In line to get into the NABJ conference, the mood has been very chatty and filled with people curious about how Trump will do in a room full of journalists who are mostly also Black people.

There are a few supporters in the room though, including one woman with a sparkly red “Trump” cowboy hat.

The National Association of Black Journalists, facing backlash for inviting Trump to the convention, said it is in conversations with the Harris campaign to have a Q&A session with her, either in person or virtually, in September.

A source familiar with Harris' plans yesterday said she couldn't attend the convention in person this week due to scheduling conflicts. "The NABJ team unfortunately denied a request for the VP to take part in a fireside chat virtually, or to host an in person fireside chat with the VP at a later date," the source said.

In a statement this morning, NABJ president Ken Lemon said, "It has always been our policy to ensure that candidates know that an invitation is not an endorsement. We also agreed that while this race is much different — and contentious — so are the consequences."

A 45-year-old man was arrested and charged after trying to take or damage license plates on the Secret Service vehicles belonging to the detail protecting Ella Emhoff, the vice president's step-daughter.

The man, identified as Harry Heymann, allegedly approached the vehicles parked in Tribeca and caused damage. The U.S. Secret Service said he damaged license plates on both vehicles, but the NYPD said he caused damage to the rear of one vehicle.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., will try to unanimously pass a bill today that would ban the use of AI to generate deceptive content related to a federal election, an attempt that is expected to be blocked.

Back in May, the Senate Rules Committee voted 9-2 to send the Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act to the full Senate, a bipartisan bill to ban the use of artificial intelligence to generate content falsely depicting federal candidates in political ads.

The bill is bipartisan, with Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Chris Coons, D.-Del., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Michael Bennet, D-Colo., are all co-sponsors of the bill.

Renewed focus on the bill comes after Elon Musk, the owner of X, reposted a parody Kamala Harris campaign ad last Friday without labeling it as misleading. The altered content reposted by Musk uses a voiceover that sounded like Harris, making it seem like she referred to herself as an incompetent presidential candidate.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House last week presented an opportunity for newly minted presidential candidate Kamala Harris. 

It was only days after Biden announced he would not seek re-election when the White House decided that after the vice president met with Netanyahu, she would give the administration’s public response to his visit. The result was a moment designed to give Harris the foreign policy spotlight and a chance to reset with Democrats who had turned on Biden over the war in Gaza.

“We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering” of Palestinians, Harris said after meeting with Netanyahu, “and I will not be silent.”

It's seen as gauche to openly campaign for the vice presidency. Yet several of Harris' leading potential running mates just happen to be releasing campaign-style videos introducing themselves to voters and praising Harris.

Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly on Tuesday night tweeted a slickly produced video from his 2020 Senate campaign that shows him wearing aviator sunglasses while driving an open-topped Jeep through the desert, as he narrates his life story as a combat pilot and astronaut.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, meanwhile, posted a video on Instagram that cut together lofty excerpts from a recent speech and black-and-white photographs over an upbeat percussive soundtrack.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz released a short, seemingly professionally produced clip of a candid interaction with Minnesota Vikings fans, as well as a straight-to-camera video of him speaking about the excitement for Harris.

And Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear posted his own video of recent remarks intercut with handheld video of him shaking hands, posing for selfies and breaking ground on a project.

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said today that he doesn't think Republicans should be discussing women who do not want to have children the way that Sen. JD Vance did in his comments about "childless cat ladies."

"Here we go," Hawley said when asked if he's worried about comments like that by Republicans. "As Republicans, we started by talking about the child tax credit. As Republicans, we should be in favor of helping people who want to have families, have families."

"One of the reasons it’s hard to have a family in America today is it’s really expensive," he said. "I mean, parents have to work two jobs to have the kind of purchasing power that, 50 years ago, you could get on one income. That is not a positive thing, that is not a recommendation of our economy."

With Harris set to clinch the Democratic nomination, how she would lead the country as commander-in-chief remains an open question.

Interviews with nearly three dozen current and former U.S. officials who have worked with Harris and her team on foreign policy issues, as well as a review of her voting record in the Senate and her public comments, offer limited clues to how she would respond to some high-stakes national security challenges facing the U.S.

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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a potential vice presidential pick for Harris, says that he trusts that the vice president will further lay out her economic proposals and message in the weeks ahead on her campaign. 

"Look, obviously the Biden-Harris administration has been incredibly helpful to the commonwealth and I think overall really helpful to the broader economy," Shapiro told NBC10 in Philadelphia Tuesday when asked if a vote for Harris is a vote for Biden's economic policies. "She’ll be continuing to lay out her positions and I trust she’ll continue to lay out even more on the economy and other important issues going forward."

Asked if he knows what Harris' policy proposals are on the economy, he said he has a "general sense" but said he doesn't want to get ahead of her.

"She’ll lay out her policies when she’s ready on the terms that she thinks are important to the American people," he said.