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Martin Short or Andy Samberg

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Doug Emhoff weighed in on his numerous Saturday Evening Reside impersonators this week, answering the last word query: Martin Quick or Andy Samberg?

“Martin Quick is manner older and shorter, however he truly obtained me,” Emhoff instructed Gavin Newsom, Marshawn Lynch and Doug Hendrickson on the Politickin’ podcast. “Samberg — it’s good, it’s humorous. It’s not fairly me, however a number of the strains are fairly good.”

Quick performed the Second Gents for a number of sketches when Emhoff and his spouse, Kamala Harris, entered the nationwide dialog over the last presidential election in 2020. Samberg took on the position when SNL returned forward of the November election this fall. Within the interview this week, Emhoff added that Samberg “has the hair down,” and stated the viral “Dougy” dance is humorous, however maybe not solely correct.

Emhoff went on to talk about his expertise seeing himself depicted on the present, after rising up watching the sketches.

“This can be a present I watched actually, my complete life,” he stated. “It got here out and 50 years in the past, so I used to be 10… All of us stayed up for [it] and watched — and all through the week we’d repeat all of the all of the issues that we’d seen on the present that week, all the enduring skits from manner again when.”

He continued, “To see your self on it, yeah, the group chats blow up on that type of stuff… it’s considered one of many surreal issues that I’ve skilled on this world, I find it irresistible.”

He additionally weighed in on Maya Rudolph‘s impression of his spouse. “She’s actually upped her sport,” he stated. “She got here again this time. It’s like, wow. She’s so on it. She’s accomplished a very good job.”

On SNL this season, Rudolph and Samberg are joined by James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump, Jim Gaffigan as Tim Walz, Bowen Yang as J.D. Vance and Dana Carvey as Joe Biden.

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Kamala Harris Sets Fox News Channel Interview

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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to sit down down for an prolonged interview on the Fox Information Channel on Oct. 16.

Harris will probably be quizzed by Fox Information Channel’s chief political anchor Bret Baier because the Democratic presidential candidate campaigns within the battleground state of Pennsylvania and Baier hosts a Particular Report with Bret Baier version. The Wednesday look at 6 p.m. marks Harris’ first formal sit-down interview on the Fox Information Channel after she accomplished earlier interviews on CNN and CBS’ 60 Minutes present.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump backed out of additionally accepting an interview on 60 Minutes after earlier agreeing to take action. That departed from a practice of the CBS newsmagazine inviting each the Democratic and Republican tickets to seem on the published on the standard TV outlet earlier than Individuals forged their votes.

Harris doing the sit-down interview on Fox Information Channel permits the U.S. presidential candidate to presumably draw votes from conservative and unbiased voters that routinely tune into the 24-hour information service owned by Fox Corp. and reaching into 70 million houses.

On the similar time, the Fox Information Channel look is a danger as Harris will probably be grilled about her plans if she wins the U.S. presidential election subsequent month, together with on hot-button points like immigration and reproductive rights.

Harris was earlier criticized for doing too few TV sit-downs with journalists since changing into the Democratic nominee, however in latest weeks has carried out a media blitz, together with a dwell interview with The View and sit-downs with Howard Stern and Stephen Colbert.

Harris additionally appeared on the favored Name Her Daddy podcast with host Alex Cooper.

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Kamala Harris Addresses Reports That Trump Sent Putin Covid Tests

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Vice President Kamala Harris addressed new studies of Donald Trump‘s relationship with Vladimir Putin throughout her look on Tuesday’s episode of The Late Present with Stephen Colbert.

In journalist Bob Woodward’s new e book, launched Tuesday, an unnamed aide reported that Trump has spoken with Putin as many as seven instances since leaving the White Home. Different claims included details about Trump sending Putin COVID checks whereas he was in workplace, on the top of the pandemic.

Harris acknowledged on Tuesday that she hasn’t learn the e book but, however mentioned, “Donald Trump — he brazenly admires dictators and authoritarians. He has mentioned he needs to be a dictator on Day One, if he had been elected once more as president. He will get performed by these guys. He admires so-called strongmen and he will get performed as a result of they flatter him or provide him favor.”

She additionally addressed the COVID checks studies instantly. “I ask everybody right here and everybody who’s watching: Do you keep in mind what these days had been like? You keep in mind how many individuals didn’t have checks and had been making an attempt to scramble to get them?”

She grew to become indignant as she continued talking about her opponent’s connection to Russia, saying. “The commander-in-chief of the US of America should stand sturdy and defend the ideas that we maintain expensive. We should always stand with our allies. We should always strengthen the alliances that we’ve, akin to NATO, which is the strongest navy alliance the world has ever seen. We should stand with our pal Ukraine the place Russia is making an attempt to alter borders by pressure.”

Harris added, “And this man is giving Covid check kits to Vladimir Putin? Take into consideration what this implies on high of him sending love letters to Kim Jong Un…He thinks, properly, that’s his pal. What concerning the American folks? They need to be your first pal.”

Elsewhere within the interview, Colbert requested the Democratic nominee about Hurricane Helene, which just lately ravaged North Carolina, and Hurricane Milton, a extreme storm headed for Florida. Harris urged folks to take heed to native officers and criticized politicians who “inform lies” for political acquire.

“It’s crude,” she mentioned. “Have you ever no empathy, man, for the struggling of different folks? Have you haven’t any sense of objective if you happen to purport to be a pacesetter?”

Relating to the Israel-Hamas battle, Harris addressed her assertion that she and President Biden are near a ceasefire deal. “Shut implies that numerous the main points have been labored out however particulars stay,” she mentioned. “And so there was some progress however it’s meaningless except a deal is definitely reached, so I don’t wish to recommend to you that we must be applauded for getting shut at instances to a deal.”

The VP additionally spoke about her debate efficiency, and weighed in on the viral image of herself together with her chin resting in her hand. When Colbert requested her what she was considering in that second, she replied, “It’s household TV, proper? It begins with a W, there’s a letter between it, then the final letter’s F.”

Along with the late night time host, Harris additionally opened a can of Miller Excessive Life and mentioned, “The final time I had beer was at a baseball sport with Doug [Emhoff].”

Shortly after opening the drink, Harris mentioned of her working mate, “He misplaced thousands and thousands of jobs. He misplaced manufacturing. You misplaced automotive crops, you misplaced the election. What does that make you? A loser. That is what any individual at my rallies mentioned. I believed it was humorous.”

She then quipped, “That is what occurs after I drink beer.”

Concerning the whirlwind marketing campaign which solely started in July following Joe Biden’s withdrawal, Harris mentioned, “There’s numerous catching as much as do. My opponent, the previous president, has been working since 2020… Persons are exhausted by that previous drained playbook of Donald Trump’s… Of us are prepared to show the web page.”

The complete interview will air on the Late Present with Stephen Colbert at 11:35 p.m. on Tuesday.

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Tim Walz Makes Late Night Debut on Jimmy Kimmel, Talks Israel

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Tim Walz started his late evening debut on Monday evening with a name to finish the Israel-Hamas disaster. The vice presidential nominee’s look on Jimmy Kimmel Reside! fell on the one yr anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 assaults on Israel.

“Little heavy right now,” the veep candidate mentioned. “1200 people lifeless, 46 Individuals. The Vice President and I speak about ensuring that it by no means occurs once more, that Israel’s safe and the hostages are introduced dwelling and the humanitarian disaster in Gaza ends.”

The Oct. 7 assaults led to an ongoing battle which has left over 40,000 Palestinians lifeless as nicely.

Walz additionally mentioned he had spent the day visiting the Nova Exhibit in Los Angeles, a remembrance of these killed within the assaults final yr. Whereas there, he spoke to a lately launched Hamas hostage named Noa. “Like Noa mentioned, ‘We simply need to dance once more.’ That’s what we need to do,” Walz mentioned.

Elsewhere in his late evening debut, Walz spoke about his time as a social research instructor. “Social research academics speak to you about this concept… that we might have totally different concepts, however we have now unity, love the democracy, have an election after which shake fingers and admit the one that gained, gained,” he mentioned.

Eventually week’s vice presidential debate, Walz requested republican vp candidate J.D. Vance if he thought Donald Trump gained the 2020 election. In one of many extra talked-about moments of the occasion, Vance didn’t reply.

Walz additionally mirrored on Kamala Harris selecting him as her working mate. “I actually… by no means deliberate my life to be right here, however I believe my life ready me nicely,” he mentioned. “I’m very pleased with what we’ve finished in Minnesota. I ran and gained a congressional seat in a really crimson district for 12 years, after which [I became] Governor of Minnesota. I believe folks watched, and we have been doing issues — I do know the Republicans say, ‘They’re tremendous radical!’ Yeah, we feed our children breakfast and lunch in school. It’s a radical thought.”

Later, he confirmed the story that he certainly missed Harris’ preliminary telephone name asking him to be her working mate, and shared that he now has her quantity saved in his telephone as his dry cleaner.

“What occurs in case your dry cleaner must get in contact with you” Kimmel requested.

“I didn’t suppose that far forward,” Walz mentioned.

Walz additionally touched on his respect of Harris, and his perception in her potential to guide the nation. “We get alongside rather well. She’s superb. She makes me giggle. And I believe it’s a superb factor, by the best way, I believe a president ought to know methods to giggle, not at somebody, however giggle with issues.”

After the industrial break, Walz spoke concerning the development of calling Republican politicians “bizarre,” which he unofficially began a number of months in the past. Kimmel performed a montage of clips displaying Trump refuting the concept that he’s bizarre.

“If you need to inform folks quite a few occasions you’re not bizarre, you is likely to be bizarre,” Walz mentioned.

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John Oliver Blasts J.D. Vance in VP Debate

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John Oliver says that people who’re praising final week’s vice presidential debate for its “civility” are lacking the purpose.

“The controversy included discussions on the right way to perform mass deportations and whether or not girls ought to have management over their very own our bodies,” the Final Week Tonight host mentioned throughout Sunday’s opening section. “Etiquette is type of inappropriate. It’s like studying a ransom be aware and going, ‘This cursive is simply so beautiful. Have a look at the capital Y in “You’ve 24 hours earlier than he dies.” There are nonetheless some individuals who have been raised proper.’”

By the way, the controversy — between Donald Trump‘s Republican working mate, J.D. Vance, and Kamala Harris’ Democratic working mate, Tim Walz — occurred at CBS Broadcast Heart in New York, which can also be dwelling to Final Week Tonight. “In reality, this studio served because the post-debate spin room, which means that you’re all inhaling the identical air particles that have been as soon as inside Don [Trump] Jr.’s nostril and mouth. So if anybody on this viewers wakes up tomorrow feeling like you’ve gotten a sore throat and also you’re a complete disappointment to your father, that’s in all probability why,” Oliver quipped.

Oliver confirmed clips of assorted commentators noting that the candidates have been “civil” and “well mannered” and noting “that’s what the nation has been saying they need extra of.”

Replied Oliver: “On the record of issues America’s been saying it desires extra of, civility is at finest No. 6, after reasonably priced healthcare, gun management, cheaper housing, reproductive rights and starring automobiles for [Bridgerton star] Nicola Coughlan.”

Oliver then went on to notice that a couple of days after he debate, Vance took half in an occasion dubbed the Braveness Tour, hosted by Lance Wallnau, an evangelical preacher who can also be founder and CEO of the Dallas-based Lance Studying Group, self-described as “a strategic instructing and consulting firm.” Oliver described Wallnau as “a distinguished far-right Christian nationalist” who has described Harris as somebody who has used “witchcraft” and has an “occult spirit … working on her and thru her.”

Joked Oliver: “First, Kamala Harris isn’t the one who’s been relentlessly selling witchcraft. You’re pondering of Common’s advertising division,” he quipped, exhibiting a photograph of the upcoming film musical Depraved. “And this man clearly shouldn’t be commenting on the election. He needs to be standing in a tent in 1856 promoting youngsters mercury tonics that he claims will allow them to speak to ghosts.”

He additionally criticized Wallnau for saying that God intervened to convey Vance to Pittsburgh when Hurricane Helene disrupted Vance’s schedule.

“As you realize, now we have vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance coming,” Wallnau mentioned in a video Oliver performed. “And I’ll be trustworthy with you, I take that as a direct act of God as a result of it simply got here collectively in a sure manner. Pittsburgh wasn’t even on the map. It was alleged to be North Carolina, and God switched it that quick.”

Oliver’s response: “In case you consider in a God who’d unleash a devastating hurricane simply so J.D. Vance might spend a day outdoors Pittsburgh, your God feels like an asshole.”

Oliver additionally performed a clip of this trade between Vance and Walz speaking in regards to the 2020 presidential election outcomes throughout final week’s debate.

Vance: “Bear in mind [Trump] mentioned that on January the sixth, the protesters must protest peacefully. And on January the twentieth, what occurred: Joe Biden grew to become the president, Donald Trump left the White Home.”

Walz: “Did he lose the 2020 election?”

Vance: “Tim, I’m targeted on the longer term.”

Walz: “That could be a damning non-answer.”

Oliver known as Vance’s response “one of the vital generic store-brand fuck-boy deflections.” He added: “That reply was particularly obvious contemplating the day after the controversy, a decide unsealed particular prosecutor Jack Smith’s 165-page temporary within the election fraud case in opposition to Trump reminding us but once more of the ridiculous steps he took to keep away from leaving workplace.” Within the temporary, prosecutors claimed they spoke with a White Home staffer who mentioned he overheard Trump telling relations that it doesn’t matter in the event you gained or misplaced the election, you continue to must “struggle like hell.”

“However it tremendous issues in the event you misplaced. It’s type of the principle factor that issues,” Oliver mentioned, including: “If he loses subsequent month, there may be each motive to consider Trump will dispute the outcomes once more. And Vance has made it clear, he’s acquired no drawback with that and that alone needs to be disqualifying. For all of the speak this week about his civility on the debate, let’s not neglect: Deep down, he’s the identical colossal dipshit who spews right-wing hate with distressing ease and continues to defend the large lie that the final election was stolen.”

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J.D. Vance Targeted Ahead of VP Debate in Madison Square Garden Ads

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New digital adverts focusing on J.D. Vance went up outdoors Madison Sq. Backyard on Tuesday forward of the vice presidential debate.

The digital adverts, which went reside the morning of the anticipated debate between Vance and Tim Walz, cheer on Kamala Harris‘ operating mate, whereas calling out Trump’s vice presidential choose for being the “poster boy” for Challenge 2025, the controversial set of conservative coverage proposals often known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Challenge.

The adverts embody a QR code linking to TrumpsProject2025.com, the place voters can find out about “how the damaging, anti-freedom plan would radically affect their lives,” in accordance with the Democratic Nationwide Committee launch.

“As New Yorkers and People throughout the nation tune into the VP debate, Democrats are previewing the break up display viewers will see on stage — Coach Walz vs. Challenge 2025 poster boy,” mentioned DNC Communications Director Rosemary Boeglin in an announcement. “J.D. Vance is the least-liked VP candidate in trendy American historical past, not simply because he’s bizarre however as a result of he’s plotting to ban abortion nationwide, rig the financial system for the wealthy and put Trump forward of our democracy.”

Including, “The distinction on this election couldn’t be clearer: Governor Walz will stand side-by-side with Vice President Harris as they flip the web page on Trump and Vance’s darkish, Challenge 2025 plan for America and as an alternative, chart a New Method Ahead for all People.” 

Airing reside Tuesday night time, CBS Information’ 90-minute vice presidential debate between the Democratic and Republican candidates might be held close by on the CBS Broadcast Heart in New York Metropolis. This marks the 2024 election cycle’s first and solely vice presidential debate. (Head right here for tune-in info.)

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‘Veep’ Reunion Raises More Than $700,000 for Harris-Walz

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When the Veep forged reunited on Sunday night time, the viewers who tuned into the dwell desk learn occasion was warned, “No canine or cats have been eaten throughout the making of this program.”

The message — a dig at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump (an analogous one got here the night time prior on Saturday Night time Reside‘s political opener) — was delivered in voiceover by Gary Cole, who performed Kent Davidson, senior strategist to star Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Selina Meyer, who served as each the forty fifth and forty seventh president of the HBO’s present model of the USA.

The subsequent introduction got here from Matt Walsh, who performed Meyer’s press secretary, Mike McLintock. “Many individuals assume that Kamala Harris is Selina Meyer,” he mentioned in character, stumbling by the speech. “Im right here to say she 100% is… not. Kamala Harris is not Selina Meyer and Selina Meyer is not Kamala Harris. Selina Meyer is, nonetheless, one of many different candidates working for president this 12 months. Selina Meyer is Donald Trump.”

The opening was pitch-perfect for the viewers of greater than 20,000 Veep followers who acquired a Zoom hyperlink after donating to the night time’s sponsor, the Democratic Social gathering of Wisconsin, in hopes of electing Harris and working mate Tim Walz into the White Home for 2024. (And who’re in on the final word Veep joke that Meyer is Trump.)

And it was solely a style of the practically two-hour occasion that included a complete forged desk learn of season three’s now timelier-than-ever episode “Crate” (the place Meyer finds out she’s going to be president as a result of the present POTUS is stepping down), in addition to Q&A periods led by host Stephen Colbert with Wisconsin’s real-life politicos, Veep‘s creator Armando Iannucci, the Veep ensemble, and a roster particular friends who stepped in to learn roles that included Larry David, Jason Alexander, Kevin Smith, Kumail Nanjiani, and shock visitor and Veep alum Patton Oswalt.

Together with Walsh and Cole, the Emmy-winning ensemble of Tony Hale, Anna Chlumsky, Reid Scott, Timothy Simons, Sam Richardson, Sarah Rutherland, Clea DuVall and Sufe Bradshaw have been all available (David learn for forged member Kevin Dunn, who was unable to make the occasion).

Donations have been accepted by the occasion and the night time’s complete clocked in at greater than $735,000, WisDems confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter on Monday. That tally included six nameless donors, who had provided to match $145,000.

The staggering quantity will profit the tipping level state within the 2024 Election. WisDems Chair Ben Wikler introduced throughout the occasion that Harris and Trump are tied in Wisconsin, with the polls reporting that Harris is forward by the small margin of 1 or 2 factors.

The occasion was so profitable, that WisDems will hold accepting donations (at wisdems.org/veep) all through the week that may, in return, ship folks a replay hyperlink to observe the occasion. They may also hold open the public sale, the place choose gadgets may be bid on with a raffle buy right here.

For the 2020 Election, WisDems led Hollywood in a digital reunion motion that noticed casts ranging from Princess Bride to Completely satisfied Days, and together with Veep, coming collectively to learn the important thing battleground state. That Veep forged reunion raised greater than $500,000, adopted by a crossover occasion with The West Wing forged in 2022 for the high-stakes midterm elections.

The number of “Crate” comes after Veep skilled a resurgence when President Joe Biden dropped his 2024 re-election bid and endorsed Vice President Harris. The Veep comparisons rapidly got here, between Meyer and Harris (regardless of Meyer at all times being Trump-ish), in addition to recirculating clips that embrace the enduring rest room scene from “Crate” — the place an elated Meyer (Louis-Dreyfus) shares the information together with her beloved bagman Gary (Tony Hale), who’s so excited that her lifelong dream of turning into president is about to change into a actuality that, in flip, will get a nosebleed. (He will get nosebleeds when he’s excited).

Watching Louis-Dreyfus and Hale recreate the mesmerizing, rip-roaring scene, which aired in 2015, would absolutely be value each greenback for viewers who’re nonetheless left questioning why the 17-time Emmy-winning sequence needed to log off in 2019.

When requested if Veep might ever return within the present instances throughout the Q&A, Ianucci echoed what the core group has been expressing ever since 2020: Actuality has outpaced the present.

“It relies upon who wins,” mentioned the present’s creator, who handed showrunning Veep onto David Mandel for season 5. “Veep is kind of predicated on everybody being scared that they may have carried out one thing improper and that individuals may discover out. And that solely works in case you are really fearful in regards to the guidelines being damaged. If there was an episode of Veep filmed about Trump, when he does, ‘They’re consuming the canine! They’re consuming the canine! [during the ABC News presidential debate with Harris], the scenes of all of the folks, the workers, could be them [shrugging] and going, ‘yeah, no matter.’ They wouldn’t be bothered.”

He concluded, “It’s all on the market. There are not any guidelines. So it would work — there might be political satire [again]. There might be one thing like Veep, if there’s a politician or politicians in cost who know what the foundations are and comply with them.”

For a closing kicker throughout the occasion, the Veep writers continued their custom of arming the forged with a brand new checklist of Jonah Insults — that are the famously foulmouth barbs concentrating on Simons’ character. Iannucci and Oswalt contributed a few of their very own insults to finish the night time, whereas a few of the highlights rattled off by the forged (lots of them, left in hysterics) included: “TwatGPT,” Satellite tv for pc licker,” “face circumcised” and “inventory picture for sperm financial institution reject.”

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Kamala Harris Hits L.A. for Star-Studded Fundraiser: ‘Good to Be Home’

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Kamala Harris‘ presidential marketing campaign rolled into Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon, marking her first main fundraiser within the metropolis and bringing alongside a starry group of supporters.

The vice chairman hosted a day occasion on the J.W. Marriott in downtown Los Angeles, with a lineup of superstar audio system and visitors that included Stevie Marvel, Sterling Okay. Brown, Lily Tomlin, Demi Lovato, Keegan-Michael Key and Jessica Alba; Alanis Morissette and Halle Bailey additionally carried out in the course of the fundraiser.

Contained in the occasion — press was solely allowed in for Harris’ remarks — the presidential candidate took the stage to Beyoncé’s hit music “Freedom,” alongside an announcer declaring, “please welcome our subsequent president of the US” to a standing ovation from the gang.

“Oh, it’s good to be residence,” Harris responded to the applause; although she grew up in Oakland, she has deep ties to Los Angeles, nonetheless proudly owning a house in Brentwood together with her husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff.

Harris shouted out the longtime assist she’s gotten from town in her lengthy political profession, noting, “I go searching this room and there are individuals who have been with me right here each step of the way in which” and later referred to herself as “a proud daughter of California.”

The Democratic nominee started by acknowledging there are simply 37 days till Election Day. “I do know who’s right here and so many people have been concerned each 4 years, and each 4 years we are saying, ‘That is the one’; this right here’s the one,” she continued. “That is in all probability a very powerful election in our lifetime, and it’s in all probability a very powerful within the lifetime of our nation.”

Harris additionally used a lot of her practically 30-minute speech to discuss her opposition, saying, “In some ways Donald Trump is an unserious man, however the penalties of placing him again within the White Home are extraordinarily severe.” She additionally questioned of Venture 2025, the controversial set of conservative coverage proposals to be applied by the following Republican president, “Are you able to consider they put that factor in writing?” and included a quip that whereas campaigning throughout the nation, her “crowds are fairly large.”

“A lot is on the road on this election, and this isn’t 2016 or 2020, it’s completely different for many individuals,” she added, acknowledging the Supreme Courtroom’s ruling on presidential immunity this summer time and musing, “Simply think about Donald Trump with no guardrails.”

Harris wound down with repeating how shut the election now’s and the way early voting has already begun in similar states, saying, “Let me be clear, we’re going to win” to huge applause. She continued, “We even have our work minimize out for us. This race is as shut because it could possibly be and we’re the underdog. We’re the underdog, and I’m working just like the underdog.”

The tickets to occasion, with quite a few Hollywood brokers and publicists additionally noticed within the crowd, ranged from $500 to $250,000; Deadline reported over $28 million was raised on the fundraiser. After shaking arms and taking photographs with some members of the gang following her speech, Harris was off to her subsequent cease, hitting a rally in Las Vegas on Sunday night time.

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Zachary Levi Endorses Trump Following RFK Jr. Exit

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Zachary Levi endorsed Donald Trump for president on Saturday. The Shazam actor had beforehand declared assist for RFK Jr.

“I’m not gonna take an excessive amount of time, however I did simply wanna simply provide you with a little bit context about why Shazam is sitting right here speaking to you about these varied issues,” he mentioned onstage at a Trump rally in Michigan. “I grew up in my household that was Christian conservative, that was just about the lane that we had been in. My mother and father had been Kennedy Democrats that then become Reagan Republicans, they usually taught me to have a wholesome degree of mistrust for the federal government and a wholesome degree of mistrust for trade that runs amok.”

Levi supported RFK Jr.’s presidential bid all through the summer season, writing at one level that the politician was “the perfect we’ve had in a very long time.” The Kennedy candidate dropped out of the race on the finish of final month.

Levi spoke about his RFK assist on Saturday. “For a very long time, I used to be like, ‘Man, I actually need to discover a politician that represents the entire issues that I would like and I need to see in a presidential candidate.’ And this yr, I discovered Bobby Kennedy, and I assumed, ‘Man, this man is it. He’s the true deal.’ And in an ideal world, no matter that will seem like, maybe I’d have voted for Bobby,” Levi mentioned. “However we don’t stay in an ideal world. The truth is, we stay in a really damaged one, we stay in a rustic that has been hijacked by lots of people who need to take this place method off the cliff. And we need to cease that, proper?”

He continued, “We’re right here to make it possible for we’re going to take again this nation, we’re going to make it nice once more, we’re going to make it wholesome once more. And so, I stand with Bobby, and I stand with Tulsi, and I stand with everybody else who’s standing with President Trump. As a result of I do imagine, of the 2 selections that we’ve got, and we solely have two, Donald Trump, President Trump is the person that may get us there. And he’s gonna get us there as a result of he’s gonna have the backing and the assist and the knowledge and the information and the combat that exists in Robert Kennedy Jr. and former consultant Tulsi Gabbard.”

Along with the titular hero of Shazam! and Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Levi additionally voiced Flynn Ryder in 2010’s Tangled and can seem within the upcoming Harold and the Purple Crayon.

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Athletes for Harris Launches With Endorsements by Football Hall of Famers

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Kamala Harris and Tim Walz launched Athletes for Harris on Saturday with new endorsements by 15 Professional Soccer Corridor of Famers.

The brand new marketing campaign effort seeks to mobilize athletes and coaches throughout the nation forward of the 2024 presidential election in November.

Mel Blount, Emmitt Smith, Kellen Winslow, Andre Tippett, Marv Levy, Alan Web page, Drew Pearson, Kenny Houston, Jan Stenerud, Calvin Johnson, Robert Brazile, Willie Roaf, Mike Haynes, Elvin Bethea and Ron Combine are amongst these backing the Harris-Walz ticket, along with the 50 HBCU soccer legends who endorsed Harris final week. 

Crew Harris-Walz seems to leverage sporting occasions and video games to increase its assist amongst voters, with the assistance of marketing campaign co-chairs who’re working to recruit fellow athletes to marketing campaign as nicely. These co-chars embody Thomas Booker, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Billie Jean King, Steve Kerr, Ali Krieger, Candace Parker, Doc Rivers, Daybreak Staley, Ali Truwit and Chris Paul.

“I’m so glad to be part of Athletes for Harris,” Johnson wrote in a press release. “I’ve identified Vice President Harris for over 25 years, and you’ll depend on her to ship on what she says she goes to do. She’ll be a President for all individuals, regardless of the race, language, sexual orientation, or get together line. She confirmed all of us — and confirmed the world — that she was able to be President, how sensible she is, and her plan for the nation in that debate.”

He continued, “We’re not going backwards; we’re transferring ahead. For all the athletes on the market, don’t be afraid to make use of your platforms – we want all of you to get entangled. Share this with your mates that Vice President Harris has an agenda that can transfer the nation ahead. The Magic Man is on board.”