Dan Balz, The Washington Post (c) 2024 When Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris last Tuesday night, the news threatened to eclipse analysis of the debate between the vice president and former president Donald Trump. Whatever its ultimate impact, the megastar’s announcement puts renewed focus on the potential power of younger voters in the 2024 election […]
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders knocks Harris for not having biological children
Amy B Wang, Hannah Knowles, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Speaking at a campaign event with former president Donald Trump on Tuesday, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) took a dig at Vice President Kamala Harris for not having biological children. Sanders, who was White House press secretary under Trump before she was elected governor of […]
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Federal Reserve rate cut may boost Kamala Harris in campaign homestretch
By Jeff Stein, The Washington Post (c) 2024 The Federal Reserve’s long-awaited cut to interest rates may prove a boon to Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign as the presidential election enters the home stretch. On Wednesday, the central bank is widely expected to reduce the benchmark rate for the first time since 2020, lowering borrowing […]
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Election briefs: Elon Musk’s PAC jumps into New Mexico congressional race; Herrell campaign denounces 9/11 truther in her own ad
Elon Musk’s PAC spends to help Herrell defeat Vasquez A federal super PAC founded by Elon Musk to promote Donald Trump is apparently extending its reach down ballot into one of New Mexico’s most-contested congressional elections. Spending reports filed Monday by America PAC disclosed it has spent $86,997 so far this cycle in support of […]
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Harris to address group that hosted Trump when he questioned her Black identity
Toluse Olorunnipa, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Vice President Kamala Harris is poised to sit for a rare interview with reporters from the National Association of Black Journalists on Tuesday, part of an effort to court Black voters and present a contrast with former president Donald Trump after his contentious sit-down with the group in […]
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Trump requests more time to reply to appeal of Florida case dismissal
Perry Stein, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Donald Trump’s legal team has requested a 30-day extension to respond to the government’s appeal of U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s dismissal of his classified-documents case, making it less likely that a ruling on whether the indictment should be restored will come before Inauguration Day. The former […]
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Court may decide if Arizonans with missing citizenship records can vote in state races
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Patrick Marley (c) 2024 , The Washington Post PHOENIX – A key election official in Arizona’s Maricopa County plans to ask the state’s highest court as early as Tuesday to prohibitnearly 100,000 longtime residents from voting in state and local races this fall after discovering that the state has no record of asking […]
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Poll: Harris, Heinrich with double-digit leads in NM
A new poll finds Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat, leads former President Donald Trump, a Republican, by 10 points as the campaign season heats up and early and absentee voting nears. The same poll finds that incumbent Democrat Martin Heinrich leads Republican Nella Domenici by 12 points in the Senate race. The poll, conducted […]
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The staggering reach of Trump’s misinformation — not just on Haitian migrants
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 […]