Harris campaign: $36m raised in first 24 hours after announcing Walz as VP pick Harris campaign raises $36m in the day after announcing Walz as her running mate. In the 24 hours after Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her vice-presidential pick, the campaign raised $36m, it told reporters. In July, the campaign raised a total of $310m, ABC News reported. (Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the race on 21 July, a Sunday, and endorsed Harris as his replacement.) Yesterday, the Harris campaign announced it had raised $20m in the first hours since Walz was announced as the Democrats’ vice-presidential candidate, CBS News reported. Video of JD Vance walking over to Kamala Harris’s plane to talk to Air Force 2 reporters JD Vance and Kamala Harris were both doing campaign stops in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, today. Multiple news outlets have shared video of Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance at the airport walking over the tarmac to Kamala Harris’s plane to talk to the reporters there. “This is weird behavior actually,” the director of rapid response for Harris’s campaign tweeted. Vance celebrated the video and photographs of his airport campaign stunt on Twitter/X. Biden: if Trump loses, I’m not confident in a peaceful transfer of power in 2025. CBS News has released a clip from an interview with Joe Biden, his first televised interview since dropping out of the presidential race in late July. In the clip, the president says he is “not confident at all” that there will be a peaceful transfer of power if Trump loses the 2025 presidential race. Biden cited Donald Trump’s comments about there being a “bloodbath” if he loses the election as one of his examples of comments that should be taken more seriously. The former president made the “bloodbath” comment while talking about China, auto manufacturing and tariffs, NBC News reported, and a Trump campaign spokesperson said at the time that Trump meant that “Biden’s policies will create an economic bloodbath for the auto industry and autoworkers”. Democrats sell nearly $1m worth of Chappell Roan-style camo campaign hats Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign launched with a cryptic “brat” endorsement from Charli xcx. As Minnesota governor Tim Walz, a recent TikTok favorite, joined the Democratic ticket, the Democrats are also nodding to another pop star of the summer, midwest princess Chappell Roan, also known as “your favorite artist’s favorite artist”. Her camoflauge hats appear to have inspired the latest Harris-Walz campaign hats, which have already proved very popular, Teen Vogue reports: I cannot tell you what the popularity of these hats means for the gen Z turnout in this election, but it’s worth noting that Roan is very campy and very queer, and Walz’s resume includes being both a high school football coach and the faculty adviser to the school’s Gay Straight Alliance in 1999. JD Vance says he’s willing to debate Harris, not Walz. Speaking at a campaign event in Wisconsin, JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, said he wanted to debate Kamala Harris, now the Democrats’ presidential nominee, not his new vice-presidential counterpart, Tim Walz. Business Insider has the full quote, and also a link to the speech. Walz became the Democrats’ choice for vice-president in part because of his viral success in labeling Trump and his political allies as “weird”. Walz, a former high school teacher, has already gone after Vance, the bestselling author of Hillbilly Elegy, as an elitist who trashed his own community, and has also elevated a rude meme about the Republican vice-president into a recurring campaign bit. Harris campaign in Wisconsin draws more than 12,000 people, campaign says Earlier today, we reported on the long lines of people waiting to attend a Harris-Walz campaign event in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, a key swing state. CBS News is reporting that “over 12,000 people” attended. Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance also held a press conference in Eau Claire today. A CBS campaign reporter summed up the day of dueling Republican and Democratic midwest press conferences with this photo: Harris campaign: $36m raised in first 24 hours after announcing Walz as VP pick Harris campaign raises $36m in the day after announcing Walz as her running mate. In the 24 hours after Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her vice-presidential pick, the campaign raised $36m, it told reporters. In July, the campaign raised a total of $310m, ABC News reported. (Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the race on 21 July, a Sunday, and endorsed Harris as his replacement.) Yesterday, the Harris campaign announced it had raised $20m in the first hours since Walz was announced as the Democrats’ vice-presidential candidate, CBS News reported. Interim summary Here’s a look at where things stand: Kamala Harris and Tim Walz took the stage in front of a roaring crowd in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on Wednesday afternoon. “It can’t be said seriously enough, so much is on the line and compounded with everything else that we knew was on the line,” said Harris. Walz echoed similar sentiments, saying: “This election is all about asking that question, which direction will this country go in? Donald Trump knows the direction he wants to take it.” Slightly before Harris and Walz’s rally, JD Vance held his own rally, also in Eau Claire. He spoke to his background and how his mother is now in recovery from the opioid addiction that affected his whole childhood. He also blamed Harris for not securing the border toughly enough. In response to a question on whether he thinks it matters that Harris chose Walz, Vance replied: “What does Kamala Harris’s selection of Tim Walz say about her? Well, I think it says one, she’s leaning into the defund the police radicalism of the last few years. Two, she’s leaning into the open borders policies of last year … And then the final point that I’d say is it says that she bent the knee to the Hamas caucus of the Democrat party.” In an endorsement post on Twitter/X, Barack Obama wrote of Walz: “Governor Walz doesn’t just have the experience to be vice president, he has the values and the integrity to make us proud. And as we saw last night, @KamalaHarris and @Tim_Walz make a great team.” During his campaign in Shelby Township, Michigan, JD Vance defended Donald Trump’s attacks on Harris’s biracial identity. He said: “I was not bothered at all by what President Trump said. I didn’t take it as an attack on Kamala Harris’s biracial background at all.” JD Vance continued to stick to Trump and Republicans’ attack line questioning Harris’s biracial identity, saying: “Donald Trump said something very simple, totally inoffensive but frankly obviously true to me which is that Kamala Harris is a chameleon. She’s a fake …” Trump called into Fox & Friends this morning, for half an hour of softball questions teeing up invective about Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, Democrats’ supposed antisemitism and other matters. On whether he will debate Harris, Trump said: “We’ll be debating I guess in the pretty near future, it’s going to be announced fairly soon, but we’ll be debating her.” Cori Bush lost her Democratic primary after pro-Israel pressure groups spent millions of dollars to unseat her over criticisms of Israel’s war on Gaza. St Louis prosecutor Wesley Bell defeated Missouri’s first Black female member of Congress with about 51% of the vote. Bush, a member of the progressive “Squad”, took about 46%. “It can’t be said seriously enough, so much is on the line and compounded with everything else that we knew was on the line,” said Kamala Harris. “Donald Trump has openly vowed, if re-elected, he will be a dictator on day one, that he would weaponize the Department of Justice against his political enemies, that he would round up peaceful protesters and throw them out of our country, and even quote, terminate the United States constitution. Let us be clear, someone who suggests we should terminate the constitution of the United States should never again have a chance to stand behind the seal of the president of the United States.” Kamala Harris: "We are joyful warriors" “We are joyful warriors,” Kamala Harris said, in apparent reference to Tim Walz’s comment yesterday that she has brought “joy” back to the campaign trail. She added: “Because we know that while fighting for a brighter future may be hard work, hard work is good work … We believe in a future where we lower the cost of living for America’s families so that they have a chance, not just to get by, but to get ahead. Because while our economy is doing well by many measures, prices for everyday things like groceries, are still too high. You know it, and I know it.” Kamala Harris has now taken the stage. Wearing a white shirt and tan pants, Harris waved excitedly to a crowd of cheering supporters, many of whom are waving “Harris Walz” signs. “One of the best parts of this job is going to be, I can’t wait till the debate,” Tim Walz said in response to loud cheers from the crowd. He added: “So look, I’ve done this enough and I know bullies and I’m not a name caller, but what I am is a teacher, I observe things. So I want to tell you what I observed, and you’ve observed … about these guys, when you see them, that it’s a very clear thing. Yes, they are creepy and weird as hell. You see it. You see it. This is not normal. This is not normal behavior.”