MINNEAPOLIS – Even before Vice President Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz to be her running mate, the Minnesota governor made headlines and launched countless memes when in July he delivered a simple, yet memorable critique of former president Donald Trump and Republicans, proclaiming them to be “just weird.” “These are weird people on the other side,” Walz said in a ...
PLAINS, Ga. — Signs that read “Happy 100th Birthday Mr. President!” dot lawns. The local general store is stocking up on its famous peanut butter ice cream. And the population of this tiny southwestern Georgia town is expected to double for a day. Jimmy Carter turns 100 Tuesday, and his hometown is pulling out all the stops to celebrate the ...
North Carolina voters are closely divided in the choice between Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a Washington Post poll, with no sign that Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s scandal-plagued campaign for governor has diminished Republican enthusiasm for the former president. Ahead of Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate, the poll finds that 50 percent of North Carolina likely voters support ...
The first and only vice-presidential debate is Tuesday. Republican nominee Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) and Democratic nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will face off in person, and it could be the last debate before the election. Vice-presidential candidates can make a difference in tight races, said Joel Goldstein, a vice-presidential scholar at St. Louis University. And this campaign has remained ...
ERIE, Pa. — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, in a speech that repeatedly painted a dark caricature of immigrants, seized on a recent report to claim falsely that thousands of immigrants with homicide records had been allowed to go free by the Biden administration. “They’re coming into our cities and our small towns, here in Pennsylvania and all over the ...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Wearing a navy blue Harris-Walz jacket and a camo baseball cap, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sat in a private suite in Michigan Stadium on Saturday, cheering on a football game with 110,339 other fans and giving the campaign a high visibility perch on a busy September weekend. Eight hours later and more than 750 miles away ...
The Trump campaign and allies of the former president are distorting official Homeland Security statistics on undocumented immigrants with criminal records, claiming that thousands of these migrants have come in during the Biden administration when, in reality, the numbers that they’re citing span decades. The data, which was released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Congress late last week, shows ...
The fallout from the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene is entering the political arena, with former president Donald Trump facing scrutiny for his comment that hurricane victims will be “okay” and for conservative proposals to end government weather forecasts. At a rally Friday in Walker, Mich., Trump said he was thinking of those in Alabama and other states hit by ...
At least a dozen employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs improperly accessed the medical records of vice-presidential nominees JD Vance and Tim Walz this summer, VA investigators found, in a violation of federal health privacy laws that is under criminal investigation. VA officials notified the Vance and Walz campaigns about the breaches after discovering the unauthorized viewing by employees ...
Michelle Kang had the man’s attention. “This is a life or death situation,” she said to the South Asian man standing in the door frame in pajamas and slides. Kang was pitching her candidacy for the Georgia state House of Representatives and the election’s impact on his existence, “especially for Asian Americans like us.” Kang, a Democrat and first generation ...