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Trump and Harris on Keystone collision course as campaigns pick up the pace
Labor Day – which is traditionally the starting gun for the final stretch in a presidential election – is now in the rearview mirror.
“Sixty-four days until the most important election of our lives, and probably one of the most important in the life of our nation,” Vice President Kamala Harris emphasized as she spoke to supporters at a union gathering in Pittsburgh on Monday.
Tuesday marks nine weeks until Election Day 2024, when Harris and former President Donald Trump face off with the White House at stake.
However, in reality, the election gets underway well before Nov. 5.
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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke)
In a slew of states, the election actually kicks off this month.
In swing state North Carolina, absentee ballots are mailed out starting on Friday. Early voting begins on Sept. 16 in Pennsylvania and Sept. 26 in Michigan, two other crucial electoral battlegrounds.
Next Tuesday, Harris and Trump are scheduled to meet for their first and potentially only presidential debate, a primetime showdown taking place in Philadelphia.
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Pennsylvania, the biggest of the seven crucial battlegrounds that decided the 2020 election between Trump and President Biden, is getting plenty of attention this week.
Harris returns to Pittsburgh on Thursday, her second trip this week to western Pennsylvania’s largest city and union stronghold, and her 10th stop this year in the Keystone State.
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and President Biden arrive at a campaign event at the IBEW Local Union #5 union hall in Pittsburgh on Labor Day on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Trump, who has also made numerous trips to Pennsylvania this year, returns on Wednesday to headline a Fox News town hall hosted by Sean Hannity in Harrisburg.
Most of the latest national surveys show Harris with a slight single-digit edge over Trump, but the presidential election is not a national popular vote contest. It is a battle for the individual states and their electoral votes.
The latest surveys in the seven key swing states indicate a margin-of-error race. Among those polls are a batch from Fox News that made headlines last week.
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Trump argues he has the momentum.
“We’re leading in the polls now,” the former president said in an interview Friday with Fox News’ Bryan Llenas.
Minutes later, at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Trump touted that “our poll numbers are starting to skyrocket.”
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamalas Harris. (Getty Images)
Harris is urging her supporters not to pay too much attention to the polls because, as she reiterated on Labor Day, “we are the underdog in this race.”
Last week, at a rally in Savannah, Georgia, the vice president predicted that “this is going to be a tight race until the very end.”
The current state of the race is a big change from earlier this summer when Biden was still running.
Biden’s disastrous performance against Trump in their late June debate turned up the volume of existing doubts from Americans that the 81-year-old president would have the physical and mental stamina to handle another four years in the White House. It also sparked a rising chorus of calls from top Democratic Party allies and elected officials for Biden to drop out of the race.
National and battleground state polls conducted in July indicated Trump had opened up a small but significant lead over Biden.
The president dropped his re-election bid on July 21 and endorsed his vice president, and Democrats immediately coalesced around Harris, who quickly enjoyed a boost in her poll numbers and in fundraising.
Still, pollsters and political analysts stress that the Harris-Trump contest remains a coin-flip at this point.
However, Trump’s team likes the current poll position, as they point out that the former president has a history of outperforming public opinion surveys.
“At this point in the race in 2016, Donald Trump was down to Hillary Clinton by an average of 5.9 points. At this point in the race in 2020, it was 6.9 to Joe Biden,” senior adviser Corey Lewandowski noted this weekend in an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”
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N.Y.C. Fire Safety Chiefs Accused of Taking Bribes
Two New York Fire Department officials were arrested and accused of taking tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to speed up the fire-safety approval process for building projects throughout the city.
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Today, we are announcing public corruption charges against two former senior members of the New York City Fire Department. We have indicted Anthony Saccavino and Brian Cordasco, two former chiefs of the department’s Bureau of Fire Prevention. As the indictment alleges, Saccavino and Cordasco, acting together with a co-conspirator, solicited and received at least $190,000 in bribes in exchange for giving special treatment to certain building owners and developers for at least 30 different projects around the city. The defendants allegedly abused their power to give priority access to the Bureau of Fire Prevention, or the B.F.P., the division that regulates the installation of fire safety systems in commercial and residential buildings throughout New York City. They allegedly created a V.I.P. lane for faster service that could only be accessed with bribes. That’s classic pay-to-play corruption, and it will not be tolerated by this office.
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Twenty years ago, James Franklin and Bill O’Brien spent a season together on the Maryland football staff. This season they nearly coached against each other as Big Ten opponents. Instead, they’re college head coaches simultaneously for the first time, and the current Penn State head coach said he’s happy for the former.
In his first season as Boston College’s head coach, O’Brien is 2-1 with an early win over Florida State, a week in the AP Top 25 and a tight loss at No. 7 Missouri. Franklin, watching from afar, had some kind words for O’Brien.
“I’ve known Bill for a long time,” Franklin said. “I’ve known [Craig Fitzgerald], his strength coach, for a long time. We were all at the University of Maryland together. Me and Bill lived in the same neighborhood. His wife and my wife were good friends. … It’s been cool to watch it, and I’m happy for those guys and not surprised.”
O’Brien, who spent two seasons as Penn State’s head coach in 2012-13, nearly returned to Beaver Stadium on other sideline this season. He spent about a month last winter as the offensive coordinator for Ohio State and head coach Ryan Day. Then the Boston College head coaching job opened, and O’Brien called it a natural fit for him.
A native of Dorchester, Mass., O’Brien played at Brown and began his coaching career there before moving to Georgia Tech and Maryland. That’s where Franklin and O’Brien met. They served one year together on Ralph Friedgen’s staff in 2004; O’Brien coached running backs, and Franklin coached wide receivers. O’Brien bracketed his time at Penn State with two tours with the New England Patriots and seven seasons as head coach of the Houston Texans.
Franklin viewed the O’Brien-Boston College partnership as a “win-win” for both parties.
“Obviously I followed his career in the NFL, and now back obviously at BC,” Franklin said. “For a short period of time he was also in our conference at Ohio State and now back at BC. For a lot of those guys from that part of the country, BC is like a dream job. It’s interesting. I talked to a ton of guys. That BC job is a very desirable job. If you know Bill, his background, it makes a ton of sense. So when that hire happened, when that whole thing went down, I thought it was a win-win for both BC and Billy.”
Evidently, Franklin has watched a bit of Boston College, likely during the bye week when O’Brien’s team visited Missouri.
“He’s got a really mobile, dynamic quarterback [in Thomas Castellanos] that has done some nice things last year,” Franklin said. “When he got that piece of the puzzle, you can build from there. Billy has tremendous experience doing that. So it’s been cool to watch it, and happy for those guys and not surprised.”
Franklin’s comments echoed those of O’Brien six years ago at the NFL Scouting Combine.
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A barber shop on Pittsburgh’s South Side raised nearly $3,000 to help support a police officer who was recently injured in a fight.
Earlier this month, Pittsburgh Police Sergeant Andrew Robinson suffered a broken leg while trying to break up a fight outside of Oddballs along East Carson Street.
J.C. Caputo who owns the South Side Barbershop held a fundraiser on Friday to help Robinson.
All proceeds from haircuts that day were donated towards Robinson’s recovery.
A total of $2,650 was raised on Friday and Caputo says he’ll still accept further donations to pass along to the officer and his family.
The owners of Oddballs agreed to close for good in the wake of the fight.
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