Author: Naomi Lim and Samantha-Jo Roth
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Harris bets Trump can’t neutralize abortion matter despite latest attempts
CHICAGO — Former President Donald Trump has sought to take credit for the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade while simultaneously distancing himself from calls for further restricted abortion access at the federal level backed by a number of Republican lawmakers. The former president’s insistence that abortion should be a state matter has risen to some…
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Democrats united in dismissing threat from third-party candidates
CHICAGO — Democrats remain mostly confident that the handful of third-party candidates running in the presidential campaign poses little threat to Vice Presidential Kamala Harris’s bid. At the Democratic National Convention, party members and delegates remained united in saying that third-party candidates, such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Dr. Jill Stein, and Cornel West, were…

