Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) announced Tuesday that he does not plan to a call a special legislative session before the November election to overhaul the way his state awards its electoral votes, a change sought by former president Donald Trump and his allies. Pillen’s announcement came a day after a key holdout vote, Republican state Sen. Mike McDonnell, announced ...
For those who’ve tracked Donald Trump’s speeches over the past decade, the patter that unfolded in Pennsylvania on Monday evening was very familiar. An attack on a Democrat that shifted into a discussion of television ratings that ended at praise for an icon of the 1980s. We could create a slot-machine-style Trump Speech Generator with various names filling those slots ...
A panel of federal judges heard arguments Tuesday in a case that could upend the rules for counting a sliver of mail ballots in Mississippi just weeks before Election Day, with possible ramifications for all states. At issue is a Mississippi law that allows mail ballots to be counted if they arrive up to five days after Election Day and ...
In the wake of an apparent second attempt on his life earlier this month, former president Donald Trump began once again amplifying the idea that the twin threats were a function of Democratic rhetoric. He and his allies had done the same thing in the wake of his being grazed by a bullet in Butler, Pa., earlier this year, but ...
In her first six weeks on top of the Democratic presidential ticket, Kamala Harris surpassed the total number of campaign contributors that President Joe Biden had acquired in his 15 months of campaigning. Harris has received contributions from 3.8 million individual donors, more than 70 percent of whom were unique to her and did not donate to Biden. As the ...
Republican nominee Donald Trump’s campaign on Tuesday pushed beyond U.S. intelligence assessments of Iranian interference in the presidential election in an effort to disparage his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. Officials with the director of National Intelligence briefed Trump on Tuesday about “real and specific threats” by Iran to assassinate him with the goal of destabilizing the United States and ...
The Portage County, Ohio, elections board has barred its sheriff’s office from providing security during early voting after Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski (R) urged people to collect the addresses of residents displaying yard signs for Vice President Kamala Harris. The board’s decision Friday, which affects in-person absentee voting, came a week after Zuchowski said in public Facebook posts that residents should ...
Vice President Kamala Harris plans to outline in greater detail Wednesday an economic philosophy rooted in her own biography, attempting to contrast her vision with Donald Trump’s and win over voters in a crucial swing state who so far have viewed her skeptically on a driving electoral issue. Harris, speaking at the Economic Club of Pittsburgh in what her campaign ...
We’ve documented many times the false claims that former president Donald Trump has made about his achievements during his presidency. But there are also instances when Trump claims credit for something that either Barack Obama or Joe Biden did. Here’s a recent sampling. Capped insulin at $35 a month “Low INSULIN PRICING was gotten for millions of Americans by me, ...
One of the central characteristics of the 2024 presidential election is its steadiness. That’s counterintuitive, certainly; rarely has any contest seen as much tumult as we’ve seen in the past several months. Attempts on Donald Trump’s life, President Joe Biden’s withdrawal, Vice President Kamala Harris’s ascent. And the result is an election in which it’s impossible to predict who might ...