The 2024 presidential race has entered a critical phase, with Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump set to debate and the first ballots from key states arriving in mailboxes as early as this week.
As September approaches, both campaigns are focused on battleground states — with Kamala expanding her map of operations and Trump focusing on the Midwestern states that gave him the presidency in 2016 and ousted him in 2020.
Here are the main highlights:
Advertising:
- Trump released a new video on Tuesday (3), trying to associate Kamala with President Joe Biden’s record in the White House.
- Kamala’s presidential campaign released an ad on Tuesday focusing on inflation and the economy.
- Political ads in Philadelphia falsely claimed that the Philadelphia Eagles football team endorsed Kamala for president. The Eagles posted on X that the team is “aware of the false ads being circulated” and is working to remove them.
- A Republican-linked group has bought digital ads targeting Michigan voters about Harris’s ties to Israel, as she tries to balance her messaging on the issue with reaching out to Arab-American voters in the battleground state.
Preparation for the debate
- Harris and Trump are taking separate paths to prepare for the Sept. 10 debate, the first time the candidates will face off since Biden dropped out of the race. Harris will be largely off the campaign trail for much of this week ahead of the debate. Trump, meanwhile, is ramping up his appearances after skipping the campaign trail for the Labor Day holiday weekend.
- Kamala will travel to Pittsburgh on Thursday (5) to prepare for next week’s presidential debate, according to two sources familiar with the planning. She will remain in the city until the debate takes place next week, the sources said.
- Harris and Trump’s campaigns are still in discussions over debate rules, sources said. Harris’ campaign has pushed for microphones to remain on throughout the debate, while Trump’s campaign would prefer that microphones be turned off while the other candidate is speaking, as was the case in the 2019 debate. CNN in June.
Future Events:
- The Kamala-Walz campaign kicked off a bus tour focused on reproductive health care with an event in Boynton Beach, Florida, on Tuesday — near Trump’s Mar-A-Lago residence in Palm Beach. The tour will make at least 50 stops in key states to highlight the contrasts between Kamala’s and Trump’s positions on reproductive freedom.
- Harris is planning to give a speech in New Hampshire on Wednesday (4) to unveil the next phase of her economic plan, according to three aides. She is expected to propose a series of new benefits for entrepreneurs and small business owners, aiming to spur the creation of millions of new businesses.
What else you should know
- A federal judge has ruled that Trump and his campaign must stop using the song “Hold On, I’m Coming” by the late artist Isaac Hayes.
- Kamala’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee will shift more than $24 million to support lower-level races, according to an announcement Tuesday.
- Trump touted medical marijuana on Tuesday ahead of a handful of states that will vote on the issue this fall. Trump’s comments come after he posted on Truth Social over the weekend, saying he thought adults in Florida should not be arrested for carrying “personal amounts” of marijuana and that he believed Florida’s recreational marijuana initiative would pass.
- Trump plans to plead not guilty to the charges brought in special counsel Jack Smith’s new election subversion indictment against him in federal court.
This content was originally published in The race for the White House enters a critical phase; find out more on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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