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

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in 2020 said then-president Donald Trump was a “despicable human being,” a “narcissist,” “stupid” and “ill-tempered,” according to excerpts from a new biography of the Republican leader by the Associated Press’s deputy Washington bureau chief. According to the AP, which reported on excerpts of “The Price of Power,” by […]Read More

Vice President Kamala Harris understood that by agreeing to an interview on Fox News she was venturing into hostile territory. And from the outset of that discussion Wednesday, anchor Bret Baier pressed Harris on the record of the Biden administration and on policy issues that were of concern to Fox viewers, such as immigration. That […]Read More