning.

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The former president trotted out familiar attack lines, trying to paint his Democratic opponent as “communist” and out of touch with American voters.

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During a phone-in interview, Trump claimed: “This is a ticket that would want this country to go communist immediately if not sooner.”

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He went on to disparage Walz’s record on protecting gender-affirming care in Minnesota while suggesting Harris not choosing Josh Shapiro was “very insulting to Jewish people”.

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"This is a ticket that would want this county to go communist immediately if not sooner … he's very heavy into transgender. Anything transgender he thinks is great … I think it's very insulting to Jewish people" — Trump on Fox & Friends on Harris/Walz pic.twitter.com/61Phj3OTVx

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 7, 2024

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Walz emerged as Harris’s pick after a search lasting two weeks that saw the vice-president also consider a group that included the Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, and Arizona senator Mark Kelly. The choice of Walz drew praise from across the Democratic party’s ideological spectrum.

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The progressive congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Harris made an “excellent decision”, while Joe Manchin, the West Virginia senator who recently left the party and is best known for hamstringing Biden’s proposals to fight child poverty and more aggressively combat climate change, said: “I can think of no one better than Governor Walz to help bring our country closer together and bring balance back to the Democratic party.”

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Republicans responded to Walz’s selection by posting on social media images of the protests the rocked Minneapolis four years ago after George Floyd’s murder, reminders of the governor’s support for a law allowing undocumented migrants to obtain driver’s licenses, plus a massive Covid relief scandal that took place during his administration.

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Now in his second term as governor, the former congressman and high school teacher brings to the ticket a record of progressive policymaking, a somewhat sympathetic view towards pro-Palestine protesters, and a distinctly Minnesotan style of communication the campaign could use in its efforts to win the nearby swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

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Here’s the full analysis from my colleague Chris Stein:

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The other big news late on Wednesday was congresswoman Cori Bush losing her Democratic primary after pro-Israel pressure groups spent millions of dollars to unseat her over criticisms of Israel’s war on Gaza.

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St Louis prosecutor Wesley Bell defeated Missouri’s first Black female member of Congress with about 51% of the vote. Bush, a member of the progressive “Squad”, took about 46%.

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Bell’s win marks a second major victory for the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) after it played a leading role in unseating New York congressman Jamaal Bowman, another progressive Democrat who criticized the scale of Palestinian civilians deaths in Gaza, in a June primary.

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Aipac pumped $8.5m into the race in Missouri’s first congressional district to support Bell through its campaign funding arm, the United Democracy Project (UDP), after Bush angered some pro-Israel groups as one of the first members of Congress to call for a ceasefire after the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel.

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Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are off to Eau Claire in Wisconsin, and Detroit, Michigan, on Wednesday to continue their battleground tour after a raucous debut of the Minnesota governor in Philadelphia.

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The rally in Wisconsin is due to start at 12pm CT and the vice-president and Walz will be joined by Wisconsin’s governor Tony Evers, senator Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin secretary of state Sarah Godlewski, and others.

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Indie folk band Bon Iver, who have their roots in Eau Claire, will perform at the rally before Harris and Walz are due to address the crowd around 1.25pm CT.

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Tim Walz came from relative obscurity to seize the glittering prize of becoming Kamala Harris’s running mate. So who is he and what should you know about him?

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Martin Pengelly has this handy cheat sheet to help you learn more about the Minnesota governor:

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Kamala Harris introduced her running mate, Minnesota governor Tim Walz, to supporters at a packed, energetic rally at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Harris sought to define Walz foremost as a teacher, veteran and football coach.

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Walz focused on a unifying, future-focused message, and attacked the Trump-Vance ticket with a focus on reproductive rights and other freedoms.

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Meanwhile Josh Shapiro, who had been a vice-presidential contender, still made his mark.

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Read the key takeaways here.

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Kamala Harris introduced her running mate Tim Walz as “the kind of vice-president America deserves” at a raucous rally in Philadelphia on Tuesday that showcased Democratic unity and enthusiasm for the party’s presidential ticket ahead of the November election.

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Casting their campaign as a “fight for the future”, Harris and Walz were repeatedly interrupted by applause and cheering as they addressed thousands of battleground-state voters wearing bracelets that twinkled red, white and blue at Temple University’s Liacouras Center – a crowd Harris’s team said was its largest to date.

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“Thank you for bringing back the joy,” a beaming Walz told Harris after she debuted the little-known Minnesota governor as a former social studies teacher, high school football coach and a National Guard veteran.

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“We’ve got 91 days,” he declared. “My God, that’s easy. We’ll sleep when we’re dead.”

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Read the full story here.

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The New York Times’s Katie Rogers has filed her pool report. There were six people who are believed to have needed medical attention, she reports, 15,000 people attended, and she confirms that among the chants were ones of “Lock him up” and “Kamala Kamala You Can’t Hide, We Won’t Vote for Genocide”:

The campaign says there were 15,000 people in Detroit, the largest of this campaign so far.

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Harris shut down a chant of “LOCK HIM UP,” as she did earlier in the day, with the following: “Here’s the thing, the courts are gonna handle that. We’re gonna beat him in November.”

The rally was interrupted by a band of protesters about midway through: Kamala Kamala You Can’t Hide, We Won’t Vote for Genocide,” the shouted.

This was her reply: “I’m here because I believe in democracy. I believe everyone’s voice matters. But I’m speaking now. I am speaking now.”

At least six people needed medical attention over the course of the rally that pool observed.

There were volunteers with water, Fig Newtons, and large boxes full of blue KAMALA FOR EVERYBODY T-shirts on hand.

Summary

Here are the main developments from today:

• Kamala Harris and Tim Walz took the stage in front of a roaring crowd in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on Wednesday afternoon. “It can’t be said seriously enough, so much is on the line and compounded with everything else that we knew was on the line,” said Harris. Walz echoed similar sentiments, saying: “This election is all about asking that question, which direction will this country go in? Donald Trump knows the direction he wants to take it.”

• Twelve thousand people attended the Eau Claire rally, according to the Harris campaign.

• Later, the pair attended a rally in Detroit, Michigan. It was the biggest of the campaign so far, Walz said. Harris shut down chants of “lock him up” by rallygoers, and chants, reportedly by Gaza protestors, that interrupted her speech. Three speakers had to call for medics for people in the crowd, which appeared to be heat-related.

• In the 24 hours since Walz was announced as the Democrats’ vice-presidential nominee, the campaign raised $36m, it told reporters. The campaign made nearly $1m on Tuesday simply from selling Chappell Roan-style camouflage hats that say “Harris Walz”.

• Slightly before Harris and Walz’s rally, JD Vance held his own campaign event, also in Eau Claire. He spoke to his background and about how his mother is now in recovery from the opioid addiction that affected his whole childhood. He also blamed Harris for not securing the border toughly enough.

• In response to a question on whether he thinks it matters that Harris chose Walz, Vance replied: “What does Kamala Harris’s selection of Tim Walz say about her? Well, I think it says one, she’s leaning into the defund the police radicalism of the last few years. Two, she’s leaning into the open borders policies of last year … And then the final point that I’d say is it says that she bent the knee to the Hamas caucus of the Democrat party.”

• During his campaign in Shelby Township, Michigan, Vance continued to stick to Trump and Republicans’ attack line questioning Harris’s biracial identity, saying: “Donald Trump said something very simple, totally inoffensive but frankly obviously true to me which is that Kamala Harris is a chameleon. She’s a fake …”

• Trump called into Fox & Friends this morning, for half an hour of softball questions teeing up invective about Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, Democrats’ supposed antisemitism and other matters. On whether he will debate Harris, Trump said: “We’ll be debating I guess in the pretty near future, it’s going to be announced fairly soon, but we’ll be debating her.”

• Vance said at a campaign event that he would like to debate Harris in August, and suggested he was not interested in debating his Democratic vice presidential counterpart, Tim Walz.

• Vance also attracted both positive and negative reactions on social media for a campaign stunt in which he walked across the tarmac towards Kamala Harris’ plane, and told reporters waiting for Harris that he wanted to check out Air Force 2, which would soon be his plane, and that Harris should talk to the media more.

Here is more on Kamala Harris and sororities. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, whose members have been vocal about their pride and excitement that one of their members could become the most powerful person on earth. (Officially, the way that AKA members express this emotion is through the trademarked call “skee-wee”).

Because they are registered charity organisations, fraternities and sororities aren’t allowed to officially endorse specific political candidates, but they can – and do – mobilise among their members to get out the vote.

Trump and the GOP “flatten Black people into two dimensions,” according to Lawrence Ross, the author of a book on the Divine Nine –America’s most powerful Black Greek letter organisations – told the Guardian. “They don’t know really much about Black culture … It’s too late for them to understand what’s about to happen to them.”

Black Greek letter organizations’ voter engagement programs “reach millions”, according to the New York Times. 93% of Black women who voted in 2020 voted Democrat, according an Associated Press poll.

Black sororities have often been referred to as Harris’s “secret weapon”. But, Ross says, “It’s not a secret weapon to Black folks, right?”

They are a key part of understanding who Harris is. Comparing Harris to Obama is often a mistake, the critic Vinson Cunningham, who worked on Obama’s campaign, said recently on a New Yorker podcast. But one thing they do have in common “is a Black father who is not from America”.

For Obama, forming a Black identity that was distinctly American involved moving to Chicago, joining Trinity Church and sitting under the tutelage of Jeremiah Wright, Cunningham said.

“You can think of the parallel motion in Kamala Harris’s life as: going to a [Historically Black College or University], joining perhaps the most famous historically Black sorority, the AKAs.” By making these choices, Obama and Harris were both, “tying themselves to a more distinctly American form of Blackness than the one that is signified by their fathers,” he said.

That was the first tense or uneasy moment I have seen at a Harris rally. She appeared to deal with it well – first firmly calling on people chanting “Lock him up” to stop, unless they want Trump to win, and then, again shutting down chants, which were reportedly from people protesting Gaza, by saying that she believes in everyone having a voice, but right now, “I am speaking”.

She was forceful, but didn’t appear totally unflustered. The end of the rally had a little less pure joy and energy than others. But the crowds, overall were still hugely supportive and cheered loudly.

I’ll try to find out why medics were called at least three times. The best guess at this stage was that it was hot in that hangar.

Harris ends, and has Freedom plays, waves and claps to huge cheers. Walz and the other speakers are on stage now, they all hold hands and raise them in the air.

Harris then makes her way through the crowd.

But those chants have stopped now. Harris is getting huge cheers as she delivers her key messages. She begins to wind down, and the crowd falls silent.

“What country do we want to live in?” she asks. One of the rule of law, or one of hate.

“We each have the power to answer that question. The power is with the people,” she says, to huge cheers.

A CalMatters reporter at the rally says that the people chanting were protesting the US’s support of Israel in its assault on Gaza:

As most of the crowd chanted in support of Harris, a small group of protesters chanted “We won’t vote for genocide,” appearing to protest over Gaza.

In Michigan, Muslim-majority cities like Dearborn and Hamtramck voted overwhelmingly against Biden in the March primary. pic.twitter.com/Pr6uDhDMZm

— Yue Stella Yu (@bystellayu) August 8, 2024

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As most of the crowd chanted in support of Harris, a small group of protesters chanted “We won’t vote for genocide,” appearing to protest over Gaza.

In Michigan, Muslim-majority cities like Dearborn and Hamtramck voted overwhelmingly against Biden in the March primary. pic.twitter.com/Pr6uDhDMZm

— Yue Stella Yu (@bystellayu) August 8, 2024

“We trust women to know what is in their best interests and not have their government telling them what to do,” she says forcefully, stressing each word.

Harris has regained control of the crowd. I’m trying to work out what the disruptive group was chanting – will continue with the speech in the meantime.

Everyone is now chanting “We’re not going back”.

I can’t tell what the chant is, but as it continues, Harris says, “You know what, if you want Donald Trump to win, then say that. But otherwise, I’m speaking”.

The crowd cheers, and chants, instead of whatever it was (it may have been “lock him up), “We’re not going back”.

Harris allows it. Then continues.

Whichever segment of the crowd is disrupting the speech keeps going, however. But Harris forges ahead.

When Harris starts talking about Project 2025, the crowd starts chanting very loudly, “Kamala! Kamala!” to the point that she stops talking.

Someone in the crowd appears to be starting another chant.

“I’m here because we believe in Democracy. Everyone’s voice matters. But I am speaking now, I am speaking now,” Harris says, in an attempt to control the crowd. There are huge cheers, and she continues speaking, but the chants continue.

Via Politico – Harris stopped the crowd when they started chanting “lock him up”. The chant is a remixed version of a GOP supporter chant, referring to Hilary Clinton, “lock her up”.

As the crowd starts yelling “lock him up,” VP Kamala Harris stops it: “the courts are going to handle that. We’re going to beat him in November.” pic.twitter.com/6f4eC3RRja

— Eugene Daniels (@EugeneDaniels2) August 8, 2024

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As the crowd starts yelling “lock him up,” VP Kamala Harris stops it: “the courts are going to handle that. We’re going to beat him in November.” pic.twitter.com/6f4eC3RRja

— Eugene Daniels (@EugeneDaniels2) August 8, 2024

“We’ll beat him in November. We’ll handle that,” she says.

And repeats that she would proudly put her record against his any day of the week.

This campaign “is about two very different visions…one focused on the future and one focused on the past”.

In Michigan, she says, we fight for a future. “A future where every worker has the right to join a union,” she says. And moves onto housing, healthcare and childcare.

“In this fight we are joyful warriors,” she says. “We all here know hard work is good work”.

Harris is now talking about her record as attorney general, courtroom prosecutor, district attorney. Soon she will say that she knows Trump’s type.

She says it, to huge applause. “I’ve been dealing with them my whole career” .