Amid Democratic anxiety about the tightness of the presidential race and slippage in support among key voting blocs, Vice President Kamala Harris is increasingly and aggressively painting former President Donald Trump as unprepared and unhinged.

Harris noted that Trump refuses to debate her again, hasn’t disclosed his medical records as she ...Read more

Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory remembers the doubts he had when the 2016 election results showed he had lost his reelection to Roy Cooper.

Cooper, a Democrat, won by just over 10,000 votes out of the more than 4.6 million cast that election cycle.

At the time, McCrory called for a recount and voiced “serious concerns about potential ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — In terms of intensity and length, Michigan is witnessing a race for the presidency unlike anything it's seen in modern history, longtime political observers in the state said with three weeks remaining until Election Day.

Weekly visits from the candidates, a handful of close contests in the recent past, a narrowing map of ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Clark County Republican Party Chairman Jesse Law confirmed that Vem Miller — arrested Saturday after allegedly trying to pass a checkpoint with loaded firearms outside of a California rally for former President Donald Trump — is a longtime Trump supporter.

Law said Miller, a longtime volunteer, asked him for entry to the Trump...Read more

DETROIT — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will campaign in Oakland County and Detroit on Friday, the same day his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, is making a series of stops across Michigan.

Trump, the former president, is scheduled to participate in a roundtable discussion in Oakland County at 5 p.m. Friday. ...Read more

So now U.S. Congressman Adam Schiff, a heavy favorite to become a California U.S. senator next month, is one of this nation’s “enemies from within,” according to Donald Trump.

Trump has been calling Schiff names for years, notably since the Los Angeles area Democratic congressman became the most public leader of the effort to impeach the ...Read more

Rumors and lies about government responses to natural disasters are not new. Politics, misinformation and blame-shifting have long surrounded government response efforts.

When Hurricane Harvey hit Houston in 2017, for example, rumors and misinformation both originated from and were spread by government, news and individual user ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The suspect arrested with two loaded guns outside a Trump rally in Coachella over the weekend said he planned to sue Riverside County after the sheriff claimed his deputies stopped the man from attempting to assassinate the former president.

Vem Miller, 49, told the Los Angeles Times in a phone interview Monday that he brought ...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration released an unprecedented report Friday accusing the organizers behind Florida’s abortion amendment of committing “widespread petition fraud” in the drive to get the initiative on the ballot next month.

The unusual 348-page preliminary report from the Florida secretary of state advocates for the state ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — With just about three weeks until Election Day, both presidential campaigns are zeroing in on Pennsylvania, a crucial battleground neither candidate can afford to lose.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are each rallying in Pennsylvania Monday — albeit at opposite ends of the commonwealth. ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Clark County Republican Party Chairman Jesse Law confirmed that Vem Miller — who was arrested last weekend after allegedly trying to pass a checkpoint with loaded firearms outside of a California rally for former President Donald Trump — is a longtime Trump supporter.

Law said Miller, a longtime volunteer, asked him for entry ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — President Joe Biden will be the special guest at the Philadelphia City Committee's fall dinner on Tuesday, several sources familiar with the event said.

Both Bidens are scheduled to be in Philadelphia on Tuesday — the president for the dinner and First Lady Jill Biden will be stumping for Vice President Kamala Harris through ...Read more

ATLANTA — The chair of the State Election Board says his Republican colleagues have gone too far, taking the law into their hands by passing new Georgia election rules since Donald Trump praised them at a campaign rally.

“Our job is to clarify law, not create new law,” John Fervier, who was appointed by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, said in...Read more

Pennsylvania has emerged as the most crucial battleground state in one of the wildest presidential races in memory — with both campaigns battling for every last vote in the state that former President Donald Trump won eight years ago by just 44,000 votes.

Trump, who lost Pennsylvania in 2020, and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic ...Read more

Lying about Black people is nothing new in political campaigning.

Despite the thorough debunking of false rumors that Haitian immigrants were eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio, former President Donald Trump and his GOP allies insist on repeating the lies.

“If I have to create stories,” admitted JD Vance, Trump’s ...Read more

It’s 2016 all over again. And 2020, for that matter. Democrats are staring at what looks to be another coin flip election between their party’s nominee and Donald Trump.

In an election that could come down to a few hundred thousand votes in a handful of states, every voter matters – no matter how you reach them. With that in ...Read more

North Carolina and Florida are changing administrative rules and, in some cases, issuing emergency funding that is intended to make it easier for people in areas damaged by Hurricanes Helene and Milton to vote.

The recovery in both states is expected to extend far beyond the November 2024 election period. The majority of the people in...Read more