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Election 2024 live updates: Harris and Walz kick off bus tour in Georgia; Vance hits Pennsylvania, Wisconsin

Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are holding a series of campaign events in the battleground state of Georgia.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz acknowledging the crowd at a campaign rally.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, pictured at a campaign rally in Milwaukee last week, are campaigning in Georgia and will conduct their first joint interview tomorrow.Jeffrey Phelps / AP

What to watch on the campaign trail today

  • Vice President Kamala Harris traveled today to Georgia, where the campaign is kicking off a bus tour of the battleground state.
  • Harris&#x27; running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, spoke at the International Association of Fire Fighters convention in Boston this morning before he joined Harris in Georgia.
  • Former President Donald Trump&#x27;s running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, visited Erie, Pennsylvania, to speak about the economy. In response to a question about an incident that took place at Arlington National Cemetery during Trump&#x27;s visit Monday, Vance lashed out at Harris over the Biden administration&#x27;s handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying she can "go to hell."

Vance defends his comments about teachers union president who he said &#x27;ought to have her own&#x27; children

Vance appeared to double down on his 2021 criticism of American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, in which he said that "if she wants to brainwash and destroy the minds of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone."

Vance said he was not reiterating those sentiments to reporters today, saying, "I just said if she wants to brainwash anybody’s kids, she ought to have her own and leave mine alone."

He also pushed back against reports of an “incident” between two members of Trump’s campaign team and an official at Arlington National Cemetery, telling reporters there has been outsized focus on the story.

Trump team downplays Arlington ‘incident’ in an effort to minimize political fallout

Trump’s campaign is playing down reports of an altercation during his visit to Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, a move that signals its concern about potential political fallout from the incident.

“A nameless bureaucrat at Arlington whose job it is to preserve the dignity of the cemetery is doing the complete opposite in trying to make what was a very solemn and respectful event into something it was not,” said Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita, a retired Marine who was with Trump on Monday at the cemetery in the Virginia suburbs of Washington.

Trump has long portrayed himself as a champion of service members and veterans — an image bolstered by participants in Monday’s ceremony. But he has also created a pattern of disparaging service members that has led even some former aides to question the authenticity of his support for the military.

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‘Swifties for Kamala’ joins forces with Carole King and Elizabeth Warren to raise $142,000

Some members of Taylor Swift’s massive fan base are organizing and taking action for their preferred presidential candidate — even without the pop star’s public support.

“Swifties for Kamala,” which has no official affiliation with Swift or Harris, had raised $142,000 for Harris as of this afternoon, said Irene Kim, a co-founder of the organization and its executive director.

Most of it — $122,000 — was collected during a Zoom event the group hosted yesterday. About 34,000 people joined the roughly two-hour call, which featured appearances from singer-songwriter Carole King and Sens. Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts, Kirsten Gillibrand, of New York, and Ed Markey, of Massachusetts; and Reps. Chris Deluzio, of Pennsylvania, and Becca Balint, of Vermont.

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Exclusive: &#x27;Moms Oppose McCormick&#x27; launched in Pennsylvania

More than 140 mothers across Pennsylvania are launching a “Moms Oppose McCormick” coalition, including health care workers, community leaders and educators, in support of Democratic Sen. Bob Casey's re-election campaign against businessman David McCormick.

Democratic Reps. Madeleine Dean, Mary Gay Scanlon and Chrissy Houlahan are chairing the coalition.

“Senator Casey has a record of fighting to make a difference for women and families across Pennsylvania,” Casey's campaign said in a news release, crediting Casey’s work on a variety of topics, including abortion rights and paid family leave.

Citing the issue of abortion, Dean said in a statement that "McCormick has shown time and again that he does not stand with Pennsylvania women, girls, mothers and families."

McCormick has said that life begins at conception and that he supports exceptions to restrictions on abortion for rape, incest and the life of the woman. He has said more recently that abortion is a "polarizing" issue and that he would like to "find common ground" rather than take an extreme position, adding that he does not support a national abortion ban and reiterating his support for exceptions to restrictions.

In response to a request for comment, McCormick's campaign tried to tie Casey to both Harris and Biden.

“Weak, liberal career politician Bob Casey is trying to distract from the fact that Pennsylvania families are being crushed by the high cost of living because the liberal Biden-Harris-Casey agenda has failed them," McCormick press secretary Nate Sizemore said in a statement. "Commonwealth parents are desperate for strong leadership in Washington, and that’s why in addition to curbing inflation Dave has put forward a comprehensive pro-family agenda to make fertility services like IVF more affordable, expand access to contraceptives, and lower childcare costs."

Randi Weingarten says an educator &#x27;doesn&#x27;t have to be a parent to be a great teacher&#x27;

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said today that being a parent isn't a requirement for being a good teacher.

“Teaching children is one of the most important things we can do, regardless of whether we are parents or not,” Weingarten said in an MSNBC interview, adding that an educator "doesn't have to be a parent to be a great teacher."

Remarks that resurfaced yesterday showed Vance harshly criticizing Weingarten in 2021 for not having "some of her own" kids.

Weingarten also noted during today's interview that her partner, Sharon Kleinbaum, has two kids.

“I consider them my kids now, and it’s wonderful to have a big family, with lots of nieces and nephews,” she said.

Weingarten, who spoke at the Democratic National Convention last week after her union endorsed Harris last month, also praised the Democratic ticket.

"You know, teachers get dissed a lot. So when you see a Tim Walz and when you see a Kamala Harris picking him, it says, a lot about opportunity," she said. "And it says a lot to teachers — about who we are and what we represent."

FBI: Trump shooter searched for info on Republican, Democratic conventions

Reporting from Washington

The man who tried to assassinate Trump last month had searched for information on both the Republican and Democratic national Conventions before he opened fire at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, FBI officials told reporters today, suggesting that the Trump event was a “target of opportunity.”

FBI officials also said they had found no indication or evidence that any co-conspirators worked with Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, who tried to kill Trump just days before he accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the party’s convention.

“I want to be clear: We have not seen any indication to suggest Crooks was directed by a foreign entity to conduct the attack,” FBI Assistant Director Bobby Wells told reporters.

Read the full story here.

Trump world rolls out the red carpet for RFK, hoping he can help woo skeptics

As 21 columns of fire shot out of the stage, Trump walked out in front of a booming crowd in Phoenix last week to introduce the exiled scion of Democratic royalty he hoped would, once again, reset the campaign.

“Had he been allowed to enter the Democratic primary, he would have easily beaten Joe Biden,” Trump told a huge crowd about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who stood onstage prepared to endorse him over the objection of his own family. “But they would not let him.”

Kennedy’s support for Trump comes after weeks of momentum by Harris. Biden’s exit from the race gave her a polling boost, which even Trump’s team expects to continue after last week’s widely watched Democratic National Convention.

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Vance says Harris &#x27;can go to hell&#x27; while discussing 2021 deaths of U.S. service members at Abbey Gate

Vance told reporters during a question-and-answer part of a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, that Harris can "go to hell," condemning her and the Biden administration over the attack at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan in 2021, in which 13 U.S. service members died.

Vance was answering a reporter's question about an "incident" at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, when Trump visited Section 60 with relatives of those service members.

"Three years ago, 13 brave, innocent Americans died, and they died because Kamala Harris refused to do her job, and there hasn't been a single investigation or a single firing," Vance said. "Sometimes mistakes happen. That's just the nature of government, the nature of military service, but to have those 13 Americans lose their lives and not fire a single person is disgraceful. Kamala Harris is disgraceful."

Vance said that if they're going to discuss a story related to Abbey Gate, "it's that Kamala Harris is so asleep at the wheel that she won't even do an investigation into what happened, and she wants to yell at Donald Trump because he showed up. She can — she can go to hell."

Supreme Court refuses to revive Biden’s latest student loan debt relief plan

The Supreme Court today rebuffed a Biden administration plea seeking to revive the latest plan to tackle federal student loan debt.

The court in a brief order denied an emergency request the administration filed seeking to lift a nationwide injunction imposed by an appeals court. No dissents were noted.

The Education Department issued a regulation finalizing its Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan in July 2023, the month after the Supreme Court ruled the administration lacked authority to implement Biden’s earlier loan forgiveness program.

Multiple conservative-leaning states, led by Missouri, challenged the new effort, like the previous one.

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Trump campaign ramps up efforts to win over Black women with new video

Trump’s campaign is releasing a video today featuring a group of Black women who plan to vote for him as he tries to make inroads with a key part of Harris’ base.

The video, titled “I’m Not With Her” and shared first with NBC News, includes more than a dozen Black women, several from battleground states, expressing their opposition to Harris, with some framing her as being out of touch with Black voters.

“I and millions of others Black Americans will cast my vote for Donald J. Trump,” Bebe Diamond of New York City said in the video.

An unnamed woman from Kalamazoo County, Michigan, featured in the video said she supports Trump because of the “economic policies our country experienced under his leadership as our 45th president.”

The video is one of the Trump campaign’s most direct efforts yet to win over Black women, a group that traditionally overwhelmingly supports Democratic candidates. In the 2020 election, 90% of Black women supported Biden, according to exit polls.

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Trump Media stock falls below $20 for first time

Kevin Breuninger, CNBC

The monthslong Trump Media stock slide continued today as shares of the company majority-owned by Trump fell below $20 for the first time since the Truth Social parent started trading under the ticker symbol DJT in March.

As of early afternoon, the stock had dropped around 75% from its intraday high on March 26, when the company debuted on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

Trump Media has also lost more than half its value since its surge on July 15, the first trading day after Trump survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

Trump owns nearly 59% of Trump Media’s stock. Even after it lost much of its value, Trump’s stake at today’s stock price is still worth more than $2.2 billion — more than half of his on-paper net worth, according to Forbes. He is allowed to start selling shares in the latter half of September.

Read the full story here.

Trump claims he would win California &#x27;if Jesus came down and was the voter counter&#x27;

In an hourlong interview with "Dr. Phil" McGraw that aired last night, Trump claimed that he would win California, a Democratic stronghold that he lost by more than 5 million votes, or nearly 2-to-1, in the 2020 election, if there was “an honest vote count.”

During the interview, Trump cast doubt on the legitimacy of mail-in ballots, calling them “terrible,” and baselessly claiming that they invite widespread voter fraud.

Trump cited the crowds at his rallies in California, which he described as “so big” that “there’s no way I could lose” the state.

“If Jesus came down and was the vote counter, I would win California,” he said, adding, “If we had an honest vote counter, I would win California.”

Trump made a similar claim at a California Republican Party meeting last year, telling the crowd that he would win the state if it weren’t for “the rigged election system.”

“We would win this state in a real election. ... We’d win this state by a lot,” Trump said then.

Trump, who faces criminal charges over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, has repeated without evidence that Democrats are perpetrating widespread voter fraud in elections.

Trump, without evidence, faults Biden and Harris over Secret Service protection

Trump claimed without evidence in an interview with talk show host "Dr. Phil" McGraw that Biden and Harris made it difficult for him to have adequate Secret Service protection at his campaign rallies.

In the interview, which was taped Friday and aired last night, he implied Biden and Harris may partly be to blame for the assassination attempt on him in July.

"He always made it very tough for us to have the proper number of Secret Service people. And I don’t know whose fault it is, but I will tell you, I’d have these massive rallies with 50-60,000 people, more, and our people were always fighting to get more security, more Secret Service, and he knew that we didn’t have enough, and he’d have a rally of three or four people," Trump said about Biden.

Trump added: "And yet he had a massive contingent of Secret Service, and I know that they wanted to have his people come over to these big rallies that I was having, and I know that it was a very tough situation. When this happened, people would ask, whose fault is it? I, to a certain extent, it’s Biden’s fault and Harris’ fault, and I’m the opponent."

There's no evidence Biden or Harris stood in the way of Trump’s receiving sufficient Secret Service protection at his campaign rallies.

Preliminary investigations have determined that the Secret Service had a number of failures in preventing the shooting.

The Secret Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Vance opens up on running with Trump: ‘We’re each trying to talk to different people in different ways’

A week ago, the rift between Trump and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp looked beyond repair, as Trump relentlessly ridiculed a popular battleground state Republican posing a potential mortal threat to his campaign.

Then Vance got Kemp on the line. 

Within hours of their phone call last week, Kemp, who along with his wife had been the target of vicious Trump attacks, was on Fox News publicly declaring his support for the GOP ticket. Soon after that, Trump was thanking Kemp for the kind words.

Vance, in an interview aboard his campaign plane Tuesday night, downplayed any role he might have had in brokering a truce, wagering that his was one of many important voices in Kemp’s ear. But he also described a strategy, blessed by Trump, that takes advantage of the idea that he can reason with or appeal to people in ways Trump cannot.

“A lot of similarities, but also a lot of differences, too,” Vance said, describing the dynamic between him and Trump. 

Read the full story here.

Walz denounces Trump on overtime benefits, minimum wage stance

In remarks at the International Association of Fire Fighters convention this morning, Walz criticized Trump's record as president by arguing that some of his policy positions didn't help workers.

"When Donald Trump was president, he blocked overtime benefits for millions of workers, he opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage, and he even proposed slashing budgets for federal fire service programs. Those are just simply facts. But look, it's not just what they've done, it's what they're going to do," Walz said in his speech in Boston.

The Trump administration in 2019 expanded overtime pay to more than 1 million workers, fewer than the number that would have been affected by an Obama administration plan that had been struck down in court, The Associated Press reported. In 2020, when Trump ran for re-election, he said at a debate against Biden that increasing the minimum wage would hurt small businesses and that states should decide the issue.

Walz said that Trump and Vance's goal is to enact proposals from Project 2025, "to screw the middle-class, making it harder for workers to collectively bargain, allowing employers to drastically cut overtime or eliminate it, slash taxes for the ultrawealthy by imposing a national sales tax on the rest of us."

"I'm an old-time football coach," he said, referring to his days as a high school football coach when he taught social studies. "If you draw up a playbook, you plan on using it. Project 2025 is a plan to reshape what America looks like, moving away from the middle class and putting it right back on the oligarchs and the wealthy at the top."

Democrats hopeful Harris can reignite the magic of Obama’s 2008 run

CHICAGO — Hang out long enough at a Democratic event these days and someone will say it: “It feels like 2008.”

The packed arenas, the bonkers fundraisingearly reports of voter registration spikes, the hundreds of thousands of new volunteers who’ve stepped forward — and all of it in just the five weeks since Vice President Kamala Harris moved to the top of the ticket — have had Democrats betting they’ve captured the magic of 2008. It was a transformative year in Democratic politics, setting Barack Obama on a path to become the first Black president. He won decisively, taking 365 electoral votes. 

In interviews with party officials, volunteers and campaign officials, common themes emerged that they say make today reminiscent of 2008. Phone calls are streaming into their offices with voters proactively wanting to help, many from people who haven’t volunteered before. Younger voters are engaging. Small-dollar donations are pouring in, a third of which in the last week were from first-time donors. And large-dollar donors who hadn’t given to the party in years are getting off the sidelines.   

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RFK Jr.&#x27;s sister Kerry Kennedy campaigns for Harris

Kerry Kennedy will join Latino Labor leaders — including Dolores Huerta, who co-founded United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez in the 1960s — today in Phoenix to campaign for Harris.

Latino voters are a key voting bloc for delivering battleground states such as Arizona and Nevada this election.

Kennedy has been outspoken about her brother Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to endorse Trump last week. She released a statement signed with four other of her and RFK Jr.'s siblings denouncing Kennedy's endorsement of Trump and calling it a "betrayal" of their family's values.

RFK Jr. gets name off Nevada ballot despite issues in other swing states

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got some good news in Nevada, where a court ruling will allow his name to be taken off the ballot there this fall after he dropped out and endorsed Trump.

The ruling came as part of a lawsuit Kennedy filed while he was still an active candidate attempting to secure a spot on the ballot. But the court order shows the two sides had agreed to drop the case, agreeing that Kennedy shouldn't be on the ballot.

Kennedy said when he dropped out last week that he wanted to remove his name from swing state ballots where he risked being a "spoiler." But state laws in Michigan and Wisconsin have prevented him from doing so there.

Trump shares statement from Abbey Gate victims&#x27; family members following &#x27;incident&#x27; at Arlington National Cemetery

Trump shared a statement on his Truth Social account from family members of the American service members who were killed at Abbey Gate in 2021, which came after reports of an "incident" at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday.

"We had given our approval for President Trump's official videographer and photographer to attend the event, ensuring these sacred moments of remembrance were respectfully captured and we can cherish these memories forever," the family members said in the statement posted by Trump.

NPR reported yesterday that two Trump campaign aides had a confrontation Monday with a cemetery official who tried to prevent them from filming. Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung denied part of the story, including that there was “no physical altercation.”

Arlington National Cemetery confirmed to NBC News that an "incident took place when Trump visited the site at Section 60 to mark the third anniversary of the Abbey Gate attack in Afghanistan.

The cemetery said in a statement that federal law bans political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries. It said that includes “photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate’s campaign."

Filming at Section 60 is typically heavily restricted.

Harris and Walz to target a &#x27;diverse coalition of voters&#x27; in southeastern Georgia

Tara Prindiville

Tara Prindiville and Summer Concepcion

Harris and Walz today are set to begin their first joint visit to Georgia with a bus tour through the southeastern part of the battleground state, which represents “a diverse coalition of voters, including rural, suburban, and urban Georgians — with a large proportion of Black voters and working class families,” Porsha White, Georgia state director at the Harris campaign, said in a memo.

White said there has been a “surge in momentum and grassroots energy on the ground” in Georgia, since Harris announced her campaign last month, including 190 campaign staffers across 24 offices and more than 35,000 volunteers.

Harris’ visit to southeast Georgia will be her 16th visit to the state since she took office as vice present and her seventh to the state this year, including twice in June, White said.

Biden narrowly won Georgia in the 2020 election “for the first time in nearly three decades, and we’re seizing on the energy and putting in the work to win again in 2024,” White said.

New video shows Nancy Pelosi calling Trump a ‘domestic enemy’ shortly after Jan. 6 attack

Hours after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and assaulted dozens of police officers in an attempt to reach members of Congress, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., referred to the then-president as “a domestic enemy.”

The comments came in video shot by documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, Pelosi’s daughter, that HBO recently turned over to Congress. NBC News yesterday reviewed more than 30 minutes of video from the roughly 48 hours surrounding the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, including video that showed Pelosi being led away from the building by her security detail as she pressed her staff members to get the National Guard to respond to the Capitol.

The newly surfaced remarks go further than the public ones she made Jan. 7, when she said Trump had “incited an armed insurrection against America” and “instigated” an attack that would “forever stain our nation’s history.”

Read the full story here.

Harris gives Democrats new hope in the ultracompetitive state of Georgia

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, who won Georgia in the 2020 election and again in 2022, has directly told Kamala Harris he’s “all in” on helping her defeat Donald Trump this fall.

But he warns it will be difficult.

“We built an architecture to win,” Warnock told a small group of reporters in Chicago during the Democratic convention last week. “I think we can put Georgia in the Harris-Walz column. I’m not going to pretend that that will be an easy thing to do. But can we do it? I absolutely believe that we can.”

Georgia will be front and center this week as Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, begin a bus tour together in the state today, which is scheduled to end in the Savannah area with a solo Harris rally tomorrow. The same day, Harris and Walz are set to do a joint TV interview, Harris’ first since she became her party’s nominee.

Joe Biden won Georgia by fewer than 12,000 votes over Trump in 2020, becoming the first Democrat to carry the longtime GOP stronghold in nearly three decades. Now it’s up to Harris to prove whether that was a fluke or whether Democrats can keep it in the blue column at the highest level.

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Harris campaign launches paid media campaign slamming Trump and Project 2025

The Harris campaign is launching an extensive ad campaign in battleground states focusing on Trump and Project 2025 in the lead-up to the Sept. 10 debate with ABC News.

The ads are both for digital and TV, and will air every day in every market across the country beginning today, according to the campaign.

It's not clear exactly how much money is being put forth for the ads. Harris' team did not provide a number but said that it would be an "eight figure investment in national TV placements," drawn from $370 million the campaign set aside for paid media between Labor Day and Election Day.

The Harris campaign said the theme of the ad campaign, "Control," would focus on Trump’s own words to tell battleground voters about what it called "the existential danger Trump’s Project 2025 agenda poses to American democracy, freedom, and the middle class."

The former president has sought to distance himself from Project 2025, a proposed blueprint by the Heritage Foundation for another Trump term, despite the involvement of his allies in the proposal.

First to NBC News: Pennsylvania Democrats launch program to give voters personalized election information

Shaquille Brewster

Emma Barnett and Shaquille Brewster

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Democrats are launching a digital program designed to direct voters to personalized information on candidates who will appear down their ballot in the battleground state this fall.

The goal is twofold: get the word out about the state’s Democratic candidates and give the state party access to valuable data. 

When organizers and volunteers hand out flyers about the upcoming election, there will now be a QR code that brings voters to the Pennsylvania Democrats’ website.  Once a voter scans the QR code, they will be directed to enter their name and address, which will provide them with information on which candidates they have the opportunity to vote for, as well as on polling locations and mail voting instructions. Each of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties and state House districts have distinct literature to promote candidates who will appear on the ballot. 

“When a voter used that QR code and accessed our website and got their information, we also tagged them in our vote builder database, so we knew that we had an interested voter that we could follow up with,” Mitch Kates, executive director of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, told NBC News. 

This will be the first presidential election cycle the state party will be using the “Vote Local PA” program, narrowing the focus down to the state House district level with nearly 400 distinct pieces of literature across Pennsylvania. 

“The path to the White House runs through Pennsylvania, and Democrats are meeting voters where they are — at the doors, on the phones, and in their communities — to share our party’s commitment to fight for the people, to lower costs, and to protect our freedoms,” the Democratic National Committee's acting co-executive director, Roger Lau, said in a statement.

“The DNC is investing more than ever before in state parties, supporting the largest-ever coordinated campaign on the ground in PA and backing innovative initiatives like Vote Local PA to reach every voter ahead of Election Day," he continued. "We know this election will be won in the states, and over the next 70 days, Democrats will engage voters in all 67 Pennsylvania counties with a targeted, tailored message on how we’ll deliver for them and their families this November.”

Arlington National Cemetery officials confirm an ‘incident’ during Trump’s visit

Arlington National Cemetery yesterday confirmed an incident took place when Trump visited there Monday to commemorate the third anniversary of the Abbey Gate attack in Afghanistan.

“We can confirm there was an incident, and a report was filed,” the statement read.

“Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries, to include photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate’s campaign,” said the cemetery in the Virginia suburbs of Washington. “Arlington National Cemetery reinforced and widely shared this law and its prohibitions with all participants.”

Trump participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Monday, marking the third anniversary of the deaths of 13 U.S. service members in an attack by the Islamic State terrorist group outside the Kabul international airport in Afghanistan. More than 150 Afghans were also killed. Parents of fallen service members have expressed anger at President Joe Biden’s administration for a lack of answers surrounding the attack.

After the ceremony, Trump headed to Section 60 of the cemetery, where some service members killed in Afghanistan and Iraq are buried and recording is typically heavily restricted.

Read the full story here.

Where&#x27;s Vance?

Trump’s running mate will hit battleground states in the Great Lakes region today, heading to Erie, Pennsylvania, in the early afternoon and the Green Bay, Wisconsin, area in the evening.

At both events, Vance is expected to deliver remarks on the economy, inflation and energy.

Walz vies for union vote in Boston

Walz will deliver remarks at the International Association of Fire Fighters convention in Boston as the Harris-Walz ticket vies for the union vote and markets the Minnesota governor as a labor champion.

“Governor Walz, a former union member himself, has a strong record of standing up for unions and delivering for workers — from joining the picket line and passing the most pro-worker package of laws in Minnesota history, to guaranteeing Minnesota workers paid sick, medical, and family leave,” a Harris-Walz campaign statement said.

The association is one of the largest labor unions, with 350,000 firefighters, rescue workers and emergency medical workers as members.

Harris heads to battleground Georgia

Harris is scheduled to depart Washington this afternoon for Savannah, Georgia.

The vice president will be holding a series of campaign events in the battleground state, which was closely contested in the 2020 election and ultimately went to a Democrat, Joe Biden, for the first time in nearly three decades.

The Harris-Walz ticket is hoping to continue that momentum as it leads a bus tour across Georgia and sits down for its first joint interview Thursday.