When Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance takes the debate stage Tuesday, it may be the first time millions of Americans hear directly from the senator from Ohio. But one person in particular could be his most important viewer: his running mate, Donald Trump. Trump, a former pitchman, voracious television watcher and skilled showman, is known to focus intensely on television ...
Kamala Harris doesn’t get to decide if Donald Trump debates her a second time. But she will attempt to extract a cost if he won’t. Her campaign has hired a plane to trail the words “Trump’s Punting on 2nd Debate” over Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Saturday night, where Trump is expected to attend the much anticipated 7:30 p.m. ...
U.S. officials on Saturday were preparing for a range of potential retaliatory actions by Iran for an Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah and said the Lebanese militant group is significantly degraded after Israeli military operations. In a statement on Saturday, President Joe Biden said Nasrallah and Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist group, were responsible for “killing hundreds of ...
MONROEVILLE, Pa. — Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance appeared Saturday at a town hall event organized by top Christian nationalist leaders who promote election denialism and portray Vice President Kamala Harris as a “demon.” The event’s host, Lance Wallnau, who emceed the live event and introduced Vance’s first town hall on the campaign trail, is a leading figure in the ...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump criticized Vice President Kamala Harris’s mental capacity Saturday, falsely claiming she was born “mentally impaired” and comparing her actions to that of a “a mentally disabled person.” The remarks prompted criticism from advocates for people with disabilities. Disparaging Harris’s actions on border security as vice president, Trump told the crowd in Prairie du Chien, Wis., ...
The cat owners and cat lovers at Mount Purrnon Cat Cafe and Wine Bar in Northern Virginia think vice-presidential candidate JD Vance is a purrfect idiot. “Beyond ridiculous,” said Beth Kanupp, 41, who was visiting from Orlando with her fiancé. “I kind of just rolled my eyes,” said Marina Loftus, 20, a D.C.-based student, “because I feel like diminishing a ...
PHOENIX — Arizona’s Democratic leaders knew they had no good options when they jumped on a phone call this month. They had just learned tens of thousands of residents had been registered to vote for decades, even though there was no record they had provided proof of citizenship — a requirement under state law. Their predicament was “an urgent, a ...
As former congresswoman Liz Cheney repeatedly and publicly spoke out over the last year about the dangers of a potential return to the White House by former president Donald Trump, Jen O’Malley Dillon, chair of the then-Biden campaign, quietly reached out to her. Over multiple phone calls, she conveyed to Cheney, a Wyoming Republican and staunch conservative, how much the ...
Vice President Kamala Harris continues to flesh out her policy agenda, addressing in recent days both economics and border security, two areas where voters have negative views about the work of her and President Joe Biden’s administration. The contrasts with former president Donald Trump are great, though that might not be what decides the election. Trump’s policies are shaped by ...
Among the allegations included in a federal indictment made public on Thursday is that prospective donors to New York Mayor Eric Adams were encouraged to avoid contribution limits by using straw donors, people who’d receive money from the actual contributor and give it to Adams under their own name. This allegedly helped Adams increase his contribution total and, as a ...