Last Update August 18, 2024 01:32pm ET

Current Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to formally accept the Democratic presidential nomination at the 2024 DNC this week in Chicago, Illinois.

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Fast facts

•  Democrats ascend on Chicago, Illinois, for the 2024 Democratic National Convention which is slated to begin Monday. 
•  Vice President Kamala Harris is anticipated to formally accept her presidential nomination from the Democrats this week. 
•  Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate ahead of the 2024 presidential elections. 

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Chicago mayor says Democrats have ‘privilege’ of anti-Israel protesters bringing ‘grievances’ to DNC

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is to address to Democratic National Convention on Monday. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson  said Democrats “can handle” anti-Israel protests descending on the Windy City during the Democratic National Convention, adding that the party has the “privilege” of demonstrators coming to “bring their grievances” to Democratic leadership.

“We’re ready for this convention,” Johnson told ABC correspondent Marth Raddatz on Sunday. “In fact, the city of Chicago, as you know, has hosted the most conventions in our country’s history because it turns out we’re actually really good at this. You know, the part that’s actually most exciting, though, in this moment, is that this is a party that can handle protest and protecting the First Amendment right, which is fundamental to our democracy, while also strengthening our democracy and speaking to the future of our country. Unlike the Republican Party, which is very painful to watch right now, I don’t know what’s worse watching the Republican Party or breakdancing at the Olympics.”

Regarding safety concerns, as Chicago PD is down about 1,700 officers, Johnson said the “local police department has worked with the Secret Service as well as other local agencies to ensure a safe, peaceful, yet vibrant, exciting convention” and that the city of Chicago “has been rated number one as it relates to convention centers and how we make sure that we protect people, while also providing an opportunity to see the beauty and the soul of who we are.”

Asked whether he anticipates fewer anti-Israel protesters now that President Biden dropped out of the race, Johnson instead cited the “tremendous excitement” about Vice President Harris and “her work to ensure that working people in this country are prioritized.”

“She selected an amazing human being governor Walz, a former social studies teacher like myself. So just a shout out to all of our public school teachers around America. So absolutely, there’s a great deal of excitement now, as far as you know, who will provide some dissent, to ensure that the voices of individuals who want the government to be better, look that’s going to happen,” Johnson said. “And in fact, you know, we support the First Amendment, and we have to make sure that we protect the rights of individuals. It’s a privilege to be able to bring their grievances to this, to the leadership and for our party to respond.”

His remarks come after reports estimated more than 100,000 anti-Israel demonstrators are expected in Chicago during the DNC this week.

One of the organizers, Hatem Abudayyeh, chair of the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, reportedly vowed to the Washington Post the protests are “still about ending the genocide.”

“Our target is the Democratic Party and the leadership of the party and ‘Killer Kamala’ is one of them,” he reportedly added.

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JD Vance aims to turn blue states red ahead of 2024 presidential election

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When it comes to the crucial battlegrounds of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, long known as the Democrats’ ‘blue wall’ states, Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance is optimistic they’re “going to be the red wall in November.”

“We’re going to make sure that Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan go red,” former President Trump’s 2024 running mate emphasized in an exclusive national interview with Fox News Digital on the campaign trail in southwestern Michigan this past week.

Democrats reliably won all three working-class states in presidential elections for nearly a quarter-century before Trump narrowly carried them in capturing the White House eight years ago.

But in 2020, President Biden won back all three states with razor-thin margins as he defeated Trump.

The states remain extremely competitive as Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump face off in the 2024 presidential election.

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Planned Parenthood offering free abortions, vasectomies at DNC

Planned Parenthood will offer free vasectomies, medication abortion, and emergency contraception at the Democratic National Convention this week.

Planned Parenthood Great Rivers of St. Louis announced in a X post that a bus is headed to the DNC in Chicago on Aug. 19-20 to offer free services.

“Here we come, Chicago! Our mobile health clinic will be in the West Loop with @ChiAbortionFund & @TheWienerCircle Aug 19-20, providing FREE vasectomies & medication abortion,” the post said. “EC will also be available for free without an appointment.” 

The Planned Parenthood location noted that there is a waiting list for vasectomies during their time at the convention. “We currently have a waitlist for free vasectomies,” a follow-up X post said. “Repost to spread the word!”

Fox News’ Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this post.

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Vance dismisses polls that show Harris ahead: ‘Wildly inaccurate’

Ohio Sen. JD Vance dismissed polling that shows Vice President Kamala Harris has taken the lead nationally and in key battleground states, arguing that the same polls were inaccurate in 2016 and 2020.

“The polls tend to radically overstate Democrats, we certainly saw that during the summer of 2020 and summer of 2016 and, of course, a lot of those polls were wrong when it came to Election Day,” Vance said during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.”

The comments came after Fox News’ Shannon Bream told Vance about a recent New York Times poll that showed Harris ahead of former President Trump in Arizona and North Carolina at the same time as she has narrowed Trump’s lead “significantly” in Georgia and Nevada.

“What we have certainly seen is that Kamala Harris got a bit of a sugar high a couple of weeks ago, but what we’ve actually seen from our own internal data is that Kamala Harris has already leveled off,” Vance said. “If you talk to insiders in the Kamala Harris campaign, they’re very worried about where they are because the American people just don’t buy the idea that Kamala Harris, who has been vice president for three and a half years, is somehow going to tackle the inflation crisis in a way tomorrow that she hasn’t for the past 1,300 days.”

This is an excerpt from a story by Fox News’ Michael Lee.

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Harris, Trump, hold dueling campaign events in race to win the biggest battleground

A Harris-Walz bus seen in Pennsylvania on Sunday as the vice president and her running mate will campaign in the battleground state ahead of the Democratic National Convention. (Fox News Digital/ Paul Steinhauser)

PITTSBURGH, PA – Vice President Kamala Harris and running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz barnstorm through western Pennsylvania on Sunday, on the eve of the kickoff of the Democratic National Convention.

Hours earlier, former President Trump declared “I love Pennsylvania” as he held a rally at an indoor arena in Wilkes-Barre, in the northeast corner of the Keystone State.

Pennsylvania has been and will continue to see plenty of campaign trail traffic. With 19 electoral votes up for grabs, it’s the largest prize among the seven battleground states that will likely decide the outcome of the presidential election.

“We’re winning by a lot in Pennsylvania,” Trump declared on Saturday. 

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DNC chair cites ‘unprecedented collaboration’ among Democrats to win White House, Congress

Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images for The Democratic Party of Wisconsin

Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Jaime Harrison on Sunday revealed some of the strategy behind Democrats’ goal to win control of the House, as well as hold onto the White House and Senate.

“For three and a half years we’ve been focused on pouring resources into all of our states. A lot of people look at Howard Dean’s fifty-state strategy as the Golden Age for the DNC in terms of investing in those state parties,” Harrison said on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” on Sunday.

“We, in our midterms, we put 40% more into state parties,” he said. “We created a red state fund than what Howard Dean did in 2006, and so we’ve been focused on that, and that’s thanks to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in helping us garner the resources to do just that.”

Harrison said there’s been “unprecedented collaboration” between the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), the Democratic Governors Association (DGA), and the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC).

He is on a Signal messaging chain with DSCC Chair Sen. Gary Peters, D-Michigan, and DCCC Chair Rep. Suzan DeBene, D-Wash., Harrison told MSNBC, adding that “the three of us stay in close collaboration” to look at polling, notice traction and “red alerts” on certain issues as Election Day approaches.

“Our staffs also work very closely together, and I don’t think that has happened historically in the past in the Democratic ecosystem,” Harrison said. “So we are all aligned, we are all on one page, we’re in formation, we are focused like a laser on not just winning the White House back, but making sure that the House, the Senate, we pick up gubernatorial elections, that we flip some state House seats, and that is all in alignment, and again, we’re going to be focused on that from now until Election Day, as we’ve been focused on it for the last three and a half years.” 

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Trump holds second press conference in a week while Harris avoids major news

AP Photo/Alex Brandon

Former President Trump took questions from reporters on Thursday at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, the second straight week that the former president has grabbed headlines by holding a news conference.

The move is partially to try and blunt the momentum of Vice President Kamala Harris heading into next week’s Democratic National Convention. Harris has been riding a wave of energy and enthusiasm since replacing President Biden at the top of the Democrats’ 2024 ticket three and a half weeks ago. 

But it also appears to be another move to try and put pressure on Harris for not holding a news conference or a major interview since Biden bowed out and backed his vice president.

“It has been 24 days and Kamala Harris continues to duck and hide from the media – no interviews and no press conferences since she announced,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung emphasized on Wednesday.

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