PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. — Former president Donald Trump, during a campaign rally Sunday in Arizona, proposed a dramatic expansion of the Border Patrol, looking to deepen his commitment to border security — an issue where his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, has sought to challenge him. Addressing an enthusiastic crowd in this border state, Trump promised he would set ...
Two polls released Sunday show that former president Donald Trump is chipping away at Vice President Kamala Harris’s national advantage in the presidential race, as the candidates gear up for the final weeks of the campaign season. A new ABC News-Ipsos poll, conducted from Oct. 4-8, showed that among likely voters, Harris led Trump 50 percent to 48 percent, within ...
A man was arrested in Riverside County, Calif., and charged with illegal possession of a loaded firearm and a high-capacity magazine after he tried to enter a rally Donald Trump held in the desert area in Coachella, sheriff’s officials announced Sunday. The man, whom police questioned as he approached the venue in his car, claimed he was a journalist and ...
MERION STATION, Pa. — In a concession that the ongoing Israel-Hamas war and historic levels of antisemitism have some members of a core constituency newly in play, the Harris-Walz campaign and Jewish groups supporting it are more emphatically than before pressing Jewish voters to return to the Democratic fold in November. They’re pointing to Vice President Kamala Harris’ Jewish husband, ...
Vice President Kamala Harris is making a major push this week to boost her support among Black men, as Democratic leaders warn that she needs to do more to boost enthusiasm from a key group that former president Donald Trump has been courting with some success. In coming days, Harris plans to travel to urban locales including Detroit, Philadelphia and ...
Donald Trump and his campaign have waged an aggressive campaign against fact-checking in recent months, pushing TV networks, journalism organizations and others to abandon the practice if they hope to interact with Trump. Trump nearly backed out of an August interview with a group of Black journalists after learning they planned to fact-check his claims. The following month, he and ...
The Gateway Pundit, a far-right website, published a note from its editor on Saturday acknowledging that two election workers in Georgia did not engage in ballot fraud in 2020, days after the publication settled a lawsuit brought against it for falsely reporting that they had tampered with election results. Earlier this week, the site settled with Ruby Freeman and Shaye ...
Vice President Kamala Harris’s doctor said in a letter Saturday that she is in “excellent health” as she released her first medical report in an effort to draw a sharp contrast with her 78-year-old opponent, Republican Donald Trump. The letter, from Joshua R. Simmons, Harris’s physician for the past 3½ years, concludes that the 59-year-old Harris “possesses the physical and ...
New majorities in Congress, particularly when the incoming party has a new leader, offer the rare chance for the institution to take a breath and consider what can be done to make the place function better. The Senate seems poised for just that outcome, as Republicans get closer to locking up at least 51 seats for next year and with ...
A political organization helping prepare for the potential presidential transition of Donald Trump recently experienced a cyberattack by what federal authorities believe are Chinese hackers, according to people familiar with the matter. Materials were taken from online accounts belonging to the America First Policy Institute, which has put together policy proposals for a second term and recommendations for jobs and ...