Barack and Michelle Obama look to add a flavor of 2008 to Harris’s bid
CHICAGO — Barack Obama and Kamala Harris first met 20 years ago, when she was the district attorney in San Francisco and he was running for the Senate from Illinois.…
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Fact-checking Day 1 of the 2024 Democratic National Convention
The first night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention featured many attacks on former president Donald Trump, some of which quoted him out of context. Here’s a roundup of a…
At long last, President Joe Biden passes the torch with convention speech
CHICAGO — President Joe Biden, for several moments, couldn’t speak. At first, it was because he was dabbing his eyes. Then, it was because the cheers were so sustained. “Thank…
Biden passes the torch to Harris on first night of DNC
CHICAGO — In one of his last major appearances before he leaves office in five months, President Joe Biden formally passed the torch to his vice president, Kamala Harris, as…
5 takeaways from the Democratic convention, Biden’s speech on Day 1
CHICAGO — Welcome to The Campaign Moment, your guide to the biggest developments in the 2024 election, where the Democratic National Convention so far is largely about Donald Trump. (Make…
War shifts political views in Chicago’s Ukrainian Village, once reliably GOP
CHICAGO — The Ukrainian Village, a neighborhood nestled only a mile north and slight jog west of the United Center, where Democrats are convening this week, is the heart of…
Hillary Clinton returns to DNC convention as reminder of ‘unfinished business’
CHICAGO — In 2016 Hillary Clinton addressed the Democratic National Convention as the barrier-busting standard-bearer — the presidential nominee who many supporters felt was on track to shatter what she…
Trump portrays Harris as foreign, echoing past attacks on Democrats of color
YORK, Pa. — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday questioned whether Democrats knew where Vice President Kamala Harris “came from,” reprising a tactic that he has previously used against…
No, every Trump budget did not seek to cut Social Security and Medicare
“Fact: Trump announced a budget to cut Social Security and Medicare every single year he was in office.” — tweet by the Harris-Walz campaign, Aug. 14 “Remember he tried to…
Harris one-ups Trump on populist plays
Vice President Kamala Harris’s recent anti-price-gouging push has met with significant skepticism from policy analysts and even some normally politically aligned commentators. They’ve suggested that her somewhat vague “federal ban…