Keely Hodgkinson ran an enormous private finest to win the London Diamond League and develop into the sixth quickest girls in historical past over 800m.

Hodgkinson’s time of 1:54.61 was additionally a British report and the very best time on the earth this yr, and cemented her standing as the ladies to beat on the Paris Olympic Video games, which open on Friday.

She led all through the race and streaked away from fellow Briton Jemma Reekie within the ultimate 100m, with Georgia Bell coming in third to finish a British one-two-three. Each Reekie and Bell additionally recorded private bests.

Hodgkinson glanced on the clock as she crossed the road and smothered her face together with her fingers in shock at her achievement.

“I felt actually good right this moment, I simply wished to go for it and see what was there,” she instructed the BBC. “It was just a little little bit of bravery and fearlessness with a terrific environment like this, I didn’t need to waste the chance.

“It’s so good once you’re strolling by way of and also you hear individuals shouting your identify. The Brits know tips on how to placed on an athletics meet, I want there have been extra on this nation as a result of it’s the very best crowd I’ve ever run in entrance of.

“I’m feeling actually good and assured forward of Paris. Clearly the principle purpose is simply to get to the ultimate first after which as soon as we’re there we will talk about getting medals.”

Matt Hudson-Smith set one other British report and one other world lead time as he gained the boys’s 400m in 43.74s, laying down an enormous marker forward of Paris.

“It was a tremendous crowd, it’s all the time good to carry out in entrance of them and it’s a terrific ship off,” Hudson-Smith mentioned. “It’s a very long time coming and I’m really wholesome. Now I’m placing in lots of work. The proof is within the pudding. I’m excited.”

Olympic favorite Noah Lyles got here from behind to comfortably win the boys’s 100m, after Dina Asher-Smith had completed third within the girls’s 200m, gained by the fast-finishing American Gabby Thomas.

Lyles has developed into the largest character in athletics and, having taken the 100m world title in Budapest final yr so as to add to a few, and an Olympic bronze, over the 200m, he’s changing into the person to beat within the blue riband occasion.

“That was enjoyable,” he mentioned after operating a private finest time of 9.81s. “I may have had a greater begin. I wished a quicker time however I had the wind.”

South African Akani Simbini took second in 9.86 and Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo was third in 9.88 as the primary 5 broke 10 seconds.

Briton’s rising dash star Louie Hinchliffe completed fourth. “I’m not pleased with the consequence nevertheless it’s not dangerous, it wasn’t my worst run,” the 22-year-old mentioned. “I can work on the beginning, I appeared effectively out of it. Perhaps some nerves, it’s my first time right here. I’ve obtained some solution to go.”

Jamaica’s Nickisha Pryce additionally appeared very spectacular in operating a world-leading time of 48.57s to win the ladies’s 400m, whereas Femke Bol of the Netherlands simply gained the ladies’s 400m hurdles in 51.30s, cementing her standing as one other gold-medal contender in Paris.

The 24-year-old world champion, who gained bronze in Tokyo, dominated the race from the beginning and despatched a message to greatest rival Sydney McLaughlin because the pair put together to sq. off in one of the eagerly-anticipated Olympic showdowns.

Within the males’s 400m hurdles, Brazil’s former world champion Alison dos Santos gained in 47.18s, whereas Italy’s Leonardo Fabbri brought on a shock within the shot put, throwing 22.52m to beat heavy favorite Ryan Crouser of the USA.

Britain’s Molly Caudery completed third within the pole vault competitors, having gained world indoor gold earlier this yr. “I’m just a little bit disillusioned, I really feel prefer it was a misplaced alternative,” she mentioned. “I’m kicking myself. [But] it’s not the place the place it issues an excessive amount of and I’m wanting ahead to Paris.”

Brits get pleasure from excellent Paris send-off at a packed Olympic Stadium for the Diamond League

After her late withdrawal from final yr’s London Athletics Meet, Keely Hodgkinson was decided to return to the occasion in 2024 and placed on a present for her house crowd. The 22-year-old did it in fashion, too, within the British capital, on Saturday (July 20) with a nationwide 800m document of 1:54.61.

With the Olympics imminent, can she now step up from a collection of world silvers to assert gold in Paris?

The sensible efficiency improves on her British document of 1:55.19 and now strikes Hodgkinson from tenth to sixth on the world all-time rankings, overtaking the likes of Athing Mu, Maria Mutola and Tatyana Kazankina. Is it an excessive amount of to dream that Jarmila Kratochvilova’s long-standing world document of 1:53.28 is now in her sights?

“I’ve been trying ahead to this all week,” stated Hodgkinson. “London actually is aware of the way to placed on a crowd. I simply have to remain targeted now for the Olympics and go and get the job executed.”

This wasn’t all about Hodgkinson, although. The UK rankings had been re-written with gorgeous private bests from Jemma Reekie and Georgia Bell.

After Erin Wallace led by way of the bell in 55.58, Hodgkinson took up the lead at 500m however Reekie, who gained this race 12 months earlier, caught in doggedly behind and her reward was a time of 1:55.61 that places her second on the UK all-time rankings, simply forward of Kelly Holmes’ former UK document of 1:56.21. Reekie was recovering from a bout of Covid solely a fortnight earlier too.

Bell stepped down from her extra acquainted 1500m distance and improved her 800m greatest from 1:59.93 to 1:56.28 as she strikes into fourth on the UK rankings.

Such was the usual, Laura Muir ran a season’s better of 1:57.63 however was solely eighth.

Hudson-Smith smashes European 400m document

Matt Hudson-Smith blew his European document of 44.07 aside because the Birchfield Harrier stormed across the London Stadium in 43.74.

It locations the 29-year-old equal 12^th on the world all-time rankings and marks him out as a gold medal contender in Paris. After silver in Budapest final summer time, can he step up and declare an Olympic title?

Ending in his wake had been Vernon Norwood of america and Jereem Richards of Trinidad & Tobago in 44.10 and 44.18 respectively. There was additional pleasure for British followers, although, with Charlie Dobson bettering his PB to 44.23 as Kirani James, the London Olympic champion 12 years in the past, completed fifth in 44.38.

James, whose all-time greatest can be 43.74, was among the many first to congratulate Hudson-Smith.

“To run 43 seconds earlier than Paris is precisely what me, my coach and workforce had been aiming for,” stated Hudson-Smith. “To get that world lead and to set myself up for Paris is what I actually wanted to indicate the remainder of the world what I’m able to.

“Earlier than at the moment I wrote on a paper that I used to be going to run 43.7, as a result of I did a race mannequin and my coach had informed me I used to be in 43 seconds form. All I needed to do was go on the market and present it.”

Sensible Bol runs meet document

Such is the terrific commonplace of Femke Bol’s 400m hurdling, the London Stadium fell a tiny bit flat when she crossed the road in “solely” 51.30. There have been hopes she may enhance her European document of fifty.95 set the earlier weekend in Switzerland however the crowd needed to be glad with a gathering document of 51.30 – barely faster than the Dutch athlete ran right here 12 months earlier when her 51.45 was a European document on the time.

“I really like to run right here on this stadium, it’s so particular and to placed on this nice discipline it’s unbelievable,” stated Bol. “I’m excited for Paris and naturally placed on my greatest race there. I’m trying ahead to racing Sydney [McLaughlin-Levrone] and that can push us each.”

Behind, Shamier Little of america was runner-up in 52.78 and Jessie Knight was high Brit in fifth in a season’s better of 54.15.

Nickisha Pryce additionally impressed over one lap because the 23-year-old clocked a ladies’s 400m assembly and Jamaican document of 48.57. What’s extra, the awe-inspiring time lifted her to seventh on the world all-time rankings.

Behind, European champion Natalia Kaczmarek ran a Polish document of 48.90 in second, whereas Lieke Klaver of Netherlands clocked a 49.58 PB in third.

With half a watch on Christine Ohuruogu’s British document of 49.41, Amber Anning fell simply brief with a wonderful 49.63 as fellow Brit Laviai Nielsen ran a PB of 49.87 in fifth.

Taking a bit off her PB of fifty.67, the run strikes Nielsen from twelfth on the UK all-time rankings to seventh, leaving her in tears afterwards as she smashed by way of the 50-second barrier.

British document within the 4x100m

Dina Asher-Smith, Imani Lansiquot, Amy Hunt and Daryll Neita took benefit of excellent circumstances within the London Stadium to equal their British 4x100m document of 41.55.

Rising to the event in entrance of the close to 60,000-strong crowd, not solely did the quartet match the nationwide mark they ran within the Tokyo Olympics three years in the past, however they loved a confidence boosting efficiency forward of Paris as they beat the Olympic host nation France by greater than half a second.

The GB males’s workforce didn’t get pleasure from pretty much as good a day, although, because the A workforce failed to complete. Jeremiah Azu, Louie Hinchliffe and Richard Kilty mixed to get the workforce into a superb place into the ultimate alternate however Reece Prescod appeared to set off too quickly and couldn’t get the baton from a flailing Kilty.

Japan gained in 38.07 from Australia with the GB’s second workforce anchored by Eugene Amo-Dadzie in third.

People Lyles and Thomas get pleasure from dash wins

If this Diamond League assembly was an incredible meet for British athletes, the US guests additionally did fairly properly with Noah Lyles profitable the lads’s 100m in 9.81 (-0.3) and Gabby Thomas the ladies’s 200m in assembly document of 21.82 (-0.9).

The Brits had been additionally within the combine and now know what they must do to problem in Paris. British champion Louie Hinchliffe was fourth within the 100m in 9.97 with Zharnel Hughes, on the comeback from harm, sixth in 10.00 and Jeremiah Azu seventh in 10.08.

If lacking final week’s Diamond League in Monaco made Lyles’ followers nervous, there was no want as he beat Akani Simbine of South Africa (9.86) and Letsile Tebogo of Botswana (9.88), the latter equalling his nationwide document.

“A PB and getting sooner earlier than Paris,” stated Lyles. “I needed to dip below the 9.80 mark – I assumed I used to be going to get a wind like everybody else.”

Behind Thomas and Julien Alfred – she ran a Saint Lucia document of 21.86 – Dina Asher-Smith clocked a season’s greatest of twenty-two.07 after fading just a little within the closing 50 metres after an incredible bend. Daryll Neita was fourth, additionally in a season’s greatest of twenty-two.20, with Rhasidat Adeleke of Eire fifth in 22.35.

Asher-Smith stated: “I’m just a little pissed off however however it’s my greatest time in two years and I’m feeling match and wholesome going into the Olympics so that’s an important factor simply now.”

Emsley Carr Mile ruined by early fall

With 17 males racing into the primary bend of a mile race, accidents are all the time possible. So after the a number of pile up on Saturday, is it time to contemplate an 800m-style begin with athletes in lanes for the primary 100m? And even, as quite a few athletes steered, the race may have been known as again instantly and re-run.

The historic Emsley Carr Mile on Saturday was narrowly gained by Olli Hoare of Australia in 3:49.03 from Narve Gilje Nordas however the house crowd was left dissatisfied and athletes themselves pissed off when Neil Gourley and George Mills hit the monitor within the opening metres and failed to complete.

Dominic Lobalu of Switzerland ran a world lead of seven:27.68 within the males’s 3000m as he outkicked Grant Fisher of america (7:27.99) with Edwin Kurgat of Kenya third (7:28.53).

Fisher made a future for house from the bell however Lobalu stayed in contact and had an excessive amount of for the American within the closing 100m. Behind a string of PBs included Eire’s Brian Fay (7:34.48) and Nick Griggs (7:36.59), Jack Rowe (7:38.70), Scott Beattie (7:42.78) and Will Barnicoat (7:48.12).

Huge shot Fabbri beats Crouser in head-t0-head

Ryan Crouser suffered a uncommon defeat because the world record-holder completed second to Leonardo Fabbri of Italy. In a key conflict on the eve of the Olympics, European champion Fabbri threw 22.52m to Crouser’s 22.37m as Payton Otterdahl was third with 22.13m and Joe Kovacs fourth with 22.03m.

Britain’s Scott Lincoln couldn’t repeat his current 21-metre kind as he threw 20.71m in seventh.

Fabbri stated: “I’m actually comfortable as a result of mentally I’m actually bettering so much and I’m actually assured for Paris.”

Within the ladies’s pole vault, Nina Kennedy continued her advantageous current kind on the circuit because the Australian gained with 4.85m as Alysha Newman of Canada was second with 4.75m and Britain’s Molly Caudery third in 4.65m. Olympic champion Katie Moon of america, in the meantime, solely cleared 4.50m as she wound up eighth.

Malaika Mihambo of Germany gained the ladies’s lengthy leap with 6.87m (-0.1) with world heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson leaping 6.54m (0.5) in fifth.

The seats within the London Stadium had been nonetheless filling up when Mackenzie Little of Australia threw the javelin out to 66.27m within the first spherical of her occasion. For the world bronze medallist it was the second greatest throw on this planet this yr as she beat Adriana Vilagos, who threw a Serbian document of 65.28m.

Little stated: “I couldn’t ask for greater than getting a PB within the final competitors earlier than the Olympics nevertheless it does convey plenty of expectation and strain.”

Large 400m enchancment for Reardon

In one of many breakthrough performances of the day, Sam Reardon whopped properly over a second off his 400m PB within the ‘nationwide’ race for home males as he gained in 44.70.

Reardon was fifth on this planet under-20 closing for 800m in 2022 and has juggled 400m and 800m – with a two-lap better of 1:45.95 – however in 2024 he has raced over only one lap and was rewarded with an enormous enchancment on Saturday as he moved to fourteenth on the UK all-time rankings.

The 20-year-old’s earlier greatest was 45.99 set in Dublin earlier this month after operating solely 46.45 to complete third in his warmth on the UK Championships in late June. Till 2024 he hadn’t even damaged 46 seconds both.

“I knew a giant run was on the playing cards however 44.70!?” stated Reardon. “Folks all the time ask me if I’m a 400m or 800m runner and I all the time say each. However I feel that solidifies me as a 400m runner. I’m simply ecstatic and hoping to do each for so long as doable.”

Yemi Mary John, in the meantime, gained the ladies’s ‘home’ 400m in 51.18.

Paralympians heat up for Paris

Within the para-athletics occasions, Zak Skinner ran a British document within the T13 100m as he gained the ambulant males’s race in 10.84 (0.9) from Zac Shaw’s 10.87 as Thomas Younger, in third, additionally set a nationwide document within the T38 class with 10.92.

Sophie Hahn loved a win within the ambulant ladies’s 100m as she clocked 12.55 (0.2) to win by virtually half a second.

Brent Lakatos of Canada out-sprinted Brits Nathan Maguire and David Weir to win the lads’s wheelchair 1500m in 2:59.95.

Ben Sandilands clocked 3:55.10 within the ambulant males’s 1500m as he held off fellow Brit Steven Sandilands.

Sammi Kinghorn is maybe extra acquainted to BBC viewers as a presenter on Countryfile or The One Present however on Saturday she gained the ladies’s wheelchair 800m in 1:43.24 from Lea Bayekula of Belgium as Hannah Cockroft completed fifth.

“I’m racing tomorrow on the England Champs,” stated Kinghorn. “It’s on my manner house so I assumed I’d as properly and it’s all good championship expertise for doing again to again races. After that it’s all about staying wholesome, staying match and making ready for Paris.”

Amo-Dadzie’s profitable return

Earlier within the programme Eugene Amo-Dadzie gained the ‘nationwide’ males’s 100m in 10.12 (2.1) from Reece Prescod and CJ Ujah as Imani-Larsa Lansiquot claimed victory within the ladies’s ‘nationwide’ 100m in 11.12 from Desiree Henry and Bianca Williams.

The win was significantly pleasing for Amo-Dadzie as he used to on the London Stadium in hospitality for West Ham United FC.

Full outcomes right here.

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President Joe Biden despatched a shockwave by the nation Sunday when he ended his reelection marketing campaign after weeks of stress from his personal social gathering to drop out of the race. Now, Democrats are scrambling to find out who ought to go up in opposition to former President Donald Trump.

Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris shortly after saying his exit from the competition, but it surely’s not sure whether or not Democrats will observe his recommendation and coalesce behind her. 

The revised course of to type a presidential ticket wasn’t instantly clear, and the candidates for it might embody a half-dozen governors and Arizona’s U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly. 

The stress is on for Democrats, who face an uphill climb to erase Trump’s electoral benefit. The previous Republican president is main in all battleground state polls. The GOP turned much more united after Trump was wounded in an assassination try and accepted his social gathering’s nomination final week on the Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee.

Democratic Nationwide Committee chair Jaime Harrison left the door open to an intra-party battle on Sunday, saying in a written assertion that the social gathering will “undertake a clear and orderly course of to maneuver ahead” with a candidate. No matter who the social gathering selects as its nominee, that particular person may also want to pick a vice presidential operating mate.

Right here’s a rundown on the main contenders to hitch an overhauled presidential ticket.

Kamala Harris

Harris is subsequent in line to the presidency, has Biden’s endorsement and would have the best entry to his marketing campaign operation and multi-million greenback checking account. 

However she’s much less identified amongst voters than Biden is and will face competitors from different Democrats for the social gathering’s nomination. Harris was tasked with dealing with among the most controversial points within the Biden administration, like immigration, making her the face of a tough coverage space for Democrats. Harris additionally struggled as a presidential candidate in 2020, ending her marketing campaign earlier than the primary contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. 

“My very first choice because the social gathering nominee in 2020 was to select Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the most effective choice I’ve made,” Biden mentioned on social media. “Right now I wish to supply my full help and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our social gathering this 12 months. Democrats — it’s time to return collectively and beat Trump. Let’s do that.”

Some Democrats within the social gathering have already instructed they’d help her. Two Arizona delegates to the Democratic nationwide conference instructed The Arizona Republic on Sunday that they plan to vote for her to be the nominee, and Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., inspired the social gathering to coalesce behind her.

“I’m honored to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination,” Harris mentioned in a written assertion. “I’ll do all the things in my energy to unite the Democratic Get together — and unite our nation — to defeat Donald Trump and his excessive Mission 2025 agenda.”

Mark Kelly

Within the weeks after Biden’s disastrous debate efficiency till his choice to exit the race, Kelly stood squarely behind the Biden-Harris ticket. With the shakeup, it’s much less clear what he intends to do. Kelly was fast to throw his help behind Harris, setting off hypothesis that she might select him as her operating mate if she clinches the nomination.

Kelly, 60, has been within the Senate since 2020 and has a comparatively outstanding nationwide profile aside from politics. He flew 4 house shuttle missions, turned a spokesman for gun-control reforms after his spouse, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., was shot within the head, and was an writer and motivational speaker.

His army background, curiosity in overseas affairs and centrist persona might complement a Harris-led ticket.

On the similar time, Democrats know their finest probability to hold onto the White Home requires successful within the Rust Belt, the place at the very least two governors could also be seen as extra useful.

Gavin Newsom

Newsom has been a visual face of the Biden marketing campaign, courting the media at Republican presidential main occasions and on cable information. His frequent appearances within the media have been twofold: Promote Democrats and lift his personal nationwide profile. Newsom went so far as to debate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a Biden stand-in on Fox Information final fall.

As a fellow Californian, Newsom might defer to Harris as the highest Democrat from the Golden State. However the governor didn’t instantly throw his help behind Harris after Biden dropped out of the race. He additionally canceled a Monday look at a judicial convention in Sacramento. 

“President Biden has been a rare, history-making president — a frontrunner who has fought exhausting for working folks and delivered astonishing outcomes for all People. He’ll go down in historical past as probably the most impactful and selfless presidents,” Newsom mentioned on social media. 

Gretchen Whitmer

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has received two phrases in a state that may be a near-must win for Democrats. She remained totally dedicated to the Biden-Harris ticket all through the post-debate interval and has seldom entertained hypothesis about theoretical presidential ambitions.

Polling reveals Whitmer, 52, has remained comparatively standard in Michigan into her second time period. She delivered the Democrats’ response to Trump’s 2020 State of the Union tackle, however Whitmer isn’t particularly outstanding nationally outdoors political circles.

In a social media submit Sunday, Whitmer remained coy about how, if in any respect, she elements in a revamped ticket.

“My job on this election will stay the identical: doing all the things I can to elect Democrats and cease Donald Trump,” she mentioned.

Whitmer’s future might hinge on whether or not Harris is the presidential nominee. If Harris is, Democrats could be averse to operating an all-woman ticket on brief discover. At the least 5 outstanding Democrats in Michigan’s congressional delegation shortly endorsed Harris as the brand new presidential choose.

Josh Shapiro

There are few states extra necessary to Democrats than Pennsylvania on the battleground map. That makes Shapiro a lovely candidate. He received his race for governor by almost 15 share factors in opposition to a Republican with ties to Trump. Shapiro additionally has the very best approval score amongst his personal constituents of any governor within the presidential dialog, in keeping with Morning Seek the advice of. 

Shapiro, although, is much less acquainted to voters than Harris and even a few of his fellow Democratic governors. Shapiro dodged questions Saturday about whether or not he’d throw his hat within the ring as a presidential or vice presidential candidate. 

“I am not going to have interaction in hypotheticals,” Shapiro instructed KDKA Information, reiterating his help for Biden.

The Pennsylvania governor lauded Biden in an announcement on Sunday, calling him “a patriot who has served our nation honorably” and “probably the most consequential presidents in trendy historical past.” Shapiro didn’t point out Harris, who Biden endorsed to interchange him.

J.B. Pritzker 

Billionaire Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is seen as a presidential contender after serving as a Biden marketing campaign surrogate, visiting key electoral states outdoors of the Midwest and utilizing his appreciable wealth to advertise Democratic points like abortion entry throughout the nation. 

Pritzker’s household made its fortune by the Hyatt Motels Company and Forbes estimates his internet value is $3.5 billion. Pritzker’s private wealth might additionally bolster Democrats. Biden’s money benefit over Trump disappeared throughout the newest fundraising quarter, marketing campaign finance studies present. 

Now that the president is out of the race, Pritzker mentioned in a written assertion that he’ll “work each day to make sure” Trump doesn’t win in November. 

Roy Cooper

Cooper, 67, has a protracted historical past of success with North Carolina voters, with 4 wins as lawyer basic and two because the state’s governor. It prolonged a run of Democratic wins in state-level races, however the social gathering has struggled in federal contests, one thing that Cooper might assist change.

Democrats are hoping to make North Carolina a battleground this 12 months, which might assist offset their standing in states Biden received in 2020, similar to Arizona, Georgia and Nevada.

Cooper has battled a Republican-controlled legislature and made intensive use of his veto authority on many payments, particularly on cultural points, similar to transgender rights.

As he’s term-limited out of workplace later this 12 months, Cooper retains sturdy public approval, polling reveals.

He’s older than different attainable contenders and, like most of the governors, has a restricted public persona outdoors his state.

He issued an announcement Sunday thanking Biden for his service however not exhibiting an curiosity in becoming a member of the presidential race. The New York Occasions has reported that he has heat relations with Harris.

Andy Beshear 

Beshear, 46, has received statewide in Kentucky thrice since 2015, as soon as as lawyer basic and twice because the state’s governor. That’s no small feat in a state that Trump received by 26 share factors in 2020.

He’s considered a average who has made bettering Kentucky’s infrastructure and entry to well being care his priorities. The state suffered devastating twister injury in 2021 and excessive flooding in 2022, making government-led restoration efforts a serious storyline in his tenure.

Beshear’s dealing with of the disasters has helped make him probably the most standard governors within the nation, polling reveals.

He isn’t particularly well-known outdoors his state, a matter he has joked about amid hypothesis about his potential in a presidential ticket.

In an announcement after Biden’s announcement, Beshear thanked the president for his service however didn’t tackle his personal political plans. As a substitute, he known as it a “time for our nation to return collectively.”

The shadow well being secretary, Victoria Atkins, has been reprimanded for her behaviour throughout a parliamentary debate on the king’s speech after she tried to loudly interrupt one other MP.

The Conservative MP stood on the dispatch field and spoke over the secretary for Setting, Meals and Rural Affairs (Defra), Steve Reed, whereas the deputy speaker, Christopher Chope, known as for order on Friday.

Chope then advised the chamber: “The precise honourable woman has behaved abominably.”

The Labour MP Perran Moon mentioned Atkins’s behaviour was “an absolute shame” and known as for acceptable motion to be taken.

The Liberal Democrat MP Helen Morgan wrote on X: “I witnessed this first-hand. The Conservatives proved the voters obtained it proper: they don’t seem to be match for presidency.”

Josh Fenton-Glynn, the Labour MP for Calder Valley, wrote on X: “I believe the actual fact you don’t get to talk as a lot in opposition is difficult for them to get used to.”

The incident occurred throughout the planning, inexperienced belt and rural affairs debate.

The shadow Defra secretary, Steve Barclay, mentioned: “This king’s speech does nothing for the farming and fishing communities and the selections we’ve seen thus far are ones that take huge quantities of farmland out of meals manufacturing with a view to prioritise the eco-zealotry, which we’ve heard so typically on this home.”

Throughout his response, Reed declined interventions from Barclay in addition to from the Conservative frontbenchers Kemi Badenoch and Atkins.

However Atkins, the MP for Louth and Horncastle in Lincolnshire, stood on the dispatch field as Reed continued to talk and Tory members continued to name for interventions.

Closing the controversy, Reed, the MP for Streatham and Croydon North in south London, mentioned: “After 14 years of chaos, there’s as soon as once more hope for our surroundings, hope for our countryside and hope for our rural communities. I welcome the king’s speech, I like to recommend it to this home.”

A spokesperson for Atkins’ workplace mentioned: “Conservative MPs had been attempting to get solutions about their budgets for farming, flood defences and meals safety, which the minister ignored.

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“She is going to all the time rise up fearlessly for farmers and our rural space in Westminster, even when meaning a uncommon admonishment from the Chair.”

A supply advised the Guardian that Atkins didn’t use the chance to ask questions by requesting to talk throughout the debate and he or she didn’t attend many of the debate.

The supply added: “⁠Regardless of claims from her workplace, she was truly shouting at Steve Reed whereas he was speaking concerning the NHS, not farming, one thing she performed a number one position in breaking.

“The secretary of state for the setting solely had eight minutes to reply to all of the factors made throughout the full three-hour debate which he was attempting to do when Atkins began shouting at him in breach of parliamentary guidelines for orderly conduct.”

TROON, Scotland — It was simply over 13 months in the past, after defending champion Billy Horschel carded a 12-over 84 within the first spherical of the Memorial Event, that the previous FedEx Cup champion talked about his psychological struggles in an unforgiving sport.

“My confidence is the bottom it has been in my total profession — I feel ever in my total golf profession,” Horschel stated at Muirfield Village Golf Membership in Dublin, Ohio, on June 1, 2023.

On Sunday, Horschel can have an opportunity to rewrite his legacy within the ultimate spherical of the 152nd Open Championship at Royal Troon Golf Membership. He survived the wind and rain Saturday to publish a 2-under 69, giving him a 54-hole whole of 4-under 209, one stroke higher than six golfers, together with PGA Championship winner Xander Schauffele, Sam Burns and Justin Rose.

“I adore it,” Horschel stated. “I’ve labored my total life to be on this place. Hear, I have been within the lead many occasions going right into a ultimate spherical. Clearly, this can be a main. It means just a little bit extra. Everyone knows that. We all know what this implies to everybody. I do know what it means to my legacy within the sport of golf and what I wish to do and attain.

“However I am excited to be right here. I’ve wished to be right here my total life. I am lastly right here. I am embracing it.”

Horschel, 37, is an eight-time winner on the PGA Tour. He has by no means fared too effectively in The Open — lacking twice as many cuts (six) as cuts made (three) in 9 earlier begins — however the Florida native has had success in Europe. He tied for twenty first on the 2022 Open at St. Andrews in Scotland and received the 2021 BMW PGA Championship on the DP World Tour in 2021.

Horschel stated he has embraced the problem and toughness of hyperlinks golf. It was that and extra Saturday, because the Scottish skies opened up shortly after the leaders teed off. They have been met by brutal winds within the meat of the again 9.

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, who posted an even-par 71 and is eighth at 2 below, referred to as the second 9 at Royal Troon “most likely the toughest 9 holes that I will ever play.”

Scheffler stated he hit driver and 3-wood strong on the par-4 fifteenth and did not attain the inexperienced in two. He hit a strong drive and laborious 3-iron on the 453-yard 18th.

“I most likely do not hit a 3-wood on a par-3 fairly often,” Scheffler stated. “Yeah, it was fairly wild on the market, however did a superb job of grinding it out.”

Loads of others did not benefit from the circumstances and problem at Royal Troon on Saturday.

Eire’s Shane Lowry, the 2019 Open Championship winner, began the third spherical with a two-shot lead over England’s Daniel Brown, a comparatively unknown qualifier. Lowry prolonged his result in three strokes with a birdie on the par-5 fourth, however issues fell aside for him quickly after.

On the well-known par-3 eighth gap, often known as Postage Stamp, Lowry hit his tee shot into the left greenside Coffin bunker. His chip shot rolled off the inexperienced, resulting in a double-bogey 5.

Lowry made 5 bogeys on the again 9, lacking putts of 5 ft on No. 12 and 6 ft on No. 14. His strategy on the par-4 18th landed a few rows into the grandstands, main to a different bogey.

Lowry carded a 6-over 77 and is ninth at 1 below. He performed the ultimate eight holes in 5 over.

“This sport is simply laborious, and now you’re feeling how laborious it was taking part in effectively the primary two days in these circumstances,” Lowry stated. “Truthfully, it was brutal. I assume for me the eighth gap was killer, actually, make par there, and you may nonetheless shoot 3 or 4 over from there and nonetheless be main the match. Simply pulled my wedge shot there. Look, I do not actually know what to say. It was a grind. It wasn’t a lot enjoyable.

“You’d should query why there wasn’t a few tees put ahead immediately, to be sincere. I feel 15 and 17 — like 15 is 500 yards taking part in into that wind, it is — yeah, they maintain making an attempt to make holes longer, but the most effective gap on this course is about 100 yards.”

Brown, who grew up on a pig and cow farm in Burneston, England, remains to be proper within the combine regardless of a few hiccups on the ultimate two holes. Brown had a 1-stroke lead when he moved to six below with a 5-footer on No. 12 and once more when he made a 5-footer on No. 16.

Brown, a DP Tour common who made the sphere by surviving ultimate qualifying, could not maintain the lead after his ball landed in greenside bunkers on Nos. 17 and 18, and he did not rise up and down. He dropped three pictures on the ultimate two holes to fall one shot behind Horschel.

“Yeah, we’re nonetheless there,” Brown stated. “It was tough. I am just a little bit upset with how the final two holes went as a result of I did so effectively to get to the place I received to, and yeah, it is a bit nasty to complete like that.”

Brown, 29, is trying to turn into solely the fourth golfer since 1900 to win in his main championship debut — Francis Ouimet (1913 U.S. Open), Ben Curtis (2003 Open) and Keegan Bradley (2011 PGA Championship) have been the others.

“I suppose lots of people most likely thought I used to be going to be shaking this morning and actually nervous, however I have been completely wonderful,” Brown stated.

The gamers who beat the rain and wind with early tee occasions had a a lot better time than these within the afternoon. South Africa’s Thriston Lawrence, who began the third spherical 10 pictures behind Lowry, had six birdies in eight holes on the entrance 9 en path to a 6-under 65. He was 3 below and can play the ultimate spherical with Horschel.

Burns had eight birdies whereas posting a 65 and joined the group at 3 below that features Russell Henley, who carded a 66 on Saturday.

Adam Scott, Justin Thomas and Matthew Jordan are 4 pictures behind Horschel, who will sleep on a 54-hole lead at a serious for the primary time in his profession.

Horschel stated he has spent a part of the week visualizing himself holding the Claret Jug on the 18th gap on Sunday, “strolling out to the gang and being congratulated as Open champion.”

“That is what I’ll do once more tonight, and hopefully that comes true tomorrow,” Horschel stated. “If it does not, then I will get again on the grind and work tougher to get again able like this once more.”

THAT BREAKING NEWS IS IN THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE. PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN DROPPING OUT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE FOLLOWING HIS POOR DEBATE PERFORMANCE NEARLY A MONTH AGO. DOZENS OF LAWMAKERS AND BIG DONORS HAVE BEEN CALLING ON HIM TO STEP ASIDE. THE PRESIDENT ANNOUNCED THAT DECISION ON SOCIAL MEDIA, WRITING IN PART, MY FELLOW DEMOCRATS, I HAVE DECIDED NOT TO ACCEPT THE NOMINATION AND TO FOCUS ALL MY ENERGIES ON MY DUTIES AS PRESIDENT FOR THE REMAINDER OF MY TERM, WHICH IS ANOTHER SIX MONTHS. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US HERE AT FIVE. I’M EDIE LAMBERT AND I’M ANDREA FLORES. THOSE WHO CALLED ON HIM TO STEP ASIDE HAD CONCERNS ABOUT THE PRESIDENT’S ABILITY TO SERVE ANOTHER TERM. KCRA 3 HOUSE, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT KAYLA NORWOOD IS LIVE AT THE WHITE HOUSE RIGHT NOW. SO, CAITLIN, THIS IS A MAJOR SHAKEUP IN THE RACE. YEAH. EDIE AND ANDREA, YOU’RE RIGHT. PRESIDENT BIDEN HEEDING THE GROWING CALLS TO STEP ASIDE, FORMALLY ENDING HIS BID FOR REELECTION TODAY. AND HE ENDORSED VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS TO TAKE HIS PLACE. MAJOR SHAKEUP IN THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN DROPPING HIS BID JUST ONE MONTH BEFORE HIS EXPECTED NOMINATION AT THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION. BIDEN POSTED A STATEMENT ON X, FORMERLY KNOWN AS TWITTER, SUNDAY AFTERNOON, SAYING, QUOTE, WHILE IT HAS BEEN MY INTENTION TO SEEK REELECTION, I BELIEVE IT IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF MY PARTY AND THE COUNTRY FOR ME TO STAND DOWN AND TO FOCUS SOLELY ON FULFILLING MY DUTIES AS PRESIDENT FOR THE REMAINDER OF MY TERM. THIS COMES AFTER FACING DAILY PRESSURE FROM MEMBERS WITHIN HIS OWN PARTY TO END HIS BID. AMID. CONCERNS ABOUT HIS CANDIDACY. FOLLOWING A POOR DEBATE PERFORMANCE AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, BIDEN NOW BACKING VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS TO BE THE NOMINEE OF THE PARTY, OFFERING HIS FULL SUPPORT, SAYING, QUOTE, DEMOCRATS, IT’S TIME TO COME TOGETHER AND BEAT TRUMP. LET’S DO THIS. THAT WOULD BE A HISTORIC NOMINATION MAKING HARRIS THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO LEAD A MAJOR PARTY PRESIDENTIAL TICKET, HARRIS SAYING IN A STATEMENT SHE’S HONORED TO HAVE BIDEN’S ENDORSEMENT, WILL WORK TO EARN AND WIN THIS NOMINATION, AND WILL DO EVERYTHING IN HER POWER TO UNITE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND UNITE OUR NATION. WELL, PRESIDENT BIDEN SAYS HE’LL SPEAK MORE LATER THIS WEEK, WHERE HE EXPECTED TO GO INTO MORE DETAIL ABOUT THAT DECISION. ANDREA. SO, CAITLIN, WHAT ARE YOU HEARING FROM REPUBLICANS ABOUT ALL OF THIS? ANDREA. MANY REPUBLICANS CRITICIZING THIS DECISION, SAYING IT INVALIDATES THE VOTES OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WHO VOTED FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN TO BE THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE. HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON, GOING AS FAR AS TO SAY THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN SHOULD RESIGN IMMEDIATELY, SAYING IF HE’S NOT FIT TO RUN, HE’S NOT FIT TO SERVE. BACK TO YOU. ALL RIGHT, CAITLIN, THANK YOU. AND WE’LL ACTUALLY BE TALKING TO A PROFESSOR ABOUT EXACTLY THAT ISSUE. AND WE ARE ALSO JUST LEARNING THAT VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS IS FORMALLY TAKING OVER THE BIDEN-HARRIS CAMPAIGN ACCOUNT. SHE’S THE ONLY PERSON WHO LEGALLY CAN. NOW THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN IS OUT THE BIDEN-HARRIS CAMPAIGN AMENDED THE FILINGS WITH THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION. YOU CAN SEE THAT DOCUMENT RIGHT THERE, SIGNED AND DATED TODAY. THE CAMPAIGN ALSO FILED A LETTER STATING THAT HARRIS IS A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT. THE BIDEN-HARRIS CAMPAIGN ACCOUNT HAD NEARLY $96 MILLION CASH IN HAND AT THE END OF LAST MONTH. THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET WILL BE FORMALLY NOMINATED NEXT MONTH AT THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION IN CHICAGO. OBVIOUSLY, THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE IS DONALD TRUMP, AND HE REACTED TODAY ON ON HIS TRUTH SOCIAL PAGE. THE FORMER PRESIDENT CITED THE DEBATE AS A BIG MOMENT IN JOE BIDEN’S DEMISE. HE GOES ON TO SAY, QUOTE, THAT WAS THE POINT IN TIME WHEN JOE WAS REVEALED FOR WHAT HE IS AN INCOMPETENT MAN WHO SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT. JOE BIDEN IS NOT FIT TO SERVE. TRUMP’S RUNNING MATE, SENATOR JD VANCE, ALSO RELEASED A STATEMENT FOLLOWING BIDEN’S EXIT FROM THE RACE FOR PRESIDENT. HE SAYS, QUOTE, PRESIDENT TRUMP AND I ARE READY TO SAVE AMERICA. WHO’S WHOEVER’S AT THE TOP OF THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET, BRING IT ON. AND GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM POSTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA TODAY SAYING, QUOTE, PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS BEEN AN EXTRAORDINARY HISTORY MAKING PRESIDENT A LEADER WHO HAS FOUGHT HARD FOR PEOPLE WORKING AND DELIVERING ASTONISHING RESULTS FOR ALL AMERICANS. GOVERNOR NEWSOM ENDORSED VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS MOMENTS AGO. HE SAYS SHE’S TOUGH, FEARLESS AND TENACIOUS, ADDING, QUOTE, WITH OUR DEMOCRACY AT STAKE AND OUR FUTURE ON THE LINE, NO ONE IS BETTER TO PROSECUTE THE CASE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP’S DARK VISION AND GUIDE OUR COUNTRY IN A HEALTHIER DIRECTION THAN AMERICA’S VICE PRESIDENT, KAMALA HARRIS. WE’VE ALSO LEARNED NEWSOM CANCELED HIS APPEARANCE TOMORROW AT THE US NINTH CIRCUIT JUDICIAL CONFERENCE IN SACRAMENTO. ORGANIZERS HAVE NOT SAID WHY HE CANCELED. AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY, VOTERS ARE ALSO REACTING TO PRESIDENT BIDEN’S ANNOUNCEMENT. YEAH, SOME EXPRESSED SURPRISE. OTHERS SAY THEY SAW IT COMING AND MANY ARE TRYING TO PROCESS THIS NEWS AND WONDERING WHAT MAY HAPPEN NEXT. I DON’T THINK SHE HAS ANY CHANCE, AND I THINK THAT WAS A HORRIBLE DECISION ON BIDEN’S PART. HE’LL BE A LONG, HARD ROAD FOR THE DEMOCRATS THIS TIME AROUND. BUT ANYWAY, IT’S JUST MY PERSONAL OPINION. BUT, UH, I VOTED FOR HIM THE LAST TIME, SO WE’LL SEE WHO TAKES HIS PLACE AND WE’LL MAKE UP OUR MINDS. HONESTLY, KIND OF INDIFFERENT, BUT IF I HAD TO BE A LITTLE HONEST, BASED ON WHAT I DO KNOW AND WHAT I’VE SEEN BASED ON JOE BIDEN’S LIKE, STATE OF MIND, PROBABLY THINK IT’S FOR THE BEST. WE WANT TO BRING IN OUR POLITICAL ANALYST AND FORMER POLITICAL REPORTER KEVIN RIGGS NOW. AND AT THIS POINT, IT DOES APPEAR THAT THE PARTY IS COALESCING BEHIND VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS, SOON TO BE THE MAYBE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE. DO YOU SEE ANY COMPETITION FOR HER AT THIS POINT? WELL, THE NOMINATION IS NOT AUTOMATIC, OF COURSE, BUT I THINK AT THIS POINT, FROM WHAT I SEE, IT’S HIGHLY UNLIKELY THAT WE’RE GOING TO SEE ANY KIND OF MEANINGFUL OPPOSITION AT THIS POINT. SHE HAS SEVERAL KEY ADVANTAGES. SHE’S ALREADY RUN ON A NATIONAL TICKET. SHE HAS NAME ID AND AS MENTIONED EARLIER, SHE CAN ALSO INHERIT THAT SIZABLE WAR CHEST THAT THE BIDEN TEAM HAS ALREADY PUT TOGETHER. SO THOSE ARE ALL REASONS THAT THAT SHE IS LIKELY NOT TO RECEIVE ANY, ANY SERIOUS OPPOSITION. THE OTHER THING I THINK ABOUT IS, GIVEN THE CHAOS OF THE LAST FEW WEEKS, HOW MANY DELEGATES GOING TO CHICAGO ARE GOING TO HAVE THE STOMACH FOR A BLOODY FLOOR FIGHT, THE KIND OF THING WE HAVEN’T SEEN IN DECADES? SO COULD THERE BE A CHALLENGE? OF COURSE. IT’S THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN. BUT SOMEHOW OR OTHER, I DON’T THINK SO. ALL RIGHT, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE OBVIOUSLY ALSO TALKING ABOUT WHO’S ON THE SHORT LIST TO BE HER RUNNING MATE. WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF FACTORS WHEN YOU’RE LOOKING AT A CAMPAIGN IN THE CHOICE FOR A VP AS A RUNNING MATE? IF IF HARRIS IS THE NOMINEE, SHE’S GOING TO BE LOOKING FOR A VP THAT, SIMPLY PUT, BALANCES THE TICKET. THAT IS THE TRADITIONAL ROLE OF THE VP. SO SHE’S GOING TO BE LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY WHO CAN BALANCE THE TICKET, BOTH GEOGRAPHICALLY AND POLITICALLY. SO SHE’S GOING TO BE LOOKING AT KEY SWING STATES. THAT’S WHY GOVERNOR SHAPIRO’S NAME APPEARS SO OFTEN. SHE MAY WANT TO LOOK FOR A DEMOCRAT WHO DOES VERY WELL IN A REPUBLICAN STATE, LIKE ANDY BESHEAR OF KENTUCKY. SHE MAY LOOK AT GOVERNOR RON COOPER OF NORTH CAROLINA TO SHORE UP SUPPORT IN THE SOUTH. SO THOSE ARE ALL FACTORS GOING INTO THE PICK OF A VP. AND I JUST WILL TELL YOU BOTH TO TO DO AWAY WITH ANY KIND OF INTERESTING SPECULATION. SHE WILL NOT CHOOSE GAVIN NEWSOM AS HER RUNNING MATE, NUMBER ONE ON ALL CALIFORNIA TICKET WOULD BE TOXIC ON A NATIONAL CAMPAIGN LEVEL, AND SECONDLY, SHE COULDN’T DO IT ANYWAY. UNDER THE 12TH AMENDMENT, THE ELECTORS AND THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE CANNOT VOTE FOR BOTH THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT FROM THE SAME PARTY, SO COULDN’T HAPPEN ANYWAY FROM THE SAME STATE. YEAH, YEAH. OKAY. SO OBVIOUSLY I THINK REALLY EVER SINCE THE DEBATE, WE’VE SEEN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN KIND OF SHARPEN THE ATTACKS AGAINST VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS, ANTICIPATING THAT THIS MIGHT HAPPEN. WHAT ARE YOU EXPECTING NOW AFTER THIS DRAMATIC SHIFT TODAY IN TERMS OF CAMPAIGN STRATEGIES ON BOTH SIDES? WELL, THE DONALD TRUMP CLEARLY WANTED TO TAKE ON KAMALA HARRIS. HE WAS REALLY IN MANY RESPECTS, HOPING THAT SHE WOULD BE THE OPPONENT. SO HE IS GOING TO GO AFTER HER PRETTY HEAVILY ON A LOT OF THE ISSUES THAT HE WOULD HAVE ATTACKED. PRESIDENT BIDEN ON IMMIGRATION, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT WAS A BIG PART OF HER PORTFOLIO AS VP. SO THAT’LL BE A BIG PART OF HIS ATTACK. HE ALSO WILL GO AFTER THE FACT THAT SHE RAN A FAIRLY POOR PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BACK IN 2020. YOU’LL RECALL, SHE ANNOUNCED FOR PRESIDENT IN OAKLAND IN 2019, TEN MONTHS LATER, SHE FOLDED HER CAMPAIGN. HE’LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN HER CASE, SHE’S OBVIOUSLY GOT STRONG APPEAL TO WOMEN VOTERS, TO BLACK VOTERS, WHICH ARE KEY IMPORTANT VOTING GROUPS FOR THE DEMOCRATS. SO SHE’LL HAVE TO FOCUS ON THAT. BUT IT’S A THREE MONTH SPRINT FOR HER IN PARTICULAR. IF SHE’S THE NOMINEE AND THAT MEANS SHE’S GOING TO BE TESTED LIKE NEVER BEFORE. IT’S A LOT TO GET DONE AND LIKE YOU SAID, A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME RIGHT? SO DO WE EXPECT TO SEE A DEBATE BETWEEN MR. TRUMP AND KAMALA? THAT’S INTERESTING. I THINK PROBABLY AT THIS POINT DONALD TRUMP IS ON SUCH A ROLL THAT AND IS FEELING SO CONFIDENT THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME KIND OF A DEBATE BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM. I THINK HE FEELS PRETTY CONFIDENT ABOUT THAT. I THINK KAMALA HARRIS AND HER BACKGROUND AS A PROSECUTOR PROBABLY WOULD DO A REALLY GOOD JOB IN A DEBATE. IT MIGHT SURPRISE. I THINK THOSE WHO MIGHT SELL HER SHORT IN THAT REGARD. SO I IF I HAD TO GUESS, I THINK THERE PROBABLY WILL BE AT LEAST ONE DEBATE. YEAH, I THINK SOMETIMES PEOPLE FORGET SHE IS A FORMER DISTRICT ATTORNEY. THAT’S RIGHT. AND HAD THAT OFFICE IN SAN FRANCISCO. UM, OKAY. SO I’M JUST BEING TOLD WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE WILL CHECK BACK WITH YOU IN OUR 6:00 HOUR. AS ALWAYS, WE APPRECIATE YOUR EXPERTISE. YOU BET. THANK YOU FOR THE INSIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND THE CHAIR OF THE CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS CALLING FOR UNITY IN RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT BIDEN’S ANNOUNCEMENT, RUSTY HICKS SAYING, QUOTE, NOW IT IS TIME FOR DEMOCRATS TO UNITE AROUND OUR COMMON CALLING, DEFEATING DONALD TRUMP, RETAKING THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND PRESERVING OUR DEMOCRACY. AND THE CHAIR OF THE CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN PARTY RELEASED THIS STATEMENT READING IN PART, REPUBLICANS ARE UNITED BEHIND PRESIDENT TRUMP AND WILL BE READY FOR WHOEVER THE DEMOCRATS DECIDE IS THEIR BEST BAD OPTION TO SUPPORT RIGHT NOW ON OUR KCRA NEWS APP, WE HAVE MORE REACTION FROM CALIFORNIA POLITICIANS. YOU CAN READ THAT REACTION BY SCANNING THE QR CODE ON THE SCREEN RIGHT NOW. OR YOU CAN JUST GO DIRECTLY TO KCRA.COM AND INDEPENDENT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ROBERT F KENNEDY JR SPOKE TO REPORTERS. JUST HOURS AFTER PRESIDENT BIDEN ANNOUNCED THAT HE’S DROPPING OUT OF THE RACE DURING THE SPEECH, HE REINFORCED THAT HE STILL BELIEVES HE IS THE BEST PRESIDENTIAL OPTION FOR AMERICANS. WE NEED A LEADER WHO CAN STOP FEEDING INTO THE VITRIOL, STOP FEEDING INTO THE ANGER, STOP FEEDING INTO THE MARGINALIZATION, THE POLARIZATION. AND WHO CAN FIND THOSE VALUES THAT BRING AMERICANS TOGETHER? RFK JR DROPPED HIS DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY BID LAST YEAR AND LAUNCHED A CAMPAIGN AS AN INDEPENDENT AND UC DAVIS POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR JAMES ADAMS JOINS US NOW. HIS WORK FOCUSES ON ANALYZING ELECTION STRATEGIES, CROSS PARTY HOSTILITY AND DISTRUST IN GOVERNMENT, AND WE WANT TO TALK TO HIM ABOUT ALL OF THOSE THINGS. SO WE WANT TO START FIRST WITH THE STRATEGY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. WHERE DO THE DEMOCRATS START AT THIS POINT WITH THIS CHANGE AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET, JUST ABOUT THREE AND A HALF MONTHS BEFORE THE ELECTION, AS WE JUST HEARD FROM KEVIN RIGGS, IT’S GOING TO BE A SPRINT, RIGHT? WELL, WE’RE IN VERY UNCHARTED TERRITORY. UM, AND THE FIRST QUESTION CLEARLY IS GOING TO BE, WILL THERE BE A CONTESTED PROCESS FOR WHO REPLACES A PRESIDENT BIDEN AS THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE? KAMALA HARRIS HAS ALREADY ANNOUNCED THAT SHE WILL BE A CANDIDATE TO REPLACE PRESIDENT BIDEN. UM, GAVIN NEWSOM HAS ANNOUNCED THAT HE IS THROWING HIS SUPPORT BEHIND KAMALA HARRIS. WE DON’T KNOW ABOUT SOME OF THE OTHER MAJOR PLAYERS FOR EXAMPLE, UM, UH, JOE MANCHIN HAS, UH, MADE NOISES ABOUT HOW HE MIGHT POSSIBLY THROW HIS HAT IN THE RING. WE DON’T KNOW, FOR CERTAIN ABOUT GRETCHEN WHITMER, JOSH SHAPIRO, AND SOME OTHER POSSIBLE CANDIDATES. ALTHOUGH EARLY INDICATIONS ARE THEY’RE NOT GOING TO RUN. SO QUESTION NUMBER ONE WILL BE WILL THERE BE A CONTESTED PROCESS IF THERE IS? QUESTION TWO, OF COURSE, IS WHO WILL THE DEMOCRATS ULTIMATELY PICK? AND A CRUCIAL ELEMENT GOING FORWARD WILL BE CAN THE DEMOCRATS PICK A CANDIDATE WHILE REMAINING UNIFIED? AS YOU MENTIONED, IT’S A VERY SHORT TIME UNTIL ELECTION DAY. AND IF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS SEEN AS HAVING A SOMEWHAT CHAOTIC AND DIVIDED PROCESS, THAT WILL SURELY WEAKEN WHATEVER CANDIDATE THEY EVENTUALLY SELECT, I WOULD SIMPLY MENTION ONE KEY UNKNOWN AT THIS POINT, UH, WHICH IS THE SAME REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT’S VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS OR SOMEONE ELSE WHO’S CHOSEN IS JUST HOW EFFECTIVE THAT PERSON WILL BE WHEN THEY MAKE THE CASE FOR THEMSELVES TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. HISTORY IS LITTERED WITH, UH, PEOPLE WHO LOOKED ON PAPER AS IF THEY WOULD BE TERRIFIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES LIKE RICK PERRY, RUDY GIULIANI, AND JEB BUSH. BUT WHO, WHEN IT EXPOSED TO THE GLARE OF THE NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT, TURNED OUT TO BE LESS EFFECTIVE. CAMPAIGNERS THAN MANY EXPECTED. SO THERE’S A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY AS WE MOVE FORWARD. ABSOLUTELY. AND A LOT OF HOSTILITY. AND I KNOW THAT’S SOMETHING THAT YOU LOOK AT BETWEEN THE PARTIES. WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING FOR RIGHT NOW AND EXPECTING THE ATTACKS TO LOOK LIKE ON BOTH SIDES? WELL, I THINK A KEY QUESTION HERE IS WHETHER THE POLITICIANS ON BOTH THE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN SIDE WILL BEGIN TO DIAL BACK SOME OF THEIR MORE HOSTILE AND FRANKLY, RECKLESS ATTACKS OF COURSE, WE’RE JUST ONE WEEKEND REMOVED FROM THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP, AND THERE WAS SOME TALK IN THE AFTERMATH OF THIS. AND INDEED, PRESIDENT BIDEN MADE A NATIONAL NATIONALLY TELEVISED SPEECH WHERE HE TALKED ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF DIALING BACK ON THESE ATTACKS AND TREATING OUR POLITICAL OPPONENTS AS IF THEY’RE OPPONENTS, BUT NOT OUR ENEMY. WE’LL SEE WHETHER THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS OR NOT. UH, PRESIDENT TRUMP, DURING THE FIRST 15 MINUTES OF HIS, UH, ACCEPTANCE SPEECH AT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION, DID APPEAR TO BE DIALING BACK HIS ATTACKS. SINCE THEN, HIS RHETORIC HAS REVERTED TO SOMETHING MORE LIKE WHAT WE’VE SEEN FOR THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. I’LL BE LOOKING VERY CAREFULLY AT THAT ON BOTH SIDES. AND AS SOMEONE WHO STUDIES POLITICAL ANGER AND DISTRUST AND HOSTILITY ACROSS PARTY LINES, I AM CROSSING MY FINGERS THAT OUR POLITICIANS WILL LOWER THE TEMPERATURE. THE DANGER IS THAT IF WHEN OUR POLITICIANS RAISE THE TEMPERATURE, YOU SIMPLY DON’T KNOW WHAT THE OUTCOME WILL BE IN TERMS OF ANGER, ALL THE WAY UP TO POSSIBLY POLITICAL VIOLENCE, AS WE SAW LAST WEEKEND. YEAH, WE JUST HAD A VERY STARK EXAMPLE OF THAT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. YEAH. THANK YOU

On Saturday, he performed within the driving rain in a short-sleeved shirt. The fireplace and need to win a primary main burning brightly sufficient to maintain him heat.

He and taking part in accomplice Justin Rose have been evenly-matched; comparable builds, costume, caps on backwards, and a penchant for people-pleasing. 

And the way did Horschel entertain. 

A 32-foot putt for birdie on the seventh pushed Horschel to 3 from the lead, and he saved climbing as others dropped again. 

A primary bogey on the eleventh gap, which was the toughest of the spherical, didn’t halt him as he mastered the greens on shifting day. 

Within the sand, there was the same story as he pulled off nice escape after nice escape. 

A satisfying save on 13 was adopted by a good angle within the bunker on the par-3 14th, the place he chipped himself out of hassle. On the sixteenth, he did the identical.

The crowds couldn’t imagine how effectively he performed an virtually not possible shot. Horschel couldn’t imagine he had not holed it. 

That’s the mark of a champion. One other is that whereas he so desperately needs to win on Sunday, he’s ensuring to remind himself that no matter occurs, the probabilities will come once more. 

“I’ve discovered loads in regards to the recreation of golf taking part in 15 years professionally. I feel I’ve discovered how you can deal with my feelings,” he mentioned. 

“I’ve discovered how you can embrace quite a lot of issues. I am by no means afraid to fail. I feel I hate once I do not do effectively and I get criticism from exterior, and I am letting these criticisms have an effect on my imaginative and prescient of myself. 

“I feel, if it is my time tomorrow, it is my time, and I will be ecstatic. If it isn’t, then we’ll get on the horse once more, and we’ll work exhausting to get again in that place.” 

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Pennsylvania Democrats lined up behind Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday, as she introduced she would search the get together nomination after President Joe Biden bowed out of the race and gave her his endorsement. On the similar time, some additionally indicated they might help Gov. Josh Shapiro as Harris’ working mate, after he threw his help behind her for president. 

“I’ve identified Kamala Harris for practically twenty years – we’ve each been prosecutors, we’ve each stood up for the rule of regulation, we’ve each fought for the individuals and delivered outcomes,” Shapiro stated Sunday. “Kamala Harris is a patriot worthy of our help and she is going to proceed the work of generations of Individuals who got here earlier than us to excellent our union, shield our democracy, and advance actual freedom. She has served the nation honorably as Vice President and he or she is able to be President.”

Shapiro added the very best path ahead for the Democratic Occasion “is to rapidly unite behind Vice President Harris and refocus on profitable the presidency,” including the street to victory runs via Pennsylvania. “I’ll do all the things I can to assist elect Kamala Harris because the forty seventh President of the US.”

A Shapiro spokesman confirmed that the governor spoke with Harris on Sunday.

Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Bob Casey additionally endorsed Harris, a key battleground help from a longtime good friend of Biden’s. 

“With ladies’s rights, employees’ rights, and voting rights on the road, the stakes of this election for Pennsylvania and the Nation couldn’t be increased,” Casey stated in a press release. “Vice President Harris has been main on these fights and as a former prosecutor, she is going to draw a transparent distinction between herself and former President Trump. She is ready to be Commander-in-Chief and is the very best particular person to satisfy this second. I’m proud to endorse her candidacy.”

U.S. Rep. Summer season Lee (D-Twelfth District), who earlier this month defended Harris as Democrats’ apparent selection if Biden dropped out, reiterated her help on Sunday.

“We thank President Biden for doing what he believes is greatest for our nation and making the tough choice to step down,” Lee stated in a assertion. “We have now no time to waste — what’s at stake for communities like mine isn’t summary. We have to unify and transfer ahead to defeat Trump and fascism in November. That’s why I endorse and encourage unity behind Vice President Kamala Harris.”

Pennsylvania Home Speaker Joanna McClinton (D-Philadelphia) stated she’s grateful to Biden for his accomplishments within the Oval Workplace but additionally acknowledges that with ageing come modifications which will make issues tough that weren’t every week, a month or perhaps a yr earlier than. 

“I admire the truth that his tenacity has introduced him so far,” McClinton stated. “It was his choice to make by way of recognizing how a lot work it’ll take over the following few months, getting throughout all the nation, getting them fired up and able to take part in our democracy. And most significantly, defeat Trump.”

Harris’ report as a public servant, prosecutor and defender of democracy and ladies’s rights have primed her to make historical past because the nation’s first girl president, McClinton stated.

“Who higher to show the web page in American historical past after 250 years,” McClinton, who’s the primary girl and the primary girl of shade to function speaker in Pennsylvania, instructed the Capital-Star on Sunday. Requested how Harris may safe the swing votes in battleground states like Pennsylvania, McClinton stated, “One of the best factor she will be able to do is select Governor Josh Shapiro to be her working mate.”

Shapiro’s report of working with a divided legislature to move laws to appropriate a long time of inequitable college funding, return tax {dollars} to seniors and to struggle for households, each as governor and legal professional common, qualify him for the job, she stated. 

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“After all, he hasn’t had the privilege to defeat Trump personally, however working towards Sen. [Doug] Mastriano, who was Trump’s choose, he defeated him considerably,” McClinton stated.  Shapiro beat Mastriano in Pennsylvania’s 2022 gubernatorial race by 15 factors.

“Gov. Josh Shapiro can be a superb option to get with impartial voters, to steer average Republican voters,” McClinton added. “Given his electoral success in a battleground state like Pennsylvania, he can be a pure selection.”

Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey stated in a press release that he regarded ahead to becoming a member of Harris on the marketing campaign path. “Kamala has the fervour, power, and expertise to win this race and ship for the individuals of Pittsburgh,” Gainey stated. 

Montgomery County Commissioner Neil Makhija, who’s a Pennsylvania delegate to subsequent month’s Democratic Nationwide Conference, was one of many first to endorse Harris on Sunday after Biden dropped out. Montgomery is Shapiro’s dwelling county, the place he beforehand served as commissioner. “She will win, She’s going to win, and PA will carry it dwelling,” Makhija stated. 

State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta (D-Philadelphia), who’s working for state auditor common, endorsed Harris on Sunday in a thread on social media the place he additionally praised Biden.

“In January we’ll drop the ‘vice’ and easily name her Madam President,” Kenyatta stated.

U.S. Reps. Mary Homosexual Scanlon (D-Fifth District), Brendan Boyle (D-2nd District), Dwight Evans (D-Third District) and Susan Wild (D-Seventh District) all endorsed Harris on Sunday as properly. 

Shapiro is scheduled to be in Pittsburgh on Monday, the place he’ll be a part of U.S. Environmental Safety Company Administrator Michael Regan to announce native recipients of a local weather grants program. It appears probably he’ll be requested about Sunday’s occasions.

This text was up to date at 9:54 p.m. July 21, 2024 so as to add that Shapiro spoke with Harris on Sunday.

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