Anthony Scaramucci says he is ‘working alongside’ Kamala Harris on her campaign’s crypto policies
Anthony Scaramucci, founder and managing partner of SkyBridge Capital and a former White House communications director for Trump, said he and a group of crypto advocates are working with Harris to develop her campaign’s policies on digital assets ahead of the elections in November.
“There’s a group of cryptocurrency advocates, bitcoin advocates etc. that are working alongside her to distance the Democratic Party away from Elizabeth Warren and [Gary Gensler],” he told a panel yesterday at the annual TOKEN2049 event, one of the world’s largest crypto conferences.
Warren, a Democratic senator, and Gensler, chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, are widely seen as foes of the crypto industry, having backed regulations and crackdowns on the space.
Harris has been hearing out crypto proponents and the group is pushing her to back industry-friendly policies, he said, adding that the vice president even has some of these talks lined up for this week.
Harris campaign highlights Black voter mobilization efforts
In a memo out today, the Harris campaign highlighted their "all-hands-on deck, week-long mobilization push around Black voter registration efforts."
The campaign says it held in-person voter registration events on 60 HBCU campuses in battleground states, which included Harris engaging with students in Philadelphia and Walz meeting with students in Georgia.
The memo also made it clear that "the assumption is that Black voters are in our back pocket, and they are not."
"Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz are committed to earning every single vote and they are not taking a single voter for granted," the memo added.
Supreme Court rejects Green Party bid to appear on Nevada presidential ballot
The Supreme Court today rejected Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein’s last-ditch request to be included on the ballot in Nevada, a key swing state.
The court in a brief unsigned order left in place a decision by the Nevada Supreme Court that blocked Stein from appearing on the ballot over a dispute concerning whether the Green Party had submitted the correct paperwork.
State officials had told the court that ballots that do not feature Stein and her running mate, Butch Ware, are already being printed ahead of the Nov. 5 election. Ballots must be sent to overseas military voters by tomorrow, with at least one county having already done so.
Forcing a late change to the ballot language “would undermine the integrity of Nevada’s election,” Attorney General Aaron Ford wrote in court papers.
Jay Sekulow, an ally of Trump, represented the Green Party. In swing states in particular, third-party candidates can be crucial to the outcome, with the Green Party potentially winning some votes that would otherwise go to Harris.
Embattled NC GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson will not attend Trump rally tomorrow
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson will not be attending Trump’s rally tomorrow in Wilmington, North Carolina, according to a person familiar with planning for the event.
A spokesperson for Robinson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The news comes a day after a CNN report that alleged Robinson made a slew of inflammatory remarks on a pornographic website between 2008 and 2012.
Yesterday, Robinson vowed to stay in the race and blasted CNN, but his remarks drew condemnation from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.
Doug Emhoff says Huckabee Sanders' comments on Harris 'repulsive' and 'out of touch'
Doug Emhoff responded to Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ jab at Harris for not having biological children to keep her “humble.”
“It’s appalling for somebody who is in a position of leadership like governor to say something so repulsive and so out of touch,” Emhoff said during an interview with Michael Strahan that aired on "Good Morning America" this morning.
Emhoff also discussed his ex-wife’s consistent defense of Harris, particularly at attacks over Harris not having biological children. Kerstin Emhoff responded moments after Sanders first made the remarks Tuesday during a town hall with Trump.
“Kerstin has been incredible. When you attack Kamala, especially on issues about motherhood, Kerstin has just been out there each and every time, just to tell the truth about who Kamala is as a mother, as a person, as a member of our family again, who’s always there for us,” Emhoff said.
Jill Biden says ‘we have to have a peaceful transfer of power’ in January
First lady Jill Biden emphasized in an interview with NBC News that “we have to have a peaceful transfer of power,” urging Americans to “come together” amid deep political divisions.
“I think we have to come together. I think we have to vote,” she said. “As Americans, you know, that’s a right that we’ve been given, and I think we have to take advantage of that, and then we have to have a peaceful transfer of power.”
Trump has repeatedly spread false claims that the 2020 election was “rigged” and defended people who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump has also waffled about whether he would accept the results of the election this November.
Jill Biden was responding to a question about what she would say to Americans during a toxic campaign season.
Just Sunday, Trump was the target of a second apparent assassination attempt. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have expressed grave concerns over the rise in political violence.
Jill Biden also said in the interview that both she and her husband are “totally at peace” with the president’s historic decision to bow out of the race in July.
Apocalypse delayed: Trump keeps promising a doom that never comes
If the election does not go his way, the economy will tank, Christmas will be canceled, and America as we know it will be “finished,” Trump promised in the run-up to the 2020 election.
That race did not go his way, of course, and none of Trump’s prophesied cataclysms materialized under Joe Biden’s presidency. But that has not stopped Trump from recycling some of the same dark portents about a Harris presidency.
“If he’s elected, the stock market will crash,” Trump said in October 2020 during his only debate with Biden. “If he gets in, you will have a depression the likes of which you’ve never seen.”
The depression never happened. Stocks rose during Biden’s presidency. But Trump recently predicted that a Harris victory would lead to “a massive [stock] market downturn” and “a 1929-style depression.”
In 2020, he said in a tweet: “This election is a choice between a TRUMP RECOVERY or a BIDEN DEPRESSION.”
In 2024, he said on Truth Social: “VOTERS HAVE A CHOICE — TRUMP PROSPERITY, OR THE KAMALA CRASH & GREAT DEPRESSION OF 2024.”
Predicting the future is inherently difficult. And bluster about the danger of the other side winning is the norm for politicians of all stripes. But Trump’s penchant for hyperbole, overconfidence and black-and-white claims have made him a particularly inaccurate Nostradamus.
Harris heads to Georgia to rally for abortion rights
Harris plans to speak in Georgia today about the fallout from statewide abortion bans across the country, which she has dubbed "Trump abortion bans," a senior campaign official said.
She plans to address the death of a Georgia woman, Amber Nicole Thurman, under the state’s abortion ban that was reported by ProPublica.
The rally comes after Harris met with the Thurman's family in Michigan last evening.
The vice president plans to criticize Trump for saying he will cast a vote in Florida to uphold that state's abortion ban.
In Florida, voters face a ballot measure this year that, if approved, would amend the constitution to guarantee the right to an abortion. If it fails, the state's current six-week abortion ban will remain.
The consequences of abortion bans like Georgia's would intensify under a Trump presidency, Harris plans to say.
New York Magazine reporter on leave over relationship with RFK Jr.
A star reporter who covered Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign has been placed on leave after admitting a relationship with a former reporting subject.
New York Magazine said in a statement yesterday that its Washington correspondent, Olivia Nuzzi, had failed to disclose a “personal relationship” with an unnamed campaign subject while she was reporting on the 2024 election.
This was a violation of the outlet’s standards on journalists declaring personal interests that could be seen to influence their coverage, it said.
“Had the magazine been aware of this relationship, she would not have continued to cover the presidential campaign,” the statement said. The magazine said that it reviewed her work, however, and found “no inaccuracies nor evidence of bias.”
“She is currently on leave from the magazine, and the magazine is conducting a more thorough third-party review. We regret this violation of our readers’ trust,” it added.
Nuzzi said in a statement to The New York Times yesterday, without elaborating on the exact nature of their relationship, that “some communication between myself and a former reporting subject turned personal” earlier this year.
NBC News reached out to Nuzzi overnight for comment.
Undecided voters, set in their views of Trump, now weigh backing Harris
Kenneth Hauck wasn’t sure how he would vote when the race between Trump and Harris was just a hypothetical scenario. Now it’s a reality, and Hauck still isn’t sure whom he will support — but he’s leaning toward Harris.
“I need to do more research on her before anything,” said Hauck, 38, a software tester from San Diego, noting that he recently watched a YouTube video on Harris’ and Trump’s policies and that Harris’ housing plan piqued his interest. Hauck said Harris’ policies “seem good.” But, he added, “the devil is in the details.”
Hauck is among the 8% of voters surveyed in NBC News’ July national poll who said they weren’t sure how they would vote in a potential race between Trump and Harris or said they would consider a different candidate. In new interviews, 21 of them spoke about how they processed the tumultuous events of the summer, including a Democratic candidate switch, a pair of vice presidential picks and two apparent attempts to assassinate Trump.