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lawmakers and regulators need to stop pharmaceutical companies from marketing drugs like OxyContin and establish stronger guidelines about how and when doctors can prescribe them. These drugs are often the last resort for people with cancer and other terminal conditions who experience excruciating pain. But they pose a great risk when used to treat the kinds of pain for which there are numerous non-addictive therapies available. (The Editorial Board, 2018)
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Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large mustache. Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbors. The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere. (Rowling 1)
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As the Harris campaign pulls in donations at an impressive clip, Democrats are adopting a line of attack pioneered by Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota: Donald J. Trump and his Republican allies are “just plain weird.”
Nicholas Nehamas
As Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign reported a hefty fund-raising haul, high-profile Democrats derided former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, as weird and strange on Sunday, embracing a characterization of the Republican ticket that the Harris campaign has also begun to try out.
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, whose description last week of “weird people on the other side” was an online hit with Democrats, told CNN that Mr. Trump says “whatever crazy thing pops into his mind.” Pete Buttigieg, the secretary of transportation, said Mr. Trump was getting “older and stranger” while Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, called Mr. Vance “weird” and “erratic.”
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Raising cash and tempering expectations: The Harris campaign announced it had raised $200 million in the week since President Biden dropped out of the race , exceeding Mr. Biden’s fund-raising total for the entire first quarter. Two-thirds of that sum came from first-time donors, according to the campaign. But a spokesman warned that the race would be “very close,” a day after Ms. Harris said Democrats were the “underdogs.”
Vance campaigns in Minnesota: Mr. Vance, the junior senator from Ohio, visited a diner in a reliably red part of Minnesota , a day after he and Mr. Trump rallied supporters in nearby St. Cloud, where Mr. Trump made clear that any designs on national unity were over . Mr. Vance, whose best-selling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” helped power his leap into politics, has gotten off to a rocky start since joining the ticket less than two weeks ago. Years-old comments resurfaced by Democrats and the news media, like his derisive comments about “childless cat ladies,” have threatened to undermine his standing with women, voters of color and blue-collar workers.
Democrats pivot to “weird”: Democrats are increasingly adopting the line of attack pioneered by Mr. Walz, with Ms. Harris saying on Saturday saying that some of the swipes the Republican candidates had taken against her were “just plain weird.” On CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Mr. Schumer went after Mr. Vance, saying “Every day, it comes out Vance has done something more extreme, more weird, more erratic.” He suggested that Mr. Trump must be “scratching his head and wondering, Why did I pick this guy?”
V.P. contenders on the stump: With Ms. Harris expected to select a running mate by Aug. 7, potential V.P. picks made themselves heard on the air and on the ground. On CNN, Mr. Walz said he liked the “weird” approach because arguments about Mr. Trump threatening democracy and women’s lives gave him “too much credit.” He invoked statements Mr. Trump has made about sharks and the fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter, as did Mr. Buttigieg, who told Fox News that Mr. Trump was getting “older and stranger.” Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, in Georgia to open a swing-state campaign office for Ms. Harris, accused Mr. Vance of manufacturing his Appalachian origin story and highlighted his electoral success in a state that Mr. Trump carried by 26 points in 2020.
Anushka Patil
Two prominent governors will headline a campaign event for Vice President Kamala Harris this week in Pennsylvania, while Senator JD Vance of Ohio heads west to Nevada and Arizona in what will be some of the Republican vice-presidential nominee’s first appearances for the Trump campaign outside the Midwest.
Governors Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan will hold a rally on behalf of Ms. Harris on Monday, according to her campaign, in an event that Mr. Shapiro’s office said would be held outside of Philadelphia. Mr. Shapiro is one of the top contenders to be Ms. Harris’s running mate , and his state is widely considered a must-win for Democrats. (Ms. Whitmer, a co-chair of the Harris campaign who is also often mentioned as a vice-presidential contender, has said she has no plans to leave her current job.)
Mr. Vance will hold rallies on Tuesday in Henderson and Reno in Nevada, and on Wednesday in Glendale, Ariz. Thus far, Mr. Vance, who has had a rocky start , has mostly appeared on familiar Midwestern ground, including in his Ohio hometown, Middletown. The Arizona rally will come just a day after the state’s closely watched primaries, including for the Senate seat being vacated by Kyrsten Sinema, the Democrat turned independent who said in March that she would not seek re-election .
Ms. Harris and Donald J. Trump are also on the road this week. Ms. Harris will hold a rally in Atlanta on Tuesday to shore up support in the key swing state of Georgia, where support for President Biden had been slipping before he ended his re-election bid a week ago.
And Mr. Trump will host a rally in Pennsylvania’s capital, Harrisburg, on Wednesday, making his return to the state where he survived an assassination attempt two weeks ago. Mr. Trump has said he intends to hold another rally in Butler, where the attempt on his life took place, but has not said when.
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Al Gore, the former vice president who narrowly lost the 2000 presidential election, has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. Gore, a Democrat and outspoken environmentalist, said in a statement that Harris was a “climate champion,” citing battles she fought against oil companies when she was California’s attorney general.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a possible running mate choice for Vice President Kamala Harris, told Fox News that Donald J. Trump is getting “older and stranger,” saying that the former president has been “rambling” about sharks and Hannibal Lecter. His remarks echoed those of other Democrats who called the Republican ticket “weird” on Sunday, a line of attack that has become popular in recent days.
Maggie Astor
Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign said on Sunday that it had raised $200 million in the week since President Biden withdrew from the race — more than Mr. Biden’s haul in the first three months of the year.
Roughly two-thirds of that amount came from first-time donors, according to the campaign, offering another sign that Ms. Harris’s ascent to the top of the party’s ticket has invigorated Democrats. The campaign also said it had signed up more than 170,000 new volunteers.
And more money is coming: Ms. Harris will hold a fund-raiser in Houston on Wednesday, according to a copy of the invitation reviewed by The New York Times.
It is unclear how much of the $200 million has gone directly to the campaign versus to allied Democratic Party committees. But it is eye-catching, even in comparison with other surges recorded over the course of the 2024 race. Former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign reported raising nearly $53 million in the first day after his criminal conviction in May, a haul that helped him outpace Mr. Biden that month and erase what had been a significant financial advantage for the president.
The swell of support comes after Democrats, thrown for a loop by Mr. Biden’s poor debate performance, spent weeks loudly despairing about their prospects. Even so, Ms. Harris’s campaign has sought to tamp down expectations, as it faces the task of sustaining that enthusiasm into November.
A campaign spokesman, Michael Tyler, said in a statement, “The momentum and energy for Vice President Harris is real — and so are the fundamentals of this race: this election will be very close and decided by a small number of voters in just a few states.”
And Ms. Harris herself said at a fund-raiser on Saturday, “We are the underdogs in this race.”
Nicholas Nehamas and Theodore Schleifer contributed reporting.
Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, one contender to be the vice president’s running mate, underscored his electoral record at the opening of a Harris campaign office near Macon, Ga. “I’m the guy that last November beat Donald Trump’s hand-picked candidate,” he said, referring to a five-point win in a state that Trump carried by 26 points in 2020. “And together we’re going to help Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump.”
Beshear also continued his attacks on Trump’s running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, who has family roots in Kentucky. He told the crowd that Vance lacks “any conviction” and has manufactured an inauthentic origin story. “JD Vance ain’t from Kentucky,” he said. “He ain’t from Appalachia. And he ain’t going to be the vice president.”
Michael Gold
Reporting from Waite Park, Minn.
When Senator JD Vance of Ohio arrived to the Park Diner in Waite Park, Minn., on Sunday morning — a remarkably traditional political stop after a week on the trail that has been anything but — he told the dozens gathered outside that he thought he and former President Donald J. Trump held a “great” and successful rally the day before in nearby St. Cloud.
Many of them hooted in agreement, because they had been there.
Mr. Vance’s visit to the diner, which was stocked with supporters invited by the Trump campaign, was the vice-presidential nominee’s latest stop in a rocky opening stretch that has raised questions about how the Trump campaign might use him to boost the ticket’s prospects in November.
As Mr. Trump looks to broaden the electoral map by putting in play states like Minnesota, which has not voted for a Republican president since 1972, he will likely need to win back voters in closely contested areas who helped him in 2016 then swung the other way four years ago. But Saturday’s rally and Sunday’s diner stop by Mr. Vance, a Yale-educated lawyer, were both in Stearns County — an area about an hour’s drive from Minneapolis and a place Mr. Trump won by more than 20 percentage points in 2016 and 2020.
Still, Mr. Vance insisted to the supporters greeting him that he and Mr. Trump were “going to turn Minnesota red,” telling reporters that Mr. Trump’s message would stand in sharp enough contrast to that of Vice President Kamala Harris, who he called a “San Francisco liberal,” that it would drive voters to the polls.
“We know that we have the votes in Minnesota to win the race,” Mr. Vance insisted. “We’ve just got to make sure that some of those low-propensity voters actually get out there and get to the polls and vote for us.”
Mr. Vance, who arrived at the diner with his wife, Usha, and two of his children, spent roughly 20 minutes inside, where staff members greeted his son, Vivek, and his daughter, Mirabel, with chocolate milk.
After ordering six Chubby Checker cinnamon rolls and six Big Bopper caramel rolls, he dropped two $100 bills as a tip, then wrote “No Tax on Tips” on the receipt, a reference to Mr. Trump’s relatively recent campaign pledge to make tipped income tax-free.
Mr. Vance’s reception among a crowd that included many supporters invited by the campaign was considerably smoother than the criticism that has greeted his debut on the trail, though when he arrived, one man shouted, “Where’s Trump?”
In the nearly two weeks since Mr. Vance was tapped for the ticket, a number of his previous comments have surfaced that threaten the idea that he might help Mr. Trump’s appeal to women.
Mr. Vance, a first-term senator who rose to prominence after his book “Hillbilly Elegy” made him a media darling, has responded by increasingly echoing Mr. Trump’s frequent criticism of the news media.
Democrats and the media, he said, “are going to attack us, they’re going to lie about us. That is the price of admission to governing this country. And I think it’s a shame.”
Mr. Vance cast Ms. Harris as too liberal on immigration and abortion, and sought to tie her to Mr. Biden’s handling of the economy.
But, he insisted, he was having fun. “I’m doing great, man. I’m having a good time. My family’s here, they’re hopped up on chocolate milk. It’s going to be a wild plane ride.”
Maya C. Miller
Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, used CNN’s “State of the Union” to push back on criticism of Vice President Kamala Harris’s record on immigration issues border, turning a question about her role in border policy into a reminder of how former President Donald Trump derailed a carefully negotiated piece of bipartisan legislation so he could campaign on the issue.
“This is a problem that ultimately has to be solved by Congress,” Warren said. “So it’s really a question of do you trust someone actually been a prosecutor who has been there in a border state who works with Congress toward a solution? Or do you trust someone who says, you know, chaos is politically helpful to him?”
In a rare Sunday television interview, Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, called Senator JD Vance “more erratic and more extreme” than former President Donald Trump. On CBS’s “Face The Nation,” he leaned into messaging that Democrats have adopted in recent days, calling Vance “weird” and suggesting that Trump was likely regretting his choice of running mate.
“I’ll bet President Trump is sitting there scratching his head and wondering, why did I pick this guy?” Schumer said. “The choice may be one of the best things he ever did for Democrats.” The majority leader also gave his “candid assessment” that Democrats would not only hold their majority in the Senate, but could even pick up a few seats.
Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland and Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, interviewed on ABC this morning, both rejected the premise that Kamala Harris should consider prioritizing battleground-state residency in her choice of a running mate, saying they didn’t believe that would make a significant difference. Both blue-state governors have been floated as possible additions to the ticket.
Gov. Chris Sununu, Republican of New Hampshire, told ABC that polls wouldn’t reflect the true state of the race until after Labor Day, because Democrats are in a “honeymoon period.” He also brushed off Trump saying that Christians would never have to vote again if he’s elected. “I think he was just trying to make a hyperbolic point that it can be fixed as long as he gets back into office and all that,” he said. “But, you know, classic Trump right there.”
Sununu also acknowledged that Trump’s rhetorical gestures toward “unity” had not stuck. Asked whether Trump was missing an opportunity on that front, he said: “He’s missing it now, but hopefully they can get back on track.”
Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois criticized JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, for his past remarks disparaging “childless cat ladies.” “He apologized to cats, but he hasn’t apologized to women,” Pritzker said on ABC.
Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland said on ABC, regarding criticism of Kamala Harris’s positions on criminal justice: “First of all, it’s remarkably disingenuous to call someone who was a prosecutor for her entire career someone who is soft on crime, or someone who believed in ‘defund the police.’”
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, a contender to be Kamala Harris’s running mate, said on CNN that he liked the tactic of calling Donald Trump “ weird ” because arguments about him threatening democracy and women’s lives gave him “too much credit.” “I do believe all those things are real possibilities, but it gives him way too much power,” he said. “Listen to the guy. He’s talking about Hannibal Lecter and shocking sharks and just whatever crazy thing pops into his mind.”
When asked on CNN whether his policies in Minnesota, such as providing free meals for schoolchildren, could make him seem like “a big-government liberal” on a ticket with Harris, Walz replied: “What a monster! Kids are eating and having full bellies so they can go learn, and women are making their own health care decisions.”
Senator JD Vance of Ohio and his wife and children just arrived at a diner in Waite Park, Minn., where they were greeted by voters gathered by the Trump campaign. After asking if the dozens awaiting him in the parking lot had seen him at the rally yesterday, Vance asked how the crowd felt about Trump’s chances in Minnesota. “Turn it red,” someone shouted.
After spending about 20 minutes in the diner talking to patrons, Vance promised the crowd that he and Trump would turn Minnesota — which has voted for Democratic presidents since 1976 — red. Asked how, he told reporters that “the little bit of a bump” in popularity that Harris got this week would fade once voters learned about her record. And he said the campaign was focused on motivating people with a low propensity to vote in order to win here.
The Harris campaign said it had raised $200 million in the six days since President Biden withdrew from the race. That’s more than the Biden campaign raised during the full first quarter of the year. Roughly two-thirds of the total came from first-time donors — another sign that Vice President Kamala Harris’s ascent to the top of the ticket has galvanized Democrats.
Kellen Browning
In a surprising move, Donald Trump early on Sunday morning endorsed both leading Republicans in a race for a safely Republican House seat in Arizona ahead of a primary on Tuesday. Abe Hamadeh, who ran for attorney general in 2022 and already had Trump’s endorsement, and Blake Masters, who ran for Senate in 2022, were locked in a bitter fight for the seat, and now both have Trump’s backing. (J.D. Vance had previously endorsed Masters.)
Reporting from St. Cloud, Minn.
Early in his speech in Minnesota on Saturday night, former President Donald J. Trump made clear just how quickly he has jettisoned the appeal for national unity that he made after he survived an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania two weeks ago.
“I want to be nice,” Mr. Trump said. “They all say, ‘I think he’s changed. I think he’s changed since two weeks ago. Something affected him.’”
But to a cheering crowd of thousands, Mr. Trump quickly conceded the point. “No, I haven’t changed,” he said. “Maybe I’ve gotten worse. Because I get angry at the incompetence that I witness every single day.”
Propelled by the upheaval in the presidential race caused by President Biden’s decision to end his campaign six days ago, Mr. Trump on Saturday once more escalated his attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic nominee.
During a speech lasting roughly 90 minutes, Mr. Trump called Ms. Harris “evil,” “unhinged” and “sick.” He lied about her views on abortion in an effort to paint her as extreme, and he mocked her laugh and her demeanor.
“We have a brand-new victim,” Mr. Trump told thousands of people inside the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center in St. Cloud, Minn. “And, honestly, she’s a radical left lunatic.”
Mr. Trump spent considerable time attacking Ms. Harris’s views on public safety, taking aim at her efforts to portray herself as a “rule of law” prosecutor who contrasts starkly with Mr. Trump’s two impeachments, four criminal indictments and 34 felony convictions.
As he rallied some 60 miles from Minneapolis, where the killing of George Floyd in 2020 prompted a movement for criminal justice reform, Mr. Trump accused Ms. Harris of backing soft-on-crime policies, including a push to defund the police.
Ms. Harris told The New York Times in 2020 that she supported the “defund the police” movement’s idea of rethinking “what public safety looks like” and the size of police budgets. “But, no, we’re not going to get rid of the police,” she said. “We all have to be practical.”
But Mr. Trump, who throughout his third campaign for president has cloaked himself in support for law enforcement even as he grapples with criminal cases, used Ms. Harris’s past support of criminal justice reform to insist that he was “going to over-fund” the police.
Mr. Trump’s focus on public safety and his accusations that Democrats have allowed crime to run rampant in cities have been at the heart of his three political campaigns. His return to that message in Minnesota demonstrated how central his plea to law and order will most likely be to his effort to win over moderate and independent voters.
Mr. Trump and his team are eager to flip Minnesota, which last voted for a Republican president in 1972, but which also has a large population of working-class voters and union workers, groups that Mr. Trump drew support from in his previous elections. He lost the state by just 1.5 percentage points in 2016, only to lose it by a wider margin four years later.
Even as the race has changed dramatically, in St. Cloud, Mr. Trump drew on the same themes that have been animating his campaign all year: protectionist trade policies, an enormous crackdown on immigration and his relentless repetition of his false claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.
“Anybody that can cheat on elections like they cheat on elections, these are not stupid people,” Mr. Trump said of Democrats, even though there is no evidence to support his claims.
Still, Mr. Trump’s speech highlighted his struggle to adapt to a new opponent after years of preparing to face Mr. Biden. Though Mr. Biden is no longer on the Democratic ticket, Mr. Trump revived his derisive impressions of the president, caricaturing his gait and speech to suggest that Mr. Biden is not fit for office.
At one point in his speech, Mr. Trump appeared about to imitate Mr. Biden but then stopped himself. “I don’t want to waste a lot of time on it,” he said, “because it’s over now, right? He’s gone.” But he gloated: “I told you that he would be. I told you that he wasn’t going to make it.”
Sarafina Chitika, a spokeswoman for the Harris campaign, criticized Mr. Trump’s focus on Mr. Biden. “Tonight in Minnesota, a bitter, unhinged, 78-year-old convicted felon kept clinging to his lies about the 2020 election he lost being ‘rigged,’ rambled about his former opponent and golfing, and made excuses for why he’s afraid to debate Vice President Harris,” she said in a statement.
Saturday’s rally was Mr. Trump’s second joint rally with Senator JD Vance of Ohio since he chose Mr. Vance to be his running mate. Mr. Vance largely echoed Mr. Trump’s attacks, calling Ms. Harris overly liberal and a “card-carrying member of the San Francisco lunatic fringe.”
And Mr. Vance, whose rollout as the Republican vice-presidential nominee has not been wholly smooth , attacked the press for not being sufficiently critical of Ms. Harris.
“The media told us that Joe Biden was Abraham Lincoln,” Mr. Vance said. “And now the media tells us that Kamala Harris is Martin Luther King Jr.”
Chris Cameron
Reporting from Nashville
Former President Donald J. Trump vowed on Saturday that he would turn the United States into a “Bitcoin superpower" if returned to the White House, wielding much of the same rhetoric of persecution that he has applied to himself and his supporters to appeal to cryptocurrency enthusiasts who want to see less regulation.
“Sadly, we see the attacks on crypto,” Mr. Trump told a gathering of cryptocurrency fans in Nashville. “It’s a part of a much larger pattern that’s being carried out by the same left-wing fascists to weaponize government against any threat to their power. They’ve done it to me.”
He added that, if he were elected, “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s anti-crypto crusade will be over” and that “the moment I’m sworn in, the persecution stops and the weaponization ends against your industry.”
Mr. Trump has been competing with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent presidential candidate, for the support of cryptocurrency holders, and his remarks represented one of his most direct pitches yet.
Three large crypto firms have invested about $150 million to elect pro-crypto candidates in congressional races. In his speech, Mr. Trump promoted himself as “the first major party nominee in American history to accept donations in Bitcoin and crypto,” adding that his campaign has raised $25 million from cryptocurrency donations in the last two months.
The former president offered promises of sweeping deregulation and the establishment of a “strategic national Bitcoin stockpile.”
“I’m laying out my plan to ensure that the United States will be the crypto capital of the planet and the Bitcoin superpower of the world,” Mr. Trump said to raucous applause, adding that “America will once again be a nation that protects property rights, privacy, freedom of transaction, freedom of association and freedom of speech.”
Mr. Trump also said he would end efforts by the U.S. government to create a central bank digital currency , an initiative that cryptocurrency enthusiasts have long been critical of, and that he would establish a “Bitcoin and crypto presidential advisory council” to design new regulations “written by people who love your industry, not hate your industry.”
What exactly those new crypto-friendly regulations would look like was unclear, but Mr. Trump has attacked the Biden administration over moves that many in the industry have made plain they do not like. In response to concerns about increased risk and volatility in the crypto market , the Biden administration has taken steps toward regulating cryptocurrencies , while the Securities and Exchange Commission, led by Gary Gensler , has cracked down with fines and lawsuits after a prominent exchange suddenly collapsed and its founder was convicted of sweeping fraud charges.
Mr. Trump vowed in his speech to fire Mr. Gensler upon taking office, a promise that was met with energetic cheers.
“I didn’t know he was that unpopular,” Mr. Trump said after the crowd’s enthusiastic response. “Let me say it again: On day one, I will fire Gary Gensler.”
He also equated law enforcement seizing Bitcoin funds during criminal investigations to fascism and revived his “Pocahontas” insult for Senator Elizabeth Warren , Democrat of Massachusetts, who has pushed for tighter regulations for banking and other industries, including cryptocurrencies.
Attacking Ms. Harris, the likely Democratic nominee, Mr. Trump said she was “against crypto” and urged attendees to “get out and vote.”
“It should be no surprise that these same totalitarians are hell bent on crushing crypto,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris, adding “That’s where this country is going. It’s a fascist regime.”
Mr. Trump headed a large Republican delegation to the Bitcoin Conference. Four senators and three Senate candidates, all Republicans, spoke at the conference, as well as Vivek Ramaswamy, the former presidential candidate and billionaire who is a surrogate for the Trump campaign.
After Mr. Trump’s speech, Senator Cynthia Lummis, Republican of Wyoming, unveiled legislation for the stockpile that would require the U.S. government to buy one million Bitcoin over five years — roughly five percent of the total supply and valued at tens of billions of dollars if bought at current exchange rates.
Mr. Kennedy addressed the conference a day before Mr. Trump, suggesting that the former president’s support for cryptocurrencies was new and politically expedient. Mr. Kennedy denounced policies in the Trump administration that he said had restricted the potential of cryptocurrency and highlighted Mr. Trump’s remarks after he left office describing Bitcoin as a “scam against the dollar.”
“During his years in the White House, President Trump consistently spoke out against Bitcoin,” Mr. Kennedy said on Friday, criticizing Mr. Trump for not pardoning Ross W. Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road who was sentenced to life in prison for drug trafficking in 2015.
Because Silk Road had traded in Bitcoin , Mr. Ulbricht has become something of a martyr among cryptocurrency enthusiasts, and Mr. Trump promised on Saturday that he would commute his sentence if re-elected.
Mr. Ramaswamy, who spoke at the Bitcoin Conference after Mr. Trump, said in an interview that Mr. Kennedy’s speech “smacks to me of pandering,” adding that the best way for Mr. Kennedy to advance his platform would be to drop out and endorse Mr. Trump.
“If he has good ideas to be part of the future,” Mr. Ramaswamy said, endorsing Mr. Trump “would be a great way for him to have an impact on the country.”
Ken Bensinger
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has waded into one of the thorniest issues facing U.S. politics: deepfake videos.
On Friday night, Mr. Musk, the billionaire owner of the social media platform X, reposted an edited campaign video for Vice President Kamala Harris that appears to have been digitally manipulated to change the spot’s voice-over in a deceptive manner.
The video mimics Ms. Harris’s voice, but instead of using her words from the original ad, it has the vice president saying that President Biden is senile, that she does not “know the first thing about running the country” and that, as a woman and a person of color, she is the “ultimate diversity hire.”
In addition, the clip was edited to remove images of former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, and to add images of Mr. Biden. The original, unaltered ad , which the Harris campaign released on Thursday, is titled “We Choose Freedom.”
The version posted on X does not contain a disclaimer, though the account that first uploaded it Friday morning, @MrReaganUSA, noted in its post that the video was a “parody.” When Mr. Musk reposted the video on his own account eight hours later, he made no such disclosure, stating only, “This is amazing,” followed by a laughing emoji.
Mr. Musk’s post, which has since been viewed 98 million times, would seem to run afoul of X’s policies, which prohibit sharing “synthetic, manipulated or out-of-context media that may deceive or confuse people and lead to harm.”
Some observers quickly called out the post. “This is a violation of @X’s policies on synthetic media & misleading identities,” Alex Howard, a digital governance expert and the director of the Digital Democracy Project at the Demand Progress Education Fund, posted on the site on Saturday. “Are you going to retroactively change them to allow violations in an election year?”
Mr. Musk did not respond to a request for comment. The owner of the @MrReaganUSA account, who appears to be a conservative podcast host named Chris Kohls, also did not reply to a query. In a statement, the Harris campaign said, “The American people want the real freedom, opportunity and security Vice President Harris is offering; not the fake, manipulated lies of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.”
Pro-democracy groups have raised increasingly urgent alarms about deepfakes, a broad term for digital content that employs artificial intelligence and other technology to create audio, video or images that spread false information and could influence voter behavior.
In January, ahead of the New Hampshire Democratic primary, a robocall using A.I. technology to mimic Mr. Biden’s voice instructed voters not to participate in the election. The political consultant who orchestrated the calls was later indicted on state charges of impersonating a candidate and voter suppression. During this year’s Republican primary, deepfake videos depicting former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton endorsing Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, or announcing his early withdrawal from the race, were rampant.
In March, the Global Network on Extremism and Technology , an academic research initiative, said the technology was “already having a corrosive effect on the democratic process,” and the Brennan Center for Justice said the most significant new threat to elections was “the impact of generative A.I. on the information ecosystem.”
The Federal Election Campaign Act prohibits fraudulent misrepresentation of federal candidates or political parties , but the law, written in 1971, is ambiguous when it comes to modern technologies such as artificial intelligence.
Last August, the Federal Election Commission approved a rule-making petition from the watchdog group Public Citizen calling for the law to be amended to clarify that it “applies to deliberately deceptive Artificial Intelligence (AI) campaign advertisements.” That amendment was supported by the Democratic National Committee, as well as 52 Democratic members of Congress, but it was opposed by the Republican National Committee, which said that it was “not a proper vehicle for addressing this complex issue” and argued that it could violate the First Amendment.
The commission, which is evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans and is often split on matters of policy, has not yet voted on the proposal.
Social media platforms, for their part, are more decided.
Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, requires that “manipulated media” be labeled as such and that context be appended to the post. In March, Google, which owns YouTube, announced a policy requiring users posting videos to disclose when “content a viewer could easily mistake for a real person, place, scene or event” is “made with altered or synthetic media, including generative A.I.”
X’s current policy was instituted in April 2023 , well after Mr. Musk took over. It defines misleading media as content that is “significantly and deceptively altered, manipulated or fabricated” and that is “likely to result in widespread confusion on public issues.” Such content, the policy states, must either be labeled or removed.
In the past, Mr. Musk has said that X’s “Community Notes” feature should be used to alert the public to possible misleading information . On Friday night, Community Notes users, a select group that proposes and votes on such notices, debated whether to add one to Mr. Musk’s post.
”This is an AI generated video of Vice President Kamala Harris using audio of clips that were never actually stated by the VP,” read one suggested Community Note. “Videos like this are dangerous to those who can not decipher AI generated content from reality.”
At least seven notes were proposed, but none had been added by Saturday evening to Mr. Musk’s post or the original post, and neither post has been removed from the site. Though there have been numerous posts on X by third parties questioning his amplification of a deepfake video, Mr. Musk, who frequently replies directly to critics on the site, has so far remained silent on the issue.
With 191 million followers, Mr. Musk is the most influential voice on the platform and, arguably, on all of social media, and he is able to make almost any content go viral simply by reposting it.
Two weeks ago, he endorsed Mr. Trump in a post on X shortly after the presumptive Republican nominee was shot in the ear in an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. That post has been viewed 218 million times.
In a post on Saturday afternoon, Mr. Musk used his account to boost a post by an anonymous user that said “wokeness is a threat to civilization.” Within six minutes, it had already been viewed 481,000 times.
Ryan Mac contributed reporting.
Jay Senter and Neil Vigdor
Jay Senter reported from St. Paul, Minn.
In a potential audition to be Kamala Harris’s running mate , Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota on Saturday cast former President Donald J. Trump and his vice-presidential pick, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, as a dangerous combination before their campaign visit to the state later in the day.
“The fascists depend on us going back, but we’re not afraid of weird people,” Mr. Walz said during an event organized by the Harris campaign. “We’re a little bit creeped out, but we’re not afraid.”
Speaking to a crowd of about 200 people packed into the Saint Paul Labor Center, an energetic Mr. Walz mocked Mr. Trump’s selection of Mr. Vance as his running mate.
“They went out, you know — because he’s a TV guy — they go out and try to do this central casting: ‘Oh, we’ll get this guy who wrote a book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” you know,’” he said, referring to Mr. Vance’s best-selling memoir, “because all my hillbilly relatives went to Yale and became, you know, venture capitalists.”
The rally, which also featured Senator Amy Klobuchar and Representative Betty McCollum, both Democrats of Minnesota, took place just hours before Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance were scheduled to headline their own rally in St. Cloud, a city of about 70,000 that narrowly went for Mr. Trump in 2016 but that President Biden won by a comfortable margin in 2020.
“The nation found out what we’ve all known in Minnesota: These guys are just weird,” Mr. Walz said of the Republican ticket, echoing a message he debuted on MSNBC this week and that the Harris campaign itself has begun to test drive .
Polling before Mr. Biden’s exit from the race six days ago had given Republican organizers hope that Minnesota, which has not supported a Republican nominee since Richard Nixon in 1972, could be in play in November. Mr. Walz and the other speakers sought to tamp down that notion on Saturday by focusing on two polls released on Friday that showed Ms. Harris leading Mr. Trump in the state.
“He’s here today, in the state of hockey, to complete his trifecta,” Mr. Walz said of Mr. Trump. “He lost in ’16. He lost in ’20. He loses in ’24.”
Asked about a report from Bloomberg News suggesting that he was among three finalists being considered to be Ms. Harris’s running mate, Mr. Walz told reporters that he was “honored to be in this conversation” and that he was excited by the energy that Ms. Harris’s choice was bringing to the Democratic Party.
“I love them all,” he said of the other vice-presidential contenders . “But this is the vice president’s pick. And I tell you what, I trust her judgment.”
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If you use the author's name in your lead-in to the quote, you just need to provide the year in parentheses: According to Luz Lopez, "the green grass symbolizes a fresh start for Lia (24).". 2. Include the author's last name, the year, and the page number for APA format. Write the author's name, then put a comma.
Citing a quote in APA Style. To cite a direct quote in APA, you must include the author's last name, the year, and a page number, all separated by commas. If the quote appears on a single page, use "p."; if it spans a page range, use "pp.". An APA in-text citation can be parenthetical or narrative.
Required fields are marked *. How to use quotes in an essay: (1) Avoid Long Quotes, (2) Quotes should be less than 1 sentence long, (3) Match Quotes with Explanations and Examples, (4) Use Max. 2 Quotes for 1500 words, (5) Use page numbers when Citing Quotes, (6) Don't Italicize Quotes, (7) Avoid quotes inside quotes.
Below are four guidelines for setting up and following up quotations. In illustrating these four steps, we'll use as our example, Franklin Roosevelt's famous quotation, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.". 1. Provide context for each quotation. Do not rely on quotations to tell your story for you.
Step 6: Explain the Quote. Explain the significance of the quote in your own words. This will help the reader understand how the quote supports your argument. Example: Jane Doe's quote highlights the urgency of addressing climate change as it poses a significant threat to human survival.
5. Hook your reader. Think of a quotation as a "hook" that will get your reader's attention and make her want to read more of your paper. The well-executed quotation is one way to draw your reader in to your essay. [2] 6. Ensure that the quotation contributes to your essay.
A good quotation should do one or more of the following: Make an opening impact on the reader. Build credibility for your essay. Add humor. Make the essay more interesting. Close the essay with a point to ponder upon. If the quotation does not meet a few of these objectives, then it is of little value.
A Quotation or Quote is a word-for-word extract of someone else's words. There are two types of quotes: direct and indirect. · Direct quote - is when the words of an author are used by someone else. · Indirect quote - is when the ideas of an author are restated, this is also known as paraphrasing.
A well-chosen quote can make an article or essay more engaging, invoking curiosity or emphasizing a point. Paying Homage: Quoting acknowledges the original creators of content. It's a form of respect, indicating that their words have made an impact and are deemed worthy of repetition and recognition. ... Do use brackets to enclose inserted ...
Slashes and Brackets. When you are quoting poetry, use a slash ( / ) to mark a line break. Example: "Let me not to the marriage of true minds / Admit impediments" (1-2). Use square brackets to add a word, change a pronoun, or change a verb tense in the quote. Original quote: "It's my duty as a knight to sample all the peril I can.".
The full-sentence introduction to a block quotation helps demonstrate your grasp of the source material, and it adds analytical depth to your essay. But the introduction alone is not enough. Long quotations almost invariably need to be followed by extended analysis. Never allow the quotation to do your work for you.
3. Interject the Author's Name into the Middle of the Quote. "In 2005, less than 10% of Johnson & Roe's employees reported their political affiliation," Yang (2007) reports, "but more than 50% reporteddiscussing politics with their colleagues.". Phrases & Words to Introduce Quotes. Phrases to Introduce the Quote.
Citing a quote in APA Style. To cite a direct quote in APA, you must include the author's last name, the year, and a page number, all separated by commas. If the quote appears on a single page, use 'p.'; if it spans a page range, use 'pp.'. An APA in-text citation can be parenthetical or narrative.
Important guidelines. When integrating a source into your paper, remember to use these three important components: Introductory phrase to the source material: mention the author, date, or any other relevant information when introducing a quote or paraphrase. Source material: a direct quote, paraphrase, or summary with proper citation.
To introduce a quote in an essay, don't forget to include author's last name and page number (MLA) or author, date, and page number (APA) in your citation. Shown below are some possible ways to introduce quotations. The examples use MLA format. Use A Full Sentence Followed by A Colon To Introduce A Quotation Examples: The setting emphasizes ...
when an author has said something memorably or succinctly, or. when you want to respond to exact wording (e.g., something someone said). Instructors, programs, editors, and publishers may establish limits on the use of direct quotations. Consult your instructor or editor if you are concerned that you may have too much quoted material in your paper.
Incorporating quotes into your work should feel easy. Introduce the one you quote, and use signal phrases for smooth transitions. Mix your comments with the cited content. Use strategic punctuation (colons, semicolons, or ellipses) and insert quotes in an essay. Establish the reliability of the source.
Revised on November 29, 2022 by Jack Caulfield. Quotation marks (also known as quotes or inverted commas) are used to indicate direct speech and quotations. In academic writing, you need to use quotation marks when you quote a source. This includes quotes from published works and primary data such as interviews.
Quotes should always be cited (and indicated with quotation marks), and you should include a page number indicating where in the source the quote can be found. Example: Quote with APA Style in-text citation. Evolution is a gradual process that "can act only by very short and slow steps" (Darwin, 1859, p. 510).
1. Use in-text citations for quotes. Place parentheses with the proper citation inside after directly after quoted material. APA style uses the author-date message.This means that if you write the name of an author you are quoting, you must follow that name with the year of publication in parentheses.
2. Type short quotations of three lines or less in the text of your essay. Insert a slash with a space on each side to separate the lines of the poem. Type the lines verbatim as they appear in the poem--do not paraphrase. [2] Capitalize the first letter of each new line of poetry.
Starting an essay with a quote is more challenging than picking some excellent words from a famous person. It's about finding words that make people want to read more. You may have tried before and ended up with something that didn't sound very serious. Don't worry; lots of people have this issue. This article will help you choose and use the ...
A block quote is a long quotation, set on a new line and indented to create a separate block of text. No quotation marks are used. You have to use a block quote when quoting more than around 40 words from a source. In APA and MLA styles, you indent block quotes 0.5 inches from the left, and add an in-text citation after the period. Some other ...
"They went out, you know — because he's a TV guy — they go out and try to do this central casting: 'Oh, we'll get this guy who wrote a book, "Hillbilly Elegy," you know,'" he ...