Dawn Roberts, an Iowa state co-chair of the Nikki Haley for President campaign, endorsed Harris today, writing in a Des Moines Register opinion piece that Harris, "showed willingness to listen to a wider range of views to solve problems."

Roberts' decision to vote for Harris came after Biden dropped out the race, she wrote, adding, "This year's Democratic National Convention was almost perfect. Harris had the ability to unite her party immediately. She said she wanted to be the president for 'all of the people.'"

Five days after the second apparent assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, the House on Friday unanimously passed bipartisan legislation that would boost Secret Service protection for the two parties’ presidential nominees, Trump and Kamala Harris, as well as their vice presidential running mates.

The vote was 405-0. It required two-thirds support of the House to pass because it came to the floor under an expedited process. In a separate action, lawmakers also passed a resolution expanding the scope of the bipartisan House task force investigating the July 13 Trump assassination attempt to include the second incident.

The bill’s passage comes as lawmakers grapple over how to address the growing threats of violence against major political figures in the U.S. ahead of the November election. Some lawmakers have called for more Secret Service funding, while others said the Secret Service could be more effective by shifting resources.

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The Anti-Defamation League sharply criticized Trump over comments he made about Jewish voters last night during an event focusing on "fighting antisemitism." In a statement, the ADL accused the former president of "employing numerous antisemitic tropes and anti-Jewish stereotypes."

"I appreciate that former President Trump called out antisemitism and recognized its historic surge. He’s right on that. But the effect is undermined by then employing numerous antisemitic tropes and anti-Jewish stereotypes — including rampant accusations of dual loyalty," Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, said in a statement.

"Pre-emptively blaming American Jews for your potential election loss does zero to help American Jews," Greenblatt said, referring to Trump's remarks, which included a section where the former president said, "the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss."

The Georgia state election board on Friday voted 3-2 to require counties to hand-count ballots in this November’s election, a move that could drastically lengthen the amount of time to tally election results in a critical battleground state.

The move was approved by three board members who’ve been praised by former President Donald Trump, and was opposed by Democrats in the state, as well as by the Republican secretary of state and attorney general.

“I want to make on the record that we’ll be going against the advice of our legal counsel by voting in the affirmative,” the Georgia election board’s chair, John Fervier, said before the motion passed. Fervier, who was appointed by Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp and Sara Tindall Ghazal, the lone Democratic appointee on the panel, voted against the new rules.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had previously warned the new rule could cause “chaos.”

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Democrats believe that the allegations that North Carolina GOP Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson made an avalanche of inflammatory comments on the message board of a porn site, will help them win not just the state's gubernatorial race where Robinson is a candidate, but could help them in their quest to win the state's presidential ballot because Trump has forcefully endorsed Robinson in the past.

But while the alleged comments first reported by CNN are reverberating around the political sphere, including posts from an account linked to Robinson supporting slavery, referring to himself as a "black NAZI" and musings about "peeping" on women in gym showers; they're absent from the initial ads Democrats have launched looking to take advantage of the news cycle. Robinson has denied the report, calling it "tabloid trash."

The DNC's new digital ad campaign and billboards, about which NBC News was first to report, shows Trump standing with Robinson and quotes the former president calling Robinson "outstanding" and an "incredible gentleman." And the Harris campaign's new ad re-ups Trump's praise of Robinson, but the attack is on abortion, not on the comments.

Certainly there's been no shortage of coverage of the allegations against Robinson. But the fact that none of the ads linking Trump to Robinson are touching them, and that the key attack against them remains abortion, is notable.

The Kamala Harris campaign is pushing back on Donald Trump’s remarks that “the Jewish people” would have “a lot to do” with his defeat if he loses the 2024 election, accusing him of using antisemitic rhetoric in a statement made first to NBC News.

“Donald Trump is resorting to the oldest antisemitic tropes in the book because he’s weak and can’t stand the fact that the majority of America is going to reject him in November,” Harris campaign national security spokesperson Morgan Finkelstein told NBC News in a statement today. “But we know that words like these can have dangerous consequences. As Trump has proven, including over the past few weeks with his lies about Springfield, Ohio, he will cling to fearmongering and intimidation, no matter the cost. When Donald Trump loses this election, it will be because Americans from all faiths, ethnicities, and backgrounds came together to turn the page on the divisiveness he demonstrates every day.”

At a Thursday event in Washington about fighting antisemitism, Trump wondered why he’s trailing his Democratic rival among Jewish voters, even though he’s the “most popular person in Israel,” he said, encouraging the crowd to help grow his support.

“I’m not going to call this a prediction, but, in my opinion, the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss if I’m at 40%,” Trump said, citing an unspecified poll. He added: “You can’t let this happen. Fourty percent is not acceptable, because we have an election to win.” 

In remarks today, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, blasted Trump and state GOP leaders, saying that they "have known about [Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson's] character, and the kind of statement he made, his disrespect to violence" for years.

Cooper added, "this is something that has been known across the board and they have continued to support him even to this very minute."

The governor's comments come in the wake of a new CNN report out Thursday that revealed some of Robinson's lewd comments that he allegedly posted on a pornographic website years ago. The statements included Robinson talking about sexual acts, slavery and Nazis.

NBC News has reached out to the Trump campaign and North Carolina Republican Party for comment.

Speaker Mike Johnson said Trump “understands the situation that we’re in” regarding government funding. 

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s campaign did not submit a written request to the state Board of Elections last night requesting to withdraw from the gubernatorial race, a spokesperson from the North Carolina State Board of Elections told NBC News today. 

This means that the deadline for Robinson to officially withdraw from the race has passed, per state law. 

The lieutenant governor is under fire from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle after a new report yesterday from CNN revealed that Robinson once posted lewd and inflammatory comments about Nazis, transgender people and slavery on the message board of a pornographic website.