It hasn’t been a great week for Republican rhetoric about the Jim Crow era. Rep. Dan Bishop, for example, who’s running for state attorney general in North Carolina, thought it’d be a good idea to equate Donald Trump’s criminal prosecution in New York with Alabama prosecuting African Americans in 1950. Historian Kevin Kruse explained soon […]
Democrats have pounced on an Arizona Supreme Court ruling that permits enforcement of an 1864 law effectively banning abortion in the US state, blaming ex-president Donald Trump and Republicans and pressing for political advantage on an issue that could dominate a critical 2024 battleground. The ruling permits doctors or others to be prosecuted for performing […]
NEW YORK — Thousands of miles from the southern border of Texas, where the flow of migrants into the country is defining elections up and down the ballot, national Republicans celebrated their electoral chances in November. “Joe Biden has turned every state into a border state,” Rep. Elise Stefanik, a leading New York Republican, said […]
Donald Trump warned National Rifle Association members Friday that Democrats would change the name of Pennsylvania if they win in November. The former president, during an hour-plus-long speech in Harrisburg, reflected on his election win in the state back in 2016 before declaring that his campaign has to be victorious this year. “Or we’re not […]