The same day Taylor Swift posted a message encouraging her followers to register to vote, over 35,000 people reportedly made a “Run (Taylor's Version)” to do so on Vote.org. “Vote.org saw record-breaking traffic to our site this week as we celebrated National Voter Registration Day, a highly encouraging sign of voter enthusiasm especially among newly...
Republican presidential contender Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) raised $1 million in the past 24 hours between events in New York City and Charleston, a Scott official told The Hill. The fundraising numbers come less than a week before the second GOP debate in Simi Valley, Calif. -- seen as a critical opportunity for the Republican...
President Biden will travel to the West Coast next week to hold campaign fundraisers and to deliver a speech in Arizona focused on strengthening American democracy, the White House announced Thursday. Biden will travel to the San Francisco area next Tuesday and attend a campaign reception. On Wednesday, Biden will participate in two more campaign...
Former White House pandemic chief Anthony Fauci said disparaging comments like those from presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) force him to have a security detail amid threats on his life. DeSantis and other Republicans have repeatedly attacked Fauci — who served in the Trump and Biden administrations — over pandemic policies including mask mandates...
President Biden’s campaign manager is boasting about the president’s packed schedule as voters raise concerns about his age. When responding to videos of Democratic voters voicing their concerns about Biden’s mental fitness, Julie Chavez Rodriguez pointed to the president’s busy schedule as evidence that he is up to a second term. “I think that it's...
An Australian delegation visited Washington, D.C. this week to push the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to cease its attempts to extradite and imprison WikiLeaks publisher and Australian national Julian Assange. The group of lawmakers, from across the Labor, Liberal, Greens and National parties, lobbied U.S. officials on Wednesday to abandon their attempt to extradite...
The White House said Thursday that it "firmly rejects" media reports that there is any "wedge" in its relations with Canada over the recent killing of a Sikh leader, whose death has resulted in a diplomatic row between India and Canada. "I firmly reject the idea that there is a wedge between the U.S. and...