‘Weird’ vs ‘Radical’: Harris, Trump Sharpen Their Attacks
With less than 100 days to go until Election Day, the presidential race has tightened according to polls, but former President Donald Trump still has an edge against Vice President Kamala Harris.
The two candidates have been sharpening their attacks. Perhaps grabbing a page from Trump’s playbook, Harris and her allies have set about labeling the Republican nominee and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, as weird.
Meanwhile, Trump has sought to cast Harris as radically liberal — and he has resorted again to election denialism, baselessly claiming at a Saturday night rally that Democrats “cheated in the last election and they’re gonna cheat in this election.” Trump told the crowd in St. Cloud, Minnesota: “If they don’t cheat, we will win this state easily” — even though a Republican presidential candidate hasn’t won the state since 1972.
Biden proposes major Supreme Court reforms: The current president — Joe Biden, remember him? — on Monday proposed sweeping reforms for the Supreme Court, including 18-year term limits and an enforceable code of ethics for the justices. He also called for a constitutional amendment to make clear that former presidents have no immunity for crimes committed while in office.
“I have great respect for our institutions and the separation of powers,” Biden wrote in a piece for The Washington Post. “What is happening now is not normal, and it undermines the public’s confidence in the court’s decisions, including those impacting personal freedoms. We now stand in a breach.”
Harris endorsed the president’s proposals, saying that the court faces “a clear crisis of confidence … after numerous ethics scandals and decision after decision overturning long-standing precedent.”
Still, the reforms likely have no chance of being enacted anytime soon. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has already called Biden’s proposals "dead on arrival."