Live updates: Josh Shapiro dodges VP questions in Philly; Bob Casey polling way ahead of Dave McCormick

Vice President Kamala Harris is planning to travel to battleground states with her future running mate next week, as reported by Reuters, the Associated Press, and the New York Times, all citing anonymous sources.

This means that she’s getting closer to picking her vice presidential nominee, and intends to do so prior to the Aug. 7 deadline.

The director of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 vision for a complete overhaul of the federal government has stepped down, the conservative think tank confirmed Tuesday.

Paul Dans' exit comes after the project “completed exactly what it set out to do: bringing together over 110 leading conservative organizations to create a unified conservative vision, motivated to devolve power from the unelected administrative state, and returning it to the people," Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said in a statement. Roberts said the group is sticking to its original timeline.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Monday that former President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris show “they’re nervous as hell to go up against her.”

The governor, considered to be on the shortlist to be Harris’ running mate and the Democratic vice presidential nominee, slammed the former president during a question-and-answer session with reporters following a stop at a North Philly youth basketball camp.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro remained mum on his chances of becoming Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate during a stop in North Philadelphia Tuesday, despite his visit to a youth basketball court turning into a de facto campaign event as children chanted his name.

In comments to a crush of reporters after he toured the facility, Shapiro repeatedly dodged questions and refused to say whether he’s being vetted for the job. He said he hasn’t spoken to Harris for more than a week — since the day President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid — but would not say whether he has spoken to anyone from Harris’ campaign about the job.

With Charli XCX, Beyoncé, Pink, and now Meg Thee Stallion, Kamala Harris continues to collect endorsements from powerful female hitmakers.

Megan Thee Stallion announced on Instagram that she'd make an appearance at Harris' Atlanta Tuesday rally.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro spent a part of his Tuesday afternoon having a spirited debate — about basketball.

The governor who is considered to be on the shortlist for the Democratic vice presidential nomination, stopped at a North Philly gymnasium to meet with a bevy of school-aged kids at Philadelphia Youth Basketball, a nonprofit organization that aims to break the cycle of poverty through sports engagement.

Vice President Kamala Harris launched her first campaign ad Tuesday, days after Republicans began a barrage of negative advertisements against the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.

The campaign is spending $50 million airing the TV ad across battleground states ahead of the Democratic National Convention next month.

The acting director of the Secret Service says he “cannot defend” why the roof used by the gunman in the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump was not secured.

Ronald Rowe is testifying Tuesday before two Senate committees. Rowe says he recently traveled to the Pennsylvania shooting site and says what he saw made him ashamed. The FBI’s No. 2 official is also testifying.

Donald Trump seems to be backing away from his earlier commitment to debate Vice President Kamala Harris, questioning the value of a meetup and saying he “probably” will debate but he “can also make a case for not doing it” — prompting her campaign to say he’s “scared.”

Trump, in an interview with Fox News Channel that aired Monday night, was pressed several times by host Laura Ingraham on whether he would commit to a debate.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro will spend the weekend fundraising in the Hamptons, according to the New York Times and CNBC.

According to the Times, Shapiro, who is considered one of the top contenders for Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, will attend a fundraiser Saturday for The Next 50, an organization aimed at investing in young Democrats.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper opted not to be a candidate in Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate search in part due to concerns that his Republican lieutenant governor would try to assume control if he left the state to campaign as part of the Democratic ticket, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Cooper confirmed in a statement Monday night that he would not be a candidate to be Harris’ vice president, saying he was “honored” to be considered but “this just wasn’t the right time for North Carolina and for me to potentially be on a national ticket.”

Vice President Kamala Harris will appear at a campaign event in Atlanta today, marking her sixth visit to Georgia this year — but her first since President Joe Biden announced that he would not seek reelection.

Late last week, Harris’ campaign opened a new office in Fulton County, with a number of local Democratic leaders in attendance, the Atlanta Voice reports.

The veepstakes came to Montgomery County.

The conversation capturing the American political world — who Vice President Kamala Harris will pick to be her running mate — converged in the Wissahickon High School gymnasium in Ambler on Monday as two popular Democratic governors considered to be in contention for the role rallied alongside one another.

With Gov. Josh Shapiro emerging as a potential front-runner to become Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, one of the only scandals to mark his two decades in Pennsylvania politics has resurfaced.

Erin McClelland, the Democratic nominee for state treasurer in November’s election, drew eyeballs last week with a thinly veiled and unusual interparty jab, saying in a tweet she wanted a vice presidential pick that, among other things, “doesn’t sweep sexual harassment under the rug.”

Former President Donald Trump will be in Harrisburg on Wednesday for his first rally in the commonwealth since the attempted assassination against him at his Butler County rally earlier this month.

The rally will be located indoors at Harrisburg’s Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex. The former president was heeding safety recommendations from the Secret Service to stop holding outdoor rallies, until he decided over the weekend that he would resume outdoor events.

Despite turnover at the top of the ticket, Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. has maintained a substantial lead over Republican challenger Dave McCormick in recent polls in Pennsylvania’s nationally watched Senate race.

Casey, a three-term incumbent, led McCormick, a former hedge fund executive, by an eye-popping 13 percentage points in a Fox News poll released last week. Other recent surveys have shown the Democrat with leads ranging from 3 to 8 percentage points.