After Vice President Kamala Harris ascended to the top of the Democratic ticket last month, the new nominee was forced to speed-run the usually months-long process of vetting potential running mates. It turned out to be a race between affable white men, and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz came out on …
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In the wake of a police killing near St. Louis that created a national firestorm, Wesley Bell campaigned as a reformer and defeated a conservative Democrat to become the city’s prosecuting attorney. Six years later, some local progressive advocates are not happy with Bell — and not just because he …
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Donald Trump’s comments on Wednesday questioning whether Vice President Kamala Harris is Black were not an off-the-cuff expression of racism, but part of a broader campaign strategy that Trump and many of his key lieutenants plan to make a heavy focus of their final three-month sprint to retake the White …
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HOUSTON — Addressing a cavernous auditorium filled with thousands of Black women decked out in royal blue and gold —the colors of Sigma Gamma Rho, a historically Black sorority holding its biennial celebration in Houston on Wednesday—Vice President Kamala Harris acknowledged the ugly, unhinged rant that former President Donald Trump …
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Donald Trump chose J.D. Vance as his running mate largely as a signal of confidence in his own ability to retake the White House, but in the days following the Republican National Convention, Vance’s record has acted as anvil for the campaign — and a magnifying glass for concerns about …
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The future of America is young, hopeful, and swift. On the day President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and fully endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, Emerald Medrano, a 22-year-old college student in Texas, ran to Twitter and posted: “I feel like us U.S swifties should mass …
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ATLANTA — Two weeks ago, staffers working for the major Democratic campaigns and party committees were demoralized and depressed, their dream jobs transformed into a joyless death march. Donations were drying up, while candidates and elected officials were speaking openly and with a grave certainty that the party was destined …
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As he entered the final stretch of the 2024 presidential race, Donald Trump spent much of this month trying to disown the highly Trumpy, Heritage Foundation-led Project 2025 — to the point that he even got his fans to boo the initiative during a recent campaign rally. His protracted freakout …
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Leonard Leo, best known as the architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, is not happy about President Joe Biden belatedly proposing reforms to rein in an increasingly lawless, right-wing policy factory. “No conservative justice has made any decision in any big case that surprised anyone, so let’s stop pretending …
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Now that Democrats have coalesced around Vice President Kamala Harris as their presumptive nominee in the 2024 election, the party has been free to use a line of attack on Donald Trump that he and Republicans had leveled at President Biden: He’s too old, he’s in cognitive decline, and he’s …
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