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Video: ‘Say It to My Face’: Harris Rallies in Georgia with Challenge to Trump
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‘Say It to My Face’: Harris Rallies in Georgia with Challenge to Trump
The vice president, speaking to thousands in Atlanta, poked fun at the former president’s reluctance to commit to a debate with her.
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The momentum in this race is shifting. And there are signs that Donald Trump is feeling it. You may have noticed. So last week, you may have seen, he pulled out of the debate in September he had previously agreed to. So he won’t debate. But he and his running mate sure seem to have a lot to say about me. Well, Donald. I do hope you’ll reconsider to meet me on the debate stage. Because as the saying goes, if you’ve got something to say, say it to my face.
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No other major Democrat had made any indication they planned to seek the party’s nomination, but the DNC’s announcement officially clears the path for the vice president to run unopposed for the nomination, according to The Associated Press.
This comes after President Biden announced he was suspending his re-election campaign.
The party’s national convention delegates will vote to officially ratify the nominee in a new online voting procedure adopted by the party last week. Voting will begin Thursday and finish on Monday, the statement said, adding that votes for anyone other than Harris will be tallied as “present.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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A mob of white men in the thousands amassed in a show of solidarity for their presidential candidate of choice, and no violence ensued. Not one broken window, makeshift noose or whiff of bear spray.
But this rally wasn’t for him. It was for her.
White Dudes for Harris hosted a Zoom fundraiser Monday in support of the vice president and her bid to win the White House. The online event raised over $4 million, drew 200,000 attendees and inspired a slew of jokes.
“What a variety of whiteness we have here,” actor Bradley Whitford (“Handmaid’s Tale,” “West Wing”) said in his opening remarks. “It’s like a rainbow of beige.”
Leveraging identity politics for campaign cash is nothing new, but bringing together a bunch of white men to counter MAGA’s dire warnings — “White guys will be replaced if the Dems win!” — is genius.
Democratic organizer Ross Morales Rocketto was behind the effort, and according to the New York Times, acknowledged the discomfort some might feel about the group’s name.
“I don’t blame them,” he said. “Throughout American history, there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that when white men organize, it’s often with pointy hats on, and it doesn’t end well.”
If only the Ku Klux Klan were a thing of the past.
But who better to counter such hate than these other white dudes and their de facto leader: Jeff Bridges? The actor who played the Dude in “The Big Lebowski” kicked off the video call by referring to a White Dudes for Harris hat he saw online.
“I qualify. I am white. I am a dude. And I love Harris,” he said. Bridges also worked in his “Lebowski” character’s catchphrase: “As the Dude might say, ‘That’s just my opinion, man.’ ”
Co-opting the other side’s identity politics and then wringing the absurdity of their messaging for all it’s worth marks a new day for Democrats. The former fear and angst over President Biden’s low polling numbers has given way to a fresh enthusiasm since he announced he was leaving the race, and Harris stepped in.
Racist and sexist attacks from the right on Harris — including those by Congressman Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) and others who called her a “DEI hire” — are being repurposed and weaponized by the left. A “Cat Ladies for Harris” Zoom call is in the works, taking its name from the insult hurled at Harris from Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance, who called the vice president a “childless cat lady.”
The white dudes took their cues from previous Zoom fundraisers for Harris that were organized around racial identities. “Win With Black Women,” a group of high-profile Black women, raised $1.5 million for Harris in the hours after Biden announced he was stepping out of the race. Other groups who’ve gathered to support and donate to Harris include Black men, South Asian Americans and white women.
Monday’s dude attendees and speakers included Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina and Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois.
Actor Mark Hamill delivered his classic “Star Wars” line: “I’m Luke Skywalker. I’m here to rescue you.” Other celebrities included actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mark Ruffalo, Josh Gad, Sean Astin and Paul Scheer, director J.J. Abrams and singer Josh Groban.
But it was Democratic organizer Rocketto who best summed up the reason for the gathering. “The left has been ceding white men to the MAGA right for way, way too long,” he said. “That’s going to stop tonight because we know that the silent majority of white men aren’t actually MAGA supporters. They’re folks like you who just want a better life for their families.”
And they made their point without storming the Capitol or shooting up a Black Lives Matter demonstration. Righteous, dudes.
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Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., is leading a letter to acting USSS Director Ronald Rowe raising alarms about a recent report suggesting the agency could be facing some negative revelations in a forthcoming Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General report about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
“It is unfathomable that an assassin was able to gain access to and fire shots at President Trump from an unsecure building with a direct line of sight to the rally stage. It is equally unfathomable that public reporting suggests that U.S. Secret Service had identified the building as a potential vulnerability and failed to include that vulnerability within the security perimeter or otherwise ensure the security of the roof,” the lawmakers wrote of the July 13 shooting at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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The letter then pivoted to a Politico report, stating, “Public reporting indicates that the Secret Service is in possession of a draft report by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) focused on Secret Service’s preparation for and response to events on January 6, 2021.”
“The story specifically states that the release of the report ‘could cast light on a series of embarrassing security lapses for the agency,’” the letter said.
“Congress, and the American people, deserve to understand whether the security lapses at the July 13, 2024, rally are part of a larger pattern of negligence on the part of the Secret Service.”
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Republicans are asking Rowe for a summary of the DHS watchdog report’s findings and recommendations for the Secret Service, and how those steps were carried out ahead of the Trump rally shooting, by July 31.
The letter is also signed by Reps. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., and Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo.
The Secret Service has been under a mountain of scrutiny in the wake of the shooting, which saw a 20-year-old gunman kill one rally attendee and critically injure two others. Trump himself was shot in the ear and rushed offstage by security agents.
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The pushback led to the resignation of former Director Kimberly Cheatle last week after a heated House Oversight Committee hearing.
Rowe testified in an equally high-pressure scenario before the Senate on Tuesday, where he told lawmakers on the Homeland Security and Judiciary committees that the rally shooting was a “failure” of his agency.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Secret Service for comment.
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