Politics

Trump aims to drag down Harris as he scrambles to keep up in tight race

Donald Trump’s team is approaching the final nine weeks of the presidential campaign as a race to drag Kamala Harris down. Americans’ views of the Republican nominee have barely budged over the past nine years, spanning three White House bids,…

RFK Jr. fought to get on N.C. ballots. Now he’s suing to get off them.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the third-party presidential candidate who suspended his campaign and endorsed Republican nominee Donald Trump, is suing the North Carolina State Board of Elections to get his name taken off the state’s November ballot. Kennedy, who fought…

Harris makes pitch to union voters in ‘blue wall’ states

DETROIT — Vice President Kamala Harris sought to shore up the support of organized labor in so-called “blue wall” states at the end of the holiday weekend, stressing that union members had a binary choice in November between her and…

Paxton’s election fraud charges upend lives but result in few convictions

SAN ANTONIO — Leticia Sanchez was a church deaconess, teacher’s aide and an activist in her majority-Latino community helping register people to vote before she was arrested in 2018 for the first time in her life. Texas Attorney General Ken…

Larry Hogan features ‘horror’ of Jan. 6 in new Maryland Senate ad

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is running a new ad describing himself as one of the few Republicans who “never caved” to Donald Trump and touting his record sending National Guard troops to the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021…

Trump’s team complains about Fox News’s most objective component

Fox News divides its daily coverage into two components. There’s the hard-news side, anchored by people like Bret Baier, that offers reporting on what’s unfolding in the world. Then there’s the opinion side, including hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham,…