The Ratepayer Protection Act passed the House with bipartisan support, aiming to stop data center energy costs from raising electric bills for families.
What can anyone say about Harris's policy positions that her spokesperson won't later deny? What can anyone say about Walz, her running mate, that won't be disproven later as a lie?
The hotly contested Montana Senate race is shining a spotlight on the public safety concerns of the state’s Native American communities, who were a critical voting bloc in the 2018 reelection of Sen. Jon Tester. The Montana Democrat is no stranger to tight races. He won his first reelection in 2012 by around 18,700 and narrowly beat out now-Rep....
Democrats and Republicans are bracing for an election that will be narrowly decided as they gear up for the final 10-week sprint in the race between former President Trump and Vice President Harris. Harris’s party has sought to cast themselves as underdogs, even as her entry into the campaign has supercharged Democrats down in the...
Democrats closed out their convention in Chicago last week, catapulting the 2024 campaign cycle — the presidential race and downballot contests — into the final stretch before Election Day. At this point, the fate of the House majority hangs in the balance. President Biden’s exit from the presidential race, and Vice President Harris’s quick ascension...
State officials are warning residents of Massachusetts towns to take precautions due to a heightened risk of the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus that can be carried by infected mosquitos. State officials from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health said in a press release Saturday that 10 communities in the state have been raised to high...
Former President Trump on Sunday raised questions about his participation in next month's debate with Vice President Harris hosted by ABC News. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, complained about the network's panel and an interview host Jonathan Karl conducted with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on "This Week" to question why he should agree...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said that the Democrats’ “sugar high” will not last amid the party’s enthusiasm for Vice President Harris. “I mean, obviously, the Democrats are on a sugar high. Everybody’s acknowledged that. And I think that that gets real after Labor Day,” Johnson said to reporters at an event for Republican Joe...
A Michigan judge overturned a decision Saturday that blocked independent candidate Cornel West from appearing on the state’s ballot. Michigan Court of Claims Judge James Robert Redford said in an order on Saturday that the Michigan Bureau of Elections must qualify West and his running mate for the ballot if they’ve submitted enough valid signatures....
Mitch Landrieu, national co-chair for the Harris-Walz campaign, said Sunday he is optimistic about Vice President Harris’s chances of winning Georgia in the general election this November. “We really think that we have a chance to win Georgia,” Landrieu said in an interview on MSNBC’s “The Weekend.” “They're going to compete there in a very...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sister blasted him for his endorsement of former President Trump, saying that it is an “inexplicable effort” to tarnish their father’s memory. Kerry Kennedy, the sister of the former presidential candidate, ripped her brother for embracing Trump on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki.” Her brother threw his support behind Trump on...
Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made the case Sunday for embracing the term “MAGA” — or “Make America Great Again” — just two days after he endorsed former President Trump’s bid for the White House. Kennedy acknowledged that the phrase — which now often refers to Trump’s staunchest supporters — often raises...
Former national security adviser H. R. McMaster suggested former President Trump needs to surround himself with qualified national security experts to prevent himself from being manipulated. McMaster appeared Sunday on CBS News’s “Face the Nation” to discuss his forthcoming memoir that will be released on Aug. 27. He said that the memoir describes his effort to protect...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) sidestepped a question Sunday about whether former President Trump should attend a Jan. 6 award gala that will be hosted at his golf club in New Jersey next month. The Stand in the Gap Foundation will be hosting the event, dubbed the "J6 Awards Gala," on Sept. 5 at Trump’s golf...
As Democrats enthusiastically turn their attention to the Democratic Party’s new presidential ticket, so have House Republicans, who in recent weeks have launched a series of investigations into Vice President Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. House Republicans, who had spent much of the past 3 1/2 years investigating President Biden, are...
