{"id":16430,"date":"2024-08-15T22:02:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T22:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=16430"},"modified":"2024-08-15T22:02:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T22:02:40","slug":"16430","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=16430","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time around, another organization appears to have popped up out of nowhere to oppose him\u2014\u201dRepublicans For Kamala.\u201d But, according to a newly unearthed audio recording, that group may be a creation of Vice President Harris\u2019 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themainewire.com\/2024\/08\/maine-govs-democrat-brother-admits-republicans-for-harris-organized-by-harris-campaign-audio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maine Wire<\/a>, a local conservative publication, released undercover audio of a conversation between a \u201ccitizen journalist\u201d and Peter Mills, the former executive director of the Maine Turnpike Authority and the brother of Democratic Governor Janet Mills.<\/p>\n<p>In a conversation with the undercover operative using the pseudonym \u201cTim Dillon,\u201d Mills \u2014 a registered Democrat and a prominent figure in the group, as noted by the publication \u2014 expressed interest in joining it. Mills then directed him to Amy Cookson, a staffer on Kamala Harris\u2019s campaign, the audio indicates.<\/p>\n<p>The former\u00a0Planned Parenthood operative had an email address that ended in \u201c@kamalaharris.com.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">Advertisement<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7063311234970495\" data-ad-slot=\"7733319781\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\" data-adsbygoogle-status=\"done\" data-ad-status=\"unfilled\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_1_host\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"aswift_1\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Advertisement\" 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lobbyist Tony Payne and former state Sen. Roger Katz, who is a Republican but was a vocal critic of Maine\u2019s former Republican governor, Paul LePage.<\/p>\n<p>Referencing the report, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/audio-dem-insider-says-republicans-harris-scam-created-kamalas-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commentary<\/a>\u00a0in the Western Journal added some perspective:<\/p>\n<p><em>Now, it\u2019s not clear whether what Mills says is true, either in Maine or throughout the entire organization. It certainly seems that way from the evidence collected, however \u2014 and this Democrat insider seems to say that Republicans for Harris is, in effect, an astroturfed scam.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The only Republicans in it are those who have long since left the party\u2019s mainstream, and they aren\u2019t the motive organizing force. Which, say what you will about the\u00a0Lincoln Project, but at least those people didn\u2019t have email addresses ending in \u201c@joebiden.com,\u201d to the best of my knowledge. Not the case here.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-10\">Advertisement<\/p>\n<div id=\"ld-12578241793956198-359\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, a side-by-side video\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/conservativebrief.com\/harris-top-84989\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted<\/a>\u00a0to social media over the weekend appears to show Vice President Kamala Harris \u2018adopting\u2019 \u2014 some say\u00a0<em>stealing<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 one of former President Donald Trump\u2019s top campaign pledges.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Trump is heard telling a crowd how he plans to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/conservativebrief.com\/trump-office-83686\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">push for an end<\/a>\u00a0to taxes on tips, an increasingly popular idea among service industry workers who rely heavily on them as part of their income. After Trump\u2019s pitch, Harris then essentially repeats the same claim.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time around, another organization appears to have popped up out of nowhere to oppose him\u2014\u201dRepublicans For Kamala.\u201d But, according to a newly unearthed audio recording, that group may be a creation of Vice President Harris\u2019 campaign. On Friday, the\u00a0Maine Wire, a local conservative publication, released undercover audio of a conversation between a \u201ccitizen journalist\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=16430\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16431,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16430\/revisions\/16431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}