ATLANTA — Vice President Harris, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, held a raucous rally here Tuesday night and challenged Republican Donald Trump to debate her, as both the Harris and Trump campaigns are refocusing attention on this pivotal Southern state amid a political map that could be reshaped by newfound Democratic energy. Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance ...
The scene in the Florida parking lot shocked even those who planned it. Hundreds of golf carts filed in Saturday, decked out in American flags; “Harris for President” posters; and red, white and blue streamers. Their drivers cheered, honked their horns and rode around town for hours, supporting Vice President Harris’s presidential bid for a parade in The Villages, a ...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump suggested that Vice President Harris wouldn’t be able to stand up to world leaders because of her appearance, adding that he didn’t want to spell it out but viewers would know what he meant. “She’ll be like a play toy,” Trump — who has a history of using sexist attacks and stereotypes in campaigns against ...
Fred Trump III kept silent for years about his uncle, former president Donald Trump. And when his sister, Mary L. Trump, wrote a 2020 bestseller calling their uncle “the world’s most dangerous man,” he called the book “a breach of trust and a violation of our privacy,” adding that “We consider our family matters to be private.” Yet Tuesday marked ...
The political arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun regulation group founded by former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, plans to spend $45 million over the coming months to elect favored candidates in eight of the states that could determine control of the White House, House, Senate and local offices. The effort will include a new student organizing drive, ...
The gunman who tried to kill former president Donald Trump conducted internet searches related to power plants, mass shooting events and the attempted assassination this year of Slovakia’s prime minister, FBI officials said Monday, offering new details about what they described as the gunman’s “careful planning” for the attack. The details, including about Thomas Matthew Crooks’s interest in the attempted ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) have tapped seven Republican and six Democratic lawmakers to serve on a bipartisan task force investigating the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. All 13 lawmakers have backgrounds and experience relevant to the committee’s role: seeking accountability and answers after a gunman wounded the former president, killed one person and ...
The early signs last week were that Vice President Harris’s replacement of President Biden as the Democrats’ 2024 standard-bearer appeared to modestly increase Democrats’ hopes of winning. The evidence since then has only affirmed that. The signs continue to improve for the Democratic ticket — particularly when it comes to Harris’s image. A long-unpopular vice president has gotten a second ...
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) has withdrawn from consideration to serve as Vice President Harris’s running mate, he announced Monday on social media. Cooper had been one of roughly a dozen individuals that Harris’s campaign was considering after President Biden withdrew from the presidential race and endorsed her. Harris is slated to pick her running mate before Aug. 7, ...
The Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), privately told donors that running against Vice President Harris instead of President Biden made the race more challenging — an admission at odds with the Donald Trump campaign’s public projections of confidence. “All of us were hit with a little bit of a political sucker punch,” Vance said about Biden’s withdrawal on ...