Praised for branding Black Lives Matter outside White House, D.C. leader is scrutinized over policing at home.
Category: Politics
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Sen. Cotton rallies conservatives and raises national profile as op-ed on military intervention causes uproar
The Arkansas Republican, who has no Democratic challenger, has raised $200,000 since the furor — and his campaign arm will use the money to run ads against Biden.
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Ex-officer held on $1 million bail as Democrats unveil police reform bill
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd, had his bail set at $1 million minimum Monday, as Democrats unveiled a police reform bill sparked by Floyd’s death
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Joe Biden let police groups write his crime bill. Now, his agenda has changed.
Biden’s long history as one of the most reliable allies of law enforcement groups threatens a cornerstone of his presidential campaign.
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Trump to restart rallies in upcoming weeks, campaign says
“Americans are ready to get back to action and so is President Trump,” Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale said in a statement, even as the coronavirus pandemic continues its sweep across the U.S.
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This is Trump’s most spectacularly wonderfully terrible tweet ever
The president who makes up his own poll numbers has thoughts on polling methodology.
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William Barr’s Four-Pinocchio claim that pepper balls are ‘not chemical’
The Attorney General makes a bogus claim to obscure the events on June 1 near Lafayette Park, as detailed in a new video produced by The Post video team.
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Bashing Romney, McEnany reveals how worried the White House is about the protests
The president wouldn’t take the high road if it was owned by the Trump Organization.
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Pelosi, Schumer call on Trump to reopen Lafayette Square amid peaceful protests over killing of George Floyd
The Democratic leaders emphasized Monday that the square “has long been a venue where Americans can gather to freely exercise their constitutional rights.”
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Why Mitt Romney stands apart among Republicans in criticizing Trump
The two GOP senators speaking out against the president most vocally come from wholly unique political positions in their home states — and it’s not about them being moderates.
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Minuscule number of potentially fraudulent ballots in states with universal mail voting undercuts Trump claims about election risks
A Washington Post analysis found that state officials identified just 372 possible cases of fraud out of about 14.6 million votes in five elections in which ballots were all cast by mail.
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What to remember about polls as Trump continues to disparage — and invent — them
Individual polls can give a misleading sense of the race. But in this case, Trump’s still in trouble.
