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August 29, 2024

"Don't forget your chucks, and your pearls." VP Harris stops by Dottie's Market in Savannah




Josh Wingrove @josh_wingrove
Harris has stopped at Dottie’s Market in Savannah, which is a cafe and also sells some local goods.

One woman behind the counter told Harris that she got a heads up this morning: “Don’t forget your chucks, and your pearls.”






Sophie Hills @sophiemhills
“So this is a one stop shop?” @VP says to the owner of Dottie’s Market in Savannah, holding a basket she picked out





Greg Bluestein @bluestein
We are now hanging in Dottie’s Market — home of great hot chicken biscuits — awaiting the vice president.





Greg Bluestein @bluestein 10m
The waiting crowd on Broughton Street …





WATCH:




August 28, 2024

Chucks are back! VP Harris arrives in Savannah, Georgia. (WATCH appearances)

WATCH: Harris and Walz speak to students in Hinesville during Georgia bus tour stop:




WATCH: Kamala Harris, Tim Walz visit Sandfly BBQ in Savannah







best of kamala harris @archivekamala
The Chucks are back!

@VP Harris is off to Savannah to kick off a two-day bus tour in Georgia.

She will be joined by @Tim_Walz. #HarrisWalz2024

📸: @saulloeb






https://x.com/flywithkamala/status/1828863024641540448


— Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are kicking off a two-day bus tour in Georgia on Wednesday that will snake through rural areas in the southern part of the state before culminating in a big rally (Thursday, Aug. 29) in the coastal city of Savannah.

The Democratic ticket will meet with supporters, campaign staff, small business owners and voters.

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/election-2024/2024/08/28/harris-walz-georgia-trump-vance-president/stories/202408280116






Josh Wingrove @josh_wingrove
Harris has arrived in Savannah, Georgia, for a two-day bus tour in the southeast of the crucial battleground state:

(Before boarding the tour bus, they greeted students from Savannah State University, the oldest public HBCU in Georgia.)




https://x.com/josh_wingrove/status/1828886617714753675


https://x.com/suggswriter/status/1828884342472609914





Donnell Suggs @suggswriter
Updated: The students at Liberty County High School were told there would be a “surprise guest” coming to school today.





HINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz dropped in on a high school band practice Wednesday as part of a two-day bus tour snaking through rural Georgia, campaigning for the critical battleground state while delighting students who performed their school fight song for the Democratic ticket.

“We’re so proud of you and we’re counting on you,” Harris told the young crowd who shrieked with excitement at the sight of the vice president. “Your generation … is what is going to propel our country into the next era of what we can do and what we can be.”


https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-harris-and-walz-speak-to-students-in-hinesville-during-georgia-bus-tour-stop



https://x.com/suggswriter/status/1828912012182585827





Ebony Davis @ebonyjdavis
Happening now: VP Harris and Gov. Walz visit Sandfly Bar-B-Q in Savannah as they continue their bus tour through South Georgia.

"Congratulations on all of your success. I’ve been reading about all you’ve been doing," Harris said to employees.





Josh Wingrove @josh_wingrove
Harris has popped into Sandfly BBQ in Savannah, Georgia, after visiting a school earlier that’s about an hour away.





Olga Nesterova @onestpress
VP #Harris and ago #Walz in GA

Per press pool

The motorcade stopped outside Sandfly Bar-B-Q restaurant in Savannah after driving a couple of minutes through a neighborhood of small, one story houses and then past a strip mall. Some people stood outside in the parking lot filming. The restaurant is in a smaller strip mall, where there’s a crowd of people, including some people holding a Trump Vance sign and waving a Trump flag.






Madam Auntie VP Kamala Harris for PRESIDENT! @flywithkamala
Look at VP Harris and Coach Walz working the room together at Sandfly BBQ. This team is everything and is damn sure taking Georgia!



August 28, 2024

The republican nominee for president was just indicted again by an entirely new grand jury

...using evidence in line with the SC immunity rulings.

By bringing this superseding indictment, Jack Smith has reasserted that Donald Trump broke the law in a way that mostly preempts the anticipated appeals over presidential privilege.

Trump's now facing the very same charges, this time with full emphasis on his actions as a private citizen and candidate for president in attempting to interfere with the vote count.

For most of the time stretching from Trump's original indictment he's been granted some sort of suspension of belief in his guilt by this anticipated, orchestrated rescue by the maga majority on the Supreme Court.

They played their hand, the only one they had, in defining official actions by that particular president (clearly illegal for anyone else) immune from prosecution.

It's not past them to declare unofficial illegal actions immune, as well, but we've reached the edge of whatever impunity they could carve out for their cult leader without just declaring all presidents kings.

The court drew this legal line that the new grand jury just determined Donald Trump crossed; determined that his criminality outstripped any protection the Court provided him against prosecution.

Not just Jack Smith, but a jury of ordinary citizens which the federal government almost exclusively relies on to bring forth charges just determined that Trump should stand trial for breaking the law as he tried to subvert the very process of elections he's engaging in today.

This isn't the game that Trump and his campaign insist is being played by supposedly partisan DOJ. These are determinations made by an independent prosecutor, and citizens hearing the evidence presented to them, anew, in a second deliberative process.

The question right now is where does the Trump campaign assume his innocence of these charges? It's not about privilege anymore. They won that fight, and, still the charges remain intact.

It's not enough for journalists and reporters to just assume this is a matter of the election, with the outcome ostensibly dependent on Trump ending the federal prosecution if he assumed office again. The very root of that expectation is outright interference, not exoneration, so why the hesitancy from journalists to assume Trump is guilty of criminality?

At the very least, with the SC-triggered landmines removed, Trump's legal travails should be considered absolutely disqualifying for anyone seeking the highest office in the land, and presented that way by anyone more concerned with upholding the law than perpetuating a horse race election.

Enough of the benefit of the doubt. Trump has been indicted by a jury of peers TWICE on the very same charges, and there's very little Supreme Court protection left to provide that doubt that he'll ultimately stand trial and be convicted.

The media needs to start acting like the republican party has nominated a clear criminal, instead of a pretender to the presidency, and stop couching it's judgments of that criminality on whether he'll ultimately face justice.

It should mean something to them that yet ANOTHER grand jury didn't share the media's wishful thinking and let that deter them from bring this relatively quick indictment on identical charges.

August 21, 2024

Multitasking



Christian Datoc @TocRadio
VP Kamala Harris reviewing documents and taking photos of staff during her OSPREY flight to ORD in Chicago

She’s heading to Milwaukee for a rally at the Fiserv Forum






August 21, 2024

Love



https://x.com/DouglasEmhoff/status/1826115710474420373

Harris Walz Campaign Updates @POTUSVP47
Vice President Harris watches her husband, Second Gentleman Emhoff’s speech at the Democratic National Convention while aboard Air Force Two en route to Chicago from Milwaukee.

August 20, 2024

Big crowd for Harris and Walz in Milwaukee! It's a party! (WATCH)






Rochelle Olson @rochelleolson
Looks like Harris-Walz want to be off the stage at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee before the Obamas speak at United in Chicago. Good news for those of us with deadlines.



Erin McGroarty (she/her) @elmcgroarty
Inbox: Those attending the Harris/Walz rally at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee will be able to stick around in the arena after to watch a livestream of former President @BarackObama and former First Lady @MichelleObama's speeches at the DNC in Chicago.






Christian Datoc @TocRadio
VP Kamala Harris reviewing documents and taking photos of staff during her OSPREY flight to ORD in Chicago





She’s heading to Milwaukee for a rally at the Fiserv Forum










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August 20, 2024

Tan suit trigger: Check







August 20, 2024

Presidential family reunion on stage

...they were so wonderfully lost in it, as was the crowd watching them.





Kamala and Joe eventually remembered the audience and waved out to them, to cheers - then turned back to the families who slowly ambled off stage in a bundle.

So much wonderfulness.




August 20, 2024

Coach Walz: 'My kids keep me humble'

Nate Morris @_natemorris
Tim Walz’s kids doing bunny ears behind him while he’s on national TV at the DNC is the most relatable, Minnesota content.





Tim Walz @Tim_Walz ·1h
My kids keep me humble

https://x.com/_natemorris/status/1825700538601857339



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