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Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, will begin a two-day bus tour of Georgia on Wednesday, traveling through rural areas in the south of the state and culminating in a major rally in the coastal city of Savannah.

Democrats will meet with supporters, campaign staff, small business owners and voters.

Meanwhile, special counsel Jack Smith has filed a new indictment against Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The indictment retains the same criminal charges but narrows the allegations against him after the Supreme Court granted former presidents broad immunity. The new indictment, filed Tuesday, removes a section of the indictment that accused Trump of attempting to use the Justice Department's law enforcement powers to overturn his election defeat.

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Harris and Walz start two-day bus tour in Georgia

Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, will begin a two-day bus tour of Georgia on Wednesday, traveling through rural areas in the south of the state and culminating in a major rally in the coastal city of Savannah.

Democrats will meet with supporters, campaign staff, small business owners and voters. The party is convinced that to win the crucial swing state in November against Republican Donald Trump, it needs more than Atlanta and the suburbs that pledged to Joe Biden in 2020, and that it must also make progress, however small, in Republican strongholds.

The trip to Georgia is a make-up visit for earlier this month, when the duo was scheduled to unveil the new Democratic slate on a seven-state swing tour. The North Carolina and Georgia portions of the trip were canceled when Tropical Storm Debby devastated the region.

In addition to the bus tour and rally on Thursday, Harris and Walz will sit down with CNN anchor Dana Bash for their first joint interview. The interview will air Thursday evening.

Vance criticizes Harris for interview with her vice president

Republican Senator JD Vance on Wednesday sharply criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for bringing her running mate to her first television interview since President Joe Biden abandoned his re-election bid.

Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president, said on Wisconsin's conservative talk radio that Harris' CNN interview with her running mate and Gov. Tim Walz was like a teenager bringing his mom or dad to his first job interview.

“That's kind of the feeling she's giving off,” Vance said on WISN-AM. “Kamala Harris is just a little too nervous, a little too excited about this interview. So she's going to bring Tim Walz with her to help her and make sure that if she gets in trouble, he can bail her out.”

Vance called Walz Harris' “comrade in arms.”

“She can't talk about her past,” Vance said. “But she can use Tim Walz as a lifeline. … It's a bold strategy to hide from the American people, but that's exactly what she's doing.”

Vance's interview took place ahead of a scheduled campaign appearance Wednesday evening in De Pere, Wisconsin.

Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will not appear on the ballot in Maine

Kennedy said last week he would withdraw from the race in states where he could be seen as a spoiler candidate. He also supported former President Donald Trump's attempt to return to office.

Maine election officials said Wednesday that Kennedy met the deadline to withdraw from the state's election.

Maine is a reliably Democratic state in presidential elections, but it is also one of two states that apportion electoral votes by congressional district. Trump has won one electoral vote in the rural 2nd Congressional District in the last two elections.

This vote in the 2nd District could result in a close presidential election. Maine also uses ranked-choice voting in presidential elections, further complicating the state's election outcome.

New Harris ad campaign aims to link Trump to Heritage Foundation's Project 2025

Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign team says it is launching a new advertising campaign that aims to link former President Donald Trump with the conservative “Project 2025,” from which he sought to distance himself.

The first ad claims Trump wants to “control voters,” juxtaposing Trump quotes with ominous screenshots of the plan. The ad is part of Harris' $370 million digital and TV ad booking between Labor Day and Election Day.

The commercial is to be broadcast in the swing states and in the television area around Trump's house in Palm Beach, Florida – a practice that Trump's campaign team has also been using for a while. It is apparently an attempt to influence the former president's social media behavior.

Led by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, Project 2025 is a detailed, 920-page manual for governing under the next Republican administration that calls for, among other things, firing thousands of civil servants and replacing them with Trump loyalists and revoking the Food and Drug Administration's approval of abortion drugs.

Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, posting on social media that he had not seen the plan and had “no idea who is responsible for it, and unlike our very well-received Republican program, he had nothing to do with it.”

Having a family is expensive. This is what Harris and Trump said about cutting costs

The high costs of child and elderly care have pushed women out of the workforce, ruined family finances and left professional caregivers in low-paying jobs – all while slowing economic growth.

That families are suffering is not up for debate. With the economy increasingly front and center in this presidential election, the Democratic and Republican candidates have outlined cost-cutting proposals that reveal their differing views on the family.

On this point, the two candidate lists have one thing in common: Both presidential candidates – and their running mates – have at some point spoken out in favor of expanding the child tax credit.

Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris has indicated she wants to build on the ambitions of outgoing President Joe Biden's administration, which sought to pour billions of taxpayer dollars into making child care and home care more affordable for older and disabled adults. She has not worked any of those plans into a formal policy program. But in a speech earlier this month, she said her vision includes an increase in the child tax credit.

Former Republican President Donald Trump has deflected questions about how he would make child care more affordable, despite addressing the issue during his own time in office. His running mate, Senator JD Vance, has a long history of pushing policies that would encourage Americans to start families.

The election of Kamala Harris would be a first. Since 1836, only an incumbent vice president has been elected president.

As Vice President Kamala Harris begins her fall campaign for the White House, she can look to history and hope for better luck than others in her position who have tried the same thing.

Since 1836, only one sitting Vice President, George HW Bush in 1988, has been elected to the White House.

Those who tried and failed included Richard Nixon in 1960, Hubert Humphrey in 1968 and Al Gore in 2000. All three lost in close elections marked by issues ranging from war and scandal to crime and the intricacies of televised debates. But for each vice president, two other factors proved crucial: whether the incumbent president was popular and whether the president and vice president had a productive relationship.