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Trump signals more stress and inflammatory statements than Harris during debate
ANALYSIS — Vice President Kamala Harris appeared to rattle former President Donald Trump during Tuesday’s presidential debate, with Trump signaling more stress than Harris during the more-than-90 minute event, according to a Roll Call Factba.se StressLens Analysis.
Trump’s voice stress rates spiked 14 times, a sign of discomfort, with ...Read more
Trump, Republicans try to stir up support for noncitizen voting bill
A group of Senate Republicans tried to salvage support Wednesday for legislation aimed at preventing noncitizens from registering to vote, while a government spending bill that includes the measure floundered in the House.
Republicans and former President Donald Trump this week have sought to highlight the immigration and voting issue as a ...Read more
As he visits Shanksville on 9/11 anniversary, Trump maintains he won Philly debate with Harris
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — Former President Donald Trump remained insistent that he won his Philadelphia debate with Vice President Kamala Harris as both candidates returned to Pennsylvania to commemorate the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack with visits to the Flight 93 National Memorial.
Following the previous night’s debate, Harris and Trump ...Read more
'This is groundhog day': After Massie objects, GOP pauses on government funding bill
U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie always thought a government funding vote this week was a fairy tale.
It looks like he was right.
Now GOP leaders are scrambling for fairy dust to figure out this tale’s ending.
Speaker Mike Johnson has chosen to delay a vote until next week on Republicans’ plan to fund the federal government for six months after ...Read more
As students plan walkouts, Georgia school shooting absent in Harris-Trump debate
Sam Hauff was 14 when the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018 prompted nationwide school walkouts.
Still in middle school, she led a walkout chanting, “Not one more” just next door to Apalachee High School, the school from which she would later graduate in 2021.
Now six years later, Hauff’s cause has become more personal after ...Read more
Republican lawsuit tries to stop new Georgia Election Board rules
Two Republicans filed a lawsuit Wednesday to invalidate new Georgia election certification rules, alleging the unelected appointees on the State Election Board exceeded their authority.
The lawsuit takes aim at rules approved by Republican supporters of former President Donald Trump that critics say could be abused to dispute the results of the...Read more
Battleground states are back in the spotlight after the presidential debate
PHILADELPHIA — Moments before the first debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump ended late Tuesday, the Democrat’s advisers sent word her campaign wanted a second one.
It was a tacit acknowledgment that as well as she might have performed in her showdown against Trump — even Republicans such as U.S. ...Read more
Will there be a second debate between Harris and Trump?
It remains unclear whether Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will debate again before Election Day on Nov. 5.
Immediately following Tuesday night's debate in Philadelphia, the Harris campaign said it would welcome a second event with Trump.
"Under the bright lights, the American people got to see the choice they ...Read more
Trump falsely claims CHOP protesters took over a big part of Seattle
SEATTLE — Former President Donald Trump referenced Seattle's Capitol Hill Organized Protest during the presidential debate Tuesday night, falsely claiming protesters took over a big portion of the city and have not been prosecuted.
During the debate, Trump was asked if he has any regrets about what he did on Jan. 6, 2021, when he had asked ...Read more
'Disgrace.' 'He hates her.' 12 zingers from the Harris-Trump debate
Yes, they discussed policy. Sort of. But former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris also had plenty to say about each other during their debate Tuesday night.
The presidential debate didn't generate an immortal line — think Lloyd Bentsen to Dan Quayle in 1988: "Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy" — though Trump did echo Ronald ...Read more
Trump claims he did a 'great job' at debate. Some Republicans aren't buying it
After a presidential debate in which Vice President Kamala Harris baited former President Trump and put him on the defensive, Trump insisted Wednesday morning he did a "great job," slammed the debate as "a rigged deal" and called for ABC to be shut down.
The GOP nominee, who was widely criticized even by Republicans for his weak performance in ...Read more
Trump, Harris offer conflicting visions for auto industry in debate
WASHINGTON — Tuesday's presidential debate turned to a key issue in battleground Michigan as the candidates shared competing visions for how to keep the auto industry strong.
Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, in response to a question about climate change, said that "part of building a clean energy economy includes investing in American-made ...Read more
Editorial: Debate absence highlights Biden's diminished capabilities
Joe Biden is still president, but it’s unclear if he’s still running the country.
On Tuesday night, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump squared off in a presidential debate. Given how close the race is, that clash deserves every bit of media coverage and analysis it received. But it shouldn’t distract the public...Read more
Editorial: At debate, Trump took the bait and resorted to misinformation on abortion and migrants
It took a short moment for Donald Trump to take the bait and go off script and unhinged during his first presidential debate against Vice President Kamala Harris Tuesday evening.
We lost count of the former president’s fabrications, exaggerations and outright lies in Philadelphia. Where do we begin?
He continued pushing his lies that he won ...Read more
Did Tuesday's presidential debate change the dynamics of the race?
ATLANTA — Georgia partisans saw what they wanted to see in Tuesday night’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.
But at least one independent observer thinks the debate may not change the dynamics of a race that surveys show is incredibly close — with Georgia and a handful of other swing states ...Read more
Kamala Harris’ message to women on ‘freedom’ helps explain why Black and white Christians are deeply divided over support for Donald Trump
Just days after President Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race in July, Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the annual meeting of the Zeta Phi Beta sorority in Indianapolis, where she emphasized the importance of both religious faith and political freedom.
Harris contrasted her stance on abortion rights with that of ...Read more
Harris baits and batters Trump: 3 takeaways from the Harris-Trump debate
The last presidential debate in June filled Democrats with dread and ultimately forced the sitting president to pull the plug on his candidacy.
Tuesday’s night’s face-off in Philadelphia produced a more evenly matched fight, but Kamala Harris acquitted herself successfully over the 90-minute showdown, putting to bed Democratic Party anxiety...Read more
Why Trump kept going back to immigration again and again
The first question of Tuesday night's debate between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris was about the economy, but Trump quickly pivoted to scapegoating immigrants.
Trump claimed migrants are "pouring" into the country from jails and mental institutions overseas and taking jobs from Black and Latino Americans.
Trump has ...Read more
On a night of fierce exchanges, Harris sets the tone
Vice President Kamala Harris repeatedly put former President Donald Trump on the defensive during their debate Tuesday, depicting the Republican nominee for president as a divisive and distracted leader who would take the country backward.
Harris, who set the tone for much of the discussion, depicted herself as the leader of a "new generation,"...Read more
Kamala Harris stopped by a Philadelphia watch party following a raucous debate night
PHILADELPHIA — They ate penne alla vodka and smoked salmon and guacamole, and then, as millions of other Americans, they partook of the political feast they’ve been waiting for — the debate between presidential nominees, Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald J. Trump.
While raucous watch parties ...Read more
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