Results: The Past Week In Politics (July 25-Aug1)

A viral clip from on social media shows Donald Trump's running mate, JD Vance, proposing that people with children be given more voting power than people without kids. The clip is from a 2021 speech that Vance gave to a conservative organization called the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. "Let's give votes to all children in this country, but let's give control over those votes to the parents of those children. When you go to the polls in this country as a parent, you should have more power — you should have more of an ability to speak your voice in our democratic republic — than people who don't have kids. Let's face the consequences and the reality: If you don't have as much of an investment in the future of this country, maybe you shouldn't get nearly the same voice." What is your opinion on this quote?

Donald Trump has said that vice presidential picks have "virtually no impact" on elections when asked about JD Vance's fitness for office, in an apparent attempt to downplay his running mate's role on the Republican ticket. Trump made the comments during a combative interview at the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in Chicago. Asked by the Fox News journalist Harris Faulkner whether Vance would be ready to take over "on day one, if he has to be", Trump avoided answering directly and instead downplayed the significance of the Vance's role. "I've always had great respect for him … but I will say this, and I think this is well documented historically, the vice-president, in terms of the election, does not have any impact. I mean, virtually no impact," Trump said. Do you agree that the vice-president does not have any impact on the election?

Donald Trump also falsely suggested Kamala Harris had misled voters about her race as the former president appeared Wednesday before the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago in an interview that quickly turned hostile. The Republican former president wrongly claimed that Harris, the first Black woman and Asian American to serve as vice president, had in the past only promoted her Indian heritage. "I didn't know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black. So, I don't know, is she Indian or is she Black?" Trump said while addressing the group's annual convention. Harris is the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, both immigrants to the U.S. Do you think these comments by Donald Trump will affect his public image?

If you watched the interview with Trump in Chicago, did you think he did well?

Harris responded briefly during her address to the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc in Houston, saying Trump's display was "the same old show: the divisiveness and the disrespect." She added: "And let me just say, the American people deserve better. The American people deserve better." Do you agree with Kamala's statement that America deserves better than Trump?

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