Authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Sunday summed up former President Donald Trump’s latest brag as “fascist talk.” Trump, the Republican nominee, who has repeatedly boasted about his role in overturning Roe v. Wade that ended the constitutional right to abortion, this weekend declared at a campaign rally and also on his Truth Social platform that … Read more
Several leading Republicans refused to outright denounce North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) as a scandal over his alleged comments on a porn website roiled the GOP over the weekend. While speaking to NBC Philadelphia on Saturday, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) stopped short of rebuking the gubernatorial candidate who, in a recent report from … Read more
A mural is displayed in an alley downtown on September 16, 2024 in Springfield, Ohio. Luke Sharrett | Getty Images Former President Donald Trump and running mate JD Vance’s unfounded claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio weaken the Republican Party’s border message, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine wrote in an op-ed published Friday. “The Biden … Read more
Ohio Sen. JD Vance (R) said Wednesday he would continue to falsely call Haitian migrants living legally in the United States “illegal aliens,” doubling down on his racist rhetoric once more after spreading lies about immigrants eating people’s pets. Vance was asked about Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio, and how he planned to remove the … Read more
This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. Health care has been invisible for most of the presidential campaign. That changed at last week’s presidential debate, when Donald Trump answered a question about his intentions on the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). First Trump claimed to have “saved” the 2010 … Read more
After amplifying what started as a viral rumor on Facebook, Donald Trump and JD Vance have since quadrupled down on the lie that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating pets. The racist claim spawned multiple bomb threats at local schools and heightened fear in the community, especially among Haitians. Vance has been proven wrong … Read more
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance says it’s not acceptable to call your political opponent a fascist ― but CNN put Vance’s hypocrisy on full display Tuesday with a supercut of the many times his running mate, Donald Trump, has done just that. Vance, a U.S. senator from Ohio, argued in a speech in Georgia … Read more
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) on Tuesday said Donald Trump’s and JD Vance’s false claims about immigrants are “very hurtful” to the people of Springfield. “The mayor says there’s no evidence, chief of police says there’s no evidence, city manager says there was no evidence, there’s no evidence. There’s no evidence of this at all,” … Read more
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman on Tuesday brushed away the suggestion that JD Vance may want to coordinate more with Donald Trump’s campaign on messaging after the GOP vice presidential candidate appeared to expose the hypocrisy of the former president. Vance drew backlash this week for saying — in the wake of the second … Read more
While introducing Donald Trump at his Flint, Michigan, town hall Tuesday, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) appeared to take a swipe at Vice President Kamala Harris for not having her own biological children. The jab came in the form of a brief anecdote that Sanders, who served as press secretary in Trump’s administration, shared … Read more
