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Trump and Vance hold rally in battleground state of Georgia: Live

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Former President Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance are taking to the stage in Atlanta for a Saturday evening rally in the battleground state of Georgia.

MAGA fans packed into the Georgia State University Convocation Center where Trump’s Democratic rival Vice President Kamala Harris held a rally earlier this week.

Harris officially secured the Democratic nomination on Friday for president after having won a majority of pledged delegates to the party’s convention.

But the Harris campaign was fighting a scandal by Saturday afternoon after her husband Doug Emhoff admitted having an affair during his first marriage, following a tabloid report.

The Trump-Vance rally comes hours after the former president’s bid to throw out the indictment in the federal election interference case was dismissed by Washington DC District Judge Tanya Chutkan.

She added a August 16 hearing to the calendar, marking the first time the parties will meet in the case in seven months.

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Trump’s bid to dismiss election interference case is denied by DC judge

The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s election interference case has denied his attempt to throw out the proceedings.

In an order, issued on Saturday, DC District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected Trump’s motion to dismiss the Department of Justice’s case on legal grounds.

Trump “may file a renewed motion once all issues of immunity have been resolved,” she wrote.

Chutkan has reclaimed control of the election interference case after the Supreme Court tasked her with deciding which acts in Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election are considered “official” versus private acts, the latter of which can be prosecuted.

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Doug Emhoff acknowledges affair during first marriage

Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff has admitted having an affair during his first marriage.

The second gentleman was married to film producer Kerstin Emhoff from 1992 to 2008 and the pair share two children, Ella and Cole. The Daily Mail first reported on Saturday that Emhoff had cheated on Kerstin with his children’s private school teacher.

Later on Saturday, he acknowledged the affair happened. “During my first marriage, Kerstin and I went through some tough times on account of my actions. I took responsibility, and in the years since, we worked through things as a family and have come out stronger on the other side,” Emhoff told CNN in a statement.

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ICYMI: Secret Service provides timeline of Trump shooting

Secret Service provides timeline of Trump shooting

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Harris was less than 20ft from pipe bomb during Jan 6 attack, new report reveals

Vice President Kamala Harris was less than 20 feet from a “viable” pipe bomb on January 6, according to a new report from Homeland Security’s internal watchdog.

The Office of the Inspector General released its report on Friday detailing the Secret Service’s preparation for, and response to, the events of January 6, 2021. Five people died and hundreds were injured in the Capitol assault, where rioters aimed to prevent the certification of the election for President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Photo capturing how close the pipe bomb was to where Harris entered the DNC building on January 6
Photo capturing how close the pipe bomb was to where Harris entered the DNC building on January 6 (Dept of Homeland Security)

Among the shocking revelations was that Harris, then vice president-elect, was within close range to a “viable” pipe bomb that Secret Security had missed in a security sweep.

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In photos: JD Vance and Trump are set to take the stage in Atlanta as the red-capped crowd

Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, arrives to speak at a campaign rally at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)
Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, arrives to speak at a campaign rally at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Gray) (AP)
Tyler Harper, Georgia Agricultural Commissioner, speaks on the day that Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance hold a campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., August 3, 2024. REUTERS/Megan Varner
Tyler Harper, Georgia Agricultural Commissioner, speaks on the day that Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance hold a campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., August 3, 2024. REUTERS/Megan Varner (REUTERS)
ATLANTA, GEORGIA - AUGUST 03: Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a round table discussion with Black business owners before his rally at the Georgia State University Convocation Center on August 03, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. Polls currently show a close race between Trump and Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
ATLANTA, GEORGIA – AUGUST 03: Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a round table discussion with Black business owners before his rally at the Georgia State University Convocation Center on August 03, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. Polls currently show a close race between Trump and Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (Getty Images)

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My Cuban family fled a dictator. Now I’m scared they’ll elect Trump

As Democrats are finding it increasingly difficult to connect with Latino voters — especially Cubans, who associate left-wing politics with the communism that tore their country apart, Jesus Maria Alvarez reports on the deep rifts within his community in the battleground state of Florida

My Cuban family fled a dictator. Now I’m scared they’ll elect Trump

Democrats are finding it increasingly difficult to connect with Latino voters — especially Cubans, who associate left-wing politics with the communism that tore their country apart. Jesus Maria Alvarez reports on the deep rifts within his community in the battleground state of Florida

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Trump crowd has been in line all day ahead of evening rally in Atlanta

A journalist at Fox News Atlanta reported that people began lining up for the 5pm ET Trump rally 12 hours early.

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JD Vance recalls telling his 7-year-old son to ‘shut the hell up’ during call with Trump

JD Vance told his seven-year-old son to “shut the hell up” when Donald Trump called and asked him to be his running mate.

Vance, 40, recounted the story on the “Full Send Podcast” on Friday. The Ohio senator was publicly announced as Trump’s running mate last month at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, with Trump calling him to break the news just minutes before.

“My son, who is seven, is in the hotel room with me,” Vance told the political podcast, which regularly hosts conservatives. “And he is really into Pokémon cards right now, he’s going through a Pokémon phase…he’s really into it.”

Katie Hawkinson the full story…

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Why San Francisco holds the key to the 2024 election

The Independent’s Io Dodds and Josh Marcus explore how one relatively small city – not even California’s biggest – gain so much sway over national politics? And what does that foreshadow about the 2024 election?

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How Trump and Harris’ resumes stack up

Donald Trump’s and Kamala Harris’s resumes couldn’t be more different. Trump has a total of four years of experience in public office to Harris’s 34.

Unlike Harris, however, Trump has 52 years of business experience under his belt.

Taking on the renovation of the Commodore Hotel and the facade of the Grand Central Terminal in New York City as one of his first construction projects in 1976, Trump launched the Trump Organization and starred in the reality TV show The Apprentice.

He joined the political scene as a neophyte but caught the imagination of the Republican Party base and rode that wave all the way to the White House in the 2016 election.

After four years as president, Trump lost re-election in 2020 amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Meanwhile, Harris has spent her entire career in the public sector, starting out at the district attorney’s office in Alameda County, California in 1990. She joined the San Franciso district attorney’s office eight years later.

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