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Argentina to quarantine cargo ship after crew member shows symptoms of mpox

Health authorities in Argentina say they will inspect and quarantine a cargo ship in its waters after a crew member showed symptoms of mpox.

Once the ship arrives, medical personnel will board it and inspect whether the crew member’s symptoms are compatible with mpox. If they are, they will take samples for study. The entire crew will be quarantined until the results of the studies are available.

So far, the ministry has not said how many people are on board the Liberia-flagged ship named Ina-Lotte.

On Friday, the ministry called for strengthening border health control measures in Argentina, two days after the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency of international concern due to an outbreak of mpox in parts of Africa.

Other Latin American countries, such as Colombia, El Salvador, Venezuela and Mexico have announced similar surveillance measures.

A deadlier strain of the virus, clade Ib, is spreading quickly in the Democratic Republic of Congo and has reached at least four previously unaffected countries in Africa.

This is a breaking story. More to come.

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US election: Iran was behind attempted hacks on Trump and Biden/Harris campaigns, FBI says

The US government has confirmed Donald Trump’s claim that Iran tried to hack his presidential campaign and said Tehran has also targeted the Biden-Harris operation.

In a joint statement issued on Monday, the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said it had seen “increasingly aggressive Iranian activity during this election cycle”.

Hackers had specifically targeted presidential campaigns, the statement continued, while also trying to influence the American public.

The agencies added: “This includes the recently reported activities to compromise former President Trump’s campaign, which the IC [intelligence community] attributes to Iran.

“The IC is confident that the Iranians have through social engineering and other efforts sought access to individuals with direct access to the presidential campaigns of both political parties.

“Such activity, including thefts and disclosures, are intended to influence the US election process.”

Google has said the same hackers targeted the Biden-Harris campaign before President Joe Biden dropped out of the race for the White House, but it’s not clear whether they succeeded.

Ms Harris’s campaign previously said it had no indication it was hacked.

Tehran’s UN mission to the US has called the claims “unsubstantiated and devoid of any standing”, saying it “harbours neither the intention nor the motive to interfere with the US presidential election”, and urging Washington to supply evidence.

Three American news outlets – Politico, The New York Times and The Washington Post – said this month they had received documents that appeared to have been stolen from the Trump campaign.

A spokesperson for the Trump campaign claimed the documents were part of an Iranian ‘hack-and-leak’ operation to hurt the Republican nominee’s election chances.

Last week, the FBI announced it was investigating attempts to hack both parties.

On Wednesday, Google published a detailed report on an Iranian hacker group, saying it targeted both the Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns in May and June.

The US previously blamed Iran for the largest influence operation before the 2020 presidential election, in a convoluted scheme which involved sending harassing emails to Democrats in Florida to make it seem as if they were being threatened by the Proud Boys, a far-right group that supports Mr Trump.

The agencies said: “Protecting the integrity of our elections from foreign influence or interference is our priority.

“As the lead for threat response, the FBI has been tracking this activity, has been in contact with the victims, and will continue to investigate and gather information in order to pursue and disrupt the threat actors responsible.

“We will not tolerate foreign efforts to influence or interfere with our elections, including the targeting of American political campaigns.”

The FBI continues to investigate, the agencies added.

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Vogue and Wired publisher Conde Nast signs new deal with OpenAI

Vogue, Wired and GQ publisher Conde Nast has done a multi-year deal with OpenAI.

The artificial intelligence company announced the partnership on Tuesday, saying ChatGPT and its prototype tool SearchGPT would display content from “top brands like Vogue, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, Wired, Bon Appétit, and more”.

The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

In June, OpenAI and Time magazine announced a “multi-year content deal” to allow OpenAI to access more than 100 years of Time’s content.

When users search for something in ChatGPT, OpenAI will be able to display Time’s content and use Time’s content “to enhance its products”, or, likely, to train its AI models, according to a press release.

OpenAI has also recently signed deals with the Financial Times, Business Insider-owner Axel Springer, France’s Le Monde and Spain’s Prisa Media.

The deals come amid lawsuits from other media companies. The New York Times and eight other daily papers are suing OpenAI over copyright infringement after their content was allegedly used to train ChatGPT.

Brad Lightcap, chief operating officer at OpenAI, said the company is committed to working with Conde Nast and other news publishers to “ensure that as AI plays a larger role in news discovery and delivery, it maintains accuracy, integrity and respect for quality reporting”.

News companies are facing difficult times, as many technology companies eroded publishers’ ability to monetise content, said Roger Lynch, chief executive of Conde Nast, in a memo to employees.

“Our partnership with OpenAI begins to make up for some of that revenue,” said Mr Lynch.

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Key members of Mike Lynch’s legal success now centre of tragedy after superyacht sinking

They were a group brought together by one goal: to defy the odds and win Mike Lynch’s case.

The protracted legal battle started when Hewlett-Packard, the technology company, accused Mr Lynch of fraud by overstating the value of his company Autonomy when he sold it to them in 2011.

The trial saw Mr Lynch, 59, extradited to America to serve a year under house arrest in San Francisco.

Less than 0.5% of federal criminal cases in the United States end in acquittal.

Latest updates after yacht sinks – Crew survivor ‘spared by grace of God’

Had Mr Lynch been convicted, he would have faced up to 25 years in prison. So the jury’s decision to clear him of all charges in June came as a surprise, one he later said gave him a “second life”.

Chris Morvillo, the partner at the law firm Clifford Chance was part of Mr Lynch’s legal team.

He recounted the day the verdict came in with David Markus, an American lawyer, on his podcast a week before the Sicily trip.

“At least our side of the courtroom erupted, it was this electric moment, I’ve never seen anything like it in a courtroom before,” he said.

Mr Markus said Mr Morvillo had been looking forward to enjoying the team’s success with a holiday to Sicily. His wife, Neda, and some of the team who had contributed to the win would be attending.

“He couldn’t wait to celebrate, take a deep breath with both Mr Lynch and his family, he was so excited about this trip and rightfully so – he’d spent his life fighting this case the last 10 years,” Mr Markus said.

But what was supposed to be a celebration brought fresh tragedy. After a tornado capsized Mr Lynch’s superyacht, one man died and six passengers including Mr Lynch, his daughter, Mr Morvillo and his wife went missing.

Fifteen were rescued.

A key defence witness in Mr Lynch’s trial, Jonathan Bloomer, is among those missing at sea.

The chairman of investment bank, Morgan Stanley International, was on the yacht with his wife, Judy.

Days before the tragedy unfolded in Sicily, Mr Lynch’s co-defendant, Stephen Chamberlain was also killed.

Chamberlain, a former vice president of finance at Autonomy, had been out running in the UK when he was hit by a car.

The driver of the car is assisting the police with their inquiries, according to Cambridgeshire Police, who are investigating the incident.

The storm may have now passed, leaving behind heartache and questions for loved ones.

But for the group brought together by a common endeavour, the search continues.

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7 reasons to fear Kamala Harris’ radical ‘Medicare-for-all’ schemes

Kamala Harris is a lifelong liberal with a health care platform to the left of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton combined. She promised that ‘Medicare-for-all is our goal’ and committed to abolish private health insurance in favor of a government-run plan.

Learning from Obama about the utility of lying to voters before you take away their health plans, she first allowed a limited exception for Medicare Advantage plans and more recently denied her previous positions. 

Make no mistake: Her radical ideas would put the government in charge of health care instead of doctors.

First, forcing everyone onto a government-run plan is like unleashing the bureaucracy of the DMV onto our health care sector, obliterating choice and competition. It forces 150 million Americans off their insurance, making workers give up popular plans provided by employers and unions. It ends the Medicare program for seniors, and ends private coverage for 30 million seniors with Medicare Advantage and 22 million seniors who supplement traditional Medicare coverage. 

Second, ‘Medicare-for-all’ requires unsustainable new spending. Claims that it saves taxpayer dollars were so egregious that even the left-leaning Washington Post gave them three Pinocchios. The program’s costs would range from $32.6 trillion to $44 trillion over a decade. This is an estimate of new spending – notwithstanding the Medicare trust funds that would be liquidated to fund ‘Medicare-for-all.’

Third, even with this astronomical new spending, ‘Medicare-for-all’ requires significant reductions in already low payments to doctors, nurses, hospitals and nursing homes, cutting $5.3 trillion over a decade. Providers would no longer be able to shift costs from Medicare to private payers, and could thus face 40% reductions from private insurance rates. Experts estimate this could result in 1.5 million job losses within the hospital sector. 

America is already facing an expected shortage of as many as 95,000 doctors and 63,00 full-time nurses by 2030. Shifting to ‘Medicare-for-all’ will only exacerbate these shortages and hurt patients, similar to how other single-payer systems have failed their citizens.   

Fourth, taxpayers would be on the hook for the increased costs even as Americans receive fewer care options. All businesses would be required, at minimum, to double their payroll taxes, which ultimately hits low-income workers the hardest. 

‘Medicare-for-all’ requires a plethora of additional taxes – ending the tax exclusion for health expenditures, ‘one-time’ taxes on businesses, new fees on financial institutions, new taxes on the wealthy, new estate taxes, and the list goes on. Harris has the audacity to say her plan will exempt those making under $100,000 from new taxes. 

Rather than increasing the true affordability of health care, ‘Medicare-for-all’ would leave families worse off, diminishing the average annual disposable income of a family on private insurance by $10,554. 

Fifth, promises of increased health care spending in single-payer systems have generally failed to achieve a higher quality of care. In countries like the United Kingdom and Canada, where there is coverage on paper but not in practice, patients are on year-long waiting lists, deprived of drug coverage, even basic drugs, and run to private insurance to get care. When a Canadian provincial government passed a prohibition on private health insurance, the Supreme Court struck it down, effectively saying that Canadians have a right to health care, not a right to waitlists.

In the United States, Medicaid expansions have tested the effect of unlimited, cost-free, government-run health care coverage. While studies find beneficiaries were able to access more providers or get financial assistance, the studies are more negative about the program’s ability to improve health outcomes. One found the program ‘generated no significant improvement in measured physical health outcomes,’ and another found that states that did not adopt Medicaid expansion had better mortality trends than those that did. 

Sixth, the one-size-fits-all ‘Medicare-for-all’ model doesn’t fit the unique needs of 330 million Americans. Other government-run health care systems block patient access to drugs until the government agrees on a price. When Vertex announced approval for their breakthrough treatment for cystic fibrosis, it took four years for British patients to get access. 

If Harris bans other payers or options for private care, there will be no release valve for patients to get care. Government-run health care sacrifices tomorrow’s innovations for today’s budget controls, with one CEO saying that they can no longer prioritize ‘innovation unfriendly’ Europe. 

Seventh, ‘Medicare-for-all’ promises to cover all individuals, using taxpayer funds to pay for health coverage for illegal immigrants. Recent projections estimate the cost would be $1.8 trillion over 10 years. Obama promised taxpayer funds would not subsidize health care for illegal immigrants, but the Biden-Harris administration has given states ObamaCare and Medicaid waivers to use tax dollars to pay for this care.

Harris and her fellow radical Democrats are the only people who think the problem with ObamaCare was that it did not do enough to raise taxes, increase government spending, and kick Americans off their health plans. Voters should believe her when she told them she intends to do more of all three.

Hannah Anderson is the director of the Center for a Healthy America at the America First Policy Institute.

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With 17 days until voting starts, ‘election season’ kicks off sooner than you think

There are 77 days until Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 5.

But if Americans vote like they did in the last two election cycles, most of them will have already cast a ballot before the big day.

Early voting starts as soon as Sept. 6 for eligible voters, with seven battleground states sending out ballots to at least some voters the same month.

It makes the next few months less a countdown to Election Day, and more the beginning of ‘election season.’

States have long allowed at least some Americans to vote early, like members of the military or people with illnesses. 

In some states, almost every voter casts a ballot by mail.

Many states expanded eligibility in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic made it riskier to vote in-person.

That year, the Fox News Voter Analysis found that 71% of voters cast their ballots before Election Day, with 30% voting early in-person and 41% voting by mail.

Early voting remained popular in the midterms, with 57% of voters casting a ballot before Election Day.

Elections officials stress that voting early is safe and secure. Recounts, investigations and lawsuits filed after the 2020 election did not reveal evidence of widespread fraud or corruption. 

The difference between ‘early in-person’ and ‘mail’ or ‘absentee’ voting.

There are a few ways to vote before Election Day.

The first is , where a voter casts a regular ballot in-person at a voting center before Election Day.

The second is , where the process and eligibility varies by state.

Eight states vote mostly by mail, including California, Colorado, Nevada and Utah. Registered voters receive ballots and send them back.

Most states allow any registered voter to request a mail ballot and send it back. This is also called mail voting, or sometimes absentee voting. Depending on the state, voters can return their ballot by mail, at a drop box, and/or at an office or facility that accepts mail ballots.

In 14 states, voters must have an excuse to vote by mail, ranging from illness, age, work hours or if a voter is out of their home county on Election Day.

States process and tabulate ballots at different times. Some states don’t begin counting ballots until election night, which delays the release of results.

Voting begins on Sept. 6 in North Carolina, with seven more battleground states starting that month

This list of early voting dates is for guidance only. For comprehensive and up-to-date information on voter eligibility, processes and deadlines, go to Vote.gov and your state’s elections website.

The first voters to be sent absentee ballots will be in North Carolina, which begins mailing out ballots for eligible voters on Sept. 6.

Seven more battleground states open up early voting the same month, including Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Nevada.

September deadlines

In-person early voting in bold.

Sept. 6

  • North Carolina – Absentee ballots sent to voters

Sept. 16

  • Pennsylvania – Mail-in ballots sent to voters

Sept. 17

  • Georgia – Absentee ballots sent to military & overseas

Sept. 19

  • Wisconsin – Absentee ballots sent

Sept. 20

  • Arkansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, Wyoming – Absentee ballots sent to military & overseas
  • Minnesota, South Dakota – In-person absentee voting begins
  • Virginia – In-person early voting begins
  • Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia – Absentee ballots sent

Sept. 21

  • Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington – Absentee ballots sent to military & overseas
  • Indiana, New Mexico – Absentee ballots sent
  • Maryland, New Jersey – Mail-in ballots sent

Sept. 23

  • Mississippi – In-person absentee voting begins & absentee ballots sent
  • Oregon, Vermont – Absentee ballots sent

Sept. 26

  • Illinois – In-person early voting begins 
  • Michigan – Absentee ballots sent
  • Florida, Nevada – Mail-in ballots sent
  • North Dakota – Absentee & mail-in ballots sent

Sept. 30

  • Nebraska – Mail-in ballots sent

Oct. 4

  • Connecticut – Absentee ballots sent

Oct. 6

  • Michigan – In-person early voting begins 
  • Maine – In-person absentee voting begins & mail ballots sent
  • California – In-person absentee voting begins & mail ballots sent
  • Montana – In-person absentee voting begins
  • Nebraska – In-person early voting begins 
  • Georgia – Absentee ballots sent
  • Massachusetts – Mail-in ballots sent

Oct. 8

  • California – Ballot drop-offs open
  • New Mexico, Ohio – In-person absentee voting begins
  • Indiana – In-person early voting begins
  • Wyoming – In-person absentee voting begins & absentee ballots sent

Oct. 9

  • Arizona – In-person early voting begins & mail ballots sent

Oct. 11

  • Colorado – Mail-in ballots sent
  • Arkansas, Alaska – Absentee ballots sent

Oct. 15

  • Georgia – In-person early voting begins
  • Utah – Mail-in ballots sent

Oct. 16

  • Rhode Island, Kansas, Tennessee – In-person early voting begins
  • Iowa – In-person absentee voting begins
  • Oregon, Nevada – Mail-in ballots sent

Oct. 17

  • North Carolina – In-person early voting begins 

Oct. 18

  • Washington, Louisiana – In-person early voting begins
  • Hawaii – Mail-in ballots sent

Oct. 19

  • Nevada, Massachusetts – In-person early voting begins 
  • Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Idaho, North Dakota, South Carolina, Texas – In-person early voting begins 
  • Colorado – Ballot drop-offs open

Oct. 22

  • Hawaii, Utah – In-person early voting begins 
  • Missouri, Wisconsin – In-person absentee voting begins

Oct. 23

  • West Virginia – In-person early voting begins

Oct. 24

  • Maryland – In-person early voting begins

Oct. 25

  • Delaware – In-person early voting begins

Oct. 26

  • Michigan, Florida, New Jersey, New York – In-person early voting begins 

Oct. 30

  • Oklahoma – In-person early voting begins 

Oct. 31

  • Kentucky – In-person absentee voting begins
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Benjamin Harrison won the White House by receiving the electoral majority, but losing the popular vote

Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States. 

Harrison, born on Aug. 20, 1833, was from North Bend, Ohio, about 15 miles outside Cincinnati.

Harrison studied at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and graduated in 1852. Upon graduation, he went to Indianapolis, where he practiced law and campaigned for the Republican Party. 

In 1853, he married future first lady Caroline Lavinia Scott. The pair had two children, Russell and Mary. 

During the Civil War, Harrison served as a colonel of the 70th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, according to The White House Association, and went back to Indianapolis after the war to practice law once again. 

In 1876, Harrison ran for political office, but was defeated for governor of Indiana. He went on to serve in the Senate during the 1880s before making his bid for president. 

In the presidential election of 1888, Harrison received 100,000 fewer popular votes than incumbent Democrat Grover Cleveland, according to WhiteHouse.gov, but he won the electoral vote 233 to 168. 

Harrison was one of the first to implement a campaign strategy known as ‘front-porch’ campaigns, delivering short speeches to the delegations that visited him. 

During his presidency, he showed support to veterans, including through his signing of the Dependent and Disability Pensions Act in 1890, which expanded aid to disabled service men, their widows and dependents, according to the White House Historical Association. 

Harrison also added six states to the Union during his presidency, according to the Benjamin Harrison Presidential site. 

In 1892, Harrison’s wife, while still serving the role of first lady, passed away. 

That same year, Harrison lost the White House to Cleveland. Following his term in the Oval Office, Harrison returned to Indianapolis and continued to practice law. 

In 1896, Harrison went on to marry the widowed Mary Dimmick Harrison, the niece of his first wife. They had one daughter, Elizabeth, who was born on Feb. 21, 1897. 

Harrison died on March 13, 1901, when he was 67 years old. 

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Israel recovers 6 dead hostages in ‘complex rescue operation,’ says bodies held under humanitarian area

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) recovered the bodies of six deceased Israeli hostages in a rescue operation Monday, the forces announced. 

‘Overnight our forces returned the bodies of six of our hostages that had been held by the murderous Hamas terrorist organization,’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.

‘Our hearts grieve over the terrible loss,’ Netanyahu said. ‘My wife Sara and I convey our heartfelt condolences to the dear families.’

‘I would like to thank the brave IDF and ISA fighters and commanders for their heroism and determined action,’ he added. ‘The State of Israel will continue to make every effort to return all of our hostages – the living and the deceased.’

The bodies of Nadav Popplewell, Yagev Buchshtab, Yoram Metzger, Chaim Peri, Alexander Dancyg, and Avraham Munder returned from Khan Yunis area in Gaza thanks to the efforts of the IDF’s 98th Division and carried out by the ‘Yahalom’ Unit of the Paratroopers Brigade, along with others, the IDF announced. 

In a statement, IDF International spokesperson Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani said, ‘This was a complex rescue operation that was conducted both above and below ground. We have not yet finished all our missions in the area. We are still operating inside the tunnels’. He continued, ‘The bodies were being held in a tunnel under an area previously designated as part of the Humanitarian Area in Khan Yunis’.

The forces located a tunnel shaft about 10 meters deep leading to an underground tunnel route where the bodies of the hostages were found, according to a statement released on Wednesday.

‘The soldiers of the Yahalom Unit and the ISA investigated the route and neutralized the obstructions, blast doors, weapons, explosives and hideouts used by the terrorists,’ the IDF explained. ‘The rescue was carried out after prolonged combat in a built-up area and in multi-story buildings, in which the forces carried out operations and searches that led to the elimination of terrorists and the destruction of terrorist infrastructure.’

The IDF and ISA stressed that they continue to deploy ‘all operational and intelligence means in order to fulfill the supreme national mission of bringing back all the hostages,’ according to their statement.

‘The recovery of the bodies of Abraham, Alex, Chaim, Yagev, Yoram, and Nadav crucially provides their families with necessary closure and grants eternal rest to the murdered,’ the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said in a statement. 

‘Israel has a moral and ethical obligation to return all the murdered for dignified burial and to bring all living hostages home for rehabilitation,’ the organization said. ‘The immediate return of the remaining 109 hostages can only be achieved through a negotiated deal.’

‘The Israeli government, with the assistance of mediators, must do everything in its power to finalize the deal currently on the table,’ the organization said. 

Hamas still has 109 hostages in their custody, with 36 of them presumed dead and their bodies still in Gaza. Eight of those remaining hostages are American, with three believed to have been murdered in captivity by Hamas.

The rescue operation occurred as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday announced that Netanyahu had ‘accepted’ President Biden’s cease-fire plan, even though Netanyahu has not yet formally agreed to any cease-fire at this time. The U.S. will continue to coordinate with Egyptian and Qatari leadership to ‘bridge the gaps’ between warring parties. 

‘The parties – with the help of the mediators, the United States, Egypt and Qatar – have to come together and complete the process of reaching clear understandings about how they’ll implement the commitments that they’ve made under this agreement,’ Blinken said without specifics on what was included. 

‘But there is, I think, a real sense of urgency here across the region on the need to get this over the finish line and to do it as soon as possible,’ Blinken added. ‘The United States is deeply committed to getting this job done – getting it done now.’

Blinken then met on Tuesday with Egyptian counterparts with the aim of trying to finalize a cease-fire deal in Gaza ‘that would secure the release of all hostages, surge humanitarian assistance and create a path for broader regional stability,’ according to U.S. State Department principal deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel.

‘They also discussed other regional issues and priorities relevant to our bilateral relationship,’ Patel said. ‘The Secretary and the Foreign Minister also agreed to continue close coordination on ending the Sudan conflict, and the need for the Sudanese Armed Forces to join negotiations in Switzerland.’

Additionally, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck two Hezbollah launchers in the areas of Mansouri and Taybeh in southern Lebanon. The launchers were ready to be used immediately against Israeli territory. 

The U.S. has also held strategic dialogue with Egyptian counterparts to ‘further strengthen the bilateral partnership’ between the two countries on a range of issues.

Netanyahu assured families of the remaining hostages that the IDF is using ‘all necessary force to dismantle Hamas’ rule and its military capability, and this is moving forward.’ 

‘At the same time, [we are] making an effort to return the hostages and preserve our strategic security assets in the face of major domestic and foreign pressure.’

‘The first thing is to eliminate Hamas and achieve victory,’ he told the families in a forum on Tuesday. ‘We are approaching this step by step.’

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Gov Newsom says ‘everybody’s…jumping over each other’ to campaign for Kamala Harris

CHICAGO – Gov. Gavin Newsom said in the four weeks since Vice President Kamala Harris replaced President Biden at the top of the Democratic Party’s 2024 ticket, ‘everyone and their mother is jumping on to help.’

Harris has been riding a wave of momentum as she has enjoyed a surge in polling and fundraising after Biden’s blockbuster announcement that he was ending his re-election bid for a second term in the White House.

Biden’s disastrous performance against former President Trump in their late June debate fueled questions over whether the 81-year-old president had the physical and mental abilities to handle another four years in the White House and sparked a chorus of calls from within his own party to end his 2024 campaign.

Biden eventually caved to the pressure, announcing the suspension of his re-election campaign three days after the Republican National Convention ended with a solidified GOP ticket of Trump and running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance. 

Until Biden dropped out of the race, Newsom had been one of the president’s top surrogates.

When asked if he would be as voracious for Harris on the campaign trail as he was for Biden, the two-term California governor pointed to his longtime friendship and working relationship with the vice president, who also hails from the Golden State.

‘We knew each other a decade before we both got into politics. One of my oldest friends. So it’s a no brainier,’ Newsom told Fox News Digital on Monday during the first night of the Democratic National Convention at Chicago’s United Center arena.

‘But here’s the difference,’ Newsom said. ‘I’m a solution in search of a problem. Everyone and their mother is jumping on to help. So, I’m as needed. But obviously all in.’

However, Newsom, who is thought to have long harbored national ambitions of his own, added that he may not be asked by the Harris campaign to hit the trail on behalf of the vice president.

‘We’ll see. Because everybody’s out there. Everybody’s doing everything,’ the governor said.

Pointing to his campaign travels across the country on behalf of Biden this summer before the president ended his 2024 bid, Newsom told this reporter ‘you were with me in New Hampshire. There wasn’t many of us. Everything about that was very different. Right now, everybody is out there for Kamala.’

‘Everybody’s sort of jumping over each other to be out there on the campaign trail.’

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Critics claim Biden remains president ‘in name only’ despite DNC vow to finish next 5 months of term strong

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, claimed Monday that President Biden at this point is ‘basically president in name only.’ 

‘Tonight, we are going to hear from President Joe Biden, who at this point is basically president in name only,’ Shanahan said in a video shared to X. 

‘You know, no matter what your opinion is of Joe Biden, if you love him or if you hate him or don’t really care, you have to realize that something feels very wrong about how the Democratic Party ran a full core pressure campaign to get him out of office after he won 14-15 million votes in the primaries,’ she said. 

‘Isn’t it strange how he bowed out because he didn’t feel like he could serve another four years, but somehow he’s OK to serve four more months as we face historic inflation, debt and war? Any impartial observer can look at that and realize the DNC machine did what they always do. They pushed someone out they couldn’t successfully puppeteer,’ Shanahan said. ‘So much for defending democracy.’ 

At the Democratic National Convention on Monday night, Biden said he had ‘a lot to do’ in the remaining five months of his presidential term. 

Comparing himself to Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, Biden said, ‘Like many of our best presidents, she was also vice president. That’s a joke…’ 

Biden appeared to be referencing how he served as former President Barack Obama’s vice president.

‘But she’ll be a president our children could look up to,’ Biden continued. ‘She’ll be a president respected by world leaders because she already is. She’ll be a president we can all be proud of. And she will be a historic president who puts her stamp on America’s future. This will be the first presidential election since January 6th.’ 

 ‘Selecting Kamala was the very first decision I made before I became, when I became our nominee, and it was the best decision I made my whole career,’ Biden said. 

X users on Monday questioned whether Biden is truly in charge. 

‘Are we just forgetting that Joe Biden is still in office?’ wrote Jerry Wayne, a Michigan autoworker who went viral for confronting Biden about gun control on the 2020 campaign trail.

‘Joe Biden is still the President for 154 more days. Pray for America,’ Fox News contributor and former Trump campaign operative Steve Cortes wrote on X. 

At the DNC, Biden stressed that his term is not over. ‘Folks, I’ve got five months left in my presidency. I’ve got a lot to do. I intend to get it done,’ Biden said. 

Regardless of the outcome of the election in November, a new president would not, under traditional circumstances, be inaugurated until Jan. 20, 2025. As of Tuesday, that means Biden has 153 days left of his four-year term. The 25th Amendment of the Constitution stipulates that if the president dies, resigns or is removed from office, the vice president automatically becomes president.

After Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Republican nominee and former President Trump in June, Democratic lawmakers and donors pressured the 81-year-old president to step aside from the race amid concern his age and mental fitness would destroy the party’s chances of holding onto the White House and Senate, as well as reclaiming the House in November. 

In a clip shared by RNC Research, Biden stood at the podium during a stage test earlier Monday afternoon at the United Center while reporters shouted questions. 

One reporter asked, ‘Donald Trump claims that you were pushed out, put from the top of the ticket, and this amounts to a coup from your party. What do you make of these claims?’ 

Biden started to answer, but his response was quiet and barely audible, so the reporter pressed, ‘his what?’ The president then went silent, waved her off and other reporters began asking different questions. 

Biden ended his re-election campaign on July 21 and immediately endorsed Harris’ presidential candidacy. Harris secured enough delegates to become the presidential nominee on Aug. 1 during a virtual roll call conducted by the Democratic National Committee two weeks before the start of the party’s convention at the United Center in Chicago. The RNC, by contrast, did their roll call in person in Milwaukee. 

In his DNC speech Monday night, Biden insisted there was no bad blood and that he made the decision to back out of the race for the good of the country. 

‘It’s been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job, but I love my country more. I love my country more. Now, all this talk about how I’m angry. All those people said I should step down. That’s not true. I love my country more,’ Biden said. ‘And we need to preserve our democracy in 2024. We need you to vote, I need you to keep the Senate. We need you to win back the House of Representatives. And above all, we need you to beat Donald Trump.’ 

Harris isn’t expected to formally accept the Democratic presidential nomination until Thursday. But Biden left the DNC immediately after what some mainstream media billed his ‘farewell address’ Monday night. 

The speech concluded in the dead of night, and the president and first lady Jill Biden touched down in California early Tuesday morning. 

Listing priorities for the remainder of his presidency, Biden told the DNC that he would continue working with Harris to bring all Americans wrongfully detained around the world home. 

Biden said Monday night that his administration, namely Secretary of State Antony Blinken, is ‘working around the clock’ to prevent a wider war in the Middle East, bring back the remaining hostages held by Hamas after the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel, surge humanitarian assistance into Gaza to ‘end the civilian suffering of the Palestinian people’ and ‘finally deliver a cease-fire and end this war.’ 

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