Donald Trump falsely claimed as president that “cleaning” forests would prevent California wildfires. He showed Americans a doctored hurricane map, altered with a Sharpie to bolster an inaccurate tweet about the storm’s path. He said the calculated death toll of Hurricane Maria had been inflated, which was untrue. And in recent days, he has incorrectly said that the Biden administration ...
On President Joe Biden’s first day in office, he fulfilled a campaign promise and cheered immigration advocates by introducing a sweeping bill that offered a path to legalization for millions of undocumented immigrants. Vice President Kamala Harris is touting a starkly different legislative priority in her upstart campaign: She is pledging to sign into law “the toughest bipartisan border security ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) wouldn’t acknowledge Sunday that Joe Biden won the 2020 election when asked directly about the election denialism that former president Donald Trump continues to promote on the campaign trail. During a testy exchange on ABC News’s “This Week,” host George Stephanopoulos asked Johnson if he could say “unequivocally that Joe Biden won the 2020 election ...
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), former president Donald Trump’s running mate, said that Trump, if elected, would seek to end federal money for Planned Parenthood. “We don’t think that taxpayers should fund late-term abortions,” Vance told RealClearPolitics on Saturday night. “That has been a consistent view of the Trump campaign the first time around, it will remain a consistent view.” Vance’s ...
Speaking on a popular podcast aimed at young women, Vice President Kamala Harris took issue with former president Donald Trump calling himself a “protector” of women and also responded to attacks on her stepfamily by Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Harris made the remarks on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, in an expansive interview with host Alex Cooper. The podcast has ...
Republicans backing Donald Trump are threatening Deloitte, a consulting firm that is one of the federal government’s largest business partners, with the loss of billions of dollars in contracts because an employee shared messages from 2020 in which GOP vice-presidential nominee JD Vance criticized the former president’s record. On Sept. 27, Donald Trump Jr. exposed the employee’s name and photograph ...
WILMINGTON, Del. — When Lisa Blunt Rochester was running to become Delaware’s first Black woman in Congress, a newspaper editorial board asked her an unusual question: Wasn’t she a bit nice for Capitol Hill? Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) recalls trying to turn that doubt into a positive. “Well, maybe we need to do something different,” she remembered answering. Now, after eight ...
BUTLER, Pa. — Republican nominee Donald Trump is set to return on Saturday to the fairgrounds here where he narrowly escaped an assassin’s bullet on July 13, in what has become another defining moment for his presidential campaign and his MAGA movement. The campaign is bringing back many attendees who sat in the bleachers behind Trump at the July rally, ...
Vice President Kamala Harris will appear this week on an episode of “Call Her Daddy,” one of the world’s most popular podcasts. The feature on the podcast, which garners millions of listeners who are known as the “Daddy Gang,” is another marker of the Harris campaign’s efforts to reach women and younger voters. Harris and “Call Her Daddy” host Alex ...
CHARLOTTE — Vice President Kamala Harris took her second trip in four days to a hurricane-ravaged state, meeting with victims and first responders in North Carolina on Saturday as the administration combats criticism and false claims that its storm response is too anemic. Fresh off a Midwest campaign swing, Harris visited a North Carolina Air National Guard base at Charlotte’s ...