WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama joined the campaign trail for the final stretch Thursday with some “truths” for men, especially Black men, who he said were not delivering the enthusiasm for Vice President Kamala Harris that they did when he was running for president.

He told a group of campaign volunteers in Pittsburgh they ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Former President Barack Obama delivered a pep talk Thursday in Pittsburgh as he sought to energize voters whose support will be crucial to the Democrats’ chances of carrying Pennsylvania this fall.

Obama, kicking off a tour of battleground states, used his speech at the University of Pittsburgh’s Fitzgerald Field House to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Republicans in Orange County — and across the state — have been making inroads this election cycle with registering voters. And with less than a month to go until Election Day, Republicans have gained a slight voter registration advantage in a key House district.

Registered Republican voters outnumber registered Democrats by...Read more

Former President Donald Trump proposed making interest on car loans tax-deductible Thursday in the latest of a series of tax cuts he has promised on the campaign trail.

The GOP presidential nominee used a speech to the Detroit Economic Club to unveil his vision of a car industry “renaissance” built partly through higher protective tariffs ...Read more

DETROIT — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump pitched Michigan business leaders Thursday on a series of steps he hopes can reinvigorate what he says is a "collapsing" U.S. auto industry, while also criticizing Detroit, the city where he was delivering his remarks.

Trump, the former president, said he wants to revisit his own 2020 ...Read more

DETROIT — Former President Donald Trump unsuccessfully tried to settle Thursday his long-running claim that he was once named "Man of the Year" in Michigan.

During a campaign appearance at a Detroit Economic Club gathering, Trump held up a printout of a 2023 article from the Oakland Press that cited Amber Harris, a Republican political ...Read more

When Donald Trump hosts a rally in Coachella, California, on Saturday, he’s likely to highlight what he calls the state’s unusually high cost of living.

In its announcement of the rally, his campaign cited several statistics it said illustrate how Californians have been battered by a rough economy since President Joe Biden took office.

The...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Kimberly Burrell, a lifelong Democrat, has tried calling, emailing, and using social media to reach a political action committee that cut an out-of-context interview clip of her and placed it in an ad for former President Donald Trump.

Despite Burrell’s pleas, no one from Restoration PAC has gotten back to her, but she ...Read more

DETROIT — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump pitched Michigan business leaders Thursday on a series of steps he hopes can reinvigorate what he says is a "collapsing" U.S. auto industry, while also criticizing Detroit, the city where he was delivering his remarks.

Trump, the former president, said he wants to revisit his own 2020 ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks immediately criticized Republican opponent Larry Hogan on his abortion record in their only currently scheduled debate on Thursday, saying: “The Republican Party has declared war on women’s reproductive freedoms.”

Alsobrooks referenced Hogan’s record, including his 2022 ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida’s threat of criminal charges against local TV stations running ads supporting the state’s abortion amendment is unconstitutional, the head of the Federal Communications Commission said.

“The right of broadcasters to speak freely is rooted in the First Amendment,” Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said in a ...Read more

Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin hilariously laid into Donald Trump after he slammed them at a rally on Wednesday in Reading, Pennsylvania.

The former president called “The View” co-hosts “really dumb people” after the show welcomed Vice President Kamala Harris as a guest on its Tuesday episode.

He specifically went after Goldberg, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and his team have hunkered down to oversee the federal response to Hurricane Milton after the powerful storm pummeled west-central Florida, adding a major crisis to a list of others that are defining his final months in office.

“We know that life-saving measures did make a difference. ... We’ve had search ...Read more

READING, Pa. — Danny Natal wasn’t always a Republican.

But as the 55-year-old, dressed in MAGA red from the belt up, waited in line outside Reading’s Santander Arena hours before former President Donald Trump held a rally there Wednesday night, he described feeling abandoned by the Democratic Party.

“They’re shipping money out to ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Vice President Kamala Harris has taken a narrow lead in the latest polling of Nevada, though the poll’s margin of error still leaves the race as a statistical dead heat.

New Emerson College Polling/The Hill polling of swing states released Thursday shows a tight presidential race, with 48 percent of Nevada voters surveyed ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Vice President Kamala Harris maintains a commanding lead over former President Donald Trump in California, but Trump's gains among the state's Latino voters highlight a troubling sign for Democrats at the national level, according to a new poll.

Harris' 57%-35% overall lead in California over Trump is little changed from her ...Read more

Polls show that LGBTQ rights will likely factor into most Americans’ pick for president this November as they choose between former Republican President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat.

A March 2024 survey by independent pollster PRRI found that 68% of voters will take LGBTQ rights into consideration at the...Read more

Donald Trump has a particular formula he uses to convey messages to his supporters and opponents alike: He highlights others’ wrongdoings even though he has committed similar acts himself.

On Oct. 3, 2024, Trump accused the Biden administration of spending Federal Emergency Management Agency funds – money meant for disaster relief...Read more