Vice President Kamala Harris will hold a rally Friday in Texas, a state she does not believe she will win but one where her campaign plans for her to begin making a closing argument to voters centered on abortion rights. Harris will travel to Texas, which her campaign calls the “ground zero of the nation’s extreme abortion bans,” to warn ...

Donald Trump went viral with acarefully staged photo op at McDonalds, an apparent meditation about a golfing legend’s genitalia and crass insults at a charity banquet. He has dominated headlines after issuing dark threats, including deploying the military against the “enemy from within”; repeatedly declined to say he would accept the results of the election; and delivered long, roundabout speeches ...

Donald Trump and other GOP candidates are increasingly targeting transgender people in the election’s closing days, invoking them as boogeymen at rallies and pouring millions into advertising tying Democrats to transgender rights. At a recent Trump rally in Reno, Nevada, the Trump campaign played a video that included Rachel Levine, the highest-ranking transgender official in the Biden administration, wishing people ...

“Kamala Harris supports EV mandates, killing Michigan jobs. She wants to end all gas-powered cars. Crazy but true. Harris’s push requiring electric only is failing big, and Michigan autoworkers are paying the price. Massive layoffs already started. She could tank Michigan’s whole economy.” — Donald Trump campaign ad, released Oct. 17 This post appeared first on washingtonpost.com ...