Trump’s Very Bad Week Takes a Toll (2024)

A new Morning Consult poll finds 50% of voters say Donald Trump is “too old” to be president. By contrast, only 12% say the same of Kamala Harris, compared with…

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) withdrew from consideration for Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential pick because he feared his Republican lieutenant governor could try to seize power in his absence, Politico…

“White House senior adviser Gene Sperling is leaving his administration position to work with Vice President Kamala Harris’ election campaign as the Democrats step up efforts to challenge Donald Trump…

Just published: Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum. “We think we know what an autocratic state looks like: There is an all-powerful leader…

“Vice President Kamala Harris will set out this week on a swing-state campaign blitz, giving her a far heavier travel schedule than her opponent, former President Donald Trump,” NBC News…

“A wave of panic rippled through financial markets on Monday, with stocks falling sharply in the United States and around the world as investors zeroed in on signs of a…

“I wasn’t asking him to step down. I was asking for a campaign that can win. And I wasn’t seeing that on the horizon.” — Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), in…

Politico: “J.D. Vance’s elevation as former President Donald Trump’s running mate complicates DeSantis’ political future, should the GOP ticket win in November and Vance inherit the support of the Trump…

Donald Trump is making available four new and rarely available memberships at his exclusive Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida available for a $1 million initiation fee, The Guardian reports. Save to…

A University of Massachusetts Amherst poll finds a 7-point swing in the presidential race towards the Democrats since earlier this year. The poll went from a 4-point lead for Donald…

Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) sent his son to a disciplinary school in Jamaica that was raided for abusing the teenagers, the Times of London reports. Then he apparently…

J.D. Vance’s wife is pushing back against criticism her husband is facing for his “childless cat ladies” remark, saying she wished people wouldn’t focus on the phrase itself, the Daily…

In a recent text exchange, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told one person that Donald Trump was “a terrible human being. The worse president ever and barely human. He is probably…

The hospitality workers’ union UNITE HERE has endorsed Kamala Harris for president, a rejoinder to Donald Trump’s effort to woo restaurant and hotel workers by promising to make their tips…

Greg Sargent: “A new poll — apparently the first large-sample poll of Latinos since Kamala Harris became presumptive Democratic nominee —provides fresh grounds for that optimism. It finds that Harris…

U,K. prime minister Keir Starmer said he could “guarantee” rioters will “regret taking part in this disorder” as he condemned an attack on a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham…

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) will be “bracketing” the Democratic ticket this week — appearing at campaign events in four cities the mystery pair is set to visit, starting with Philadelphia…

Sen. Bernie Sanders is trying to push Kamala Harris to the left, citing results of a poll he commissioned in battleground states that shows progressive proposals such as increasing the…

Playbook: “Harris is scheduled to appear with her pick tomorrow in Philadelphia, so she essentially has the next 24 hours to think over her decision — and think over it…

“Six weeks after leading the charge to oust Rep. Jamaal Bowman in a New York primary, a big-spending pro-Israel super PAC is hoping to help defeat another member of the…