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On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Harris-Walz Campaign Co-Chair Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) stated that she “was one of those that said, I don’t care if” 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris “does an interview at all.” And Harris is “doing the best that she can with the minimal amount of time that she’s got left to get this done.” Host Andrea Mitchell said, “Congresswoman, as a Co-Chair of the campaign, there’s criticism from some that Vice President Harris is not doing enough interviews, that she’s out there campaigning, but she’s not taking part in interviews....

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Harris-Walz Campaign Co-Chair Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) responded to a question on whether the Harris campaign is addressing the economy and immigration enough by stating that “abortion is about the economy, too,” because “The most important, profound decision a person or a family or a woman will make is whether and when to bear a child.” She also wondered, “How can women get in the workforce if they can’t even make their own decisions about whether and when to bear a child or access the health care that they need?” And stated...

On Wednesday’s edition of NBC’s “MTP Now,” Biden Campaign Co-Chair Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), who is also running for the U.S. Senate in Delaware, said that “A lot of people are going through a lot of struggles right now, coming out of the pandemic. And they are not even aware of the things that this administration has done to really uplift our communities.” Host Peter Alexander asked, “So, Congresswoman, let me ask you specifically, then, I think the question is, if the campaign was in such good shape with black voters, as President Biden has done in the past...

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), the national co-chair for President Biden’s 2024 campaign, said on Sunday that Biden’s team will focus on job numbers over polling results as the president’s reelection bid kicks off. “The numbers we’re going to be talking about are the 12 million jobs created in the first two years that Biden’s been president, the lowest unemployment in 50 years. The 850,000 new manufacturing jobs,” Coons said on ABC’s “This Week,” when asked about polling indicating lackluster enthusiasm for the president’s 2024 run.

An international observer denied access to the trial of HDP co-chair Figen Yüksekdağ in Turkey recounts her experience. Earlier this month the trial of Figen Yüksekdağ, co-chair of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), began in Turkey’s capital of Ankara. Accused of supporting Kurdish separatists in the country’s southeast, Yüksekdağ has already been stripped of her place in Turkey’s parliament — but now the Erdoğan government is pursuing terrorism-related charges which come with the threat of an eighty-three-year jail term. Yüksekdağ is represented, symbolically, by 1,200 lawyers, whose numbers represent a political stand against the government’s attacks on opposition politicians. Her...

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, the Democrat who was named a national co-chair of President Obama’s re-election campaign on Wednesday, served on the board of a company that is widely blamed for helping start the subprime mortgage crisis in 2007. Beginning in 2004, Patrick served two years on the five-member board of ACC Capital Holdings, the parent company of Ameriquest Mortgage. He was paid a $360,000 annual salary for his efforts, according to “All The Devils Are Here,” a history of the financial crisis by Bethany McClean and Joe Nocera. Ameriquest had already been the subject of numerous criminal complaints when...

WASHINGTON - John McCain's national finance co-chairman has stepped down, becoming the latest adviser to leave the Republican's presidential campaign because of ties to lobbyists. Former Texas Rep. Thomas G. Loeffler, one of McCain's key fundraisers, resigned after the campaign last week instructed staff to disclose all lobbying ties and to make certain they are no longer registered as lobbyists or foreign agents. McCain's campaign on Sunday confirmed Loeffler's resignation. Loeffler lobbies for the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co., which with Northrop Grumman Corp. won a lucrative contract to provide air refueling tankers for the Air Force. McCain helped...

STUART — Famed Stuart attorney Willie Gary said Friday he is the target of a $20-million extortion scheme by a woman who accused him of sexual battery. Gary said a friend of the woman called repeatedly, offering to “make the problem go away” if he paid. Gary said Stuart police are investigating the woman's claims and a counter report of his own, but he maintained he is absolutely innocent. "I am aware that some people, a group of people, have made a false claim against me involving sexual battery, and it's absolutely, positively false . . ." said the attorney,...