Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024

Morning Announcements

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Politics, Daily News, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Today’s Headlines: Vice President Kamala Harris is poised to become the Democratic nominee, with endorsements from key figures such as Nancy Pelosi, the Progressive Caucus PAC, and Governors JB Pritzker and Gretchen Whitmer. Harris has secured widespread support and significant delegate backing, with $240 million raised since President Biden's withdrawal. The Democratic National Committee will formally select the nominee before August 7th, and Harris's vice-presidential pick is still pending. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle faced bipartisan scrutiny from the House Oversight Committee over security failures leading to the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Cheatle declined to answer many questions, prompting calls for her resignation. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in the U.S. to address Congress and meet with President Biden and other leaders. Biden seeks to end the Israel-Hamas war and secure the release of hostages in Gaza. Netanyahu has also requested a meeting with Donald Trump, which is pending. Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode: WA Post: Election 2024 live updates: Biden makes first public remarks encouraging Harris since dropping out WA Post: Secret Service director faces bipartisan Congressional calls to resign Politico: Netanyahu requested meeting with Trump this week during US visit Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Bridget Schwartz and edited by Grace Hernandez-Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Tuesday, July 23rd, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented by Bech's media.
0:07.0	I'm your host Sammy Sage and the morning announcements is your daily five minute breakdown of the headlines
0:11.9	that isn't afraid to take aside and
0:13.6	roast the most consequential reality show there is, our government.
0:17.3	Yesterday was the first day of the rest of the Democrats lives with the likelihood of
0:24.8	Vice President Comblin Harris becoming the nominee looking all but certain at this
0:28.4	point. She received more key endorsements from Nancy Pelosi, the Progressive Caucus Pack, and the AFL CIO, as well as
0:35.3	from potential challengers, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, and Michigan Governor Gretchen
0:39.4	Whitmer, who announced that she will be co-chair of Harris's campaign.
0:43.2	Even Joe Manchin got his little temper tantrum out of his system
0:46.3	and said he won't seek the nomination.
0:48.6	Re-registering as a Democrat was probably too much work to do from his house vote.
0:53.0	As of this recording, the Vice President has earned the endorsements of 100% of Democratic governors,
0:58.0	87% of Democratic senators, and 84% of House representatives, and has clinched over 1,500 state delegates.
1:05.9	Sources close to her campaign say that they expect to reach the necessary delegate count by Wednesday,
1:10.8	aka tomorrow.
1:12.3	There has also been a total of 240 million
1:15.0	dollars raised since President Biden dropped out and yesterday BP Harris
1:19.0	traveled to Wilmington Delaware to the Biden campaign
1:21.3	headquarters where she thanked the
1:22.8	president, the campaign staff, and said that the current campaign manager Jen O'Malley
1:27.0	Dylan will take over the Harris-For-President campaign. And for our last Harris
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