SINGAPORE: A practising lawyer found himself standing sheepishly in the dock of the State Courts on Wednesday (Nov 6), after an alcohol-fuelled night out at Zouk nightclub in 2022.
US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 4, 2024.
Following Biden's dramatic withdrawal just months before Election Day, Harris threw her campaign together as if it were an airplane being built while in flight, her advisers told reporters. The 60-year-old former prosecutor and US senator pressed a case that Trump was a threat to democracy and women's rights, while promoting a populist economic platform and reproductive freedoms.
When asked by Reuters during the race about misinformation amplified by Trump, his campaign officials typically either repeated the falsehoods or did not respond to requests for comment. But those messages struggled to break through at a time when many voters were fixated on rising consumer prices during the first three years of the Biden administration.
The Harris and Trump campaigns and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Walz had generated buzz before Harris picked him by branding Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, as"weird" on national television in July, winning Democratic hearts and media attention. Later, though, Walz gained unwelcome attention for misstatements of his biography, including his military service, and for an uneven debate performance against Vance.
Still, even after Biden stepped aside, concerns lingered among some top White House aides over the former San Francisco district attorney's political skills – including a perception that she hadn't made a mark as VP, her short-lived campaign for the 2020 Democratic nomination and her limited experience courting conservative voters in battleground states. Some also questioned whether she could overcome the long history of racial and gender discrimination in the United States.
On the campaign trail, Harris mocked Trump's debate performance, including his comment that he had"concepts of a plan" to replace a federal health care law. As she gained in polls, Harris' campaign believed she was opening up states that had been out of reach for Biden, including North Carolina, where the president had his narrowest loss against Trump in 2020 and where she was drawing even in the polls with Trump.
The disaster, which killed more than 200 people, marked a shift in the race, as misinformation around the administration's response and Trump's hard-line rhetoric on immigration gained traction. The baseless claims included that the government covered-up deaths, confiscated charitable donations and diverted disaster funds to help immigrants.
Michigan's large population of Arab Americans and Muslims helped cement Biden's 2020 victory in the state. Trump turned off many of these voters in his first term, in part by banning immigration to the United States from a number of Muslim countries early in his tenure. Instead, the issue eroded Democratic support throughout much of 2024 as union workers and non-college-educated white voters broke for Trump, polls showed. Sharp increases in housing and food costs frustrated voters, overshadowing a strong job market. Trump blamed Harris for the spike during her and Biden's time in office.
Harris shifted strategy in an attempt to win over more men and Republicans. The campaign dispatched running mate Walz on a tour in mid-October to reach male voters. Harris also held campaign events with former lawmaker Liz Cheney, one of Trump's fiercest Republican critics and one of the most prominent conservatives to endorse the Democrat. Days later, Trump suggested Cheney should face gunfire in combat, drawing outrage among Democrats and pundits.
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