General
Monday Briefing
The first week of the Haris-Walz ticket
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Vice President Kamala Harris and Tim Walz at a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday.Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times
The Harris-Walz ticket’s first week
As a remade contest takes shape, the traditional August political doldrums have given way to a flurry of rallies, interviews and public appearances. The summer blitz comes just a week before the Democratic National Convention is set to begin in Chicago, where the newly minted ticket will try to maintain the momentum created by a weeklong introduction to the nation.
Both presidential tickets went west over the weekend, with Donald Trump holding a rally in Montana and fund-raisers in Wyoming and Colorado, while Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, held events in the battleground states of Arizona and Nevada before heading to a fund-raiser in San Francisco.
Since the first rally for Harris and Walz at the beginning of last week, Democrats have found themselves in a surprising place: on offense. Harris now leads Trump in a national polling average and in a few must-win battleground states, a Times/Siena College poll found. Here are five takeaways from the first week of the Harris-Walz campaign.
Biden: In his first interview since ending his campaign, President Biden said it was imperative for the Democratic Party to beat Trump and accused him of being an ally of the Ku Klux Klan.
Trump: The former president falsely declared on social media that Harris had used artificial intelligence to create fake images and videos of the large crowds at her rallies.
