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Vice President Kamala Harris will appear at a rally in Savannah Aug. 29 at the culmination of her bus trip through rural Georgia with running mate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

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ATLANTA — A new poll released Thursday showcased the tight race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in Georgia as the fight for the battleground state heats up. The poll, commissioned by the AARP, pegged Trump at 46% and Harris at 44% — within the margin of error of 4 percentage points. About 7% of voters back a third-party candidate and another 3% are ...

Democrats say Vice President Harris is putting the key swing states of Georgia, Arizona and Nevada back in play after the party had just about lost any hope of holding onto them with President Biden on the ticket. Former President Trump was pulling away from Biden in many of these states, according to numerous polls, [...]

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Vice President Kamala Harris said former President Trump would roll back hard-fought progressive reforms on health care and climate during a rally in Atlanta Tuesday — her first appearance in the swing state since President Biden dropped out of the 2024 race.Why it matters: The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee brought the state's top Democrats and Megan Thee Stallion, linked Trump to the Heritage Foundation-backed Project 2025 and called out his recent convictions and ongoing legal problems.The big picture: Atlanta is the epicenter of Georgia's Democratic and progressive movements and key to mobilizing Black women voters in what's expected to be a close race. As of Tuesday, 98 days remain until Election Day.Vibes: The diverse crowd — overwhelmingly young, women and a majority of people of color — danced, wobbled and did the wave to a soundtrack including Whitney Houston, Justin Timberlake and Kool and the Gang.Zoom in: Harris told the Georgia State University Convocation Center audience the campaign "is about two very different visions for our nation: one focused on the future, the other focused on the past."Viral moment: Harris again challenged Trump to a debate. "As the saying goes," she said. "If you got something to say, say it to my face."The intrigue: Harris, who has faced scrutiny over her work on the Biden administration addressing the migrant crisis, told the crowd she'd revive a border security bill that Trump allies in the Senate spiked earlier this year.Zoom out: Roughly 14,000 supporters signed up for tickets to the event, U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams (D-Atlanta) told the "Politically Georgia" podcast.The crowd was Harris' largest since launching her presidential bid, campaign officials told the AJC.State of play: Yvonne Marcus of Covington, an Atlanta suburb, told Axios Harris' entrance jolted the campaign back to life in Georgia, a state where Biden defeated Trump by 11,780 votes but now leaned in the GOP's favor.Who's who: Former Georgia Minority House Leader Stacey Abrams, Mayor Andre Dickens and U.S. Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock warmed up the crowd, along with Williams.Prominent supporters in attendance included former Mayors Keisha Lance Bottoms and Kasim Reed, Martin Luther King Jr. III and rapper Quavo.What they're saying: "Some days I feel for Republicans because they got to figure out how to run a criminal against a prosecutor," Warnock told the crowd. "Kamala Harris is getting ready to prosecute the case. The American people are the jury.""We're going to get the verdict right and we're going to send Kamala Harris back to the White House."The other side: Trump and Vance will hold a joint rally at the same location on Sat., Aug. 3.

Vice President Kamala Harris tells a cheering, boisterous, packed arena that the next few months would be a serious fight and acknowledges the Democrats were right now the underdogs — but assures the crowd they would win in November. “We...

Vice President Kamala Harris campaigns in Georgia as she seeks to keep the battleground state in play for Democrats.

Long before President Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the 2024 election, Vice President Kamala Harris had established herself as the administration's leading advocate of abortion rights.Now, Democrats are hoping that will help tip the scales in November's election."We'll stop Donald Trump's extreme abortion bans because we trust women to make decisions about their own bodies and not have the government tell them what to do!" Harris, her party's presumptive nominee, thundered in front of a crowd in Milwaukee this week.Two years after Trump-appointed judges helped overturn the national right to abortion, a passionate defender of reproductive freedoms at the top of the Democratic ticket could help mobilize more progressives in a tight race expected to hinge on turnout.From investigating anti-abortion activists accused of deceptive practices as California's attorney general, to grilling conservative Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing, to becoming the first VP to visit an abortion clinic this spring, Harris's bona fides on abortion rights are unquestionable.- Better messenger -That contrasts starkly with Biden, who has often been reticent on the issue, frequently citing his Catholic upbringing as a reason for his discomfort.During this year's State of the Union address, Biden deviated from pre-written remarks, opting for terms like "reproductive freedom" or "freedom to choose" instead of "abortion."As a brand-new senator in 1973, Biden felt the Supreme Court went "too far" in deciding Roe v Wade, the ruling that established the right to terminate a pregnancy, and as recently as 2006, he described the procedure as "always a tragedy" and "not a choice and right."Though his stance has since evolved, abortion rights activists have long sensed his reluctance to fully embrace the issue."What makes Harris so dangerous to Trump on abortion specifically is that, unlike Trump, she knows what she's talking about, and she can channel the anger of women voters," feminist author Jessica Valenti, who runs "Abortion, Every Day" on Substack, told AFP."I don't think people fully understand just how angry women are about Roe being overturned -- Harris has the ability to drive that home."Polling by YouGov released this week found Harris enjoying a 12-point advantage over Trump on abortion, significantly higher than the five-point lead Biden held over Trump in early July.While she hasn't yet been formally nominated, the abortion rights group Reproductive Freedom for All was quick to throw its weight behind her."There is nobody who has fought as hard for abortion rights and access, and we are proud to endorse her in this race," the nonprofit's CEO Mini Timmaraju said.- Honeymoon period? -On the other side of the race, Trump's running mate J.D. Vance makes the divide between the two parties even clearer.Where Trump speaks from both sides of his mouth -- boasting about his role in overturning Roe to conservatives while emphasizing state rights to court independents -- Vance has unequivocally stated his desire to make abortion "illegal nationally."Valenti called Vance the "personification of Republican anti-abortion extremism" who has supported a federal abortion ban, voted against protecting IVF, and compared abortion to "slavery.""Vance's selection is definitely going to make it harder for Donald Trump to act as a moderate on this issue," Marc Trussler, a political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania told AFP.Despite Harris being an effective messenger, the renewed focus on abortion and other issues partly arises from the simple fact that the political conservation had for months been dominated by questions about Biden's mental acuity, and those are now out of the way, added Trussler.And while abortion has been a vote winner for Democrats in recent races, it's uncertain if it will be the single biggest factor in the upcoming election."We are very much in the honeymoon period of Harris's candidacy," he said, where she is still seen as "everything to everybody" and hasn't yet had to take up hard positions on contentious issues dividing the party, from Gaza to criminal justice reform.

Chair Gary Peters, D-Mich., helped broker a new version of a bill to ban lawmaker stock trading, which advanced out of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks Wednesday to a joint meeting of Congress in the Capitol. In the back are Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md.

President Biden is facing worrying signs in Georgia — the state he flipped blue for the first time in decades back in 2020 — including low primary turnout and a lack of big down-ballot races to energize his base. Biden beat former President Trump by fewer than 12,000 votes in the Peach State last cycle, [...]

President Biden is facing worrying signs in Georgia — the state he flipped blue for the first time in decades back in 2020 — including low primary turnout and a lack of big down-ballot races to energize his base. Biden beat former President Trump by fewer than 12,000 votes in the Peach State last cycle, [...]

President Biden is facing worrying signs in Georgia — the state he flipped blue for the first time in decades back in 2020 — including low primary turnout and a lack of big down-ballot races to energize his base. Biden beat former President Trump by fewer than 12,000 votes in the Peach State last cycle, [...]

President Biden is facing worrying signs in Georgia — the state he flipped blue for the first time in decades back in 2020 — including low primary turnout and a lack of big down-ballot races to energize his base. Biden beat former President Trump by fewer than 12,000 votes in the Peach State last cycle, [...]

Several Democrats said they expect their caucus to move to table the impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas when they reach the Senate.

The 2024 presidential election campaign will pick up Saturday where the 2020 contest left off