Former president Donald Trump’s campaign is aiming to announce his running mate by July 15, the first day of the Republican National Convention, according to people familiar with the situation, and internal discussions have largely centered on two finalists as he nears a decision. Trump has not communicated his choice, the people familiar with the situation said, but discussions inside ...
NEW ORLEANS — With all eyes on Kamala D. Harris amid turmoil in the Democratic Party, the vice president focused squarely on the stakes of the election in remarks Saturday at one of the largest annual gatherings of Black women. During a roughly 25-minute-long conversation, Harris was not asked by the moderator about the debate over the president’s reelection bid, ...
President Biden’s top aides awoke after debate night with a plan to contain the damage: A raucous North Carolina crowd, a message of resilience, a demonstration of vibrancy. For the first time, Biden would admit what the world had watched for years. “I don’t walk as easy as I used to. I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to,” ...
The Monday after President Biden’s dismal debate, Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) — who helped deliver the Democratic nomination to Biden four years ago — declared on MSNBC that he was “sticking with” the president in the wake of his fumbling debate performance. On Tuesday, Clyburn told the same network that he would “support” Vice President Harris if Biden “were ...
The 2024 Republican convention platform that aides to Donald Trump have drafted stops short of explicitly calling for a constitutional amendment to give embryos or fetuses constitutional rights and does not call for any national bans on abortion, confirming the concerns of antiabortion activists. The document, with a long introduction in the voice of Trump, the presumptive nominee, says that ...
Senate and House Democrats remain deeply torn about President Biden’s fate as they return to Washington on Monday, asking themselves and each other whether the president should remain at the top of the ticket and what that means for them come November. It’s the first time both chambers will hold serious discussions in person since Biden’s halting debate performance at ...
For more than 40 years before he first ran for president, Donald Trump was in the business of persuading people to buy things. And not in some idealized, best-of-American-capitalism sense: He sold real estate in New York City, which is a bit like selling used cars anywhere else. Eventually, he just sold himself and his name, which was less anchored ...
The dissent was biting, accusing the Supreme Court’s conservative majority of “feeble” and “cherry-picked” arguments that inaccurately downplayed the Environmental Protection Agency’s role in protecting air quality. Of course, all three liberal justices signed on. But the writer was a conservative nominated by President Donald Trump: Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who charted a distinctive path during her breakout fourth term ...
America, we are often told, is less a country than an idea. That idea can be nebulous in its formulation, but it generally centers on opportunity and around freedom. There has long been an advantage in viewing the country this way: Centering the American identity in an idea meant that people could come from all over the world and become ...
President Biden told Democratic governors during a private meeting at the White House on Wednesday evening that he needed to get more sleep and had instructed his staff to avoid scheduling events for him after 8 p.m., according to people familiar with his comments. The remarks, which emerged as the president prepares to mark the Independence Day holiday with public ...