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VP Harris surprises Black legislators at conference, delivers hopeful message about 2025 and beyond

TheGrio was on the ground as Vice President Kamala Harris surprised Black state legislators in Washington, D.C., on Thursday for the National Black Caucus of State Legislators’ 48th Annual Legislative Conference, held at the Capital Hilton hotel.  The rare vice-presidential appearance came exactly one month after Harris’ defeat in the 2024 presidential election to President-elect Donald Trump. It also marked her first public in-person remarks since conceding the election on Nov. 6.  The audience of approximately a few hundred Black […]

todayDecember 6, 2024

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Harris found success with women who have cats, but Trump got the dog owner vote

The lead-up to the 2024 election was all about cat owners. But in the end, the dogs had their day. President-elect Donald Trump won slightly more than half of voters who own either cats or dogs, with a big assist from dog owners, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 voters. Dog owners were much more likely to support the Republican over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. Cat owners were split between the two candidates. About two-thirds of voters said […]

todayDecember 4, 2024 1

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Rep. Barbara Lee says this would be Shirley Chisholm’s message to Kamala Harris and Democrats today

No one has fought more in Congress to keep alive Shirley Chisholm’s legacy than U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee. The 78-year-old California lawmaker counts the late Chisholm as a mentor and friend.  Despite making history as the first Black woman elected to Congress in 1968 and the first Black American and Black woman to run for U.S. president in 1972, it took years for the “Unbought and Unbossed” congresswoman’s trailblazing career to be recognized on Capitol Hill. “When I came to […]

todayNovember 30, 2024

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Kamala Harris considers 2026 run for governor and 2028 presidential comeback

After a devastating and decisive loss to Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris is keeping her “options open” about her political future once she leaves office next year.  Harris has told her advisors and close allies, “I am staying in the fight,” Politico reports. What that fight looks like, however, remains up in the air.  According to Harris’ inner circle, the vice president is considering running for governor of California when Gov. Gavin Newsom’s term-limited […]

todayNovember 25, 2024

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Kamala Harris raised $1 billion-plus in defeat. She’s still sending persistent appeals to donors

Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party’s prodigious fundraising operation raised more than $1 billion in her loss to Donald Trump, but the vice president is still pushing donors for more money after the election. Democrats are sending persistent appeals to Harris supporters without expressly asking them to cover any potential debts, enticing would-be donors instead with other matters: the Republican president-elect’s picks for his upcoming administration and a handful of pending congressional contests where ballots are still being tallied. “The Harris campaign certainly spent […]

todayNovember 18, 2024

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Oprah Winfrey shuts down rumors of being paid $1M by Kamala Harris’ campaign

Oprah Winfrey is dispelling negative rumors surrounding her involvement in Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. This week, the media mogul was approached by a TMZ reporter in Los Angeles, who asked for her thoughts on the elections. Though Winfrey declined to share any comments about the outcome, she made it clear that there was no payola for her endorsement.  “Not true,” she told the reporter when asked if she was paid $1 million for her endorsement. “I was paid […]

todayNovember 13, 2024 1

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Without Kamala Harris in the White House, Democrats look to Hakeem Jeffries

As Democrats continue licking their wounds after the stunning defeat of Kamala Harris by President-elect Donald Trump, all eyes are on Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), whose party in Congress has a slim chance of regaining a majority in the House of Representatives.If Democrats can win the House, it would give the party its only hope of slowing Trump’s agenda from being enacted. Jeffries, a 54-year-old congressman from Brooklyn, New York, would also become House speaker, making history as the first […]

todayNovember 11, 2024 4

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Kamala Harris: Breaking barriers as America’s first female vice president

Everybody knows Kamala Harris. She’s the current Democratic candidate for president, the first Black and South Asian vice president and the former attorney general of California. It’s an undoubtedly impressive resume, and even more so when you take into account how rare these achievements are for a woman of color in the historically white — and male-dominated halls of American government. But unless you’ve studied up on her life and career, there’s probably still a lot more you don’t know […]

todayNovember 11, 2024 1

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Democracy was a motivating factor for both Harris and Trump voters, but for very different reasons

WASHINGTON (AP) — While inflation and immigration emerged as the dominant themes in this year’s presidential race, another issue was prominent in the minds of voters for both major candidates: the stakes for democracy. Half of voters identified democracy as the single most important motivating factor for their vote. That was higher than the share of voters who answered the same way about inflation, the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border, abortion policy or free speech, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 voters nationwide. Notably, backers […]

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