Today marks both 100 days from Election Day and one week since the landscape of the 2024 election changed dramatically following President Joe Biden's stunning decision to withdraw from the race and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris in his place. The shakeup has had a profound impact on both sides of the campaign, reinvigorating Democrats, who have shattered records in donor support, and sparking panic and anger among Republicans. Making matters worse this week, the Trump-Vance campaign suffered a deluge of bad press coverage stemming from the resurfacing of a number of Sen. JD Vance's bizarre, ultraconservative statements, particularly his 2021 comment about Harris and other "childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives" who he claims are running the country. Meanwhile, with just over three weeks until the Democratic National Convention, Harris has moved swiftly to pick up delegates and endorsements this week, putting her on track to secure the nomination at the convention in Chicago. Her deadline to pick her vice presidential nominee is August 7. Amidst the campaigning, the vice president also took time to reach out to the family of Sonya Massey, a Black woman in Illinois who was fatally shot by police after she called them for help.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered an impassioned speech to Congress on Wednesday in which he emphasized the importance of the U.S.-Israel relationship, while protesters inside the House chamber and thousands gathered outside the Capitol. President Biden, Vice President Harris and former President Trump all met separately with Netanyahu over the course of the week to discuss the future of Israel's war in Gaza, an issue that is likely to factor into foreign policy conversations around the upcoming election.
In response to bipartisan calls to step down, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned on Tuesday after conceding the attempted assassination of Trump represented a "failure" for the agency, NBC News reported. During a House hearing on the incident, Cheatle took "full responsibility" for the security lapse, describing it as the agency's "most significant operational failure" in decades. In other accountability news, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday became the first member of the Supreme Court to publicly call for beefing up its new ethics code by adding a way to enforce it.
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