“I’ll tell you, his running mate, I don’t know if that was a value-add to this campaign or not, but he’s one of four senators, four, that has never cast a vote on a pro-worker bill in his life. Not once. A stopped clock’s right twice a day, this guy can’t get it right once, not once, for workers.” — ...
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sought a meeting last week with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris to discuss the possibility of serving in her administration, perhaps as a Cabinet secretary, if he throws his support behind her campaign and she wins, according to Kennedy campaign officials. Harris and her advisers have not responded with an offer to meet or ...
In the week since Vice President Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as her running mate, Donald Trump’s campaign and its allies have arguably spent even more time attacking him than Harris. They’ve called his record as governor too liberal and focused extensively on his claims about his military service — even as Republicans have fretted about the ...
LOS ANGELES — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pushed back on GOP attacks on his military service and the timing of his departure from the Army National Guard during his first solo campaign appearance a week after being named Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate. During a speech Tuesday before one of the nation’s largest public sector unions, the longtime National ...
Donald Trump’s political history is easy to summarize. Polls leading up to the 2016 and 2020 general election underestimated his support. In 2016, that was largely because his support increased sharply in the final week of the contest. In 2020, the polls were simply further from the mark. In both elections, though, he got similar levels of support: 46 percent ...
Former Houston mayor Sylvester Turner has won the Democratic nomination to replace the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.), making Turner her likely successor next year in the heavily Democratic district that she represented for nearly three decades. Democratic precinct chairs in the 18th Congressional District on Tuesday night picked Turner to take Jackson Lee’s place on the November ballot ...
NEW ORLEANS — President Joe Biden announced $150 million in additional funding for cancer research during a Tuesday visit to Louisiana, a rare public appearance since announcing he would not seek reelection on July 21, and one that hints that he may focus the remainder of his tenure on issues that are especially close to his heart. The cancer “moonshot,” ...
A pro-Trump lawyer facing criminal charges for illegally accessing Michigan voting machines after the 2020 election was disqualified Tuesday from representing former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne after a judge found her and Byrne responsible for leaking up to 1 million confidential records turned over in a separate defamation lawsuit. Stefanie Lambert was barred from representing Byrne, a prominent funder of ...
Hannibal Lecter is a cannibalistic serial killer, a lover of fava beans and a nice chianti, fictional — and now, a regular feature in Donald Trump’s speeches. As the Republican presidential nominee riffed on immigration and the border at an Aug. 3 rally in Atlanta, he declared: “They hate when I use Dr. Hannibal Lecter. The late, great Hannibal Lecter,” ...
Vice President Kamala Harris aims to share the campaign trail vibes with the public in Chicago next week with free manicures, friendship bracelet making and campaign training at the city’s convention center. The daytime programing, dubbed “DemPalooza” by party bosses, will take place at the McCormick Place convention center, about 5 miles from the United Center where more than 4,000 ...