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Vice President Harris says she'd consider a bipartisan cabinet should she win in November, Louisiana is the latest state to push the false claim of noncitizen voters, and incidents of 'swatting' contribute to an increasingly toxic political culture.

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Welcome to 2024 Talks, where we're following our democracy in historic times.

I think it's important to have people at the table when some of the most important decisions are being made that have different views, different experiences.

And I think it would be to the benefit of the American public to have a member of my cabinet who was a Republican.

Vice President Kamala Harris tells CNN she'd consider a bipartisan cabinet if she wins.

In her first extended interview since nomination, Harris said she has shifted some on fracking and immigration, but her values haven't changed, pointing to record funding for clean energy and her own prosecution of gangs and cross-border trafficking.

Republicans criticized Harris for doing the interview, along with VP pick Tim Walz.

Louisiana is the latest red state acting to stop noncitizens from voting in federal elections, even though it's already illegal and almost never happens.

Governor Jeff Landry says fewer than 50 noncitizens have been taken off the rolls over two years, and there's no evidence any actually voted.

But he says state agencies that provide voter registration forms must now include a disclaimer warning noncitizens of prosecution.

Every time an illegal alien votes, it cancels out a vote from a citizen.

The Justice Department is charging two Eastern European men with swatting dozens of public figures.

Former Wisconsin Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher says he resigned at risk to a GOP's thin majority after a bogus 911 call claimed his family was being held hostage at gunpoint.

I signed up for the death threats and the late-night swatting, but they did not.

And for a young family, I would say this job is really hard.

The North Carolina Board of Elections is refusing to take Robert F.

Kennedy Jr. off the ballot now that he's stopped campaigning to support former President Donald Trump.

Kennedy's name will also stay on ballots in Michigan and Wisconsin.

A new poll from AARP calls the Senate race in Maryland a "dead heat."

Popular former Republican governor and Trump critic Larry Hogan is tied with Democrat and Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks.

Previous polls in the reliably blue state showed Alsobrooks ahead, but Jeff List with Impact Research says Hogan's name recognition is helping him.

Part of the reason that Larry Hogan is right now doing as well as he is with a lot of Democratic leading constituencies is that younger voters know Larry Hogan a lot better than they know Alsobrooks.

In Ohio, efforts are underway to mobilize unmarried women Senator J.D. Vance once labeled as childless cat ladies.

Celinda Lake with Lake Research says despite single women's traditionally low turnout, health care and consumer issues could change that.

Having someone fight for them, get price gouging down, fight for low prescription drug prices, the insulin issue and the price of insulin is very salient in Ohio.

Highlighting the importance of reproductive care in the race, Trump now says in vitro fertilization should be paid for by the government.

I'm Katherine Carley for Pacifica Network and Public News Service.

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