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      Harris Responds to Trump’s Comments About Her Identity: ‘Divisiveness and Disrespect’

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      Vice President Kamala Harris carefully hit back at former President Donald J. Trump after he questioned the legitimacy of her identity as a Black woman, saying on Wednesday that he had put on the “same old show” of “divisiveness and disrespect.”“The American people deserve better,” Ms. Harris said at a convention of Sigma Gamma Rho, one of the nation’s most prominent Black sororities. “The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth, a leader who does not respond with hostility and anger when confronted with the facts. We deserve a leader who understands that our differences do not divide us — they are an essential source of our strength.”But she did not directly quote or refer to Mr. Trump’s comments earlier on Wednesday in Chicago, where he had asked of Ms. Harris: “Is she Indian or is she Black?” He had also falsely claimed that Ms. Harris used to identify as Indian and then “all of a sudden, she made a turn, and she became a Black person.”The vice president is of Jamaican and Indian heritage, and attended Howard University, a historically Black university.Ms. Harris’s precisely calibrated rebuttal was perhaps an early indication of how she will respond to crude and racist attacks from Mr. Trump. Former President Barack Obama largely ignored Republicans, led by Mr. Trump, who falsely accused him of being born in Kenya.Her remarks on Wednesday came after she has sought to place her campaign on the continuum of racial progress in America, referring to it in the same breath as abolitionists and civil rights activists.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Vance’s Links to the Project 2025 Leader Complicate Trump’s Attempts at Distance

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      Donald Trump disavowed the set of conservative plans after it became a popular target for Democrats, but his running mate, JD Vance, wrote a foreword for a forthcoming book by its principal architect.Even as Donald J. Trump is trying to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation-led Project 2025, his running mate’s contribution to a new book by the project’s principal architect is complicating his efforts.“Dawn’s Early Light,” a forthcoming book by the Heritage Foundation’s president, Kevin D. Roberts, calling for a “second American Revolution,” features a foreword by Senator JD Vance, the Ohio Republican whom Mr. Trump tapped as his running mate in July.“In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon,” Mr. Vance writes in his introduction, which was obtained and published online by The New Republic on Tuesday. The book is set for publication in September.Mr. Vance announced in June that he had written the foreword for Mr. Roberts, whose think tank became an influential bastion of conservative policymaking during Ronald Reagan’s presidency and enjoyed exceptional influence during Mr. Trump’s time in office, providing a staffing pipeline for his administration.But Mr. Vance’s endorsement of the book became more politically fraught after Mr. Trump publicly disavowed Project 2025, a set of sweeping policy proposals for a hoped-for Republican presidency that the think tank began preparing more than two years ago under Mr. Roberts’s direction. The project, which has been billed by Heritage as an attack on the “deep state” and proposes disbanding multiple federal agencies, excluding abortion from health care and ending an array of climate change programs, has become a popular target for Democrats.Will Martin, a spokesman for Mr. Vance, wrote in an email Wednesday that “the foreword has nothing to do with Project 2025.” Mr. Vance “has plenty of disagreements with what they’re calling for,” Mr. Martin wrote, adding: “Only President Trump will set the policy agenda for the next administration.”We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Abraham Hamadeh Wins G.O.P. House Primary in Arizona

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      Abraham Hamadeh, an election denier who ran for attorney general in Arizona in 2022, won the Republican primary for the state’s Eighth Congressional District on Wednesday, according to The Associated Press.Mr. Hamadeh, a former prosecutor in Maricopa County, defeated Blake Masters, another Republican who has supported former President Donald J. Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.The victory by Mr. Hamadeh in the district, which encompasses suburbs north and west of Phoenix, came after an unusual last-minute turn in the race: Mr. Trump endorsed both candidates the weekend before the primary, effectively declaring that he had no preference for who won.Mr. Hamadeh emerges from a bitter primary fight, in which he and Mr. Masters lobbed harsh personal insults at each other as they tried to distance themselves from a field that also included Ben Toma, Arizona’s speaker of the House, and Trent Franks, a former U.S. representative.In their unsuccessful campaigns in 2022 — Mr. Masters had run for Senate — both men had aligned themselves with the former president in hopes of capturing his support. They each received his endorsement in their primaries that year.But both lost to their Democratic rivals in November. Mr. Masters was defeated by Senator Mark Kelly, who is under consideration to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate this year, by nearly 5 percentage points. Mr. Hamadeh narrowly lost the attorney general’s race to Kris Mayes, falling short by 280 votes out of about 2.5 million votes cast.Mr. Hamadeh will most likely be favored this fall in his race against his Democratic opponent, Gregory Whitten, who did not face a primary challenger in the reliably Republican district.The candidates are running for a seat that has been held since 2018 by Representative Debbie Lesko, a Republican who did not seek re-election. More

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      Trump to Address NABJ Conference Following Controversial Invitation

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      Former President Donald J. Trump will take questions on Wednesday in Chicago from members of the National Association of Black Journalists, appearing before a skeptical conference of reporters in the city that will host the Democratic National Convention in less than three weeks.The appearance of the Republican presidential nominee at 1 p.m. Eastern time has already divided the association, prompting a co-chairwoman of the convention, Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah, to step down from her post and eliciting a warning from a prominent member, April Ryan, that Mr. Trump’s White House was threatening to Black women.“The reports of attacks on Black women White House correspondents by the then president of the United States are not myth or conjecture, but fact,” Ms. Ryan, the White House correspondent for The Grio, a media company geared toward Black Americans, wrote on the social platform X.But leaders of the association said journalists should not shy from interviewing major party candidates for the presidency. The association also invited Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee, but the group’s president, Ken Lemon, said Wednesday morning that she was not available.“We are in talks about virtual options in the future and are still working to reach an agreement,” he wrote.For Mr. Trump, there appears to be no downside: A hostile greeting would feed his efforts to play supporters off the media. A warmer welcome would help his outreach to Black voters.The conference’s description says the session will “concentrate on the most pressing issues facing the Black community.” Harris Faulkner, a Fox News anchor; Kadia Goba, a politics reporter at Semafor; and Rachel Scott, an ABC News correspondent, will moderate the session. The event is expected to be livestreamed on the organization’s YouTube and Facebook pages. More

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      Vance Knocks Harris as a ‘Wacky San Francisco Liberal’ in Nevada

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      Senator JD Vance of Ohio, former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate, began a swing of campaign stops in crucial battleground states in the Southwest — his first visit to the region since joining the ticket — with a pair of rallies on Tuesday in Nevada.Mr. Vance used those appearances to hone his attack lines against Vice President Kamala Harris, who became the de facto Democratic presidential nominee last week, denouncing her as a failed “border czar” and a “wacky San Francisco liberal.”Mr. Vance, a political acolyte of the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, accused the vice president of “allowing” migrants to murder Americans and of “inviting” drug cartels to deal fentanyl to children in playgrounds. He also repeated unfounded claims about undocumented migrants’ “bankrupting” Medicare and other government services.“She has the nerve to question our loyalty to this country,” Mr. Vance said in Henderson, Nev., near Las Vegas. He added that “loyalty to this country is closing the border, not opening it up,” and that “if Kamala Harris wants to see the face of disloyalty she might as well look in the damn mirror.”Before Mr. Vance took the stage at his second rally, in Reno, former Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado of California said that Ms. Harris should be prosecuted because of the Biden administration’s policies at the border. Mr. Vance took the stage and thanked Mr. Maldonado “for such a great introduction,” adding: “I think he’s handled Kamala Harris. I don’t know if I have to say anything about Kamala now.”In both stops, he also blamed Ms. Harris for the offshoring of American manufacturing jobs through her support of trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement, which Mr. Trump significantly revised but left mostly intact during his term as president.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Trump Again Says That Christians ‘Won’t Have to Vote Anymore’ if They Vote for Him

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      Former President Donald J. Trump, in an interview broadcast Monday night, repeated his recent assertion that Christians will never have to vote again if they vote for him this November, and brushed aside multiple requests to walk back or clarify the statement.Mr. Trump said last Friday to a gathering of Christian conservatives: “I love you. You got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not going to have to vote.” His interviewer on Monday, Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, noted that Democrats have highlighted that quote as evidence that Mr. Trump would end elections, and urged Mr. Trump to rebut what she called a “ridiculous” criticism. But Mr. Trump declined to do so, repeating a pattern he frequently employs in which he makes a provocative statement that can be interpreted in varying ways, and makes no attempt to quiet the uproar. This comment was especially striking, given his attempts to overturn the 2020 election and his shattering of other Democratic norms. The exchange began when Ms. Ingraham told the former president: “They’re saying that you said to a crowd of Christians that they won’t have to vote in the future.”Mr. Trump started off his response, saying: “Let me say what I mean by that. I had a tremendous crowd, speaking to Christians all in all — I mean, this was a crowd that liked me a lot.” We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      ‘I Was a Childless Cat Lady’: Women Respond to JD Vance

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      More from our inbox:Clearing Homeless EncampmentsFood and Gas PricesThe Roger Maris FireThe selection of Senator JD Vance of Ohio as former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate was supposed to appeal to women, voters of color and blue-collar voters, but a stream of years-old comments has threatened to undermine that.Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York TimesTo the Editor:Re “Past Comments Fluster Vance as Democrats Go on Offense” (front page, July 29):JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, said in 2021, “We’re effectively run, in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”I would say this to Mr. Vance:I was a childless cat lady: three cats, no kids.I thought fertility was a given. There was no medical reason I couldn’t have children. Yet it did not happen. Three cats. A great career. No kids.I was, in effect at 38, a “childless cat lady.”I pursued fertility treatments. Treatments that many Republicans want to ban.I had painful tests, surgeries, running to the lab — five vials of blood drawn every day at 6 a.m. — then rushing to work for a minimum 12-hour day.Childless cat lady lawyer. Meow.I had one fabulous child at 38 with I.V.F. She was a triplet, but I lost my daughter’s siblings.I was pregnant three other times. I lost two other babies at four months. I needed a D and C: same procedure as an abortion. If I didn’t have the surgery, I would have died.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More