More from The 2024 election
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Vice President Kamala Harris now has the support of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) for the top job. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden said he would issue an Oval Office address at 8 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, “on what lies ahead, and how I will finish the job for the American people.”
JD Vance’s former coworkers say the vice presidential candidate wasn’t very good at being a venture capitalist. One person said he was too consumed with his book tour around Hillbilly Elegy to show up to work.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) backed her fellow Californian Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential race. The announcement shores up support from a key member of the party, further easing Harris’ path to the Democratic nomination. In a statement on X about Harris, Pelosi said she has “full confidence that she will lead us to victory in November.”
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In her first X post since President Joe Biden’s endorsement to lead the party’s ticket, VP Harris said she would “do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party—and unite our nation—to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda.” Democrats are slated to choose their nominee at the national convention in August.
Apparently J. D. Vance didn’t read my PSA about Venmo. Among his contacts? The elites he claims to loathe, execs from Anthropic and AOL, lobbyists, Tucker Carlson, and the people pushing Project 2025.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says Biden is “experiencing mild symptoms,” according to CNBC. He will be leaving Las Vegas, where he was giving speeches, and return to Delaware to self-isolate.
Last night, the campaign sent an email about Musk’s planned donations in support of Trump. It urged supporters to prevent Musk from ruining democracy like he “already ruined Twitter.”
The former tech investor likes the FTC’s Lina Khan and wants to break up Google, citing its liberal bias.
The Wall Street Journal put a number on Musk’s reported donation to a political action committee backing Donald Trump’s campaign and on the formation of America PAC. He’s not on the most recent list of contributors, but both Winklevoss twins, current SpaceX / former Tesla board director Antonio Gracias, and early PayPal exec Ken Howery are.
While Trump was speaking onstage at an event, gunshots were heard, and Trump ducked to the ground before being eventually taken offstage by Secret Service agents.
According to The Associated Press, “A local prosecutor says the suspected gunman and at least one attendee are dead,” and in a post on Truth Social, Trump said, “I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.”
ABC News has live coverage, along with CNN, The New York Times, and Reuters.
A group that has previously claimed responsibility for breaching NATO, as well as satellite systems used by Halliburton and Shell, tells CyberScoop they’ve released 2GB of data from the conservative think tank behind “Project 2025” policy proposals for a second Trump administration.
The data includes the “full names, email addresses, passwords, and usernames” of people associating with Heritage, vio said, including users with U.S. government email addresses. “This itself can have an impact to heritage’s (sic) reputation,” they added, “and it’ll especially push away users in positions of power.”