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Trump names 'radical left' ex-rivals to chair his transition team

Donald Trump will name his new allies Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard as honorary co-chairs of his presidential transition team, according to a senior campaign adviser.

The Republican presidential nominee offered the roles to the pair of former Democrats as he seeks to regain momentum after Kamala Harris took over as that party's nominee from President Joe Biden, reported the New York Times.

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Evangelicals may have just lost their reason to back Trump: columnists

Donald Trump's campaign is refusing to answer questions about whether or not he would sign legislation restoring reproductive freedom if he's elected president — and his evangelical support is stuck facing issues other than choice.

The Bulwark and The Atlantic both reported Tuesday that the Republican candidate has found himself stuck between two large voting blocks — and struggling to appease them both.

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'What is this whole thing?' CNN anchor rolls eyes at Republican's defense of Trump attack

A Republican strategist proved unable to defend former President Donald Trump's most consistent attack line on Vice President Kamala Harris to a baffled CNN anchor Tuesday.

Lance Trover, former spokesperson to Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND), found his argument — that the Harris campaign had blundered in failing to immediately set up a sit-down press interview — brushed off by Jim Acosta.

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'Why bother?' Trump blamed for collapse of policy debates in presidential race

Donald Trump has hollowed out political discourse so thoroughly that few politicians from either party now bother to offer real policy solutions, according to a new analysis.

The Republican nominee often promises far-fetched solutions without a plausible course of action, such as his recent pledge to cut energy prices by half or "defeat inflation" in his first 100 days in office. And the media often uncritically amplifies those proposals, wrote Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell.

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Trump going 'crazy' as Kamala Harris replaces him as 'hot item': James Carville

Democratic strategist James Carville this week reveled in the impact that Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign is having on former President Donald Trump's mental state.

Speaking with The New Republic's Greg Sargent, Carville mused that the MAGA attack machine that successfully hurt Hillary Clinton back in 2016 doesn't seem to be nearly as sharp as it once was.

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'Irony of all ironies': J.D. Vance's latest attack on Kamala Harris immediately backfires

Sen. J.D. Vance threw an insult at Vice President Kamala Harris Tuesday that almost immediately boomeranged.

Former President Donald Trump's running mate took to X to accuse Harris of "flip-flopping" on her border security policy positions ahead of the presidential election in November — then faced stern reprimand from a fellow Republican.

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'Anxiety': Supreme Court watchers frantic about ability to 'tip the scales' in 2024 vote

The U.S. Supreme Court has made voting rights advocates nervous about November's election with a recent decision changing registration rules in Arizona.

The justices neglected to clarify in that ruling when they would take up election and voting cases, and experts fear the court will unevenly apply an ambiguous legal principle, known as Purcell, that's intended to minimize chaos by making changes to voting rules right before an election, reported CNN.

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Kamala Harris is dead set on 'demolishing' Trump's 'masculinity': analysis

Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign is earning praise for the way that it is taking the fight to former President Donald Trump in the area that is supposed to be one of his strongest points: Masculinity.

Writing in The Bulwark, Ilyse Hogue made the case that the Harris campaign is trying to present a more positive vision of masculinity than the one presented by the twice-impeached, thrice-married, quadruple-indicted, 34-count convicted felon at the top of the GOP ticket.

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He was a 'chump': Former NatSec advisor says world leaders didn't think much of Trump

H.R. McMaster — the three-star general who served as former President Donald Trump's national security adviser for a little more than a year — is shedding new light on how the 45th president of the United States was viewed by the rest of the world.

The New York Times is reporting that in his new book, At War With Ourselves, McMaster wrote that Trump was often outmaneuvered by world leaders who used flattery to take advantage of him. This was particularly true with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In 2018, McMaster described how he once saw Trump writing a complimentary letter to Putin to go with a copy of a New York Post article in which he called Trump a "good listener" while criticizing the American political system.

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'Knife fight': GOP panics after 'huge uptick' in Dems’ chances of flipping House

Democratic strategists and organizers are hoping that if 2024 presidential nominee Kamala Harris performs well in the November election, there will be a down-ballot effect in gubernatorial, U.S. Senate and U.S. House races. Democrats have a small majority in the Senate, while Republicans have a single-digit majority in the House.

Harris is cautious about the election, continuing to describe herself as the "underdog." But many national and battleground state polls are showing her with small leads over GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

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Kristi Noem's dog killing used as retort to MAGA's latest Tim Walz attack

Ever since Vice President Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz as her running mate, MAGA Republicans have been relentlessly attacking the Minnesota governor.

One of their recent lines of attack involves Walz's dog Scout: some MAGA Republicans have been questioning the dog's identity after seeing an October 2022 photo of Walz petting a different dog — an attack that, according to MSNBC's Jen Psaki, underscores their desperation.

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'Saucier, more ruthless' Harris campaign pivots to new tactic in Trump attacks

Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign is employing a decidedly different tactic than what President Joe Biden used when he ran against former President Donald Trump.

Axios reports that while Biden's campaign presented Trump as a dire threat to the American republic, the Harris campaign has opted for straight-up ridicule against him.

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'National joke': Trump complains of political propaganda by quoting Fox News pundit

Donald Trump complained of political propaganda Tuesday by quoting a conservative political commentator's interview on the Fox News network.

The former president's complaint relied on the words of Glenn Greenwald, the former Intercept columnist who resigned over accusations he was platforming dubious Trump campaign claims, to anchor Jesse Watters, a Fox News anchor fellow Republicans have called a "hack" and a "clown."

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