Donald Trump said that “the Jewish people” would be partially to blame if he loses in November, escalating his persistent campaign trail criticism of Jewish voters.
A new poll, one of the first conducted after the Sept. 10 debate, shows Harris (50%) surging to a five-point lead over Trump (45%) among registered voters in a head-to-head match-up.
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This tax proposal comes from Project 2025, a conservative presidential transition plan with ties to Trump that he has disavowed. Since Trump has never indicated that he plans to enact the tax policy changes that it proposes, there’s no currently available evidence that he would pursue that.
Sen. JD Vance, former President Donald Trump's 2024 running mate, continues to fuel the firestorm surrounding Springfield, Ohio, with false claims about Haitian migrants. Vance first spread unsubstantiated rumors of Haitian migrants eating pets on Sept. 9, despite one of his staffers being informed that same day by a city official that such comments were "baseless." Since then, he's continued to attack the Haitian population there as "illegal" despite their legal protected status and accused them of spreading infectious diseases in the community.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign on Friday launched a new television ad seeking to tie former President Donald Trump to North Carolina’s Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson, a day after a bombshell KFile report detailed a series of inflammatory comments Robinson made more than a decade ago.
North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson (R) will not be in attendance when former President Trump rallies supporters in the state Saturday, a source told The Hill. Trump is scheduled to hold a rally in Wilmington, two days after a bombshell CNN report about posts Robinson made on an online pornography forum between 2008 and…
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) slammed her Republican opponent, Sam Brown, in a new ad that says he wants to “take away abortion rights.” “He thinks he can fool us. But MAGA extremist Sam Brown has been pushing to ban abortion for years,” says the ad, titled “Caught on Tape.” In 2014, Brown supported a Texas…
House Speaker Mike Johnson believes President Donald Trump understands that House Republicans do not have the votes to pass the SAVE Act, following a private meeting between the two men on Thursday night.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has launched advertisements linking former President Trump to North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, after an explosive report about the GOP gubernatorial nominee was released Thursday. The DNC said it is “blanketing” the cities of Raleigh, Charlotte and Greensboro in the Tar Heel State ahead of Trump’s rally this weekend,…
JD Vance not long ago described conspiracy theories as the feverish imaginings produced by “fringe lunatics writing about all manner of idiocy.” The Ohio senator and GOP's vice presidential nominee has in recent years declared that the federal government deliberately allowed fentanyl into the United States to kill conservative and rural voters. More recently, he gave credence to the debunked idea that Haitian immigrants were abducting and devouring pets in Ohio.
Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith weighed in on the current state of the presidential race, suggesting that while former President Trump “speaks a lot of folks’ language,” he believes Vice President Harris will win in November. Asked by CNN’s Chris Wallace why the former president is seemingly doing well with young Black voters, particularly men,…
Donald Trump said that “the Jewish people” would be partially to blame if he loses in November, escalating his persistent campaign trail criticism of Jewish voters.
In remarks ostensibly focused on combating antisemitism, former President Donald Trump questioned why he lacks commanding support from Jewish voters and suggested that they would have “a lot to do” with a loss in November if their support for his campaign does not grow.
Voters now see Vice President Harris and former President Trump as roughly equal over who would best support the economy, according to a new survey. The latest poll, conducted by The Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, found voters are split on who they trust to handle the economy. Harris earns 41 percent support…
Former President Trump, speaking at two events raising awareness for combating antisemitism, is telegraphing that a loss in the 2024 presidential election largely would be blamed on the American Jewish vote. The Republican presidential nominee lashed out at what he said is 40 percent support among the Jewish American community in the U.S., saying the…
Despite digressions involving cats and a hiccup on abortion policy, Donald Trump has grown close to JD Vance, talking with him almost every day and cheering on his frequent TV appearances.
Under New York's Voting Rights Act, Democrat Attorney General Letitia James is set to be granted widespread power over the election process, according to an election law expert.
Donald Trump’s campaign declined to comment Thursday on whether North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, whom the former president once described as “Martin Luther King on steroids,” should drop out of the battleground state’s race for governor.
Kenneth Hauck wasn’t sure how he would vote when the race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris was just a hypothetical scenario.
The battle for Wisconsin is intensifying as Vice President Kamala Harris sweeps into this deep blue college town and state capital of Madison for a rally.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is taking on a front-and-center role in the response to the second assassination attempt against former President Trump, catapulting him back onto the national political stage. DeSantis announced on Tuesday that the state would open their own criminal investigation into the latest attempt on Trump’s life, in which a man was…
A plethora of polling has emerged in the past couple of days, giving fresh insights into the race for the White House. More than 20 swing-state polls entirely conducted after the Sep. 10 debate between Vice President Harris and former President Trump are now in the public domain. Harris was widely perceived to have gotten…
Kamala Harris’ revelation at the most recent presidential debate that she is a gun owner caught some viewers by surprise – the vice president has said relatively little over the years about her personal experience of owning a firearm.
Attempts by conservatives to purge state voter rolls ahead of the November election, including from Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee, are ramping up, prompting concern from the Justice Department that those efforts might violate federal rules governing how states can manage their lists of registered voters.
During his speech at an antisemitism event in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, former President Donald Trump pledged to be the "defender" of Jewish Americans if he wins but also seemed to suggest that if he loses the election, it will be their fault. "My promise to Jewish Americans is this: With your vote, I will be your defender, your protector, and I will be the best friend Jewish Americans have ever had in the White House," Trump said. In his pitch to Jewish voters, Trump brought up some statistics -- though he didn't say where they came from -- suggesting he has a lower percentage of Jewish voters ready to vote for him than Vice President Kamala Harris.
Vice President Kamala Harris and Oprah Winfrey held a joint online "Unite for America Rally" along with over 140 grassroots organizations Thursday night.
Former President Trump warned of an apocalyptic future for Israel should he lose the November election, addressing a pro-Israel conference with the theme of combatting antisemitism. The Republican presidential nominee disparaged the estimated 60 percent of American Jews as “fools” who should have their “head examined” if they vote for the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice…
Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, vowed Thursday to remain in the race following a report that he made dozens of lewd and inflammatory comments more than 10 years ago on the message board of a pornography website.
As Republicans in Nebraska consider changing state law to give Donald Trump an extra Electoral College vote this fall, their Democratic counterparts in Maine have little recourse to even the score.
The North Carolina Republican Party released a statement Thursday evening defending its gubernatorial nominee, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, after an explosive report about him was released. “Mark Robinson has categorically denied the allegations made by CNN but that won’t stop the Left from trying to demonize him via personal attacks,” the North Carolina GOP posted…
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) voiced his support for Nebraska Republican’s effort to flip the state’s way of distributing Electoral College votes to a winner-take-all electoral system — a move that would benefit former President Trump come November. “I hope they will allow winner-take-all,” Graham told CBS News on Thursday. “Trump’s going to win the state…
Both major presidential candidates are making appearances Thursday meant to fire up their core supporters. Vice President Kamala Harris is participating in a livestream with Oprah Winfrey, who has endorsed Harris and spoke at the Democratic convention in August. Donald Trump will be in Washington to address a “Fighting Anti-Semitism in America” evening event with Miriam Adelson, a co-owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks and widow of billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who founded the Las Vegas Sands casino and was one of the Republican Party’s largest donors.
Vice President Kamala Harris is stepping up her efforts to win over voters who belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, enlisting prominent members of the faith to make the case in pivotal Arizona that Donald Trump does not align with the church's values. With nearly 450,000 church members in Arizona, about 6% of the state's population, Latter-day Saints and former church members could prove critical in what will likely be an extremely close race.
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff slammed Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s (R) dig at Vice President Harris for not having biological children. “Somehow because Cole and Ella [Emhoff] aren’t Kamala’s quote-unquote biological children, that she doesn’t have anything in her life to keep her humble,” Emhoff said on Wednesday during a campaign event in Brooklyn, N.Y. …
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Thursday said former President Donald Trump and others are "wrong" to question the Postal Service's ability to deliver ballots ahead of the presidential election. Asked by a reporter, at a virtual preview of the 2024 election, to respond specifically to Trump's claim that the Postal Service might deliberately misplace mail-in ballots, DeJoy responded tersely: "My response is like my response to everyone who says that we're not prepared for the election -- it's that they're wrong," he said. At the top of his prepared remarks, DeJoy pushed back on those engaging in rhetoric that undermines the public confidence in the Postal Service, which, DeJoy reminded reporters, had been delivering ballots since 1864.
North Carolina Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson vowed on Thursday to remain in the race despite a CNN report that he posted strongly worded racial and sexual comments on an online message board, saying he won’t be forced out by “salacious tabloid lies.” Robinson, the sitting lieutenant governor who decisively won his GOP gubernatorial primary in March, has been trailing in several recent polls to Democratic nominee Josh Stein, the current attorney general.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday the U.S. Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates by half of a percentage point was "a political move." The Federal Reserve on Wednesday kicked off what is expected to be a series of interest rate cuts with an unusually large half-percentage-point reduction.
An Ohio sheriff is under fire for a social media post in which he said people with Kamala Harris yard signs should have their addresses recorded so that immigrants can be sent to live with them if the Democrat wins the presidency. Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski, a Republican in the thick of his own reelection campaign, posted a screenshot of a Fox News segment that criticized Democratic President Joe Biden and Vice President Harris over their immigration record and the impact on small communities like Springfield, Ohio, where an influx of Haitian migrants has caused a political furor in the presidential campaign.
Republicans in North Carolina and nationally are assessing the potential fallout for former President Donald Trump from a bombshell report alleging that Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the party's gubernatorial nominee, posted disturbing and inflammatory statements on a forum of a pornographic website. CNN reported Thursday that Robinson, behind an anonymous username he allegedly used elsewhere, made the comments more than a decade ago, including supporting slavery, calling himself a "black NAZI" and recalling memories of him "peeping" on women in the shower as a 14-year-old. ABC News has not independently verified the comments were made by Robinson, and he insisted in a video posted to X prior to the story's publication that "those are not the words of Mark Robinson."
Journalist Peter Hamby spoke on CNN about how former President Trump is successfully appealing to young men in a way the Democratic Party is failing to do.
A new poll in New Hampshire, home to the only competitive gubernatorial election this year, indicates a tight race in the battle to succeed Republican Gov. Chris Sununu
As president, Donald Trump slashed a lucrative tax break enjoyed by coastal donors and suburban swing-state voters. Now, he's promising to give back the deduction — if only they will put him back in the Oval Office.
Vice President Harris’s campaign quickly posted clips of former President Trump praising North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) following a bombshell CNN report on the GOP North Carolina gubernatorial candidate. Harris’s campaign posted a video on the social platform X of clips of Trump praising Robinson, including one notable moment from March at a…
The political forecasting site Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball shifted the North Carolina gubernatorial race Thursday toward Democrats amid an unfolding controversy involving Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate. “Obviously a fluid situation but Robinson was in bad shape before and worse shape now,” Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of the site, wrote in a…
Kellyanne Conway, the former senior adviser to former President Trump, said “of course” she can imagine a world in which Trump graciously concedes defeat to Vice President Harris after losing the election. At the end of a lengthy live interview at The Atlantic Festival 2024 on Thursday, journalist Tim Alberta posed one final question to…
Election officials in Wisconsin asked the state’s liberal-controlled Supreme Court on Thursday to decide whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’s name should stay on the presidential ballot before there's an appellate ruling. Kennedy has been trying to get his name off ballots in key battleground states since he suspended his campaign in August and endorsed former President Donald Trump. Earlier this month a divided North Carolina Supreme Court kept him on the ballot there while the Michigan Supreme Court kept him on that state's ballot.
