A Trump confidant wants to become governor. Robert F. Kennedy is seen with Donald Trump. All information in the news blog.
2.55 am: Robert F. Kennedy, who is not affiliated with any party, made his first appearance at a campaign event for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. “We were on somewhat opposite sides,” Trump said as he welcomed his guest on stage in Arizona. Kennedy had approached him a few times during the election campaign, which he did not like. “But he is a phenomenal person, a phenomenal man.”
3.22pm: Vivek Ramaswamy would like to become governor of Ohio. People in his home state gave him the idea. “I’m considering options that I wouldn’t have thought about six months ago, like running for governor of Ohio,” the Republican said in an interview with “Fox News”. The term of office of the current governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine, runs until 2027.
Vivek Ramaswamy is an American entrepreneur who became rich as the founder of a biotechnology company. He ran for the Republican presidential nomination, but withdrew his campaign in January 2024. He then threw his support behind Donald Trump and is now supporting the former president in his campaign for the White House.
11.38 am: The Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris wants to be a president for all people in the USA and overcome the division in the country. “I promise that I will be a president for all Americans,” said Harris at the end of the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago. There, the 59-year-old ceremoniously accepted her nomination as her party’s presidential candidate. Here you can find the most important parts of Harris’ speech.
5.40 am: Former President Donald Trump reacted in real time and vehemently to opponent Kamala Harris’ speech on his Truth Social platform. “Is she talking about me?” Trump posted, among other things. In quick succession, the former president criticized Harris’ speech: “A lot of talk about childhood” and “Too many ‘thank yous’, said too quickly.” Read more about it here.
4.50 am: Kamala Harris had to say thank you more than ten times before she could give what was probably the most important speech of her life. Thank you to the delegates, but also to the “love of her life”, Doug Emhoff, and US President Joe Biden.
Then she got down to business: The Vice President reviewed her family history, her parents’ divorce, her life as a young woman in a middle-class neighborhood. She learned from her mother not to complain about injustice, “but to do something.” In her career as a lawyer, she had only had one client: the people, said the former prosecutor. And then she said the sentence that no one expected just a few weeks ago: “I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.”
She warned about Donald Trump and the consequences of the ruling that grants him immunity. “Imagine Donald Trump without restrictions,” she said, “he will abuse the presidency.” She belligerently shouted one of her slogans to the delegates: “We are not going back.”
She wants to fight for women who want an abortion or artificial insemination. As president, Trump wants to have reports drawn up on how abortions are performed in the United States. “They’ve lost their minds,” she said to great cheers. She also wants to sign the bill that is supposed to regulate migration – and which Trump had prevented. Read more about Kamala Harris’ speech here.
