Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday that former President Trump's campaign “might not recover from” Project 2025. “I think it’s incredible that actually the biggest scandal of the year is a policy scandal … is Project 2025,” Buttigieg said on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” “Most people say elections aren’t really about policy anymore,...
NewsNation host Chris Cuomo tore into what he described Wednesday as corporate influence at the Democratic National Convention and in party politics more generally. “But there’s another reality that is literally looking down on them ... look at the ring of suites, okay? This is not unique to Democrats. There is a game of money....
CNN commentator Van Jones said Wednesday that there is a “muscular patriotism” associated with Vice President Harris as Democrats continue to rally around their new candidate. A CNN panel discussed the high energy observed at the Democratic National Convention throughout the week, with Democratic strategist David Axelrod noting Wednesday evening that the speakers have been invoking symbols...
The Democratic convention has played out in a cadence and design that would have been unthinkable just a month ago, all because Pelosi made it happen.
Vice President Harris's campaign raised nearly $500 million in her first month as a presidential candidate, a staggering haul that included contributions from more than 2 million donors. A campaign official confirmed that Harris had raised close to the $500 million as of Wednesday. Reuters first reported the campaign had raised about that much since...
States’ real-world experience with marijuana legalization proves that these policies can be implemented in a manner that provides regulated access for adults while simultaneously limiting youth access and misuse.
Former President Trump lavished praise on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. early Thursday as the independent presidential candidate weighs dropping out of the race and throwing his support behind Trump. "I’ve known him for a long time. He’s, as you know, he’s a little different kind of a guy. Very smart guy. Very good person," Trump...
Former President Clinton in his address to Democrats Wednesday mocked former President Trump over his “endless tributes” to Hannibal Lector — a notorious fictional serial killer from the 1991 movie “The Silence of the Lambs.” Clinton, in his speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago Wednesday night, took aim at the former president for...
The House and Senate have passed legislation to ensure the procedures for the electoral count be unchallengeable and conclusive on the validity of the outcome.
Former President Trump attacked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as a "lightweight" Thursday morning, after the Democratic vice presidential nominee delivered an emotional acceptance speech a night earlier. Trump phoned into "Fox & Friends," where the hosts played footage of Walz tying the former president directly to Project 2025, a conservative policy blueprint for the...
Michelle Obama told the DNC that hope is making a comeback” — Democrats hope she's right.
Former President Trump jabbed Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) late Wednesday for what he called a “really bad” speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Shapiro delivered an impassioned speech Wednesday night, warning that the former president would strip Americans of their rights and freedoms if he won the White House in November. Trump...
The national average combined out-of-network ATM fee is now $4.77, up from $4.72 last year.
Deadline.com reports the chain is working with several producers to create family-friendly shows to stream on its own channel.
The choice. That’s the idea former President Clinton urged Americans to ponder Wednesday during Democrats’ nominating convention in Chicago. “Next time you hear him,” Clinton said, referring to former President Trump, “don’t count the lies. Count the ‘I’s. When Kamala Harris is president, every day will begin ‘you, you, you, you.’” At 78, his Arkansas...
Popular depictions of prehistoric hunts tend to show ancient humans hurling their spears into mammoths and mastodons. But such a technique would have been less than useless — leaving a hunter with no spear and an angry mammoth, a new study argues. Instead, Ice Age hunters may have used a sophisticated hunting tool to kill...
Democrats are delighting in needling former President Trump over his insecurities and baiting him into reactions, believing they are taking him off message and helping Vice President Harris’s surging campaign. The needling, for Trump, is unending. Former first lady Michelle Obama delivered one of the most memorable lines of the Democratic convention Tuesday night when...
Democrats at their party's convention in Chicago have unveiled an education platform that combines old priorities such as universal pre-K and free community college with slams against Republicans over Project 2025 and “private-school vouchers.” Instead of new policies, Democrats focus their platform on the accomplishments of the past four years and measures such as President...
In the marathon that is an election year, Democrats are winning the cash dash — a reality that is putting pressure on House Republicans as they look to expand their majority in the lower chamber come November. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) raised $17.6 million in July — the month President Biden dropped out...
The rumors are flying over which huge music star might show up for Vice President Harris's coronation Thursday night as the Democratic presidential nominee. Will it be Beyoncé, the Grammy-winning icon whose "Freedom" is the unofficial theme song of the Harris campaign? Or maybe Taylor Swift, whose European tour just ended and who Democrats have...
CHICAGO — The political star power and unity on display at the Democratic National Convention, where Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack and Michelle Obama have lauded Vice President Harris, is putting in stark contrast the divisions in the GOP led by former President Trump. While former President Clinton on Wednesday became the third Democratic...
CHICAGO — Doubts surrounded Vice President Kamala Harris two months ago when Democrats, stunned by President Biden’s shaky performance during a debate against former President Trump, started to panic about November. Harris was clearly the most logical choice to replace an aging Biden at the top of the ticket. But her run as vice president...
Vice President Harris will focus on her background, the conservative Project 2025 agenda and her patriotism in her acceptance speech on Thursday, a Harris-Walz campaign official told The Hill. She will seek to share her story of being raised by a working mother in a middle-class neighborhood. Harris is expected to argue that her background means she knows...
The third day of the Democratic National Convention did not quite reach the emotional intensity of the previous two nights, but it kept the party’s momentum going ahead of Vice President Harris’s big speech on Thursday. Harris’s vice-presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), was the headline attraction on Wednesday. The other major names included...
The third night of the Democratic National Convention did not disappoint when it came to emotional moments. From a charged plea to bring home Israeli hostages to a tearful response to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s speech, the night was filled with headline-grabbing moments. Here are the five most memorable. Israeli American hostage's parents deliver...
