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2024-10-04 00:14:13

Cartoon: Reaching out
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A cartoon by Nick Anderson. Consider supporting my work here: www.patreon.com/editorialcartoons or https://ko-fi.com/nickanderson. More options: linktr.ee/nick.anderson Campaign Action
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2024-09-26 00:04:48

The Recap: Repercussions for Trump's racism, and House Republicans admit they’re bad at their job
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A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Trump and Vance could be charged over racist attacks on Haitians Fingers crossed. Even Republicans admit they don't know how to run the House For once, honesty from the GOP. GOP senator says please ignore Trump's ties to 'Nazi' candidate Apparently, Trump barely knows the guy who he called “Martin Luther King on steroids.” Cartoon: Actual moms for liberty “Whatever makes you happy.” 'Send them back!': Racist chants are still a staple of Trump rallies What’s old is new again. Women describe alleged sexual assaults by Donald Trump in new ads The ads will run on Trump’s favorite networks. Mitch McConnell is the latest to trash Trump plan that will raise prices Yet he still supports Trump. For GOP, border visits are only a ‘political stunt’ when Harris goes Trump obviously visits out of love and concern. 'Man in Black' honored with bronze statue at US Capitol U.S. Capitol Blues. Click here to see more cartoons. Campaign Action
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2024-09-26 00:04:46

Cartoon: DEI
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DEI gone wrong; Please share #laloalaraz cartoons!
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2024-09-14 12:31:15

Cartoon: Championship bout
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A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Campaign Action
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2024-08-30 01:47:01

Harris says voters ready for 'new way forward' in first sit-down interview
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SAVANNAH, Ga. — Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday that voters were ready for “a new way forward,” as she was questioned along with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, in their first major television interview of their presidential campaign. “First and foremost, one of my highest priorities is to do what we can to strengthen and support the middle class," she said. "When I look at the aspirations, the goals, the ambitions of the American people, I think that people are ready for a new way forward." The interview with CNN’s Dana Bash gives Harris a chance to quell criticism that she has eschewed uncontrolled environments, while also giving her a fresh platform to define her campaign and test her political mettle ahead of an upcoming debate with former President Donald Trump set for Sept. 10. But it also carries risk as her team tries to build on momentum from the ticket shakeup following Joe Biden's exit and last week's Democratic National Convention. The CNN interview was taped at 1:45 p.m. at Kim’s Cafe, a local Black-owned restaurant in Savannah, Georgia, and aired Thursday evening. Harris was asked about changes in her policies over the years, specifically her reversals on fracking and decriminalizing illegal border crossings. “I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed,” Harris replied. Harris also brushed off Trump's questioning of her racial identity after the former president said she “happened to turn Black.” Harris, who is of Black and South Asian heritage, said it was the “same old, tired playbook.” YouTube Video She also said she'd name a Republican to serve in her Cabinet if she were elected, though she didn't have a name in mind. Joint interviews during an election year are a fixture in politics; Biden and Harris, Trump and Mike Pence, Barack Obama and Biden — all did them at a similar point in the race. The difference is those other candidates had all done solo interviews, too. Harris hasn't yet done an in-depth interview since she became her party's standard bearer five weeks ago, though she did sit for several while she was still Biden's running mate. Harris and Walz are still introducing themselves to voters, unlike Trump and Biden, of whom people had near-universal awareness and opinion. They were in the midst of a two-day bus tour through southeast Georgia that culminated with an evening rally in Savannah. Harris campaign officials believe that in order to win the state over Trump in November, she must make inroads in GOP strongholds across the state. Democrats’ enthusiasm about their vote in November has surged over the past few months, according to polling from Gallup. About 8 in 10 Democrats now say they are more enthusiastic than usual about voting, compared with 55% in March. This gives them an enthusiasm edge they did not have earlier this year. Republicans’ enthusiasm has increased by much less over the same period, and about two-thirds of Republicans now say they are more enthusiastic than usual about voting. But at a packed arena on Thursday, Harris cast her nascent campaign as the underdog and encouraged the crowd to work hard to elect her in November. “We’re here to speak truth and one of the things that we know is that this is going to be a tight race to the end,” she said. Harris spoke to a packed arena in Savannah, Ga., on Aug. 29. Harris went through a list of Democratic concerns: that Trump will further restrict women’s rights after he appointed three judges to the U.S. Supreme Court who helped overturn Roe, that he'd repeal the Affordable Care Act, and that given new immunity powers granted presidents by the U.S. Supreme Court, “imagine Donald Trump with no guard rails.” Her rally was briefly disrupted by demonstrators who were protesting the U.S. involvement in the Israel-Hamas war. During her time as vice president, Harris has done on-camera and print interviews with The Associated Press and many other outlets, a much more frequent pace than the president — except for Biden's late-stage media blitz following his disastrous debate performance that touched off the end of his campaign. Harris' lack of media access over the past month has become one of Republicans’ key attack lines. The Trump campaign has kept a tally of the days she has gone by as a candidate without giving an interview and have suggested she needs a “babysitter" and that's why Walz will be there. “I just saw Comrade Kamala Harris’ answer to a very weakly-phrased question, a question that was put in more as a matter of defense than curiosity, but her answer rambled incoherently, and declared her ‘values haven’t changed,’” Trump posted online. Trump has largely steered toward conservative media outlets when granting interviews, though he has held more open press conferences in recent weeks as he sought to reclaim the spotlight that Harris' elevation had claimed. After the CNN interview, Walz peeled off for other political events out of state, and Harris continued in Georgia, stopping in at Dottie’s Market in Savannah on Thursday, chatting with the owner’s mom as crowds watched from the street where she told voters she'd be rolling out “basically a tax credit for startups, for small businesses who are starting out.” Kamala Harris talks during a stop at Dottie's Market in Savannah, Ga., on Aug. 29. “This is one of my singular priorities is to invest and grow our small businesses," she said. She met with volunteers too. On Wednesday, Harris and Walz spent time with a high school marching band to the delight of students, and stopped by a Savannah barbecue restaurant. The campaign wants the events to motivate voters in GOP-leaning areas who don’t traditionally see the candidates, and hopes that the engagements drive viral moments that cut through crowded media coverage to reach voters across the country. Harris has another campaign blitz on Labor Day with Biden in Detroit and Pittsburgh with the election rapidly approaching. The first mail ballots get sent to voters in just two weeks. Donate what you can to help elect Kamala Harris!
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2024-08-20 23:15:57

There will be buttons: Scenes from the DNC swag tables
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Come for the unbridled joy of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, leave with the merch. The floor of the Democratic Nation Convention was jam-packed with merchandise from various liberal political organizations. Gun-sense nonprofit Moms Demand Action brought heaps of buttons. Dream for America, the youth-centered liberal counterpoint to the far-right Turning Point USA, had stacks of lime green, Charli XCX-influenced bumper stickers and signs. And thankfully, our own kos was there to snap some photos of it for your perusal. Take a look! By the end, your car will be more sticker than car. Help turn out Democratic voters this election. Click here to sign up for writing postcards to swing states.
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2024-08-20 22:06:03

Watch Pete Buttigieg demolish another Fox News host
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Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has a knack for perfectly breaking things down into digestible soundbites. But the way he humiliates Fox News personalities every time might lead one to believe that it’s some perverse kind of right of passage for the right-wing media outlet. Tuesday’s contestant was Lawrence Jones, whose attempt to press Buttigieg about President Joe Biden’s handling of the GOP-created debt-ceiling crisis of 2023 backfired. “It’s funny,” Buttigieg responded, “Sometimes I feel like conservative media and the Republican Party still think they're running against Joe Biden.” “I think in any job, but especially the presidency, you want to be judged by your results,” Buttigieg continued, listing the Biden administration’s success growing jobs over the last couple of years. Jones then tried to float the incorrect theory that Biden was cognitively impaired when he negotiated with the GOP to resolve it, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi had to take over. “He won the debt ceiling negotiations,” Buttigieg replied, cutting through a stumbling Jones. “That's the point. You can go over whether he slips up and says one name when he wants to say another name, or you can look at what he's actually accomplished as president. It turns out he's really good at being president of the United States.” YouTube Video If you don’t remember, Biden successfully outmaneuvered the Republican Party, which in the ensuing dysfunction ousted their own speaker, Rep. Kevin McCarthy. Related Story: Pete Buttigieg explains why Trump is 'afraid' to debate Harris Help turn out Democratic voters this election. Click here to sign up for writing postcards to swing states.
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