Vice President Kamala Harris has retreated from the public spotlight since her resounding loss to President-elect Donald Trump two weeks ago. As Democrats reel from a Republican takeover of Washington, Harris traveled to Kalaoa, Hawaii, on Tuesday evening, capping a postelection period in which she has shifted back into the background of the Biden administration. […]
Democrats in blue Pennsylvania counties have admitted to counting illegal ballots in the Senate race that is headed for a recount. Republican candidate Dave McCormick was projected as the winner by The Associated Press, but is only leading Democratic incumbent Bob Casey by 29,000 votes. Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt told reporters that […]
Democrats are rethinking the “weird” targets they put on Republicans’ backs as they compete to rebrand the Democratic National Committee. After voters delivered his party stinging losses in the White House, Senate, and the House last week, DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison is not expected to seek a second term to keep his position next year. […]
Vice President Harris could win the presidential election next week. But fingers in Democratic circles are already being pointed behind the scenes, in the event that she falls to former President Trump. While some Democrats say they are increasingly hopeful that Harris will win, others have expressed mounting frustration about a string of factors that […]
Arecent poll reveals heightened American concerns about the Middle East conflict, with Democrat and Republican voters sharply divided over who is to blame for the escalating tensions in the region. Roughly half voters express worry over a potential escalation into a regional war. However, only about 4 in 10 voters are “extremely” or “very” worried […]
Vice President Harris’s CNN town hall performance received tough reviews from fellow Democrats who criticized her for missing the moment to sell her candidacy as polls have started to show a shift toward former President Trump in recent days. Democrats took issue with the vice president being too evasive with her answers and overly relying […]
It’s hard to measure the intensity of negative media coverage of former President Donald Trump, but it’s safe to say it is rising as Election Day approaches. What’s interesting to note is that in the face of unrelentingly negative coverage, at a high level now but negative for a long time, the public views Trump […]
A growing sense of unease has set in among Democrats, who fear a presidential election they thought they had won by switching the top of the ticket might be slipping away. Vice President Kamala Harris has abandoned her cautious media strategy, deigning to appear even on Fox News, a cable network both she and President […]
I spent years fundraising for Democrats. I raised millions of dollars. And in the process, I routinely saw and heard about inappropriate relationships between donors and candidates that would bust anyone’s bubble about the independence of our leaders. There is an entire donor ecosystem working against the interests of regular Americans—and it’s the one top […]
Democrats and media pundits have linked former President Trump’s rhetoric to the second assassination attempt against him in the last few months and have called on Trump to lower the temperature. “This really seems to be the confluence of two very bad things going on in the Republican Party,” Rep. Mickie Sherrill, D-N.J., told CNN’s […]
President Joe Biden‘s half-century career in electoral politics comes to an end Monday night in Chicago. It won’t be voluntary. The 81-year-old president had planned for this week to be the moment he accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for reelection. Instead, party insiders muscled him out of the race. He’ll get the gold watch on […]
Vice President Harris blindsided Democratic lawmakers and progressive activists by endorsing a proposal first floated by former President Trump to exempt tips for service and hospitality workers from taxes, an idea Democrats had previously criticized as “bogus” and a “ploy” for votes. Harris’s support for the idea is being seen as an aggressive play for […]