After plenty of speculation as to whether she would wade into the 2024 presidential election, Taylor Swift chose to resoundingly endorse Vice President Kamala Harris over Donald Trump on a Tuesday night in which the opponents met for a pretty lopsided debate. In an Instagram post that quickly garnered millions …
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Donald Trump imploded on the debate stage against Kamala Harris on Tuesday night. The former president fell for obvious bait presented by the vice president, delivered a series of angry diatribes in the style of his rallies, and told lies that repeatedly forced ABC News’ moderators to fact-check him in …
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The Trump campaign had a nightmare of a night on Tuesday. Tthe former president floundered during his debate against Kamala Harris, and — to add salt to the wound — another woman Trump loves to hate also made clear she’s giving him no quarter. Shortly after the debate ended, Taylor …
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Earlier this year, former President Donald Trump boldly declared that he was willing to debate Joe Biden “ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE.” Biden’s public collapse during the June debate was a dream come true for Trump’s campaign, which waltzed into the Republican National Convention in a cloud of overconfidence. Biden’s exit from …
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The Republican effort to kill a ballot initiative that would protect abortion access in the state of Florida is now coming to people’s homes. Gov. Ron DeSantis’ state election police are making house calls to question voters about signing a petition to get an abortion rights amendment on the November …
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One of the more pervasive and noxious lies in American politics is the idea that relieving student debt would be a giveaway to the wealthy. Donald Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance, for instance, has called student debt relief “a massive windfall to the rich,” arguing that “Republicans must fight this …
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Donald Trump’s running mate doubled down on the disproven, racist lie that Haitians are eating cats and other animals in Springfield, Ohio, on Tuesday, acknowledging on X, formerly Twitter, that the conspiracy theory is a “rumor” while encouraging followers to keep spreading it, anyway. Springfield police have said they have …
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The August recess has ended, and Congress has less than a month to pass legislation to fund the federal government or plunge the nation into a shutdown. It’s already getting ugly. On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump demanded that “If Republicans in the House, and Senate, don’t get absolute assurances …
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Conservatives have leveled plenty of ridiculous accusations against migrant communities. Donald Trump accused them of “poisoning the blood” of the nation. Tucker Carlson said they make the country “poorer, and dirtier, and more divided.” The Republican Party has largely adopted the racist great replacement conspiracy theory, and made a mythical …
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With 57 days to the election and two days before the first presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, actors who portrayed fictional superheroes including Mark Ruffalo (who has portrayed Bruce Banner/Hulk in the MCU franchise since 2012), Mandy Patinkin (who played Inigo Montoya from Princess Bride), and more …
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