SUPAI, Ariz. — Rep. Ruben Gallego arrived at the bottom of the Grand Canyon barefoot, shoes in hand, after crossing a stream during a 2,000-foot descent. The 44-year-old Marine Corps veteran, five-term Democratic congressman and U.S. Senate candidate had started the eight-mile hike in darkness. Now, under the midday sun, he was approaching a Havasupai […]Read More

WALLACES CORNER, Va. — He didn’t mention it in his mailers or campaign brochures. It was absent from a slew of recent television ads. And here at a synagogue in this far-flung D.C. exurb, Yevgeny “Eugene” Vindman did not bring up the reason the worshipers breaking their Yom Kippur fast had first learned who he […]Read More

DETROIT — Sen. JD Vance’s event here chugged along like a typical campaign rally. He attacked his rivals, painted a grave picture of life under the Democratic Party and warned Republicans against complacency. Members of the audience nodded, clapped and cheered. Then an aide handed a microphone to journalists. And things got raucous. A Detroit […]Read More

LAS VEGAS — Standing in the searing Nevada heat at her job as a construction flagger shortly after Vice President Kamala Harris entered the presidential race in July, 38-year-old Sarah White was skeptical: “I don’t think I would ever vote for a woman to be president,” she said bluntly. “Women are kinda all over the […]Read More

TUCSON — Former president Barack Obama further sharpened his criticism of Donald Trump at a rally Friday, casting the Republican nominee as a huckster who lacks the mental fitness to lead the nation, leaning into a strategy of withering mockery as he hits the campaign trail in support of Vice President Kamala Harris. With just […]Read More

DETROIT — For a second time this week, Republican nominee Donald Trump spent long stretches of a public appearance without speaking — this time not because he chose a long musical interlude, but because of a faulty microphone. Ten minutes into his speech here, Trump told the crowd: “To me, the most beautiful word in […]Read More

DETROIT — Kamala Harris and Donald Trump converged on the battleground state of Michigan on Friday, pushing hard for an edge with blue-collar voters as they sparred over their records on creating jobs for union workers, their plans to boost manufacturing jobs and their respective energy levels on the campaign trail. Harris is drawing strong […]Read More

Donald Trump makes curious comments about the war in Ukraine; he has done so since the moment Russia invaded in early 2022. His suspiciously friendly public posture toward Russia dates back years. But he and his allies have long suggested that this is effectively a diplomatic posture. You’ve got to be able to deal with […]Read More

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump compared the detention of his supporters who have been charged or convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol to the mass imprisonment of people of Japanese descent without charges during World War II. The remark, in an interview with pro-Trump radio host Dan Bongino that aired […]Read More