The gunman who tried to kill former president Donald Trump conducted internet searches related to power plants, mass shooting events and the attempted assassination this year of Slovakia’s prime minister, FBI officials said Monday, offering new details about what they described as the gunman’s “careful planning” for the attack. The details, including about Thomas Matthew Crooks’s interest in the attempted ...
The early signs last week were that Vice President Harris’s replacement of President Biden as the Democrats’ 2024 standard-bearer appeared to modestly increase Democrats’ hopes of winning. The evidence since then has only affirmed that. The signs continue to improve for the Democratic ticket — particularly when it comes to Harris’s image. A long-unpopular vice president has gotten a second ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) have tapped seven Republican and six Democratic lawmakers to serve on a bipartisan task force investigating the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. All 13 lawmakers have backgrounds and experience relevant to the committee’s role: seeking accountability and answers after a gunman wounded the former president, killed one person and ...
The Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), privately told donors that running against Vice President Harris instead of President Biden made the race more challenging — an admission at odds with the Donald Trump campaign’s public projections of confidence. “All of us were hit with a little bit of a political sucker punch,” Vance said about Biden’s withdrawal on ...
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) has withdrawn from consideration to serve as Vice President Harris’s running mate, he announced Monday on social media. Cooper had been one of roughly a dozen individuals that Harris’s campaign was considering after President Biden withdrew from the presidential race and endorsed her. Harris is slated to pick her running mate before Aug. 7, ...
AMBLER, Pa. — Seeking to capitalize on an outpouring of enthusiasm and an influx of cash, Democratic Govs. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania sought Monday to draw a contrast between Vice President Harris and Donald Trump, warning a packed gymnasium here that he would strip more freedoms from a vast swath of Americans. The rally in ...
Running against former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina in the 2016 Republican primary, Donald Trump mocked her appearance: “Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that?” Running against former secretary of state Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race, Trump dismissed her as “unbalanced” and “unhinged,” and questioned her “strength” and “stamina.” And running against former South Carolina governor ...
The Trump campaign’s first television ad of the general election attacks likely Democratic nominee Kamala Harris as an evasive, weak and distracted leader who did not protect the U.S.-Mexico border from drug trafficking, increased migrant crossings and a possible terrorism threat during the Biden administration. “Kamala Harris. Failed. Weak. Dangerously liberal,” the ad concludes. The Trump campaign made a two-week ...
In a White House where President Biden has grounded his reputation on 50 years of dealings in global affairs, Vice President Harris has had little chance to forge her own foreign policy, even as she has traveled the globe on his behalf. But if she claims the Democratic presidential nomination and then the White House, Harris, a longtime prosecutor, would ...
NASHVILLE — Charlene Brown arrived at the first full day of Bitcoin 2024 at the Music City Center convention complex with two signs in hand: “Orange Man Good” and “Bitcoin Don.” Similar symbols of a recent and sudden shift in the politics of bitcoin could be spotted elsewhere in the Nashville crowd. “Make Bitcoin Great Again” caps — not to mention ...