The US vice-president, [Kamala Harris](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/kamala-harris), has said there are 'no excuses' for the Israeli government not to do more to increase the flow of humanitarian aid in Gaza. Harris, speaking on Sunday in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where state troopers beat US civil rights marchers nearly six decades ago, called for an immediate ceasefire and urged Hamas to accept a deal to release hostages in return for a six-week cessation of hostilities

Vice President Kamala Harris has already secured the endorsement of the vast majority of elected Democrats, just a day after President Biden made the stunning announcement that he was dropping his re-election bid. Few obvious challengers to her nomination remain, as the party anxiously looks to move past the divisions that have torn it apart for weeks. [Here’s the latest](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/22/us/biden-harris-trump-news-election). Harris today earned the endorsements of several key Democratic governors, including JB Pritzker of Illinois and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, who were seen as some of the last serious threats to her nomination. She also secured the backing of Nancy Pelosi, the former speaker of the House, who continues to wield considerable influence in the Democratic Party. A few other key Democrats, like Barack Obama, [have so far not endorsed Harris](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/21/us/politics/why-obama-hasnt-endorsed-harris.html). In her first 24 hours as a 2024 presidential candidate, Harris raised $81 million and took control of Biden’s enormous operation. Several [celebrities also announced their support](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/22/arts/music/kamala-harris-charli-xcx-taylor-swift-endorsements.html). This morning, the vice president made her first public appearance since Biden ended his campaign. She praised Biden’s record as “unmatched in modern history,” while making a concerted effort to reintroduce herself to the electorate on her own terms. “One day down,” she later posted on social media. “105 to go. Together, we’re going to win this.” Harris’s first big task will be choosing a running mate. [The list of possibilities](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/politics/kamala-harris-vp-pick.html) includes several governors and well-known Democrats; Eric Holder, a former attorney general, will lead the vetting process. **What’s next:** As our chief political analyst, Nate Cohn, wrote, [it won’t be easy for Harris to beat Donald Trump](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/22/upshot/kamala-harris-polls-trump.html), in part because Biden’s age was not the only thing that voters said they were dissatisfied with. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and [log into](https://myaccount.nytimes.com/auth/login?response_type=cookie&client_id=vi&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F07%2F22%2Fbriefing%2Fdemocrats-kamala-harris-secret-service-director.html&asset=opttrunc) your Times account, or [subscribe](https://www.nytimes.com/subscription?campaignId=89WYR&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F07%2F22%2Fbriefing%2Fdemocrats-kamala-harris-secret-service-director.html) for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? [Log in](https://myaccount.nytimes.com/auth/login?response_type=cookie&client_id=vi&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F07%2F22%2Fbriefing%2Fdemocrats-kamala-harris-secret-service-director.html&asset=opttrunc). Want all of The Times? [Subscribe](https://www.nytimes.com/subscription?campaignId=89WYR&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F07%2F22%2Fbriefing%2Fdemocrats-kamala-harris-secret-service-director.html).

马斯克的 X 被怀疑限制用户关注 Kamala Harris 的竞选账号 ------------------------------------ [](/search?tid=158) [Wilson](/~Wilson) (42865)发表于 2024年07月23日 12时46分 星期二 [新浪微博分享](//service.weibo.com/share/share.php?url=//www.solidot.org/story?sid=78771&appkey=1370085986&title=%E9%A9%AC%E6%96%AF%E5%85%8B%E7%9A%84%20X%20%E8%A2%AB%E6%80%80%E7%96%91%E9%99%90%E5%88%B6%E7%94%A8%E6%88%B7%E5%85%B3%E6%B3%A8%20Kamala%20Harris%20%E7%9A%84%E7%AB%9E%E9%80%89%E8%B4%A6%E5%8F%B7) [](javascript:void(0);) **来自机器岛** 美国总统拜登已经宣布退出竞选下一任总统，他提名以及支持其副手贺锦丽（Kamala Harris）成为民主党的总统候选人。在社交平台 X（前 Twitter）上，用户发现被限制关注贺锦丽的竞选账号@KamalaHQ。X 的所有者马斯克（Elon Musk）此前已经公开宣布支持共和党的候选人特朗普，并且声称会每个月捐赠 4500 万美元。当 X 用户尝试关注 @KamalaHQ 时会看到账号受限的信息，他们无法关注该账号。如果是有意的行为，那么马斯克此举被指是对大选的直接干预。贺锦丽的竞选活动在 24 小时内吸引了创纪录的 8100 万美元捐款 ... https://newrepublic.com/post/184097/trump-elon-musk-causing-kamala-harris-problems http://ftchinese.com/interactive/164366?exclusive

In Wisconsin, Vice President Kamala Harris kicked off the first rally of her presidential campaign, since becoming the frontrunner in the race to become the Democratic nominee.

 Vice President Kamala Harris [exists in the context](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/21/coconut-tree-meme-kamala-harris/74466581007/) of all in which she lives and what came before her — at least when it comes to shoring up support from the business world. Harris is now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, just days after President Joe Biden announced that he would [drop out of the 2024 election](https://qz.com/biden-elon-musk-mark-cuban-business-leaders-politics-1851600906) and endorsed Harris to lead the ticket. Within 24 hours, [the Harris campaign raised $81 million](https://qz.com/democrats-fundraise-kamala-harris-biden-drops-out-trump-1851601484), in what her team touted as the [largest single-day haul](https://twitter.com/ammarmufasa/status/1815471026588856639?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1815471026588856639%7Ctwgr%5E8007c19dac2970732741a03c4cd3411552d25f3d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fkinja.com%2Fembed%2Finset%2Fiframe%3Fautosize%3D1id%3Dtwitter-1815471026588856639) in campaign history. While many of those contributions came from grassroots donors, according to her team, Wall Street Democrats also [resumed their regularly scheduled giving](https://www.semafor.com/article/07/21/2024/wall-street-money-machine-whirs-back-to-life-for-kamala-harris) — after keeping their wallets firmly shut to pressure Biden to make way for a younger, ostensibly more competitive candidate. Among the wealthy donors were Centerview’s Blair Effron, Blackstone’s Jonathan Gray, Lazard’s Peter Orszag and Ray McGuire, Paul Weiss’ Brad Karp, Evercore’s Roger Altman, and Avenue Capital CEO Marc Lasry, Semafor reported. As members of the business world open their wallets to Harris, here is what some of the top business leaders are saying (or singing) about the new name set to top the Democratic ballot.

As Vice President Kamala Harris ramps up her campaign for president, Republicans are trying out new — and old — attacks focused on her race and gender, including calling her a "DEI candidate."

The telephone line was a little fuzzy, and the voice on the end gravelly from several days of Covid isolation. Yet the poignancy of the message, and the moment itself, could not have been clearer: “I’m watching you, kid. I love you,” the speaker said. [Joe Biden’s warmhearted call](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/jul/22/joe-biden-calls-kamala-harris-event-video) to his vice-president, Kamala Harris, at the Democratic party’s campaign headquarters in Delaware on Monday marked a generational shift in US politics, a symbolic passing of the torch from parent to progeny. In terms of the 2024 presidential election race it was also a defining moment. Harris, a former prosecutor, state attorney general, California senator, and for three and a half years the 81-year-old Biden’s White House understudy, was appearing for the first time as her party’s preferred new candidate, less than 24 hours after her boss’s [stunning announcement](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/21/read-joe-biden-letter) that he would not seek a second term of office sent a seismic shock across the country. There followed what by any metric could be called a whirlwind week on the campaign trail in an extraordinary month in American history already notable for the [attempted assassination](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donald-trump-pennsylvania-rally-shooting) of former president Donald Trump, the Republican party’s candidate for the 5 November election. By Wednesday, Harris was addressing an historically Black sorority in Indianapolis as the Democratic presumptive nominee, having secured the support of enough delegates at the party’s national convention in Chicago next month to clinch the nomination. It was the same day as Biden gave an emotional, nationally televised [address from the White House](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/24/biden-speech-trump) explaining his decision to step aside “in defense of democracy”. “I revere this office, but I love my country more,” he said, urging the country to stand behind Harris. One by one, other heavyweight Democratic figures had stepped up to endorse her, culminating on Friday with the outsized [backing of Barack Obama](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/26/obama-endorses-kamala-harris). The former speaker Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, all 23 of the party’s state governors, and elected officials from the most junior Congress members to Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, respectively the House minority leader and Senate majority leader, also gave their approval. “We are not playing around,” Harris told supporters at the sorority gathering in Indiana on Wednesday. [](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/27/kamala-harris-week-us-election#img-2) Kamala Harris and the second gentleman, Douglas Emhoff, kiss onstage at Harris’s presidential campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday. Photograph: Erin Schaff/AFP/Getty Images “There is so much at stake in this moment. Our nation, as it always has, is counting on you to energize, to organize, and to mobilize; to register folks to vote, to get them to the polls; and to continue to fight for the future our nation and her people deserve. “We know when we organize, mountains move. When we mobilize, nations change. And when we vote, we make history.” It was a rousing speech from a politician who only three days previously was still in a supporting role, despite weeks of swirling speculation about Biden’s future following his [disastrous debate performance](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/28/biden-trump-first-presidential-debate) against Trump in June. But things moved swiftly once the president’s decision to step aside was announced on Sunday afternoon. The Biden campaign apparatus, and election war chest of almost $100m (£77.6m), became the property of a new entity called Harris for President (Republicans have vowed to challenge the funds transfer in court). And staff hastily drew up a new travel schedule for the vice-president, which saw her crisscrossing the country, including the Wilmington, Delaware, appearance on Monday, at which she acknowledged the “rollercoaster” of the previous 24 hours. On Tuesday, she was rallying in [Milwaukee, Wisconsin](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/23/kamala-harris-election-campaign-rally-wisconsin), with the campaign message: “We’re not going back” to the “chaos” of the Trump years. [](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/27/kamala-harris-week-us-election#img-3) Kamala Harris speaks to supporters during a campaign rally in West Allis, Wisconsin, on Tuesday. Photograph: Jim Vondruska/Getty Images On Wednesday, to Black women in [Indianapolis, Indiana](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/24/kamala-harris-abortion), she said: “We face a choice between two different visions for our nation: one focused on the future, the other focused on the past.” On Thursday, she told teachers in [Houston, Texas](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/25/kamala-harris-speech-teachers-union): “In our vision, we see a place where every person has the opportunity not just to get by, but to get ahead.” Also on Thursday came her first meeting with a foreign leader – Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu – in her own right as a presidential candidate, not in a joint summit as vice-president. In a White House statement issued in her name, not Biden’s, Harris condemned violence at Wednesday’s anti-Netanyahu protest in Washington DC and the burning of the US flag. In forceful public remarks following the meeting , she also went further than Biden ever had to criticize civilian suffering in Gaza. “[I will not be silent](https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/26/kamala-harris-benjamin-netanyahu-us-visit-palestine-israel-gaza-war),” she said. “Israel has a right to defend itself … \[but\] we cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering.” Activities behind the scenes, meanwhile, progressed every bit as quickly as Harris’s front-of-house appearances. Fundraising operations cranked up, pulling in an [all-time record $81m](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/jul/22/biden-drops-out-endorses-kamala-harris-election-updates?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with:block-669eb4ab8f08adbbe4b1d05b#block-669eb4ab8f08adbbe4b1d05b) for any 24-hour period in presidential campaign history, a windfall for the newly branded Harris Victory Fund that surpassed $130m, mostly from small or first-time donors, by Thursday night. Seizing on enthusiasm from younger voters that polling found was conspicuously absent for Biden, or the 78-year-old Trump, Harris’s team also released to social media [its first campaign video](https://x.com/KamalaHarris/status/1816436341703397765). Beyoncé’s 2016 hit Freedom, the unofficial anthem of Harris for President, provided the soundtrack for a message countering what it says was Trump’s “chaos, fear and hate” vision for the country. [](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/27/kamala-harris-week-us-election#img-4) People raise signs in support of Kamala Harris as she speaks at a campaign event at West Allis high school in West Allis, Wisconsin, on Tuesday. Photograph: Kevin Mohatt/Reuters [Harris has enormous appeal with generation Z](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/24/kamala-harris-gen-z-voters), noted by backing from numerous youth organizations, including [March for Our Lives](https://x.com/AMarch4OurLives/status/1816136456429265288), the student activist group formed in the aftermath of the 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. There could have been no better illustration than the [declaration on X/Twitter](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/23/kamala-harris-charli-xcx-brat) by the British singer Charli xcx that “[kamala IS brat](https://x.com/charli_xcx/status/1815182384066707861)”. Viewed by more than 53 million people, the simple message encapsulating [a pop culture lifestyle](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/23/kamala-harris-charli-xcx-brat) delighted the younger generation and confounded their elders in equal measure. “You just got to go listen to that Charli xcx album and then you’ll understand it,” Florida’s Maxwell Frost, the first gen Z member of Congress, told CNN. “Whether it’s [coconut trees](https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/jul/22/kamala-harris-coconut-tree-meme) or talking about brat or whatever, the message is getting across to tens of millions of young people across the entire country, and across the entire world, and that’s really inspiring.” Wrongfooted by Biden’s abrupt exit, and alarmed by polls showing Harris [gaining ground](https://x.com/nytimes/status/1816546049437192564) or even [surpassing Trump](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-leads-trump-44-42-us-presidential-race-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-07-23/) in popularity, the former president’s campaign [scrambled to find attack lines](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/22/trump-campaign-kamala-harris) for their new opponent. At a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Wednesday, Trump tested insults including calling Harris a “radical left lunatic” and “the most incompetent and far-left vice-president in American history”. Republican party acolytes have also been busy with [racist attacks](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/gop-lawmakers-cant-help-making-racist-remarks-about-harris.html), accusing Harris, who has Black and Asian heritage, of being “[a DEI \[diversity, equity and inclusion\] hire](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-rep-tim-burchett-calls-kamala-harris-dei-president-rcna163096)” or “unqualified” for the presidency. [](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/27/kamala-harris-week-us-election#img-5) Kamala Harris, walking left, waves as she arrives to speak during the American Federation of Teachers’ 88th national convention in Houston on Thursday. Photograph: Tony Gutierrez/AP Experts warn to expect an [all-out attack of misogyny and racism](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/25/kamala-harris-trump-republicans-attacks) on Harris as the election approaches. This week, however, while Harris’s fledgling campaign took its first steps, it was sharpening its own knives. Framing the upcoming campaign as “the [prosecutor versus the felon](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/24/prosecutor-kamala-harris-takes-on-felon-donald-trump)”, it took swipes at Trump’s 34 felony convictions on fraud charges, and in a searing missive on Thursday mocked the former president’s rambling anti-Harris diatribe on a rightwing news channel by issuing a “statement on a 78-year-old criminal’s Fox News appearance”. The gloves are off. Now, with the first full, buoyant week of Harris’s presidential challenge about to be in the history books, the question is whether the initial enthusiasm and momentum can be maintained through the gruelling 101 days left until the election. Harris and her team are confident it can. Contradicting the statement by the liberal British politician Joseph Chamberlain more than a century ago that “in politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight”, they have their sights set not only on November’s election, but the eight years beyond it.

In the village in southern India where some of her ancestors lived, Kamala Harris’ race for the White House has led to celebrations — and some reflections.

Gamblers have wagered hundreds of millions of dollars on who Vice President Kamala Harris will choose as her running mate.

Vice President Kamala Harris needs to choose a running mate by August 7th. NPR's Scott Detrow talks with journalists Jonathan Tamari, Ronald Hansen and Colin Campbell about Harris' options.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Kamala Harris' childhood friend, Carole Porter, about how their upbringing in a redlined Bay Area neighborhood shaped Harris.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with journalist Gil Duran, who was communications director for Vice President Kamala Harris when she was California’s state attorney general.

Campaigns don’t often reach out to male voters as men. At least on the Democratic side, that changed when Kamala Harris became the party’s likely nominee.

Before any public office, Kamala Harris went to Washington, D.C., to study at Howard University. Jill Louis, class of '87, joined Alpha Kappa Alpha at the same time as Harris.

While campaigning this past week, Senator JD Vance of Ohio called Vice President Kamala Harris a “phony” who “grew up in Canada,” as former President Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, continued raising false and incendiary questions about the [presumed Democratic nominee’s](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/02/us/politics/kamala-harris-democrats-nominee-official.html?smid=url-share) racial identity. “Kamala Harris grew up in Canada,” Mr. Vance said during a [campaign stop in Arizona](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/31/us/harris-trump-election/vance-harris-canada?smid=url-share) on Wednesday. “They don’t talk like that in Vancouver or Quebec or wherever she came from.” Ms. Harris did, indeed, move to Montreal as a 12-year-old with her sister in 1976, when their mother, [Shyamala Gopalan](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/us/kamala-harris-parents.html), was recruited to conduct breast-cancer research at Jewish General Hospital and to teach at McGill University’s medical school. Over the next five years, Kamala Harris continued to shuttle between Quebec’s largest city and California to stay with her father, [Donald J. Harris,](https://www.nytimes.com/article/kamala-harris-dad-don-harris.html) an economist at Stanford, and a family friend during holidays and vacations. In her memoir, Ms. Harris characterizes that period of her life as a time of longing for California. (Her campaign declined to comment on Ms. Harris’s time in Canada.) “I’d gotten used to most of it,” she wrote of her move to a predominantly French-speaking city with harsh winters that was far away from most of her family. “What I hadn’t got used to was the feeling of being homesick for my country. I felt this constant sense of yearning to be back home.” Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and [log into](https://myaccount.nytimes.com/auth/login?response_type=cookie&client_id=vi&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F08%2F03%2Fworld%2Fcanada%2Fkamala-harris-montreal.html&asset=opttrunc) your Times account, or [subscribe](https://www.nytimes.com/subscription?campaignId=89WYR&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F08%2F03%2Fworld%2Fcanada%2Fkamala-harris-montreal.html) for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? [Log in](https://myaccount.nytimes.com/auth/login?response_type=cookie&client_id=vi&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F08%2F03%2Fworld%2Fcanada%2Fkamala-harris-montreal.html&asset=opttrunc). Want all of The Times? [Subscribe](https://www.nytimes.com/subscription?campaignId=89WYR&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F08%2F03%2Fworld%2Fcanada%2Fkamala-harris-montreal.html).

The United Auto Workers’ decision to endorse [Kamala Harris](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/kamala-harris)’s presidential run has apparently gotten under the skin of Donald Trump, who has responded by insulting the union’s leader as “a stupid person”. In a new interview with Fox News on Sunday, as reported by [the Hill](https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1820120284294168950), the former president said of union chief Shawn Fain: “Look, the United Auto Workers I know very well – they vote for me. They have a stupid person leading them, but they vote for me. They’re going to love Donald Trump more than ever before.” Trump’s remarks allude to the harsh 100% tariff he has [proposed](https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2024/03/28/what-trumps-100-auto-tariff-proposal-would-mean-for-the-us-economy/) on imported cars. Economists have [warned](https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/what-trumps-100-percent-auto-tariff-would-mean-us-economy) that such a tariff would raise product costs for Americans, but Trump has insisted on it, saying it reflects how he would prioritize the auto industry if returned to White House in November’s election. “We’re going to take in a fortune but we’re going to tariff those jobs,” Trump said. “We’re bringing back the automobile industry and we’re going to do that with tariffs,” Trump said. Fain and the UAW – one of the US’s largest and most diverse labor unions – nonetheless gave their coveted endorsement to the vice-president, [saying](https://uaw.org/uaw-endorses-kamala-harris-for-president-ahead-of-mass-rally-in-detroit/) in a statement that Harris had a “proven track record of delivering for the working class”. Trump’s comments about Fain and the UAW come just days after Fain announced that the union – one of the country’s largest and most diverse – is [endorsing Harris for president](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/31/united-auto-workers-union-endorses-kamala-harris). [ United Auto Workers union endorses Kamala Harris for president ](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/31/united-auto-workers-union-endorses-kamala-harris) “We can put a billionaire back in office who stands against everything our union stands for, or we can elect [Kamala Harris](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/kamala-harris) who will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with us in our war on corporate greed,” said the statement announcing the UAW’s endorsement for November’s White House election. Trump and the UAW have frequently traded barbs, with Trump [calling](https://www.axios.com/2024/07/19/trump-uaw-president-shawn-fain-fire) for Fain to be “fired immediately” during his speech at the Republican national convention in July. In response, the UAW [called](https://x.com/UAW/status/1814144049122550198) Trump a “scab” – a derogatory term for someone who abandons or refuses to join a labor union – as well as a corporate businessman whose main interest is protecting the wealthy. When the UAW endorsed Joe Biden before the president [quit his re-election campaign](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/21/joe-biden-withdraw-running-president) in July, Trump took to his Truth Social platform to attack Fain, [calling](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/29/trump-uaw-president-dope-biden-00138310) him a “dope” and urging autoworkers to defy the union’s endorsement by voting for him instead. [skip past newsletter promotion](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/04/trump-united-auto-workers-union-shawn-fain-kamala-harris#EmailSignup-skip-link-12) Sign up to The Stakes — US Election Edition The Guardian guides you through the chaos of a hugely consequential presidential election **Privacy Notice:** Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our [Privacy Policy](https://www.theguardian.com/help/privacy-policy). We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google [Privacy Policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy) and [Terms of Service](https://policies.google.com/terms) apply. after newsletter promotion On Sunday, Fain appeared on CBS News’s Face the Nation and elaborated on his union’s decision to endorse Harris. “When you put Kamala Harris and Donald Trump side-by-side, there’s a very telling difference in who stands with working-class people and who left working-class people behind,” Fain [said](https://x.com/FaceTheNation/status/1820120398177972302). He continued: “Trump’s been all talk for working-class people. “One of the biggest issues facing this country is inflation. It’s not policy-driven. It’s driven by corporate greed and consumer price gouging and that’s what [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) stands for. The rich get richer and the working class gets left behind.”

Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature  Martin Pengelly **Kamala Harris** is set to announce her choice of a running mate today, before they appear together at an evening rally in Philadelphia to kick off a five-day tour of the swing states that are crucial to winning the presidential election. The culmination of what has been a lightning-fast vetting process – it is little more than two weeks since **Joe Biden**, the 81-year-old president, made the historic decision to stand aside and Harris became the de facto nominee – has seen a round of interviews both in person and online. On Monday, Reuters reported that the search had narrowed to two governors: **Josh Shapiro** of Pennsylvania and **Tim Walz** of Minnesota. Harris, 59, interviewed both men, as well as the Arizona senator **Mark Kelly**, over the weekend at the Naval Observatory, the Washington DC residence of the vice-president. Three other men were reported to be on her shortlist: the Illinois governor, **JB Pritzker**; the Kentucky governor, **Andy Beshear**; and **Pete Buttigieg**, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who is now the US secretary of transportation. With polling showing her gaining on **Donald Trump** – CBS gave the Democrat a one-point edge nationally and put the candidates level in battleground states – and a rocky rollout for Trump’s own vice-presidential pick, **JD Vance**, speculation has been rife as to whom Harris will select. [Read the full story here](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/05/kamala-harris-vp-pick-announcement).  Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally, July 30, in Atlanta. Photograph: John Bazemore/AP [Share](mailto:?subject=US%20election%20live%20updates:%20Kamala%20Harris%20poised%20to%20announce%20her%20vice-presidential%20running%20mate&body=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/aug/06/kamala-harris-vp-running-mate-election-update?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-66b1da358f08df34fd789e08#block-66b1da358f08df34fd789e08) Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Here’s the statement from the DNC chair, **Jaime Harrison,** and the DNCC chair, **Minyon Moore**. > With the support of 99% of all participating delegates in the virtual roll call, Vice President Harris has historic momentum at her back as we embark on the final steps in officially certifying her as our Party’s nominee. > > We thank the thousands of delegates from all across the country who took seriously their responsibility throughout this process to make their voices – and the voices of their communities – heard. > > As we prepare to certify the nomination alongside Convention Secretary Rae, we know that we are all a part of an important piece of history. Soon, it will be time to come together in Chicago, where we will celebrate together and make clear to the American people that the Democratic Party is the party of freedom, of democracy, of rights, and of the people. [Share](mailto:?subject=US%20election%20live%20updates:%20Kamala%20Harris%20poised%20to%20announce%20her%20vice-presidential%20running%20mate&body=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/aug/06/kamala-harris-vp-running-mate-election-update?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-66b20caa8f089199ff7f28eb#block-66b20caa8f089199ff7f28eb) Democratic delegates selected **Kamala Harris**, the vice-president, to be the party’s presidential nominee, according to final vote results released late Monday by the Democratic National Committee, the Associated Press reported. Harris received nearly 4,600 votes in the five-day online voting process, which the DNC said was 99% of participating delegates. [](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/aug/06/kamala-harris-vp-running-mate-election-update#img-2) Kamala Harris speaks during an event on 25 July 2024, in Houston. Photograph: Tony Gutierrez/AP [Share](mailto:?subject=US%20election%20live%20updates:%20Kamala%20Harris%20poised%20to%20announce%20her%20vice-presidential%20running%20mate&body=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/aug/06/kamala-harris-vp-running-mate-election-update?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-66b2058a8f089e412f0f2d82#block-66b2058a8f089e412f0f2d82)  Rachel Leingang Kelly’s resume stands out in the sea of lawyers that dominate Washington. The Arizona senator was a US navy pilot who served multiple deployments. He [was on Celebrity Jeopardy](https://www.space.com/29397-astronaut-mark-kelly-celebrity-jeopardy.html). He is a steadfast partner to his wife, former US representative Gabrielle Giffords, who survived an assassination attempt at a public event in Tucson in 2011 and has worked alongside Kelly to limit guns since. Oh, and he’s been to space multiple times because he was an astronaut, along with his twin brother, Scott. He even wrote a children’s book about it, called [Mousetronaut](https://www.amazon.com/Mousetronaut-Based-Partially-Story-Wiseman/dp/1442458240). “An astronaut! Who doesn’t like astronauts, except for Flat Earthers, right? But they’re very small in quantity,” [Arizona](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/arizona) pollster Mike Noble said. “So, outside of Flat Earthers, I’m trying to think of what’s more American than astronauts. Astronaut takes everybody. I’ve been to space, what have you done?” [Read the full story here.](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/01/mark-kelly-potential-kamala-harris-vp-pick) [](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/aug/06/kamala-harris-vp-running-mate-election-update#img-3) U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on July 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. Photograph: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images [Share](mailto:?subject=US%20election%20live%20updates:%20Kamala%20Harris%20poised%20to%20announce%20her%20vice-presidential%20running%20mate&body=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/aug/06/kamala-harris-vp-running-mate-election-update?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-66b1fb208f08d33eba9f5757#block-66b1fb208f08d33eba9f5757) Here’s a bit of insight into **Tim Walz**’s communication style. In 2019, he published this video with his daughter explaining a new law. — Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) [August 1, 2019](https://twitter.com/GovTimWalz/status/1156926207755079682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [Share](mailto:?subject=US%20election%20live%20updates:%20Kamala%20Harris%20poised%20to%20announce%20her%20vice-presidential%20running%20mate&body=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/aug/06/kamala-harris-vp-running-mate-election-update?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-66b1f4838f081ef7ed0ea460#block-66b1f4838f081ef7ed0ea460)  Rachel Leingang Minnesota’s governor captured the internet’s attention and swayed Democrats’ messaging by succinctly summing up how he views Republicans: they’re weird. Clips of Walz have spread widely, cementing him as a national voice for **Kamala Harris**’s campaign – and a potential pick to run alongside her as vice-president. Walz, 60, was born and raised in small-town Nebraska. He became a teacher, first in China, then in Nebraska and finally in Mankato, Minnesota, where he taught geography and coached the high school football team. He also served in the army national guard for 24 years, enlisting at age 17, a role that took him around the country and on a deployment to Europe. Walz first ran for office in 2006 in a Republican-leaning congressional district, knocking off the incumbent in an upset. He kept the district until 2016, dispatching Republicans over and over. In 2018, he ran for governor and won, then defended the seat successfully in 2022. He’s now the chair of the Democratic Governors Association, a perch that has given him a national profile. [Read the full story](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/03/who-is-tim-walz-potential-vp-kamala-harris). [](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/aug/06/kamala-harris-vp-running-mate-election-update#img-4) Gov. Tim Walz takes questions on speculation that he is under consideration as vice presidential running mate for Kamala Harris on July 23, 2024, in New Hope, Minnesota. Photograph: Glen Stubbe Star Tribune/TNS/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock [Share](mailto:?subject=US%20election%20live%20updates:%20Kamala%20Harris%20poised%20to%20announce%20her%20vice-presidential%20running%20mate&body=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/aug/06/kamala-harris-vp-running-mate-election-update?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-66b1e5028f08df34fd789e57#block-66b1e5028f08df34fd789e57) As speculation mounted about his political future, **Josh Shapiro** was spotted yesterday playing basketball with one of his children. > PA Gov. Josh Shapiro is home in Montgomery County tonight, playing basketball w/his son, as we wait to hear if he is Kamala Harris’ running mate. > > Shapiro is one of the finalists said to be under consideration. Harris’ first stop w/her pick will be in Philadelphia tomorrow. [@6abc](https://twitter.com/6abc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/8jAZ3cmVr0](https://t.co/8jAZ3cmVr0) > > — Caroline Goggin (@CarolineGoggin) [August 5, 2024](https://twitter.com/CarolineGoggin/status/1820605612318703802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [Share](mailto:?subject=US%20election%20live%20updates:%20Kamala%20Harris%20poised%20to%20announce%20her%20vice-presidential%20running%20mate&body=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/aug/06/kamala-harris-vp-running-mate-election-update?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-66b1f3ec8f0863a077b6ea59#block-66b1f3ec8f0863a077b6ea59) Here are some recent images of **Josh Shapiro**, the governor of Pennsylvania who is a leading contender to be named **Kamala Harris**’s running mate. [](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/aug/06/kamala-harris-vp-running-mate-election-update#img-5) Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania speaks during rally in support of Harris for president along with Gretchen Whitmer, governor of Michigan, at Wissahickon High School in Ambler, PA, 29 July. Photograph: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/REX/Shutterstock [](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/aug/06/kamala-harris-vp-running-mate-election-update#img-6) Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro visits Philadelphia Youth Basketball's new Alan Horwitz "Sixth Man" Center in Philadelphia, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP [](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/aug/06/kamala-harris-vp-running-mate-election-update#img-7) Governor Josh Shapiro Speaks at Pride Festival of Central PA in Harrisburg, US, 27 July. Photograph: Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock [Share](mailto:?subject=US%20election%20live%20updates:%20Kamala%20Harris%20poised%20to%20announce%20her%20vice-presidential%20running%20mate&body=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/aug/06/kamala-harris-vp-running-mate-election-update?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-66b1f13c8f08aadc24f5d2e8#block-66b1f13c8f08aadc24f5d2e8)  Martin Pengelly **Who is Josh Shapiro?** Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, is a leading contender to be named **Kamala Harris**’s running mate. A congressional aide turned state representative and state attorney general, the 51-year-old father of four was elected governor in 2022. Close to two years later, he maintains historically high approval ratings, including notable support from Republicans, his numbers outstripping such ratings both for Harris and for the GOP ticket of **Donald Trump** and **JD Vance**. In 2020, the declaration of victory in [Pennsylvania](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/pennsylvania) confirmed Joe Biden’s election win over Trump. In 2024, the state is again one of the most important presidential battlegrounds. On Tuesday, Harris will stage her first event with her vice-presidential pick in Philadelphia, the state’s biggest city: a move that did little to quell speculation that Shapiro will be that pick. [Read the full profile](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/02/josh-shapiro-kamala-harris). [](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/aug/06/kamala-harris-vp-running-mate-election-update#img-8) U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro visit the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 13. Photograph: Kevin Mohatt/Reuters [Share](mailto:?subject=US%20election%20live%20updates:%20Kamala%20Harris%20poised%20to%20announce%20her%20vice-presidential%20running%20mate&body=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/aug/06/kamala-harris-vp-running-mate-election-update?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-66b1e1f78f084f763d10d6e7#block-66b1e1f78f084f763d10d6e7)  Martin Pengelly **Kamala Harris** is set to announce her choice of a running mate today, before they appear together at an evening rally in Philadelphia to kick off a five-day tour of the swing states that are crucial to winning the presidential election. The culmination of what has been a lightning-fast vetting process – it is little more than two weeks since **Joe Biden**, the 81-year-old president, made the historic decision to stand aside and Harris became the de facto nominee – has seen a round of interviews both in person and online. On Monday, Reuters reported that the search had narrowed to two governors: **Josh Shapiro** of Pennsylvania and **Tim Walz** of Minnesota. Harris, 59, interviewed both men, as well as the Arizona senator **Mark Kelly**, over the weekend at the Naval Observatory, the Washington DC residence of the vice-president. Three other men were reported to be on her shortlist: the Illinois governor, **JB Pritzker**; the Kentucky governor, **Andy Beshear**; and **Pete Buttigieg**, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who is now the US secretary of transportation. With polling showing her gaining on **Donald Trump** – CBS gave the Democrat a one-point edge nationally and put the candidates level in battleground states – and a rocky rollout for Trump’s own vice-presidential pick, **JD Vance**, speculation has been rife as to whom Harris will select. [Read the full story here](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/05/kamala-harris-vp-pick-announcement). [](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/aug/06/kamala-harris-vp-running-mate-election-update#img-9) Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally, July 30, in Atlanta. Photograph: John Bazemore/AP [Share](mailto:?subject=US%20election%20live%20updates:%20Kamala%20Harris%20poised%20to%20announce%20her%20vice-presidential%20running%20mate&body=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/aug/06/kamala-harris-vp-running-mate-election-update?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-66b1da358f08df34fd789e08#block-66b1da358f08df34fd789e08)

Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign on Wednesday night said it would start selling Chappell Roan-inspired camouflage hats bearing her name and that of her newly-announced running mate, [Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz](https://qz.com/kamala-harris-vice-president-minnesota-veepstakes-1851613605). Within [30 minutes](https://www.gq.com/story/kamala-harris-tim-walz-viral-realtree-camo-hat), as both politicians were speaking at a rally in Philadelphia, the $40 hats that read “HARRIS WALZ” in obnoxiously bright orange went viral and sold out. [Teen Vogue reports](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/why-the-harris-walz-camo-hat-is-becoming-a-status-symbol-for-liberals) that the campaign had made just 3,000 hats before they announced the merchandise, which comes out to roughly $120,000 in revenue for the campaign. The hats are [now available for pre-order](https://store.kamalaharris.com/harris-walz-camo-hat/), with a release date of Oct. 14. or 22 days before Election Day. The Harris-Walz campaign confirmed to Teen Vogue that almost $1 million worth of hats have been sold, adding to its sizable war chest ahead of the Democratic National Convention later this month. The idea for the camo hat was sparked by a [video released by Harris](https://x.com/KamalaHarris/status/1820900959045685361) that showed her asking Walz to be her running mate. Walz was dressed casually and had his very own camo hat on his head, which social media goers instantly began [comparing](https://x.com/heyjaeee/status/1820837729728352633) to “Good Luck Babe” singer Chappell Roan’s “[Midwest Princess](https://chappellroan.redstarmerch.com/products/midwest-princess-hat-camo-copy)” line of hats. So, the Harris-Walz campaign decided to give them what they wanted. “For all the midwest princesses out there — you asked, we answered,” Hester Leyser, the director of strategic planning for mobilization for the Democratic National Committee, [wrote on X,](https://x.com/hesterleyser/status/1820969079257149782) formerly known as Twitter., with a link to the campaign’s storefront. Roan herself has [commented](https://x.com/ChappellRoan/status/1821000878637392304) on the hats, asking “is this real,” in a post on X. It’s one of the clearest examples yet of how the Harris campaign is [embracing social media and pop culture](https://abcnews.go.com/538/harris-ride-memes-white-house/story?id=112522095) to engage younger voters and drum up support. After singer Charlie XCX said that the vice president “IS brat” — a reference to her song and album of the same name — the campaign [embraced](https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/07/kamala-harris-brat-memes/679205/) the “Brat” aesthetic. And then there’s the [coconut](https://qz.com/kamala-harris-melinda-gates-reed-hastings-beyonce-2024-1851602205) memes, a series of never-ending references to a [May 2023 speech](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/05/10/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-at-swearing-in-ceremony-of-commissioners-for-the-white-house-initiative-on-advancing-educational-equity-excellence-and-economic-opportunity-for-hispanics/) Harris gave. “’I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?’” Harris said, quoting her mother. “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you,” she added. Kamala Harris’s campaign has reportedly made almost $1 million over Chappell Roan-inspired camo hats. Within 24 hours of Harris’s announcement that Walz would join her on the Democrat’s ticket heading into November, the camping raised [$36 million](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4816429-kamala-harris-campaign-fundraising/). ActBlue, the fundraising platform preferred by Democrats, has [raised more than $52 million](https://qz.com/kamala-harris-minnesota-governor-tim-walz-fundraising-1851614688) since Tuesday morning. In July, the campaign [raised $310 million](https://apnews.com/article/harris-fundraising-democrats-trump-fbc14aa926444b4f961f579c63811766).

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Vice President Kamala Harris is looking to be a business-friendly presidential candidate, at least when compared with President Joe Biden. Billionaire businessman Mark Cuban said [in an interview](https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/05/mark-cuban-kamala-harris-tax-unrealized-gains.html) with CNBC Thursday that Harris, despite trying to remain respectful of Biden as she campaigns for the upcoming election, is a markedly different candidate from the current president. “Kamala Harris is pro-business,” Cuban said. “This is Kamala Harris’ campaign, it’s not Joe Biden’s campaign.” When it comes to business, “she’s going center 100%,” he added. Although Harris is “starting from the Biden plan as a starting point,” Cuban said, “that’s not necessarily her ending point.” On Wednesday, the Democratic presidential hopeful unveiled a [proposed 28% tax on long-term capital gains](https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/politics/kamala-harris-capital-gains-tax/index.html) for households making $1 million or more a year — the top 0.3% of all households in the country. That falls well below the [39.6% rate](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/11/fact-sheet-the-presidents-budget-for-fiscal-year-2025/) Biden laid out in his 2025 fiscal year budget. These tax plans would levy a charge when investors profit profit from the sale of capital assets, like stocks or bond.s Biden had also proposed a minimum tax on unrealized capital gains, or unsold assets that have increased in value. That is where Biden and Harris’ policies diverge even further, according to Cuban. Cuban underscored that under Harris, “it’s not going to happen.” He said that in several discussions with the Harris campaign, they have underscored that that is not the direction the vice president is looking to head in. “I’m not going to speak for the vice president, she makes the final decision,” Cuban told CNBC. “I’m talking to these folks three, four times a week, having back-and-forth conversations, and their verbatim words to me is, ‘That’s not where we want to go.’” Harris would also push to [raise the corporate tax rate](https://qz.com/harris-campaign-corporate-tax-rate-trump-administration-1851626708) to 28% from its current 21%, Harris campaign spokesman James Singer [told NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/harris-proposes-raising-corporate-tax-rate-28-rolling-back-trump-law-rcna167208) last month — in contrast with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s [promises to lower the rate](https://qz.com/donald-trump-corporate-tax-cuts-jpmorgan-apple-election-1851540052). The vice president’s [economic plan](https://qz.com/kamala-harris-newborn-expand-child-tax-credit-poverty-1851624037) includes proposals to restore the expanded Child Tax Credit, create a new tax credit that would give low-income or middle-income families with a newborn child $6,000, and slash taxes by up to $1,500 for low-income individuals. She has also pledged to take aim at [high prescription drug prices](https://qz.com/kamala-harris-prescription-drugs-1851624050), [expensive grocery bills](https://qz.com/kamala-harris-high-grocery-prices-inflation-regulation-1851623022), and [Wall Street’s homebuying spree](https://qz.com/harris-campaign-housing-rental-costs-real-estate-1851624062). Goldman Sachs said in a research note that a Harris victory and Democratic sweep [would be a boon to the U.S. economy](https://qz.com/kamala-harris-donald-trump-gdp-economy-goldman-sachs-1851639343?utm_source=google-news), thanks to new spending and tax credits aimed at middle-income Americans. _— Will Gavin contributed to this article._

[BOX](/quote/BOX)[MRK](/quote/MRK)[YELP](/quote/YELP)[BX](/quote/BX)[SBUX](/quote/SBUX)[SNAP](/quote/SNAP)[LAZ](/quote/LAZ)[PEP](/quote/PEP) Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential candidacy just got endorsed by almost 90 current and former top executives across corporate America, including high-profile CEOs and several longtime Democratic donors. “Her election is the best way to support the continued strength, security, and reliability of our democracy and economy,” the leaders wrote in a [letter shared with CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/06/harris-endorsed-trump-murdoch-yelp-snap-ripple.html). “With Kamala Harris in the White House, the business community can be confident that it will have a President who wants American industries to thrive.” The group includes a number of high-profile executives of public companies, including Snap Chairman Michael Lynton and Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman. Other signatories include Chris Larsen, who helped found the blockchain platform Ripple, and Box CEO Aaron Levie. The majority of the letter’s signatories are former business executives, from former Blackstone CEO Tony James and Lazard CEO Peter Orszag to the many former heads of public companies. Executives who once led Pepsico, Merck, Starbucks, PayPal, and Ford all made the list. A number of donors aligned with Harris — or the Democratic party more broadly —also signed the letter, including Laurene Powell Jobs, NBA Hall of Famer Magic Johnson, former Walt Disney Studios chairman and Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. Several of these people have already gone to bat for Harris in the almost two months since she became the defacto Democratic nominee. Cost Plus Drugs Co. founder and Dallas Mavericks minority owner [Mark Cuban](https://qz.com/harris-campaign-capital-gains-corporate-tax-business-1851640741) and Reid Hoffman — both of whom have [signed another pledge to support Harris](https://qz.com/venture-capital-marc-cuban-support-kamala-harris-trump-1851610194?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter) — are signatories, as is [IAC Chairman Barry Diller](https://qz.com/billionaire-fire-ftc-khan-investigation-vp-harris-iac-1851608967). “Kamala Harris is pro-business,” Cuban argued earlier this week. “This is Kamala Harris’ campaign, it’s not Joe Biden’s campaign,” later adding that “she’s going center 100%” on business. Harris’ [economic plan](https://qz.com/kamala-harris-newborn-expand-child-tax-credit-poverty-1851624037) includes a push to restore the expanded Child Tax Credit, create a new tax credit that would give low-income or middle-income families with a newborn child $6,000, and slash taxes by up to $1,500 for low-income individuals. She has also pledged to take aim at [high prescription drug prices](https://qz.com/kamala-harris-prescription-drugs-1851624050), [expensive grocery bills](https://qz.com/kamala-harris-high-grocery-prices-inflation-regulation-1851623022), and [Wall Street’s home buying spree](https://qz.com/harris-campaign-housing-rental-costs-real-estate-1851624062). According to Goldman Sachs analysts, [the best outcome of the 2024 presidential election](https://qz.com/kamala-harris-donald-trump-gdp-economy-goldman-sachs-1851639343), at least for the economy, would be a Harris win and a Democratic sweep of Congress. The worst scenarios occur when Former President Donald Trump gets back into office and implements tougher controls on immigration and high tariffs on imported goods, the analysts said. Trump’s economic proposals would also increase the federal deficit by $5.8 trillion over the next decade, almost five times more than Harris’ proposals, which would add $1.2 trillion, according to [recent](https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2024/8/26/trump-campaign-policy-proposals-2024) [studies](https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2024/8/26/harris-campaign-policy-proposals-2024) from The University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Wharton Budget Model.

在 AI 虚假信息之后 Taylor Swift 公开支持 Kamala Harris ------------------------------------------- [](/search?tid=168) [Wilson](/~Wilson) (42865)发表于 2024年09月11日 23时40分 星期三 [新浪微博分享](//service.weibo.com/share/share.php?url=//www.solidot.org/story?sid=79228&appkey=1370085986&title=%E5%9C%A8%20AI%20%E8%99%9A%E5%81%87%E4%BF%A1%E6%81%AF%E4%B9%8B%E5%90%8E%20Taylor%20Swift%20%E5%85%AC%E5%BC%80%E6%94%AF%E6%8C%81%20Kamala%20Harris) [](javascript:void(0);) **来自childless cat lady** 上月底，特朗普（Donald Trump）在其平台 Truth Social 上分享了一组图片，其中一部分涉及歌星 Taylor Swift，称 Swift 支持特朗普，鼓励她的粉丝给特朗普投票。特朗普在明显由 AI 生成的虚假图像下表示接受。在 9 月 10 日 ABC 总统候选人辩论之后，Swift 通过其 Instagram 账号公开宣布她支持民主党总统候选人、副总统贺锦丽（Kamala Harris）。Swift 在声明中表示，她最近得知 AI 生成的虚假的她支持特朗普的图片发布到特朗普网站上，这令她对 AI 感到恐惧，也意识到传播虚假信息的威胁，作为一名选民，她需要对此次选举明确表态。对抗错误信息的最简单方法就是说出事实 ... https://politics.slashdot.org/story/24/09/11/0427236/taylor-swift-endorses-kamala-harris-in-response-to-fake-ai-trump-endorsement https://www.instagram.com/p/C\_wtAOKOW1z/

Sep 20, 2024 8:00 AM Vice President Kamala Harris talked about her childhood, her debate with Donald Trump, her gun ownership, and the policies that define her campaign in this special edition of the WIRED Autocomplete Interview. In a wide-ranging WIRED Autocomplete Interview, Vice President [Kamala Harris](https://www.wired.com/tag/kamala-harris) touched on everything from her debate with former president [Donald Trump](https://www.wired.com/tag/donald-trump)—which she found “quite enjoyable”—to her time as California’s attorney general to Taylor Swift’s endorsement. It’s a lively tour of Harris’ past, and a preview of her plans for the future. Harris sat with WIRED earlier this week for the interview, which asks guests to respond to some of the most-searched terms about themselves. In this case, the prompts hit on her policies around reproductive rights, gun ownership, marriage equality, and more. But Harris also talks about more personal details, like her relationship with her stepchildren and her deep ties to her college sorority. Most of all, Harris took the opportunity to highlight the differences between her perspective and Donald Trump’s. “His vision for our country is very grounded in the past,” she says, “and frankly an attempt to take us backward.” You can watch the full video above.

On her first day of work, the young bioengineering major climbed down the basement steps of a cancer laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., and caught sight of someone summarily beheading a mouse. The student, Elizabeth Vargis, felt faint. She grasped for a chair. A child of Indian immigrants whose dipping grades had just cost her a scholarship, she reckoned her difficulty staying upright spelled the end of her research career, too. Her new boss, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, took a different view. A slight woman of 5 feet with a siren of a laugh, Dr. Gopalan Harris listened a few days later as her student reproached herself for being an inadequate scientist, and then cut in with a question: “Did you eat that day?” The younger biologist had not. “You have to eat!” The reply was not exactly warm — more “are you stupid?” than “I’m so sorry you fainted,” Ms. Vargis said. Nor was it as ready-made for a meme as Dr. Gopalan Harris’s aphorisms, like the one about [the coconut tree](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/20/style/kamala-harris-coconut-pina-colada-cocktails.html), that caught the imagination of voters online during her daughter Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. But in the professor’s admonition, Ms. Vargis heard an echo of her own Indian aunties, and an affirmation that she belonged in a scientific world where neither she nor her professor had ever felt entirely at home. “She wanted me to be in that room,” said Ms. Vargis, who earned her doctorate and now runs a lab at Utah State University, a career that she credits in part to Dr. Gopalan Harris. “She wanted to give everybody a chance, an equal chance.” Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and [log into](https://myaccount.nytimes.com/auth/login?response_type=cookie&client_id=vi&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F10%2F28%2Fscience%2Fshyamala-gopalan-kamala-harris-mother.html&asset=opttrunc) your Times account, or [subscribe](https://www.nytimes.com/subscription?campaignId=89WYR&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F10%2F28%2Fscience%2Fshyamala-gopalan-kamala-harris-mother.html) for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? [Log in](https://myaccount.nytimes.com/auth/login?response_type=cookie&client_id=vi&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F10%2F28%2Fscience%2Fshyamala-gopalan-kamala-harris-mother.html&asset=opttrunc). Want all of The Times? [Subscribe](https://www.nytimes.com/subscription?campaignId=89WYR&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F10%2F28%2Fscience%2Fshyamala-gopalan-kamala-harris-mother.html).

[Anita Hill](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/sep/28/anita-hill-on-sexual-harassment-and-survival-you-have-to-think-what-is-my-life-for), former clerk to US supreme court justice [Clarence Thomas](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/clarence-thomas), has said “[racist](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/01/kamala-harris-texas-rally-donald-trump-racial-identity), misogynist and [sexist](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/29/donald-trump-kamala-harris-sexist-post) [insults](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/24/kamala-harris-doug-emhoff-sexist-antisemitic-attacks)” aimed at [Kamala Harris](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/kamala-harris) “must sting”. In a [New York Times opinion piece](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/opinion/kamala-harris-dignity.html?smid=nytcore-android-share) published Monday, the Brandeis University professor who was famously brought before Thomas’s confirmation hearings only to have her sexual harassment allegations against him picked apart by sitting senators, wrote that she sympathizes with the US vice-president. “Maintaining integrity in politics can be a hard needle to thread,” Hill acknowledged, and advised Harris to “defend herself against the assaults and also vigorously prosecute the case against Mr Trump”. But she said it is “not easy to remain calm and collected in the glare of intense public scrutiny, especially when the opposition is set on denying your integrity, competence and accomplishments”. “No presidential nominees in modern history have faced such a direct challenge to the authenticity of their identity and by extension their qualifications to be the president,” she added. Hill said that interruptions by Fox News’s anchor Bret Baier during his [recent interview with Harris](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/17/kamala-harris-fox-news-interview-key-takeaways) was “irritatingly familiar”, though Baier [later explained](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/fox-news-bret-baier-defends-kamala-harris-interview) these were efforts to “redirect” the Democrat presidential candidate because otherwise her “long answers” would “eat up all the time of this interview that was live-to-tape”. [skip past newsletter promotion](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/anita-hill-harris-op-ed#EmailSignup-skip-link-6) Sign up to The Stakes — US Election Edition The Guardian guides you through the chaos of a hugely consequential presidential election **Privacy Notice:** Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our [Privacy Policy](https://www.theguardian.com/help/privacy-policy). We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google [Privacy Policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy) and [Terms of Service](https://policies.google.com/terms) apply. after newsletter promotion [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) has viciously [attacked](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/27/trump-madison-square-garden-rally) Harris repeatedly, including [questioning](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/31/trump-lies-questions-kamala-harris-racial-identity-nabj) her racial identity. Harris is the daughter of an Indian American mother and a [Jamaican](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/27/kamala-harris-jamaica-roots) American father and has embraced both her Black and south Asian heritage. Thomas’s former clerk went on to advise Harris to “never let the people who despise you define you” and wrote that Harris should not allow herself to be influenced by other people’s perceptions of her. “Her refusal to be thrown on the defensive by personal attacks – Ms Harris is showing people how to protect and nurture their own self-worth,” she wrote, noting that “hubris, dissembling, anger, fear mongering and personal grievances are brandished and accepted as proof of power, confidence and competence” in politics. But her central call was for Harris to restore respect for the US legal system in a way that makes clear “we have moved beyond the historical understandings that freedom, rights and liberty are limited to the powerful and rich”. Irrespective of the result of next week’s [election](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-elections-2024), Hill said, the vice-president “has already introduced an American political future that promises a recognition of human dignity as its bedrock”.

With eight sleeps to go until [Americans head to the polls](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-elections-2024) on Tuesday 5 November, campaigning kicked up another notch on Monday as [Kamala Harris](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/kamala-harris) and [Tim Walz](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/tim-walz) [appealed to young, first-time voters in Ann Arbor, Michigan](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/29/us-election-kamala-harris-michigan-ann-arbor-rally-updates), and Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen [spoke in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/obama-bruce-springsteen-rally-harris) – where the former US president described [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump)’s event in Madison Square Garden as featuring “the most racist, sexist, bigoted stereotypes”. In Wisconsin, the New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, appearing with the Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, also addressed the racist remarks, specifically those made by a comedian about Puerto Rico. AOC, who is of Puerto Rican descent, said: “[They knew exactly what they were doing](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders-kamala-harris); let’s dispense with this idea that this is a joke,” and added that Trump’s words echoed those of Adolf Hitler. Trump, meanwhile, told voters in Atlanta, Georgia, that he was the “[opposite of a Nazi](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/trump-atlanta-rally)”; and the billionaire Jeff Bezos wrote a column in the Washington Post, the paper he owns, [explaining the decision taken by its editorial board](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-endorsements) not to endorse a candidate this election, for the first time in 30 years. Here’s what else happened on Monday: * **Campaigning for Harris in Wisconsin, Bernie Sanders said: “You have Mike Pence saying I can’t support the guy I worked with for four years”** and “We cannot allow someone to be president of the United States who is a pathological liar and [who is working night and day to undermine American democracy](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders-kamala-harris).” * **Sanders also released a video addressing voter concerns over the Biden-Harris administration’s record on Gaza,** saying: “After Kamala wins, we will together do everything that we can to change US policy towards Netanyahu.” * **Before [performing at a rally with Obama in Pennsylvania](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/obama-bruce-springsteen-rally-harris), Bruce Springsteen said: “I’m Bruce Springsteen and I’m here today to support Kamala Harris and Tim Walz** and to oppose Donald Trump and JD Vance … I want a president who reveres the constitution, who does not threaten but wants to protect and guide our great democracy, who believes in the rule of law and the peaceful transfer of power, who will fight for women’s rights … \[and\] create a middle-class economy that works for all our citizens.” * **[Anita Hill](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/sep/28/anita-hill-on-sexual-harassment-and-survival-you-have-to-think-what-is-my-life-for), a former clerk to the US supreme court justice [Clarence Thomas](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/clarence-thomas), has said “[racist](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/01/kamala-harris-texas-rally-donald-trump-racial-identity), misogynist and [sexist](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/29/donald-trump-kamala-harris-sexist-post) [insults](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/24/kamala-harris-doug-emhoff-sexist-antisemitic-attacks)” aimed at [Kamala Harris](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/kamala-harris) “must sting”.** In a [New York Times opinion piece](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/opinion/kamala-harris-dignity.html?smid=nytcore-android-share) published on Monday, the Brandeis University professor – who was famously brought before Thomas’s confirmation hearings only to have her sexual harassment allegations against him picked apart by sitting senators – [wrote that she sympathises with the US vice-president](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/anita-hill-harris-op-ed). Elsewhere on the campaign trail ------------------------------- * **Hundreds of early ballots cast for the US presidential election [have been burned in two suspected attacks in Washington and Oregon](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/ballot-box-on-fire-washington-oregon),** exacerbating tensions ahead of next Tuesday’s knife-edge contest. Police believed the fires in the two states were connected and a vehicle involved had been identified, the Associated Press reported. * **Jeff Bezos argued that the Washington Post editorial board’s decision not to endorse a candidate was taken in order to avoid the perception of bias.** Bezos – who founded [Amazon](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/amazon) – said he had taken the decision [because he was worried that people had lost trust in the traditional US media](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-endorsements) and were getting their news from social media, leaving them vulnerable to disinformation. The decision not to endorse [has rocked the Post](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/oct/27/washington-post-readers-on-failure-to-endorse-kamala-harris) and seen the [loss of 200,000 subscribers](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/oct/28/washington-post-columnist-michele-norris-quits-kamala-harris) who have cancelled their subscriptions. * **Just before Trump took the stage on Monday afternoon, Georgia’s early vote count [crossed the 3m mark](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/trump-atlanta-rally).** More than 40% of Georgia voters have already cast a ballot. About 5 million people in Georgia voted in the 2020 presidential race. **Read more about the 2024 US election:**

 Trump tells Georgia rally: ‘I am the opposite of a Nazi’ – video report Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Campaigning is ramping up in the race to the White House as [Kamala Harris](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/kamala-harris) and Donald Trump continue to exchange barbs on the campaign trail. Only seven days remain until Americans head to the polls on Tuesday, 5 November. On Monday, Harris and Tim Waltz courted young voters in Michigan, while Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen spoke in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, Georgia, [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) railed against being compared to Hitler, telling voters that he was the “opposite of a Nazi” in response to Democratic opponents, who likened him to the Nazi dictator after a slew of racist remarks were made at his rally in Madison Square Garden on Sunday. On Tuesday, Trump will hold a news conference at Mar-a-Lago at 10am ET – where he is likely to face questions about racist remarks about Puerto Rico at the New York event. He is then heading to Allentown, Pennsylvania – home to tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans. * **Campaigning for Harris in Wisconsin, Bernie Sanders said: “You have Mike Pence saying I can’t support the guy I worked with for four years”** and “We cannot allow someone to be president of the United States who is a pathological liar and [who is working night and day to undermine American democracy](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders-kamala-harris).” * **Sanders also released a video addressing voter concerns over the Biden-Harris administration’s record on Gaza,** saying: “After Kamala wins, we will together do everything that we can to change US policy towards Netanyahu.” * **Before [performing at a rally with Obama in Pennsylvania](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/obama-bruce-springsteen-rally-harris), Bruce Springsteen said: “I’m Bruce Springsteen and I’m here today to support Kamala Harris and Tim Walz** and to oppose Donald Trump and JD Vance … I want a president who reveres the constitution, who does not threaten but wants to protect and guide our great democracy, who believes in the rule of law and the peaceful transfer of power, who will fight for women’s rights … \[and\] create a middle-class economy that works for all our citizens.” * **[Anita Hill](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/sep/28/anita-hill-on-sexual-harassment-and-survival-you-have-to-think-what-is-my-life-for), a former clerk to the US supreme court justice [Clarence Thomas](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/clarence-thomas), has said “[racist](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/01/kamala-harris-texas-rally-donald-trump-racial-identity), misogynist and [sexist](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/29/donald-trump-kamala-harris-sexist-post)[insults](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/24/kamala-harris-doug-emhoff-sexist-antisemitic-attacks)” aimed at [Kamala Harris](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/kamala-harris) “must sting”.** In a [New York Times opinion piece](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/opinion/kamala-harris-dignity.html?smid=nytcore-android-share) published on Monday, the Brandeis University professor – who was famously brought before Thomas’s confirmation hearings only to have her sexual harassment allegations against him picked apart by sitting senators – [wrote that she sympathises with the US vice-president](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/anita-hill-harris-op-ed). [Share](mailto:?subject=US%20elections%20live:%20Donald%20Trump%20claims%20he%20is%20the%20‘opposite%20of%20a%20Nazi’%20as%20anger%20continues%20over%20Puerto%20Rico%20comments&body=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/oct/29/us-elections-trump-puerto-rico-harris-latest?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-6720c0df8f08afc26475f96c#block-6720c0df8f08afc26475f96c) Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature  Robert Tait The [Democrats](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/democrats) are fending off a [Republican](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans) offensive aimed at overturning their tiny majority in the Senate. Retaking control of the [US Congress](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-congress)’s upper chamber may represent the GOP’s best opportunity of success in [November’s election](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-elections-2024), according to analysts, surpassing their chances of retaking the White House or even retaining control of the House of Representatives. But with a burst of enthusiasm from [Kamala Harris’s](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/kamala-harris) campaign, Democrats are still competitive… [Share](mailto:?subject=US%20elections%20live:%20Donald%20Trump%20claims%20he%20is%20the%20‘opposite%20of%20a%20Nazi’%20as%20anger%20continues%20over%20Puerto%20Rico%20comments&body=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/oct/29/us-elections-trump-puerto-rico-harris-latest?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-6720c5be8f08afc26475f98e#block-6720c5be8f08afc26475f98e) Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon has been released from prison after serving a four-month sentence. Bannon, 70, was jailed for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. When he began serving his sentence in July, Bannon called himself a “political prisoner”. “I am proud of going to prison,” he said at the time, adding that he was standing up to the attorney general, Merrick Garland, and a “corrupt” justice department. Bannon will have to answer further charges at trial in New York. He is accused of tricking donors who gave money to help build Trump’s notorious wall along the US-Mexico border. Bannon has pleaded not guilty to money laundering, conspiracy, fraud and other charges. The trial begins in December. [Share](mailto:?subject=US%20elections%20live:%20Donald%20Trump%20claims%20he%20is%20the%20‘opposite%20of%20a%20Nazi’%20as%20anger%20continues%20over%20Puerto%20Rico%20comments&body=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/oct/29/us-elections-trump-puerto-rico-harris-latest?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-6720c9978f08abcc790f32da#block-6720c9978f08abcc790f32da) Campaigning is ramping up in the race to the White House as [Kamala Harris](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/kamala-harris) and Donald Trump continue to exchange barbs on the campaign trail. Only seven days remain until Americans head to the polls on Tuesday, 5 November. On Monday, Harris and Tim Waltz courted young voters in Michigan, while Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen spoke in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, Georgia, [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) railed against being compared to Hitler, telling voters that he was the “opposite of a Nazi” in response to Democratic opponents, who likened him to the Nazi dictator after a slew of racist remarks were made at his rally in Madison Square Garden on Sunday. On Tuesday, Trump will hold a news conference at Mar-a-Lago at 10am ET – where he is likely to face questions about racist remarks about Puerto Rico at the New York event. He is then heading to Allentown, Pennsylvania – home to tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans. * **Campaigning for Harris in Wisconsin, Bernie Sanders said: “You have Mike Pence saying I can’t support the guy I worked with for four years”** and “We cannot allow someone to be president of the United States who is a pathological liar and [who is working night and day to undermine American democracy](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders-kamala-harris).” * **Sanders also released a video addressing voter concerns over the Biden-Harris administration’s record on Gaza,** saying: “After Kamala wins, we will together do everything that we can to change US policy towards Netanyahu.” * **Before [performing at a rally with Obama in Pennsylvania](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/obama-bruce-springsteen-rally-harris), Bruce Springsteen said: “I’m Bruce Springsteen and I’m here today to support Kamala Harris and Tim Walz** and to oppose Donald Trump and JD Vance … I want a president who reveres the constitution, who does not threaten but wants to protect and guide our great democracy, who believes in the rule of law and the peaceful transfer of power, who will fight for women’s rights … \[and\] create a middle-class economy that works for all our citizens.” * **[Anita Hill](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/sep/28/anita-hill-on-sexual-harassment-and-survival-you-have-to-think-what-is-my-life-for), a former clerk to the US supreme court justice [Clarence Thomas](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/clarence-thomas), has said “[racist](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/01/kamala-harris-texas-rally-donald-trump-racial-identity), misogynist and [sexist](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/29/donald-trump-kamala-harris-sexist-post)[insults](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/24/kamala-harris-doug-emhoff-sexist-antisemitic-attacks)” aimed at [Kamala Harris](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/kamala-harris) “must sting”.** In a [New York Times opinion piece](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/opinion/kamala-harris-dignity.html?smid=nytcore-android-share) published on Monday, the Brandeis University professor – who was famously brought before Thomas’s confirmation hearings only to have her sexual harassment allegations against him picked apart by sitting senators – [wrote that she sympathises with the US vice-president](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/28/anita-hill-harris-op-ed). 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