Harris campaign launches new ad tying Trump to Robinson scandal in North Carolina

Eric Garcia explains how Donald Trump’s remaking of the Republican Party allowed for untested and inflammatory candidates to run for office – which might now lead to electoral disaster in key battleground states.

Robinson, North Carolina’s Republican candidate for governor, is fighting for his political career after a bombshell report by CNN’s KFile said he referred to himself as a “black Nazi” and said “slavery is good,” among other shocking remarks, on a porn forum.

This morning, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social about John Kahn’s “The Fighter”:

This is now the Number One song, across all charts, about me. Such an unexpected honor!

After a quick investigation, it’s number one on iTunes (remember that?), not the Billboard Hot 100, Apple Music, or Spotify.

Anyway, here it is, for your listening pleasure…

In an interview with ABC News broadcast on Good Morning America, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff told anchor Michael Strahan that comments made about Vice President Kamala Harris by Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders we “appalling”, “repulsive”, and “so out of touch”.

The governor said earlier this week: “My kids keep me humble. … Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble.”

Said Emhoff: “Yeah, it’s appalling for somebody who is in a position of leadership, like governor, to say something so repulsive and so out of touch — not only on the 1 — mispronouncing her name, which is disrespectful. She knows what her name is. And then, 2 — as if you need to have your own biological children to be humble.”

He added: “But then — then to say as if women should be humble. And you can see the pushback — even from … within her own party, because it’s a repulsive thing to say.”

You can watch Emhoff’s response below at the 2:10 mark:

Emhoff’s ex-wife Kersten Emhoff, mother to their children Ella and Cole, Harris’s stepchildren, hit out at the governor earlier in the week to in response to her comments.

Here’s Katie Hawkinson’s report on what she had to say:

Coming up at 1pm ET, Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe will brief the American people on the conclusions of the Mission Assurance investigation into the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

Here’s an excerpt of his remarks:

“In today’s hyperdynamic threat environment, the mission of the Secret Service is clear: we cannot afford to fail.

After a review of the planning, event details, and coordination with partner agencies regarding the attempted assassination of former President Trump on July 13th, our Mission Assurance investigation is nearing completion. As I have said, this was a failure on the part of the United States Secret Service.

It’s important that we hold ourselves to account for the failures of July 13th and that we use the lessons learned to make sure that we do not have another mission failure like this again.

The Mission Assurance investigation findings have prompted the Secret Service to move into the accountability phase of this process. The Office of Professional Responsibility and the Office of Integrity are reviewing the findings. This agency has among the most robust table of penalties in the federal government, and violations of policy will result in disciplinary action.

As a result of these failures, what has become clear to me is we need a shift in paradigm in how we conduct our operations. As was demonstrated on Sunday in West Palm Beach, the threat level is evolving and requires this paradigm shift.”

Donald Trump’s mental faculties are being questioned yet again, this time by his former nemesis Nancy Pelosi and the ghostwriter for his memoir and advice bookTrump: The Art of the Deal.

Journalist and author Tony Schwartz told MSNBC’s Ari Melber, “This is a man who’s lost a great deal mentally,” on Thursday.

Myriam Page reports on what else Schwartz had to say.

Following her much-hyped appearance with Oprah Winfrey last night in Michigan, Vice President Kamala Harris will hold rallies in Marietta, Georgia, and Madison, Wisconsin, today — both key battlegrounds in this year’s election.

In Georgia, Harris is expected to focus on “Trump abortion bans” and will address the death of Amber Nicole Thurman, whose family was at the Michigan event (watch the clip below).

She will round out the day in Madison before returning to Washington, DC, in the evening.

Former President Donald Trump meanwhile will attend a fundraiser in Miami, Florida. ON Saturday, he heads to Wilmington, North Carolina, for a rally.