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A parliamentary election runoff puts hard-liners firmly in charge of Iran's parliament
A parliamentary election runoff puts hard-liners firmly in charge of Iran's parliament
The former first lady received an awkward flashback to her husband Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.
After all the political tumult of the last month, Thursday’s latest New York Times/Siena College poll is full of findings unlike any we’ve seen this cycle, with one exception: who leads the presidential race. The poll found Donald Trump ahead of Kamala Harris by 1 percentage point, 48% to 47%, among likely voters. Other than the name of the Democratic candidate, “Trump +1” is a result that could have been from any other Times/Siena poll before President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate. Sign up for
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Kamala Harris’ campaign trolled Donald Trump after his appearance on Fox News Thursday morning with a statement attacking his age and criminal conviction.The Republican gave his two-cents to Fox & Friends on a range of issues over the course of a roughly 30-minute interview, variously describing President Joe Biden as a “problemmed man” and slamming Harris as “real garbage.” Harris for President quickly hit back, releasing a: “Statement on a 78-Year-Old Criminal’s Fox News Appearance.”“After wat
Kamala Harris' campaign asked a question after the former president appeared on "Fox & Friends."
The GOP nominee's comment on Fox News prompted no end of snarky replies.
The ex-White House communications director explained why Vance is "hurting" the former president.
The PAC rejected Haley's demands that it stop using her name to advertise.
Conservative pundit George Conway’s PAC released a campaign ad targeting former President Trump over his speaking gaffes. The Anti-Psychopath PAC’s newest campaign is a TV ad featuring Conway saying, “Donald Trump has never, ever been right in the head,” before playing clips of the former president’s previous comments. The PAC said in a press…
ABC News is continuing preparations for an upcoming presidential debate, despite former President Donald Trump saying he won’t consider participating in a debate until the Democratic Party formally chooses its nominee.
The former president’s supporters keep raising the idea there’s violent conflict in America’s future
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Darrell Ann Murphy is relieved, grateful and newly hopeful Democrats can win Pennsylvania and the White House. But she is also still upset, a little mad even.
Her campaign is showing it’s possible to be both serious and fun at the same time.
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At his rallies, Donald Trump literally salutes the violent insurrectionists who assaulted police on Jan. 6, and he has promised to pardon them if elected president.
Taylor Swift has been politically active since 2018 and supported the vice president in 2020. Will she again — and has she already in classic Easter egg fashion?
Trump vowed not to mellow down after his near-fatal rally shooting, saying he "can't be too nice," when dealing with his "dangerous" opponents.
The last two weeks of campaign drama, including Kamala Harris joining the race, have inspired Gen Z and millennial voters to register in huge numbers.
STORY: ::July 24, 2024::A political analyst says he was surprisedby Biden's call for Supreme Court reforms::Darry Allen Sragow, Democratic political consultant"I think maybe the only thing that took me by surprise was his throwing in this reference to Supreme Court reform. Because in a sense, that came out of nowhere, he didn't have to put that in the speech, but the fact that he mentioned that suggested to me that in his mind, for the future of the country, this has become a high priority and what he is presumably referring to is the recent decisions coming out of a Supreme Court that is dominated by very conservative justices. // It suggests to me that he was signaling to Vice President Harris and to the party more broadly that this is a fight that the time has come to take on."::Los Angeles, CaliforniaIn an Oval Office address, Biden said he had dropped out of the race against Republican Donald Trump because of his concerns about the future of the country, his first public remarks since his abrupt departure from the 2024 campaign.Sragow said the Supreme Court reforms "came out of nowhere", which suggests to him that the controvesial decisions coming out of the country's top court that's dominated by very conservative justices has become high priority to Biden and that he may be signalling to vice president Kamala Harris that "this is a fight that the time has come to take on."Biden has endorsed Harris, who is Black and Asian American, as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee.Sragow said Biden's speech on Wednesday also underlined the high stakes of this election, which he believes is important to try to motivate marginal voters, who are often young voters of color, to cast their ballots in the Nov. 5 election.