The optimist might look at President Joe Biden’s speech on the first night of the Democratic convention and note that the sitting president was presented with the opportunity to speak on two nights. That is, if you choose to look at his late start and subsequent spilling over past midnight Eastern as somehow a tribute to the party’s eldest statesman. ...
Kamala Harris is a lifelong liberal with a health care platform to the left of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton combined. She promised that ‘Medicare-for-all is our goal’ and committed to abolish private health insurance in favor of a government-run plan. Learning from Obama about the utility of lying to voters before you take away their health plans, she first ...
Kamala Harris is a lifelong liberal with a health care platform to the left of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton combined. She promised that ‘Medicare-for-all is our goal’ and committed to abolish private health insurance in favor of a government-run plan. Learning from Obama about the utility of lying to voters before you take away their health plans, she first ...
There are 77 days until Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 5. But if Americans vote like they did in the last two election cycles, most of them will have already cast a ballot before the big day. Early voting starts as soon as Sept. 6 for eligible voters, with seven battleground states sending out ballots to at least some voters ...
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States. Harrison, born on Aug. 20, 1833, was from North Bend, Ohio, about 15 miles outside Cincinnati. Harrison studied at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and graduated in 1852. Upon graduation, he went to Indianapolis, where he practiced law and campaigned for the Republican Party. In 1853, he married future first ...
President Biden’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was delayed until after prime time on Monday night. The 81-year-old president used a tissue to dry his tears after being introduced on stage by daughter Ashley Biden at about 10:25 p.m. CT. He went on to deliver about an hour-long address that did not conclude until well after midnight ...
CHICAGO — Barack Obama and Kamala Harris first met 20 years ago, when she was the district attorney in San Francisco and he was running for the Senate from Illinois. In 2008, she knocked on doors for him in Iowa ahead of the caucuses that helped propel him to the presidency. On Tuesday night, he will return to his hometown ...
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) faces a primary challenge Tuesday as part of a months-long push by former House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to defeat the handful of Republicans who helped oust him last year. Gaetz led seven other House Republicans in teaming up with Democrats to remove McCarthy in October, an unprecedented vote that further inflamed GOP infighting in the ...