Former Vice President Joe Biden has an unlikely new adviser as the sexual assault allegations against the presumptive Democratic nominee shift to the forefront of the 2020 campaign: President Donald Trump. In a podcast interview that aired on Friday, Trump teetered between labeling Tara Reade and her mother’s accounts as "credible" to expressing sympathy for…
Older white Americans over the age of 65 proved to be some of the most decisive voters in 2016. As demographer William Frey wrote in a post-election analysis: “Whites, especially older whites, were responsible for reversing past Democratic expansion in the Sun Belt states of Florida and North Carolina, as well as for capturing previously…
President Donald Trump plans to travel to Phoenix next Tuesday to visit a Honeywell facility that produces face masks, marking his first trip outside of Washington in a month. Trump’s visit is expected to highlight Honeywell’s investment in the production of critical medical equipment, as well as the addition of 500 manufacturing jobs in Arizona,…
This article was reported in collaboration with Zachary Warmbrodt, Susannah Luthi, John Hendel, Ryan McCrimmon, Michael Stratford, Brian Faler and Brianna Gurciullo. Congress’ mad dash to shovel nearly $3 trillion into the economy and rescue failing industries met little resistance as the coronavirus crisis overwhelmed communities across the country. But now the hangover has set…
When several Republican governors initially refused to implement social distancing orders, they invoked a sort of red state exceptionalism. “South Dakota is not New York City,” Gov. Kristi Noem quipped in early April. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey agreed, asserting: “We are not California.” That sentiment also appears to have trickled down into more conservative-leaning regions of…
Donald Trump was bound to politicize the distribution of critical medical supplies in the midst of a pandemic and he clearly has. While Democratic governors have repeatedly been shorted on critical equipment they need to fight the novel coronavirus in their states, Republican governors appear to have gotten most or even all of what they asked…
The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday reaffirmed its support for the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the goal of putting Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Tuesday’s bipartisan report, from a panel chaired by North Carolina Republican Richard Burr, undercuts Trump’s years of efforts to…
President Donald Trump on Sunday admitted he’s still holding a grudge against Mitt Romney, the only GOP senator to be left off a congressional task force on reopening the U.S. economy during the coronavirus pandemic. In February, Romney broke ranks with his party, voting to impeach the president on a charge of abusing his power….
President Donald Trump is ready to move past the coronavirus — and his most fervent followers are choosing who to blame. While the president spent the week teasing guidelines for restarting the country’s economy and belittling some states with strict lockdown measures, vocal Trump supporters coalesced around the people that they are blaming for getting…
President Donald Trump defended a sharp drop in commercial laboratory coronavirus testing as a positive development Thursday despite public health experts’ warnings that the U.S. needs millions of additional tests each week to safely reopen the country. “In recent days we’ve seen a dramatic increase in the number of tests performed by hospitals and academic…
Mike Martin, a spokesperson for the National Security Council, is leaving the White House later this month, according to a White House official. Martin worked under President Donald Trump’s last two national security advisors, John Bolton and Robert O’Brien. During that time, he played a lead role in crafting White House messaging for some of…
The Trump administration is asking a bipartisan group of lawmakers to join a task force on reopening the economy, according to Hill sources familiar with the matter. Senators and House members received notifications Wednesday from the White House. The Democratic senators invited to the task force are Tom Carper of Delaware, Tammy Duckworth and Dick…
Amid a rising death toll, a brewing constitutional clash with governors, and news reports criticizing the White House’s early inaction in combating the coronavirus outbreak, President Donald Trump took about 40 minutes out of his day Tuesday to meet and shoot the breeze with recovered patients at the White House. As cameras rolled and bulbs…
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday night that he is halting funding to the World Health Organization while his administration reviews the group’s handling of the coronavirus, accusing it of bungling the response and failing to communicate the disease’s threat. The move follows weeks of Trump’s escalating attacks on the U.N. health organization as he has…
Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York warned Tuesday that he and President Donald Trump "would have a problem" if the White House forged ahead with plans to reopen the state absent Albany’s approval, setting the stage for a potential constitutional clash against the backdrop of a global pandemic. "Look, if he pushed it to that…
On Monday, April 13, former Ronald Reagan Cabinet member Bill Bennett went on Fox News to give his expert opinion on COVID-19. Bennett is probably best known as a right-wing moral “crusader,” who, it turns out, was full of shit. But just because you spew mostly methane doesn’t mean you can’t get a place to speak to…
A single weekend retweet from Donald Trump — as he’s done thousands of times during his presidency — kicked up a storm of outrage and concern about the president’s state of mind, his reliance on public health experts and his path ahead for digging the nation out of a coronavirus shutdown. Trump on Sunday evening…
President Donald Trump insisted Monday that he alone could declare the United States reopen for business, continuing a contradictory line of messaging toward the nation’s governors as they have taken on greater responsibilities to combat the coronavirus pandemic in the face of federal inaction. “For the purpose of creating conflict and confusion, some in the…
WASHINGTON — A friend and donor to President Donald Trump who the president had said was in a coma and seriously ill after becoming infected with the coronavirus has died. Stanley I. Chera’s death Saturday was reported by The Real Deal, which covers the New York real estate industry. The publication cited unidentified sources who…
Billionaire Mark Cuban cast doubts on the rosy economic forecast President Donald Trump cast on Friday in an interview on “Fox News Sunday.” “I wish he was right, but he’s not,” Cuban told host Chris Wallace in response to a question about Trump’s projections for an economic recovery. “I think it’s going to be slower….