CHICAGO — Welcome to The Campaign Moment, your guide to a 2024 election in which we’ll apparently have to make do with Beyoncé’s voice. (Make sure you are subscribed to this newsletter here. And also listen to the Campaign Moment podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. We dove into Tim […]Read More

CHICAGO — Four of the exonerated members of the so-called Central Park Five — a group of five teenagers wrongfully imprisoned for the 1989 rape of a jogger — appeared Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention, warning of what a second Donald Trump presidency could bring. “Thirty-five years ago, my friends and I were […]Read More

CHICAGO — More than a few moderate Donald Trump critics were puzzled and concerned by Vice President Kamala Harris’s selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as her running mate. And Walz’s liberal-leaning record as governor — at least compared to other finalists — has combined with controversies about his biographical claims to give Republicans […]Read More

CHICAGO — Kamala Harris concluded her first speech of the Democratic National Convention on Monday with what has become a familiar mantra: “When we fight,” she said, “we win!” As Democratic National Committee chair Jaime Harrison spoke that same day, he nodded toward the line to rile up the crowd. “And believe me,” he said, […]Read More

CHICAGO — Uncommitted delegates to the Democratic National Convention pressed their demands for a speaking slot on Thursday to address conditions in Gaza, gaining support from several individuals and groups at the convention, even as organizers sought to preserve the party’s show of unity. On the final day of the convention, pro-Palestinian activists and delegates […]Read More

During his speech at the Democratic convention Tuesday, former president Barack Obama made an underrecognized point about political decision-making in the United States. “The rest of the world is watching to see if we can actually pull this off,” Obama said. “No nation, no society has ever tried to build a democracy as big and […]Read More

The Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for a provision of Arizona law that requires proof of citizenship to register to vote in some circumstances, the first time the high court has weighed in on a voting dispute in the run-up to the presidential election. The high court’s 5-4 action follows an emergency appeal by […]Read More

The highest criminal appeals court in Texas will reconsider the illegal-voting charge against a woman whose conviction and five-year prison sentence were overturned earlier this year. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals decided Wednesday that it would reexamine the case of Crystal Mason, a Fort Worth mother of three who cast a provisional ballot in […]Read More

Few people have invested more personal time and energy in anything than Donald Trump has invested in convincing the world, and perhaps himself, that he is more popular than the publicly available evidence would suggest. Trump has been the Republican nominee twice before, earning about 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton in 2016 and […]Read More