The US President called a reporter “disgusting” after being questioned about his decision to cancel a campaign rally appearance. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n
Harris campaigned for candidates across seven states, ending with a recent two-day visit to Georgia. It was, in parts, the kind of nostalgic tour seen from Barack Obama and Bill Clinton \u2014 two-term presidents whose last campaigns are behind them \u2014 and the barnstorming from potential future contenders such as Governors Gavin Newsom of California and Andy Beshear of Kentucky or US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.<\/p>\n
As the first Black woman elected to nationwide office, Harris urged fellow Black Americans to \u201chonour the ancestors\u201d with their votes but she also has become unapologetically \u201ctransactional\u201d by demanding more from politicians.<\/p>\n
Harris \u2013 a California senator before joining Joe Biden on the 2020 ticket \u2013 also pushed fellow Democrats to govern aggressively and she called for \u201cstructural work\u201d that she said was necessary to reinvigorate American democracy: US Supreme Court expansion, statehood for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and reconsideration of the Electoral College.<\/p>\n
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Trump has been using self-promotion to campaign ahead of US midterm elections. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n
\u201cI think she\u2019s hitting all the right notes,\u201d said Melinda Johnson, a retired nurse who attended a Fulton County Democratic Party fundraising gala that Harris headlined in Atlanta.<\/p>\n
Harris made it to early presidential primary states, including Nevada, New Hampshire and Michigan. She also went to Mississippi, not exactly a hotbed of presidential politics, on behalf of US Senate candidate Scott Colom.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe South is in play,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen Democrats invest in the South, we can win in the South.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Georgia, Harris delved into civil rights history as she accused the US Supreme Court of \u201cbackdoor racism\u201d with its decision to gut the Voting Rights Act and allow Republicans to redraw boundaries for congressional districts that now elect non-white lawmakers.<\/p>\n
\u201cRuthlessness\u201d is key, she said at the Democratic dinner in Atlanta. \u201cNot ruthlessness in the sense of cruelty \u2026 but in our willingness to use our power to deliver on our commitments.\u201d Democrats, she said, \u201ccan no longer let process stand in the way of progress\u201d.<\/p>\n
Throughout her stops, Harris nodded implicitly at her loss to Trump.<\/p>\n
Security is tight across key parts of the capital, Q+A’s Jack Tame reports. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know we\u2019ve been spending the last year and a half, so many of us, going through a range of emotions,\u201d she told students. \u201cAnger, depression, sadness, frustration, a sense of helplessness and powerlessness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Warning that Trump could try to meddle in the election, she echoed one of the president’s own mantras to encourage people to vote.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this case,\u201d she said at Atlanta\u2019s Elizabeth Baptist Church, \u201cwe just need to turn out in really large numbers that would be too big to rig\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two years after Kamala Harris lost the presidential election to Donald Trump, she still delights Democratic donors and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[65,42,43,40,38,41,39,66],"class_list":["post-647477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}