By Mariana Alfaro, Niha Masih (c) 2024 , The Washington Post More than 200 Republicans who worked for President George W. Bush, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) or the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) have endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, warning in a letter that a second Trump presidency “will hurt real, everyday people and weaken our […]
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Trump’s lawyers accuse Fani Willis of ‘racial animus’ toward him
By Holly Bailey (c) 2024 , The Washington Post Attorneys for Donald Trump pressed a Georgia appellate court to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) from the 2020 election interference case, accusing her of “repeated public display of racial animus” toward the former president and his co-defendants, which they contend has jeopardized […]
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Environmental group calls for RFK Jr. to be investigated for reportedly sawing off whale head
By Amy B Wang (c) 2024 , The Washington Post Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is back in the headlines – not for suspending his campaign last week and endorsing Republican Donald Trump, nor for his recent admission that he was the one who had left a dead bear cub in Central […]
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RFK Jr. suspends his campaign, throws support to Trump
By Patrick Svitek (c) 2024 , The Washington Post Democrats on Friday entered the weekend energized from their national convention and looking to keep up momentum in the coming weeks, which will feature the first debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump. Harris was already gaining on Trump in national and […]
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A close race brings fresh fears of election interference by Trump allies
By Amy Gardner and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez (c) 2024 , The Washington Post CHICAGO – As invigorated Democrats celebrated Vice President Kamala Harris’s nomination this week, some of them were doing so with a wary eye on new developments in what they fear could be efforts by former president Donald Trump’s allies to create doubt about […]
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Dispute emerges over lack of speaker on Gaza at Democratic convention
By Leigh Ann Caldwell and Yasmeen Abutaleb (c) 2024 , The Washington Post CHICAGO – Uncommitted delegates to the Democratic National Convention pressed their demands for a speaking slot on Thursday to address conditions in Gaza, gaining support from several individuals and groups at the convention, even as organizers sought to preserve the party’s show of […]
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Project 2025 would recast HHS as the federal Department of Life
By Stephanie Armour and McKenzie Beard (c) 2024 , The Washington Post It has become a rhetorical theme for Democrats working to hold on to the White House: Allies of former president Donald Trump, they say, want to infuse conservative ideals into how the federal government does business. That vision is outlined in the Project 2025 […]
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Why Democrats are so quiet about climate change right now
By Maxine Joselow (c) 2024 , The Washington Post After casting the tiebreaking vote for the biggest climate bill in U.S. history, Vice President Kamala Harris would seem to have some environmental bragging rights. Yet Harris and other top Democrats have not highlighted climate change or the environment in recent stump speeches, including keynote remarks […]
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Inflation is falling, but the next president could bring it back
By David J. Lynch (c) 2024 , The Washington Post Inflation is just about dead – unless the next president brings it back to life. Both Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are pushing economic ideas that – whatever their merits – could raise prices on many goods and services, some economists […]
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How Black women shaped Tim Walz’s politics after the death of George Floyd
By Robert Samuels (c) 2024 , The Washington Post From inside Minnesota’s executive mansion, Gov. Tim Walz could hear the grieving woman’s bellows. Toshira Garraway’s voice quavered as she spoke to the hundreds gathered outside the residence in St. Paul. It was a sunny Monday in June 2020, just days after George Floyd had been […]