Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz spoke to union firefighters Wednesday in Boston, imploring them that Vice President Kamala Harris, not former President Donald Trump, will fight for their rights to collectively bargain, protect pensions and maintain funding for federal fire fighting resources.

Republican Gov. Brian Kemp said "the road to the White House is going to run through Georgia." He called Trump's tirade against the governor a "dustup from two or three weeks ago."

There is a major divide between the positive economic outlook pushed by "ivory tower" economists and the dour picture confronting everyday Americans at the grocery counter and gas pump, posing a challenge for Vice President Kamala Harris as she contends with the pros and cons of so-called "Bidenomics," a leading trade group CEO told The Washington Times.

Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign on Wednesday launched a massive ad buy aimed at tying former President Donald Trump to Project 2025, a set of conservative policy proposals Democrats say threatens abortion rights, public education and more.

The Afghan evacuee experiment is still very real -- both for the evacuees and the communities that welcome them. More are still trickling in, though it's a fraction of the rushed days of late 2021, when they arrived by the tens of thousands, hastily whisked out of Kabul, sent to U.S. military bases and then released into communities to try to find their way.

The high cost of caring for children and the elderly has forced women out of the workforce, devastated family finances and left professional caretakers in low-wage jobs - all while slowing economic growth.

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.