The deadly explosion of pagers and walkie-talkies across Lebanon this week dealt another blow to President Joe Biden’s beleaguered efforts to reduce tensions in the Middle East, even as his top diplomats were present in the region reciting calls for calm. The absence of a full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah has been touted by […]Read More

LAGRANGE, Ga. — The Georgia State Election Board is expected to vote on a measure to force counties to hand-count all ballots this year, a requirement that could delay reporting of results by weeks if not months and that critics say is designed to inject chaos and uncertainty into the presidential contest in a vitally […]Read More

For years, Donald Trump has directly and indirectly foisted damaging candidates on the GOP, in ways that have obviously cost his party dearly — up to and probably including control of the Senate. It’s not just his endorsements of several flawed statewide candidates who went on to badly underperform and lose key races; it’s also […]Read More

A wave of local and regional Teamsters union branches in battleground states rushed to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris after the national Teamsters union declared that it would not endorse a presidential candidate for the first time in nearly three decades. Teamsters regional councils — representing hundreds of thousands of members and retirees — in […]Read More

Republicans in North Carolina were bracing Thursday for what some anticipated would be a damaging CNN story on Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor in North Carolina, with less than two months before the election, according to people with knowledge of the situation. “For the sake of the party, for the sake of our […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump’s campaign released a memo Wednesday seeking to spin a deluge of post-debate polls. But while those polls have generally shown Vice President Kamala Harris leading or at least tied, the Trump campaign chose to highlight a single head-to-head poll. It happened to be a rare one showing Trump leading, by three […]Read More

Welcome to The Campaign Moment, your guide to the biggest moments in a 2024 election that is a sudden bonanza for Pennsylvania pollsters. (Did a friend forward this to you? If so, sign up here. And make sure you’re subscribing to the Campaign Moment podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever else you listen.) The […]Read More

One of the defining characteristics of Donald Trump’s life has been his quest for acceptance. He is a Queens kid, son of a real estate developer from the outer boroughs, an origin story that comports with an innate insecurity; Trump’s career has been oriented to some extent around proving that he belonged in the Manhattan […]Read More

House Democrats will hold their own hearing next week to illustrate potential impacts of Project 2025 under a hypothetical Trump administration, according to people involved with the planning. The hearing, which will be held by a committee made up only of Democrats, will feature lawmakers and testimony from people across the country whohave been or […]Read More

An Alaska man has been arrested after allegedly threatening to torture and assassinate six Supreme Court justices and their relatives, the Justice Department announced Thursday. Panos Anastasiou, 76, allegedly sent more than 465 messages through the Supreme Court’s public website — many of them violent, racist and homophobic, according to an indictment filed Wednesday. He […]Read More