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PremiumUS Presidential Elections 2024 Highlights: At a campaign event in Las Vegas, former President Barack Obama endorsed Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, highlighting her readiness for the presidency. He described Harris as a “champion for those in need" and emphasised her strong commitment to the values that define America.
Addressing the rally, Obama said, “America is ready to turn the page... We are ready for President Kamala Harris. And the good news is that Kamala Harris is ready for the job. This is a leader who has spent her entire life fighting on behalf of people who need a champion, somebody who believes in the values that built this country and she is as prepared for the job as any nominee for the president has ever been. In the White House, she will have an outstanding partner, Governor Tim Waltz."
Moreover, Obama will join the Democratic nominee in Georgia on 24 October, while former First Lady Michelle Obama is scheduled to campaign with Vice President Kamala Harris in Michigan on October 26, Bloomberg reported citing a senior campaign official who requested anonymity.
Earlier, US Vice President Kamala Harris has reiterated her call for a ceasefire in the ongoing conflict in Gaza, Reuters reported. She emphasised the importance of leveraging the recent killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who played a significant role in orchestrating the October 7 attack.
All attention is focused on the high-stakes battle between US Vice President and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and former President and Republican nominee Donald Trump on November 5.
She is up against former President Donald Trump, who is eyeing a historic return to the White House after a bitter exit in 2020. If he wins, it would be the first time in over 100 years in US history, that a President would serve two non-consecutive presidential terms.
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Elon Musk held his first solo event in support of Donald Trump for president on Thursday, encouraging voters in the Philadelphia suburbs to register to cast their ballots and vote early, though some attendees shouted back, “Why?"
The America PAC event at Ridley High School's auditorium in Folsom featured the world's richest man speaking onstage in front of a large U.S. flag for roughly 15 minutes before taking questions from the crowd, many of whom wore “Make America Great Again" hats. (AP)
Kamala Harris rallied supporters in the swing state of Wisconsin on Thursday while Donald Trump stirred controversy with criticism of embattled ally Ukraine, as the rivals vied for the remaining undecided voters in a deadlocked US presidential election.
The candidates are racing toward Election Day on November 5 with the Democratic vice president narrowly leading her Republican rival nationally and in several crucial swing states, although most polls are within the margin of error.
The World Bank's climate policies are an example of "development done smart," and are unlikely to be scaled back regardless of who wins November's US presidential election, the head of the development lender told AFP.
The World Bank recently committed to increasing its climate financing from 35 percent of total lending to 45 percent for the financial year ending June 30, 2025, with the money split between climate change adaptation and mitigation.
The bank almost reached the 45 percent target last year, and is on track to beat it this year, World Bank President Ajay Banga said in an interview Thursday ahead of the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington next week. (AFP)
With three weeks left in the presidential campaign, Democrat Kamala Harris is spending most of her days trying to shore up support in the “blue wall" states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin as she tries to avoid a repeat of Hillary Clinton’s collapse there eight years ago.
Her schedule reflects the Democratic nominee’s focus on her most likely path to victory over Republican candidate Donald Trump.
Harris visited Milwaukee on Thursday seeking support from college-age voters. (AP)
Donald Trump has had a tough time finding a consistent message to questions about abortion and reproductive rights.
The former president has constantly shifted his stances or offered vague, contradictory and at times nonsensical answers to questions on an issue that has become a major vulnerability for Republicans in this year's election. Trump has been trying to win over voters, especially women, sceptical about his views, especially after he nominated three Supreme Court justices who helped overturn the nationwide right to abortion two years ago.
The latest example came this week when the Republican presidential nominee said some abortion laws are “too tough" and would be “redone." (AP)
Fox News Channel said its first formal sitdown with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris attracted 7.1 million viewers, the most for an interview during the 2024 political season.
The half-hour interview, which aired at 6 p.m. New York time on Wednesday, drew a bigger audience than other Harris appearances, including on CBS News’ 60 Minutes and on ABC’s The View, the network said. (Bloomberg)
With three weeks left in the presidential campaign, Democrat Kamala Harris is spending most of her days trying to shore up support in the “blue wall" states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin as she tries to avoid a repeat of Hillary Clinton’s collapse there eight years ago.
Her schedule reflects the Democratic nominee’s focus on her most likely path to victory over Republican candidate Donald Trump.
Harris is in Milwaukee on Thursday seeking support from college-age voters.
She dropped by a business class at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is holding a student rally at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She closes out the day with a rally in Green Bay. (AP)
Elon Musk's X has updated its terms of service to steer any disputes by users of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter to a federal court in Texas whose judges frequently deliver victories to conservative litigants in political cases.
New terms of service that will take effect on Nov. 15 specify that any lawsuits against X by users must be exclusively filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas or state courts in Tarrant County, Texas. (Reuters)
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban hammered Republican Donald Trump over his vow to implement sweeping tariffs, calling it a “stupid" move that would only raise costs for US households already worried about high prices.
“We all know that across-the-board tariffs are a tax on everybody," Cuban said at a campaign event for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on Thursday. “Hear me when I say: Donald Trump wants you to have a lousy Christmas."
Cuban is a longtime Trump critic and one of Harris’ most vocal advocates in the business community. A co-owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks who also appears on the television show Shark Tank, Cuban has a net worth of $7.9 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. (Bloomberg)
Turnout for early in-person voting started strong Thursday in the presidential battleground of North Carolina, including in mountainous areas where Hurricane Helene destroyed property and upended lives but apparently did not dampen a fierce desire to participate in elections.
More than 400 early voting sites opened as scheduled for the 17-day period, including all but four of the 80 sites previously anticipated for the 25 western counties hardest hit by the storm, said State Board of Elections Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell. She credited election workers — including volunteers impacted by the severe weather — emergency management officials and utility crews.
Elon Musk used grim and foreboding language to encourage voters in Pennsylvania to support Donald Trump, aiming to rally his base in this key swing state.
“The reason I’m here in person is because Pennsylvania is so important to the future of the world," Musk said at an event in the Philadelphia area hosted by America PAC, the super political action committee he created earlier this year, Bloomberg reported.
“I think this election is going to decide the fate of America. And along with the fate of America, the fate of western civilization," he added.
US Elections 2024 Live Updates: Options prices anticipate that Treasury yields across maturities will move about 18 basis points immediately after the election, according to Harley Bassman, who created the MOVE Index of expected Treasury market volatility in 1994. For the rest of the rolling one-month period, the expected average daily move is 6 basis points, he said.
US Elections 2024 Live Updates: US President Joe Biden announced Thursday further student debt relief for public servants -- amounting to around $4.5 billion -- with just over two weeks to go until the presidential election.
The action affects about 60,000 borrowers across the country, said the White House, touting Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris's efforts to improve loan forgiveness since taking office.
US Vice President and Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris gave her first formal interview on Fox News on Wednesday evening.
She expressed concerns that many Americans have about Donald Trump.
Harris highlighted that several national security leaders and former Trump associates have spoken out against him.
According to Harris, these individuals, including those who worked closely with Trump, view him as unfit and dangerous.
