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WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA—JULY 26: Former President Donald Trump speaks during a Turning Point USA Believers Summit conference at the Palm Beach Convention Center on July 26, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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Vice President Kamala Harris waves as she arrives to speak at a campaign rally in Atlanta on July 30.
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<p>In tonight’s NewNight cap, panelists discuss whether JD Vance sticks around as Trump’s running mate.</p>
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US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 30, 2024. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage / AFP) (Photo by ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Delaware, in November 2020. The next day, he became President-elect.
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In photos: President Joe Biden
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - APRIL 27: Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks at the National Forum on Wages and Working People: Creating an Economy That Works for All at Enclave on April 27, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Six of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are attending the forum, held by the Service Employees International Union and the Center for American Progress Action Fund, to share their economic policies. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
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In photos: Vice President Kamala Harris

Vice President Kamala Harris

Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally in Atlanta on July 30.
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Kamala Harris has earned enough votes to win the Democratic presidential nomination, party chair announces
US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 30, 2024. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage / AFP) (Photo by ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Harris campaign says it raised $310 million in July, doubling Trump’s haul
This photo posted to X.com by US President Joe Biden shows Biden and the families of detainees released as part of a complex prisoner swap between Russia on the phone for the first time since they were released in the White House in Washington, DC, on August 1, 2024. (Editor’s note: The document in Biden’s hand has been obscured by the White House.)
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Inside the ‘painstaking’ negotiations that led to the biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War
Former President Donald Trump, left, moderated by from left, ABC's Rachel Scott, Semafor's Nadia Goba and FOX News' Harris Faulkner, speaks at the National Association of Black Journalists convention, July 31, 2024, in Chicago.
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Trump’s comments about Harris’ race kicks off a new – yet familiar – chapter in the 2024 presidential campaign

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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during an NCAA championship teams celebration on the South Lawn of the White House on July 22, 2024 in Washington, DC.
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President Joe Biden at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, on Monday, July 29, 2024.
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An aide attaches an official seal to the podium before US Vice President Kamala Harris attends a moderated conversation with former Trump administration national security official Olivia Troye and former Republican voter Amanda Stratton on July 17, 2024 in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks at a campaign event in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on July 27, 2024.
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Harris recalibrates policy stances as she adjusts to role atop Democratic ticket
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A TV displays news from former President Donald Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Saturday, July 13.
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WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 22: Anita Dunn, senior advisor to President Joe Biden, arrives for a lunch meeting with Senate Democrats at the U.S. Capitol on July 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. Dunn is meeting with the senators to to help them push back against Republican accusations that the president's Build Back Better agenda is reckless spending. She suggested Democrats highlight the budget's 'child tax credits, lower prescription drug costs, universal pre-school' and as a tax cut for middle class families.
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Longtime Biden aide Anita Dunn departing the White House
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Senator Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat from Wisconsin, during a campaign event with US Vice President Kamala Harris, not pictured, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, on Tuesday, July 23, 2024.
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Tammy Baldwin looks to maintain edge over top of the ticket in battleground Wisconsin
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the American Federation of Teachers' 88th National Convention on July 25, 2024 in Houston.
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How the Harris 2024 shake-up could affect House and Senate races
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A protester wears a mask and holds a homemade sign that says, "Defund the Police" during a peaceful protest walk across the Brooklyn Bridge on June 19, 2020.
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Kamala Harris praised ‘defund the police’ movement in June 2020 radio interview
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Former President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Friday in Palm Beach, Florida.
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Trump meets with Netanyahu for first time since departing White House
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The north portico and fountain of The White House is seen on June 11, in Washington, DC.
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Parkinson’s specialist met with Biden’s physician at the White House earlier this year, records show
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Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris
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Trump campaign says it won’t commit to Harris debate until she’s confirmed as nominee
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The inauguration of President Joe Biden

US President Joe Biden speaks after being sworn in as the 46th President of the US during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington, January 20, 2021. (Photo by Patrick Semansky / POOL / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK SEMANSKY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Biden’s Inauguration Day speech, annotated
President Joe Biden signs three documents including an inauguration declaration, cabinet nominations and sub-cabinet nominations in the President's Room at the US Capitol after the inauguration ceremony, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Vice President Kamala Harris watches at right. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool Photo via AP)
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Biden signed a series of executive actions on January 28, aimed at expanding access to health care, including re-opening enrollment for health care offered through the federal marketplace created under the Affordable Care Act.
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January 20: Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, arrive at his inauguration. Biden pledged to be a president for all Americans — even those who did not support his campaign. "Today, on this January day, my whole soul is in this: bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation," he said in his inaugural address.
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