She came through the skies and she told it to me
Told me the words I was afraid to see
I’m weaker
Everyday I’m getting weaker
‘Need the angels to remind me
M angel : Through the light
Remember
Here my baby
Welcome to the tale of tales
Welcome to the tale of your own light, my child
Welcome to the light
From where I stand
Everything is glorious
Tears can be so soft
I miss my mother
miss my mother
miss my mother at night
She gave me life
I miss my brother
miss my brother
miss my brother all day
Ouh, we used to pray
I miss my lover
miss my lover
at night
Ouh, to hold me tight
I’m on the freeway
on the freeway
Because I can
Tears can be
So good for those who dive in them
let them run on my cheeks oh,
One more time
Tears are so soft
When you dive in them
Oh let them sail, ah
I miss my friends
I miss my friends
And the tenderness
Ouh, they give me cold hard looks, now
I miss my joy
I miss my joy
And my head
Look at my face !
What is happening now ?
So good for those who dive in them
Oh let them roll girl, yeah
Love is like this
Embrace when you can
Cause at night
When you’re all alone you think about it one more time
Oh let’s embrace them when we can
Oh, ‘sing my heart out
Tears can be so good let me pray
Let me pray for my salvation baby, now water
I don’t want more money more water
Oh, water
Mmmore water
I don’t want your money !
Water - ah
Is what I’m looking for
Tears can be so good baby
Dive in it, and forget it all
Tears can be so good let them
Roll on your face girl
On your face forever
Marvin descending
Young Marvin descending
Into this body of mine
I feel high all the time
Young Marvin forever in my heart
Yes I still do care for him
I still think I should see him
And the stars roll in my mind
Young Marvin all the time
Cause he knows
What goes inside of me
Inside
Of this body of mine
I wish I had the time
to picture you
in details for my heart
for when I need to be stronger
I need things to feel better
when I make sweet love to you
I waited all this time
can you please
explain this to my heart
But there he goes
So pretty and easy
He knows how much I feel
To see him move around the room
just for me
Ascending
such solace for my heart
I need to feel this one more time
I need to be inside this
I need to be
I need to feel this free
He knows just how i feel
and I wish I was as free as he can be
A day in the water
Do you want to spend a day
Just a day in the water
Just a day like no other
When nothing hurts your skin
Do you want to know
Do you want to feel the sun
But the sun from underwater
nothing burning your shoulders
nothing hurts within
Deeper and the deeper and the deeper and the deeper that I go
Softer it gets softer it gets softer it gets softer I don’t know
Father oh father oh father oh father let me go
I don’t want it no more
I hear them talking about it
But it sounds like the same old song
I see they worry about it
I’m so far ago they can’t be wrong
and I know it’s obvious
But I’m flying from what I can see
So let me be
Do you want to spend a day
And just stay in the water
And then taking another…
No, I can’t take no more, yeah
do you want to know
No, you’ll never know what it’s like
To be just underwater
And it looks like a mirror
But it blurs it all, yeah
Deeper and the deeper and the deeper and the deeper that I go
Softer, it gets softer it gets softer it gets softer I don’t know
so let me be
Full of life
PAIN SHIFTING
seize my head in regret
There might not be another vision
one that makes me forget I wish I was another person
and we still
Try every night to go make sense of it
Still try every night to bound over something
over love
white powder to forget
the taste of blood and how it burnt them
They all think that they’re safe, belated by the same old venom
and they steal ideas from your daughters
The one they want
Elsewhere naked offered divine and touched by them only
hm, full of life
FOR A
WHERE IT MAK ES
LONELY
A LIFE
AND DIE
i let go of my pride
For whatever reason I’m free
I let go dissolved into desires that were not made for me
There’s a scar
Take my hand and forget that i am just another woman
Even though you see me you’ll never let me be your boyfriend
Tell me lies
WHERE IT MAKES
Angels crying in my bed (ft Madonna)
Is it really sweet to be this lost
Is it really worth it
Is it really good to feel that sad
Will I ever outcome it
I saw you in my dream it wasn’t so bad
But then we didn’t kiss
Is it really love or is it blood
Dripping off my wrists
Oh ah
As I fall
I can hear
the sweet sound
Of angels crying in my bed
angels crying in my bed
And i want golden feathers
If they spring from my back
Oh lord i want them golden
the sweet sound
Angels crying in my bed
Angels crying
BIG EYE : And maybe we will
Almost fall in love
I will look into his eyes
And he into mine
My one single eye
The unfortunate other
Blinded by a punishing slap
And we will agree
That love can be blind
And he
Healthy boy, well fed, white with his rosy cheeks
Will wonder about me
Pity my bony body
Those thin ribs
and feel my twisted ears
And the scars on my hands
Reminder of the flirtation
of my skin
And the cruel volcano
And perhaps lift my skirt
Before he learns the greater horrors
I owe him the truth of me
So i will say to him,
end quote
I went to school
Track 10
Sweet lover of mine
Oh let me take you dancing
The scar of the foreigner
Let’s go dancing go dancing
Let’s go fucking go fucking
I am not so shy
Where lights are intervening
I am not so proud
Oh baby take me dancing
Our lord as a sigh
Ouh, I’m tied to thee, tied to thee
I’m who I’m supposed to be
Protect me, don’t tell the guards
Take me to the dance
Oh...take me there
Sweet lover of mine,
New York, nineties
I just probably, I - sit !
Not to me, I’ve been everywhere
Stronger than before
The lives of before are
Meant to be
I did ! oh yeah
Let me prove it by touching you baby
Oh, let’s meet again
I was surprised by the chord change
And she kept on walking
Like her crazy friends, bitch she was - oh yes she was not going to surrender It’s like ARGH !
maybe simpler is better, you know ?
Let me here take the credit baby
Oh defend me
Besides, I’m your first astral
Let me pay your demon the out
Let me pay out your demon number
Let me be with you
The things I get with you
Just take down to church
Nothing real good for you
Let’s take you on a ride
Why you make me feel emotions
You make me feel emotion
And I want to give emotion
Well, do you feel me now ?
Oh, do you feel me now ?
I think we’re in the mountain
I think loud as
The wind does think at night when it pours I know you want my body
I know you want my body
You make me one with mornin’
You make me like a child, girl
We’re meetin’ the morning
you make me unwilling to come back to the place Where I go
Oh, you make it just hard to really come right now
Oh, I say go
I you make me feel like ravin’, let’s be
And i forget to eat
The taste of her is something few forget about me
I believe you’re amazing babe,
First time I openly talk about it
And where, where did it go ?
And when did you decide to fuck about me ? Oh where did it go
that give them half what I give
They make it through the runnin’
I came to fuck pretty
I can thank you for the ride, babe
Sweet lover of infinity
Ah, we’ll keep on rising
thank you for the ride, baby
it’s been a long time...
Words, turns me into an animal
You know that I’m an animal
You know that I am an animal yeah
Word, somebody to an animal
We got to fuck hours
Are you aware of other faces down in the sky Marvin Gaye in my head poetry ever and then so many things I wish I could talk about no time to write I’m so stoned
I’m so stoned
Why did she take that car ?
Fushia dress, fushia
Ouh, babe I dream in colors
You make me think think feel things so rare
Let’s stop the room to like - it never stops !
Overture (feat. Mike Dean)
He’s been shining for ever, your son
He’s been shining for ever your son
He’s been shining
He’s been shining
He’s been shining for ever, ever your son
They search for the prince in the valley on his big horse
Search for a hero on the long course
But do they see me ?
Can I see me ?
He’s looking for a daughter in the field, alone
I wish I could give you the stars you asked me for
I wish I could open the sky doors
Open the sky doors
Take my sword
And save all the mothers and the daughters
Wounded by our kind
Take my sorrow
Take my gold
Who didn’t have time
I wish I could be a better man
By just becoming my angel
Just becoming my angel
from above
higher self speaking to me through the melody I
wish I could open the sky doors
I wish I could just take my sword
And welcome
My other
I wish I could forgive him for not seeing the truth
Seeing the truth - is it your blood ?
Why do you think I ache on my skin?
I’m afraid of disappearing into your skin
He’s been shining for ever your son !
I remember more than I’m supposed to
remember the time when your daughter was your son
And i wrote about my golden sword too
And i wrote about my lover’s eternal stare
Flowery days
When I die of love
I want to be settled down into a fiery crown
Into the flowery days
In silver satin ribbons
Lay my head apart into the flowery days
Cause I want you to stay
And I want you to love
All seeds will scatter ‘round
In yellow dusty sounds into the flowery days
Nothing eternal
All is well and done the trees are golden warm
And i wish you could stay into the flowery days
And i wish you could love into the flowery days
I met an angel (ft Madonna)
Open your heart my love,
open your heart
Open your heart, my love
open your heart
Accept to sit in there
Right next to me
Open your heart, my love,
Set myself free
I never thought I could
Just gemini
Open your heart, my love
don’t let it die
Accept to lose it all
and then relive
Set myself free
Need the angels to remind me…
BIG EYE: Do you suffer from loneliness ?
This is the voice of the big simulation.
Just let go of any pressure
in your body.
The terrestrial food
is of no importance now
Let me touch you angel…
Bismillah
I fell in love with an angel
She appeared
And there she tore up my whole word
Teaching me patience in a second
She’s teaching me patience
I fell in love with an angel
Elusive
And I am not hungry anymore
Teaching me longing over again
she’s teaching me longing
She’s in the trees, she’s in the sky
She’s in the singing stream
She’s in the cats’ and the dogs’ eyes
In the birds falling up from the trees
She’s on the hands of my best friend driving
She’s on the hands of the one taking care of me
I fell in love with the devil
Where is she
Where is she when I try to call
Teaching me waiting over feeding
She’s teaching me fear again
Oh, open your heart my love
Just try it once, my love
She’s in the singing stream
Eyes in the sky
open your heart
Release and sit in there
True love (ft. 070 Shake)
Do you know how it feels
To be inside it
But never talk about it
Do you know how it feels
I’m talking to you
I’m always talking to you
So you know how it feels
can’t believe you saw me crying
‘cause when I cry baby I cry for you
can’t believe you saw me dancing
‘cause when I dance baby I dance for you
Do you know how to love
I’ll show you
Oh, I’ll show you
So we know how to love
I need you to love me
I need you to love me
can’t believe you saw me dancing
when I dance baby I dance for you
Angel of light
Take me higher
Make me forget my mother
With your dark brown eyes staring at me
With your dark eyes staring at me
Angel of light : They’re making the blame
It still feels the same (right)
I’m doing the most
Hundred of those years crying
You said you wanted us soft besides you
Any word on me
many one pass through me
It’s so emotional
I think about it all the time
they’re begging on me
i pass on their lives
i wait on the floor
nothing making sense
i’m one on their knees
they begging me please (let me tell you som’thing)
holy seconds to most
trying to sit in your league
on a ride
With your dark eyes staring at me
Let me touch you once
Flexing hard
Flexing slow
See my abs
I’m your man
As i am,
Waiting for
Some hot sex
Oh forgive me, parles-tu français ?
Je ne me souviens plus de ce que je ai fait
De mes clefs je crois qu’elles étaient sur la table
veux-tu bien
On this table
Can you see this
It’s fantastic
I’m ecstatic
Si tu veux je switch en français ?
Qu’est-ce que tu veux que j’te dise en français ?
Vas-y, dis-moi ce que tu veux que j’te dise en français !
Just once, sweet angel of mine
Aimer, puis vivre
Il se dépêche de rentrer
Je comprends
J’ai pu aussi attendre à un moment
Je comprends ça
love without love
Pour lui elle a tout lâché
Elle tend sa main dans le froid je n’entends pas
Je fais des choix
Tu m’avais promis que je ne serai jamais seul
Tu me l’avais dit que je ne serai jamais seul
Tu me l’as promis que je ne serai jamais seul
Et pourtant je suis seul
Et je me ressens seul
Et après ça
Le câlin définitif
Maman, papa, du lait
Des torrents sur moi
Être aimé comme ça, oh comme ça me manque
Et j’irai partout où mon coeur chavire
C'est aimer,
puis vivre
Il en perd ses appétits
Je comprends
Ne sous-estime pas quand le coeur battant bat
Je l’ai prise à bras le corps quand elle est tombée
J’ai le coeur chaud, le coeur tout cassé
Répare ça tout autour de toi
Et après ça Le câlin définitif Maman, papa, du lait Des torrents sur moi Être aimé comme ça, oh comme ça me manque Et j’irai partout où mon cœur chavire
Further from mine
It’s alright, it’s the shine
Further from mine
It’s alright, it’s your shine
My soul and mind
It’s alright, it’s your shine
What is she doing ?
And what makes me a human
Oh is the shine
Of the wound that is open
of your eyes against mine
it’s alright, it’s the shine
Making them precious
About when they get love
And when they cry
See the good shine
It’s alright, it’s the shine
In all the land
Shine
I’m not pretty
things I did to forgive
and keep my heart open
And then follow a child
In the outer borders
No more of city lights
Looking for shine
No more of those sweet lies
Looking for shine
in all the land
it’s alright, it’s our shine
Don’t be mad, it’s my child
How many fake lights in the sky
are they going to punch with their fist ?
Don’t be mad, it’s our child
We have to be friends
Touch yourself
Boy, it’s all still there
Your mouth, your nose, your eyes, your elbows, your knees
Were supposed to go but it’s all still there
And you loved
boy, open wide
a sorrow crashed on the floor wasted again
But boy oh boy at least you tried
Don’t you say no to me again
Cause you know we have to be friends
Don’t you say no to me again
Cause we know you have to be friends
Boy it’s all there
It depends on you to look back and see for yourself
Boy, boy !
Aren’t you scared
And in love
you lose yourself
Like in this old movie where he’s gifted and blind
Don’t you think it’s just like yourself
Cause we know you have to be friends
Lick the light out (ft Madonna)
Descend a bit lower
Lower
Hm, and meet me there
Descend a bit faster
Faster
Oh, and fall a bit harder for me
There’s nothing you can’t do with me
you cannot be too deep with me
There nothing you can’t do with me
Prevent me from falling
By jumping in the skies above,
High, love
I’ll catch you
Oh why is the wind
When it blows
In my mind
Purging me from the sight of your glorious face
There’s nothing you can’t do with me, oh I’m honest
The burden on your chest, those feelings are golden
There’s nothing you can do with me to be scared of
I take the blood I take the tears I take all of
the things that unfold in my arms when you’re hurting
And you don’t know who else to turn to for the talking
Baby you can talk with me always
Baby you can talk with me always
BIG EYE : Where do you think I stand ?
I stand in your heart
just next to your lungs
you smoke too much
do you want to chase me away ?
I am dwelling in your sorry
raging
don’t deny
it’s useless
I’m here
breathing through your mouth
seeing with your heart
loving through your flesh
If an angel in power
decided just to see me
could I get that much higher ?
See me
If an angel in silence
decided just to free me
could I get that sweet power ?
Hear me
Feel me
I’m an angel in power
I decided to see you
As a human, a flower
I see you
I hear you
Give me your heart my darling, as it breaks, my baby
I see the cracks my darling, I’ll lick the light out
To be honest
I get lost in my thoughts, and for hours of time
and it’s making me feel
like I am not alone anymore
to be honest
I am trying to love, but I’m afraid to kill
And I never know when,
when to search or stay still
with you
Broken and yet tender
Always in and always out
Heading to the water
Drowning in what it can hide
Kind of always cautious
Don’t you don’t you break my heart
Feeling kind of loveless
Yet always ready to try
And I’ve been through so much
that sometimes it feels far
It is like a movie
played by another star
she’s a stranger
Now i’m sitting alone
and I’m trying to listen
To the stories that could
make mine a little softer, and fine
to be honest
Douce et abîmé
Toujours à côté
Dans l’eau s’enfoncer
Ne rien y trouver
Toujours protégé
Y a rien à casser
Feeling kind of loveless
J’ai rien à donner
J’ai tout à donner
away away…
I feel like an angel
Oh my lord, I feel like an angel
Oh my love
Floating above on the earth no longer
Oh my god
Searching for undying promises
Oh my god do I have the answer
Oh my lord I feel like an angel
And the woman in red
Said a part of me left with her
Told me to give her away
She’s a liar and a fool
Maybe she died this day
Just to take away the pain
So I don’t have to be warm and solid ever again
Floating above everytime he touches me
As he needs I dissociate
Oh my god do I have the answer
Oh my lord I feel like angel
I fucked him and then, he got rough
Satisfaction but it’s never enough
Would you lay down next to me and pray
It is good to try
You should just come to my bed
Earthy appetites are a thing
But don’t you tell me where you’re going and I’ll stay still
We should never tell each other now
What is good and what is ruined somehow
Oh my god I feel like an angel
Oh my love do I have the answer
My love is my light
My love is my light
My love is my undying eyes looking
Above your own eyes
My love is my soul
My love is the eyes that see
What you don’t know
My love is my power
My love is the eyes given everything
Forgive me brother
Forgive me for not seeing clearly
I was in them gone
My love it sees me
My love it sees everything I am
Everything you don’t see
Open your mind
and dive into the big eye
Open my mind
teach me ce que je ne sais pas
Open my mind and see the stream in the sky
Open my mind with your big big eye
Factor of skin drifting down
factor of skin
diving deep
Smell
Power of smells you smell baby
See from your eye see my past
I want it to last
When I fuck you know
Oh I touch you now
Recreate it now
Penetrate it now
My soul
Open it all
Oh, my word is my sword
My word is my sword
Recreate it all
And forgive it all
My eyes is my pride
It’s all dead inside
It’s all dead and then it is reborn in me
Endless memories
I see you from inside, my teacher
Master of love, my pride
I am now your mother
I’ll carry you to the other side
What did you see what did you see
Were you speaking ?
Were you saving me ?
What it is
Were you saving me from the dark?
PARANOÏA 1. Overture - 1.24 (Héloïse Letissier / Héloïse Letissier, Mike Dean, Joseph Bishara) Published by Intranquillité, Papa George Music (BMI) All Rights Administered by Warner-Tamerland Publishing Corp., Capillary Music Inc. Strings: Joseph Bishara 2. Tears can be so soft - 5.12 (Héloïse Letissier / Héloïse Letissier, Mike Dean, Marvin Gaye, Leon Ware, Sarah Schachner) Published by Intranquillité, Papa George Music (BMI) All Rights Administered by Warner-Tamerland Publishing Corp., EMI Music, Jobete Music, Schachner Music Publishing (BMI) Contains a sample of the recording “Feel My love Inside” performed by Marvin Gaye. Courtesy of Motown Records, A Division of UMG Recordings, Inc., under license from Universal Music Enterprises. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Strings and additional production: Sarah Schachner 3. Marvin descending - 4.07 (Héloïse Letissier / Héloïse Letissier, Mike Dean, Joseph Bishara, Ash Workman) Published by Intranquillité, Papa George Music (BMI) All Rights Administered by Warner-Tamerland Publishing Corp., Capillary Music Inc., Copyright Control Strings: Joseph Bishara Drums and percussion: Ash Workman 4. A day in the water - 4.02 (Héloïse Letissier / Héloïse Letissier, Ash Workman) Published by Intranquillité, Copyright Control Strings: Davide Rossi Drum programming and synths: Ash Workman 5. Full of life - 4.32 (Héloïse Letissier / Héloïse Letissier, Mike Dean, Tommy Rush, Johann Pachelbel) Published by Intranquillité, Papa George Music (BMI) All Rights Administered by Warner-Tamerland Publishing Corp., Public Domain Contains a sample from “Pachelbel: Canon and Gigue in D Major, P.37: I. Canon” as performed by Sir Neville Marriner, licensed courtesy of Parlophone Records Limited, trading as Warner Classics’. Courtesy of Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields. With additional production of Tommy Rush 6. Angels crying in my bed (feat. Madonna) - 4.26 (Héloïse Letissier / Héloïse Letissier, Mike Dean) Published by Intranquillité, Papa George Music (BMI) All Rights Administered by Warner-Tamerland Publishing Corp. 7. Track 10 - 11.09 (Héloïse Letissier / Héloïse Letissier, Mike Dean, Gregory Lake, Darren King) Published by Intranquillité, Papa George Music (BMI) All Rights Administered by Warner-Tamerland Publishing Corp., BMG Rights Management (UK) / Campbell Connelly France, Copyright Control Contains a sample of “Lucky Man” by Emerson Lake & Palmer (p) 1970 Leadclass Ltd. under exclusive licence to BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. ; licensed courtesy of BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. Drums: Darren King ANGELS 8. Overture - Mike Dean version - 1.27 (Héloïse Letissier / Héloïse Letissier, Mike Dean) Published by Intranquillité, Papa George Music (BMI) All Rights Administered by Warner-Tamerland Publishing Corp. 9. He’s been shining for ever, your son - 5.02 (Héloïse Letissier / Héloïse Letissier, Mike Dean) Published by Intranquillité, Papa George Music (BMI) All Rights Administered by Warner-Tamerland Publishing Corp. Strings: Joseph Bishara 10. Flowery days - 3.00 (Héloïse Letissier / Héloïse Letissier, Ash Workman) Published by Intranquillité, Copyright Control Piano : Vincent Taurelle, drums : Vincent Taeger, bass : Amaury Ranger - on an arrangement by Christine and the Queens Recorded by Ash Workman at Motorbass Studio, assisted by Antoine Poyeton 11. I met an angel (feat. Madonna) - 6.06 (Héloïse Letissier / Héloïse Letissier, Mike Dean, Joseph Bishara, Darren King) Published by Intranquillité, Papa George Music (BMI) All Rights Administered by Warner-Tamerland Publishing Corp., Capillary Music Inc., Copyright Control Strings: Joseph Bishara Drums: Darren King 12. True love (feat. 070 Shake) - 5.48 (Héloïse Letissier, Danielle Balbuena / Héloïse Letissier, Mike Dean, Sarah Schachner) Published by Intranquillité, Papa George Music (BMI) All Rights Administered by Warner-Tamerland Publishing Corp., Sony ATV Music Publishing, Schachner Music Publishing (BMI) 070 Shake appears courtesy of Getting Out Our Dreams, Inc./Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings Inc. Strings and additional production: Sarah Schachner 13. Let me touch you once (feat. 070 Shake) - 3.15 (Héloïse Letissier / Héloïse Letissier, Mike Dean) Published by Intranquillité, Papa George Music (BMI) All Rights Administered by Warner-Tamerland Publishing Corp. 070 Shake appears courtesy of Getting Out Our Dreams, Inc./Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings Inc. 14. Aimer, puis vivre - 4.50 (Héloïse Letissier / Héloïse Letissier, Ash Workman) Published by Intranquillité, Copyright Control Guitar : Adrian Edeline, drums : Vincent Taeger, bass : Amaury Ranger, on an arrangement by Christine and the Queens Recorded by Ash workman at Motorbass Studio, assisted by Antoine Poyeton TRUE LOVE 15. Shine - 5.52 (Héloïse Letissier / Héloïse Letissier, Mike Dean) Published by Intranquillité, Papa George Music (BMI) All Rights Administered by Warner-Tamerland Publishing Corp. Strings: Davide Rossi 16. We have to be friends - 4.15 (Héloïse Letissier / Héloïse Letissier, Mike Dean, Darren King, Ash Workman) Published by Intranquillité, Papa George Music (BMI) All Rights Administered by Warner-Tamerland Publishing Corp., Copyright Control Drums : Darren King With additional production of Ash Workman 17. Lick the light out (feat. Madonna) - 6.32 (Héloïse Letissier / Héloïse Letissier, Mike Dean, JosephBishara, Darren King) Published by Intranquillité, Papa George Music (BMI) All Rights Administered by Warner-Tamerland Publishing Corp., Capillary Music Inc., Copyright Control With additional production of A.G. Cook Strings : JosephBishara Drums : Darren King 18. To be honest - 3.42 (Héloïse Letissier / Héloïse Letissier, Mike Dean, Ash Workman) Published by Intranquillité, Papa George Music (BMI) All Rights Administered by Warner-Tamerland Publishing Corp., Copyright Control Synths and additional production: Ash Workman 19. I feel like an angel - 4.32 (Héloïse Letissier / Héloïse Letissier, Mike Dean) Published by Intranquillité, Papa George Music (BMI) All Rights Administered by Warner-Tamerland Publishing Corp. 20. 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French avant-pop artist, Christine and the Queens , has announced a short run of North American tour dates amongst the international tour for his forthcoming album, PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE . Chris will perform across 6 cities in the U.S. and Canada this fall starting at the Fillmore in Philadelphia on October 17th and ending at The Vic Theatre in Chicago on October 26th.
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In addition to the North American dates, Chris will also be touring across Europe and hitting many renowned international festivals this summer, including Primavera Sound, Glastonbury, and Montreal Jazz Festival.
PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE is Chris’ 4th full length project. It is co-produced by legendary record producer, Mike Dean, and features guest appearances from 070 Shake and Madonna. Chris has already shared 3 singles, “To be honest”, “True love (feat. 070 Shake)”, and “Tears can be so soft,” each giving us a glimpse of Chris’ introspective side and leaving fans eagerly awaiting the full album experience. Don’t miss the chance to see the record performed live! Tickets for the North American dates go on sale on June 2nd at 10:00AM EST. Grab them here !
PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE will be released on June 9th via Because Music. Preorder it here .
See full list of tour dates below: Sun 5.28 – Saint-Brieuc, France @ Art Rock Fri 6.02 – Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Barcelona Tue 6.06 – Lyon, FR @ Nuits de Fourvière Fri 6.09 – Madrid, Spain @ Primavera Madrid Sun 6.11 – Hilvarenbeek, NL @ Best Kept Secret Festival Sat 6.17- London, UK @ Meltdown Festival Sun 6.18 – London, UK @ Meltdown Festival Sat 6.24 – Somerset, UK @ Glastonbury Festival Wed 6.28 – Gdynia, Poland @ Open’er Festival Fri 6.30 – Roskilde, DK @ Roskilde Festival Sun 7.02 – Werchter, BE @ Rock Werchter Festival Wed 7.05 – Montreux, CH @ Montreux Jazz Festival Thu 7.06 – Luxembourg @ Neumünster Abbey Sat 7.08 – Montréal, CAN @ Montréal Jazz Festival Su 7.09 – Montréal, CAN @ Montréal Jazz Festival Tue 7.11 – Québec, CAN @ Festival d’Été de Québec Sat 8.05 – Cornbury Park, UK @ Wilderness Festival Fri 8.11 – Gothenburg, SWE @ Way Out West Sun 8.13 – Helsinki, FI @ Flow Festival Fri 8.18 – Charleville-Mézières, FR @ Cabaret Vert Fri 8.25 – Paris, France @ Rock en Seine Sun 8.27 – Torino, IT @ Todays Festival Wed 9.6 – Birmingham, UK @ Symphony Hall Thu 9.7 – Manchester, UK @ Academy Fri 9.8 – Edinburgh, UK @ Usher Hall Sun 9.10 – Dublin, IE @ 3Olympia Theatre Tue 9.12 – Bruxelles, BE @ Cirque Royal Wed 9.13 – Zurich, CH @ Unique Moments Landesmuseum Thu 9.14 – Berlin, DE @ Verti Music Hall Sat 9.16 – Copenhagen, DK @ Vega Sun 9.17 – Oslo, NOR @ Sentrum Scene Tue 10.17 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore Philadelphia Wed 10.18 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues Boston Sat 10.21 – New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom Sun 10.22 – Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre Mon 10.23 – Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre Wed 10.25 – Toronto, ONT @ Allied Music Centre – Massey Hall Thu 10.26 – Chicago, IL @ The Vic Theatre Fri 11.17 – Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg Mon 11.20 – Lyon, FR @ Le Radiant Tue 11.21 – Toulouse, FR @ Le Bikini Thu 11.23 – Marseille, FR @ Le Silo Sat 11.25 – Lille, FR @ L’Aeronef
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Wow! What an incredible show! I’ve never seen an artist do adored as Christine. She got a standing ovation for walking on stage! She had a great stage presence, talked a lot, engaged the audience and made them laugh. And she can dance! I admired her for that.... it looked exhausting. The dancers were a beautiful addition to the show instead of stealing your attention. The whole show was fabulous, positive, and full of love. She used some pre-recorded backing tracks but her live voice was stellar. They played all the great songs from her first album, and the beauties from her second.
I’d go and see them again in a heartbeat. Great sized venue for her too.
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Cancelled due to illness at 18:29, one minute before the venue was due to open. People travelled from all over the country to attend and had their time wasted in addition to the let down of no show. I completely understand the reason why and I am sure that the artist was just as disappointed as we were and I hope they get well soon. However the timing left a bit of a bad taste in the mouth.
I don't know if the delay in communication was due to the promoter or the talent or their management, but it felt like yet another artist forsaking an Irish tour date at the last minute because it's just not that important. We're fans and we were let down.
Silver lining though, my cancelled night was rescued by Lauryn Hill ironically enough (who showed up! - albeit an hour late).
I should have chosen her over the Christine gig over in the first place.
Tue 27/11/18 C&TQ 4.5stars. Manchester Apollo audience 2.5stars.
Please Manchester Apollo people get your drinks and toilet needs sorted before the show starts!
Chris and show is a brilliant audio visual experience. Couldn't believe just how many people could even contemplate missing a single minute and GET IN THE WAY because they can't hold it in or cross their legs from 9pm to 10.30pm. The constant stream of people in and out was an annoying distraction.
If people had been prevented from returning until the end of a song that would have helped.
So advice for C&TQ fans & me next time is try and get seats nearer the front to appreciate the whole show without the toilet trotters getting in the way.
The reason for docking Chris .5 of a star was the use of the backing track for one song, otherwise perfect.
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Christine & The Queens has announced a UK and European ‘PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE’ tour for 2023 – find the details below and purchase tickets here .
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The French singer-songwriter’s new album ‘ PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE ’ is due for release June 9 and will follow-up last year’s ‘Redcar les adorables étoiles’ . You can pre-order/pre-save the album here .
Chris will now embark on tour in support of the new record, beginning at Symphony Hall in Birmingham on September 6, with UK and Ireland stops planned for Manchester, Edinburgh, Dublin, Berlin.
The artist will then head to the continent for shows in Brussels, Zurich, Berlin, Copenhagen and Utrecht, along with dates in four French cities: Lyon, Toulouse, Marseille and Lille.
UK & EU tour ❤️🔥 Pre- order PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE to get early tickets. Tournée en France et en Europe ❤️🔥 Pré-commande l’album pour accéder aux premiers tickets. It’s now the time – angel time. With all my love, Chris https://t.co/4rvBN9pXOf pic.twitter.com/JWFDtnKvdg — Christine and the queens (@QueensChristine) March 27, 2023
Pre-sale tickets are available from this Thursday, March 30 at 10am BST, before general sale starts Friday, March 31 at 10am BST. You can purchase yours here .
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SEPTEMBER 6 – Symphony Hall, Birmingham, UK 7 – Albert Hall, Manchester, UK 8 – Usher Hall, Edinburgh, UK 10 – Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland 12 – Cirque Royal, Brussels, Belgium 13 – Unique Moments Landesmuseum, Zurich, Switzerland 14 – Verti Music Hall, Berlin, Germany 16 – Vega, Copenhagen, Denmark
NOVEMBER 17 – Ronda, Utrecht, Netherlands 20 – Le Radiant, Lyon, France 21 – Le Bikini, Toulouse, France 23 – Le Silo, Marseille, France 25 – L’Aeronef, Lille, France
‘PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE’ features Madonna on a host of tracks and 070 Shake, who Chris previously collaborated with on the track ‘Body’ .
In a new interview with the BBC , Chris confirmed that his popstar collaborator embodies “the character of Big Eye, a very ambivalent ‘being of light’,” across the new record.
Upon announcing the new album, he said: “This new record is the second part of an operatic gesture that also encompassed 2022’s ‘Redcar les adorables étoiles’.
“Taking inspiration from the glorious dramaturgy of Tony Kushner’s iconic play, Angels in America , Redcar felt colourful and absurd like Prior sent to his insane dream-space.”
Meanwhile, Chris is the curator and headliner of this year’s Meltdown Festival 2023 at London’s Southbank Centre , which runs from Friday, June 9 until Sunday, June 18.
Earlier this month he shared the first names booked for the festival , with Sigur Rós and Django Django confirmed to headline.
Commenting on the first acts announced, he said: “Art to save the city! Ten nights that are ours. Southbank Centre filled with beloved artists, some I discovered recently, some I know are amazing performers and poets. Dance. Theatre. Words and music. Friends and future friends. Raving, hopefully. Art to save the city! To free its contours and enliven the soul – it’s the why we do what we do. I can’t effing wait.”
Elsewhere, this weekend Christine & The Queens , Arlo Parks and Loyle Carner headlined the Radio 6 Music Festival in Manchester .
Fans can buy and sell tickets for Christine & The Queens at global marketplace, viagogo here .
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As the sun dipped below the horizon on the iconic Glastonbury Tor, a sense of anticipation swept through the crowd. One of the most eagerly awaited acts of Glastonbury 2023, Christine and the Queens , was about to step onto the stage. The beloved French artist, also known as Héloïse Letissier , did not disappoint, delivering what many are hailing as the festival’s highlight set.
As the first notes of her global hit “ Tilted “ began to play, the crowd erupted into a frenzied excitement, a testament to Christine’s talent for blurring the lines between pop, art, and performance. The performance was a showcase of the artist’s incredible discography, with a particular emphasis on tracks from her latest album, “La vita nuova” .
Christine and the Queens delivering a #Glastonbury Festival highlight. What a performer. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/A4vdtVGDm1 — Far Out Magazine (@FarOutMag) June 25, 2023
I’ve always dreamt of playing at Glastonbury. This is an unforgettable moment for me.
Christine’s performance was not just musically profound but also visually stunning. The incorporation of contemporary dance into her performance added an extra layer of intrigue, captivating the audience from start to finish.
Héloïse Letissier, known professionally as Christine and the Queens , is a French singer, songwriter, and producer. She first burst onto the music scene in 2014 with her debut album “ Chaleur Humaine ,” which quickly gained international acclaim. Known for her blending of music, performance art, and queer pop, Christine consistently challenges the status quo, offering a fresh perspective in the music industry. You can follow her journey on Instagram and Twitter .
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On advice of his doctors, Christine and the Queens has canceled his remaining 2023 tour dates due to illness. The tour was scheduled to resume tonight in Montreal and end in Paris in late November. Check out the full statement below.
Christine and the Queens has been playing shows in Europe in support of new album Paranoïa, Angels, True Love since May. He performed “To Be Honest” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in April.
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Red (aka Christine and the Queens) was taken ill today and on advice of doctors forced to make the difficult decision to cancel all remaining tour dates for 2023. The tour was scheduled to resume tonight in Montreal and end in Paris in late November. Refunds are available at point of purchase.
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Upon the advice of doctors, the French music star has canceled all of his live dates through the end of the year
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Christine and the Queens will no longer carry out his tour as planned.
Ahead of the kick-off of his North American tour in Montreal on Sunday, the French indie music star, 35, canceled all of his remaining 2023 tour dates. The singer-songwriter (who also goes by Redcar, Red and Chris) posted a statement on Instagram , sharing he’s taken ill and was advised by doctors not to tour at this time.
The musician posted an image of text that said, “CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS REMAINING 2023 TOUR DATES CANCELED,” revealing more context in the following slide and in the caption.
The statement began by giving fans an update about the performer’s health. “Red (aka Christine and the Queens) was taken ill today and on advice of doctors forced to make the difficult decision to cancel all remaining tour dates for 2023,” the statement said.
“The tour was scheduled to resume tonight in Montreal and end in Paris in late November,” the notice continued, announcing refunds will be available upon point of purchase.
In addition to the canceled tour opener in Montreal, the "People, I've Been Sad" artist will no longer play his scheduled shows in Philadelphia, Boston, New York City, Washington, D.C., Toronto and Chicago. Additional European dates in Utrecht, Netherlands and across France will also not go on.
No additional details about Red’s health were shared at this time.
The indie pop star (who’s known for collaborating with acts like Charli XCX and Caroline Polachek ) dropped his fourth studio album Paranoïa, Angels, True Love in June. The record features multiple collaborations with Madonna and rapper 070 Shake , as well as co-production by hip-hop producer Mike Dean.
Paranoïa, Angels, True Love arrived less than a year after Christine and the Queens’ third album, Redcar les adorables étoiles (prologue) , was released in November 2022.
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He had been on the road supporting the album since late May. After playing a handful of festivals, the "Titled" singer set out on a European and U.K. tour from August through mid-September. Christine and the Queens’ remaining tour dates were supposed to last from mid-October until the end of the month, and then resume again in November.
The singer-songwriter shared a statement in a press release about Paranoïa, Angels, True Love upon its announcement earlier this year, saying he pulled a great deal of inspiration from Tony Kushner’s play Angels in America .
“ Paranoïa, Angels, True Love is a key towards heart-opening transformation, a prayer towards the self—the one that breathes through all the loves it is made of,” he said.
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Christine and the Queens is fascinated by angels.
They appear throughout the shape-shifting French pop artist's fourth album, a sprawling 20-track LP called Paranoïa, Angels, True Love.
The creative force behind Christine and the Queens is just one guy, Chris, who describes himself as "a very tiny French man."
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When Chris spoke to NPR's Morning Edition , he was about to celebrate his 35th birthday. He sees the day as an opportunity to be both "introspective and festive."
"But what is time?" Chris asks. "What is 35? What is 70? What if I just forget my age as I grow older and then I become 12 again? That'd be fire. I would love that."
He says this album is, essentially, an opera. "It's kind of the best-fitting word in the sense that I wrote this record very fast, like a series of visions, and the whole day was resonating weirdly. Like life became the opera. And the music was just a distillation of that crazy journey."
Paranoïa, Angels, True Love — a co-production with American record producer Mike Dean — features appearances by Madonna and 070 Shake. Unlike his last album, Redcar les Adorables étoiles , this one is written almost entirely in English.
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Drawing inspiration from Tony Kushner's play Angels in America , which examines the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, Chris presents his own "conversations with the invisible."
The singer-songwriter lost his mother in 2019, and much of the album is about living through that grief — and finding communion with the dead.
In True Love , he sings: "Angel of light/ Take me higher/ Make me forget my mother/ With your dark brown eyes staring at me/ With your dark eyes staring at me."
Chris spoke with A Martinez about what it means to mourn, heal and move forward.
This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
A: What do angels represent to you, considering what you went through with your mom?
Chris: The shift of energy, losing someone in this physical plane and losing your mom, depending on the relationship you have, but I actually happen to adore my mom. So that experience of love through grief was very impressive because something was gone. For sure, she was gone. But the crazy thing is, I never felt she was truly, absolutely gone. Like my soul always felt still linked to her. And there was dignity in the grief I was having. I think also grief is just another expression of the love you have for someone... So then it can become a celebration of everything, by you staying brave inside of this world for the ones who left it as well. I think angels are also this. She probably finally turned into one angel for me, because she's immaterial. But I feel her.
A: We have to talk about Madonna. I mean, she's kind of like this angel voice on this. How did she end up on this record?
Chris: Very ambivalent voice. Her character is called Big Eye. So it could be this dystopian, almost computer voice of the simulation, because that's what she says. But it might be a trap, because she also might be the angel. She might be my mom. She basically might be everyone. That's what I said to her, because I had to explain the pitch of the whole shenanigan on FaceTime. And I pitched this idea very, very softly and fast. And she said, "You're insane. I'll do it." I felt anointed at that.
A: What does reinvention mean to you in your art and life?
Chris: Yeah, interestingly, the intricacy with me is actually my layers on stage, as I go further in time, actually feel more like me, precising myself, sharpening my blade, arriving. It's a slow Shakespearean arrival, it's a very tiny French man with lots of crazy ideas moving toward you with his masks falling off slowly. And actually, my many names, I often say. It's almost like a poet's way to figure the intricacy of yourself out from the inside. And when I was young, I was always saying, "oh, the stage is the performance." I was lying. I was a bit of a coward. The stage has always been my truth. And the rest of my life was the lie, the performance, the hiding out.
A: I wanted to ask you about your song, "Flowery Days." It's just you, a piano, a bass and drums. You sing: "When I die of love/ All seeds will scatter 'round/ In yellow dusty sounds into the flowery days." What does it mean to "die of love?"
Chris: My heart is so passionate. And then, I fall in love so hard that sometimes I feel I would probably die of that feeling, of heartbreak, of loving someone so hard that it's impossible to just move on. I wrote that song in a very precise moment. I was just sitting at my desk. And I was feeling the pain of heartbreak, which is also one of the losses of this record. There was some dignity there in just imagining myself into the flowers. Into the forest like a knight who decided to die for his love. It's a very literal song. It's a very exposing one.
A: Have you ever come close to dying of love or feeling like you wanted to die of love?
Chris: Yes, yes. I'm very romantic, I guess. But I'm still alive. So, onwards.
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Election Highlights: Harris and Walz Rally in Las Vegas to End Their Introductory Tour
Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota were in Nevada for the final rally of their tour of battleground states. Former President Donald J. Trump tested a new attack at an event in Montana.
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Here’s the latest on the presidential race.
Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, campaigned in Las Vegas on Saturday night, the final stop on their introductory tour of battleground states that began in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
Earlier on Saturday, new polls by The New York Times and Siena College showed Ms. Harris ahead of former President Donald J. Trump by four percentage points in the critical battlegrounds of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan. The surveys of likely voters in each state were conducted from Aug. 5 to 9.
The polls were the latest sign of Ms. Harris’s political momentum since she announced that she had chosen Mr. Walz to be her vice-presidential candidate. The new ticket has been drawing large crowds, including at a rally in Glendale, Ariz. , on Friday that the Harris campaign claimed had more than 15,000 people in attendance, which would have been its biggest rally yet.
Mr. Trump was scheduled to attend fund-raisers in Jackson Hole, Wyo., and Aspen, Colo., on Saturday. On Friday, he unveiled fresh attacks against Ms. Harris during a campaign event in Bozeman, Mont., twice interrupting his speech to play compilations of some of her past remarks that his campaign hopes will portray her as overly liberal and inept.
Mr. Trump’s running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, rallied near Las Vegas last week , denouncing the vice president’s role in the Biden administration’s border policies. At her Arizona rally, Ms. Harris said she supported “strong border security and an earned pathway to citizenship.”
Here’s what else to know:
A twist on that helicopter tale: Mr. Trump spent Friday doubling down on his story of nearly crashing during a helicopter ride with Willie Brown, the notable Black politician from California. Another Black politician from California, Nate Holden, said in an interview with The New York Times that he had been on a helicopter ride with Mr. Trump around 1990 when the aircraft experienced mechanical trouble and was forced to make an emergency landing in New Jersey.
A first-time endorsement: A Latino rights group backed Ms. Harris , breaking with its 95-year history of abstaining from formal presidential endorsements. The League of United Latin American Citizens, known as LULAC, said its members were stirred to action by concerns over the potential negative impact on Latinos if Mr. Trump were elected again.
Not an endorsement: Joe Rogan, the world’s most popular podcaster, backpedaled on comments he made on Thursday that seemed to throw his support behind the independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. After backlash from Mr. Trump’s supporters, Mr. Rogan, the podcaster with a large, devoted following that leans young and male, posted on X that what he said was not “ an endorsement. ” Another podcaster, Tim Pool, also expressed his support for Mr. Kennedy before quickly switching his support to Mr. Trump in the face of withering criticism from Trump supporters.
A tale of two very different bank accounts: Mr. Vance and Mr. Walz both came from modest backgrounds in the Midwest, but their personal fortunes have wildly diverged since then. Mr. Vance is a multimillionaire. Mr. Walz has much less than that, and is already emphasizing that contrast on the campaign trail .
Generating buzz: A high school class lesson that Mr. Walz gave 31 years ago is getting new attention online . As a geography teacher in Nebraska in 1993, Mr. Walz asked his students to take what they had learned about the Holocaust to predict which nation was most at risk for genocide. “They came up with Rwanda,” Mr. Walz said, talking about the project at a conference last month . “Twelve months later, the world witnessed the horrific genocide in Rwanda.”
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David E. Sanger reported from Wellington, New Zealand. Michael Gold reported from Bozeman, Mont.
The hacking of presidential campaigns begins, with the usual fog of motives.
For the third presidential election in a row, the foreign hacking of the campaigns has begun in earnest. But this time, it’s the Iranians, not the Russians, making the first significant move.
On Friday, Microsoft released a report declaring that a hacking group run by the intelligence unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had successfully breached the account of a “former senior adviser” to a presidential campaign. From that account, Microsoft said, the group sent fake email messages, known as “spear phishing,” to “a high-ranking official of a presidential campaign” in an effort to break into the campaign’s own accounts and databases.
By Saturday night, former President Donald J. Trump was declaring that Microsoft had informed his campaign “that one of our many websites was hacked by the Iranian Government — Never a nice thing to do!” but that the hackers had obtained only “publicly available information.” He attributed it all to what he called, in his signature selective capitalization, a “Weak and Ineffective” Biden administration.
The facts were murkier, and it is unclear what, if anything, the Iranian group, which Microsoft called Mint Sandstorm, was able to achieve.
Mr. Trump’s campaign was already blaming “foreign sources hostile to the United States” for a leak of internal documents that Politico reported on Saturday that it had received, though it is unclear whether those documents indeed emerged from the Iranian efforts or were part of an unrelated leak from inside the campaign.
The New York Times received what appears to be a similar if not identical trove of data from an anonymous tipster purporting to be the same person who emailed the documents to Politico.
Either way, the events of the past few days may well portend a more intense period of foreign interference in a race whose sudden turns, and changes of candidates, could have thrown the hackers off their plans.
Russia has so far played a relatively minor role, investigators and cybersecurity experts say, focusing instead on seeking to undermine both the Olympics, from which it was barred from fielding its own team, and support for Ukraine. And while American intelligence officials say they have little doubt that Russia wants to see Mr. Trump return to office, Chinese hackers, they say, seem uncertain how to play the election; they have reason to dislike both Mr. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
There is little doubt, investigators say, that the Iranians want to see Mr. Trump defeated. As president, he withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal, reimposed economic sanctions on Iran and then, in January 2020, ordered the killing in Iraq of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani , the commander of the Quds Force, a clandestine wing of the Revolutionary Guards responsible for foreign operations.
Four years later, the Revolutionary Guard Corps appears still determined to avenge Suleimani’s death, and just last week the Justice Department announced it had charged a Pakistani man who had recently visited Iran, accusing him of trying to hire a hit man to assassinate political figures in the U.S. , most likely including Mr. Trump. (There is no evidence that Iran was involved in the July 13 attempt on Mr. Trump’s life in Butler, Pa.)
Mr. Trump often casts his actions against Iran as evidence of his strength, despite the fact that his exit from the Iran deal gave Tehran an opening to rebuild a nuclear program that had been hobbled by the 2015 agreement. Still, the combination of the hack and the hit men looking for Mr. Trump and his former aides gave the former president an obvious foil, and he was using it over the weekend to make the case that the Iranians would prefer a continuation of the Biden-Harris administration.
Microsoft stopped short of saying that the hacking effort it detected was focused on Mr. Trump’s campaign, though the campaign itself said that was the case. In an interview, Tom Burt, the head of the company’s customer security and trust team, said that in June, “the Iranian team associated with Iranian intelligence” operations of the Revolutionary Guards successfully breached the email account of a former campaign adviser, whom the company did not name. From that account, he said, the Iranians sent a spear phishing email to an official of a presidential campaign.
While it would have appeared to the recipient to have come from the former campaign adviser, Mr. Burt refused to say whether the targeted campaign was also Mr. Trump’s. By long-established practice, Microsoft says, it can reveal such details only with the permission of the victim of an attack.
In many ways, the effort was similar in technique to what Iran attempted when it sought to interfere in the 2020 presidential campaign . This time, however, the Iranian effort looks to have been more sophisticated — namely, through the hacking of a trusted intermediary — suggesting the hackers learned something from what the Russians accomplished in past campaigns, notably in 2016.
But Mr. Burt said the company could not determine if the effort was successful in penetrating the campaign it targeted.
The documents sent to Politico, as it described them, and to The Times included research about and assessments of potential vice-presidential nominees, including Senator JD Vance, whom Mr. Trump ultimately selected. Like many such vetting documents, they contained past statements with the potential to be embarrassing or damaging, such as Mr. Vance’s remarks casting aspersions on Mr. Trump.
In a statement on Saturday, Steven Cheung, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, preemptively chastised outlets that reported on any information that was improperly obtained.
“Any media or news outlet reprinting documents or internal communications are doing the bidding of America’s enemies and doing exactly what they want,” he wrote.
The 2016 election that Mr. Trump won was marked by similar “hack and leak” efforts after Russian hackers broke into the email accounts of top Democratic officials. Leaked emails showed the internal workings of the party and of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and also revealed criticisms of Mrs. Clinton by aides, and a trove of them was published by WikiLeaks in the final weeks of the presidential race.
Seeking an edge then, Mr. Trump’s campaign seized on the emails — many of them from Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chair, John Podesta. “We love WikiLeaks,” Mr. Trump declared at the time.
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Rallying in Las Vegas, Harris pledges to end federal taxes on tips.
Vice President Kamala Harris said on Saturday that she would seek to end federal income taxes on tips if she were elected president, mirroring a policy proposal that former President Donald J. Trump made earlier this year.
The proposal from Ms. Harris — which she announced in Las Vegas, where thousands of casino employees depend on tipped wages — is a priority of Nevada’s influential Culinary Workers Union. Both Ms. Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, recognized the union in their remarks to a packed basketball arena on Saturday night.
“When I am president,” Ms. Harris told the Las Vegas crowd, “we will continue our fight for working families of America, including to raise the minimum wage and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers.”
The “no tax on tips” pitch has garnered bipartisan support since Mr. Trump first floated it in June , including from Senator Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican, and both of Nevada’s Democratic senators, Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen. Mr. Trump also announced his support for the policy in Las Vegas.
The former president responded immediately to Ms. Harris’s proposal on Saturday night, posting on his social media website, Truth Social, that she had “copied” his own. “This was a TRUMP idea,” he wrote. “She has no ideas, she can only steal them from me.”
The Las Vegas stop was the last public event of a five-city introduction of the Harris-Walz ticket. As with the other rallies, Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz drew a crowd many times larger than any that had shown up for President Biden while he was seeking re-election.
By Saturday, there were signs that some of the Democrats’ good vibes may have an expiration date. The Harris campaign said Mr. Walz “misspoke” when he said he had carried weapons of war “in war” in a video articulating his views on gun control. And Ms. Harris, before her event in Las Vegas, answered several questions from reporters for the first time since becoming the Democratic nominee — a development that took place after pressure from Mr. Trump and his campaign.
But overall, the week’s rollout was widely viewed as a success. Ms. Harris has engendered more enthusiasm than any Democratic nominee since Barack Obama in 2008. The appointment of Mr. Walz as her running mate took place without any significant grumbling from the party — a bit of a surprise after a two-week vice-presidential audition that surfaced ideological divisions in the party, particularly over the war in Gaza.
On Saturday, Mr. Walz urged the crowd at the arena on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas — which the campaign said included more than 12,000 people — not only to vote for the Democratic ticket but also to work to ensure their friends and neighbors did, too.
“I know very clearly that I am preaching to the choir,” Mr. Walz said. “But here’s my words for you: The choir needs to sing. The choir needs to sing.”
During stops in Philadelphia , Wisconsin , Detroit and Arizona , Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz spoke to capacity crowds. By the end of the week, the high points in their stump speeches had become familiar enough to audiences that people in the crowd shouted them along with the candidates. All told, the new running mates drew more than 64,000 attendees to their rallies, according to estimates from the campaign.
“Aren’t they a breath of fresh air?” Representative Susie Lee, Democrat of Nevada, asked attendees in Las Vegas.
Mr. Biden had trailed Mr. Trump badly in Nevada, where inflation is a top concern for many voters. But Ms. Harris has tightened that gap significantly since Mr. Biden dropped out.
On Friday, the vice president secured the backing of the Culinary Workers Union, an endorsement that will likely add to her campaign’s organizing operation and eventual voter turnout.
The culinary union is a 60,000-member organization that represents casino and hotel workers and has been a key part of the coalition that has helped Democrats win in Nevada.
Mariana Swanson, a culinary union member who worked as a restroom attendant at a Las Vegas nightclub where she depended on tips, said Ms. Harris’s announcement came as a “shock,” though a welcome one.
“It’s more money for taking care of your family,” said Ms. Swanson, 43, a Democrat and one of many attendees wearing a red culinary union T-shirt. “It’s more money for paying your bills.”
With her promises to raise the minimum wage and eliminate taxes on tips, Ms. Harris seemed to preview the planned release of her policy platform next week. She had told reporters earlier on Saturday that the platform would focus on the economy and lowering costs for working families.
In addition to rank-and-file Democrats, wealthy donors are also responding to the new ticket. On Sunday, Ms. Harris was scheduled to attend a fund-raiser in San Francisco that drew more than $12 million in contributions, her campaign said.
Ms. Harris’s crowd in Las Vegas would have been larger than it was, but law enforcement officials closed the doors as people fell ill while waiting outside the arena in temperatures that reached 109 degrees. Roughly 4,000 people were in line at that point and had to be turned away, the Harris campaign said.
“Don’t worry,” a hoarse-voiced Mr. Walz promised those who had made it inside. “We’re going to be back a lot.”
Before the rally began, thousands of attendees stood and danced in their seats waving Harris-Walz signs, as disco remixes, hip-hop and Latin pop blared over the speakers and the arena’s lights flashed in multicolored rhythm.
“We’ve got a party up in here,” D-Nice, a D.J. and the event’s M.C., shouted to roars of approval. “Let’s light this place up.”
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Harris has wrapped up here in Las Vegas. She made news by endorsing a “no tax on tips” proposal that has wide bipartisan appeal and had previously been proposed by Trump.
Vice President Harris just said that as president she would support making tipped income tax-free, a major issue in Nevada, where much of the economy is service-based. It’s a proposal that has already been floated by her Republican opponent, former President Donald J. Trump.
Harris also expressed support for raising the federal minimum wage. She told reporters earlier today that she would release her policy platform next week, with a focus on the economy and on lowering costs for working families.
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Donald Trump accused Harris of copying his “no taxes on tips” policy. In a post on his social media site, Truth Social, he wrote that Harris “has no ideas, she can only steal from me” and insisted that she would not follow through on the pledge. “This was a TRUMP idea,” he wrote.
Harris is now joining Walz onstage to deafening cheers from the crowd.
Walz is telling the story of his decision to join the National Guard at 17. Republicans have raised questions about his decision to retire from the Guard more than two decades later when it was rumored his unit would be deployed to Iraq.
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota has taken the stage, his first visit to the crucial swing state of Nevada as Harris’s running mate. “I’m melting like a snowman outside,” the Minnesotan says of the Las Vegas heat.
Tilly Torres, a Las Vegas teacher, is introducing Harris. She said she had $87,000 in student debt forgiven through the Biden administration’s actions, one of its more popular initiatives. “For the first time,” Torres said, “I have financial freedom.”
Torres also has kind words for Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, Harris’s running mate, saying that if he can “handle a high school lunch room,” then the vice presidency will be a piece of cake.
Beyonce’s song “Freedom” is blasting through this packed college basketball arena in Las Vegas, meaning Harris will soon appear.
Vice President Kamala Harris is 35 minutes and counting behind schedule for her remarks in Las Vegas tonight.
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The Harris campaign said it was set to raise $12 million at a San Francisco fund-raiser on Sunday. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to speak to some 700 people.
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Fun fact — that $12 million is precisely the amount that former President Donald J. Trump raised in San Francisco at an event this summer. But Trump raised it from only about 100 people.
The Harris campaign says that more than 12,000 people are attending her rally in Las Vegas tonight. But law enforcement officials closed the doors as people fell ill while waiting outside in temperatures that reached 109 degrees. Roughly 4,000 people were in line at that point and had to be turned away, the campaign said.
Don’t expect to hear this later from Vice President Kamala Harris, but one of her warm-up speakers, Representative Dina Titus, a Nevada Democrat, just made a joke about a false rumor circulating on the internet about Senator JD Vance of Ohio, former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate. “You better hide behind that sofa because we’re coming for you,” Titus said to laughter from a crowd of thousands.
The crowd here quickly joined Representative Steven Horsford, Democrat of Nevada, in a chant of “We’re not going back,” a rallying cry in Harris’s stump speech. The easy recognition shows how familiar Democrats are growing with her applause lines.
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Harris hopes a new playbook will neutralize G.O.P. attacks on immigration.
For weeks, Republicans have pummeled Vice President Kamala Harris on immigration, blaming her for President Biden’s policies at the border.
Now, Ms. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, is seeking to neutralize that line of attack, one of her biggest weaknesses with voters, running a playbook that Democrats say has worked for them in recent elections and staking out her clearest position yet as a tough-on-crime prosecutor focused on securing the border.
This week, she has hit back by promising to heighten border security if elected and slamming her Republican opponent, former President Donald J. Trump, for helping kill a bipartisan border deal in Congress. And her campaign has walked back some of the more progressive positions she took during her bid for the Democratic nomination in 2019, including her stance that migrants crossing the U.S. border without authorization should not face criminal penalties.
“I was attorney general of a border state,” Ms. Harris, who was once California’s top prosecutor, said on Friday at a rally in Arizona, a swing state where immigration is a top concern for voters. “I went after the transnational gangs, the drug cartels and human traffickers. I prosecuted them in case after case, and I won.”
A day earlier, the Harris campaign released a television advertisement highlighting her pivot. The ad, targeted to voters in the battleground states, promised that Ms. Harris would “hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking.” It made no mention of undocumented immigrants already in the United States — a top priority for many progressives and immigration activists — although in her Arizona speech Ms. Harris stressed the importance of “comprehensive reform” that includes “an earned pathway to citizenship.”
No other Democratic nominee has taken a position this tough on border security since Bill Clinton. Her stance reflects a change in public opinion since Mr. Trump left the White House in 2021. More Americans, including many Democrats and Latino voters, have expressed support for hard-line immigration measures.
The shift in public opinion comes as Republicans have escalated their rhetoric against migrants. Border crossings skyrocketed during the Biden administration, though more recently they have sharply declined since a Biden executive order designed to clamp down on the border. The question for Ms. Harris is whether her new message as the party’s standard-bearer will come too late for voters who have already formed opinions of her record.
Senior Trump campaign officials have ranked immigration as among Ms. Harris’s deepest vulnerabilities and sought to pin responsibility for the Biden administration’s policies on her, calling her the “border czar.” The title far exceeds the actual policy portfolio given to her by Mr. Biden, who asked her to address the root causes of migration from Latin America.
Democratic polling has raised similar concerns about Ms. Harris’s immigration record. Blueprint, a Democratic group, recently tested six potential Republican lines of attack on Ms. Harris — including labeling her the “border czar” — and found that those involving immigration were the most effective, even more so than attacks related to the economy and inflation.
Other polls have shown that voters place more trust in Mr. Trump’s ability to handle border issues than in Ms. Harris’s. But if Ms. Harris can at least counter Republican arguments on immigration, she may be able to sway voters on issues more friendly to Democrats, such as abortion, her allies say.
The decision for the Harris campaign to frame her record as California attorney general as a “border-state prosecutor” stands in contrast to how she ran in the 2020 Democratic primary.
Then, during a debate, she raised her hand in response to a question about whether people who are here illegally should be eligible for public health care.
For his part, Mr. Trump has attacked Ms. Harris over the border in dark terms, engaging in fear-mongering about migrants and using dehumanizing language to falsely paint them as a threat to Americans .
“Every day, Kamala is letting migrant criminals roam free to assault, rape, mutilate and kill our citizens,” the former president said at a rally in Montana on Friday.
Chris DeRose, a Republican who served as a clerk of courts in Arizona’s Maricopa County, said many swing voters would be dubious of Ms. Harris’s rhetoric.
“She’s part of the Biden-Harris administration,” Mr. DeRose said. “There’s going to be some skepticism.”
But Ms. Harris and her allies have tried to make Mr. Trump’s immigration record into its own campaign issue. This year, Mr. Trump successfully convinced Senate Republicans to kill a bill supported by Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris that would have effectively mandated that the border be shut down to migrants when numbers reached certain levels and that vastly expanded detentions and deportations.
“Donald Trump tanked the deal,” Ms. Harris said in Arizona as a crowd of more than 15,000 supporters booed. “Because he thought by doing that it would help him win an election.”
Jen Cox, a senior adviser for the Harris campaign in Arizona, said Democrats in that state, including Senator Mark Kelly, had won elections with tougher messages on immigration.
“Voters want to see folks be serious about actually fixing the broken immigration system and securing the border,” Ms. Cox said in an interview. “They don’t want to see folks play politics with it.”
In a closely watched special election in New York this year, Tom Suozzi, a Democrat, won a competitive House race after slamming Mr. Trump over the scuttled border deal and taking unusually hard-line stances for a member of his party, including calls to temporarily shut down the border and deport migrants who assault the police.
“The most effective politician is the one that says what the people are thinking already,” Mr. Suozzi said. “And people are talking about this issue. They are very much concerned about it. And the vice president can continue to emphasize that, yes, we recognize this is a problem and we are willing to compromise to solve the problem, unlike the other side.”
Harris campaign aides say her move to the center since the 2020 primary had been shaped by her time as vice president.
Mike Madrid, a longtime G.O.P. consultant focused on Latino voters, said Ms. Harris’s pledge to sign the border security bill, which did not include protections for undocumented immigrants already in the United States, and the security-focused message of her new television ad reflected wider changes among Democrats.
Since the Obama years, Democrats had sought to fuse efforts to increase border security with calls to establish permanent paths to legal residency and citizenship for the roughly 10 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, many of whom have lived in the country for years, holding jobs, paying taxes and starting families.
But the Latino electorate, the fastest-growing slice of the voter bloc, now tends to be third- and fourth-generation voters more removed from the immigration experience, Mr. Madrid said.
“This doesn’t mean you have to go all Donald Trump on immigration,” he said. “It means you have to lead with border security and then weave in the elements of immigration reform later.”
Michael Gold contributed reporting from Bozeman, Mont., and Reid J. Epstein contributed reporting from Washington.
Hundreds of people are waiting outside to get into a Harris campaign rally at a basketball arena in Las Vegas, where the temperature is 107 degrees.
Inside, it’s a full celebration, with thousands of people standing and dancing in their seats to disco remixes. “We’ve got a party up in here,” the D.J. D-Nice, the event’s M.C., says over the speakers. It cannot be said enough how different the energy at Harris’s rallies has been from that at President Biden’s.
Vice President Kamala Harris took five questions from the traveling press pool on Saturday. It was the first time since she became the Democratic presidential nominee that she engaged with journalists even to that degree. She said she planned to deliver a policy platform next week.
Harris has faced criticism — including from former President Donald J. Trump — for not holding a news conference or sitting for interviews with journalists.
The singer Celine Dion, in a statement on social media, said she and her management team did not authorize or endorse the playing of “My Heart Will Go On,” her hit song from the movie “Titanic,” at a Trump rally in Montana on Friday. The Trump campaign has played the song at multiple rallies recently, and Trump has over the years received several requests from artists asking him not to use their music at his political events.
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The Harris campaign says Walz “misspoke” in a comment about his military service.
Officials for Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign are trying to clean up remarks made in 2018 by her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, that gave the impression that he had served in combat, just days after the campaign had inadvertently drawn attention to them to illustrate Mr. Walz’s views about responsible gun ownership.
In a clip from a political event in 2018, when he represented Minnesota in the House, Mr. Walz referenced his 24 years in the Army National Guard and background as a hunter while discussing his views on gun control. He spoke of supporting common-sense gun legislation that also protects Second Amendment rights, including background checks and restrictions on high-powered firearms.
“We can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried in war is the only place where those weapons are at,” Mr. Walz said in the clip, which the campaign had shared Tuesday on social media, just hours after Ms. Harris named him as her running mate.
Mr. Walz deployed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, but not in a combat zone.
Lauren Hitt, a spokeswoman for the Harris-Walz campaign, said in a statement on Saturday that Mr. Walz’s remarks had been a misstatement and that he had not tried to mislead anyone about his military service.
“In making the case for why weapons of war should never be on our streets or in our classrooms, the governor misspoke,” Ms. Hitt said.
Mr. Walz, who is in his second term as Minnesota’s governor, has come under intense scrutiny from Republicans over his military record . They have accused him of exaggerating his record and also of quitting the Army National Guard two decades ago to avoid being deployed to Iraq, rekindling claims made by two retired command sergeant majors during Mr. Walz’s first campaign for governor in 2018.
Leading that criticism is Senator JD Vance of Ohio, former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate, who has accused Mr. Walz of “stolen valor.”
Mr. Vance served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2003 to 2007 during the Iraq war. He was deployed to Iraq in 2005 and 2006 with the aircraft wing but was not a frontline combatant. His official military occupation, known as a combat correspondent, meant he was tasked with basic communication roles such as writing articles about the happenings in his unit.
The Republican broadsides against Mr. Walz resembled the “Swift Boat” attacks in the 2004 presidential election that created a cloud of uncertainty over the military record of Senator John F. Kerry, then the Democratic presidential nominee. Chris LaCivita, who is a senior strategist for the Trump campaign, was an architect of those attacks, which were highly effective.
The conservative-leaning editorial board of The Wall Street Journal spurned comparisons this week between Mr. Kerry’s situation and Mr. Walz’s military service, which it wrote was “far different.” It said that there were plenty of reasons to criticize Mr. Walz, but that his military record was not one of them. It quoted a New York Sun editorial that described the attacks as “thin gruel.”
On a number of occasions, Mr. Walz has emphasized that he did not serve in combat. During a CNN interview last month, when the anchor Jake Tapper said that Mr. Walz had deployed to Afghanistan, Mr. Walz corrected him and said that he had served in Europe in support of that war.
In an interview with Minnesota Public Radio in 2018, when he was running for governor, Mr. Walz said of his military career: “I know that there are certainly folks that did far more than I did.”
And when Mr. Walz was running for re-election as governor in 2022, The Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote that he had shied away from dramatic accounts of his time in the National Guard, framing himself instead as a former high school teacher and football coach.
The 2018 clip of Mr. Walz saying that “those weapons of war that I carried in war is the only place where those weapons are at,” was not the only one that Mr. Trump’s allies seized on this week.
They also pounced on a 2007 C-SPAN clip from a Capitol Hill news conference when Representative Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker at the time, thanked Mr. Walz for his service “on the battlefield.” Mr. Walz was identified by C-SPAN as an “Afghanistan war veteran” at the time.
Reid J. Epstein , Michael C. Bender , Thomas Gibbons-Neff and John Ismay contributed reporting.
In a memo, Tony Fabrizio, the Trump campaign’s chief pollster, argued that new polls by The New York Times and Siena College “dramatically understated President Trump’s support.” Fabrizio cited polls conducted in the days before the 2020 election that accurately predicted President Biden’s victory but overestimated the margin.
Donald Trump will attend two fund-raisers today in mountain resort towns favored by the wealthy. First, he’ll attend a lunch event in Jackson Hole, Wyo., then he will travel to a dinner fund-raiser in Aspen, Colo.
A former Trump administration official and climate change denier, appearing in a leaked training video for Project 2025, emphasized that the next Republican president must be focused on reversing the federal government’s current environmental policies. “If the American people elect a conservative president, his administration will have to eradicate climate change references from absolutely everywhere,” said Bethany Kozma, a former deputy chief of staff at the United States Agency for International Development. The video is one of several that were obtained by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom, and the journalism project Documented.
Former President Donald J. Trump has tried to extricate himself from the negative attention surrounding Project 2025, the right-wing policy playbook prepared for the next Republican president that Democrats have used as a political cudgel.
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As a rule, candidates who think they are ahead do not challenge their opponent to three debates, as Donald Trump did with Kamala Harris the other day. So it’s a pretty good bet that Trump’s own polling — or at the least, his political gut — had picked up on what Times/Siena college poll reports this weekend: that Harris could be a much tougher opponent than Biden.
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Michael Gold and Simon J. Levien
Reporting from Bozeman, Mont.
Fine-tuning his attacks on Harris, Trump tries using her words against her.
As former President Donald J. Trump continues to reach for attacks on his new opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, that might halt her political momentum, he unveiled a new tactic at a rally in Bozeman, Mont., on Friday night, aiming to use Ms. Harris’s own words against her.
Interrupting his typical pattern of a digressive and lengthy speech, Mr. Trump played two video compilations of past remarks by Ms. Harris that his campaign hopes will portray her as overly liberal and inept.
The first video drew on statements that Ms. Harris made during the 2020 presidential campaign, when she tacked to the left and backed progressive ideas on criminal justice reform. The second was a montage of interviews and speeches that Mr. Trump’s campaign used to mock her speaking style and insult her intelligence.
The videos did little to alter the message that the Trump campaign has deployed against Ms. Harris for weeks and that Mr. Trump summed up during his speech on Friday.
“America cannot survive for four more years of this bumbling communist lunatic,” Mr. Trump told thousands gathered in the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse at Montana State University. “We cannot let her win this election.”
Mr. Trump and his allies have repeatedly tried to portray Ms. Harris as more liberal than President Biden in the three weeks since he ended his campaign and cleared the way for her to be the Democratic presidential nominee.
The video compiling her past positions accused her of supporting a ban on fracking, mandatory gun buybacks and a single-payer health insurance system like “Medicare for all.”
Ms. Harris has backed away from those policy positions, which largely stem from her time in the 2020 presidential race. But Mr. Trump — who has been known to flip-flop or equivocate on hot-button issues like abortion — argued that her early statements were the only ones that mattered.
Mr. Trump’s rally on Friday was his first since Ms. Harris chose Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota as her running mate, and he used the selection to bolster his portrait of the Democratic ticket as overly liberal. Effectively likening Mr. Walz to a socialist, he accused the governor of being too lax in his response to protests that turned to riots in Minneapolis after the police murder of George Floyd and for signing a law giving access to menstrual products to transgender children.
Referring to Mr. Walz as “Comrade Walz,” Mr. Trump argued that Ms. Harris tapped him for his progressive bona fides. “This is her ideology,” he said.
Mr. Trump also acknowledged that he has frequently mispronounced Ms. Harris’s given name in recent speeches, though he added that he “couldn’t care less” how it should be pronounced. He admitted that he has in the past “done a lot of bad name-calling” in which he has purposefully mispronounced a person’s name. “They say, ‘Sir, you made a mistake,’” Mr. Trump recounted. “I said, ‘No, I didn’t.’”
Still, Mr. Trump’s speech offered continued evidence of the growing pains he has faced as he tries to shift years of attacks against Mr. Biden toward Ms. Harris.
Even as he argued that Ms. Harris was more extreme than Mr. Biden, he tied her to the president’s policies on immigration and the economy.
At one point, he said she was the one running the country the past four years, even as he repeatedly argued that she was too unintelligent or incompetent to do so effectively. Mr. Trump has long made the same argument about Mr. Biden.
Mr. Trump's rally is part of a western swing that includes fund-raisers in mountain resort towns favored by the wealthy. Before he took the stage in Bozeman, he attended an event in Big Sky, Mont., and on Saturday he will travel to fund-raisers in Jackson Hole, Wyo., and Aspen, Colo.
Montana is not an obvious site for a presidential campaign rally. Mr. Trump won the state handily in both 2016 and 2020, and he is expected to do so again in November. But with Republicans keen on flipping Democrats’ narrow edge in the Senate, Mr. Trump traveled to Montana to support his party’s Senate candidate there, Tim Sheehy, who is looking to unseat the Democratic incumbent, Senator Jon Tester.
At one point, Mr. Trump, whose flight to Bozeman was diverted to another city after his plane suffered a mechanical issue, reflected on how long it takes to travel to Montana.
“I’ve got to like Tim Sheehy a lot to be here,” he said.
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Yes, Trump was in a scary helicopter ride, but not with that politician.
Donald J. Trump was doubling down on Friday about his story of nearly crashing during a helicopter ride once with Willie Brown, the notable Black California politician.
He was so adamant that it had happened that he threatened to sue The New York Times for reporting that the story was untrue , then posted on his social media site that there were “‘Logs,’ Maintenance Records, and Witnesses” to back up his account.
“It was Willie Brown,” Mr. Trump, who spent much of the last year hoping to make gains with Black voters, posted. “But now Willie doesn’t remember?”
Mr. Brown, 90, who was mayor of San Francisco and speaker of the California Assembly, gave several interviews on Thursday and Friday saying such a trip never occurred.
Turns out, however, that there was a Black politician from California who once made an emergency landing in a helicopter with Mr. Trump. It just wasn’t Mr. Brown.
Nate Holden, 95, a former Los Angeles city councilman and state senator, said in an interview with The Times that he had been on a helicopter ride with Mr. Trump around 1990 when the aircraft experienced mechanical trouble and was forced to make an emergency landing in New Jersey.
Recounting an episode that he had described earlier on Friday to Politico, Mr. Holden said Mr. Trump had been seeking to develop the site of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles when it was part of Mr. Holden’s district. Mr. Trump wanted him to see his Taj Mahal casino, Mr. Holden said, so on a visit to Manhattan, he rode with Mr. Trump from his Midtown skyscraper to a helipad, where the two took off for Atlantic City, accompanied by Mr. Trump’s brother Robert and by his executive vice president of construction and development, Barbara Res.
“He was trying to impress me,” Mr. Holden said. “We start flying to New Jersey. He said, ‘Look at the skyline! Look at how beautiful it is! And I’m part of it!’”
Mr. Holden said he wasn’t impressed. “I grew up in New Jersey,” he said. “It ain’t nothing new to me.”
“Anyway,” he continued, “we start flying to Atlantic City. He’s talking about how great things are. And about 15, 20 minutes in, the pilot yells, ‘Shut up! Shut up!’”
The hydraulic system had failed, he said. “Donald turned white as snow,” Mr. Holden recalled. “He was shaking.”
Mr. Holden said that as the helicopter’s crew worked frantically to set the aircraft down safely, his own thoughts ran to a helicopter crash in 1989 that had killed three senior executives of Mr. Trump’s casinos over Forked River, N.J.
“I just thought, how the hell do you let your staff not maintain your aircraft after you just had a crash that killed some of your staff? How could you let this happen again? I thought, if we go down, this is your fault.”
The helicopter ultimately landed safely in Linden, N.J., Mr. Holden said.
Ms. Res wrote about the episode in a memoir and corroborated Mr. Holden’s account in a brief interview late Friday. Ms. Res, who also spoke to Politico, recalled that Mr. Trump liked to say that Mr. Holden had “turned white” from fear, but that it was actually Mr. Trump whose face was ashen.
A spokesman for Mr. Trump did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Mr. Holden said he was in his living room watching Mr. Trump’s news conference on TV on Thursday when the former president told of experiencing a brush with death on a helicopter ride with Mr. Brown.
“I said, ‘What the hell is this?’” Mr. Holden said. “‘Was he in two near-fatal helicopter crashes? He didn’t fix those damn helicopters yet?’”
Mr. Holden said that he called Mr. Brown to compare notes. Mr. Brown told him he had never been in a helicopter with Mr. Trump.
“I said, ‘Willie, you know what? That’s me!’” Mr. Holden said. “And I told him, ‘You’re a short Black guy and I’m a tall Black guy — but we all look alike, right?’”
Mr. Holden gave his own height as 6-foot-1. “Willie has to be about 5-foot-6. Maybe 5-foot-5. He comes up to about my shoulders. And he’s bald. And I’m not bald.”
Mr. Brown, he said, “just laughed and laughed.”
Mr. Holden, summing up his assessment of Mr. Trump’s recollection, said: “I just think he makes things up. That’s what I think. He never thought anybody’s going to check.”
Mr. Trump told the story about nearly dying in a helicopter crash with Mr. Brown after a reporter at Thursday’s news conference asked him a leading question about Vice President Kamala Harris’s long-ago relationship with Mr. Brown and whether it helped her career trajectory.
The two dated in 1994 and 1995 when she was a prosecutor in Alameda County, which includes Oakland, and Mr. Brown was the Assembly speaker. Mr. Brown appointed Ms. Harris to two state boards before she ended their relationship.
“Well, I know Willie Brown very well,” Mr. Trump responded. “In fact, I went down in a helicopter with him.”
He recounted how the two had a close brush with death — “We thought maybe this was the end” — and that Mr. Brown used the frightening ride to tell him “terrible things” about Ms. Harris. “He was not fan of hers very much, at that point,” Mr. Trump said.
Mr. Trump had previously told the story, saying it was Mr. Brown on a helicopter with him, in his book, “Letters to Trump,” which was published in 2023.
Reached again Friday night, Mr. Brown reiterated that he had never flown in a helicopter with Mr. Trump and that he had not denigrated Ms. Harris to the former president because he admires and respects her.
“Those are the two things I am certain of,” he said. “All the rest of this is amusing.”
Asked if Mr. Trump might have confused the two California politicians because they are both Black, Mr. Brown said, “I wouldn’t want to conclude that he can’t tell Black people apart, because I’d hate for him to think that I’m Beyoncé.”
And then he burst out laughing.
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Reporting from Glendale, Ariz.
Harris rides momentum to Arizona, for what her campaign says is largest rally yet.
Vice President Kamala Harris rolled into Arizona on Friday evening with the same political momentum that has infused her first swing across the country this week, drawing a crowd that her campaign estimated at more than 15,000 — her largest yet — in a Western state that not long ago appeared to be falling off the battleground map.
Along with her newly minted running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, Ms. Harris delivered a stump speech that is barely a week old, and yet familiar enough to an impassioned new following that some shouted her lines before she did.
The rally was her fourth in four days with an arena-filling crowd that demonstrated the degree to which her candidacy replacing President Biden’s had remade the 2024 race.
Mr. Walz relished the crowd that filed into the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Ariz., in 100-degree heat as he poked fun at Mr. Trump’s obsession with rally crowds.
“It’s not as if anybody cares about crowd sizes or anything,” Mr. Walz said to knowing cheers.
Despite her momentum, Ms. Harris faces an uphill battle in Arizona , a longtime Republican stronghold that flipped to Mr. Biden in 2020 but, according to polling, had been drifting back to former President Donald J. Trump this year.
To win, she will need to reunite the diverse coalition of voters who delivered the state four years ago, and she made an explicit appeal to one part of that group on Friday: Native American voters.
“As president, I will tell you, I will always honor tribal sovereignty and respect tribal self-determination,” she said. The first speaker at the rally, notably, was Stephen Roe Lewis, the governor of the Gila River Indian Community, south of Phoenix.
In her speech, Ms. Harris zeroed in on two issues that are especially pertinent to Arizonans: immigration and abortion.
Crossings from Mexico into Arizona have remained high this year even as they have dropped elsewhere, and Ms. Harris positioned herself as supporting both an “earned pathway to citizenship” and tougher border restrictions, pointing to her record as California’s attorney general.
“I went after the transnational gangs, the drug cartels and the human traffickers,” Ms. Harris said. “I prosecuted them in case after case, and I won. So I know what I’m talking about.”
By contrast, Ms. Harris said, Mr. Trump was playing politics with the issue. She highlighted his opposition to a bipartisan bill this year that would have beefed up border security.
“He talks a big game about border security,” she said, “but he does not walk the walk.”
The comments come as her campaign began to air a tough-on-immigration ad that labeled her a “border-state prosecutor.” Senior Trump campaign officials see the border and immigration as one of Ms. Harris’s deepest areas of vulnerability, and his campaign has repeatedly labeled her, inaccurately , as Mr. Biden’s failed “border czar.”
Ms. Harris did add a new riff to her speech, responding to Mr. Trump’s muddled comments on Thursday at a news conference in Florida, in which he did not rule out directing the Food and Drug Administration to revoke access to abortion pills.
Ms. Harris said Mr. Trump’s agenda “would ban medication abortion in every state,” adding, “But we are not going to let that happen — because we trust women.”
Mr. Trump has previously supported the Supreme Court’s ruling on the abortion drug mifepristone. Karoline Leavitt, a Trump spokeswoman, said in a statement the former president’s position on mifepristone “remains the same — the Supreme Court unanimously decided on the issue and the matter is settled.”
The abortion rhetoric could prove especially potent in Arizona, where the State Supreme Court reinstated a near-total ban on the procedure this year. The State Legislature eventually repealed it, but abortion is still banned after 15 weeks, and voters will have a chance to enshrine the right to an abortion until fetal viability in the state’s Constitution through a ballot measure in November.
The speakers who preceded Ms. Harris on Friday made a number of appeals to independents and moderate Republicans, another segment she will need to win over.
“I do not recognize my party,” said John Giles, the mayor of Mesa, Ariz., who is a prominent Republican backing Ms. Harris. “We need to elect a ticket who will be the adults in the room.”
Senator Mark Kelly, the Arizona Democrat who is also a Navy veteran and former astronaut, introduced Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz. It was the second time this week that a finalist in Ms. Harris’s running-mate sweepstakes introduced her at a rally. Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania did the same in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
Mr. Kelly said Mr. Trump had “zero respect for any of us who have worn the uniform.” Mr. Trump’s allies have raised questions about Mr. Walz’s decision to leave the National Guard in 2005 to run for Congress.
Attendees and speakers said the enormous crowd braving scorching desert temperatures on Friday was a sign that, after months of dreariness among Democrats, momentum in Arizona was finally on their side.
“It may be a little warm outside,” Kate Gallego, the mayor of Phoenix, said, “but based on the energy in this arena, I know it’s Donald Trump who’s feeling the heat.”
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Trump claims he has helicopter trip records and threatens to sue.
Former President Donald J. Trump on Friday afternoon vehemently maintained that he had once been in a dangerous helicopter landing with Willie Brown , the former mayor of San Francisco, and insisted he had records to prove it, despite Mr. Brown’s denial.
In an angry phone call to a New York Times reporter as he landed several hours away from his planned rally in Bozeman, Mont., because of a mechanical issue on his plane, Mr. Trump excoriated The Times for its coverage of his meandering news conference on Thursday at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and home, during which he told of an emergency landing during a helicopter trip that he said both he and Mr. Brown had made together.
Mr. Trump was expected to keep his rally schedule on Friday as planned, boarding a smaller plane to complete the journey.
Mr. Brown denied on Thursday that he had ever flown in a helicopter with Mr. Trump.
It appeared Mr. Trump may have confused Willie Brown with Jerry Brown, the former governor of California, with whom Mr. Trump traveled by helicopter in 2018 while surveying wildfire damage in the state. But Jerry Brown, who left office in January 2019, said through a spokesman, “There was no emergency landing and no discussion of Kamala Harris.”
Willie Brown, who was a boyfriend of Vice President Kamala Harris during the 1990s, knew Mr. Trump as a potential business associate during those years, when Mr. Trump, then a New York developer, was working on new projects. A biography of Ms. Harris, “Kamala’s Way: An American Life,” reported that Mr. Trump had sent his private plane for Mr. Brown and Ms. Harris in 1994 to fly them from Boston to New York City.
“We have the flight records of the helicopter,” Mr. Trump insisted Friday, saying the helicopter had landed “in a field,” and indicating that he intended to release the flight records, before shouting that he was “probably going to sue” over the Times article.
When asked to produce the flight records, Mr. Trump responded mockingly, repeating the request in a sing-song voice. As of early Friday evening, he had not provided them.
Mr. Trump has a history of claiming he will provide evidence to back up his claims but ultimately not doing so.
He has also told the helicopter story before, in his 2023 book, “Letters to Trump,” in which he published letters to him from a number of people, including Mr. Brown. In the book, Mr. Trump wrote, “We actually had an emergency landing in a helicopter together. It was a little scary for both of us, but thankfully we made it.”
Two rivals in Michigan’s crucial Senate contest say they were both swatted.
The two leading contenders for Michigan’s open Senate seat disclosed that they had been targeted in separate “swatting” incidents in a span of less than 24 hours, just days after winning primaries in a crucial contest that could determine which party controls the chamber.
The first incident, involving Representative Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat, happened on Thursday night at her home in Oakland County, north of Detroit. The second one occurred on Friday at an address that had been listed on public records under the name of Mike Rogers, the Republican candidate and former House member, in neighboring Livingston County.
Politicians on both sides of the political aisle have increasingly been the target of swatting in recent years. The hoaxes — when false threats are deliberately made to law enforcement to draw a heavily armed response to a person’s home — have added to a climate of intimidation and the harassment of public officials.
Ms. Slotkin was not home at the time of the incident, according to a spokeswoman for her office, Lynsey Mukomel, who said in a statement that Michigan State Police troopers went to the residence after a false threat was emailed to a local official. She did not elaborate on the nature of the false threat. Michigan State Police confirmed they responded.
“Michigan State Police checked the property and confirmed no one was in danger,” Ms. Mukomel said, adding that U.S. Capitol Police would investigate the incident.
Mr. Rogers, a former longtime House member who was endorsed by former President Donald J. Trump, experienced a similar incident around 12:30 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, said Chris Gustafson, a spokesman for his campaign.
A person reported that a man was holding a woman at gunpoint at the property in Livingston County connected with Mr. Rogers, according to Mr. Gustafson, who said that Mr. Rogers currently does not live there but that other members of his family do. (Mr. Rogers now lives in Oakland County, Mich., according to his campaign.)
Shanon Banner, a Michigan State Police spokeswoman, said that a sergeant had responded to a report about a domestic situation at a residence in Livingston County on Friday and determined that it was false. She was not immediately able to confirm whether it was the same property.
Mr. Gustafson, in a statement, said that it was the second time that Mr. Rogers had been targeted in a swatting incident. The first was in 2013, when he was a member of Congress.
“This kind of violence cannot be tolerated, and it is our hope that those responsible will be quickly prosecuted and held accountable,” Mr. Gustafson said.
The rivals are running for a seat that is being vacated by Senator Debbie Stabenow, Michigan’s senior senator and a Democrat, who announced last year that she would not seek a fifth term . Democrats control the Senate by a thin 51-49 seat majority.
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Joe Rogan would like to clarify: He did not endorse Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The world’s most popular podcaster has, sort of, but not really, thrown his support to one of the 2024 presidential race’s least popular candidates.
On Thursday, Joe Rogan said he preferred Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running as an independent, for president. “He’s the only one that makes sense to me,” Mr. Rogan said, as a guest on a podcast hosted by Lex Fridman, and called Mr. Kennedy a “legitimate guy.”
Mr. Rogan’s devoted following, one that leans young, male and numbers in the tens of millions, is highly coveted. His remarks about Mr. Kennedy, uttered on a show with a far smaller reach than his own, nonetheless set off a frenzied response.
Supporters of former President Donald J. Trump, worried that Mr. Rogan’s stance could carve off voters and hurt his electoral chances come November, quickly turned on the podcaster, standup comic and U.F.C. announcer. They questioned his intelligence and even mocked his height , a spectacle that was greeted with something akin to joy — or, at least, schadenfreude — among Democrats who have long written off Mr. Rogan as helpful to their cause.
By Friday morning, Mr. Rogan was backpedaling. “This isn’t an endorsement,” he posted on the social media platform X, and advised that he is “not the guy to get political information from.”
Mr. Trump himself weighed in on Friday afternoon, pondering “how loudly Joe Rogan gets BOOED the next time he enters the UFC ring” in a post on his social network that seemingly reflected his concerns that the influential podcaster could tip the scales against him.
“This takes straight from the Trump base,” said Mike Madrid, a Republican political consultant. A New York Times/Siena poll in battleground states in May found that 54 percent of respondents who said they planned to vote for the former president had a favorable opinion of Mr. Rogan.
Mr. Kennedy, long before Mr. Rogan’s unwinding act, had already taken credit for the perceived nod, posting on social media: “From one ‘legitimate’ guy to another, thank you.”
Even if it’s not a true endorsement, Mr. Rogan’s praise could come as a huge shot in the arm for Mr. Kennedy, who has seen his polling average drop from as much as 15 percent in early June to somewhere around 6 percent as of late last month.
While Mr. Kennedy drew national attention this week after acknowledging that he dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park a decade ago, such headlines have not helped ease his struggles raising money . He’s also fighting to get his name on the ballots in critical states, or, in the case of New York , keep it there.
“He doesn’t attack people. He attacks actions and ideas, but he’s much more reasonable and intelligent,” Mr. Rogan said of Mr. Kennedy on the “Lex Fridman Podcast,” which has 4.1 million subscribers on YouTube.
Mr. Rogan’s fan base is much bigger. In March, Spotify said that “The Joe Rogan Experience” had 14.5 million followers , almost triple the platform’s second most popular program. He also has 19 million followers on Instagram and 17 million followers on YouTube.
A poll by YouGov last year found that 81 percent of his listeners are male and 56 percent are under 35 years old , feeding the perception that he has a direct line to a cohort that polling suggests tends to support Mr. Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris.
“This is a group Trump needs strong performance with,” Mr. Madrid said.
During his interview with Mr. Fridman, he said that he was “not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form” and adding that he turned down multiple offers to have him on his show. “I’ve said no every time,” Mr. Rogan said. “I’m not interested in helping him,”
Mr. Kennedy sat for an interview on the “Joe Rogan Experience” in June 2023.
Ruth Igielnik contributed reporting.
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Christine and the Queens will return to North America this fall for a run of shows in October supporting, 'Paranoïa, Angels, True Love.'
May 30, 2023. Christine and the Queens, photo by Jasa Muller. Christine and the Queens has announced a North American tour in support of the new album Paranoïa, Angels, True Love. The new shows ...
Piano : Vincent Taurelle, drums : Vincent Taeger, bass : Amaury Ranger - on an arrangement by Christine and the Queens Recorded by Ash Workman at Motorbass Studio, assisted by Antoine Poyeton
May 30, 2023. French avant-pop artist, Christine and the Queens, has announced a short run of North American tour dates amongst the international tour for his forthcoming album, PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE. Chris will perform across 6 cities in the U.S. and Canada this fall starting at the Fillmore in Philadelphia on October 17th and ending at ...
French singer-songwriter Christine and the Queens announces North American Fall tour dates in honor of his forthcoming album Paranoia, Angels, True Love coming out June 9th via Because Music. The ...
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Christine and the Queens has expanded his U.S. tour plans to include more California dates this spring. The artist, who also goes by Chris and performs in character as "Redcar," will now ...
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May 30, 2023. photo by Jasa Muller. Just ahead of his LP Paranoïa, Angels, True Love, Christine and the Queens has announced a North American tour in the fall, following his extensive run in the ...
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Christine and the Queens Tickets, Tour Dates & Concerts 2024/2025 ♫. Christine & The Queens is a project by singer-songwriter Héloïse Létissier from Nantes, France. Inspired by the drag queens that would come to his shows, the music of David Bowie and the choreography of Michael Jackson, he has released three acclaimed studio albums to ...
Christine & The Queens has announced a UK and European 'PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE' tour for 2023 - find details here.
Christine and the Queens has cancelled all remaining tour dates through the end of 2023 citing illness.
Christine and the Queens at Unique Moments 2023. Artist: Christine and the Queens , Venue: Landesmuseum , Zurich, Switzerland. Set Times: Doors: 6:00 PM Show: 8:45 PM - 10:20 PM. Overture. Tears Can Be So Soft. Marvin descending. A day in the water. Angels crying in my bed.
Read about the unforgettable performance by Christine and the Queens at Glastonbury 2023. The French artist brings a unique blend of pop, art, and performance that captivated the audience.
Christine and the Queens, September 2023 (Frank Hoensch/Redferns) On advice of his doctors, Christine and the Queens has canceled his remaining 2023 tour dates due to illness.
Christine and the Queens canceled his remaining 2023 North American and European tour dates due to illness. Read the statement he shared on Instagram.
French pop artist Christine and the Queens' new album, Paranoïa, Angels, True Love, is both dreamlike and hyperpersonal.
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