🎤 When the debate moderators gave Vice President Harris an opening to discuss aspects of her identity on Tuesday, she did what she's done throughout her campaign: focus on her values.
So rather than talk about her race and gender, she chided Trump for making divisive remarks and accused him of having a history of racism.
It was the latest example of how Harris — who could become the first woman to be U.S. president,typically has skirted past such questions and changed the subject.
📆 It's a contrast to how Hillary Clinton handled it eight years ago as the Democratic presidential nominee with a chance to make her own history.
🔎 Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Democrats' top investigator in the House, has a pretty clear idea of what probes his committee will pursue if Democrats retake the House majority, Axios has learned.
🥊 Committee leaders such as Raskin (D-Md.) are likely to have significant power to pursue their agendas if House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-Md.) becomes speaker, senior Democratic sources tell Axios.
Raskin is particularly well positioned as his panel, the House Oversight Committee, gradually has become the House's go-to investigative body.
🏎️ Driving the news: Raskin told Axios in an interview that Democrats would "probably have a pretty good start based on everything we've been asking the Republicans to look into, that they refuse to do."
"If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do. ... I say that we're creating a story, meaning we're creating the American media focusing on it.""
— Ohio Sen. JD Vance on CNN's "State of the Union," when asked by Dana Bash about his touting claims on social media that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating residents' cats.
Local officials say the claims are false.
đź’Ą Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) said on ABC's "This Week" there is "absolutely" no evidence Haitian immigrants are eating cats, adding that the conversation "needs to stop" as "hate groups" have been arriving in Springfield.
When the debate moderators gave Vice President Harris an opening to discuss aspects of her identity on Tuesday, she did what she's done throughout her campaign: focus on her values.
Why it matters: It was the latest example of how Harris — who could become the first woman to be U.S. president,typically has skirted past such questions and turned the subject toward her policy plans or criticism of Trump.
Members of Congress in both parties are pressing for former President Trump to receive enhanced Secret Service protection following a second apparent assassination attempt against him on Sunday.
Ronald Rowe, the deputy director of the U.S. Secret Service, was appointed this summer as the agency's acting director during a tumultuous moment of a chaotic election year.
Why it matters: Sunday's shooting at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, is likely to intensify lawmakers' scrutiny of the Secret Service.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Secret Service said Sunday that "we live in danger times" during a news conference after what appears to be an "attempted assassination" of former President Trump, per the FBI.
Why it matters: The Sunday incident at Trump's golf club in West Palm Beach, Fla., is the second time in about two months that the former president has been targeted inwhat appears tobe an attempt on his life.
GOP vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) dominated the political show lineup with several appearances Sunday, where he again spoke on unfounded claims that Haitian immigrants are eating cats in Ohio — a controversy that has sparked rebuke from both sides of the aisle.
The mayor of Springfield also spoke about the rumors and the impact it's having on the town amid a rash of threats that have shut down city buildings and canceled school.
Here's what you may have missed when newsmakers hit the airwaves this Sunday, September 15.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), Democrats' top investigator in the House, already has a pretty clear idea of what probes his committee will pursue if his party retakes the House majority, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: Committee leaders such as Raskin are likely to have significant power to pursue their agendas if House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-Md.) becomes speaker, senior Democratic sources tell Axios.
Why it matters: Swift's much-anticipated endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris (which Trump did not directly mention in his post) directly drove about 338,000 visits in 15 hours to Vote.gov, the federal voter registration site the singer linked to on an Instagram Story post.
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) tripled down on debunked rumors that immigrants in Ohio are eating cats in an interview airing Sunday on "Meet the Press," contending "constituents are seeing it with their own eyes."
The big picture: The GOP ticket has latched onto unfounded rumors that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating family pets — rumors that have led to several security threats in the small town.
Just a few years ago, institutions of all kinds — from multinational corporations to centuries-old universities — were routinely weighing in on the social justice debates of the day. Now, the calculus is changing.
Why it matters: Large institutions have a great deal of power to sway opinion and effect change, but many leaders are deciding that speaking up — and often angering everyone on every side — isn’t worth the trouble.
Latinos in two crucial Western states appear hesitant to go all in for Vice President Harris as she embraces border security measures popular among white swing voters in the Midwest.
Why it matters: Early polls suggest Latinos in Arizona and Nevada — battleground states where immigration raids and racial profiling have been big concerns — are leaning toward Harris over Donald Trump.
But Harris doesn't appear to have won over enough Latinos to get the boost she'll likely need to win those states. Many Latinos there want Democrats to strike a balance between better border security and respecting the needs of U.S. citizens and legal residents.
