Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, has accelerated his preparations for his Oct. 1 debate against Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), participating in policy sessions and mock debates in his home state and on the road. Walz’s team has enlisted Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to play Vance in debate rehearsals, reprising his role from four years ago when he ...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is betting on podcast interviews, appearances at sports events and targeted digital advertising to reach uncommitted young, male voters, whom his campaign has identified as his best path to victory in November. The campaign has homed in on a group of undecided voters that makes up 11 percent of the electorate in battleground states, according ...
Earlier this year, Americans’ perception of the presidential election was bleak. Both parties were seemingly about to nominate candidates who were broadly disliked — popular within their parties but broadly viewed negatively. The share of Americans indicating that they disliked both candidates was 25 percent, according to the Pew Research Center, the highest level on record. When voters were asked ...
Former president Donald Trump’s legal team has requested a 30-day extension to respond to the government’s appeal of U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s dismissal of his classified-documents case, making it less likely that a ruling on whether the indictment should be restored will come before Inauguration Day. The former president is very likely to be granted the extension. Special ...
Federal authorities are investigating several suspicious pieces of mail sent to election officials in at least eight states, some of which contained questionable substances and led to building evacuations. Elections offices in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Tennessee, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Missouri and Mississippi have confirmed receiving suspicious mail. The FBI and the U.S. Postal Service said in a joint statement Tuesday that ...
Donald Trump and his campaign have quickly responded to Sunday’s threat to the former president’s life by blaming Democrats. High on their list of alleged offenses? Democrats’ having called Trump a “threat to democracy” and a “fascist.” Trump spotlighted the “threat to democracy” rhetoric in a Fox News interview Monday in which he directly blamed President Joe Biden and Vice ...
On a quiet Sunday afternoon in the presidential race, a Secret Service agent opened fire on a man who poked a rifle through a fence as Donald Trump golfed. Just two months earlier, a different gunman tried to kill Trump at a campaign rally. The shooting left one dead and two wounded. Bomb threats have forced evacuations and lockdowns in ...
Democrats pushed again this week to spotlight Republican’s unpopular positions on reproductive rights, slamming Senate Republicans for voting Tuesday to block a bill to expand access to in vitro fertilization and accusing former president Donald Trump of putting women’s lives at risk. The Senate vote aimed to remind voters two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade that ...
It’s important to establish a timeline on what happened in Springfield, Ohio, so let’s begin there. Over the summer, right-wing extremists and others began to promote baseless rumors that Haitian immigrants in that community were stealing and eating residents’ pets. Changes the city was undergoing were newsworthy, certainly; NPR and then the New York Times wrote stories about Springfield and ...
When Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris last Tuesday night, the news threatened to eclipse analysis of the debate between the vice president and former president Donald Trump. Whatever its ultimate impact, the megastar’s announcement puts renewed focus on the potential power of younger voters in the 2024 election — and the divergent paths of men and women. Celebrity endorsements generally ...