The latest union snub for Harris and Walz underscores a bigger problem for their campaign
It was a viral second for a marketing campaign that wanted one: A refrain of boos greeting JD Vance as he spoke to a roomful of union firefighters in Boston, the identical group that had warmly greeted Tim Walz a day earlier. But it surely was a fleeting second for Walz and Kamala Harris. Regardless of the reception on the August conference, the Worldwide Affiliation of Fireplace Fighters final week…
Trump thrusts hurricane response into center of 2024 campaign
As many throughout the southeast wrestle to dig out from Hurricane Helene and with Florida now bracing for Hurricane Milton, Donald Trump is making the storms a flashpoint within the presidential race. The previous president has seized on the devastation left by Helene to launch a barrage of misinformation — together with selling false claims that FEMA spent catastrophe reduction cash on migrants that add to his already inflammatory rhetoric…
Trump calls US election ‘most important day in the history of Israel’
Donald Trump, talking at an occasion commemorating the one-year anniversary of the Hamas assault on Israel, stated Monday that it's one other occasion — his personal election or defeat in November — that can mark “crucial day within the historical past of Israel.” “If you wish to know the reality, I imagine that. I feel you imagine that, too,” Trump stated to applause, casting a 2024 win by Harris as…
Helene’s devastation has disrupted voting in battlegrounds
The Class 4 hurricane that ripped by means of the jap seaboard is scrambling election preparations in among the nation’s prime battlegrounds — including to the troubles of administering the vote amid conspiracy theories and poisonous partisan divides. The swing states of Georgia and North Carolina had been among the many most closely affected by Hurricane Helene, which flooded cities, destroyed buildings, took out energy and cell service and compelled…
Trump pledges to rename Army base after Confederate general
Donald Trump says that North Carolina’s Fort Liberty would as soon as once more change into Fort Bragg if he’s reelected — lower than two years after the bottom was renamed to take away the title of a Accomplice common as a part of efforts to reckon with the legacy of racism. Trump, who opposed the change as president, pledged to revive Fort Bragg’s title throughout a city corridor Friday…
Haunted by 2016, Democrats fear Kamala Harris is playing it too safe
Democratic operatives, together with a few of Kamala Harris’ personal staffers, are rising more and more involved about her comparatively mild marketing campaign schedule, which has her holding fewer occasions than Donald Trump and avoiding unscripted interactions with voters and the press nearly solely. In interviews with POLITICO, practically two dozen Democrats described Harris as operating a do-no-harm, risk-averse method to the race they concern may hamper her because the…
Trump and Kemp to appear together for first time since 2020
Donald Trump and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp will obtain a briefing on hurricane destruction within the battleground state on Friday — the primary joint look by the 2 males since 2020. Trump, who spent a lot of the final 4 years denigrating Kemp for not serving to him overturn Trump’s loss in Georgia over the last presidential election, modified his tune in latest months as the present race for president…
Vance was flailing. In the debate, he reasserted himself in the race.
NEW YORK — JD Vance arrived on the talk stage the butt of limitless jokes from Democrats. He was unpopular. And even some Republicans had second-guessed Donald Trump’s determination to select him as his working mate. However on Tuesday, Vance reasserted his place within the race: He’s the lone Republican on the nationwide ticket delivering a pointy message aimed squarely at Kamala Harris. In distinction, Trump spent the night time…
Dead even: POLITICO snap poll shows stark division on debate
Discuss a divided nation: There was no decisive winner within the first-and-only vice presidential debate of the 2024 election. Requested who gained Tuesday’s debate, voters have been cut up 50-50 over whether or not it was JD Vance or Tim Walz, based on a POLITICO/Focaldata snap ballot of seemingly voters carried out simply after the 2 confronted off in a studio in New York Metropolis. The dead-heat outcomes are a…
Trump blasts Harris on Iran, says Biden administration is ‘leading us to brink of World War III’
Former President Donald Trump used Iran’s missile assault on Israel on Tuesday to slam Vice President Kamala Harris, blasting her and President Joe Biden as “grossly incompetent” and threatening that they “are main us to the brink of World Battle III.” It was his newest occasion of utilizing present occasions largely out of Harris’ management to bash the vice chairman — simply in the future after turning a go to…
