Donald Trump and his campaign have waged an aggressive campaign against fact-checking in recent months, pushing TV networks, journalism organizations and others to abandon the practice if they hope to interact with Trump. Trump nearly backed out of an August interview with a group of Black journalists after learning they planned to fact-check his claims. The following month, he and ...
Vice President Kamala Harris is making a major push this week to boost her support among Black men, as Democratic leaders warn that she needs to do more to boost enthusiasm from a key group that former president Donald Trump has been courting with some success. In coming days, Harris plans to travel to urban locales including Detroit, Philadelphia and ...
MERION STATION, Pa. — In a concession that the ongoing Israel-Hamas war and historic levels of antisemitism have some members of a core constituency newly in play, the Harris-Walz campaign and Jewish groups supporting it are more emphatically than before pressing Jewish voters to return to the Democratic fold in November. They’re pointing to Vice President Kamala Harris’ Jewish husband, ...
A man was arrested in Riverside County, Calif., and charged with illegal possession of a loaded firearm and a high-capacity magazine after he tried to enter a rally Donald Trump held in the desert area in Coachella, sheriff’s officials announced Sunday. The man, whom police questioned as he approached the venue in his car, claimed he was a journalist and ...
PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. — Former president Donald Trump, during a campaign rally Sunday in Arizona, proposed a dramatic expansion of the Border Patrol, looking to deepen his commitment to border security — an issue where his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, has sought to challenge him. Addressing an enthusiastic crowd in this border state, Trump promised he would set ...
Two polls released Sunday show that former president Donald Trump is chipping away at Vice President Kamala Harris’s national advantage in the presidential race, as the candidates gear up for the final weeks of the campaign season. A new ABC News-Ipsos poll, conducted from Oct. 4-8, showed that among likely voters, Harris led Trump 50 percent to 48 percent, within ...
SLEEPY EYE, Minn. — Gov. Tim Walz returned to Minnesota this weekend to kick off pheasant season and to attend a high school football game, as the campaign makes more overt efforts to court male voters. Here, at the site of the Minnesota Governor’s Pheasant Hunting Opener, a tradition since 2011, Walz was in full hunter’s gear, sporting an orange ...
ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. — President Joe Biden on Sunday toured the worst-hit areas of Florida after Hurricane Milton ripped through the state, while Vice President Kamala Harris visited North Carolina, still recovering from Hurricane Helene, as she sought to balance a final sprint before Election Day with a demonstration of empathy for those reeling from the deadly storms. Biden’s ...
The Democratic National Committee plans to fly pro-Kamala Harris banners or write messages in the sky in support of the party’s presidential nominee over four NFL games on Sunday, marking the first time this cycle Democrats have advertised aerially at professional football games. The timing is fortuitous: Teams from six battleground states — Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and ...
MONTREAL — Kamala Harris was just starting her freshman year at a high school in Quebec when, as one of her classmates recalled, “all hell broke loose.” After years of deepening conflict over the French-speaking majority’s treatment, a political party advocating political separation from Canada had recently taken power. Tens of thousands of English-speaking families fled as stringent new language ...