Donald J. Trump turned his back to the crowd and stared up at the screen. Ominous music rang out. For the next minute and a half, the former president and his audience in Atlanta stood and silently watched clips of news reports of undocumented immigrants committing horrific crimes. When the …
Read More »Early In-Person Voting Begins in Nevada, With Obama Set to Rally Democrats
Tony Chavez and his wife, Elizabeth, came to Cardenas Market in East Las Vegas on Saturday to pick up a few essentials — bread, three dozen eggs and ingredients for tamales. Mr. Chavez did not expect to check something else off his list. But when he saw poll workers and …
Read More »Vulnerable Senate Democrat Promotes Trump Ties in New Ad
Senator Bob Casey, Democrat of Pennsylvania, distances himself from the Biden administration and highlights his support of certain Trump administration policies in a new TV campaign ad that aired in parts of the state on Friday, signaling a last-minute appeal to the former president’s supporters in a crucial battleground state. …
Read More »For Executives, ‘Defending Democracy’ Can Seem Risky
Republicans have spent months laying the groundwork to challenge a defeat of Donald Trump in the presidential election. During a fund-raising call organized by corporate lawyers in September, Douglas Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, asked for help if those efforts veer outside legal grounds. According to two …
Read More »Opinion | These Jobs Have Been an Economic Boon but a Political Bust
No place symbolizes the profound shifts that have taken place in the U.S. economy like Bethlehem, Pa., a city that lost its mighty steel mill but has been reborn with the help of a casino, a hotel and a couple of Walmart distribution centers. Thanks to the rise of online …
Read More »Harris Sticks Up for Detroit Against Trump
Vice President Kamala Harris let her T-shirt do the talking in Detroit on Saturday. The black shirt — which she wore under a gray blazer as she addressed several hundred campaign volunteers in a gym at Western International High School — bore the words “Detroit vs. Everybody.” The attire was …
Read More »Opinion | Trump’s Charity Toward None
The cardinal should go to confession. Timothy Dolan let a white-tie charity dinner in New York showcase that most uncharitable of men, Donald Trump. At the annual Al Smith dinner, Dolan suffused the impious Trump in the pious glow of Catholic charities. Dolan looked on with a doting expression as …
Read More »Opinion | When the Top General in the U.S. Says You’re ‘Fascist to the Core’
Toward the end of his tenure, Gen. Mark Milley, who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2019 to 2023, told Bob Woodward of The Washington Post that Donald Trump was a fundamental threat to the safety and integrity of the United States. “No one has ever …
Read More »Opinion | These Michigan Voters Aren’t Exactly Undecided — They’re Cringing
Cindy Jager was the lone worker on duty in the crammed aisles of an old-fashioned variety store overflowing with hardware and party supplies and fake pumpkins. When I came across her, she was carefully rearranging cleaning products on a back shelf of the shop in Walker, Mich. When I brought …
Read More »Opinion | A Pollster Helps Us Manage Our Election Anxiety
Hosted by Michelle CottleRoss Douthat and Carlos Lozada Listen to and follow ‘Matter of Opinion’Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTube | iHeartRadio Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have been neck and neck in the polls for weeks. But past elections have proved the polls wrong. Can we …
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