Новости за 18.07.2024

Joe Raedle

Usha Chilukuri Vance, the wife of firebrand Ohio Senator and Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance, used her primetime speech at this week’s Republican National Convention not to play up her husband’s MAGA credentials—but to highlight how her own personal background differed from many of the people cheering on Trump and his movement.

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Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), formally accepting the GOP’s vice presidential nomination on Wednesday, received a loud cheer from the crowd at the Republican National Convention after he relayed a story about his gun-loving grandmother.

Chip Somodevilla

Kai Trump, former President Donald Trump’s 17-year-old granddaughter, took the stage Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, becoming the first member of the next Trump generation to enter the political arena.

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Thomas Matthew Crooks, the gunman who injured Donald Trump and killed another when he opened fire at a Pennsylvania rally held by the former president over the weekend, searched for both Trump and President Joe Biden—as well as Attorney General Merrick Garland and F.B.I. Director Christopher Wray—in the days before the shooting.

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An eleven-point “victory speech” drawn up by a major Democratic donor and designed to let Joe Biden quit the presidential race with grace has been obtained by the Daily Beast.

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Anna Moneymaker

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) reportedly urged President Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race, ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl revealed Wednesday.

Ted Goodman, Spokesperson for Rudy Giuliani

Disgraced former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is seeking to dispel rumors about his nasty fall Tuesday at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, with a spokesperson blaming a dip in the ground for the tumble.

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President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID, according to an announcement made at a Las Vegas convention center where he’d been scheduled to speak on Wednesday afternoon.

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We were given fair warning that Donald Trump’s relationship to God had strengthened (even more) after the attempted assassination on Saturday. Shortly after the shooting in Milwaukee he posted on Truth Social, “It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening.”

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The Secret Service had reportedly photographed Thomas Matthew Crooks 62 minutes before Crooks made his attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life, according to a Wednesday senate briefing on the assassination attempt.

JIM WATSON

Democrats are facing two crucial questions: (1) Keep Joe or dump Joe; and (2) in the event of the latter, do you bump Vice President Kamala Harris to the top of the ticket or hold an open convention?