Rep. Jared Golden of Maine, one of the U.S. House’s most vulnerable Democrats, is blasting his Republican challenger, state Rep. Austin Theriault, for failing to stand up for abortion rights in Maine’s state House. Theriault, a former race car driver from Fort Kent, told the Bangor Daily News in 2022 that he would not act … Read more
Donald Trump’s vision of an American economy “nightmare” was spoiled by a well-timed Fox News ticker on Thursday. But as he warned that the country was on the brink of a crash as big as 1929, a graphic on Fox News quickly compromised his claim. While the conservative news network aired the former president’s long-winded … Read more
Now that he’s no longer running for reelection, President Joe Biden is ratcheting up his rhetoric against the GOP and taking a page from Donald Trump’s playbook. His first order of business was to lean into the jokes about his advanced age and to hand Trump a new nickname: “Donald Dump.” Biden used the new … Read more
While President Joe Biden may be out of a job soon, it’s clear he still knows how to work a room. The commander in chief poked fun at his employment prospects while addressing the White House Creator Economy Conference in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, where he praised online content creators for helping reinvent how people … Read more
Former President Donald Trump’s speech Wednesday in the battleground state of North Carolina was supposed to be focused on the economy, which, as he noted from the stage, “they say [is] the most important topic.” But from the beginning, the event in Asheville more closely resembled any other Trump campaign rally. Though he discussed a … Read more
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz defended his military record on Tuesday, and also thanked Republican opponent JD Vance for his military service. Vance later responded in kind, but added a bit of snippiness in the process. During a speech hosted by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the Minnesota governor who … Read more
An exasperated Nikki Haley urged former President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans to abandon their attacks against Kamala Harris and instead focus on her policy positions, saying Americans are too smart to buy into “things that don’t matter.” “I want this campaign to win, but the campaign is not gonna win talking about crowd sizes,” … Read more
Suffice it to say that this mountain of evidence from direct sources weighs more heavily than marked-up images from conservative commentators like Chuck Callesto and Dinesh D’Souza, both of whom have been caught spreading election disinformation in the past. When it comes to accusations of AI fakery, the more disparate sources of information you have, … Read more
On Tuesday, an official social media account of Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign posted a racist meme implying that if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the presidency in November, nice suburban neighborhoods will be overrun with hordes of Black people and immigrants. “Import the third world. Become the third world,” read the post on X, the … Read more
Former President Donald Trump went on a two-hour tear of lies, exaggerations and fearmongering in a conversation Monday with billionaire Elon Musk on the X social media platform. The chat between the two men, one the Republican nominee for president and the other the world’s richest man, is Trump’s latest effort to appeal to voters … Read more
