On the lengthy menu of unusual aspects to Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, one item stands out: his consistent and diverse efforts to sell things to his supporters. All presidential candidates make pitches to their supporters, of course, often to the point of irritation. But those appeals are generally centered on efforts to get campaign contributions, money that the campaigns ...
DETROIT — Kamala Harris and Donald Trump converged on the battleground state of Michigan on Friday, pushing hard for an edge with blue-collar voters as they sparred over their records on creating jobs for union workers, their plans to boost manufacturing jobs and their respective energy levels on the campaign trail. Harris is drawing strong support among college-educated voters in ...
Donald Trump makes curious comments about the war in Ukraine; he has done so since the moment Russia invaded in early 2022. His suspiciously friendly public posture toward Russia dates back years. But he and his allies have long suggested that this is effectively a diplomatic posture. You’ve got to be able to deal with Vladimir Putin, after all, so ...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump compared the detention of his supporters who have been charged or convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol to the mass imprisonment of people of Japanese descent without charges during World War II. The remark, in an interview with pro-Trump radio host Dan Bongino that aired on Friday, was the latest ...
TUCSON — Former president Barack Obama further sharpened his criticism of Donald Trump at a rally Friday, casting the Republican nominee as a huckster who lacks the mental fitness to lead the nation, leaning into a strategy of withering mockery as he hits the campaign trail in support of Vice President Kamala Harris. With just over two weeks until Election ...
DETROIT — For a second time this week, Republican nominee Donald Trump spent long stretches of a public appearance without speaking — this time not because he chose a long musical interlude, but because of a faulty microphone. Ten minutes into his speech here, Trump told the crowd: “To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary, it’s not love, ...
LAS VEGAS — Standing in the searing Nevada heat at her job as a construction flagger shortly after Vice President Kamala Harris entered the presidential race in July, 38-year-old Sarah White was skeptical: “I don’t think I would ever vote for a woman to be president,” she said bluntly. “Women are kinda all over the place.” White, an independent, voted ...
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Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign and Democrats are seizing on recent comments made by former president Donald Trump in which he insulted Detroit, compared the largest city in the battleground state of Michigan to a “developing nation” and downplayed the skills required for autoworkers to do their jobs. Trump first bashed the Motor City during a meandering speech before the ...
DURHAM, N.C. — Former President Bill Clinton campaigned for the first time alongside the Democratic ticket Thursday, appearing with Gov. Tim Walz and reprising his role as “explainer in chief” to make the case to North Carolinians to elect Kamala Harris on the first day of early voting here. “I don’t know how many more elections I’ll be involved with. ...