Kamala Harris’ VP search enters final hours as she turns down Trump’s debate proposal: Live updates – UK Times

The answer to this could well be a short, sharp “no” as the Kentucky Governor was not among those reported to have been visiting Chez Harris on Sunday.

BUT, The Guardian notes that he abruptly cancelled a public appearance on Friday without explanation, a hint that he might have been called away from duties to huddle with the Veep.

Beshear has been impressive attacking JD Vance in recent weeks and, amazingly, has the highest approval rating of any Democratic governor in the country, with 67 per cent of Kentuckians holding a favorable impression of him, this despite no Democratic presidential contender winning his state since 1996.

Here’s Andrew Feinberg’s profile.

The two rivals are still yet to agree on a date for their first televised presidential debate, with Kamala Harris preferring to stick to ABC’s September 10 broadcast (as agreed between Joe Biden and Donald Trump) and the Republican proposing an alternative on Fox News on September 4, which the Democrat has rejected.

If her stepmother wins the presidency, 25-year-old artist and model Ellie Emhoff will help destroy the cookie-cutter stereotypes surrounding political offspring, writes Katie Rosseinsky.

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker released a video late last week urging Americans to support Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro “for vice president,” sparking speculation that Harris’s pick for running mate had been leaked.

Here’s more from Kelly Rissman.

A reality TV star, former president and convicted felon is taking on a career prosecutor, former senator and vice president.

Here’s Gustaf Kilander on their respective records.

Former House speaker Nancy Pelosi has claimed that she “did not call one person” in the weeks before President Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race – despite widespread reports that the powerful Democrat had been key in his decision to step down.

Here’s John Bowden on what she had to say.

Kamala Harris’ campaign has launched “Republicans for Harris” with endorsements from former Trump administration officials and prominent conservatives.

The initiative is “a grassroots organizing program to further outreach efforts to the millions of Republican voters who continue to reject the chaos, division, and violence of Donald Trump and his Project 2025 agenda,” the Harris campaign said in a statement on Sunday.

Notable endorsements include former White House press secretary and Melania Trump chief-of-staff Stephanie Grisham and former homeland security and counterterrorism advisor to Mike Pence, Olivia Troye.

The Republican has insisted that he and running mate JD Vance aren’t “the weird ones” as the presidential candidate fights to combat Democrat messaging to the contrary.

Trump made the remarks Thursday on the The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, a conservative political podcast, following days of messaging from Kamala Harris’s campaign dubbing her rivals “weird.”

“Well, they’re the weird ones, and if you’ve ever seen [Harris] with the laugh and everything else, that’s a weird deal going on there,” he said.

“They’re the weird ones. Nobody’s ever called me weird. I’m a lot of things, but weird I’m not and I’m up front, and he’s not either, I will tell you, JD is not at all. They are.

“You notice the evening news, every one of them talk, you know, they introduced the word weird, and all of a sudden they’re talking about weird.

“Now, we’re not weird people. We’re actually just the opposite. We’re right down the middle.”

Still sounds weird to me.

Here’s Katie Hawkinson with more.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr is once again firefighting a bizarre story from his past after he wildly confessed to dumping a dead bear cub in New York City’s Central Park a decade ago.

Seemingly attempting to get ahead of the publication of a forthcoming article in The New Yorker magazine, RFK Jr posted a video on X recounting the wild tale to former sitcom actress Roseanne Barr.

Over on his social media platform, the Republican is sounding desperate indeed as he claims the markets are spooked by Kamala Harris and that an economic crisis is coming if she wins in November.

He’s also been claiming, bizarrely, that the Biden administration “hates farmers” (why?) and that the media is trying to cover up his assassination attempt, rather than naturally losing interest a month after it happened, with a great deal else going on.