In less than 24 hours, Democrats went from feeling hopeless to experiencing a renewed sense of hope as money poured in from grassroots donors, party leaders cheered Kamala Harris and a short list of veep candidates emerged to join a newly energized ticket. The leading contenders are notably all...
The right to access abortion is a core issue for Democrats, and J.D. Vance is on the record supporting a national ban. The Ohio senator won’t be saying that anymore now that he’s Donald Trump’s running mate, but he’ll be reminded of that and other inconvenient truths by a...
Fighting for his political life is a familiar, even invigorating role for Joe Biden. He’s been discounted enough times before but to be “pushed out”—his words—after winning every primary and more than enough delegates to secure the nomination, it’s not going to happen, he says. “I’m not going anywhere.”...
In every election since the Supreme Court overturned Roe two years ago, voters have turned out in big numbers to protest the decision and restore abortion rights statewide where possible. Reproductive freedom remains a major rallying cause for Democrats even as former President Donald Trump appears to have found...
President Joe Biden is routinely attacked, mocked, and ridiculed for his supposed physical and cognitive decline, while other comparable political figures like Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Mitch McConnell—and even President Ronald Reagan—got much gentler treatment from their opponents and the media into their later years. The easy explanation is...
Chaos at the border is the top issue for Republicans, and their likely nominee promises to launch what he calls “the largest domestic deportation operation in history.” Aides are reportedly scouting land for detention camps, and Donald Trump and his allies have not been shy about calling for the...
The calls to step down come from both the left and center—amplified by law professors, scholarly legal journals, and anti-Trump pundits—warning about the risks to the Supreme Court and the country if Justice Sonia Sotomayor isn’t replaced while there’s still a Democrat in the White House and a Senate...
Now that we have two presumptive nominees attacking each other at every turn, will they dare to debate? The assumption among the Washington cognoscenti is that neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump is eager to take the stage with the other. Top Trump campaign officials attending the Gridiron dinner...