CHICAGO — President Joe Biden, for several moments, couldn’t speak. At first, it was because he was dabbing his eyes. Then, it was because the cheers were so sustained. “Thank you,” he said nearly two dozen times, unsuccessfully trying to begin his speech amid a sea of “We love Joe” signs. His wife, first lady Jill Biden, kept crying. His ...
CHICAGO — Barack Obama and Kamala Harris first met 20 years ago, when she was the district attorney in San Francisco and he was running for the Senate from Illinois. In 2008, she knocked on doors for him in Iowa ahead of the caucuses that helped propel him to the presidency. On Tuesday night, he will return to his hometown ...
“Did you know the Kamala price hikes have cost the average American family $28,000?” — Donald Trump, in a TikTok video, Aug. 15 “As a result of Kamala’s inflation price hikes, they’ve cost the typical household a total of $28,000. These are numbers coming from the government. They are not coming from me.” — Trump, media event in Bedminster, N.J., ...
As Vice President Kamala Harris’s new economic proposals dominated Sunday morning’s political shows, allies touted her ideas to address food and housing costs as beneficial to middle-class Americans, while critics — including Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the GOP vice-presidential nominee — slammed her plan as unworkable and unrealistic. Harris’s economic plan, which she laid out in a speech Friday, includes ...
PITTSBURGH — Vice President Kamala Harris joined her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and their spouses here to kick off a bus tour across a crucial part of this state, in a political show of force before Democrats kick off their national convention in Chicago. The four shook hands and took selfies at an airport hangar but did not ...
Just before Donald Trump held a rally in Doral, Fla., on July 9, Secret Service officials delivered his campaign a message: The former president and his advisers would notice additional security because the U.S. government had credible intelligence of threats against him. “The bad guys are at it again,” an adviser said, describing the Secret Service’s message. Days later, a ...
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — Former congressman George Santos, who was expelled from Congress last year, is expected to plead guilty Monday to some of the federal charges against him, which include wire fraud, money laundering and aggravated identity theft. He has been charged with defrauding donors to his 2022 campaign by taking their money for his personal use and spending ...
CHICAGO — Democrats unveiled a party platform Sunday night that does not mention an arms embargo on Israel — a demand uncommitted delegates had made of the party as the war in Gaza continues. The platform centers on the party’s efforts to grow the economy, address inequality and restore reproductive rights after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The 92-page ...
Former Republican congresswoman Barbara Comstock endorsed Kamala Harris’s presidential bid on Sunday, joining another former Virginia representative in crossing party lines while the state’s GOP establishment remains firmly in Donald Trump’s camp. “After Jan. 6, after Donald Trump has refused for four years to acknowledge that he lost, and his threats against democracy, I think it’s important to turn the ...
CHICAGO — President Joe Biden, through a lifetime of triumph and tragedy, has learned, in his words, to become a respecter of fate. Four years ago at this time, he felt like his biography had finally aligned with history: He was the right man at the right time in the right place. Now, as his party gathers to rally around ...