Vice President Kamala Harris’s efforts to showcase her campaign’s political embrace of Republicans have led to the endorsements of archconservatives like Liz Cheney and onetime Tea Party darlings like Adam Kinzinger. Now, Ms. Harris can boast the backing of a well-known former right-wing firebrand who amplified false claims of voter …
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When the actor Maya Rudolph first appeared as Kamala Harris on “Saturday Night Live,” in September 2019, she established a few motifs: Cocktail at the ready, Ms. Harris was America’s fun aunt (“I call that a ‘funt,’” she said) and a “smooth-talking lady lawyer” with sex appeal and subpoena power. …
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Throughout American history, business leaders have been able to assume that an American president of either party would uphold the rule of law, defend property rights and respect the independence of the courts. Implicit in that assumption is a fundamental belief that the country’s ethos meant their enterprises and the …
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In 2008, Barack Obama and his new running mate, Joe Biden, kicked off their general-election campaign in Beaver County, Pa., a culturally conservative area northwest of Pittsburgh where the shuttering of steel mills years earlier still stung. In 2020, Mr. Biden was in Beaver County hours before Election Day to …
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The cardinal should go to confession. Timothy Dolan let a white-tie charity dinner in New York showcase that most uncharitable of men, Donald Trump. At the annual Al Smith dinner, Dolan suffused the impious Trump in the pious glow of Catholic charities. Dolan looked on with a doting expression as …
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Donald J. Trump turned his back to the crowd and stared up at the screen. Ominous music rang out. For the next minute and a half, the former president and his audience in Atlanta stood and silently watched clips of news reports of undocumented immigrants committing horrific crimes. When the …
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Senator JD Vance of Ohio finally has an answer for journalists who ask him who won the 2020 presidential election. Donald Trump. Here is how my newsroom colleagues captured the scene: I am not going to explain, again, the sheer absurdity of Vance’s views, but his comment did get me …
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Tony Chavez and his wife, Elizabeth, came to Cardenas Market in East Las Vegas on Saturday to pick up a few essentials — bread, three dozen eggs and ingredients for tamales. Mr. Chavez did not expect to check something else off his list. But when he saw poll workers and …
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The 2024 election could be won or lost on the strength of the Black vote, which could in turn be won or lost based on the strength of the American economy. So it is no surprise that candidates are paying a lot of attention — and lip service — to …
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Tesla’s plan to build fleets of self-driving cars suffered a setback on Friday when the main federal auto safety regulator said it was investigating whether the technology was to blame for four collisions, including one that killed a pedestrian. The regulator, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said it was …
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