Perhaps out of jealousy, or some weird attempt at spoof, or maybe just incapable of coming up with an original idea of his own, one of Donald Trump’s campaign spokespeople decided to use Beyoncé’s “Freedom” — a kind of unofficial Kamala Harris campaign track — in a recent social media …
Read More »'The Vibes Are Ahead of the Polls': Dems Are Partying Amid Close 2024 Race
CHICAGO — You could hear the bass from the warehouse at the end of a deserted street from blocks away. Inside, influencers hoisting “Hotties for Harris”-branded coconuts and “Walz on the Beach” cocktails were twerking to a remix of Tinashe’s Nasty Girl on the dance floor, while their friends posed …
Read More »Biden Gets Emotional at DNC: 'I Gave My Best to You'
Joe Biden addressed the Democratic National Convention on Monday not as a candidate, but as a supporter passing the baton to his vice president, Kamala Harris. The president spoke for nearly an hour in what felt like his political swan song. “I made a lot of mistakes in my career, …
Read More »Dems Gave the 'Uncommitted Movement' Space to Talk About Gaza — Just Not on TV
CHICAGO —On the first day of the Democratic National Convention, several thousand protesters gathered in Union Park, their numbers growing through the day until they began their march to a park near the United Center —the aggressively-fortified basketball arena where President Joe Biden was set to speak on Monday night …
Read More »Beyoncé's 'Freedom' Helps Kick Off the DNC in New Kamala Harris Ad
Night one of the 2024 Democratic National Convention featured a couple of major music moments, but maybe the biggest was from an artist who wasn’t actually in attendance: Beyoncé. The evening kicked off with a new campaign ad for Vice President Kamala Harris and her running-mate, Minnesota governor Tim Walz, …
Read More »Primarily Peaceful Protests Mark Opening of Democratic National Convention
CHICAGO — The first major protest during the Democratic National Convention on Monday was primarily a peaceful one as more than 200 coalitions, according to organizers, gathered at Union Park, blocks away from the United Center where major events for the DNC are taking place this week. The goal, according …
Read More »Jason Isbell, Camo Hats, and the DNC: The Democrats Finally Embrace Country Music
In 2016, at what became an ill-fated celebration to hopefully usher in the first female president, there was not one country music performer at the Democratic National Convention. There were pop stars like Demi Lovato, Lenny Kravitz, and Lady Gaga, but there wasn’t a single performance that drew from the …
Read More »Democrats Taunt Trump At Trump Tower Chicago Ahead of Convention
Amid reports that Donald Trump’s campaign will hold daily briefings at the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention — a cute lil’ transfer of campaign funds to the candidate’s personal business portfolio— Democratic operatives are having some fun trolling their rival ahead of the …
Read More »Trump Is Worried About the TV Ratings for Harris' DNC Speech
Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign is only a month old, and her large rallies have already provoked the flailing anger of her opponent: the crowd-size-obsessed Donald Trump. But as the 2024 Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago this week, Trump has moved on to obsessing over the size of something …
Read More »Conservative Legal Scholar Endorses Kamala Harris, Citing Jan. 6
Conservative J. Michael Luttig, a retired federal appeals court judge, announced Monday that he is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential race, citing the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Luttig, whom Politico described as being in “the top of the conservative legal world,” was appointed …
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