Senator Kamala Harris is the first Indian American and first Black woman to be nominated for vice president on a major party ticket, but, as many historians have noted, Harris is not the first Black woman to run for vice president.
It’s all going to “come out in a waterfall” ahead of the election, said Trump’s short-time director of communications.
“His goddamned tweets and lying, oh my God,” Maryanne Trump Barry told niece Mary Trump in secret recordings, The Washington Post reported.
Nancy Pelosi says accusation goes “beyond the pale,” even for Trump, “in terms of how he would jeopardize” Americans’ health to serve his reelection.
QAnon rallies were planned in at least 200 locations across the U.S. on Saturday.
“Many Blacks didn’t go out to vote for Hillary ’cause they liked me,” Trump claimed.
Senator Kamala Harris is the first Indian American and first Black woman to be nominated for vice president on a major party ticket, but, as many historians have noted, Harris is not the first Black woman to run for vice president.
“What Lou says is what I want to do,” Trump said of the Fox Business host, according to former DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor.
He falsely claimed that if the “fraudulent” “mail-in ballot deal” isn’t cleared up by the end of the year, he could be replaced by Nancy Pelosi.
The former Trump campaign executive’s wisecrack from a June 2019 fundraising event not only predicted his indictment, but also involved a yacht.
“Let me be very clear,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said. “There is no place for QAnon in the Republican Party.
For better and for worse, the former president told the American story his party wants to hear.
On this episode of Social Distance, the comedian Maeve Higgins is back home in New York after weathering the pandemic’s first peak in her native Ireland. She joins James Hamblin to talk about her strange journey back to the United States, and the strange moment the country finds itself in.James Fallows returns to reflect on the Democratic National Convention and why politics (unlike comedy) might actually be better without the crowds.
Harvard professor Cornel West and Ben Jealous, president of People for the American Way and former president of the NAACP, discuss the 2020 DNC, Joe Biden’s vow to fight systemic racism and “overcome this season of darkness in America,” the historic nomination of Kamala Harris as his partner on the ticket, and how the convention was a showcase for a broad anti-Trump coalition, including prominent Republican figures given plum speaking slots, but few voices from the party&rsq
We air highlights from Joe Biden’s highly anticipated speech on the final night of the Democratic National Convention, in which he formally accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, focused on the dangers of President Trump’s reelection and pledged to address the four simultaneous crises of systemic racism, the pandemic, the economic downturn and the climate crisis. “United, we can and will overcome this season of darkness in America,” Biden said.
The 2020 Democratic National Convention has wrapped up, with speakers on the final night including California Governor Gavin Newsom, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and 13-year-old Brayden Harrington, who talked about how Joe Biden had personally helped him with his stutter. We air highlights from the evening’s addresses.
The president said the progressive lawmaker “knows nothing about the environment” and “probably never studied.
Because the Democratic nominee moved out as a child, he really wasn’t born in Scranton, the president told a perplexed Pennsylvania crowd.
The FBI and SEC launched an investigation after investors said they never received verification of their investments, sources told The Wall Street Journal.
The president’s family denies knowing anything about the scheme, but a HuffPost investigation reveals close ties.
Brian Kolfage flaunted the vessel in the Trump “Boat Parade.
Senator Kamala Harris is the first Indian American and first Black woman to be nominated for vice president on a major party ticket, but, as many historians have noted, Harris is not the first Black woman to run for vice president.
As Kamala Harris makes history as the first woman of color to run on a major party presidential ticket, many Black progressive women remain ambivalent, says Derecka Purnell, a human rights lawyer, abolitionist and columnist for The Guardian newspaper.
Senator Kamala Harris has formally accepted the Democratic vice-presidential nomination, becoming the first woman of color to run on a major party presidential ticket. We feature part of her historic speech.
On the third night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, party leaders argued that U.S. democracy is at risk if President Trump is reelected in November, with a lineup of speeches from former Congressmember Gabby Giffords, senator and former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren and former President Barack Obama, who grew emotional describing the stakes of the election and urged people not to “let them take away your democracy.
The former president offered his most harsh critique yet of Trump, arguing he “hasn’t grown into the job because he can’t.
Trump has “shown no interest in putting in the work,” Obama said in a speech that also lauded “brother” Joe Biden for his character and resilience.
“I’ve heard these are people that love our country,” the president said of followers of the far-right conspiracy movement.
One person noted that this is the first time in American history that “a president openly threatens to disregard an impending election and assume dictatorial power.
Pro-Trump pundits are treating a mild political event like it’s an attack against America.