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Post by Webster on Jun 17, 2024 18:40:07 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Biden campaign announces $50m ad push to pummel Trump over felony conviction ahead of first debateIn 10 days, Donald Trump and Joe Biden will hold the first of two scheduled debates at CNN studios in Atlanta. Ahead of their 27 June encounter, the president’s re-election campaign announced it will be spending $50m on television advertisements to remind voters that the former president is now a convicted felon. “Trump approaches the first debate as a convicted felon who continues to prove that he will do anything and harm anyone if it means more power and vengeance for Donald Trump. That’s why he was convicted, that’s why he encouraged a violent mob to storm the Capitol on January 6, and it’s why his entire campaign is an exercise in revenge and retribution; because that man is blind to the people a president should be serving and will do absolutely anything for his own personal gain and for his own power,” said Michael Tyler, the Biden-Harris campaign’s communications director.
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Post by Webster on Jun 17, 2024 18:47:07 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Yesterday was Father’s Day, which Donald Trump seized on as yet another opportunity to argue that the criminal cases against him are politically motivated. “HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE RADICAL LEFT DEGENERATES THAT ARE RAPIDLY BRINGING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTO THIRD WORLD NATION STATUS WITH THEIR MANY ATTEMPTS AT TRYING TO INFLUENCE OUR SACRED COURT SYSTEM INTO BREAKING TO THEIR VERY SICK AND DANGEROUS WILL,” the former president wrote on Truth Social.
Donald Trump was convicted of 34 business fraud charges in New York City, and he faces three other criminal indictments elsewhere. Fortunately for him, those cases are all either bogged down in pre-trial motions and appeals, or on pause indefinitely, and unlikely to be resolved before the November election.
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Post by Webster on Jun 17, 2024 18:48:24 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Besides proclaiming his innocence of the criminal charges against him, Donald Trump has lately spent a lot of time teasing his selection of running mate. Here’s the Guardian’s Hugo Lowell and David Smith with a look at what we know about his search so far: Donald Trump is looking for a “fighter” as his running mate in this year’s presidential election and regards factors such as their gender or race as irrelevant, according to sources close to the former US president.
Conventional wisdom used to hold that Trump was likely to choose a woman or a person of color as his potential vice-president in an effort to broaden his appeal. But aides close to the presumptive Republican nominee currently say he will not take so-called identity politics into account.
Instead, Trump, who is still trying to make up his mind, wants a candidate who is media-savvy and will fight for him on adversarial TV networks. “In short,” a Trump ally said, “he wants someone who is everything Mike Pence wasn’t.”
The former vice-president was a valuable asset during the 2016 and 2020 campaigns – the Christian conservative who shored up support among Republicans suspicious of the thrice-married reality TV star. But Pence’s refusal to comply with Trump’s demand to overturn the 2020 election led to a falling out and made Pence a target of the January 6 rioters.
Trump is seeking a “Goldilocks” running mate this time: strong but loyal, in tune with Maga but not over-rehearsed, telegenic but not likely to outshine him. His choice will go up against Kamala Harris, the first Black woman to serve as vice-president.
Among those said to be on Donald Trump’s vice-presidential short list is Tim Scott, the South Carolina senator who briefly challenged him for the Republican presidential nomination this year. Four years ago, Scott voted to certify Joe Biden’s election victory, despite Trump’s campaign to encourage his Republican allies to block the Democrat’s ascension to the White House. Today, Scott told ABC News that he has no regrets about doing that. “I will stand by that decision and the next decision to certify the fact that Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States,” said the senator, who has become a prominent Trump surrogate since withdrawing from the race. That puts him at odds with Trump, who continues to insist, without evidence, that Biden’s election was illegitimate. We’ll see if that matters to Trump as he ponders who to choose as his running mate.
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