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Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate who sounded shocked by President-elect Donald Trump's selection of Matt Gaetz for attorney general must have...
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry had a remarkably frivolous and flip response earlier this year to parents suing to stop his state's mandate that every...
Donald Trump didn't just win the presidency on Tuesday. He also prevailed against the U.S. Department of Justice's efforts to hold him accountable for...
The good news coming out of Tuesday's election is clear: No matter which presidential candidate you supported, our free and fair system of collecting...
Presidential campaigns typically spend plenty of time strategizing and staging a closing message, the final bid for support and an ending appeal for...
I'll wager that most American voters, no matter who wins the presidency next week, will feel a measure of relief when the political ads on television...
Arab American activists are keenly aware of both their leverage and the dangers in deploying it. They demanded on Tuesday that Vice President Kamala...
The videos have been viewed millions of times on X, that stinkhole of disinformation previously known as Twitter, and are still posted there despite...
Elon Musk has finally found his place in American politics as the overeager face of the closing argument for Donald Trump's presidential bid. Musk is...
Donald Trump’s notorious inability to acknowledge a mistake – even when everyone else can clearly see how wrong he is – will now probably cost...
Early voting is under way in several states and mail ballots are already arriving in others for America's latest too-close-to-call presidential...
WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. — Pennsylvania, the center of the universe for the presidential election, is a statistical dead heat in polling right now...
OAKS, Pa. — Donald Trump’s “town hall” rally in this Philadelphia suburb Monday night careened from worrisome to deeply weird, even for a...
Let's start by acknowledging that almost any national event that dominates a news cycle during a presidential election now inevitably also becomes the...
The most likely path to the White House for Vice President Kamala Harris runs through the "blue wall" states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin....
The presidential election is 30 days away, and voters are starting to hear plenty of forceful sentiments from Republicans about Donald Trump. It's not...
The most conspicuous fault line in 2024's very peculiar presidential election has to be the histrionics Donald Trump and JD Vance have shown us about...
With the scale of deadly devastation from Hurricane Helene now coming into focus, the easy path here would be to center attention on the infuriating...
The filibuster, a parliamentary practice in the U.S. Senate allowing members in the minority to block the will of the majority, has been around in one...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Top election officials from six swing states gathered here Thursday for an all-day briefing with journalists to discuss their...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The general election is still 46 days away, but some results are already in: Dead people are not casting ballots, and noncitizens...
Donald Trump insisting that he has no connection to Project 2025 sounds like your angry old uncle showing up hungry for Thanksgiving dinner while...
The presidential debate Tuesday had a hinge moment when Vice President Kamala Harris knocked former President Donald Trump completely off his game by...
Politicians returned to the Congress in Washington, D.C., this week from their August break, and House Speaker Mike Johnson was eager to get back to...
Former President Donald Trump sat down in late May for an interview with Tim Pool, a right-wing "influencer," where they commiserated about the money...
Rewriting history can be challenging, especially for something as notorious as the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. It requires the...
Vice President Kamala Harris has faced a barrage of questions in the more than five weeks since she became a presidential candidate about when she...
Being the running mate on Donald Trump's presidential ticket has always required a certain flexibility with truth and accuracy. But U.S. Sen. JD...
Donald Trump launched his political career in June 2015 with a brazen and bogus appeal to American fear, based on a distortion that immigrants to this...
Former President Donald Trump, in his weeklong attempt to counterprogram the Democratic National Convention, visited Michigan on Tuesday to accuse...
PHILADELPHIA — JD Vance, the Republican senator from Ohio chosen as a running mate five weeks ago by former President Donald Trump, came to this...
Donald Trump, to the chagrin of many campaign advisers, just cannot stop lying about how the 2020 presidential election was "rigged" in favor of Joe...
Investors holding stock in Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. can't say they weren't warned that this would happen. Donald Trump, the former...
This summer has been especially turbulent for a presidential election. So you may have lost track of one of the candidates with no chance of winning...
PHILADELPHIA — This so very odd race for the presidency, with November's election just 13 weeks away, finally settled all its players into place...
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Should former President Donald Trump debate Vice President Kamala Harris, now that she's the presumptive Democratic nominee for...
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Donald Trump thrives on attention like plants feed off sunlight. So consider how disconcerting it must have been for our former...
AMBLER, Pa. — It's tricky business, angling to be the running mate on a presidential ticket when the entire electorate is a single person making the...
Former President Donald Trump has spoken at nearly 80 campaign rallies and political events since he declared his bid for a second term on Nov. 15,...
Using money as a gauge for political viability, Vice President Kamala Harris clearly enjoyed a successful first few days as the Democratic Party's...
A whole new election for president launched Sunday, and America's two major political parties immediately zeroed in on fresh priorities. The Democrats...
Imagine a man, rich and famous but always presenting as emotionally empty, needing more and more, so thirsty for attention that he spouts outrageous...
No American political party ever needed a reset more than the Democrats right now. The drumbeat for President Joe Biden to step aside just keeps...
Let's begin with a prediction: The Republican National Convention is under way in Milwaukee and former President Donald Trump is likely to tell many...
It would be easy to get angry at this point about how law and order is alleged to apply to everyone in America, but former President Donald Trump...
Violence begets violence, the old saying goes, and America is likely to suffer more of it unless we shift course in how we talk and act about our...
Former President Donald Trump has a problem. An incendiary lie is typically his first solution to any dilemma. His messaging on abortion shows us...
The dueling campaign emails that landed in my inbox back to back Monday afternoon captured the whipsaw essence of this ridiculous race. "Joe Biden is...
President Joe Biden, facing a sink-or-swim predicament for his campaign and presidency, could only bob along Friday on the waves of controversy that...
Joe Biden has maybe a week to save his political life. He might have even less. That's high stakes and a short timeline for an 81-year-old one-term...