Former president Donald Trump vowed Saturday to stage more outdoor rallies two weeks after surviving an assassination attempt and claimed the Secret Service has agreed to “substantially step up their operation” to protect him. Trump wrote on Truth Social in a post Saturday morning that the Secret Service, which has been sharply criticized for its handling of security at the ...
In his bid to claim the House speaker’s gavel and end three weeks of chaos last fall, Rep. Mike Johnson mapped out an ambitious agenda. Week by week, month by month, the Louisiana Republican promised to meet the “urgency of this hour” with “bold, decisive action.” Above all else, Johnson promised, the House GOP would finish funding federal agencies before ...
Democratic lawmakers and Vice President Harris’s campaign joined a chorus of online critics in calling out remarks Donald Trump aimed at a Christian audience on Friday, arguing that the former president and current Republican presidential nominee had implied he would end elections in the United States if he won a second term. At the conclusion of his speech at the ...
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Donald Trump supporters lining up to enter a rally here passed the usual tents hawking MAGA merchandise, but suddenly most of the gear attacking President Biden (often in vulgar terms) was gone. A few straggler “Let’s go Brandon” stickers remained. New swag targeting Vice President Harris, the new presumptive Democratic nominee, had yet to arrive. Those ...
Vice President Harris has had an extraordinary week — a campaign-changing stretch that has unified and energized Democrats, flummoxed former president Donald Trump and upended the 2024 election. She has 100 days to convert all that into a winning campaign. Robby Mook, who was campaign manager for Hillary Clinton in 2016, said Harris had a “perfect 48 hours” after President ...
As President Biden’s reelection bid fizzled over the last month, the right-wing targeting of Vice President Harris picked up steam, starting with a return of old racist and sexist memes. The weaker Biden appeared, the more intense the attacks became, with extremism monitors warning of a threatening undercurrent to rhetoric calling Harris a “demon” or a “DEI hire.” Biden’s decision ...
STEVENS POINT, Wis. — Doug Emhoff was late to learn his life had changed, he told an enthusiastic audience of Democratic volunteers Saturday as they prepared to knock on doors in support of his wife, Vice President Harris, running for president. At home in Los Angeles last Sunday after a campaign swing through Nevada, the nation’s first second gentleman had ...
Members of former president Donald Trump’s Secret Service detail and his top advisers have privately questioned why they were not informed that local police were tracking a suspicious person before that person opened fire on Trump at his July 13 rally in western Pennsylvania, according to people with direct knowledge of the concerns. Approximately 20 to 25 minutes before Thomas ...
Kamala Harris’s campaign has raised more than $200 million since President Biden endorsed her last Sunday and terminated his own presidential bid — with two-thirds of the vice president’s haul coming from first-time donors, according to Harris campaign officials. The outpouring of cash and Democratic enthusiasm for Harris has reshaped the presidential race since President Biden abandoned his bid a ...
Lurking beneath Democrats’ ebullience this week is the reality that their new likely 2024 presidential nominee could be a tough sell to swing voters. Vice President Harris has gotten a bump in her image ratings since she jumped into the race, but polls show she remains unpopular, on balance. What’s more, Republicans have some real fodder for pitching Harris as ...