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rewrite this title Bernie Sanders’ tough love for the Harris campaign

Summarize this content to 100 words Last night at the Democratic National Convention, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders urged Americans to support Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign for the presidency. Simple enough? Well, maybe not. Any astute observer knows that Sanders has a notoriously testy relationship with the Democratic establishment. And he’s been sparing in his words of praise for Harris’ campaign so far. Meanwhile, the constituencies where Sanders has polled
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rewrite this title Harris poaches White House aides to bolster campaign communications team

Summarize this content to 100 words Kamala Harris’ campaign is bolstering its communications team, bringing on two seasoned operatives from the White House for the final three-month sprint. Ian Sams, the White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations, will join Harris’ campaign in a senior spokesperson role, according to two sources familiar with the moves granted anonymity to discuss personnel matters. And principal deputy White House communications director Kristen Orthman
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rewrite this title Kamala Harris’ sorority forms its own PAC

Summarize this content to 100 words Alpha Kappa Alpha, the historically Black sorority that counts Vice President Kamala Harris as one of its most notable alumni, has created a political action committee, an unusual venture by a sorority rallying around the chance to send one of its own to the White House. AKA is part of a collective of the country’s oldest and most prestigious sororities and fraternities known as
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rewrite this title Kamala Harris united Democrats. Her campaign still has fractures.

Summarize this content to 100 words Kamala Harris’ campaign is navigating internal tensions as a team of new senior strategists take hold of an operation largely staffed by people hired when Joe Biden was the Democratic nominee, according to six people, including aides familiar with the dynamics. Longtime Harris loyalists are also chafing at the continuing presence of some Biden aides known for disparaging the vice president, three of the
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rewrite this title The other Black politician who says he was with Trump in that near-fatal chopper crash

Summarize this content to 100 words The man who almost crashed in a helicopter with Donald Trump told POLITICO Trump confused him with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown — despite the former president’s repeated insistence it was Brown. It was Nate Holden, a former city councilmember and state senator from Los Angeles, who said in an exclusive interview late Friday that he remembers the near-death experience well. He and
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rewrite this title Harris campaign tweaks Walz biography amid scrutiny of military credentials

Summarize this content to 100 words Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign updated its online biography of running mate Tim Walz’s military service amid Republican efforts to question his record in the Army National Guard. On its website, the Harris campaign axed a reference to Walz as a “retired command sergeant major” and now says that he once served at the command sergeant major rank — a small change that nonetheless reflects