Live updates: Silence on the Josh Shapiro VP front as he campaigns with Gretchen Whitmer; Donald Trump returning to Pa.

The veepstakes came to Montgomery County.

The conversation capturing the American political world — who Vice President Kamala Harris will pick to be her running mate — converged in the Wissahickon High School gymnasium in Ambler on Monday as two popular Democratic governors considered to be in contention for the role rallied alongside one another.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer rallied about 1,000 supporters and implored them to work to deliver the critical battleground of Pennsylvania to Harris. They each framed the race between Harris and former President Donald Trump as a battle for fundamental freedoms.

Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick will speak at former president Donald Trump's planned rally in Harrisburg Wednesday.

The rally will serve as Trump's first in Pennsylvania since the attempted assassination against him in Butler County earlier this month. It is slated to take place indoors at the New Holland Arena in Harrisburg's Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex amid safety recommendations from the Secret Service to move away from holding outdoor rallies.

Trump is scheduled to speak at the event at 6 p.m., four hours after doors open, the campaign's website says. McCormick is expected to take the stage ahead of Trump around the 4 p.m. hour.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro played to his hometown crowd during a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in Montgomery County Monday, returning to his roots as speculation ramps up that he could be Harris’ running mate.

“It is so good to be home. This is the community that raised me,” Shapiro said to a crowd of about 1,000 supporters. “This is the community that taught me so much.”

A woman in the crowd yelled: “We love you, Josh!”

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer framed the presidential race as a fight for freedom Monday as they campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris in a Montgomery County school gymnasium.

During remarks to a crowd of about a thousand people, Shapiro described former President Donald Trump as “dangerous” and “destructive.”

“It is not freedom to tell women what they’re allowed to do with their bodies. That’s not freedom,” Shapiro said. “It’s not freedom to tell people they can go vote, but he’s going to pick the winner. That’s not freedom, and that is what we have to stop.”

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to be at a planned ABC News presidential debate on Sept. 10 whether or not former president Donald Trump attends, her campaign has said.

President Joe Biden and Trump agreed to the debate prior to Biden's decision to not seek reelection. Since then, Trump has refused to commit to appear at the Sept. 10 event, with the campaign saying that their lack of commitment hinges on Harris not yet formally being named the Democratic Party's candidate.

Now, Harris campaign communications director Michael Tyler has called that hesitancy a "convenient, but expected backtrack from Team Trump" in a statement provided to The Hill.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer gushed about one another during a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris Monday as both are considered in contention to be Harris’ running mate.

Whitmer described Shapiro as one of her “very best friends” and ticked through his accomplishments as governor, saying he’s “another example of Democratic governors who believe in our three-part strategy: get sh– done.”

And Shapiro in turn praised Whitmer, referring to her by her nickname of “Big Gretch,” saying that’s how she’s referred to in her home state because she “gets big things done.”

U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan is hoping the bipartisan congressional task force investigating the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump will make time to visit the site of the shooting in Butler County.

“I think there’s nothing that passes for being there other than being there, you know, and understanding literally the landscape and the layout and trying to be able to visualize things,” Houlahan said in an interview Monday.

Houlahan, a Democrat who represents Chester County and parts of Berks County, is one of three Pennsylvania representatives who was chosen to participate in the task force. Fellow Democrat Madeleine Dean, whose district includes most of Montgomery County and parts of Berks, also is participating.

With Gov. Josh Shapiro emerging as a potential front-runner to become Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, one of the only scandals to mark his two decades in Pennsylvania politics has resurfaced.

Erin McClelland, the Democratic nominee for state treasurer in November’s election, drew eyeballs last week with a thinly veiled and unusual intra-party jab, saying in a tweet she wanted a vice presidential pick that, among other things, “doesn’t sweep sexual harassment under the rug.”

Though she did not identify Shapiro by name, McClelland’s pointed remarks were widely interpreted as a reference to the resignation last year of one of Shapiro’s top aides and closest allies, Mike Vereb, amid a sexual harassment investigation.

Former President Donald Trump will be in Harrisburg on Wednesday for his first rally in the commonwealth since the attempted assassination against him at his Butler County rally earlier this month.

The rally will be located indoors at Harrisburg’s Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex. The former president was heeding safety recommendations from the Secret Service to stop holding outdoor rallies, until he decided over the weekend that he would resume outdoor events.

Trump is scheduled to start speaking at 6 p.m., with doors opening at the complex four hours prior, according to the event page.

Despite turnover at the top of the ticket, Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. has maintained a substantial lead over Republican challenger Dave McCormick in recent polls in Pennsylvania’s nationally watched Senate race.

Casey, a three-term incumbent, led McCormick, a former hedge fund executive, by an eye-popping 13 percentage points in a Fox News poll released last week. Other recent surveys have shown the Democrat with leads ranging from 3 to 8 percentage points.

Casey’s campaign declined to comment on the poll.

Three House members from Pennsylvania have been selected to join a bipartisan task force to investigate the errors that led up to a failed assassination attempted against former President Donald Trump. 

Republican Rep. Mike Kelly and Democratic Reps. Madeleine Dean and Chrissy Houlahan will be part of a group of 13 lawmakers chosen by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R., Lou.) and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) 

The task force is scheduled to produce a final report by Dec. 13.

As a growing group of Pennsylvania Democrats mount an aggressive campaign for Gov. Josh Shapiro to be Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Republicans in the state are watching warily.

“In what we know is gonna be a close race, I don’t think anyone wants to see Shapiro on the ticket,” said one high-ranking Republican from Pennsylvania who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Republicans nationally have indicated they see Shapiro, a first-term governor from a critical state, as Harris’ strongest vice presidential contender.

A frustrated Donald Trump has abandoned the magnanimous tone he sought to project in the days after an assassin’s bullet nearly ended his life.

“They all say, ‘I think he’s changed. I think he’s changed since two weeks ago. Something affected him,’” Trump told a massive crowd Saturday night in Minnesota. “No, I haven’t changed. Maybe I’ve gotten worse, because I get angry at the incompetence that I witness every single day.”

For now, the Republican former president and his supporters have adopted a kitchen-sink strategy as they figure out which attacks are most effective against their new Democratic opponent.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a co-chair of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, said a decision on Democrat’s vice presidential nominee will likely be made this week.

"Everything's truncated, and she's going to make that decision probably in the next six, seven days,” Whitmer said.

Whitmer will be campaigning in In Ambler on Monday alongside Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who is on the short list of candidates being considered to be Harris running mate, according to Bloomberg. Two other candidates reportedly under consideration are Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ first stop after finding out Joe Biden was dropping out of the race last week was nearly Philadelphia.

The Washington Post reports during the scramble immediately following Biden’s decision to end his reelection campaign on July 21, Harris’ team discussed holding an event in Philadelphia the following Monday. But time was tight and it would’ve been difficult finding a venue.Their solution was Harris’ stop at the campaign’s office in Wilmington, Del., where the second floor had been leased by not filled, giving the vice president a venue, according to the Post.

So far, Harris has no scheduled campaign stops in the Philadelphia area, where she’s visited four times in just the last couple of months. Her most recent stop was earlier this month, where she delivered the keynote address at the Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote Presidential Town Hall and got takeout from Reading Terminal Market with Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a potential vice presidential nominee.

President Joe Biden is unveiling a long-awaited proposal for changes at the U.S. Supreme Court, calling on Congress to establish term limits and an ethics code for the court’s nine justices. He also is pressing lawmakers to ratify a constitutional amendment that would limit presidential immunity.

The White House on Monday detailed the contours of Biden’s court proposal, one that appears to have little chance of being approved by a closely divided Congress with just 99 days to go before Election Day.

The reforms include:

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, riding high on Democratic momentum, energized supporters for Vice President Kamala Harris at a rally Saturday in south-central Pennsylvania.

Shapiro is feeding off of national Democratic fervor — as well as a personal boost as one of Harris’ potential running mates. He has neither confirmed nor denied his interest in the role, and he’s reported to be one of several candidates in contention.

Dozens of Pennsylvania Democrats have thrown their support behind Shapiro for VP, with the Philadelphia Democratic Party taking the unusual move of endorsing him for the second-in-command spot.

Former President Donald Trump will be back in Pennsylvania this week, his first trip back since being wounded by a would-be assassin during a speech in Butler, Pa., earlier this month.

Trump is scheduled to hold a rally at the New Holland Area in Harrisburg on Wednesday, where he's slated to speak around 6 p.m. Doors to the event open at 2 p.m.

Neither Trump nor his running mate, U.S. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, have scheduled events Monday. Vance is slated to hold two campaign rallies in Nevada on Tuesday — one in Henderson at 4 p.m. Eastern, and a second in Reno at 7:30 p.m. Philly time.

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