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Campaign says it saw ‘unprecedented grassroots support’ as about 66% of total fundraising came from first-time donorsKamala Harris raised $200m in the week since she was endorsed by Joe Biden, her team said, as the vice-president appears to be drawing increased enthusiasm to her campaign.Harris for President said about 66% of the total came from first-time donors, as the campaign said it had seen “unprecedented grassroots support”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/29/kamala-harris-fundraising-volunteers-first-campaign-week Author : Adam Gabbatt and agencies Publish date : 2024-07-29 10:00:18 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

New attack line on Trump seems to be sticking, simplifying Biden’s threats to democracy warnings. Plus, US beat Germany at soccer in ParisGood morning.US Democrats have spent recent days trying out a relatively new attack line on Donald Trump: that he is weird.What are the polls saying? Harris is showing an uptick on Biden but still behind Trump. According to averages based on New York Times/Siena College polls, Trump is averaging 48% compared with Harris on 46%.What attack lines are Republicans deploying against Harris? Several Republicans on Sunday tried to portray Harris as a “dangerous liberal” with far-left politics.What’s been

Pat McFadden says ministers have discovered new information about government’s spending liabilities since taking officeGood morning. After three weeks as chancellor, Rachel Reeves will today present the most significant policy announcement of the new Labour government so far. Think of it as an inverse budget. Budgets are all about how the government intends to spend money. According to the extensive briefing about this statement, instead it will mostly focus on what the government won’t be spending, on projects it is cancelling because supposedly the last administration kept them on the books without having the cash to fund or finish them.In

Ukrainian president says Russian forces continue to focus operations in direction of city of Pokrovsk after two villages were capturedUkrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said fighting in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine is “extremely challenging” and that Russian forces have continued to focus most of their offensive operations in the area in the direction of Pokrovsk.Zelenskiy said in his evening address:It is extremely challenging in the Donetsk directions, and it is in the Pokrovsk direction that there have been the biggest number of Russian assaults these weeks – the most intense enemy attacks are precisely there.Everyone who stops these