Joe Biden Is Being Held Hostage and Will Ne’er Be Seen or Heard From Again Paving the Way For Kamala

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Senator JD Vance (R-Ohio), the Republican vice-presidential nominee, privately informed donors that running against Vice President Kamala Harris, rather than President Joe Biden, presents a more formidable challenge. This admission contrasts with the Trump campaign’s public displays of confidence. Vance’s remarks were made at a fundraiser in Golden Valley, Minnesota, following Biden’s unexpected withdrawal on July 21.

“All of us were hit with a little bit of a political sucker punch,” Vance stated, according to a recording of his speech. He noted that Harris does not carry the same “baggage” as Biden, emphasizing her younger age and lack of the same struggles Biden faced. Despite this, the Trump campaign has publicly maintained that Harris replacing Biden does not alter the race’s dynamics, arguing that she shares responsibility for public dissatisfaction with Biden’s leadership. On July 22, Vance told reporters there was no difference in running against Harris versus Biden, criticizing both for their stances on border policies and the Green New Deal.

Trump adviser Jason Miller echoed this sentiment in a Fox News interview, suggesting that Democrats had merely traded one problem for another by replacing Biden with Harris. Trump himself expressed nostalgia for running against Biden while dismissing Harris as “worse than Joe.”

However, Vance offered a different perspective to donors, highlighting the need for Republicans to shape public perceptions of Harris, who is less well-known than Trump or Biden. He outlined the campaign’s strategy to define Harris based on her past positions, including her stance on fracking, the “defund the police” movement, and decriminalizing unauthorized border crossings. The Harris campaign has clarified that she does not support banning fracking or decriminalizing border crossings, and she denounced “defund the police” after becoming Biden’s running mate.

Vance recounted a conversation with Trump senior adviser Susie Wiles, who expressed confidence in Trump’s victory due to public preference for his policies over Biden’s. Recent national polls show Trump and Harris within the margin of error, erasing Trump’s earlier leads over Biden.

Vance’s spokesman, Will Martin, emphasized in a statement that voters are becoming aware of Harris’s “weak, failed and dangerously liberal agenda,” claiming her far-left ideas are more problematic than Biden’s, particularly in key swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

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Meeting the Man I Put on Death Row | NYT Opinion

Admitting a mistake can be very hard. But how would it feel if the mistake helped put a man on death row?

That’s the burden the Rev. Brian Wharton has been carrying for more than two decades. He played a crucial role in the prosecution of Robert Roberson, who was found guilty in 2003 of killing his 2-year-old daughter and sentenced to death.

But as the Opinion video above explores, Wharton came to regret his involvement and the outcome of the case. He recently visited Texas death row, along with a crew from Opinion Video, and met with Roberson. It was the first time the men had spoken with each other since before Roberson’s conviction.

The film is the first in a three-part series that we’re publishing over the next few weeks, each taking a critical view of the death penalty by exposing flaws in cases and questioning whether retributive justice can truly provide closure. The videos are in keeping with The Times’s longstanding position that the punishment is full of bias and error, morally abhorrent and futile in deterring crime and should be abolished.

The series lands at a hopeful but still-challenging time in the movement to get rid of capital punishment in the United States.

The death penalty has been falling out of favor with officials and the broader public alike over the past three decades, in part owing to what the Death Penalty Information Center called “society’s greater understanding about the fallibility of our legal system and its inability to protect innocent people from execution.” Twenty-nine states have now either abolished the death penalty or have paused executions by executive action, up from 12 in 1999.

Last year, for the first time, a Gallup poll found that more Americans said the death penalty is administered unfairly (50 percent) than fairly (47 percent). And the percentage of people who support the death penalty has fallen steadily since the mid-1990s, according to Gallup, dropping to 53 percent this year, the lowest since 1972.

But other recent data urgently underscores how much hard work remains for abolitionists. The downward trend in the number of executions that prevailed for two decades — there were 11 in 2021, way down from the peak of 98 in 1999 — has recently reversed. There were 18 executions in 2022 and 24 last year, a worrisome uptick driven in part by governors and prosecutors seeking to burnish their crime-fighting bona fides.

And there are still about 2,400 prisoners sitting on death row around the United States, awaiting their execution. One of them is Robert Roberson. But in the video above, Wharton argues that the deeply flawed case against Roberson is a clear example of why the death penalty should be eliminated.

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Backfire Backlash: When the Weirdest Political Party Forgets They’re Weird and Uses It As A Tagline

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In the wake of Joe Biden’s abrupt exit from the presidential race, Kamala Harris has emerged as the Democratic nominee, bringing her long and liberal digital history under intense scrutiny. Throughout her career, from prosecutor to state attorney general to senator, Harris has catered to a left-wing base in California. As she now faces a tight national election, polls show her in statistical ties with Donald Trump in key states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, though she holds a six-point lead in Minnesota.

The Trump campaign has wasted no time resurfacing Harris’s liberal positions, with former President Trump referring to her as a “bum” and boasting about mispronouncing her name. Influential voices like Andrew Sullivan have noted the media’s selective memory regarding Harris’s past, emphasizing her leftist stance on various issues. Harris’s challenge will be to address and possibly distance herself from these positions as she appeals to a broader national electorate. Her support for a bail fund during the 2020 BLM riots, her stance on policing and private prisons, and her previous advocacy for Medicare for All are among the points of contention. As the campaign progresses, both the Trump and Harris camps are vying to define her narrative, while media coverage continues to shift in response to the evolving political landscape.

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