The president faces a difficult reelection bid, with double-digit unemployment, a pandemic that has killed about 180,000 Americans and racial unrest across the country.
Category: Politics
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Trump tries to pick up the voters up for grabs by vilifying the ones who aren’t
Trump’s expansion strategy faces limits given his views of his political enemies.
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Republicans make the courts a feature of their convention, Democrats do not and liberals worry
The contrast worries liberal activists who see it as further evidence that the Democratic Party isn’t paying enough attention to an area where conservatives have made big inroads in recent years: control of the courts.
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An undecided voter wonders: Should Trump’s policies outweigh his personality?
He watched both conventions and still can’t decide whom to vote for.
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A slip in support for Black Lives Matter?
Recent polls suggest a decline in support for the movement — particularly among Whites — but there are plenty of unknowns.
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The latest battlefield in a heated presidential campaign: front yards bearing Biden signs.
Democrats favoring Biden are concocting strategies for preventing thefts, including smelly and irritating substances to mark the offender.
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Trump’s failure to reframe how Americans see his handling of coronavirus
It’s hard to see how using the same defenses he’s used since March will turn around his poll numbers
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Nearly every claim Trump made about Biden’s positions was false
The president capped off a week of misrepresenting Biden’s candidacy.
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Google greenlights ads with ‘blatant disinformation’ about voting by mail
Google declined to remove ads that echo President Trump’s misleading claim that there is a meaningful difference between voting by mail and absentee voting. Facebook removed similar material in response to a Washington Post story last week.
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11 words that were in heavy rotation at the Republican and Democratic conventions
Convention speakers used very different language, and when they used similar words, they often cast issues in very different ways. An analysis of how the messages differed.
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The Republican convention’s speaker line-up was not subtle in its targeting
The speakers broadly looked like the party — with an obvious exception.
