Vice President Kamala Harris officially crossed the threshold to secure the Democratic presidential nomination on Monday, receiving over 1,968 delegate endorsements. She secured the unanimous endorsement of all delegates in her home state of California, the largest Democratic delegation in the country. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made the motion to endorse Harris for president,...
Former President Trump said in a new interview that he picked Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate because they had an “automatic chemistry.” “We’ve always had a good chemistry,” Trump said in an interview aired Monday on Fox News’s “Jesse Waters Primetime” when asked why he selected Vance. “And, originally, JD was probably...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) on Monday moved to force a vote on impeaching U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, ratcheting up the pressure on the embattled agency leader following the assassination attempt on former President Trump earlier this month. The effort by Mace — which forces leadership to act on the resolution within two legislative...
Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) said on Monday he filed an impeachment resolution against Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle for her “dereliction of duty” in failing to protect former President Trump from a would-be assassin at his rally last week. “The Secret Service calls themselves ‘one of the most elite law enforcement agencies in the world’....
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) warned Republicans against underestimating Vice President Harris after President Biden withdrew from the race on Sunday and endorsed his vice president for the White House. "Republicans, I worry, vastly underestimate Kamala Harris. They don't think very highly of her. They don't think she's terribly bright. When you or I bring up...
Many Democrats are feeling more optimistic about their chances of winning November’s election after President Biden withdrew from the race and backed Vice President Harris as his replacement, according to a new poll. The CBS News/YouGov poll found that 83 percent of Democratic registered voters approved of Biden withdrawing from the race while just 17...
The timeline is slipping for House GOP leadership’s ambitious funding plans as the party navigates internal spending divides and a tight schedule ahead of August recess. Republicans had previously eyed votes on four funding bills this week as part of a larger effort to pass all 12 annual spending bills by the end of next...
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) came out swinging against Vice President Harris at a rally in Virginia, where he warned she was a “million times worse” than President Biden. “Now, history will remember Joe Biden as not just a quitter, which he is, but one of the worst presidents of the United States of America. But...
House Republicans are calling on the CrowdStrike CEO to testify in a congressional hearing about the global tech outage that impacted flights and businesses across the world on Friday. Reps. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) and Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) sent a letter to CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on Monday requesting that he appear before the committee for...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the Supreme Court to take emergency action Monday to restore parts of President Biden’s Title IX rule in a handful of Republican-led states where the new regulations are blocked, arguing that lower court injunctions pausing the rule in its entirety are "more burdensome" than necessary. In April, the Education Department unveiled a final set...
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced Monday that it will move forward with a virtual roll call and that it plans to have a presidential nominee by Aug. 7. The DNC will use an electronic voting system for delegates to vote for candidates for the nomination who meets three criteria — file formal declaration of...
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) called on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign Monday, joining a number of Democrats who have similarly expressed frustration following her congressional testimony earlier that day. “The mass shooting at the campaign rally + attempted assassination of the former President was a massive failure of the Secret Service,” Frost wrote...
Vice President Harris on Monday offered a preview of the campaign to come against former President Trump as she closes in on becoming the new Democratic nominee for president. Harris traveled to Wilmington, Del., to meet with campaign staff as she assumes control of the Biden campaign after the president announced Sunday he would not...
