Delaware State Sen. Sarah McBride won the Democratic primary for the state’s at-large U.S. House seat Tuesday night, clearing the path for her to make history as the first openly transgender person in Congress. McBride defeated Wilmington businessman Earl Cooper and financier Elias Weir in the Democratic primary with just under 80 percent of votes, […]Read More

There are a number of reasons that conducting political polling is tricky. The one with which people are most familiar is that it’s not easy to contact respondents. (It is not the case, though, that pollsters rely on landline telephones to do so.) A more important consideration is that the results depend on the pollsters […]Read More

NEW YORK — Vice President Kamala Harris and her Republican rival Donald Trump on Wednesday morning both arrived here in Lower Manhattan, the site of the worst terrorist attack in American history, each pausing for a moment of solemn commemoration in the midst of a frenetic political season. They stood feet away from one another, […]Read More

In one of her effective efforts to goad Donald Trump during their debate on Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris told the viewing audience he didn’t engender the level of international respect he often claims. “I’m going to tell you that I have traveled the world as vice president of the United States,” Harris said. “And […]Read More

Donald Trump’s success in the 2016 Republican nominating contest was largely a function of his willingness to embrace and elevate dangerous, hateful and false claims from the rightmost fringe of Republican rhetoric. There was a whole galaxy of assertions and arguments on blogs and social media that even Fox News kept at arm’s length, but […]Read More

House Republicans this week are bringing a raft of China-focused legislation to a vote in a pre-election bid to bolster the party’s foreign policycredentials, as Democrats and the GOP compete to chart a path for managing an increasingly fraught relationship with the United States’ most powerful adversary. The roughly two-dozen policy bills brought forward by […]Read More

Vice President Kamala Harris turned in one of the more resounding debate performances in recent decades on Tuesday night — to the point where Donald Trump’s allies have struggled to locate a silver lining. Precisely how much the debate could impact the race is an open question, as my colleague Dan Balz notes; we’re a […]Read More

Across the country, Americans took a moment on Wednesday morning to remember the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Or, for about a third of Americans, the moment was one of observation for the thousands of lives lost. An observation, not a remembrance, because those Americans were either not born when the attacks occurred or […]Read More

ABINGTON, Pa. — The predominantly Black crowd here responded with deep sighs and some laughter when the discussion in Tuesday night’s presidential debate turned to Donald Trump’s baseless attack on Kamala Harris’s racial identity. Why, a moderator asked the former president, did he believe it was appropriate to weigh in on such a topic? “I […]Read More

It took 19 years for the symptoms to emerge. Tom Beyrer, who served for six months as a police officer at Ground Zero following the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, was 65 when his memory and cognitive abilities began to crumble. Gradually, he pulled away from things that brought him joy. He […]Read More