CAMP HILL, Pa. — Rep. Scott Perry, a conservative Republican representing a moderate suburban district in the Harrisburg area, insists he supports in vitro fertilization though he sponsored a bill last year that would make it federal law that life begins at conception. But some voters in his district, like new mom Ashley Moyer, don’t believe him. “I don’t really ...
Senate Majority PAC, an independent group associated with Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), announced Monday the reservation of nearly a quarter of a billion dollars worth of television advertising in seven states starting this summer — a massive investment aimed at attempting to maintain control of the chamber by a razor-thin margin. The retirement of Sen. Joe Manchin III ...
When prosecutor Robert Hur testifies to Congress on Tuesday about his investigation of President Biden’s handling of classified documents, he is expected to defend a special counsel process created to shield fraught cases from political interference. But Hur’s testimony will also highlight how Attorney General Merrick Garland’s use of special counsels to handle the most politically sensitive cases has calcified ...
On Saturday, President Biden’s reelection campaign released the first ad as part of its $30 million post-State of the Union advertising campaign, in which the president directly confronts concerns about his age. The ad — part of the campaign’s pivot to the general election — features Biden speaking directly into the camera as he contrasts his record with his likely ...
Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) knows how to lie in wait. When the State of the Union address finishes, Republicans rush for the exits, anxious to blast President Biden’s speech to conservative media, while Democrats pour into the well of the House to high-five their leader and pose for selfies. Every year, LaMalfa will patiently wait toward the back of the ...
When a Los Angeles internet entrepreneur decided that his company should lend money to Alexander Smirnov, an Israeli-American businessman fluent in four languages, he did so in part because Smirnov boasted of a highly respectable background. “He was representing himself as working for the FBI,” Dmitry Fomichev recalled in an interview about the 2012 loan, which Fomichev would later say ...
Former president Donald Trump met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday, continuing his embrace of autocratic world leaders as he seeks reelection for the American presidency. Orban’s trip to the United States also included a stop in Washington, where he delivered remarks at the Heritage Foundation, which has close ties to Trump. That appearance was on Thursday, the ...
ATLANTA — President Biden and former president Donald Trump painted starkly different visions for the country Saturday night as they campaigned 70 miles apart in Georgia, with Trump delivering an insult-filled, mocking diatribe against the sitting president. The dueling appearances, eight months before Election Day, demonstrated how divisive and combative the general election campaign has already become before either candidate ...
Super Tuesday is a lot — even for those of us whose job it is to cover this stuff for a living. While we get to devote all our attention on an election day to early states like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, having 15 states vote on the same day means some key developments can get lost in ...
Leaders of the moderate group No Labels decided Friday in a Zoom call with hundreds of supporters to move forward with selecting candidates for a third-party ticket that would challenge both President Biden and former president Donald Trump in November. There was no discussion on the call of specific potential candidates, a critical piece of the puzzle that the group ...