Author: W. James Antle III

Vice President Kamala Harris is returning to a familiar theme in the closing weeks of the presidential race: making the election about former President Donald Trump. On the heels of her own contentious interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier, Harris was in Wisconsin drawing attention to a Trump town hall instead. “The American people are…

Former President Donald Trump was campaigning in Nevada, regaling rallygoers with tales of all the revenue raised by his China tariffs during his first term in office, when a baby started crying in the background. Trump interrupted his remarks to address the cries. “And don’t let that baby bother you because it doesn’t bother me,”…

A growing sense of unease has set in among Democrats, who fear a presidential election they thought they had won by switching the top of the ticket might be slipping away. Vice President Kamala Harris has abandoned her cautious media strategy, deigning to appear even on Fox News, a cable network both she and President…

Former President Donald Trump has raised eyebrows with his decision to hold campaign rallies deep in Democratic territory, including appearances in Coachella Valley, California, and Madison Square Garden in New York City. Yet it is not the first time Trump has paid attention to the blue states outside of the highly competitive Rust Belt, the…

Two competing dynamics define the race for control of the Senate: Republicans have a favorable map, but the Democratic candidates for the most competitive seats are running ahead of their presidential nominee, first under President Joe Biden and now Vice President Kamala Harris. In the closing days of the 2024 campaign, both the size and partisan…

One of the more eye-catching moments in the vice presidential debate was when Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) called on the Republican Party to “be pro-family in the fullest sense of the word.” “I want us to support fertility treatments. I want us to make it easier for moms to afford to have babies,” Vance said.…

Vice President Kamala Harris began a new week on the campaign trail with renewed calls for another debate with former President Donald Trump. “I would like another debate,” she told reporters at Andrews Air Force Base on Sunday evening. At a fundraiser earlier in the day, the vice president was more pointed. “By the way,…

Before President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid, his loyalists held on to one last hope: that he could keep the race close enough that his more traditional ground game could outperform former President Donald Trump’s unconventional one in the Rust Belt, eking out an Electoral College majority and a second term. Most senior Democrats…

Vice President Kamala Harris is being lauded for her debate performance against former President Donald Trump on Tuesday night, in sharp contrast with President Joe Biden back in June. The question now becomes whether Harris’s well-executed plan of irritating Trump and joining with the moderators and Trump himself to draw attention to his negatives was…

Almost immediately after the first debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, a brand-new debate broke out about whether there should be a second one. Some of the chief points of contention are who would host a second debate and what it would say about who won the first. The Harris…