Americans are becoming increasingly less optimistic about how democracy is working in the United States, according to a recent survey. The Gallup poll, released Friday, found that only 28 percent of adults in the U.S. are satisfied with democracy — a record low. That number is down from the prior record, 35 percent, that was […]
Three years ago today, I, along with hundreds of my colleagues in Congress, nearly died in the insurrection at the United States Capitol. This occurred just days after I was sworn in as the representative for New York’s 17th Congressional District, covering parts of the Lower Hudson Valley. I was so excited to get to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will kick off his 2024 pitch to voters Friday, the day before the anniversary of the violent riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, by posing the question of whether democracy is still a “sacred cause” worth sacrificing for. Biden believes the upcoming election is largely about […]
PHILADELPHIA — President Joe Biden is kicking off the election year by setting his focus squarely on what he sees as the threat to democracy posed by Donald Trump — a return to his “home base,” advisers say, that demonstrates the urgency his campaign sees in addressing his likely general election opponent. Biden will deliver […]
President Joe Biden will cast former President Donald Trump as a threat to democracy Saturday in a speech set to be delivered on the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection, the Biden campaign said this week. The speech is expected to be a key component of the campaign’s efforts to highlight the stakes of […]
Prosecutors in Hong Kong alleged on Wednesday that activist and publisher Jimmy Lai had encouraged the city’s residents to protest and urged the US to take action against the “oppressive” Chinese authorities in Beijing. The 76-year-old media tycoon, who founded the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, was arrested in 2020 during a crackdown on massive pro-democracy […]
Ailing in opinion polls, Joe Biden will aim to jump-start his re-election campaign in the coming week with events designed to symbolise the fight for democracy and racial justice against Donald Trump. The Biden-Harris campaign announced the plans in a conference call with reporters that mentioned Trump by name 28 times in just 24 minutes, […]
The re-election of Donald Trump in 2024 could “end American democracy as we know it”, according to three women who worked for him in the White House during his chaotic term in office. All three gave testimony to the US House committee investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat as well as the […]
Three women who served in former President Donald Trump‘s White House are now warning against a possible second Trump term, with one of them saying it could mean “the end of American democracy as we know it.” For the first time, former White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah Griffin, former White House deputy press secretary […]
Over the past three years, the world’s oldest democracy has been tested in ways not seen in decades. A sitting president tried to overturn an election and his supporters stormed the Capitol to stop the winner from taking power. Supporters of that attack launched a campaign against local election offices, chasing out veteran administrators and […]
Special counsel Jack Smith’s office said democracy is threatened by former President Donald Trump’s claims that presidential immunity shields him from criminal prosecution after leaving the White House. In a Saturday court filing, Smith’s office carefully dissected Trump’s plea to the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, asking for the federal […]
As the top elections official in Washington state, Steve Hobbs says he is troubled by the threat former President Donald Trump poses to democracy and fears the prospect of his return to power. But he also worries that recent decisions in Maine and Colorado to bar Trump from presidential primary ballots there could backfire, further […]