Vice President Harris has declined to preside over the Senate chamber when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday afternoon, according to two people familiar with her plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. Netanyahu, who has clashed with President Biden over his handling of the war in Gaza, ...
As you might have heard if you have been on social media in the past 24 hours or so, the upcoming presidential election is slated to be the first in 48 years in which the Democratic and Republican tickets will not feature a member of the Bush, Clinton or Biden families. And that is true. From 1980 through 1992, the ...
About 24 hours after President Biden’s historic announcement that he’s ending his 2024 campaign, Democrats appear to be largely united behind replacing him with Vice President Harris. Virtually every major would-be rival for the nomination is now backing her, as are more than 70 percent of congressional Democrats. Some state Democratic parties are already moving to commit their delegates to ...
Democratic leaders on Monday laid out a new process for selecting a presidential nominee to replace President Biden through a virtual process that would conclude by Aug. 7, well before the party’s nominating convention in Chicago next month. “Working with the Convention Rules Committee, the Democratic Party is prepared to shift the nominating portion of the Convention to an electronic ...
One woman was putting her toddler to bed in Baltimore when her phone pinged. Another in Washington saw it while doom-scrolling. A third sat on the deck of her Connecticut home talking about chores with her husband when the WhatsApp message came. They were all hearing about the same thing: a Sunday night Zoom call organized to support the nascent ...
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — A week after Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance became Donald Trump’s running mate, set to take on President Biden’s running mate Kamala D. Harris, he faced an unexpected challenge: Harris is likely to top the Democratic ticket and her vice-presidential pick is unknown. So in his first solo rally, Vance instead took aim Monday at the Democratic Party ...
The increasing likelihood that Vice President Harris, the White House’s chief defender of abortion rights, will emerge at the top of the Democratic ticket has buoyed party leaders counting on abortion to invigorate voters in November. While President Biden has long struggled to talk about abortion — often declining to say the word and fumbling his answer to a question ...
A business executive and philanthropist has pledged $30 million to launch a first-of-its-kind center pushing to overhaul the Supreme Court, after a series of ethics controversies and conservative rulings prompted rising scrutiny of the justices. The major gift from Jim Kohlberg, chairman and co-founder of the private equity firm Kohlberg & Co., will fund research, public outreach and policy advocacy ...
Kamala D. Harris leaned into her background as a former prosecutor to attack Donald Trump in her first presidential bid in 2020 — a message that attracted little support in the Democratic primary as Harris, short on money, ended her campaign before the first votes were cast. Now, with the Democratic Party rapidly coalescing behind her following President Biden’s sudden ...
President Biden’s decision to end his reelection bid means Democrats must now quickly find a new candidate. The Democratic National Convention’s rules committee has called a Wednesday meeting to discuss the process for picking a new nominee. Although many in the party quickly endorsed Vice President Harris as the nominee-apparent — as Biden did — Democrats still must make a ...