Former president Donald Trump spoke by phone this week with a Nebraska state senator as part of a last-minute push to change how the state allocates its electoral votes and block the easiest path Vice President Kamala Harris has to win the White House. State Sen. Merv Riepe (R) said he spoke briefly by phone with Trump Wednesday in the ...
Kamala Harris’s campaign raised more than four times as much as Donald Trump’s effort in August, capitalizing on the surge of Democratic enthusiasm during the first full month of her presidential campaign. But the super PACs aligned with Trump are continuing to raise large sums from high-dollar donors as the two candidates enter the final sprint before November. Harris’s campaign ...
LAGRANGE, Ga. — The Georgia State Election Board is expected to vote on a measure to force counties to hand-count all ballots this year, a requirement that could delay reporting of results by weeks if not months and that critics say is designed to inject chaos and uncertainty into the presidential contest in a vitally important swing state. The board ...
For years, Donald Trump has directly and indirectly foisted damaging candidates on the GOP, in ways that have obviously cost his party dearly — up to and probably including control of the Senate. It’s not just his endorsements of several flawed statewide candidates who went on to badly underperform and lose key races; it’s also the ethos he’s created in ...
A wave of local and regional Teamsters union branches in battleground states rushed to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris after the national Teamsters union declared that it would not endorse a presidential candidate for the first time in nearly three decades. Teamsters regional councils — representing hundreds of thousands of members and retirees — in Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and western ...
A Jan. 6 rioter who was convicted of assaulting police with a deadly weapon, including an officer who was knocked unconscious as she tried to stop the attack on the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to spend his weekends in jail for the next year, one of the lightest penalties yet imposed on a rioter convicted of attacking law enforcement. Paul ...
The deadly explosion of pagers and walkie-talkies across Lebanon this week dealt another blow to President Joe Biden’s beleaguered efforts to reduce tensions in the Middle East, even as his top diplomats were present in the region reciting calls for calm. The absence of a full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah has been touted by U.S. officials as a core ...
James P. Hoffa, the longtime former leader of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, on Thursday called the union’s decision not to endorse a presidential candidate in the 2024 race a “critical error,” adding that Democratic nominee Kamala Harris was the “correct choice for labor and working families.” In a statement, Hoffa — who served as the Teamsters’ general president for ...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Thursday in back-to-back speeches that he would hold Jewish voters responsible if he loses the Nov. 5 election, suggesting that they owe him their support because of his position on Israel and questioning the sanity of Jewish Democrats. “The Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss,” Trump said at a ...
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) this week said the Trump campaign wants to roll back the Affordable Care Act’s approach to how chronically ill Americans shop for health insurance, with the Republican vice-presidential candidate reopening a health-care debate that Democrats are eager to have — and resurrecting a fight that has repeatedly burned the GOP. Speaking in North Carolina on Wednesday, ...