Within weeks of the gathering that drew nearly half a million bikers, the Dakotas, along with Wyoming, Minnesota and Montana, were leading the nation in new coronavirus infections per capita.
Category: Politics
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Michigan appeals court reinstates Election Day mail-in ballot deadline as early voting surge continues
More than 26 million people had cast ballots nationwide as early voting began Saturday in Massachusetts and Nevada and extended across New Mexico.
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‘It needs to stop’: Whitmer condemns rhetoric at Trump rally, chants of ‘lock her up’
The chants came a little more than a week after authorities revealed a foiled plot to kidnap Whitmer, allegedly motivated in part by opposition to the pandemic policies Trump has repeatedly criticized.
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Trump aides seek to set aside division and plan for final sprint to Election Day
The president is behind in polls, but Republicans still see a chance for a repeat of his 2016 come-from-behind victory.
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Sen. Perdue called out for mocking Sen. Kamala Harris’s first name, echoing Trump
“This kind of vile, race-baiting trash talk is what President Trump has unleashed from sitting Republican members in the Senate,” Democrat Jon Ossoff said.
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The 5 types of attack ads defining the 2020 congressional elections
There are several major crises related to health, race and the economy all happening at once. Those are shaping the battles for Congress.
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Originalism in a diverse America: How does Amy Coney Barrett’s judicial philosophy square with who was left out of the Constitution?
Amy Coney Barrett’s embrace of originalism has some Americans thinking about what the framers intended, and how it applied to them.
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One last vote: In Michigan, a terminally ill man’s mission to cast a ballot
After a recurrence of colon cancer, Jim Williams counted the days until early voting began in his state.
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Turned off by Trump, Maryland’s GOP governor casts write-in vote for Ronald Reagan
Gov. Larry Hogan is campaigning for other Republican moderates, hoping to forge a national network.
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The tricky politics of court-packing for Joe Biden
Biden repeated Thursday night that he is not a fan of court-packing, yet he sounded more open to it than ever before.
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Trump brought Fox News ‘facts’ to a confrontation with reality
Trump appeared on NBC News bearing only cherry-picked data from one of his favorite Fox News shows.
