GREEN BAY, Wis. —Vice President Kamala Harris chided Donald Trump on Thursday for his revisionist history on the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol — accusing him of “gaslighting” the American people with his recent assertion that it was a “day of love.” As she attempts to broaden her appeal to Republicans and […]Read More

For months, Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake has speculated that her opponent, Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), had used the courts to hide “something really, really bad” in his divorce from Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego. But on Thursday, an Arizona court unsealed most of the case file — revealing what one judge called “one of the […]Read More

DURHAM, N.C. — Former President Bill Clinton campaigned for the first time alongside the Democratic ticket Thursday, appearing with Gov. Tim Walz and reprising his role as “explainer in chief” to make the case to North Carolinians to elect Kamala Harris on the first day of early voting here. “I don’t know how many more […]Read More

There is not a lot of complexity to the ongoing war in Ukraine. In early 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin amassed tanks and troops at the nation’s eastern and northern borders. He created a pretense under which he might present his country as protecting separatists operating in a portion of Ukraine occupied by Russia eight […]Read More

Welcome to The Campaign Moment, your guide to the biggest moments in the 2024 election — and where we’re open to changing our assumptions (and you should be, too). Before we start, make sure you’re signed up for this newsletter. And also make sure you’re subscribing to the Campaign Moment podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify […]Read More

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign and Democrats are seizing on recent comments made by former president Donald Trump in which he insulted Detroit, compared the largest city in the battleground state of Michigan to a “developing nation” and downplayed the skills required for autoworkers to do their jobs. Trump first bashed the Motor City during […]Read More

New polling conducted by a bipartisan set of firms on behalf of Fox News offers seemingly incongruous results. In the new poll, released Wednesday, former president Donald Trump leads Vice President Kamala Harris by two percentage points nationally. But in a collection of six swing states, Harris has the lead, by six points. The story […]Read More

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) currently has three jobs. Listed in order of increasing importance they are: serving as one of two senators for America’s seventh-most-populous state, aiding Donald Trump’s bid to regain the presidency, and keeping Trump from being mad at him. Given the importance of that last role, we should not be at all […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for allowing the war in Ukraine to start, even though Russia was the aggressor, during an interview with a podcaster that was published Thursday. “I think Zelensky is one of the greatest salesmen I’ve ever seen. Every time he comes in we give him $100 billion,” […]Read More