‘Not All Welcome’: Cary Lake takes shots at the media
U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake (R-AZ) Kari Lake speaks at the Fiserv Forum during the second day of the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, July 16, 2024.
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Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake expressed dissatisfaction with media coverage of the Republican National Convention, saying “fake news” has “made you unpopular.”
“Welcome to all of you who come to this great stage tonight, we love you all,” Lake said at the beginning of his speech.
“Actually, actually, wait a minute, that’s not what I meant. I don’t welcome everyone to this meeting — in this room,” she said.
“Frankly, those people in the fake news…frankly, those people in the fake news are no longer welcome,” Lake said, prompting cheers.
Lake was a television news anchor in Phoenix before running unsuccessfully for governor in 2022.
“For the past eight years, you have been lying about President Donald Trump and his amazing patriotic supporters,” she said.
“They lie about everything,” she added, citing prominent issues and news stories — the U.S. southern border, Hunter Biden’s laptop — as examples.
“The really good news is that more and more people are turning away from fake news every day,” she said.
— Kevin Breuninger
More than 18 million viewers watched first night of Republican convention: Nielsen
Participants recite the Pledge of Allegiance on the second day of the Republican National Convention (RNC) at the Feather Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the United States, on July 16, 2024.
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More than 18 million people watched the first night of the 2024 Republican National Convention on Monday, according to Nielsen.
This is better than 23 million Americans He watched President Joe Biden’s NATO press conference last week.
An estimated 51.3 million viewers watched the first presidential debate on June 27.
——Josephine Rozelle
Biden says Harris ‘could be president of the United States’ in NAACP speech
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a statement one day after Republican challenger Donald Trump was shot at a campaign rally, next to Vice President Kamala Harris, at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 14, 2024.
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President Biden said Vice President Kamala Harris “could be president” during a speech at the NAACP’s annual convention.
“Folks, it’s because of you that I’m president and Kamala Harris is vice president,” Biden said. “By the way, not only is she a great vice president, she can be president of the United States. “
It’s a noteworthy compliment for Harris, whose name has been floated in recent weeks as a front-runner to replace Biden as the presumptive Democratic nominee after losing a debate with Donald Trump in June. Pressure is mounting on him to drop out of the race.
Biden has repeatedly pledged to stay in the race, including in an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt on Monday, saying: “Fourteen million people voted for me to be the Democratic nominee, OK? I listen to them.
— Rebecca Picciotto
Trump says he will cut corporate income tax rate to 15%, but ‘it’s going to be hard’
Republican presidential candidate and former US President Trump and Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance at the Fiserv Forum on the first day of the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, July 15, 2024 React.
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Trump said that if he returns to the White House, he will significantly reduce the corporate tax rate to 15%.
“I would like to get it down to 15, if we can, because that would put us at the absolute lowest level in terms of incentives,” Trump said in a statement. Interview with Bloomberg Businessweek Conducted on June 25th and released on Tuesday afternoon.
During his first term, Trump signed a tax reform bill that lowered the corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%.
Bloomberg pointed out in the interview that Trump recently promised to reduce the corporate tax rate by one percentage point to 20%.
Trump interjected that he preferred 20 percent to 21 percent because “I like simplicity. I prefer 20 percent.”
Trump added: “I would prefer 15 percent, but I think it’s going to be hard.”
— Kevin Breuninger
Day 2 lineup: Marco Rubio, Lara Trump, Nikki Haley and more
Former President Donald Trump attends the Republican National Committee convention in Milwaukee.
The second day of the Republican National Convention will feature speeches from a group of Republican lawmakers and other prominent political figures, including several former Trump campaign opponents.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who ran against Trump in the 2016 presidential primary and was a recent finalist as Trump’s running mate, is set to speak.
Trump chose Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance at the top of the list. Soon after the choice was announced, Rubio was quick to express his support.
Also on the agenda is Trump’s former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, who challenged Trump in the 2024 Republican primary but did not immediately endorse him after ending her presidential campaign.
Haley said in her exit speech that Trump must “win the votes of Republicans who don’t support him.” She later endorsed Trump and before the convention released her rep. That way they could pursue his nomination.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, once seen as Trump’s strongest challenger in the primary, is also on the list.
Other speakers included: Lara Trump, handpicked by the Republican nominee to serve as Republican National Committee co-chair in March; Kari Lake, who lost the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial race and is currently Running for Senate; New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, chair of the House Republican Conference; Vivek Ramaswamy, entrepreneur and former presidential candidate; and Many others.
Also on the schedule is another group of speakers labeled “Everyday Americans.”
— Kevin Breuninger
Vice presidential candidate Harris and Vance have phone call
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican vice presidential candidate U.S. Senator Vance.
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Three sources told NBC that Vice President Kamala Harris and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) have spoken by phone.
A source said Vance, who was announced as Donald Trump’s running mate on Monday, initiated the call. Another source described the call as brief and sweet.
As NBC previously reported, Harris left a voicemail for Vance on Monday night congratulating him and encouraging him to accept the Aug. 13 vice presidential debate.
——Josephine Rozelle
Secret Service steps up protection for Trump after Iran assassination plot
Shortly after Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump was injured at a Pennsylvania rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 13, 2024, Secret Service agents were preparing to host the Republican National Convention (RNC). A fence was set up outside the Cerf Forum.
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Trump Secret Service steps up protection after U.S. officials learn of incident iranian conspiracy Kill the former president.
The increased level of protection for Trump comes weeks before Pennsylvania man Thomas Crooks attempted to assassinate the Republican candidate at a campaign rally.
Crooks has no known ties to the Iranian conspiracy.
But the revelation of the Iranian plan and the Secret Service’s response to it raises more questions about why the Secret Service failed to intercept Crooks before he opened fire on Trump and others at the rally, killing one of them. .
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Trump echoed vaccine conspiracy theories in leaked call with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Footage leaked on Tuesday morning Trump expresses anti-vaccine conspiracy theory In a conversation with third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The video also shows Trump telling his ostensible rival, “I hope you can do something. I think it would be very good for you and it would mean a lot to you.”
When Trump added that “we’re going to win” the election, Kennedy replied: “Yes.”
The conversation came after Trump suffered an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
Both Trump and Kennedy have said many times be opposed to The Republican National Convention is taking place in Milwaukee on Monday.
— Kevin Breuninger
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez found guilty in corruption case
U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) speaks to the media as he emerges from federal court in Manhattan on July 16, 2024 in New York City.
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senator. Bob MenendezThe New Jersey Democrat, who once chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was found guilty in federal court in New York of all criminal counts related to accepting bribes from three businessmen.
Menendez’s conviction comes as Democrats hold a slim majority in the Senate and Republicans hope to take control of the chamber in November elections.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., urged Menendez to resign.
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Biden is brewing major Supreme Court reform proposal: NBC News
A stop sign in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, DC, USA on June 1, 2024.
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President Biden is working on a sweeping set of Supreme Court reform proposals that would include possible term limits for judges and new ethics rules, three sources confirmed to NBC News.
Sources said the news could be announced in the coming weeks.
During a closed-door virtual meeting with members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus on Saturday, Biden said he had been consulting with constitutional scholars for more than a month on the proposed legislation, a person familiar with the matter told NBC News.
A White House spokesman declined to comment to NBC News.
Biden’s proposed Supreme Court reform would see the high court rule that Trump has immunity Immunity from criminal prosecution for “official acts” committed while he was president. The decision creates serious complications for Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s four-count indictment. election interference against the former president.
“Look, this is not, this is not hyperbole, to say that Trump is actually an existential threat to the democratic constitution that we say we care about,” Biden told lawmakers at Saturday’s meeting, sources said. existential threat.
The congressional session comes before Donald Trump was assassinated at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday night.
Trump scored another major legal victory on Monday from Florida federal judge Aileen Cannon, who dismissed special counsel Smith’s case accusing the former president of unlawful detention. secret document at his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. Smith plans to appeal the ruling.
— Rebecca Picciotto
House Democrats pass on letter urging Democratic National Committee to slow down Biden nomination
U.S. President Joe Biden leaves the White House for Las Vegas on July 15, 2024 in Washington, DC. USA.
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House Democrats have been gathering signatures for a letter urging the Democratic National Committee to slow down the nomination process for President Joe Biden.
The Democratic National Committee decided in May that it would hold a “virtual roll call” for delegates to vote and formally designate a presidential candidate, a process that could begin as early as Sunday.
The virtual roll call would put Biden as the nominee just weeks before the Democratic National Convention, where delegates have historically voted in person.
With Democrats still having significant reservations about Biden’s re-election, the lawmakers wrote in the letter that it would be a “terrible idea” for the Democratic National Committee to speed up its nomination timeline.
Two sources told NBC News that the letter received signatures earlier Tuesday from more than 20 Democrats with varying views on Biden’s political future. The Democratic National Committee and the Biden campaign both support a virtual roll call.
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— Rebecca Picciotto
