Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) seemed unwilling to give weight to Donald Trump’s wilting poll numbers while appearing on Fox News this Sunday. The Republican vice presidential nominee dismissed the numbers during a conversation with Shannon Bream, telling the host of “Fox News Sunday” that polls were being used as a tool to discourage Republicans from … Read more
Austan Goolsbee speaking at Jackson Hole on Aug. 8, 2023. David A. Grogan | CNBC Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee on Sunday warned against misrepresenting the inflationary impacts of corporate price hikes and tariffs, which have become focal points of the Trump and Harris campaigns’ economic platforms. Goolsbee steered away from directly speaking on … Read more
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Donald Trump to focus on Vice President Kamala Harris’ (D) policies over personal attacks if he wants to win the election this fall. During a Sunday appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the South Carolina senator said the former president was at risk of losing the 2024 race if he … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz will campaign by bus in southwestern Pennsylvania on Sunday, hoping to ride the wave of enthusiasm her candidacy has brought to the presidential race to their party’s nominating convention in Chicago this week. Vice President Harris and Walz, the governor of Minnesota, … Read more
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown (D) isn’t ruling out legal action against Donald Trump on Saturday after the GOP presidential nominee shared a bonkers story that involved him and Brown experiencing a near-helicopter crash. Brown — who Trump named in the wild tale at a rambling press conference earlier this month — has disputed … Read more
Mark Cuban joined a number of critics who mocked Donald Trump on Saturday after the Republican presidential nominee’s false claim that imposing tariffs doesn’t “affect our country.” The former president, in a meandering speech at a campaign rally, pledged to impose tariffs on foreign-made products from China and other countries in order to bring jobs … Read more
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis was installed Friday, at the very spot where a contentious monument to the confederacy stood for more than 110 years in the town square before it was dismantled in 2020. Work crews gently rested the … Read more
(The Hill) — 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 … Read more
(NewsNation) — A new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate found that Instagram failed to address 93% of abusive comments made toward high-profile female politicians. The study collected 560,000 sexually explicit, racist and abusive comments left on 10 female politicians’ pages, both Republican and Democrat. The politicians included Democrats Vice President Kamala Harris, … Read more
It didn’t take long after Vice President Kamala Harris announced her plans to address corporate “price gouging” on Friday for Donald Trump to accuse her of proposing Soviet-style communism. In an apparent reference to Harris’ admittedly vague plan to forbid “price gouging” on food, the former president wrote on Truth Social, “Kamala will implement SOVIET … Read more
