Vice President Kamala Harris said political candidates should have to ‘earn’ support from voters, despite previous criticism for becoming the Democratic presidential nominee without having to run in any primary election in 2024. Harris was asked about why voters still have reservations about her during a ’60 Minutes’ interview that aired Monday night. ‘A quarter of registered voters still say ...
After taking over the Democratic ticket, picking a running mate, staging a convention and turning in a strong debate performance, Vice President Kamala Harris is now embracing potentially the riskiest test of a presidential campaign — the day-to-day grind of unscripted interviews. This week alone, Harris is appearing on CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” a Univision town hall, Howard Stern on ...
After taking over the Democratic ticket, picking a running mate, staging a convention and turning in a strong debate performance, Vice President Kamala Harris is now embracing potentially the riskiest test of a presidential campaign — the day-to-day grind of unscripted interviews. This week alone, Harris is appearing on CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” a Univision town hall, Howard Stern on ...
There are two theories that allies of Donald Trump promote to assert that the 2020 presidential election was illegitimate. The first is that rampant fraud — maybe with mail-in ballots, maybe from voting machines, maybe both, maybe something else — resulted in Joe Biden earning more votes nationally and in the states he flipped from 2016. This theory suffers from ...
A Nevada politician was found guilty of taking money meant for a memorial honoring a police officer killed in the line of duty and spending it on plastic surgery, rent and her daughter’s wedding. A federal jury on Thursday convicted Michele Fiore, a Republican justice of the peace and former Las Vegas City Council member, of six counts of wire ...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed Monday that the U.S. ‘will continue to work tirelessly’ to bring home the four American hostages who have now been held by Hamas for more than a year inside the Gaza Strip. The four that remain — Keith Siegel, 65, Sagui Dekel-Chen, 36, Omer Neutra, 22, and Edan Alexander, 21 — were abducted by the ...
: The State Department is facing heightened pressure to disclose information regarding its climate office staff members after a new lawsuit accuses them of stonewalling. Power the Future (PTF), an energy watchdog group, submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for an unredacted list of former Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC) John Kerry’s staff in January. SPEC has ...
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to require doctors in Texas to perform certain emergency abortions when the procedure would conflict with the state’s strict abortion ban. The justices left in place a lower-court ruling that rejected the Biden administration’s claim that federal law requires access to emergency abortion care even in states that restrict the procedure. As is common ...
The Republican Party in the Trump era has overwhelmingly embraced an all’s-fair-in-love-and-war approach to politics. That’s evidenced by the fire hose of misinformation flowing from Donald Trump and his allies late in the 2024 campaign. It’s one thing to deploy this approach on a candidate’s positions or qualifications; it’s another to do it when it has real on-the-ground costs to ...
Sen. JD Vance blasted the Biden-Harris administration on Monday for not doing enough to bring home the hostages that Hamas took from Israel during the deadly Oct. 7 attack one year ago. Vance, R-Ohio, spoke during the Philos Project’s Memorial Rally and March on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., briefly taking aim at President Biden and Vice President Kamala ...