Collective amnesia overtakes Republican National Convention
MILWAUKEE — Donald Trump resurfaced at the Republican National Convention, ushered in by a video montage of his jiggle-dancing to the gay anthem “Y.M.C.A.”Kamala Harris was…
Republicans say crime is rampant, call immigration a threat during RNC
MILWAUKEE — Former President Trump’s top rivals in the Republican Party lined up behind the 2024 nominee on Tuesday, promising he would “make America safe again”…
GOP says U.S. is awash in immigrant-driven crime. What do the data say?
One after another, Republican leaders painted a dire picture of America from the Republican National Convention stage in Milwaukee on Tuesday, suggesting the nation is…
California Republicans, long in the minority at home, get a Trump boost at RNC
MILWAUKEE — California Republicans, long banished to the hinterlands of their home state’s politics, enjoyed being surrounded by like-minded conservatives at the Republican National Convention —…
Trump shooting lowers pressure on Biden to drop out
WASHINGTON — Republicans have been featuring Vice President Kamala Harris prominently in their attacks on the Biden administration at this week’s convention in Milwaukee — a…
Trump’s control over party in focus as Republicans meet, post shooting | US Election 2024 News
The words read like one of his social media posts. Sentences abruptly shifted into uppercase letters. Warnings of chaos and instability, and false claims about…
Project 2025, GOP platform blast California, teeing up attacks on possible Biden stand-ins
At the start of Project 2025’s conservative playbook for a second Trump presidency, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts took aim at leaders who he said…
Opinion: We have to destroy the Republican Party to save it
This week in Milwaukee, the Republican Party will officially nominate for president a man of damnable firsts — first president to be impeached twice, first…
Republicans gathering in Milwaukee to nominate Trump again. Here’s what to expect
For all the usual stagecraft, the Republican National Convention that opens Monday is different from Donald Trump‘s previous nominating affairs. In 2016 and 2020, Trump…
Proposed Republican Party platform silent on same-sex marriage
Defining marriage as only between one man and one woman — a bedrock of the GOP platform for decades — is notably absent from a…
House Republicans vote to overturn new rule protecting transgender students from discrimination
A joint resolution put forward by Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., to nullify a new rule offering transgender students protection from discrimination in American schools passed…
House rejects GOP effort to fine Atty. Gen. Garland for refusal to turn over Biden audio
WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday rejected a GOP effort to fine Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland $10,000 a day until he turns over audio of President…
What Republicans still don’t understand about Trump’s agenda
Donald Trump isn’t normally thought of as a consensus-builder, but in one sense that’s exactly what he is. Many of Trump’s most ardent fans and…
Kamala Harris faces pressure — and opportunity — as Biden struggles
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris wouldn’t bite. “Joe Biden is our nominee,” she told a CBS News reporter outside a San Francisco fundraiser Tuesday night…
Democrats defending Biden echo Republicans’ cult of Trump
The fallout from President Biden’s miserable debate last week is giving me deja vu. In the political right’s intramural arguments over Donald Trump, I got…
House Republicans sue attorney general in federal court over Biden audiotapes
1 of 4 | Following June's contempt of Congress vote, Attorney General Merrick Garland accused House GOP of turning a "serious congressional authority into a…
House Republicans sue Garland seeking audio of Biden interview
WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Monday filed a lawsuit against Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland seeking to obtain the audio recording of President Biden’s interview with a…
Abortion access wins when it’s on the ballot. In many states, it isn’t
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Tucked inside the West Virginia Statehouse is a copy of a petition to lawmakers with a simple request: Let the voters decide whether…
Trump will address influential evangelicals who back him but want to see a national abortion ban
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is set to speak Saturday to a group of politically influential evangelicals who fiercely support him but would like to see the…
What the GOP vote to hold Garland in contempt of Congress means
WASHINGTON — Merrick Garland became the third attorney general in U.S. history to be held in contempt of Congress on Wednesday as Republicans moved to punish…