CNN is live from Chicago as Democrats unite to offer their support for their new nominee,

Vice President Kamil Harris, and her running mate Governor Tim Walls.

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Hello from CNN, I'm Joe Beck, with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, August 13th.

Now that the 2024 presidential race is looking extremely tight,

Donald Trump and Carmelah Harris are focusing in on policy and trying to get voters attention.

Last night former President Trump made a return to X after not posting on the site for nearly

a year and sat down with its owner Elon Musk to talk about his campaign.

Not all endorsements to mean that much to be honest, your endorsement meant a lot.

Harris is scheduled to be back on the campaign trail on Thursday, where she's expected to be joined by President

Joe Biden.

CNN's Kristen Holmes says this is their first joint campaign appearance since Biden

announced he was dropping out of the race.

Now it's going to be interesting to watch how Kamala Harris navigates this because on one hand she of course

is going to want to stand next to the man who essentially put her at the top of the ticket who made her vice president but

yet at the same time she has already tried to distance herself from some of his more unpopular

policy decisions particularly around immigration or inflation and crime. We also know Republicans are

seeking to tie her to Joe Biden in a negative way, so she's really going to have to walk this fine

line.

Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, is promising to kick Ukrainian troops out of his country.

Keeves says its forces now control nearly 400 square miles of Russian territory, after a surprise cross-border incursion last week.

But at a meeting with top officials yesterday, Putin said he believed the operation had more to do with

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