Ex-Trump aides emerge to back Kelly’s harsh warnings
Greater than a dozen former Trump administration officers on Friday got here out in help of former chief of workers John Kelly, who went on the document this week to say the previous president suits the definition of a fascist, would govern like a dictator and has no idea of the Structure. In a brand new letter, shared completely with POLITICO, the previous Trump administration officers — a few of…
Wishing he could do more, Biden fades into campaign’s background
Joe Biden views Kamala Harris’ potential victory as a essential a part of his presidential legacy. However within the ultimate days of a hard-fought and extremely shut race, he has little position in her marketing campaign. On Friday, he’ll journey to Arizona, one of many seven swing states set to determine who wins the White Home. However the go to will take Biden to the Gila River Indian Neighborhood outdoors…
Dems make last-minute push in Texas Senate race
Democrats are scrambling to make last-minute investments within the Texas Senate race because the occasion faces lengthy odds to maintain their majority within the chamber. The Chuck Schumer-aligned Senate Majority PAC introduced a brand new $5 million advert funding within the state on Thursday, with lower than two weeks left within the marketing campaign. The Democratic Senatorial Marketing campaign Committee has spent roughly $13 million on tv promoting within the…
Vulnerable House Dem goes on offensive on immigration — in a district nowhere near the border
ROCKY MOUNT, North Carolina — This battleground congressional district in japanese North Carolina is over a thousand miles away from the U.S.-Mexico border. However there’s maybe no different Home seat within the nation the place immigration is extra central to subsequent month’s election. Republicans have zeroed in on the problem as the center of their technique to oust Democratic Rep. Don Davis. Republican challenger and retired Military Col. Laurie Buckhout…
Dems see warning signs for Harris with youth vote in Arizona
PHOENIX — Younger individuals could also be in their voting era. However many don’t plan to forged their ballots for Kamala Harris — and Democrats in Arizona are warning it may hobble her right here. Youth voters turned out in record numbers in Arizona in 2020, serving to to flip the state blue for Joe Biden. However 4 years later, some Democratic strategists concern the inroads Donald Trump has made…
‘He’s trying to put the nail in the coffin’: Trump moves to reassure Republicans in North Carolina
GREENSBORO, North Carolina — Republicans have had motive to fret about North Carolina since Kamala Harris dramatically closed the polling hole two months in the past. However only a handful of days into early voting, Donald Trump has the GOP right here satisfied he’s all however stamped her out. At his rally Tuesday night time, Trump mentioned as a lot — declaring that Harris was “cratering within the polls,” and…
Size matters: 2024 becomes the genitalia campaign
The 2024 presidential election is ending precisely the place it did in 2016: the locker room. Or to place a finer level on it: within the showers on the clubhouse. Donald Trump himself in 2016 was on protection after the “Entry Hollywood” tape was launched, an incident that led to indignant rebukes from his personal social gathering and will have doomed his marketing campaign. The reason on the time that…
They lost their homes and possessions. They’re showing up to vote in NC.
BURNSVILLE, North Carolina — When Hurricane Helene swept by means of Yancey County, the flood waters took Byrdene Byerly’s dwelling and almost all her possessions. She escaped from her home with solely the muddy garments on her again and her pocketbook. However regardless of all of the devastation, on the primary day of early voting, Byerly was on the county Board of Elections to forged a poll for Kamala Harris.…
The Republican who wants to be NJ’s next senator has a familiar problem: Donald Trump
When New Jersey hotelier Curtis Bashaw determined in January to run for the Senate, he had by no means donated to Donald Trump and as an alternative helped fund Christie Christie’s anti-Trump presidential run. However inside three months of declaring, he endorsed Trump and shook fingers with the previous president at a rally in South Jersey. He did so at the same time as Trump endorsed Bashaw’s Republican main rival,…
‘Canada, if they’ll take us’: Worried Michigan Democrats contemplate a Trump win
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — “This isn't 2016 or 2020,” Kamala Harris mentioned right here Friday, on a marketing campaign swing by this battleground state. “The stakes are even larger this time.” However for Michigan Democrats listening, it’s certain beginning to really feel like a repeat of these two earlier races — all the way in which all the way down to threats to maneuver throughout the border to Canada ought…
