Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris has declined her Republican opponent Donald Trump’s suggestion to move the Presidential debate to Fox News, media reports said.
Trump, 78, and President Joe Biden had agreed in May to two Presidential debates. The first, which was with CNN, took place in June, while a second one, slated for September 10, was planned to be hosted by ABC News.
US Vice President Kamala Harris raised a record $310 million in July, her campaign announced Friday, August 2, which is more than double of her Presidential race opponent Donald Trump. The Republican nominee’s campaign collected $139 million for the same month.
July was an extraordinary month. First, it saw an assassination attempt on former President Trump, who was later announced as the Republican nominee for President. In the Democratic camp, sitting President Joe Biden ended his re-election bid and endorsed his deputy Harris to take over the ticket.
US Vice President and presumptive Democrat nominee Kamala Harris has hit back at her Presidential rival and former President Donald Trump over the latter’s remarks about her racial identity and stated that the American people “deserve better”.
She asserted that today the country faces a choice between two different visions, and alleged that Trump and his campaign aim to take the country “backward”.
Former President Donald Trump made a manifestly false claim in saying that Vice President and his likely presidential rival Kamala Harris has always promoted her Indian heritage over her equally shared black identity.
During an abrasive interaction at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention in Chicago today he said, “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was always 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? I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t because she was Indian all the way and then all of a sudden, she made a turn and she became a black person.”
Vice President Kamala Harris has challenged Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump to meet her on the debate stage. Harris made the remarks while addressing an enthusiastic crowd in Georgia Tuesday, July 30.
Sharing a short video of her remarks from the rally on X, Harris stated, “Well, Donald, I do hope you’ll reconsider to meet me on the debate stage because as the saying goes, ‘if you’ve got something to say, say it to my face’.” She made the remarks amid cheers from the crowd.
US Vice-President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump rolled out multi-million dollar ad blitz to air in the battleground states that will determine their fates in the 2024 US presidential elections, scheduled to take place on November 5.
The ‘Harris for President’ campaign announced a $50 million paid media buy to run until the Democratic National Committee convention in Chicago in mid-August. The first of these ads — called ‘Fearless’ — aired Tuesday, July 30.
Donald Trump, the former US President and current Republican nominee for the White House, has pledged to turn the US into the “crypto capital of the planet and the Bitcoin superpower of the world” if elected, and unveiled a plan to unlock the potential of the fledgling industry.
Trump also promised to appoint an advisory council to frame his administration’s cryptocurrency policy, fire Gary Gensler, the current head of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which oversees the industry; and free a jailed American who ran the Silk Route market, a dark-net platform, by commuting his life-term sentence to time served in jail, he said Saturday, July 27.
Presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris has an 18% point lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump in favorability ratings among Indian Americans, according to a poll by Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVOTE).
The APIAVOTE findings were cited Wednesday, July 24, in a memo from Harris campaign Chair Jen O’Malley Dillon on the overall state of the US Presidential race at this time.
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump took centre stage on the last day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Sporting a bandage over his right ear, a mark from when he was shot at during the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Trump entered the arena to the chants of ‘USA, USA’ as the God Bless America anthem played out loud.
Donald Trump then formally accepted the call to run for the White House in 2024.
Nikki Haley has formally endorsed Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign Tuesday night. The support from the former South Carolina Governor came during her speech at the Republican National Convention.
This further cements the fact that the Indian American politician has let go of her bitter rivalry with Trump and is following the latter’s call of unity.
Expressing tremendous support for Donald Trump’s pick of JD Vance as his running mate in the forthcoming US presidential elections, Indian-American entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy said on Monday that Vance will become an outstanding Vice President.
The development comes after Trump was formally nominated as the Presidential candidate of the Republican Party at the GOP convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The former POTUS chose the 39-year-old Ohio Senator as his running mate.
As President Joe Biden faces mounting pressure over the future of his candidacy, his campaign is quietly testing Vice President Kamala Harris’s viability against former President Donald Trump through a voter survey, New York Times reported.
Some of Biden’s long-standing advisers are reportedly considering ways to convince him to withdraw from the race, as per the New York Times.
Former US President Donald Trump has promised to end outsourcing if re-elected, which should sound alarm bells across India’s multi-billion-dollar outsourcing industry whose largest customer is the US.
“Stop outsourcing, and turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower,” said Trump’s 2024 Republican Party Platform released ahead of the party convention next week to appoint him as the party nominee for the White House, in his third run.
Donald Trump, the former President and presumptive Republican nominee, has called for a “no holds barred” debate with President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, as the latter sits down for a widely anticipated interview he is doing to allay concerns about his health and ability to serve another four years, following an underwhelming performance in the first debate last week.
“I have the answer to the Crooked Joe Biden Incompetence Puzzle”, Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
By invoking the Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity, ex-POTUS Donald Trump has won a timely reprieve by getting the court to agree to delay his sentencing till after the Republican Party Convention, where he is set to be anointed the GOP’s presidential candidate.
Without an objection from the prosecutors, Judge Juan Merchan agreed on Tuesday, July 2, to postpone the sentencing to consider claims by Trump’s lawyers that the top judiciary’s ruling applied his conviction last month on 34 charges of falsifying his business records to cover up payments to a porn star.
Beyond the obvious question of who won and who lost the first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump on CNN last night hangs the greater question of how jaded the two men professing to be the leaders of the free world are.
By Mayank Chhaya The fact that a New York jury found former President Donald Trump unanimously guilty and that too on all 34 counts underscores how it was from the get-go be an open-and-shut case. The 12 members of the jury took just nine hours spread over two days, May 29 and 30, to stamp […]
Vice President Kamala Harris has called former President Donald Trump a “threat” to democracy and fundamental freedoms and vowed to restore Roe v Wade, protect voting rights and address gun violence issues. In a post on X, Harris, who is of Indian heritage, stated, “Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms. President @JoeBiden and I will restore Roe, protect voting rights, and finally address our gun violence epidemic. The contrast could not be clearer.”
President Joe Biden’s campaign spokesperson, James Singer, said in a statement that former President Donald Trump “wants another January 6” after Trump on Saturday said that there would be a ‘bloodbath’ in the country if he lost the upcoming polls. Condemning his statement, Singer emphasized on Sunday that the US people would not make him win the presidential elections.
Former South Carolina Governor and Indian American Nikki Haley defeated former President Donald Trump in Washington DC in the Republican primary according to The Hill projections on Sunday night. Haley garnered 1,274 votes to former President Trump’s 676 with all precincts reporting, according to the US-based news daily, ahead of Super Tuesday when 16 states are holding primaries.
An Illinois judge has removed former US President Donald Trump from the state’s ballot on the basis of the 14th Amendment’s so-called “insurrectionist ban,” CNN reported. The decision has been halted, giving Trump a short time to appeal. The judge’s decision on Wednesday (local time) comes as a similar anti-Trump challenge from Colorado is pending before the US Supreme Court, which is widely expected to not agree to the arguments that Trump is barred from office.
Indian American Tulsi Gabbard, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, has spoken to Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and his advisors about the country’s foreign policy, keeping her options as the former President’s 2024 running mate ‘open’, media reports suggested.
John Bolton, the U.S. National Security Adviser (NSA) under Donald Trump, has said his former boss is “unfit to be President” and warned, “If his first four years were bad, a second four will be worse,” according to excerpts quoted by several media outlets. In a new 18-page foreword to his memoir ‘The Room Where It Happened’, which is out in paperback now, Bolton paints a dire picture of what Trump’s return to the White House for a second term could do to America.
Early trends in New Hampshire have projected former President Donald Trump to win the GOP primary, The Hill reported, citing Decision Desk HQ. This comes as a major blow to his Indian American rival Nikki Haley. This win puts Trump one step closer to securing his party’s nomination and getting a historic 2020 rematch with incumbent President Joe Biden.
In a major development ahead of the US presidential polls, Florida Governor and GOP leader Ron DeSantis dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed rival and former President Donald Trump, CNN reported.
