Key primary races will kick off in Alaska, Florida and Wyoming next week as the 2024 primary cycle wraps up. In Florida, a noteworthy Senate race is about to be solidified. Meanwhile, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) battles a challenger backed by his political nemesis, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R), while Democrats duke it out in...
A rematch in Washington state is shaping up to be one of the key races to determine who controls the House in November, as first-term incumbent Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) faces off for a second time against Trump-backed Republican Joe Kent in a district that went for the former president in 2020. Gluesenkamp Perez pulled...
The ascension of Kamala Harris to the top of the Democratic ticket has bolstered the party's chances of keeping control of the White House for another four years, but the effect on House races is much less clear. Since replacing President Biden as the Democrats' likely nominee, the vice president has delivered a bolt of...
Vice President Harris is tasked with keeping her momentum going as she heads to the Democratic National Convention next week, eager to re-introduce herself to the American public. Her one-month-long candidacy has rejuvenated the party in ways President Biden struggled to do, but she will also be faced with mapping out what a Harris presidency...
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) said Friday that migrant encounters along the southwest border last month dipped to the lowest level in four years. “In July, the Border Patrol recorded 56,408 encounters between ports of entry along the southwest border,” CBP said in a press release. “This is the lowest monthly total since September...
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), an openly gay member of Congress, said the LGBTQ community is facing dangerous territory in the current political climate in an interview published Friday. “We’re in a really dangerous moment for the community,” Garcia said in the interview with LGBTQ Nation on the conservative leanings of the Supreme Court. “Which is...
Former President Trump campaigned in the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Saturday and went after Vice President Harris’s physical appearance as his Republican allies have pushed him to instead focus on the policy differences with his political opponent. “I am much better looking than her,” Trump told supporters at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. “I’m...
Republican pollster Frank Luntz said that former President Trump is driving the gender gap among 2024 election voters with insults toward his political opponents. CNN’s anchor Michael Smerconish presented a recent Fox News poll showing a 22-point gender gap between males and females, where men favored Trump by 12, while women favored Vice President Kamala...
Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) went after her fellow Ohioan and current Republican vice presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance, saying he “is not good for Ohio” in an interview Saturday. “JD Vance is not good for Ohio, he’s not good for America, he doesn’t fight for the everyday people,” Beatty said on “The Katie Phang Show”...
A surge in COVID-19 infections has swept the country this summer, upending travel plans and bringing fevers, coughs and general malaise. It shows no immediate sign of slowing. While most of the country and the federal government has put the pandemic in the rearview mirror, the virus is mutating and new variants emerging. Even...
Former Secretary of Labor for President Bill Clinton, Robert Reich, commended Vice President Kamala Harris for her newly outlined economic plan targeting big monopolies. “I think it's a very important plan, because what Kamala Harris is doing, building upon the very important work that was done by [President] Joe Biden, is to attack the source,...
Social Security turns 89 years old this week, providing baseline financial security to America's retirees and their families, and has never missed a payment in 89 years.
The focus of this week’s Sunday shows will most likely focus on Vice President Harris's rise in polls as the Democratic nominee in important battleground states against former President Trump. Harris has had a whirlwind few weeks since President Biden exited the 2024 presidential race, rising to the top of the Democratic ticket and selecting...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, will hold a rally in Omaha, Neb., today. Walz, who was born in Nebraska, is returning to his home state to attempt to woo voters in its swing 2nd Congressional District. President Biden and former President Obama secured the district in 2020 and 2008, respectively. Walz's...
