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Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to announce her running mate on Monday.Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times
Kamala Harris met with V.P. finalists
Kamala Harris, the U.S. vice president, met yesterday with the top candidates to be her running mate at her Naval Observatory residence in Washington, as she moved to close out her search for a vice president with a test of chemistry. Here’s the latest.
Three leading contenders — Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota and Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania — spoke with Harris in private meetings, according to several people briefed on the plans.
Harris often prioritizes personal rapport with her staff and advisers, her aides and associates have said, and she is expected to place considerable stock in the in-person meetings. Her campaign has said it would announce her choice of a vice-presidential candidate before Harris and her running mate begin a tour of battleground states tomorrow.
In other news from the race:
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Harris and Donald Trump are essentially tied in Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania, while Trump has a slight lead in Georgia and Wisconsin.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running as an independent, admitted to leaving a dead bear cub in Central Park nearly 10 years ago, and trying to make it look as if it had been hit by a bicycle.
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Trump suggested, without evidence, that Georgia’s Republican governor and secretary of state were hampering his efforts to win the battleground state.
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