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Presidential Elections

At Houston bakery Three Brothers, election odds are calculated through cookie sales. (Three Brothers/Facebook)
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The pastry pollsters got it right

The pastry lovers of the US succeeded this month where the political pundits and public opinion pollsters failed. Intermountain Jewish News readers got a taste of the cookie politics before the election.

Steve Lipman
Vice President Kamala Harris, right, and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, left, at the Reading Ter- minal Market in Philadelphia on a Harris campaign stop, July 13. (Ryan Collerd/AFP/Getty Images)
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Walz is in, Shapiro is out

Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor who burst into national view after calling Republicans “weird,” will be Kamala Harris’ running mate on the November Democratic ticket. Jewish Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro had been one of the names in the running to take the spot.

Ron Kampeas, JTA
Candace Owens, conservative political commentator, speaks at a Turning Point event on June 14, 2024 in Detroit, Mich. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images)
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Trump fundraiser drops Candace Owens

An upcoming fundraiser for Donald Trump dropped commentator Candace Owens from its guest lineup on July 23, following blowback over Owens’ record of embracing anti-Semitic rhetoric and Holocaust denial.

Andrew Lapin, JTA
(L-r) Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly are current frontrunners to join Vice President Kamala Harris' 2024 ticket for the Democrats. (Grace Yagel/70 Faces Media)
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A Jewish angle on Kamala Harris’ possible vice-president picks

One day after President Joe Biden ended his campaign, leading Democrats have coalesced around Vice President Kamala Harris — and begun speculating about her running mate. At least two Jewish governors are thought to be top contenders: Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro and Illinois’ J.B. Pritzker.

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Kamala Harris affixes a kippah to the head of her husband, Douglas Emhoff, as they visit the Western Wall, Jerusalem, November 2017. (Halie Soifer)
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Harris’ history with the Jewish community

Coming down the stairs in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City in 2017, Kamala Harris saw the Western Wall and knew what she had to do. Harris, then a California senator, reached into her pocket and pulled out a blue kippah and clips she had prepared for the occasion. She told her Jewish husband, Doug Emhoff, to bend down a bit and fastened the kippah to his head.

Ron Kampeas, JTA
Big Republican Jewish donors give to Haley
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Big Republican Jewish donors give to Haley

Days before Republican voters began casting their presidential primary ballots this week, Nikki Haley was hoping that she could pull off an unlikely win over Donald Trump.

Ron Kampeas, JTA
Jewish guide to possible Biden picks
2020 Presidential Elections

Jewish guide to possible Biden picks

By Jackson Richman As President-elect Joe Biden forms his upcoming administration, certain positions should spark interest in the Jewish and pro-Israel community. Whoever is nominated would likely signal the direction …

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Biden era begins
2020 Presidential Elections

Biden era begins

WASHINGTON — On Joe Biden’s first day as president, he plans to launch a task force to reunite children and parents separated at the country’s southern border. It’s one of …

Ron Kampeas, JTA
Biden and Israel, 2008-2016
2020 Presidential Elections

Biden and Israel, 2008-2016

WASHINGTON — JTA spoke with half a dozen people who saw the Biden-Israel relationship up close during the years that Biden served under President Obama as vice president. What emerges …

Ron Kampeas, JTA