The Trump campaign’s first television ad of the general election attacks likely Democratic nominee Kamala Harris as an evasive, weak and distracted leader who did not protect the U.S.-Mexico border from drug trafficking, increased migrant crossings and a possible terrorism threat during the Biden administration. “Kamala Harris. Failed. Weak. Dangerously liberal,” the ad concludes. The Trump campaign made a two-week ...
Running against former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina in the 2016 Republican primary, Donald Trump mocked her appearance: “Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that?” Running against former secretary of state Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race, Trump dismissed her as “unbalanced” and “unhinged,” and questioned her “strength” and “stamina.” And running against former South Carolina governor ...
AMBLER, Pa. — Seeking to capitalize on an outpouring of enthusiasm and an influx of cash, Democratic Govs. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania sought Monday to draw a contrast between Vice President Harris and Donald Trump, warning a packed gymnasium here that he would strip more freedoms from a vast swath of Americans. The rally in ...
In a White House where President Biden has grounded his reputation on 50 years of dealings in global affairs, Vice President Harris has had little chance to forge her own foreign policy, even as she has traveled the globe on his behalf. But if she claims the Democratic presidential nomination and then the White House, Harris, a longtime prosecutor, would ...
The time-honored American tradition of the vice-presidential audition period is here. If you turned on your television this weekend — mainly cable news, of course — you would have a difficult time not seeing it: a parade of Democrats vying, fairly overtly, to join Kamala Harris on the presidential ticket. These would-be running mates are mainly White men, a demographic ...
Until the very end, some people close to Donald Trump tried to talk the former president out of picking Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate. Aboard Trump’s plane en route to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) argued that Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) would be better than the untested Vance because the Cuban American senator ...
President Biden endorsed sweeping changes to the Supreme Court on Monday, calling for 18-year term limits for the justices and a binding, enforceable ethics code for the high court. He is also pushing for a constitutional amendment that would prohibit blanket immunity for presidents, a rebuke of the Supreme Court after it ruled this month that former president Donald Trump ...
Earlier this month, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) was nowhere to be found as President Biden quietly joked about his age and defiantly declared he would not let anyone “push me out of this race” at a low-key rally in her hometown of Madison. But just a few days ago, the two-term senator, who faces a tough battle for reelection this ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Lateefah Simon arrived for her first day at the top cop’s office in her usual outfit of tracksuit and Pumas, ready to work with young men who were fresh out of prison. Her new boss — the woman who persuaded her to trade her career as a high-profile activist and organizer for a job in the district ...
SAN FRANCISCO — They filed in tentatively, taking seats on plush couches and folding chairs arranged in a semicircle in the cafe’s gently lit backroom. Here would be safe to share their deepest feelings, they were assured, to unspool their still-fresh emotions. And the Democrats gathered at Manny’s — for what looked and sounded a lot like group therapy — ...