Republicans blame moderators for Trump's poor debate performance
PHILADELPHIA — Republicans know Donald Trump didn’t win Tuesday’s debate. And so they know who guilty: the media. “It was three-on-one. They continued to have interaction in so-called fact-checking of Donald Trump. They by no means did that to Kamala Harris,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) advised reporters. “You've two moderators there who acted as brokers of the Harris marketing campaign,” mentioned David Bossie, a longtime Trump adviser and Republican Nationwide…
It’s a historic debate tonight. No one really wants to talk about it.
A model of this initially appeared in The Recast, POLITICO's race and politics publication. What seems misplaced within the hype forward of tonight’s must-see faceoff between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump is simply how momentous will probably be. A Black and South Asian lady, who’s seen important grassroots enthusiasm in no small half due to her id, goes up towards a white man who has attacked…
Why the ‘one-two punch’ of Liz and Dick Cheney backing Harris matters
Liz Cheney is hitting the marketing campaign path with thousands and thousands of {dollars} at her disposal to defeat Donald Trump and down-ballot Republicans, aggressively taking over the MAGA motion that dominates a celebration the place she, and her father, are now not welcome. Cheney has pledged to do something she will be able to to assist Kamala Harris, and has sources to again that up — together with a…
Algeria’s president joins opponents in claiming election irregularities after being named the winner
ALGIERS, Algeria — After being declared the winner of Algeria’s election, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune joined his two challengers in criticizing the nation’s election authority for saying outcomes that contradicted earlier turnout figures and native tallies. The claims of irregularities mar what had earlier seemed to be a landslide re-election for the 78-year-old head of state. Algeria’s Nationwide Unbiased Election Authority, or ANIE, on Sunday introduced that Tebboune had gained 94.7%…
Harris to meet with Teamsters as union weighs endorsement
Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with Teamsters Common President Sean O’Brien and the union’s membership because it ponders an endorsement within the presidential race, the union mentioned Thursday. The Teamsters booked Sept. 16 because the assembly date. However a Harris spokesperson didn't reply to questions on when the dialogue would happen. The deliberate huddle comes amid an uncommon election 12 months posture for the 1.3 million-member union, which included…
Harris team worried she’ll be ‘handcuffed’ by debate rules set by Biden
Kamala Harris had deliberate to object, fact-check and straight query Donald Trump whereas he was talking throughout their debate subsequent week. However now, with guidelines simply finalized to mute the candidates when their opponents speaks, marketing campaign officers mentioned Harris advisers are scrambling to rewrite their playbook. Harris and her staff — holed up in Pittsburgh for a multi-day debate camp — wished unmuted microphones in order that the vp…
Ex-RFK Jr. staffers pop up super PAC to back Trump in swing states
Former staffers for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s now-suspended presidential marketing campaign have launched an excellent PAC to persuade Kennedy supporters to again Donald Trump. About one dozen ex-staffers are behind the Make America Wholesome Once more (MAHA) PAC, Jeff Hutt, a spokesperson for the PAC, advised POLITICO. The group consists of many members of the unbiased marketing campaign’s former area staff, he stated. When Kennedy dropped out of the presidential…
Harris nearly triples Trump’s fundraising in August
Kamala Harris raked in $361 million final month, widening her money benefit over Donald Trump with what the vp’s marketing campaign described as the perfect grassroots fundraising month in presidential historical past. Harris’ haul almost tripled the $130 million introduced in by the previous president throughout the identical interval, because the campaigns have turned towards the ultimate fall end. Harris’ marketing campaign and different affiliated committees have $404 million in…
‘It’s disastrous’: White evangelicals waver after Trump’s shifts on abortion
When Donald Trump in 2016 promised to nominate conservative Supreme Court docket justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade, white evangelicals made an uneasy cut price — and hoped he meant what he mentioned. Now, eight years later, they’re hoping he doesn’t. Trump, who a long time in the past described himself as “pro-choice” after which, as president, appointed the judges who cemented Roe’s demise, has lengthy been everywhere in…
Hochul’s headwinds become tougher with indictment of alleged foreign agent
ALBANY, New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul has careened from one disaster to the subsequent — and her mounting issues are stirring speak amongst fellow Democrats of a possible major. The Tuesday arrest of Linda Solar, a former deputy chief of employees to the governor, on costs that she acted as an unregistered agent of the Chinese language authorities is the newest in a string of political complications to plague…
