In the early spring, former president Barack Obama joked to some allies that his blood pressure was finally going down — because he had stopped watching cable news. After spending much of the previous two years deeply concerned about the prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White House, Obama told people that his lifestyle […]Read More

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — The challenges both Democrats and Republicans are confronting in the presidential race were on vivid display here at astrip mall in Northampton County — which has voted for the winner of almost every election in the past 100 years. Liberal canvasser Sierra Marquardt, 18, wandered the parking lot with some worry while […]Read More

Federal statistics on drug misuse and overdosesare alarming and frightening, but there’s also notable progress within the context of bad news and still far too many deaths. First the bad news: ● Nearly 49 million people, some as young as 12, had a substance use disorder in the past year, according to 2023 data. ● […]Read More

NEW YORK — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used his remarks at a Catholic charity banquet here on Thursday to skewer prominent Democrats, often in off-color terms. He mispronounced Vice President Kamala Harris’s name and said she had“no intelligence whatsoever.”He made fun of her husband, Doug Emhoff, for an affair he acknowledged during a previous […]Read More

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