Less than a third of U.S. adults say Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) is either the “best” or a “good” choice for former President Trump’s running mate, according to a collection of snap polls from YouGov. The surveys, conducted Monday evening after Vance was officially named to the GOP ticket, found that only 27 percent of...
By inches, we avoided calamity. Now we must do what is right and reject those who wish to divide us further.
Can a brush with death change a person like Donald Trump?
President Biden and his party face a new challenge in the wake of the attempted assassination of former President Trump on Saturday — how to calibrate their message. Up till now, Biden and his team have cast Trump as an existential danger to democracy. The hope, clearly, is that this argument will be enough for...
The Secret Service is facing fresh scrutiny after Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Trump, hauling the long-troubled agency back into the limelight over what many see as failures on its part to protect the high-profile GOP nominee. Trump was bloodied Saturday during a Pennsylvania campaign rally after he said a bullet nicked his ear....
A shocking assassination attempt, the dismissal of a major federal probe and intensifying divisions among Democrats have unexpectedly culminated to deliver a boost to former President Trump ahead of November. The former president’s lead in battleground state polls has solidified in the wake of the June 27 debate with President Biden, and Trump and his...
President Biden is eyeing a reset in the 2024 race after an assassination attempt on Donald Trump rocked the political world, pivoting attention away from his own troubled reelection bid and frustrations directed at him from within his party. In the weeks after Biden’s dismal debate performance against Trump, a number of Democrats came out in...
More than a quarter million people in and around Houston remained without power as of Monday after Hurricane Beryl hit the city last week — a crisis that has sparked political pressure from both sides of the aisle and drawn new attention to Texas's troubled grid. Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is demanding answers from the...
Environment Cassidy & Associates registered to lobby on issues related to the Okefenokee Swamp for the Southern Environmental Law Center. The swamp spans 438,000 acres across the Florida-Georgia line and a majority of it is protected by the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and the Okefenokee Wilderness, but the Southern Environmental Law Center is pushing back...
Democratic lawmakers, feeling frustrated and defensive about their political predicament, are lashing out at the media for its relentless focus on questions about whether President Biden is mentally and physically fit to serve four more years in office, and how doubts about Biden have divided their own party. Senate Democrats had gotten use to the...
Cell phone bans for schools are surging across the country as educators and state lawmakers look to tackle learning loss and reduce distractions, but within the movement there are significant divisions. New York City, Los Angeles and the state of Virginia have all moved to forbid student phones from classrooms in recent weeks, despite...
President Biden on Tuesday proposed eliminating tax breaks for landlords who raise their tenants’ rent more than 5 percent each year, as part of a larger effort by the administration to lower housing costs. The president called on Congress to pass legislation that would bar corporate landlords who raise rent more than 5 percent a year...
The first day of the Republican National Convention (RNC) saw the party enthusiastically take part in its traditional nominating gathering even under the shadow of the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally just 48 hours earlier. Delegates formally nominated Trump as the party’s nominee, and the former president finally revealed Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his...
MILWAUKEE — A vice presidential nominee. A message of unity. A party-like atmosphere. The Republican National Convention is officially underway, with GOP politicians, delegates and voters convening in Milwaukee, Wis., for a jubilant celebration that will culminate with former President Trump’s official nomination as the 2024 nominee. This year’s event, however, comes on the heels of...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk said he will commit $45 million per month to a new political action committee backing former President Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Musk’s announcement comes on the same day Trump was named the Republican Party’s official nominee and after he named Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate....
MILWAUKEE — Republicans gathered for the first day of their party’s convention just days after a would-be assassin’s bullet grazed former President Trump’s ear. But the mood here was far from somber. Instead it was jovial and brimming with confidence, a sharp contrast to the last time there was an in-person GOP convention eight years ago....
MILWAUKEE — Former President Trump entered the convention hall to rapturous applause as he made his first public appearance since being injured in an assassination attempt on Saturday. Trump is wearing a bandage on his ear where he was hit with an assassin’s bullet during a Saturday rally. The crowd roared at the site of...
Donald Trump Jr. called MSNBC "clowns" after he was asked a question about his father's immigration policy on the floor of the national Republican convention on Monday. The president's son tried to dismiss a question from MSNBC reporter Jacob Soboroff during an exchange on the convention floor on Monday. He pressed Trump Jr. on whether...
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said he read the wrong speech after calling the Democrats' agenda a “clear and present danger” at the Republican National Convention on Monday. “Today's Democrat agenda, their policies, are a clear and present danger to America, to our institutions, our values and our people,” Johnson said in his remarks before the...
President Biden said he "did more for the Palestinian community" than anyone else when pressed about the United States's support for Israel. Biden doubled down on both his support for Israel and the Palestinian community when asked by Complex's Speedy Morman in an interview why the U.S.'s support for Israel is "so strong." The interview...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said God’s hand was on former President Trump during the shooting at his rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. Greene said in a speech addressing the Republican National Convention on Monday that the present moment is a “celebratory” one in that Trump was being nominated for president but also a “somber”...
President Biden said in an interview Monday that a kid once gave him the middle finger while speaking about heated political rhetoric in light of a recent assassination attempt against former President Trump. “I've never seen a circumstance where you ride through certain rural areas of the country, and people have signs there ... big...
50 Cent, who began trending on social media following the assassination attempt on former President Trump, will not be attending the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, ITK has confirmed. The "In Da Club" rapper will "be in Shreveport preparing for his Humor and Harmony upcoming festival" scheduled for next month, a representative for 50 Cent...
President Biden on Monday suggested that it may have been a mistake to use the word “bull's-eye” while talking about former President Trump on a campaign call last week, addressing renewed attention around those remarks in the aftermath of the shooting at the former president's rally. NBC’s Lester Holt, in an interview with Biden, noted...