CHICAGO — It was not yet 9 a.m. Tuesday, but Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was moving fast through the labyrinth of delegate breakfasts at a hotel near the Democratic National Convention. First Tennessee, then Pennsylvania, a sprint downstairs for Wyoming and Montana, then back up to New Mexico and over to North Carolina. In less than two hours, she would ...
The past decade has been a remarkable demonstration of the extent to which celebrity and money can provide a platform for unfounded, dangerous theories about the world. These have always been with us, of course, but the advent of the internet or social media or both has allowed those theories to find pockets of support that snowball into movements when ...
PHOENIX — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who struggled to gain traction as a third-party insurgent, said he would suspend his long-shot White House bid Friday, withdraw from battleground states’ ballots and endorse Republican nominee Donald Trump. Kennedy announced that he would suspend his campaign with several caveats, after several turbulent months of declining polling numbers, accumulating debt ...
Recognizing that the audience for Vice President Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech would probably draw in a broader, less heavily Democratic audience, the lineup of speakers at the Democratic convention Thursday evening included a number of validators from outside the party. Among them was former Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger. He was speaking not because he’s a Democrat — he isn’t — ...
CHICAGO — Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is releasing a new television ad in battleground states with a message aimed at the middle class, in its first major move after the convention. In the ad, titled “Opportunity,” Harris speaks directly to the camera about the importance of lowering costs and taxes on middle-class Americans. It’s a topic voters often list ...
CHICAGO — The marchers had moved on, the chants had faded away, and the protest had ended. But Julie Wroblewski’s job is just beginning. She walked carefully through a public park in this Midwest metropolis, combing over the flotsam left behind by the thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had crowded in hours earlier to denounce the nearby Democratic National Convention. ...
The promise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent 2024 campaign was always something of a mirage. His famous last name combined with the unpopularity of President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump allowed Kennedy, for a time, to poll better than any third-party candidate had since Ross Perot in the 1990s — near 20 percent. But his steady decline ...
CHICAGO — Only hours before Vice President Kamala Harris officially accepted the Democratic nomination for president at the United Center in Chicago, six of the seven Black female chairs of their state Democratic parties — the highest-ever number of Black women state party chairs — gathered exactly a mile east of the convention hall at the interactive WNDR Museum. But ...
VALENTINE, Neb. — Beyond the Badlands, deep within the undulating landscape of the Sandhills, this speck of a city where Tim Walz spent a decade of his childhood rises abruptly out of the vastness. It is as remote as anywhere in the Midwest, an island of civilization in a Rhode-Island-size county with just 6,000 people and 184,000 beef cows. But ...
CHICAGO — Jesse Jackson sat in a wheelchair near the back wall of a darkened restaurant at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place. It was late Thursday morning, the final day of the Democratic National Convention. Slowed by Parkinson’s disease at age 82, the reverend was eating, or trying to eat, a breakfast of strawberries, grapes and cantaloupe. With determined effort, ...