Vice President Kamala Harris stated that “now is the time” for a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

During a rally in Arizona on Friday, Harris addressed protesters in the crowd and spoke about how she and President Joe Biden were “working around the clock every day” to get a ceasefire deal done between Israel and Hamas.

“So, let me say, I have been clear,” Harris told the crowd. “Now is the time to get a ceasefire deal and get the hostage deal done. Now is the time, and the president and I are working around the clock every day to get that ceasefire deal done and bring the hostages home.”

Kamala Harris at a rally in Glendale, Arizona, to pro-Palestinian protestors: “Now is the time to get a ceasefire deal and get the hostage deal done.” pic.twitter.com/aGpXf2Vdnx

— jay (@dehydratedjay) August 10, 2024

The Biden administration has been placing increased pressure on Israel to agree to a ceasefire with Hamas since it began a military offensive operation in Gaza to destroy Hamas.

Israel’s military offensive operation in the Hamas-controlled territory of Gaza came after Hamas terrorists launched a land, sea, and air invasion on Israel, leaving 1,200 people dead and more than 250 people taken as hostages.

After the recent death of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran, Biden said Haniyeh’s death was “not helpful” in attempting to negotiate a ceasefire.

In November, Israel and Hamas agreed to a temporary pause in fighting, during which time several hostages taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023, were released. Hamas ended up breaking the week-long truce by launching rockets toward Israel.

As Breitbart News previously reported, Biden announced in May a three-part ceasefire deal, which included a “six-week ceasefire in which some hostages would be released, including the five American hostages.”

Under the deal, Israel would also release Palestinian prisoners, and negotiations between Israel and Hamas would begin regarding a permanent ceasefire. The terms of the ceasefire deal were “identical” to ones that had previously been discussed.

Harris has previously criticized Israel for “the scale of human suffering” taking place in Gaza while adding that Israel has a right to defend itself.

In recent remarks, Harris suggested that she would be willing to talk about an arms embargo on Israel with leaders from the Uncommitted National Movement. The pro-Palestinian group has previously encouraged voters to withhold casting their votes for Biden in response to his stance on Israel.

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Former President Donald Trump’s plane was diverted to Billings, Montana, due to a reported “mechanical issue” ahead of his rally in Bozeman.

Staff at Billings Logan International Airport confirmed that the former president had landed in Billings, though Trump had been scheduled to land in Bozeman, according to the Washington Post.

The drive from Billings to Bozeman is about two hours.

A spokesperson from the airport confirmed to the New York Post that Trump’s “aircraft had mechanical issues,” adding that the former president would fly on a private jet to Bozeman.

🚨 #BREAKING: President Trump’s plane has diverted to Billings, MT rather than Bozeman due to a “mechanical issue,” according to KTVH.

Secret Service is reportedly doing a “sweep” of the airport before Trump boards another private plane to Bozeman.

This stuff legitimately has… pic.twitter.com/fdZpikV8lT

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 9, 2024

“I just landed in a really beautiful place, Montana,” Trump said in a video posted to Truth Social. “So beautiful flying over and you just look down, and that’s the way it’s supposed to be. “But, we have a very high rating in Montana. We have a lot of popularity, I like them, they like me.”

Trump added that he was in Montana “to do some fundraisers” and to support Montana Republican Senate candidate Tim Sheehy.

Sheehy is vying for Montana Sen. Jon Tester’s (D) seat. In a recent Emerson College/the Hill poll, Sheehy was reported to have a two-point advantage over Tester, 48 percent to 46 percent.

“We think he’s going to do really well,” Trump added. “We’re going to have a rally. And, it’ll be a lot of fun.”

The former president is scheduled to speak from Montana State University around 8:00 p.m. MT, according to Fox News.

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Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) “misspoke” when claiming he carried weapons “in war,” the Harris campaign claimed Friday night after struggling to move past four difficult days of escalating stolen valor controversies.

Walz has suggested on multiple occasions that he carried weapons into war — including in a video shared by the Harris campaign — despite having never served in a combat.

“We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, are only carried in war,” Walz said in a 2018 video advocating gun control. That clip was shared Tuesday by the Harris campaign.

Gov. @Tim_Walz: I spent 25 years in the Army and I hunt. I’ve been voting for common sense legislation that protects the Second Amendment, but we can do background checks. We can research the impacts of gun violence. We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war,… pic.twitter.com/3IVaXi2RP2

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 6, 2024

Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), Donald Trump’s running mate who served as a Marine in a public affairs role in a combat zone during the Iraq War, has led Republicans in calling out Walz for making numerous false claims regarding his military service.

“Governor Walz would never insult or undermine any American’s service to this country — in fact, he thanks Senator Vance for putting his life on the line for our country. It’s the American way,” an anonymous Harris campaign spokesperson said in a statement Friday, NBC reports.

The anonymous spokesperson addd:

In making the case for why weapons of war should never be on our streets or in our classrooms, the Governor misspoke. He did handle weapons of war and believes strongly that only military members trained to carry those deadly weapons should have access to them, unlike Donald Trump and JD Vance who prioritize the gun lobby over our children.

Harris – in one of her first gaggles since running for president – struggled to give a straight response on Thursday when asked about the stolen valor accusations against her running mate.

“I praise anyone who has presented themselves to serve our country, and I think that we all should,” Harris carefully said.

The Trump campaign continues to hammer Harris and Walz for avoiding the media and dodging questions about Walz’s controversies – and Harris’s own record, preferring to use anonymous spokespersons to answer limited media questions.

Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in an email to NBC: “Why won’t Tim Walz address his lies himself? Why does he need to send out lowly spokespeople to clean up his own mess?”

Friday is the latest damage control by the Harris campaign to clean up Walz’s past claims regarding his military service.

The campaign Thursday altered its official website’s biography of Walz to remove its reference to him as a “retired command sergeant major” and instead note he once served at the command sergeant major rank, Politico reported.

As Breitbart’s Kristina Wong reported, “[Walz] has claimed that he is a retired command sergeant major, but his rank was reduced to master sergeant since he did not finish the requirements to retire as a command sergeant major. Despite this, he has boasted about retiring as a command sergeant major on multiple occasions.”

Walz’s official campaign bio now describes him “rising to the rank of Command Sergeant Major” but does not mention his rank was reduced before retirement.

And as Wong reported Thursday, “There are also accusations by veterans who served with Walz that he — as the top enlisted soldier in his unit — abandoned them right as they were preparing to deploy to Iraq at the peak of the war.”

Veterans serving with Walz have stepped forward to say that Walz knew he would have been deployed to Iraq with his unit had he not retired.

Coffin meet last nail

CSM Julin of Walz’s higher HQ says Walz knew of upcoming deployment in Fall 2004

Walz told him in Feb 2005 he would deploy with them

Otherwise they would have replaced him so someone else could team build

Walz dodge the deployment & screwed troops
Done pic.twitter.com/iuX2fIF8M3

— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) August 9, 2024

In March 2005, after Walz had declared his intent to run for Congress, his campaign issued a press release saying in part “As Command Sergeant Major I have a responsibility not only to ready my battalion for Iraq, but also to serve if called on. I am dedicated to serving my country to the best of my ability, whether that is in Washington DC or in Iraq.”

Despite this statement, Walz retired two months later.

Bradley Jaye is a Capitol Hill Correspondent for Breitbart News. Follow him on X/Twitter at @BradleyAJaye.

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Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) is ready to put his “political machine” behind former President Donald Trump in Georgia, according to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

Graham told Fox News’s Hannity Thursday night that he attended a fundraiser in Atlanta on Wednesday, where Kemp vowed to aid Trump in the Peach State against Vice President Kamala Harris.

How badly do I want Republicans to win in November?

I just said “Go Dawgs” on live television!

We are going to win Georgia! pic.twitter.com/3ZWna09lyt

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) August 9, 2024

“When [Kemp] spoke, the first thing out of his mouth, he looked at everybody in the room and said, ‘I want Donald Trump to win Georgia. I’m all in for Donald Trump. I’m going to give him my political machine,’” Graham recounted

“I’ve got a great ground game, Imma put money behind it, and we’re going to win Georgia for Trump because Harris is a disaster for Georgia,” Kemp added, according to Graham.

Wednesday’s fundraiser, which was for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, was held at former Sen. Kelly Loefler’s (R-GA) home. Graham said the NRSC raised $1,000,000 during the event.

“I’ve never felt better about Georgia,” Graham noted to host Sean Hannity.

In 2016, Trump carried Georgia over twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton by 5.1 percentage points. However, in 2020, Trump narrowly lost to Biden by less than a quarter of one percent.

The 2022 midterms saw a very close U.S. Senate race between Sen. Raphael Warnock and Heisman Trophy-winning football player Herschel Walker. The election went to a run-off as Warnock and Walker both failed to break the 50 percent threshold at 49.44 percent and 48.49 percent, respectively. Warnock ultimately won the runoff.

However, Kemp prevailed in the gubernatorial race in 2022 and by a comfortable margin. Kemp took 53.4 percent of the vote against Democrat Stacey Abrams at 45.9 percent.

As of Friday afternoon, FveThirtyEight’s polling average showed Trump with a narrow edge over Harris in the peach state. He registered at 45.8 percent, and she sat at 45.2 percent.

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On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” co-host Brianna Keilar — who, on Thursday, stated that 2024 Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance’s (R-OH) actual title “kind of gives you a different impression” that he saw combat and thus, he might be “an imperfect messenger” to criticize 2024 Democratic vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz (D) — said that “the Trump campaign is swiftboating Tim Walz. Attacks on JD Vance’s service are also offensive.” And “These kinds of attacks from the left or the right diminish the service of so many others who have served honorably, who sacrifice time away from family, who put themselves in harm’s way, because the military is made largely of JD Vances and Tim Walzs.”

Keilar said, “Informed observers connected to politics or the military, myself included, have noted that the Trump campaign is swiftboating Tim Walz. Attacks on JD Vance’s service are also offensive. JD Vance served honorably in Iraq, a combat zone, where anything can happen and frequently does. As he said in his book, he was ‘lucky to escape any real fighting.’ That doesn’t make his service less than. Lucky he says, and luck is often what makes the difference in a combat zone or even a training mission that today is not your day. In a country where so few shoulder the burden, military service should not be a liability. It should be an asset. And despite our recent years as a country at war, many servicemembers haven’t seen combat. That doesn’t make them or their service less admirable or less necessary, nor does retiring from the National Guard after 24 years. These kinds of attacks from the left or the right diminish the service of so many others who have served honorably, who sacrifice time away from family, who put themselves in harm’s way, because the military is made largely of JD Vances and Tim Walzs. There are two veterans on these presidential tickets, two enlisted veterans at that. They have unique insight into what America’s men and women in the armed forces and their families have been through and need, and shouldn’t that be the focus?”

She continued, “This is a presidential race, for commander-in-chief. And so often, that candidate or their running mate has never personally served, even as they vie to make decisions about sending people into dangerous situations. The fact that this year they do matters to a lot of people. It matters to me, in a family where we’re raising two boys who idolize their dad’s military service, two boys who are significantly more likely to serve because their dad did. And if they choose that path, it matters to have someone at the table who knows what that sacrifice means.”

Keilar then interviewed Maj. Shawn Haney (Ret.), who was in charge of Vance during his tenure. Haney stated, “I would be the very first one, if I thought he was even doing a little bit of embellishment or exaggeration — and he is not — I would be the first one to tell him. And then I’d be happy to tell you that as well.”

Later, Keilar acknowledged that “Walz has said that he carried weapons of war into war. He did not.”

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PALM BEACH, Florida — Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that his general election opponent Vice President Kamala Harris “hates Israel” and “doesn’t like Jewish people even though she’s married to one.”

In an hourlong Thursday evening interview with Breitbart News at his luxurious seaside resort and club Mar-a-Lago, Trump made the case that Harris’s selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate shows “how liberal she is.”

“By picking Walz, by picking the governor of Minnesota, she has showed how liberal she is,” Trump said. “She hates Israel. She is very bad to Jewish people. It’s incredible how badly she treats Jewish people and Israel—it’s amazing.”

Trump also said he would like to see tensions between Israelis and the Palestinians “resolved,” much like he said he hopes for peace in Ukraine earlier in the interview.

“But that’s another thing. I would like to see that get resolved,” Trump said.

Asked if bypassing the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, in her running mate selection process to instead pick Minnesota’s Walz demonstrates her dislike of Jewish people, Trump said it is Harris’s “actions on Israel” that prove it.

“She doesn’t like Jewish people even though she’s married to one. She doesn’t like Jewish people,” Trump said. “She may be married to one, but that doesn’t mean she likes Israel or Jewish people because she certainly is not showing it. It’s not the bypass thing because I think other candidates of that group were better than either of them. Other candidates of that group were far better than Shapiro. But it’s her actions on Israel. Forget about Shapiro—that’s the least of it. Her actions really show how bad she is to the Jewish people and to Israel.”

Trump also said that Democrats have now become the party of Hamas.

“They are pro-Hamas,” Trump said. “Schumer has become a Palestinian. They are pro-Hamas. There’s no question about it.”

The contrast between Republicans and Democrats on Israel, Trump said, is clear.

“I think it’s amazing that this happened because I’ll tell you, 15 years ago it was unthinkable for people to go so radical and be so radical,” Trump said. “Today, it’s the Democrats in Congress and even a little bit with Democrat Senators. You see them coming along that route also. The Republican Party is pro-Israel and the Democrats are pro-Hamas.”

Related: WATCH — Trump: If You’re Jewish and You Vote for Kamala Harris, You Have to Have Your Head Examined

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PALM BEACH, Florida — Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively on Thursday evening that he intends to negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine as President-elect before he even is sworn in as the next president of the United States.

Trump, in an hourlong interview with Breitbart News at his luxurious seaside resort and club, Mar-a-Lago, here in South Florida, said that he wants to see the war between Russia and Ukraine “settled.”

“I want to see it settled,” Trump said. “I want to get it done.”

Trump said he knows Russian president Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, and believes he can negotiate peace to end the “death” and “destruction” if elected again on Nov. 5.

“I know both heads of the countries,” Trump said. “I know President Putin very well. I want to see the death stopping. There’s death and there’s destruction. They are destroying the whole fabric of a certain part of the world. I want to get it negotiated, and get it done.”

Trump said his Democrat opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, would keep the war going and keep flowing hundreds of billions of American tax dollars into Ukraine rather than ending it. He said Harris would do nothing, and because of her inaction “millions of people will die” if she were to win the election in November. He also said Harris’s ineptitude could drag the world into a global war.

“I don’t think she has any clue,” Trump said. “She wouldn’t handle it at all. I don’t think she’d do anything. I think it would just go on and millions of people will die. It could evolve into a World War also. She’s got no capability to get it done. I want to get it done. I’ve always had a very good relationship with both men and I think I’m in a very good position. It would have been easier to get done—it would have never started. If I were there, it would have never started.”

Trump also said he hopes he will be able to negotiate the peace deal ending the war in the timeframe between the Nov. 5 election and the Jan. 20, 2025, inauguration, should he win.

“You look at the heritage of the country—the cities are mostly knocked down,” Trump said, describing Ukraine. “They’re flattened. They’re just totally flattened. Have you ever seen some of these cities? There’s not a building standing. The country has been devastated. So I want to get it solved and I will be able to get it solved. And I’d like to do it before I get to the White House after I’m president-elect.”

Much more from Trump’s latest interview with Breitbart News is coming soon.

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