Elections 2024 live: Harris narrows VP shortlist to three as Vance’s critical emails about Trump resurface

The folk musician and activist, 83, shared a video of herself singing “America the Beautiful” on Sunday (28 July), as she played an acoustic guitar.

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North Carolina governor Roy Cooper has reportedly taken himself out of consideration to serve as presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’s running mate in the 2024 election.

Cooper, 67, reportedly made the call based on concerns about his age and that North Carolina’s lieutenant governor, Mark Robinson, would take over for him if he left for national office, according to anonymous sources who spoke with CNN.

Here’s Eric Garcia with The Independent’s latest ranking of Kamala Harris’s potential running mates.

President Joe Biden on Monday said his proposal to reform the nation’s highest court is in keeping with the tradition of expanding and protecting civil rights and a justified response to the current Supreme Court’s effort to roll back a whole host of rights enjoyed by Americans and plans laid out in Donald Trump’s “Project 2025.”

Speaking at the Lyndon Johnson presidential library at an event to mark the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act that ended legal segregation in America, Biden said Republicans are “planning another onslaught” of attacks against civil rights to follow up on the end of the federal right to abortion and a restrictions on enforcement of the Voting Rights Act signed into law by Johnson nearly six decades ago.

He also slammed the high court for its’ recent decision granting presidents broad immunity for official acts in response to Trump’s effort to avoid criminal charges stemming from his efforts to unlawfully remain in office after losing the 2020 election.

Soon, Old Glory will have to be born in the land of the free and not merely flying over it.

Congress has passed a proposal to require the federal government to purchase only American flags that have been completely manufactured in the U.S. The U.S. imports millions of American flags from overseas, mostly from China, and the sponsors of the proposal said it’s time for American flags to originate in the country they represent.

Kamala Harris has reportedly narrowed the search for a potential running mate down to three candidates, Bloomberg reports. She has just two weeks to make up her mind as to who will join her on the Democratic Party ticket once she is officially confirmed as the nominee.

People familiar with the process say the shortlist consists of elected officials with nationwide appeal: Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

Campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz said the vice president has “directed her team to begin the process of vetting potential running mates” but declined to elaborate on the search.

Harris is expected to make a decision by August 7.