Vice President Kamala Harris is echoing an idea first proposed by her opponent, Donald Trump, by pledging that she would push to eliminate taxes on tips. “When I am president, we will continue our fight for working families of America, including to raise the minimum wage and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality […]Read More

Tim Walz was in the thick of a crowded Democratic primary for governor of Minnesota in August 2017 when he appeared at a sports and outdoor show known as Minnesota’s “finest hunting event.” As a congressman representing a rural swath of southern Minnesota, Walz had championed gun rights — earning an “A” rating from the […]Read More

PARK TOWNSHIP, Mich. — For much of the last two years, American politics at its most divisive, ideological and angry had dominated the previously unremarkable work of county government in the place that Jim Barry called home. Now it was primary day, and the voters of Ottawa County, a fast-growing, middle-class community of about 300,000 […]Read More

LAS VEGAS — Speaking to supporters at a campaign rally here Saturday night, Kamala Harris told attendees that she knows the issues with the immigration system and how to fix them, touting her work as California attorney general. “I went after transnational gangs, drug cartels and human traffickers who came into our country illegally. I […]Read More

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said on Saturday thatit has been the victim of a foreign hack,after the campaign received questions from news organizations about a lengthy vetting document on vice-presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) sent to the outlets. “These documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended to interfere […]Read More

Tim Walz took a page out of Donald Trump’s playbook at his Friday night rally with Vice President Kamala Harris: He bragged about the size of their crowds. In Philadelphia, the new Democratic ticket packed a 10,000-person arena. A similar crowd showed up in Eau Claire, Wis. “On Wednesday, the largest crowd of the campaign […]Read More

Late one night in July 2022 when she was House speaker, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) got word that House Republicans had pulled support for a bipartisan bill to reenergize America’s semiconductor industry. Some liberal Democrats were also squeamish about providing corporate welfare, so some of her advisers suggested pulling the bill from the next day’s […]Read More

On Saturday, Hawaii will end voting in its House and Senate primary elections, where Democratic incumbents are expected to easily win their races and are likely to defeat their challengers in November in this solidly blue state. Leading the top of the ballot in the Democratic primary for Senate is Sen. Mazie Hirono (D), who […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump predicted Thursday that abortion is “going to be a very small issue” this election, portraying it as a settled matter. “I think the abortion issue has been taken down many notches,” he said during a news conference at his gilded Mar-a-Lago estate. “I don’t think it’s a big factor anymore.” But […]Read More