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Harris goes to North Carolina, plans to hold Sunday campaign event in state hit hard by hurricane

Oct. 12, 2024 15:39 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is meeting with Black leaders in North Carolina on Saturday and will attend church in the state ahead of a rally, according to her campaign. The weekend trip is her second time in the battleground state after it was struck by...

Why is Donald Trump campaigning in California, a state he's almost certain to lose?

Oct. 12, 2024 15:27 PM EDT

COACHELLA, Calif (AP) — With the presidency on the line in battlegrounds like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, why would Donald Trump venture into California, one of the most solidly Democratic states, just weeks before Election Day? Trump is almost certain to lose California, and that...

Doctor deems Harris in 'excellent health.' Her team aims to contrast with Trump's scant medical info

Oct. 12, 2024 13:32 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is in “excellent health” and “possesses the physical and mental resiliency” required to serve as president, her doctor said in a letter released Saturday that summarizes her medical history and status. Dr. Joshua Simmons, an...

Ted Cruz and Colin Allred wage another big US Senate fight in Texas

Oct. 12, 2024 12:37 PM EDT

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Attack ads on every TV break. Campaign money pouring in. And on a sunny Saturday, a crowd stretching out the door for a campaign rally at Tulip's, a popular Fort Worth nightclub — this time for Democratic U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, a former NFL linebacker trying to unseat...

Obama’s callout to Black men touches a nerve among Democrats. Is election-year misogyny at play?

Oct. 12, 2024 12:09 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama had frank words for Black men who may be considering sitting out the election. “Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other...

Data shows migrants aren’t taking jobs from Black or Hispanic people, despite what Trump says

Oct. 12, 2024 11:51 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump promises the biggest deportation event the U.S. has ever seen if he is elected — a promise he has predicated, in part, on the notion that immigrants in the U.S. legally and illegally are stealing what he calls “Black jobs” and...

Fight for House raging in districts ringing NYC where Trump struggled but other Republicans thrived

Oct. 12, 2024 08:26 AM EDT

NELSONVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Voters in a ring of congressional districts encircling New York City where Republican candidates often do well but Donald Trump struggled in 2020 could decide which party controls the U.S. House for the next two years. Eleven districts within a 90-mile...

The Latest: Hurricanes have jumbled campaign schedules for Harris and Trump

Oct. 11, 2024 21:50 PM EDT

Back-to-back hurricanes have jumbled the presidential campaign schedules of Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump. Trump and Harris have separately gone to Georgia to assess hurricane damage and pledge support. Harris also has visited North Carolina, requiring the...

Trump drives his anti-immigration message in Aurora, Colorado

Oct. 11, 2024 21:41 PM EDT

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Donald Trump detoured from the battleground states Friday to visit a Colorado suburb that's been in the news over illegal immigration as he drives a message, often using false or misleading claims and dehumanizing language, that migrants are causing chaos in smaller American...

A man charged in the killing of a Georgia nursing student faces hearing as trial looms

Oct. 11, 2024 20:44 PM EDT

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — The man accused of killing a nursing student whose body was found on the University of Georgia campus appeared in court Friday ahead of his scheduled trial next month, as lawyers sparred over whether police acted properly during their investigation. Jose Ibarra...