Mumford & Sons, Gracie Abrams, and the National rallied behind Kamala Harris last night in Madison. The musicians, as well as Remi Wolf, performed for the crowd at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum, with Abrams and Wolf also giving speeches in support of Harris. Mumford & Sons performed three songs, “Little Lion Man,” “Awake My Soul,” […]
A Sonoma County Superior Court judge was issued a public admonishment Wednesday after he engaged in improper political activity and social media conduct connected to a proposed high school name change, a judicial conduct commission said. A lawyer for the judge said the judge was simply exercising his 1st Amendment rights on a matter of […]
Aytac Unal/ | Anadolu | Getty Images Shares of Trump Media dropped more than 22% Wednesday, pouring cold water on a remarkable rally that added billions of dollars to former President Donald Trump’s on-paper net worth in the run-up to the 2024 election. DJT stock, which closed at $51.51 per share on Tuesday, was trading […]
Aubrey Plaza is the latest star with Puerto Rican heritage to fire back at comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s controversial joke about Puerto Rico during Donald Trump‘s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday. Speaking at the WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards on Tuesday night, the Agatha All Along actress said she wanted to “very quickly respond to the […]
In the days since comedian Tony Hinchcliffe insulted Puerto Rico at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in New York City on Sunday by calling it “a floating island of garbage,” there’s been mounting evidence that this might be the rare gaffe that actually matters. The Puerto Rican community around the country is furious — […]
The controversy over an offensive joke about Puerto Rico at a Trump rally has reached the battleground state of Wisconsin. Reaction there shows a divide between supporters of Trump and Harris. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The controversy around an offensive joke about Puerto Rico told at a campaign rally for former President Trump on Sunday […]
Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz mocked former President Trump’s age during a Tuesday evening rally in Georgia. Walz criticized Trump’s proposal to stop taxing Social Security checks while quipping that Trump himself would be eligible for the program, which is for Americans aged 62 and older. “Now, Trump came out with a […]
Scott Jennings, one of CNN’s go-to conservative commentators, gave an equivocating response on-air Monday night when asked to react to several racist and offensive remarks speakers spewed at a Donald Trump rally in New York City on Sunday. During a segment on his “360” news panel show, host Anderson Cooper introduced footage of inflammatory moments […]
Days after he was kicked out of a Kamala Harris rally in Michigan with no explanation, Ahmed Ghanim said he got a call from Donald Trump’s campaign: Would Ghanim be willing to star in a campaign ad? Ghanim, a Democrat who mounted an unsuccessful primary challenge to a pro-Israel member of Congress earlier this year, […]
Rarely has American democracy felt so precarious as we await November 5. Will voters decide that Donald Trump, who has mused about suspending the Constitution, is fit to protect it? Will they ignore the warnings of Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly, and other former officials and ex-generals, about the GOP nominee’s fascistic tendencies? […]
