US Vice President Kamala Harris
WASHINGTON: When President Joe Biden named Kamala Harris as his running mate, there were whispers about her ambition would a former rival be a loyal soldier to a president she so sharply criticized on the campaign trail?
Fuelling those whispers was their relationship while cordial, it was initially not particularly close.
But 100 days into Biden s term, things look very different. Harris has become one of the administration s most prominent advocates for Biden s agenda, standing alongside him at most of his major announcements and building a relationship that aides say is closer than most presidents had with their seconds-in-command.
Prince Harry
returned to the US to be with his pregnant wife Meghan Markle after a trip to the UK for Prince Philip’s funeral that included meetings with the queen.
Harry met Queen Elizabeth twice, but there was no breakthrough in strained family relations, the couple’s biographer Omid Scobie reported in HarpersBazaar.com.
His plane landed at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday afternoon local time after more than 10 hours in the air.
Prince Harry and Meghan’s US television interview with Oprah Winfrey last month rocked the royal family with accusations of racism and indifference to Meghan s mental health struggles. At the time, Buckingham Palace said the issues raised would be dealt with privately by the family.
Former President Donald Trump staked his claim to the Republican Party in a closed-door speech to donors Saturday night, casting his populist policies and attack-dog politics as the key to future Republican success. Trump also reinforced his commitment to the GOP in his address, according to prepared remarks obtained by The Associated Press, which comes as Republican officials seek to downplay an intraparty feud over Trump s role in the party, his commitment to GOP fundraising and his plans for 2024. While Trump s advisers report he will emphasize party unity, he rarely sticks to script. “The key to this triumphant future will be to build on the gains our amazing movement has made over the past four years,” Trump told hundreds of leading Republican donors, according to the prepared remarks. “Under our leadership, we welcomed millions upon millions of new voters into the Republican coalition. We transformed the Republican Party into a party that truly fights for all America
The Atlantic
Democrats Are Short on Votes and Long on Irony
The party’s signature election-reform bill faces long odds in Congress, in part because of the problems it seeks to address.
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Call it a catch-535: Democrats in Congress are trying to pass a huge slate of voting-related reforms, under the name of the For the People Act, or H.R. 1, that could aggressively reshape U.S. elections, change the way Americans vote, and also go a long way toward alleviating the Democratic Party’s structural electoral disadvantages. But the Democrats have to pass this bill with the tight margins they have in the House of Representatives and the Senate, thanks in part to the same structural disadvantages. The party finds itself short on votes and long on irony.