INDIANAPOLIS—Vice President Kamala Harris cast her presidential campaign as a fight to defend six freedoms for the American people during a brief visit to the Hoosier State on July 24. “Ours is a fight for the future,” Ms. Harris told some 6,000 members of Zeta Phi Beta, a historically black sorority of which she is […]
MILWAUKEE—The Republican National Convention concluded July 18 with a lengthy address by a subdued and mostly soft-spoken former President Donald Trump, who accepted his party’s nomination for the presidency and laid out a political vision to unite the country around national security and prosperity. The four-day convention began with the nomination of the former president […]
MILWAUKEE—Vice Presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance headlined Day 3 of the Republican National Convention, presenting former President Donald Trump as the man who will champion the American worker and restore the nation to a position of strength in the world. In an acceptance speech that highlighted his humble beginnings in an economically depressed industrial town […]
MILWAUKEE—Republicans touted the value of personal responsibility, legal immigration, and hard work on the first night of their national convention, capping a day dedicated to messaging on the economy. A stream of elected officials, business leaders, and ordinary Americans delivered speeches alternating between heartfelt personal recollections of achieving the American dream and stories making the […]
Leading politicians on both sides of the aisle have quickly responded to what law enforcement officials told The Associated Press was an apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at his July 13 rally in Pennsylvania. One attendee was killed and two seriously injured, according to county authorities. “There’s no place in America for […]
Republicans will nominate former President Donald Trump as their presidential nominee for a third time at the Republican National Convention at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, from July 15 to July 18. Party conventions have been a staple of presidential politics for nearly 200 years. Presidential primaries, which started to gain momentum in the mid-20th century, […]
The Republican National Committee’s (RNC) platform committee on July 8 approved a new policy platform, a document that details the party’s aims and strategy for the next four years. The platform is titled “Make America Great Again!” The policy statement mirrors former President Donald Trump’s agenda and includes 20 action points that appear frequently in […]
ATLANTA—President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump traded jabs about their presidential accomplishments and offered vastly different visions of the past and future in their first 2024 presidential debate. The two candidates faced off for 90 minutes, punctuated by two brief commercial breaks, in a closed television studio in Atlanta on June 27. CNN […]
DETROIT—Former President Donald Trump attempted to bolster support among black voters by announcing on June 15 “Black Americans for Trump,” a collection of endorsements from elected officials, athletes, entertainers, community leaders, and pastors. The former president made the announcement at 180 Church, an African American congregation whose website states, “The Church is God’s solution to […]
INDIANAPOLIS—Representatives of the largest Protestant body in the United States narrowly rejected a proposal to ban churches with woman pastors. The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in 2023 had provisionally passed an amendment to their constitution that would have required member congregations to appoint only men to pastoral leadership positions or face expulsion. The measure required […]
Voters made their voices heard in primaries and other important contests in Ohio, North Dakota, Nevada, South Carolina, and Maine. Not all of the many June 11 races warrant close scrutiny. However, a relatively narrow GOP victory in the Ohio district that includes East Palestine and a close contest between a Trump-backed incumbent and a […]
Former President Donald Trump used his first campaign appearance since the conclusion of his criminal trial in New York to emphasize his proposed policies for dealing with illegal immigration swiftly and strongly, comparing the current border crisis to an invasion and its impact on the country as comparable to war. The remarks came at a […]
June 4 saw a series of closely watched primaries in New Jersey, Iowa, and Montana. The results signaled everything from the power of Democrats’ “uncommitted” protest vote against President Joe Biden to the strength of a conservative Republican challenger in one of Iowa’s competitive congressional districts. In the Mountain West, a young ex-Navy Seal Republican […]
New Jersey voters have chosen Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) and Republican Hotelier and developer Curtis Bashaw to appear on the November general election ballot to fill the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.). Mr. Kim’s victory was predicted and called soon after the polls closed. With 62 percent of Democratic votes […]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.—Three states hold primary elections on June 4 in a pair of Senate contests and a handful of House races that could impact the balance of power in the next Congress. Voters in New Jersey and Montana will nominate candidates for the U.S. Senate, where the Democratic Party will attempt to preserve its […]
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are making overt appeals to black voters in an election cycle where political loyalties are shifting, and the race may be won or lost by small margins in a handful of battleground states. One measure of the candidate’s urgency is the early vitriol in campaign advertising, with […]
INDIANAPOLIS—U.S. Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) has won the Republican gubernatorial primary and will square off against Democrat Jennifer McCormick in the Nov. 5 general election. Mr. Braun defeated a field of five competitors, including incumbent Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch, in a contest that consumed more than $35 million. Ms. McCormick was unopposed in the Democratic […]
FREELAND, Mich.—President Donald Trump rallied some 3,500 supporters in this working-class community, vowing to reignite the auto industry in the state that has lost thousands of jobs to Mexico and lives under the threat of further erosion of this key industry to competition from China. Under clear blue skies with two dozen American flags standing […]
Former President Donald Trump will hold a pair of rallies on May 1, taking advantage of a full day off from his criminal trial in New York to campaign in the critical battleground states. The events come a day after Judge Juan Merchan found President Trump in contempt for violating a gag order about the […]
A Trump campaign rally set for Wilmington, North Carolina, on April 20 was postponed due to severe thunderstorms. A crowd of several hundred had gathered outdoors at the Wilmington International Airport for the 7 p.m. event. Lightning streaks were visible in the distance as high winds drove the storm toward the event site, framing the […]
