#President #JoeBiden's #administration sets #record for number of confirmed #LGBTQ #judges.

#MaryKayCostello #Senate #confirmation took place on Tuesday. 12 #LGBTQ #federal #judicialappointments have been made under the Biden-Harris administration

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/09/18/biden-harris-administration-sets-record-for-number-of-confirmed-lgbtq-judges/

#VicePresident and the #Democratic-#Nominee for #President #KamalaHarris condemns #Florida’s vile ‘#DontSayGay’ law.

Harris highlighted the #harm the #law has caused, during a #meeting with the #NationalAssociationofBlackJournalists on Tuesday (17 September).

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/09/19/kamala-harris-dont-say-gay-bill/

#Voters view #VicePresident #KamalaHarris more #favorably as she settles into #role atop #Democratic #ticket: #APNORC #poll

“Everyone talks about how #polarized we are. I don’t see the #election solving that”

https://apnews.com/article/ap-norc-poll-trump-harris-favorability-rating-3f0a52c889027df9b46f2d9407190217

[Video] 'A big #problem for #Republicans': High #favorability moves #HarrisWalz #Campaign ahead.

A key factor in the steadily rising #poll numbers for #VicePresident #KamalaHarris and #Coach #TimWalz is a buoyant #favorabilityrating with American #voters, an advantage #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump does not share. #SimonRosenberg, #political #strategist and #author of the "#HopiumChronicles," talks with #AlexWagner about what the latest #presidential #polls are showing.

https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-a-big-problem-for-republicans-high-favorability-moves-harris-walz-ahead-219675717705

#VicePresident #KamalaHarris closes the #trustgap with #Trump on the #economy.

Share of #registered #voters who say they have more #trust in one #candidate to handle the #economy

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/19/harris-trump-economy-trust-survey

#VicePresident #KamalaHarris hopes to turn #defending #Ukraine from #Russian #aggression into #winning #issue in #battle with #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump for #PolishAmerican #votes.

Although #PolishAmericans are not a particularly large #demographic, many of them live in the so-called “#bluewall” #states that are critical to #victory for either #candidate.

https://apnews.com/article/kamala-harris-polish-american-voters-trump-4a0bb4126ab2ded70cf78bb76501d7d9

#VicePresident #KamalaHarris steps up #outreach to #Mormon #voters in the #battlegroundstate of #Arizona

With nearly 450,000 members in the state, #LatterdaySaints and former #church #members could prove #critical in what will likely be an extremely #closerace.

https://apnews.com/article/mormons-trump-harris-arizona-outreach-fcfc9c2a7438b8e8af16f9422e376b96

#Column: This #bellwether #county picked 11 straight #presidential #winners. Here’s how it views #TrumpvsHarris.

“Anybody that #votes for #Trump,” Viramonte added, “must be #stupid.”

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-09-19/2024-election-trump-harris-presidential-campaign-americas-last-bellwether-clallam-county-washington

#National #Teamsters #Leadership Won’t #Endorse a #Candidate, So #Local #Unions are backing #VicePresident #KamalaHarris.

Several joint #councils in #battlegroundstates have #pledged their #support for Harris.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/teamsters-wont-endorse-candidate-councils-back-kamala-harris-1235106293/

We Can't Officially Endorse #VicePresident #KamalaHarris, But We Oppose #Trump and #Voting #ThirdParty Is a #Mistake. (So we are backhandedly endorsing her.)

Our #movement's best hope for #change lies in growing our #antiwar organizing power, and that power would be severely undermined by a Trump administration. #Prowar forces like #AIPAC may want to drive us out of the #democraticparty, but we’re here to stay.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/we-can-t-endorse-harris-but-we-oppose-trump-and-voting-third-party-is-a-mistake

From #Oprah #livestream to #houseparties, #Black #women marshal unprecedented #outreach for #VicePresident #KamalaHarris

“I absolutely was overwhelmed with what can only be described as #ancestralpride,” said Thompson, who lives in #Birmingham, #Alabama. But “literally two seconds” later, reality hit her, she said. “I was like, ‘Lord, we have #work to do.’”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/black-women-oprah-kamala-harris?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_flipboard

#Oprah Brings #StarPower to #Mobilize #SwingState #Voters for #VicePresident #KamalaHarris

The #billionaire #media #icon will join the #Democratic #presidentialcandidate in a live-streamed #townhall in #Michigan on Thursday, an effort to #getoutthevote as some #states begin distributing #absentee and #EarlyVoting #ballots this month and to potentially sway #undecidedvoters with under 50 days until #ElectionDay.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-19/oprah-brings-star-power-to-mobilize-swing-state-harris-voters

#VicePresident #KamalaHarris plans a #livestream with #OprahWinfrey while #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump is set to address an #Israeli-#American #group.

Winfrey, who has endorsed Harris and spoke at the #Democratic #convention in August, is set to host a two-hour “#UniteforAmerica” #nighttime #streaming session in #Michigan with Harris that #organizers say aims to highlight dozens of #grassroots #groups #backing the #vicepresident.

https://apnews.com/article/harris-trump-oprah-winfrey-miriam-adelson-f9384395f54a0d071ab52bca80d3659e

#OprahWinfrey hits the #campaigntrail for #VicePresident #KamalaHarris with #livestream #event.

The #livestream #event will be #hosted by #Oprah and will include #participation from dozens of #grassroots #groups, including #WinWithBlackWomen, #WhiteDudesforHarris, and others.

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/19/oprah-campaign-kamala-harris-livestream

These #evangelicals are #voting their #values — by backing #VicePresident #kamalaharris for #President

“I am tired of watching #meanness, #bigotry and recreational #cruelty be the worldly #witness of our #faith,” Scott said on the call. “I want #transformation, and transformation is #riskybusiness.”

https://apnews.com/article/evangelicals-harris-trump-christians-vote-9d5cb379dc3c2fdb3f4954c556a29ec5

Emails Reveal How #Minnesota #Governor #TimWalz Struggled to Deal With #Unrest, #Reach #Consensus With #Critics After #Outage over #Police #Murders of #GeorgeFloyd and #DaunteWright

They show how Walz struggled to balance the #need for #order in the streets against his #credibility with #activist #allies, while simultaneously trying to bridge the #ideologicaldivide between #progressives in his #party and #conservatives.

https://www.propublica.org/article/walz-police-reform-emails-after-george-floyd-daunte-wright-killings

#Coach #TimWalz #accelerates his #preparations for upcoming #debate with #ShadyVance.

#TransportationSecretary #PeteButtigieg has been Mtapped to play #Vance in #mock #debates.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/19/tim-walz-debate-prep-vance/

#Residents of #Springfield, #Ohio, #hunkerdown and #pray for a political firestorm to blow over.

Between the morning #bombsweeps of #Springfield’s #schools and the near daily afternoon #mediabriefings, a #hush comes over the city of 58,000 that #residents say is uncanny, haunting even. It’s #fear. It’s #confusion — #dismay at being transformed overnight into a #target for the nation’s #Racist #vitriol

https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-haitian-immigrants-springfield-ohio-7e8b09654c0dd90d72c884dbb798c71b

From '#rapists' to 'eating the #pets': #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump has long used #degradinglanguage toward #immigrants.

Trump’s lies about #Haitian #immigrants were simply his latest #hateful #rhetoric that #dehumanizes and #targets #immigrant #populations.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-degrading-language-immigrants-rcna171120

Ex-#Bush #WhiteHouse #Official Says #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump's #Springfield #Visit Could Arrive At 'Absolute Worst Time'.

#PeteSeat, a #spokesperson under #GeorgeWBush's #administration, warned Trump and Vance to "#stayaway" from a #community rocked by their #racist lies.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-pete-seat-trump-worst-time-springfield-visit_n_66ebb482e4b00b7ce259ac70

[Video] #Racist #lies from #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump-#ShadyVance create #public #hazard, stir national outcry.

Even as their #racist #lies about #Haitian #immigrants are wreaking #havoc in #Springfield, #Ohio, Trump and his #runningmate #JDVance have reasserted their #bogus #claims and made them the basis of their #antiimmigrant #campaign #push.

https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/racist-lies-from-trump-vance-create-public-hazard-stir-national-outcry-219677253705

#ShadyVance Says He Will Keep Calling #Haitians #Immigrants he knows are legally in the country ‘#Illegal’.

The #immigrants are mainly in the #UnitedStates under #temporaryprotectedstatus, which the #executivebranch can grant to people whose #home #countries are in #crisis.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/us/politics/vance-haitian-immigrants-illegal.html

#ShadyVance’s (#JDVance) #Weak #Excuse for his “#Pet Eating” #Lie Just #BlewUp In His Face.

At bottom, Vance’s whole purpose of running with this #grotesque #scam about #Haitians has not been to draw attention to the #story of #Springfield, but to #rewrite it.

https://newrepublic.com/series/48/jd-vances-weak-excuse-pet-eating-lie-just-blew-face

In a #Springfield #Haitian #Restaurant, #Love—and #Goat—#Conquer #Hate.

While #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump and #ShadyVance (#JDVance) try to tear an #Ohio #town apart, Ohioans themselves have a more heartening #response.

https://newrepublic.com/maz/article/186057/springfield-haitian-restaurant-love-goat-conquer-hate

[Audio] #Haitians consider #leaving #Springfield, #Ohio, after they're falsely #accused of #eating #pets.

#NPR's #LeilaFadel talks to #VilesDorsainvil about the #mood among Haitians in Springfield after #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump amplified #falseclaims about #Haitian #migrants there.

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/nx-s1-5114047/haitians-consider-leaving-springfield-ohio-after-theyre-accused-of-eating-pets