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Biden accuses Trump of ‘outright lies’ about hurricane response
President Joe Biden on Wednesday accused former President Donald Trump of “outright lies” regarding the federal government’s response to Hurricane Helene, causing morale issues among emergency medical workers and confusing victims of the storm.
Kamala Harris was hailed as ‘the female Barack Obama.’ It built credibility, and a burden
Sixteen years ago, the late journalist Gwen Ifill appeared on David Letterman’s “Late Show” and touted a group of emerging Black politicians, including a little-known district attorney from San Francisco who she described as a tough and brilliant prosecutor who “doesn’t look anything like anybody you ever see on ‘Law & Order.’” “They call her the female Barack Obama,” Ifill said. “People aren’t very imaginative about these things anymore.”
Ballots are being sent out to Spokane County voters early this year. Here’s why, along with info about the upcoming general elections
The ballots for the upcoming Nov. 5 general election will either enter the mailstream Wednesday or Thursday, Spokane County Auditor Vicki Dalton said in a phone interview. Voters should expect to see ballots arrive in their mailboxes between Tuesday and Thursday next week.
Trump, who has criticized Jewish Democrats, blames their party for antisemitism
Former president Donald Trump on Monday suggested that Democrats have embraced antisemitism in a way Republicans have not, even as he has a long history of trafficking in antisemitic tropes and criticizing Jewish Democrats.
Kamala Harris says America needs more homes. Here’s why that’s different.
The core of Kamala Harris’s housing platform is a simple idea: America needs more houses. But the vice president’s pitch - to help build 3 million homes and incentivize local governments and builders to join in - stands apart from how major political candidates typically talk about housing, if they do at all.
Trump would add twice as much to national debt as Harris, study finds
Former president Donald Trump’s campaign proposals would add more than twice as much to the national debt as Vice President Kamala Harris’s would, according to new research released Monday - though both candidates’ policies would lead to trillions of dollars in new borrowing if implemented.
The 2024 election and your retirement: How to stay financially prepared regardless of who wins
The 2024 elections are right around the corner, and it’s been one of the most contentious campaign seasons in recent memory. For retirees, the outcome of the election has some ramifications, especially with a looming Social Security shortfall, which could lead to drastic cuts in benefits. Whoever is elected this year could help shape how the program is funded and whether benefits are cut and by how much. But Social Security is only one of several issues impacting retirement planning.
Johnson won’t say Biden won in 2020, raising worries about 2024’s process
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) wouldn’t acknowledge Sunday that Joe Biden won the 2020 election when asked directly about the election denialism that former president Donald Trump continues to promote on the campaign trail.
Trump returns to site of assassination attempt: ‘We all took a bullet for America’
Returning to Butler, Pennsylvania, the site where an attempted assassin’s bullet grazed his ear, former President Donald Trump got to finish what he started in July. “As I was saying,” Trump joked early in his speech to the crowd of thousands.
Harris and Trump campaigns brace for ‘trench warfare’ 30 days from election
As Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump begin the final 30-day push for the White House, they are locked in a neck-and-neck race from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt.
Trump’s False Claims About the Federal Response to Hurricane Helene
After Hurricane Helene battered several Southeastern states last week, former President Donald Trump wasted no time in criticizing President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for the federal government’s response — often making false accusations.
Harris criticizes Trump, Vance in Michigan speech for risking EV auto jobs
Vice President Kamala Harris leaned into the political battle over the future of the automotive industry during a campaign speech in one of Michigan’s auto towns, accusing Republican nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, of putting hundreds of auto jobs at risk.
Republicans flee from abortion restrictions in final weeks of campaign
In the final stretch before Election Day, Republicans are ramping up efforts to distance themselves from the restrictive abortion positions that have defined their party since the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade - scrambling to soften, or appear to soften, their hard line positions.
No, Biden didn’t take FEMA relief money to use on migrants — but Trump did
Donald Trump has been trying to weaponize the Hurricane Helene relief efforts, accusing the Biden administration of failing to provide adequate assistance. As part of his critique, he claims that there is no money available for hurricane relief because it was spent already to handle the surge of migrants at the southern border.
Obama launching four-week campaign blitz for Harris
Barack Obama will spend the final four weeks before Election Day stumping for Kamala Harris and other Democrats in a bid to protect his legacy from Republican Donald Trump.
Liz Cheney rallies with Harris, implores nation to reject ‘depraved cruelty’ of Trump
Former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney joined Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday in Ripon, Wisconsin - known as the birthplace of the GOP - to campaign against former president Donald Trump in the Democratic nominee’s most emphatic display of cross-party support yet.
Liz Cheney to campaign with Kamala Harris in Wisconsin
Vice President Kamala Harris is set to campaign Thursday in Wisconsin with Republican former congresswoman Liz Cheney as Harris looks to emphasize her cross-party support in the final weeks before the November election.
5 takeaways from the Vance-Walz vice presidential debate
Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota faced off Tuesday night in what is expected to be the only debate between the two vice presidential nominees and, most likely, the last debate of the presidential election.
In a VP debate heavy on policy, Vance and Walz draw clear contrast with their running mates
WASHINGTON – Vice -presidential candidates are often chosen partly to contrast with their running mates, and it wasn’t hard for Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota and Sen. JD Vance of Ohio to do that in their debate on Tuesday night.
Harris is reimagining Democrats’ approach to immigration
Until Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, most Democratic presidential contenders have treated immigration as a matter of legalizing undocumented immigrants. They focused on “bringing people out of the shadows” and a “pathway to citizenship.” Harris, the former prosecutor, takes a different approach. She now treats illegal immigration as a law enforcement issue at the border. In doing so, she helps move the party where it needs to go on the politics and policy of immigration.