Soon after Donald Trump’s campaign team took over the Republican National Committee earlier this year, a senior Trump aide was asked how to combat news stories that the campaign had an insufficient get-out-the-vote operation. “We are going to beat the reporters into retardation!” shouted James Blair, one of the two men now leading the operation, on a call with other ...

House lawmakers expensed at least $2.5 million under a program that allows them to be reimbursed for their spending without submitting receipts through the first five months of 2024, over $120,000 more than they expensed during the same period last year, according to data released by the House as of Oct. 9 and analyzed by The Washington Post. Created at ...

Most Ohio voters don’t believe former president Donald Trump’s debunked claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield are “eating people’s pets,” and agree with Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s defense of Haitians as hard workers who are in the United States legally, a Washington Post poll finds. But Trump holds an edge of six percentage points over Vice President Kamala Harris among ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — As she stood with more than two dozen retired national security leaders behind her, Democratic hopeful Janelle Stelson might have been expected to focus on her opponent’s views on election denial and the 2021 attack on the Capitol. The bipartisan group of former generals and ambassadors came to Pennsylvania on Monday because they view her opponent, Rep. ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — As she stood with more than two dozen retired national security leaders behind her, Democratic hopeful Janelle Stelson might have been expected to focus on her opponent’s views on election denial and the 2021 attack on the Capitol. The bipartisan group of former generals and ambassadors came to Pennsylvania on Monday because they view her opponent, Rep. ...

SCRANTON, Pa. — Donald Trump can’t stop running against President Joe Biden. At a campaign event in the president’s boyhood hometown Wednesday, Trump mentioned their June 27 debate, questioned his former opponent’s mental competence and misleadingly characterized Vice President Kamala Harris’s selection as the Democratic nominee as a “coup.” Trump has spent weeks trying to tie Harris, who holds a ...

As President Joe Biden delivered a solemn warning Wednesday about Hurricane Milton — urging Floridians to heed local officials and brace for “the storm of the century” — he paused before offering another admonition, one chiefly aimed at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. “The last few weeks, there’s been a reckless, irresponsible, relentless promotion of disinformation and outright lies that ...

CHARLEROI, Pa. — Donald Trump was eager to tell a new horror story about this tiny Rust Belt borough where hundreds of Haitians arrived in recent years to fill factory jobs. “Have you heard of it?” he asked, introducing a place that would become part of his anti-immigrant closing argument. “The town is virtually bankrupt,” Trump continued at a recent ...

After sticking mainly to set events and campaign rallies, Vice President Kamala Harris has been on an extensive media tour in recent days, from traditional shows such as CBS’s “60 Minutes” to popular targeted programs such as the “Call Her Daddy” podcast and Howard Stern’s radio show. Harris tends tohew to the facts — and many of the same lines ...

A group of Republican congressmen from Pennsylvania have filed a federal lawsuit seeking stricter scrutiny of votes cast by U.S. citizens living abroad, reflecting a new GOP strategy to challenge the eligibility of a group of voters that includes overseas military personnel. The lawmakers claim in the suit,which was filed this week, that because local election officials in Pennsylvania are ...