By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post, (c) 2024 , From Day One of his presidency to this day, Donald Trump has promoted an alternate reality that has caught on with a shocking proportion of his base. But we don’t often get good polling that shows just how much Trump’s misinformation has penetrated the country. Today, […]
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JD Vance explains the political utility of anti-immigrant hostility
By Philip Bump, The Washington Post, (c) 2024 Just about every part of Sen. JD Vance’s efforts on Sunday to defend his relentless fearmongering about Haitian immigrants was dishonest. To hear Vance (R-Ohio) tell it – as he told CNN’s Dana Bash and NBC’s Kristen Welker in separate news show appearances – the senator and […]
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Trump posts ‘I hate Taylor Swift,’ days after the star’s Harris endorsement
Lisa Rein (c) 2024 , The Washington Post Former president Donald Trump took his bitterness over mega-pop star Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris to his social network, declaring in an all-caps tweet on Truth Social on Sunday, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT.” The post did not mention Swift’s endorsement following Tuesday’s presidential debate, […]
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Trump seeks to rally support after possible second assassination attempt
By Hannah Knowles (c) 2024 , The Washington Post Donald Trump sought to rally his supporters Sunday with news of a possible second attempt on his life, blasting out a campaign fundraising appeal that said “there are people in this world who will do whatever it takes to stop us,” as his advisers urged campaign […]
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Nebraska high court allows competing abortion measures on fall ballot
By Annie Gowen (c) 2024 , The Washington Post OMAHA – Nebraska’s competing constitutional initiatives on abortion can remain on the November ballot, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Friday, paving the way for an unusual, high-stakes battle on the issue to play out in the conservative red state. The court agreed that a proposed amendment […]
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The ‘feral 25-year-olds’ making Kamala Harris go viral on TikTok
By Drew Harwell (c) 2024 , The Washington Post After Tuesday night’s debate, as former president Donald Trump worked the reporters in the spin room in Philadelphia, Vice President Kamala Harris’s TikTok team was busy appealing to a different crowd. In the digital “war room” at campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Del., they hit the button […]
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Biden lashes out at Trump over false claims about Haitian migrants
By Matt Viser, Azi Paybarah (c) 2024 , The Washington Post President Joe Biden lashed out Friday at former president Donald Trump for his comments about a Springfield, Ohio, community that has seen an influx of Haitian migrants. “I want to take a moment to say something [about the] Haitian American community that’s under attack in […]
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Congressional Republicans try to hide from Trump’s debate performance
By Paul Kane (c) 2024 , The Washington Post Republicans tried to largely hide from former president Donald Trump’s debate performance Tuesday, mostly cheering him on or just avoiding the issue altogether. Speaking to reporters Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) focused entirely on a failed government funding plan. What did he think of Trump’s […]
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Trump’s D.C. trial may not begin until 2026 or later, legal experts say
By Devlin Barrett (c) 2024 , The Washington Post Donald Trump’s trial in Washington on charges of federal election obstruction may not begin until 2026 or later because of complex legal and factual issues that may ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court, according to legal experts. Even that schedule is largely dependent on a […]
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Anatomy of a racist smear: How false claims of pet-eating immigrants caught on
By Sarah Ellison, Jeremy B. Merrill (c) 2024 , The Washington Post It started with a tragedy, gained momentum online with neo-Nazis and became Donald Trump’s message from the presidential debate stage. A Midwestern town grappling with the fallout from an influx of Haitian immigrants became a focal point for racist and xenophobic memes this week […]