Category: Politics

On the eve of the first day of the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearings, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows Biden with a wide lead over Trump.

The staggering fundraising haul comes as three-term Sen. Lindsey Graham has been pleading for financial help.

In yet another example of manipulated video, a new Trump campaign ad takes out of context Fauci’s comments about the workload of the coronavirus task force.

After 2016, it seemed Ohio’s time as a swing state may have been over. But both presidential campaigns are investing there again.

GOP senators such as Ben Sasse (Neb.) and Josh Hawley (Mo.) are expected to lead the charge to defend Barrett if Republicans feel comments from Democrats veer remotely near her Catholicism and personal religious views.

In this edition: The political geography of Ohio, the battle over a court reform that neither party thinks will happen, and the long shadow cast by a dead pro-marijuana candidate in Minnesota.

The GOP acts defensively, not confidently, as it tries to block expanded access to the vote

The suit sought to block the use of drop boxes as receptacles for mail ballots, require ballot signatures to match voter registration records and allow nonresident poll watchers at polling places

If she is confirmed, Barrett will join Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh in participating in litigation involving the only presidential contest to be decided by the high court.

The divided state, where the vote count could take days or weeks, is still struggling to establish the rules of the election.

Detractors say the president has projected dangerous propaganda in service of fostering and maintaining a cult-of-personality sway over his supporters.

After being confined to the White House and hospital since Oct. 1, the president is scheduled to begin a frenetic stretch of rallies up through Election Day. It remains unclear how he will do so safely as the coronavirus rages nationwide.