Walz was a hit in the Midwest. He’s a ‘question mark’ in the Sun Belt.
Tim Walz helped Kamala Harris hearth up the bottom on his Midwestern house turf. Now, Democrats are about to learn how he performs exterior that area. The brand new operating mates are turning their consideration from the Rust Belt to the Solar Belt — testing whether or not Walz’s folksy, Midwestern model can resonate past center America. Harris’ marketing campaign is betting that Walz’s biography — he's a former schoolteacher…
Trump won't say how he'll vote on Florida abortion amendment
MIAMI — Former President Donald Trump would not say Thursday how he'll vote on a proposed Florida state constitutional modification that may overturn the state's six-week abortion ban, including that he predicted the vote on it could wind up in a extra "liberal manner" than could be anticipated. Trump made the feedback throughout a press convention at his Mar-a-Lago membership in Palm Seaside. A POLITICO reporter requested how he —…
Trump’s new playbook for attacking Harris is the old ‘liberal’ playbook, but on steroids
For the primary time within the presidential marketing campaign, Donald Trump is beginning to fall behind — out-fundraised by Kamala Harris and trailing the vp in some battleground state polls. Gone are the particular assaults in opposition to President Joe Biden they’ve needed to discard, from his age to his household to his gallery of missteps and gaffes. Now, inside Trump’s marketing campaign, his advisers are selecting a supercharged messaging…
Dems officially nominate Harris, Walz
Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic Occasion’s nomination for president on Tuesday, occasion officers stated — simply over two weeks since she joined the race and fewer than eight hours after she named a working mate. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who joined the ticket earlier on Tuesday, additionally accepted the occasion’s nomination for vp. Historically, the occasion’s nominees are formally set on the nationwide conference, the place the nominations…
Young voters are looking for 'fun.' Democrats hope Walz can bring it.
PHILADELPHIA — Most younger voters didn’t know who Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was lower than every week in the past. However those that went to the freshly minted vice presidential candidate’s first marketing campaign occasion Tuesday within the pivotal state of Pennsylvania already preferred what they have been listening to and seeing about him on-line. Walz, a 60-year-old former instructor in his second gubernatorial time period, enters with little nationwide…
Cori Bush becomes second Squad member ousted in a primary
Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) was defeated in a major Tuesday, changing into the second member of the progressive Squad to be ousted this yr after large spending by pro-Israel teams. Wesley Bell, the elected lead prosecutor in St. Louis County, Missouri, beat Bush in what grew to become the second most-expensive Home major in historical past, thanks largely to the over $8 million in spending from the United Democracy Venture,…
Siena poll: Harris gives Democrats breathing room in New York
ALBANY, New York — After months of tightening presidential polling numbers in New York, Vice President Kamala Harris has given Democrats a little bit of respiration room within the nation’s second-largest blue stronghold. Harris leads former President Donald Trump 53-39 amongst possible voters, in accordance with a Siena School Analysis Institute ballot launched Tuesday morning. That 14-point lead remains to be comparatively slim — every of the previous 4 Democratic…
LA Council member Kevin de Leon’s ballot measure shell game
Kevin de León is taking part in a half-million-dollar shell recreation with three completely different marketing campaign accounts as he fights for his political life. Late final month, de León moved $550,000 from a conflict chest created to again a 2026 run for lieutenant governor to a newly shaped Kevin de León Believing in a Higher California Poll Measure Committee. It’s all possible designed to assist him win a tricky…
US recognizes opposition candidate González as the winner of Venezuela’s presidential election
The U.S. authorities on Thursday acknowledged Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González because the winner of the South American nation’s presidential election, discrediting the outcomes introduced by electoral authorities who declared President Nicolás Maduro the victor. “Given the overwhelming proof, it's clear to the US and, most significantly, to the Venezuelan those that Edmundo González Urrutia gained essentially the most votes in Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election,” U.S. Secretary of State…
Appeals court rules distinct minority groups can’t join together to claim vote dilution
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Distinct minority teams can't be a part of collectively in coalitions to assert their votes are diluted in redistricting circumstances underneath the Voting Rights Act, a divided federal appeals courtroom dominated Thursday, acknowledging that it was reversing years of its personal precedent. At subject was a redistricting case in Galveston County, Texas, the place Black and Latino teams had joined to problem district maps drawn by…
