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Kamala D. Harris is the Vice President of the United States. She always fights for the people – from her barrier-breaking time as District Attorney of San Francisco and Attorney General of California, to proudly serving as a United States Senator and the Vice President.

On January 20, 2021, Kamala Harris was sworn in as Vice President – the first woman, the first Black American, and the first South Asian American to be elected to this position.

As Vice President, she has worked to bring people together to advance opportunity, deliver for families, and protect fundamental freedoms across the country. She has led the fight for the freedom of women to make decisions about their own bodies, the freedom to live safe from gun violence, the freedom to vote, and the freedom to drink clean water and breathe clean air. While making history at home, she is also representing the nation abroad – embarking on more than a dozen foreign trips, traveling to more than 19 countries, and meeting with more than 150 world leaders to strengthen critical global alliances.

The Vice President has been a trusted partner to President Joe Biden as they work together to deliver monumental achievements that are lifechanging for millions of Americans. Together, they have invested in the economy to create a record number of jobs and keep unemployment low. Their work has led to more small business creation in a two-year period than any previous administration.

They capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month for seniors, cut prescription prices, and improved maternal health by expanding postpartum care through Medicaid. They passed the first meaningful gun safety law in three decades. Forming a bipartisan coalition, they enacted a $1 trillion investment in the country’s infrastructure to remove every lead pipe in America and make the most significant investment in public transit, repairing bridges, and high-speed Internet in history.

As President of the Senate, Vice President Harris set a new record for the most tie-breaking votes cast by a Vice President in history – surpassing a record that had stood for nearly 200 years. And her votes have been consequential. This includes casting the decisive vote to secure passage of the landmark Inflation Reduction Act, the largest investment ever in tackling the climate crisis. She also presided over the unprecedented vote to confirm the first Black woman, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, to the Supreme Court while working alongside President Biden to achieve historic representation of women and people of color among nominees at all levels of the federal government.

“At every step of the way, I’ve been guided by the words I spoke from the first time I stood in a courtroom: Kamala Harris, For the People.” Kamala Harris, August 19, 2020

Fighting for the people is nothing new for Vice President Kamala Harris.

In 2017, she was sworn into the United States Senate where she championed legislation to fight hunger, provide rent relief, improve maternal health care, expand access to capital for small businesses, revitalize America’s infrastructure, and combat the climate crisis. She questioned two Supreme Court nominees while serving on the Judiciary Committee. She also worked to keep the American people safe from foreign threats and crafted bipartisan legislation to assist in securing American elections while serving on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

In 2010, Vice President Harris was elected Attorney General of California where she oversaw the largest state justice department in the country. She took on those who were preying on the American people, winning a $20 billion settlement for Californians whose homes had been foreclosed on and a $1.1 billion settlement for students and veterans who were taken advantage of by a for-profit education company. She also defended the Affordable Care Act in court and enforced environmental laws.

In 2004, Vice President Harris was elected District Attorney of San Francisco where she was a national leader in the movement for LGBTQ+ rights, officiating the first same-sex wedding after Proposition 8 was overturned. She also established the office’s environmental justice unit and created a ground-breaking program to provide first-time drug offenders with the opportunity to earn a high school degree and find employment, which the U.S. Department of Justice designated as a national model of innovation for law enforcement. And years earlier, in 1990, she joined the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office where she specialized in prosecuting child sexual assault cases.

Vice President Harris was born in Oakland, California. As the daughter of immigrants, she grew up surrounded by a diverse community and a loving extended family. She and her sister, Maya, were inspired by their mother, Shyamala Gopalan, a breast cancer scientist and pioneer in her own right who came to the United States from India at the age of 19 and then received her doctorate the same year that Kamala was born.

Both of the Vice President’s parents were active in the civil rights movement, and instilled in her a commitment to build strong coalitions that fight for the rights and freedoms of all people. They brought her to civil rights marches in a stroller and taught her about heroes like Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and civil rights leader Constance Baker Motley.

Vice President Harris went on to graduate from Howard University and the University of California Hastings College of Law. In 2014, she married Douglas Emhoff, a lawyer. They have a large blended family that includes their children, Ella and Cole.

As a trailblazer throughout her entire career, the Vice President is committed to fulfilling her mother’s advice:

“My mother would look at me and she’d say, ‘Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you are not the last.’” Kamala Harris, January 28, 2019

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Vice President Kamala Harris arrives in San Francisco

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Posted: Jun 29, 2022 / 05:31 PM PDT

Updated: Jun 29, 2022 / 05:39 PM PDT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Vice President Kamala Harris touched down in San Francisco Wednesday evening to attend private events in the city.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf were both on the tarmac to greet the Vice President. KRON4 reported last week that Mayor Breed had tested positive for COVID .

The Vice President’s last visit to California came earlier this month when she toured the Dream Big Children’s Center  in Monrovia. At the event the Vice President stated, “It’s really great to be home.”

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Riot police reopen Mission streets after protests, Kamala Harris visit

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San Francisco riot police blocked several streets in the Mission Wednesday in response to a protest ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris’s arrival at The Chapel for a fundraiser.

Roads around Valencia and 19th streets reopened around 2:45 p.m. after Mission Station police Capt. Thomas Harvey declared the protests “a safe event.”

The protest—which came a day before convicted felon and former president Donald Trump’s scheduled appearance at a fundraising dinner in Pacific Heights—began around noon Wednesday as 150 pro-Palestine activists converged at 19th and Valencia streets with signs, flags and loudspeakers.

“Vice President Harris cannot expect to fundraise and campaign in our backyard without facing residents who’ve been working tirelessly to end this war and defeat fascism at home and abroad,” Lara Kiswani of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center said in a press release.

At 1 p.m., what appeared to be Secret Service agents stood guard outside The Chapel, where Harris was scheduled to appear at the Biden Victory Fund event. An hour later, the vice president’s motorcade arrived escorted by motorcycle cops.

A police officer at the scene said the plan was to move protesters to one block on 19th Street between Lapidge and Valencia streets.

Within an hour of the protest starting, riot officers began pushing demonstrators away from The Chapel and into the intersection at 19th and Valencia streets.

At 1:15 p.m., protesters complied with police orders to move to the south side of the intersection.

“Thanks for cooperating thus far,” one officer said over a loudspeaker. That was met by a chorus of boos from demonstrators.

Valencia Street between 17th and 20th streets remained cordoned off by police for the next few hours.

Protestors brought a large speaker system that effectively drowned out instructions from SFPD.

“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris cannot show face anywhere in this country,” one protestor shouted through the speaker. “If they go to the desert, if they go to the moon, we’re gonna be there chasing them down.”

“SFPD, KKK, IOF, you’re all the same,” protesters chanted in unison as riot cops continued to cordon off the area. The IOF is a pejorative term for the Israel Defense Forces, in which the “O” stands for Occupation.

Riot cops began handing out zip ties to officers around 1:30 p.m. in an apparent readying to detain protesters. No one was arrested or detained, police at the scene said.

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Media advisory: vice president kamala harris to travel to los angeles and san francisco, california.

On Monday, October 17, 2022 , Vice President Harris will be in Los Angeles, California to participate in a moderated conversation on the Biden-Harris Administration's commitment to protecting reproductive rights. Later in the day, the Vice President will attend a Democratic National Committee finance event covered by editorial pool only. The moderated conversation will be open to pre-credentialed media. Media interested in covering the event should RSVP HERE by 5:00 PM PT on Sunday, October 16, 2022. Additional details to follow.

On Tuesday, October 18, 2022 , Vice President Harris will travel to San Francisco, California to participate in a conversation on the Biden-Harris Administration's investments to combat the climate crisis. Later in the day, the Vice President will attend a Democratic National Committee finance event covered by editorial pool only. The climate conversation will be open to pre-credentialed media. Media interested in covering the conversation should RSVP HERE by 5:00 PM PT on Monday, October 17, 2022. Additional details to follow.

Kamala Harris, Media Advisory: Vice President Kamala Harris to Travel to Los Angeles and San Francisco, California Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/358364

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Election Updates: Trump courts tech elites in rare return to San Francisco.

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Chris Cameron

After announcing that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be on the ballot in Florida , the campaign said it’s now eligible for more than 270 Electoral College votes, reaching a condition to qualify for CNN’s debate on June 27. A New York Times analysis, however, finds Kennedy eligible for only 119 votes. The campaign is including petitions that haven’t been officially approved; CNN has said “the mere application for ballot access” doesn’t count.

Jennifer Medina

The Trump campaign is rebranding its Latinos for Trump program as Latino Americans for Trump. The emphasis on American is notable as support for Trump grows among Hispanic voters, even as he continues to make inflammatory rhetoric regarding immigration at the southern border a central part of his campaign.

Reid J. Epstein

President Biden is set to address the nation’s largest gun-control group as measured by members and funding next week. Everytown for Gun Safety, the group backed by Michael R. Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor, said Friday that Biden would speak to its annual training conference in Washington on Tuesday. Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the group last summer at its gathering in Chicago.

Neil Vigdor

Jimmy Kimmel, the late-night television entertainer whose hosting of the Oscars drew jabs from former President Donald J. Trump, will interview President Biden and former President Barack Obama at a Los Angeles fund-raiser for the Biden campaign this month. The headliners will include George Clooney and Julia Roberts. In a fund-raising email, Kimmel said, “Trump will hate this, so let’s do it!”

Kellen Browning

We have our first independent poll of the Nevada Republican primary for Senate in several months. Noble Predictive Insights is out with a poll this morning showing Sam Brown with 50 percent support, far ahead of Jeff Gunter, his closest challenger, who is at 15 percent. Nevada is notoriously difficult to survey, but this is a pretty definitive lead for Brown ahead of the primary on Tuesday.

Theodore Schleifer

Donald J. Trump made his first appearance in San Francisco in at least a decade last night, after he was introduced at a fund-raiser by Senator J.D. Vance and the venture capitalist David Sacks, who said the event “would never have happened” without Vance. At the event, Trump credited the Winklevoss twins, who were there, for founding Facebook, according to the Republican National Committeewoman Harmeet Dhillon.

Theodore Schleifer and Heather Knight

Trump makes rare visit to San Francisco to court the conservative elite.

Donald J. Trump made his most direct pitch yet to the Silicon Valley elite on Thursday evening, telling a group of entrepreneurs in San Francisco that if he were to lose in November, many of them would feel so unsafe that they would need to leave the United States.

Speaking inside a $20 million home on a street sometimes called “Billionaire’s Row” in one of the country’s most iconic liberal cities, Mr. Trump regaled the crowd with his typical bravado for about an hour. Some of his remarks were aimed at winning over the roughly 70 attendees, who largely came from the tech or cryptocurrency industries, according to people at the event.

For instance, Mr. Trump offered a shout-out to Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, two entrepreneurs who were involved in the founding of Facebook and were made famous by the movie “The Social Network,” which depicted their fight with Mark Zuckerberg, a Trump enemy. Mr. Trump told the crowd that the twins should have received credit for the founding of the social media giant. Trump ruminated on the luck they had enjoyed in life, calling them good-looking “models,” and adding, “You guys were dealt a lot of cards,” according to a person in the room.

At other points, Mr. Trump expressed his support for the cryptocurrency industry and fretted about so-called deepfakes, or false digital images and audio of people that can be used in disinformation campaigns. Mr. Trump recalled a unnerving deepfake that he had seen that imitated him declaring nuclear war, and then he asked the crowd what should be done about these imitations, a person in the room recalled. After someone in attendance responded with a two-minute answer, Trump called that reply a “better answer” than one he had recently gotten on this topic from Elon Musk, the person said.

Nibbling on cocktails, lobster rolls and sliders adorned with American flags, the crowd was light on celebrity but wealthy enough to afford the tickets, which ranged from $50,000 to $300,000 per person. The fund-raiser was thrown by David Sacks, a prominent Silicon Valley conservative and friend to fellow billionaires Mr. Musk, Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen (none of whom attended the Thursday event, nor had they been expected to). The event had been expected to pour over $12 million into Trump campaign coffers, according to people involved in its planning, a total Mr. Sacks confirmed at the event to guests.

Guests included two U.S. senators: Bill Hagerty of Tennessee and J.D. Vance of Ohio, whom Sacks credited in his remarks with being largely responsible for the event’s existence, a person familiar with Mr. Sacks’s remarks said. Mr. Vance had been the initial connecting point between the Trump campaign, primarily Donald Trump Jr., and Mr. Sacks, who has emerged over the last two or three years as the de facto leader of the tech industry’s right wing.

Mr. Sacks co-hosts a podcast, “All-In,” that has taken off in popularity with entrepreneurs, particularly those who lean to the right. One of Mr. Sacks’s co-hosts, Chamath Palihapitiya, served as a co-host of the event, and the two had initially hoped to possibly turn the Trump fund-raiser into a live podcast taping, although organizers quashed that plan.

Mr. Trump, who was making his first trip inside the city limits in at least a decade, has often denounced San Francisco as a city of liberal excesses. Demonstrators supporting and opposing him were active around the event in Pacific Heights, a scenic, wealthy neighborhood that overlooks San Francisco Bay. But Mr. Trump said that liberals had damaged the city over the past decade by not cracking down on homelessness encampments on the sidewalks, according to Ms. Dhillon, harming quality of life in San Francisco.

“He said the Democrats, people like Cher, a lot of celebrities, they’re always saying they’re going to leave and they never leave, but I think people in the room, some of them, will leave the country,” said Harmeet Dhillon, a conservative lawyer and Republican national committeewoman who was in the room. “He said it’s not going to be safe.”

On Friday, Mr. Trump heads to Southern California for two more fund-raisers. The Trump campaign did not list on its invitation the name of the host of the first event, to be held in Beverly Hills, on the invitation. The host is Lee Samson, chairman of a wealth-management firm that specializes in nursing homes, and who is active in Jewish Republican politics, according to people briefed on the matter who insisted on anonymity to discuss the event’s planning.

Lauren Hirsch and Kate Conger contributed reporting.

Chris Cameron and Kellen Browning

Chris Cameron reported from Washington. Kellen Browning reported from Phoenix.

Kari Lake delivered a speech in front of a Confederate flag.

Kari Lake, the leading Republican candidate for Senate in Arizona, delivered a speech in front of a Confederate flag at a Trump-themed merchandise store in Show Low, Ariz., last week.

Footage of the speech, which was obtained by The New York Times, showed Ms. Lake on May 31 repeating lies about the 2020 election’s having been stolen from former President Donald J. Trump as she stood in front of a Confederate battle standard hanging in the store. The flag has become the one most associated with the Confederacy in the modern era.

“I am the only person running for U.S. Senate, either Republican or Democrat, who truly believes there was fraud in the election in 2020 — does anyone else here believe that?” Ms. Lake said to cheers and applause. She later added: “We are still fighting. We have more fight in us. We have a lot of cases going.”

The store, known as the Trumped Store, sells a variety of pro-Trump and 2020 election-denier merchandise as well as the Confederate battle flag and the Confederate national flag . The store also sells merchandise with slogans attacking President Biden, including “Let’s Go Brandon” and “F.J.B.,” which stands for a phrase that includes an expletive. A number of products also feature the phrase “Trump won,” in support of Mr. Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

In a statement, the Lake campaign defended her appearance at the store by saying: “Kari went to a store. The New York Times published an op-ed from the terrorist organization the Taliban. Do you approve of the Taliban?” In another statement, to The Guardian, which earlier reported Ms. Lake’s appearance at the store , the campaign said: “The Kari Lake campaign does not respond to British propaganda outlets. We stopped doing that in 1776.”

The local news media in Arizona had also reported on Ms. Lake’s appearance at the Trumped Store earlier this week.

The New Mexico territory, which at the time of the Civil War included what became Arizona, was a battleground of the war . Confederate forces were quickly driven from the territory, and the U.S. government split Arizona into its own U.S. territory, abolishing slavery in the process .

Ms. Lake has denied the results of the 2020 election and of her own loss in the governor’s race in Arizona in 2022. In her campaign for governor, her fiery demeanor and combativeness alienated some of the state’s voters , including moderate Republicans. Ms. Lake has sought to take a more tempered tone this time around , urged by the Republican establishment in Washington to tone down her rhetoric and her claims of election fraud. She has tried to court some of the Republicans who balked at her candidacy in 2022.

Still, she has continued to repeat unfounded claims of election fraud and has occasionally made comments that undermine the new approach.

In April, she urged supporters at a rally to arm themselves ahead of an “intense” period leading up to the election , saying that they should “put on the armor of God” and “strap on a Glock,” referring to a brand of firearm.

Mr. Trump has himself repeatedly defended the display of Confederate flags and other symbols of the Confederacy . As president, he suggested that removing statues honoring the Confederacy amounted to “changing history,” and he defended some participants of a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, who had gathered to protect the statue of a Confederate general that was later removed.

Mr. Trump also resisted efforts to rename nine Army bases in the South that had been named for treasonous Confederate generals who fought against the U.S. Army.

R.F.K. Jr. will be on the ballot in Florida, his campaign says.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent presidential candidate, will be on the ballot in Florida this fall, his campaign said on Friday, after the minor party that nominated Mr. Kennedy as its presidential candidate had its ballot access reinstated this week .

It is a significant victory for Mr. Kennedy’s sprawling effort to get on the ballot in all 50 states. Florida has the third-largest number of electoral votes in the country, behind California (where Mr. Kennedy is already on the ballot ) and Texas (where Mr. Kennedy has submitted a ballot access petition ).

Florida is an increasingly Republican state — Donald J. Trump won by a margin of about three percentage points in 2020 — and it is unclear what effect Mr. Kennedy’s campaign could have on the race there. Mr. Kennedy is drawing support from both Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump, and both campaigns are concerned about the potential for him to swing the election in key states.

Mr. Kennedy is now on the ballot in seven states — California, Florida, Utah, Hawaii, Oklahoma, Michigan and Delaware — and is currently eligible for a total of 119 votes in the Electoral College. That metric is important even five months ahead of the election because Mr. Kennedy must be on the ballot in enough states to be eligible for 270 electoral votes in order to qualify for CNN’s presidential debate on June 27. With fewer than two weeks before the June 20 deadline to qualify, Mr. Kennedy has less than half of the total he needs.

Mr. Kennedy won ballot access in Florida through his nomination by the Reform Party, which has particular historical significance because it was founded by Ross Perot — a Texas billionaire who ran as an independent presidential candidate in 1992 and then formed the party ahead of his 1996 run for president. While Mr. Perot lost both races, they were the most significant campaigns by a third-party or independent candidate in modern American history — a feat that Mr. Kennedy hopes to emulate.

The Reform Party’s nomination of Mr. Kennedy allowed the campaign to sidestep the need to submit its own ballot access petition in Florida — an expensive and arduous venture that would require collecting more than 130,000 signatures from registered voters in the state.

Mr. Kennedy had initially sought ballot access in the state through the Natural Law Party, an outside group that nominated Mr. Kennedy through a two-person convention in Michigan — a key battleground state.

When Mr. Kennedy’s nomination by the Reform Party was announced on May 24, the campaign prematurely claimed that it had already gained ballot access in Florida. In reality, the Reform Party’s status as a registered political party in the state was revoked last year because it failed to comply with an audit. The party’s status was reinstated on Wednesday, according to a notice provided by the Kennedy campaign.

In addition to Mr. Perot and Mr. Kennedy, the Reform Party has fielded a number of presidential candidates, including Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader . Jesse Ventura, the governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003, was the Reform Party’s highest-ranking elected official . Mr. Trump had considered running for president as the Reform Party candidate in 2000 , but ultimately dropped his campaign that year and left the party.

Latinos for Trump rebrands to add ‘Americans’ to its name.

“Latinos for Trump” is no more. Now, it is “Latino Americans for Trump.”

The Trump campaign has changed the name of its Latino outreach effort to emphasize American citizenship. The shift is particularly striking given that the campaign continues to make inroads among Hispanic voters , even as former President Donald J. Trump escalates the use of dehumanizing rhetoric about immigrants that is central to his campaign.

“It’s very important that we all understand that no matter where we’re coming from, we’re already American,” said Jaime Florez, the Hispanic communications director for the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign. “Whether you’re African American, Latino American, Asian American, European American — wherever you come from, we are all American.”

“Latino” is a primarily American term used to refer to people with family from Latin America. By the most expansive of definitions, it can include people who trace their roots to Spanish settlers in New Mexico, third- and fourth-generation Salvadoran Americans and recent arrivals from Venezuela. Latino is generally thought of as an ethnicity, and can include people who appear white, Black, Indigenous or Asian. Polls have repeatedly shown that many Latinos prefer to identify themselves by their country of origin.

Emphasizing an American identity alongside a Latino one is highly unlikely to deter any would-be Trump voters. By law, of course, only American citizens can vote in federal elections. (Mr. Trump and his supporters have repeatedly made unfounded accusations about undocumented immigrants voting.)

The new label allows the campaign to attract Latino supporters who are drawn to Mr. Trump precisely because they believe so fervently in his description of the American dream. Many of these voters say they support Mr. Trump because they believe their own economic situations were better when he was in office. Many Latino voters have also said they are alarmed by the arrival of new migrants; some have explicitly said that those migrants threaten the social status of Latinos already living in the United States .

Latino voters are expected to make up an estimated 15 percent of eligible voters this year, and are likely to play a central role in deciding the election . Polls show that Mr. Trump’s support among Latino voters has increased since his defeat in 2020; some surveys find him winning more than 40 percent of those voters, a level not seen for a Republican presidential candidate in two decades.

Ian Haney López, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley who has written extensively about Latinos and worked with Democratic groups , called the change to Latino Americans for Trump a “strategically smart move” that plays on a rift among Hispanic voters.

“It constructs a border wall right through Latino communities, allowing some to feel esteemed as Americans while simultaneously encouraging them to believe others don’t belong, as the wrong sort of immigrants,” he said. “This shift also drags back Latinos 100 years.”

Mr. Haney López pointed to advocacy groups that began nearly a century ago, such as the League of United Latin American Citizens, which were created to counter anti-Latino prejudice and elevate Latinos who were citizens, but also denigrated more recent Hispanic arrivals.

“It took decades of work, especially during the civil rights era, to build a sense of shared humanity and identity across the citizen-immigrant divide,” he said. “But of course, that divide remains available to be weaponized still today, and that’s what the rebranding of Latino Americans for Trump seeks to do.”

In a statement, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, the Biden campaign manager, called the name change an “insult” to Latino voters, saying Mr. Trump has “spent his entire adult life vilifying Latinos, and his entire time in office making our communities worse off.”

Danielle Alvarez, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, dismissed criticism of the name change and said that the campaign is emphasizing the economy and the cost of living for all Americans.

“The left is over there pandering to minority groups, talking about process,” Ms. Alvarez said. “We are going to message the America first agenda to all Americans, including Latino Americans.”

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Trump says he will announce his pick for vice president at the national convention.

Donald J. Trump said he would announce his running mate next month at the Republican National Convention, a move that would add considerable suspense to a gathering that otherwise could lack for high drama.

Mr. Trump has told aides for weeks that he would like to use the convention for the announcement, though he has been more noncommittal in public.

In January, he told Fox News that he had decided on his running mate and suggested he would announce his decision on one of the network’s programs. In later interviews, he said he would unveil his choice closer to the convention, scheduled to start July 15 in Milwaukee.

A former reality TV star with a knack for building an audience, Mr. Trump waited until just days before the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland to announce then-Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana as his running mate.

Last month, he told TMJ4 News in Milwaukee that there was “a pretty good chance” he would introduce his running mate during the convention, a timetable he seemed to settle on during a pair of interviews on Thursday.

“I’m going to do it in the convention,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with Dr. Phil McGraw, the television host and supporter of the former president.

He outlined a similar plan in an interview on Fox News. “I think I’ll announce who that person’s going to be during the convention,” Mr. Trump said. “I think that’s pretty normal, during the convention. It’ll be an interesting period of time.”

Mr. Trump has started to narrow the field of potential contenders even as his campaign has initiated a vetting process with a broader field of potential candidates, according to three people briefed on the process who insisted on anonymity to discuss private conversations.

According to these people, Trump campaign aides have requested personal information from Governor Doug Burgum of North Dakota; Ben Carson, the former Trump cabinet secretary; Representatives Byron Donalds of Florida and Elise Stefanik of New York; and Senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Marco Rubio of Florida, Tim Scott of South Carolina and J.D. Vance of Ohio.

Trump defends his vow to prosecute his political rivals, saying ‘sometimes revenge can be justified.’

Former President Donald J. Trump has in recent days been escalating his suggestions that he could prosecute his political enemies if elected in November.

In interviews broadcast on Thursday and earlier this week, Mr. Trump’s remarks demonstrated how he was trying to put his legal troubles on the ballot as a referendum on the American justice system and the rule of law. His allies in the Republican Party have also joined his calls for revenge prosecutions and other retaliatory measures against Democrats in response to his felony convictions by a jury in a New York court on 34 charges.

Mr. Trump was offered several opportunities by sympathetic interviewers in recent days — including an appearance with Dr. Phil McGraw, the television host — to clarify or walk back his previous statements. Mr. Trump instead defended his position, saying at points that “I don’t want to look naïve” and that “sometimes revenge can be justified.”

Dr. McGraw brought up the former president’s previous statements in an interview that ran on Thursday and gave him an opportunity to say, as Dr. McGraw put it: “Enough is enough. Too much is too much. This is a race to the bottom, and it stops here. It stops now.”

Mr. Trump initially responded, “I’m OK with that,” but then added, “Sometimes, I’m sure in certain moments I wouldn’t be, you know, when you go through what I’ve been through.”

Then, when Dr. McGraw said that revenge and retribution were unhealthy for the country and that Mr. Trump did not have time to “get even,” the former president replied: “Revenge does take time. I will say that. And sometimes revenge can be justified Phil, I have to be honest — sometimes it can.”

In an interview with Sean Hannity, the Fox News host, that was broadcast on Wednesday night, Mr. Trump was also offered several opportunities to pledge he would not carry out “retribution” against his political opponents.

Mr. Trump was asked to respond to critics who fear he would look for “retribution” if he wins in November and returns to the White House. “So No. 1, they’re wrong,” he said. “It has to stop because otherwise we’re not going to have a country.”

Mr. Trump instead said that “based on what they’ve done” — referring to Democrats — “I would have every right to go after them.”

He added, “And it’s easy, because it’s Joe Biden, and you see all the criminality, all of the money that’s going into the family and him.”

Mr. Hannity then pushed the former president to condemn “this practice of weaponization.”

Mr. Trump replied: “You have to do it. But it’s awful — look, I know you want me to say something so nice,” but, he added, “I don’t want to look naïve.”

The former president was also asked, in an interview with ABC15 News in Arizona that aired on Thursday, about prosecuting his opponents, and he suggested he was considering it.

“I thought it would be a horrible thing to do to Hillary Clinton,” Mr. Trump said, repeating a recent false suggestion that he had never called to “lock up” Ms. Clinton . But he added: “The world is different now. So when you ask me the question, would we do it? I’ll talk to you in about three years from now.”

On Tuesday, he also suggested his opponents could face prosecution.

“You know, it’s a very terrible thing. It’s a terrible precedent for our country. Does that mean the next president does it to them? That’s really the question,” Mr. Trump told the Newsmax host Greg Kelly when asked whether the conviction could help him politically.

He added, “So, you know, it’s a terrible, terrible path that they’re leading us to, and it’s very possible that it’s going to have to happen to them.”

Michael Gold and Maggie Astor contributed reporting.

Michael Gold and Kellen Browning

Reporting from Phoenix.

In his first campaign event as a felon, Trump rails against the border crisis in Arizona.

In his first campaign event since he became the first American president to be convicted on felony charges, Donald J. Trump on Thursday tried to turn the focus on President Biden by likening his border policy to a criminal enterprise.

Broadly denouncing the migrants crossing the border illegally of being violent criminals and terrorists, Mr. Trump criticized Mr. Biden’s recent executive order meant to curb crossings, saying it would be ineffective after Mr. Biden had taken little action for months.

“With his actions on the border, Joe Biden is the ringleader of one the most vile criminal conspiracies of all time,” Mr. Trump said at a town hall in Phoenix hosted by Turning Point Action, a conservative group.

Mr. Trump, whom prosecutors in Manhattan accused of a criminal conspiracy, and who is also facing felony conspiracy counts in a federal election-interference case, often defends himself from criticisms by dismissing the claims against him, then pointing fingers at his opponents and accusing them of worse transgressions.

His speech in Phoenix previewed how Mr. Trump will most likely downplay the guilty verdict in his Manhattan trial by keeping immigration at the center of his efforts to persuade voters in battleground states to restore him to the White House in November, while defeating the man who thwarted his re-election in 2020.

That strategy may prove particularly potent in Arizona, a border state that Mr. Trump had not visited since 2022. Republican lawmakers voted this week to put a measure on the ballot in November that would make unlawfully crossing the border from Mexico a state crime, part of an effort to harness anti-immigration sentiment at the polls.

Mr. Trump took extensive aim at Mr. Biden’s executive order, which prevents migrants from seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border when crossings surge. He accused the president of deferring action until this week in order to curry favor with voters ahead of the election.

“They come up with this order,” he said. Then, drawing on a favorite rhetorical device of his, he feigned stopping himself from describing it with offensive language. “I won’t say it, because I don’t like using the word ‘bullshit’ in front of these people,” he said.

In response, the crowd packed inside the megachurch where he was speaking, the Dream City Church, began chanting the profanity in unison.

Mr. Trump largely revived familiar criticisms of Mr. Biden’s immigration policy and made a number of unsubstantiated claims about the migrants crossing illegally and the Biden administration. He again insisted, without evidence, that Mr. Biden was “deliberately” encouraging migrants to come illegally in order to become voters for Democrats .

And he once again claimed, without evidence, that the leaders of other countries were intentionally sending prisoners and mentally ill people in caravans across the border. Still, Mr. Trump said that if he were in charge of those countries, he would do the same thing “in a heartbeat.”

Mr. Biden’s campaign was quick to hit back.

“Donald Trump blocked the toughest, fairest bipartisan border legislation in a generation — legislation that would have increased the nation’s border security and helped halt the flow of fentanyl into this country,” Kevin Munoz, a spokesman for Mr. Biden’s campaign, said in a statement, referring to a bill that would have tightened border security but was blocked by Republicans earlier this year.

Mr. Trump conjured up an apocalyptic vision of the country, and of Arizona in particular, if he did not win in November. “Arizona’s being turned into a dumping ground for the dungeons of the third world,” he said.

Immigration was top of mind for many of the Trump supporters both inside the church and outside, where thousands waited for hours in triple-digit heat. The Phoenix Fire Department said 11 people were taken to hospitals to be treated for heat exhaustion throughout the day.

Phoenix residents attributed a variety of problems — rising crime, homelessness, and even crowded schools and hotels — to the surge of migrants crossing the border 180 miles to the south.

“There’s so much homeless around in Phoenix,” said Debbie Joy, 69. “It’s just impacting everything.” She said she felt as if money was being funneled into less important projects like electric vehicles, rather than going toward border restrictions.

Cameron Norlin, 34, said Mr. Biden’s executive order would do little to resolve the “out of control” situation at the border and echoed Mr. Trump’s claims that the action was politically motivated.

“It helps, but it’s more of an election thing that has nothing to do with him wanting to address the issue,” Mr. Norlin said.

After speaking for an hour, Mr. Trump took nearly a dozen questions from the audience, a rare occurrence at campaign events. Immigration and the economy were the prevailing themes.

Mr. Trump did briefly address his trial in New York, in which he was convicted last week on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush-money payments to a porn star during his 2016 campaign.

His remarks stuck to a typical script: that the trial was “rigged” against him, that the judge was “highly conflicted,” and that the charges were “made-up, fabricated stuff.” Mr. Trump, who has been indicted in four separate criminal cases, said that the “appellate courts have to step up and straighten things out.”

Arizona is one of several states that backed Mr. Trump in 2016 but flipped to Mr. Biden in 2020, driven by shifts in the Phoenix suburbs. Mr. Trump lost the state by over 10,000 votes, less than half a percentage point, and the state was central to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. A number of Trump allies, including Rudolph W. Giuliani, have been indicted on charges related to those efforts.

During his remarks, Mr. Trump repeated his baseless claims of election fraud in Arizona in the 2020 election and the midterm elections in 2022, when candidates he had endorsed were defeated.

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Donald Trump in San Francisco at fundraiser hosted by billionaire VCs

Trump's bay area visit could bring in millions to campaign.

Supporters and protesters rallied in San Francisco on Thursday, where former President Donald Trump attended a sold-out campaign fundraiser.

SAN FRANCISCO - Former President Donald Trump attended an event in San Francisco on Thursday at a fundraiser hosted by billionaire venture capitalists. 

Trump is spending the rest of the week in California, his first stop in the Golden State since a jury convicted him on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in New York. 

His first stop was Pacific Heights at an event hosted by billionaire venture capitalists David Sacks and Chamath Palihapitiya. 

The two have hosted similar events, including for entrepreneur and Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy.

Together they host a podcast called "All In," where they talked about hosting the fundraiser, saying they'd sent an invitation to host a fundraiser for President Biden as well.

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Former President Donald Trump will be in San Francisco on Thursday for a fundraiser hosted by tech billionaires -- and a 33-foot-tall bird lookalike from his opponents will greet him.

"I've donated to Bobby Kennedy, I've donated to Democrats massively and I'll donate to Donald Trump," Palihapitya said on his podcast. "And if there's an opportunity to talk to President Biden and really understand where he's at, I'd donate to him as well." 

A small group of pro-Trump Californians rolled from Oakland to San Francisco to show support for the Republican presumptive nominee.

At the same time, there was an anti-Trump demonstration near the Marina. Organizers planned to launch a float mocking the former president and his recent convictions, but the inflatable couldn't stay up.

There was a sizable show of support from the San Francisco Republican Party. The former president is expected to rack up hundreds of millions of dollars during his week in California.

"We're seeing people who are willing and open to be associated with the President and to publicly give him substantial amounts of money in San Francisco. It's a huge thing," said John Dennis, SFGOP chair.

Hundreds of San Francisco protesters greet Trump

Former President Donald Trump arrived in the Bay Area on Thursday to attend a fundraiser in San Francisco just one day after Vice President Kamala Harris. The former president is a polarizing figure, and his visit drew a large public response.

"Registration was up in every county, every assembly district in the state of California."

That's also what Sacks expected by hosting the former president at his Pacific Heights mansion.

"Quite frankly, there's a lot of preference falsification in Silicon Valley," Sacks said in his podcast. "Nobody is excited about Biden right now. The question is, do they hold their nose and vote for him, do they vote for Trump, or do they vote for Bobby Kennedy? But there's a lot of people who I do think support Trump."

After his San Francisco visit, Trump will head to events in Beverly Hills and Newport Beach.

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Former President Donald Trump to attend campaign fundraiser in SF on Thursday

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Former President Donald Trump is expected to head to the Bay Area on Thursday for a campaign fundraiser in San Francisco.

His visit to the city comes despite the city's voter base being primarily blue.

Trump had nine percent of the vote in San Francisco during the 2016 presidential election against Hillary Clinton.

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Many remember Trump's trek through fencing and dirt to get into the back entrance of a Burlingame hotel while trying to avoid protesters during a 2016 campaign stop on the Peninsula.

"We went under a fence and through a fence and oh boy, it felt like I was crossing the border actually," Trump said during his campaign stop in April of 2016.

This Bay Area fundraiser comes less than a week after being convicted of 34 charges by a New York City jury in the "hush money" trial.

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"The more that he can sell to his supporters that he's a victim, he thinks he's going to do better electorally," said Nolan Higdon, a Cal State East Bay Professor of History and Communication. He believes Trump is taking full advantage of the timing of this trip.

"I think there's at least some part of Trump that thinks, in terms of politics and campaigning, this is great for him," Higdon said. "It's a great time to fundraise and he did raise roughly about $52 million shortly after the verdicts came out."

The political news outlet Puck News' obtained an invitation to Trump's Pacific Heights event.

According to the invitation, it's being hosted by tech billionaire David Sacks, his wife Jacqueline and venture capitalist, Chamath Palihapitiya of the All-In podcast.

"People are coming from all over California," Mindy Pechenuk, a candidate running for Oakland City Council who is part of a group of Trump supporters organizing a rally to greet him at San Francisco's Marina Green on Thursday at 2 p.m.

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Though, Trump is scheduled to be hosting a town hall at the same time in Phoenix, Pechenuk and other Trump supporters are hoping he might swing by.

This is the same place where Presidents Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama have arrived in Marine One in the past.

"This is a rally, just a group of us, men and women, citizens, we the people, wanted to greet Trump, Donald Trump, coming to San Francisco and let him know our love is there, our support is there," Pechenuk said.

Logan Chadwick who lives in Lower Pacific Heights was surprised to learn about this visit.

"I guess I'm surprised, I wouldn't exactly expect to find much of his voter base here," Chadwick said. "Hoping for respect, hoping for keeping decorum and that sort of thing and maintaining the integrity of this beautiful space."

Fundraiser tickets range in price from $50,000 to $500,000.

Eight years ago before being elected, he charged $100 per plate at his event in Burlingame.

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Donald Trump makes rare visit to San Francisco for big-donor fundraiser

S AN FRANCISCO -- Former president Donald Trump made a rare visit to the San Francisco Bay Area for a major fundraising event Thursday. He was greeted by supporters and opponents as made his way to the city's Pacific Heights neighborhood.

The fundraiser was at the home of venture capitalist David Sacks. Some couples paid a cool half million dollars to get in the door.

It was out on the streets, though, where some of the liveliest confrontations happened. Just an hour before Mr. Trump's arrival, some Trump supporters and opponents got into heated clashes as they faced off over issues such as abortion. For supporters, this was a chance to see their candidate make a rare visit to San Francisco.

Max Bonilla wanted to be a part of this moment.

"We don't see this in California," Bonilla said. "I know people in California try to stereotype California and make it look like it's all blue but I don't believe that necessarily. I think there are rural conservative red parts where people come from. Maybe even suburban moms and dads to come to a city like San Francisco when a guy that they love hardly comes by to visit."

Some who live in Pacific Heights, like Armand Domalesky, felt the need to take a stand.

"I live five minutes from here and when I heard Trump -- who hates reproductive rights, hates freedom and hates America -- was going to be in my neighborhood, I had to show up and show that he doesn't represent our values," Domalewsky said.

There was a police presence in the area of Pacific Heights known as billionaire's row. Only residents and attendees were allowed inside the barricades. One attendee who didn't want to be identified said she was impressed with the former president. "I think he's incredibly witty and quick and warm and personal and authentic," she said.

For her, it was worth it to hear him speak about the issues to help her decide who she will vote for in November.

"I wanted to have a firsthand experience to make my mind up," she added. "To have a better understanding of the situation."

This fundraiser is expected to raise more than $12 million. Mr. Trump continues his West Coast campaign tomorrow in Los Angeles.

Hours ahead of his arrival, Trump supporters gathered in the city for a rally at San Francisco's Marina Green after joining caravans in Redwood City and Oakland. Those traveling through parts of San Francisco may have been surprised to see people waving Trump flags and signs in the streets.

The presumptive Republican nominee for president touched down at SFO shortly after 6 p.m. Trump and his entourage got into a fleet of black SUVs to drive into San Francisco.

CHP closed off northbound I-280 briefly to allow the vehicles quick passage into the city. 

Strong winds grounded the giant inflatable chicken that has greeted Trump on past visits.

Counter-demonstrators planned to put the 33-foot-tall chicken with a gold hairdo on the bay  but high winds forced it back to land in a Marina Green parking lot.

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Vice President Harris To Visit U.S.-Mexico Border Friday

June 23, 2021 / 1:25 PM PDT / CBS San Francisco

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday will make her first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, her office announced, after she has faced criticism from members of both parties for failing to go there despite her role leading the Biden administration's response to a steep increase in migration.

Harris will visit the El Paso area, accompanied by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, according to a statement Wednesday from Harris senior adviser Symone Sanders.

The visit comes as the former California senator and Oakland native has faced months of attacks from Republicans, and even some frustration from those in her own party, for declining to visit the area. Harris has been tasked by President Joe Biden with taking on the root causes of migration from Central America to the United States.

So far she has focused her efforts on improving economic and living conditions in the region. Her aides have repeatedly insisted her focus is distinct from the security issues that plague U.S. officials trying to handle a spike in border crossings.

But Republicans have seized on failures by both Harris and Biden to paint the administration as absent on what they've described as a crisis at the border. The issue overshadowed Harris' first foreign trip earlier this month, to Guatemala and Mexico, where she met with both nations' presidents and local officials and advocates to discuss economic and humanitarian solutions to the significant outmigration from both countries.

But Harris and White House aides in Washington were forced to parry repeated questions from the press about why she left a border visit off the trip.

Harris has noted that as a senator from California, she has visited the border in the past, and she has asserted that unless the root causes of migration are addressed the situation at the border will never be fixed.

On her visit to Guatemala and Mexico this month, she urged Central Americans not to try to reach the U.S. border. She tried to give people a sense of hope that would encourage them to stay home.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection recorded more than 180,000 encounters on the Mexican border in May, the most since March 2000. But the numbers were boosted by a pandemic-related ban on seeking asylum, which encouraged repeated attempts to cross the border because getting caught carried no legal consequences.

Harris' trip will come just days before former President Donald Trump is set to visit the border next week with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Republican Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana and about a dozen members of the conservative Republican Study Committee he leads will also be joining the trip, another sign of how closely the party continues to align itself with Trump and the extent to which they see the border as a winning campaign issue.

Trump immediately took credit for Harris' trip, speculating in a statement that the vice president would not have made plans to go if Trump hadn't been headed there himself.

Republicans have tried to make Harris the face of the administration's policies, charging that she and Biden were ignoring the issue because both had yet to visit the border. Harris, during her trip to Latin America, told reporters she was focused on "tangible" results "as opposed to grand gestures."

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Donald Trump visits San Francisco for campaign fundraiser

By pete suratos • published june 6, 2024 • updated on june 7, 2024 at 12:57 am.

Former president Donald Trump was in San Francisco Thursday night for a major fundraiser hosted by tech leaders in the city’s well-known Pacific Heights neighborhood. He left San Francisco later on Thursday night.

But Trump’s visit turned into an all-day event for his supporters as well as counterprotesters of the former president. This comes just one week after he became the first president in U.S. history to ever be convicted.

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There were cheers from supporters as Trump’s motorcade arrived Thursday evening for a fundraiser at the home of venture capitalist David Sacks, with guests paying anywhere from $50,000 to $300,000 for tickets.

Trump’s supporters were waiting for hours to a glimpse of the former president. Many of them did not have tickets to the event. But they were hoping to show their support from afar.

“It’s all over the state, it’s not just San Francisco and it's not just LA, it's the state of California,” said Trump supporter Jen Kelly.

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Trump heads to tech fundraiser in San Francisco, with some guests paying $300,000

Trump’s arrival leading to eventful day of rallies and protests across the city with many of his supporters driving into the city Thursday afternoon for a rally near Fort Mason. They were met with counter-protestors, who see Trump in a much different light.

The same group headed to Pacific Heights, where tensions picked up between Trump supporters and protesters, one of whom lived in the neighborhood.

The resident told NBC Bay Area that he was not a fan of the former president and questioned his supporters, after Trump was convicted of 34 felonies last week.

“He’s a criminal! And they’re sucking up to the biggest criminal on earth,” he said.

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Harmeet Dhillon, an attorney & Republican Party official posted photos of the event on social media site “X.” In the post, she said that the Trump campaign raised $12 million during Thursday’s fundraiser. Trump will raise more money at fundraisers in Southern California on Friday.

$12M raised tonight! Incredible support for @realDonaldTrump . Not an empty seat in the gorgeous home of @DavidSacks and Jacqueline. Thrilled to see the tech leaders stepping up! pic.twitter.com/r4LIbrh4nA — Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) June 7, 2024

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