The #struggle for #Senate #control goes down to the wire as #spending sets new #records

#Billions of #dollars in #advertising are raining down on #voters across the #RustBelt, #RockyMountains and #American #southwest as the two major #political #parties portray their #opponent’s #candidates as #extreme in a #struggle for control of the #USSenate.

https://apnews.com/article/senate-control-spending-election-cruz-tester-brown-32f653b47ab80ce67bd9204342b2253a

#Trump #insults #Detroit while #campaigning in the #city.

Trump claimed the whole #country would end up like the #city if his #Democratic #opponent, #VicePresident #KamalaHarris, is #elected.

“The whole country will be like — you want to know the truth? It’ll be like #Detroit,” the senile #Republican #presidentialnominee said. “Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your #president.”

https://apnews.com/article/trump-detroit-2382e6f01ea6d236e8a2b755ff150580

#Democratic #Presidential #Nominee #KamalaHarris uses #townhall to show #empathy with #Latino #voters.

She made the #case that her #opponent does not care about the problems of the #middleclass.

Lets also not forget the whole #massdeportation thing, which in the #farright's eyes will also include those who are here #legally.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/10/nx-s1-5147253/kamala-harris-univision-town-hall

#VicePresident #KamalaHarris is working around the #mainstream #media and it’s #brilliant

Harris has had surprisingly #indepth #conversations with former #shockjock Stern, “#CallHerDaddy” #podcast #host #AlexCooper, late-night staple #StephenColbert, and #WhoopiGoldberg and the #ladies of “#TheView,” covering topics like #policy, the #threat to #democracy posed by her #opponent, her #political and #personal #background and more.

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/column/kamala-harris-stern-call-her-daddy-2Z4GKVGWA5GNPMVO6JT2LTKA6U/

#Montana #Democratic #Senator #JohnTester Asks #Republican #opponent #TimSheehy Why He Won’t #Apologize to #NativeAmericans About His #Racist #Remarks.

Instead of #apologizing, Sheehy leaned on his #militarybackground, #dismissing the #hateful #remarks as "#insensitive #jokes." He then pivoted to the classic #RepublicanPlaybook, quickly deflecting the conversation to attacking #immigration

#IndigenousPeople

https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/tester-asks-sheehy-why-he-won-t-apologize-to-native-americans-about-his-racist-remarks

7 things to watch at the #debate between #VicePresident #KamalaHarris and #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump.

Many are eager for Harris, known for her #resume and #reputation as a #prosecutor, to take her #Republican #opponent to task over his #unprecedented #criminal #record and to draw a #contrast on #criticalissues facing the #country in front of a #nationalaudience.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/09/harris-trump-presidential-debate-watching-guide/75019078007/

#Trump Has #Multi-#Platform #Meltdown for the Ages Over #Harris’ #DNC #Speech.

The #formerpresident #live-posted along with his #opponent’s #speech, then called #Conservative #News #networks to #rant about it

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-melts-down-kamala-harris-dnc-speech-1235086487/

#DonaldTrump: ‘I #Hate My #Opponent’.

He’s ready to go #personal in next month’s #debate against #VicePresident #KamalaHarris. #Advisers are urging #restraint.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-trump-i-hate-my-opponent-harris-debate-prep

#Olympic #boxer #ImaneKhelif #beat her #opponent. Then she got ‘#transvestigated.’

The reality, however, is that Khelif and Yu-Ting are not #transgender nor are they secretly #men.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2024/08/09/imane-khelif-olympics-transvestigations/74721372007/

#Olympic #boxers #ImaneKhelif & #LinYuting at centre of #gender #row, here’s what #science & #rules say.

#Algeria's Khelif, who beat #Italy's Carini in 46 secs, accused of being ‘#male’. #Taiwanese #YuTing's #opponent made #cross with their #fingers, apparently indicating double #XX #chromosome of a #woman.

https://theprint.in/science/olympic-boxers-imane-khelif-lin-yu-ting-at-centre-of-gender-row-heres-what-science-rules-say/2208852/

#Chinese #Taipei #fans #hammer #TERF #JKRowling over #antitrans #comments aimed at #boxer

Author, a vocal #opponent to #trans #rights, calls #LinYuting part of the ‘insanity’ of #trans #athletes competing in #womenssport

https://www.scmp.com/sport/paris-olympics-2024/buzz/article/3272917/taiwan-cancels-harry-potter-jk-rowlings-bears-netizens-wrath-trans-criticism

#Texas #Democrat #Loses #Primary After #Joining #GOP in #Support of #AntiLGBTQ #Bill

A #Texas #Democratic #lawmaker who broke with her #party by supporting a #ban on #genderaffirmingcare for #Trans Kids, was #ousted in a #primary #runoff that galvanized #LGBTQ+ #groups #nationwide who then #campaigned for her #opponent in the #race for the south #Houston seat.

https://time.com/6983505/texas-democrat-loses-primary-anti-lgbtq-bill/

#MikeJohnson symbolizes a new turn for the #religious #right.

During his first decades in #political #life, the newly elected #House #speaker was a vehement #opponent of #AbortionRights and greater #equality for #LGBTQ #people.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/politics/mike-johnson-donald-trump-religious-right/