CNN’s Jake Tapper on Thursday called out independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over a new campaign ad featuring an out-of-context comment from the anchor. The spot is “so misleading and deceptive it should be taken down at once,” Tapper urged on X, formerly Twitter. “The quotes are falsely clipped together,” the broadcaster explained. … Read more
A Republican candidate for Senate was thoroughly mocked on social media Thursday after ― shocker! ― saying one thing and doing another. Bernie Moreno, who’s running to unseat Democratic Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, set himself up near Brown’s office in Washington, D.C. and vowed to answer reporters’ questions, no matter how controversial. “If I’m here, … Read more
With President Joe Biden’s fitness to run for reelection up for debate, he’s set to have the most widely anticipated NATO press conference ever on Thursday evening. But while the press conference has been seen as a capstone to a week of furious White House lobbying to shore up Biden’s support in the party and … Read more
Anti-federal land zealots across the country must be licking their chops. The new Republican Party platform, adopted this week in advance of the next week’s nominating convention in Milwaukee, mentions federal lands only once — and rather than a vague call to protect them, it proposes pawning some of them off to address housing affordability. … Read more
Political historian Rick Perlstein delivered a damning summary of Project 2025, writing in a lengthy analysis published Wednesday that it’s “not what you’ve heard” because “much of it is too dumb to accomplish anything at all.” The right-wing Heritage Foundation think tank’s playbook — which is widely expected to guide policy in a potential second … Read more
CNN’s Jake Tapper appeared decidedly less than convinced by the Biden campaign’s response to movie star George Clooney’s call for the president to quit his 2024 run for the White House. Clooney urged Biden to end his race in an op-ed for The New York Times on Wednesday, less than a month after hosting a … Read more
This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. Will President Joe Biden stay on the Democratic Party’s 2024 ticket or step aside? Or, as everybody in politics seems to be putting it, is the dam holding? Breaking? The answers are unclear as this newsletter hits your inboxes. A volatile political … Read more
Prominent members of the Christian nationalist movement have maneuvered their way into former President Donald Trump’s inner circle in recent years — and their influence is remarkably clear in the draft Republican Party platform unveiled this week. Russell Vought, a close Trump ally, served as the platform’s policy director. A former Trump administration official, Vought … Read more
Actor George Clooney, a stalwart Democratic fundraiser who most recently helped raise a whopping $30 million for President Joe Biden, is now calling on him to end his campaign for reelection due to his advancing age. Clooney went out of his way to stress his feelings about the president in his opinion piece for The … Read more
And that, said Haberman, is why presumptive GOP nominee Trump’s team is “delighting in” the president’s statements about continuing his campaign, despite facing increasing calls to quit following his terrible debate performance. “I think the idea of not having Biden in the race has been of concern to a number of Trump advisers,” said Haberman. … Read more
