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Harris plans to continue to build presidential momentum in speech to teachers union
Vice President Kamala Harris is slated to continue her days-old presidential push by speaking Thursday to the American Federation of Teachers, the first labor union to formally endorse her candidacy. Having emerged as the likely Democratic nominee after President Joe Biden exited the race, Harris plans to travel aggressively to spread her message and rally voters. The outreach occurs as the former and retooled Biden campaign, now under Harris' control, figures out its strategy for generating t
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Democratic convention planners are working to pull off a dramatic Biden-Harris role reversal
After nearly a near year of careful planning, organizers of the Democratic National Convention are in a mad dash to accommodate a new nominee, a re-crafted program and a highly compressed deadline to pull everything off as though this was the plan all along. With President Joe Biden now out of the race and Vice President Kamala Harris pursuing the party's nomination, a dramatic role reversal for the two is likely to play out before a nationally televised audience when around 5,000 delegates, 12
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‘Our republic is now in your hands’: Biden appeals to Americans to ‘preserve our democracy’
President Joe Biden framed the decision to end his re-election campaign as a "defense of democracy" in an Oval Office address Wednesday night.
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Biden’s address was a moving piece of political theatre and a rebuke of Trump
Biden called for generational change and buried his resentments, but not without a pointed comment about his qualifications
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Elon Musk’s X boosts conspiracy theories that Biden is dead or dying
Elon Musk’s X app boosted wild conspiracy theories this week that President Joe Biden had an undisclosed medical emergency and may be dying or dead.
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Trump turns his focus to Harris at his first rally after Biden's exit from the 2024 race
Donald Trump, speaking at his first campaign rally since Joe Biden ended his re-election bid, redirected a torrent of attacks at Kamala Harris.
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Read a transcript of Biden’s speech on dropping out of the presidential race
‘I’ve decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation,’ Biden said in a speech from the Oval Office
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