Choosing a running mate isn’t the only big decision awaiting Vice President Kamala Harris in the 100-day sprint to Election Day. Her campaign must also chart a course to 270 electoral votes across a map that bears little resemblance to 2020.

The map she inherits from President Joe Biden is grim. Before the president withdrew his candidacy Sunday, he was trailing in the polls in every battleground state, including the five he flipped to win the White House: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. His path to victory had narrowed to a white-knuckle ride through the Rust Belt, a strategy predicated on holding the party’s so-called Blue Wall.

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NEW YORK — Manhattan prosecutors told the judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s criminal trial that the Supreme Court’s recent decision on presidential immunity should have no bearing on the former president’s conviction in the hush money case, saying the charges “exclusively stem” from conduct for which he isn’t immune.

And, prosecutors argued in a 69-page court filing made public on Thursday, even if the Supreme Court ruling did make certain evidence off-limits, “there would still need be no basis for disturbing the verdict because of the other overwhelming evidence of defendant's guilt.”

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Vice President Kamala Harris is neck-and-neck with former President Donald Trump after she replaced President Joe Biden as the likely Democratic nominee, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll published Thursday.

Among likely voters, Trump is at 48 percent to Harris’ 47 percent in a head-to-head matchup — narrowing the race to a virtual tie after Trump led Biden by six points when the Times polled the race in June. When third party candidates and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are included, Harris draws 44 percent of likely voters to Trump’s 43 percent, with Kennedy slumping to five percent.

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Most Republicans want nothing to do with Sen. JD Vance’s resurfaced attack on Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats as “childless cat ladies.” But it fits right into one House candidate’s playbook.

“Political leaders should have children. Certainly they should at least be married,” Blake Masters, a venture capitalist locked in a tight race for an Arizona House seat, wrote Wednesday on X. “If you aren’t running or can’t run a household of your own, how can you relate to a constituency of families, or govern wisely with respect to future generations? Skin in the game matters.”

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Israel is privately ramping up pressure on the Biden administration and lawmakers on Capitol Hill to greenlight weapons it says it needs to protect itself from an increasingly aggressive Iran and its proxies.

The delegation traveling with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington this week is circulating a list among lawmakers and senior officials that lays out weapons systems it wants fast-tracked. Israeli representatives passed the list to members of Congress Wednesday following Netanyahu’s speech, according to a person familiar with the list who said Jerusalem needs the weapons to bolster its stockpiles.

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A top pro-Trump super PAC is expanding its ad spending against Vice President Kamala Harris and launching new ads attacking her record as a prosecutor in California and on immigration.

The PAC, Make America Great Again Inc., is adding an additional $32 million of ad buys from now until Labor Day, totaling $70 million. The group is focusing its spending — totaling roughly $12 million a week — in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona, according to details shared first with POLITICO.

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On Jan. 6, 2025, Vice President Kamala Harris is set to preside over Congress and count the electoral votes that will make either her — or Donald Trump — the 47th president of the United States.

And like her predecessor Mike Pence, who resisted enormous pressure from Trump to upend the 2020 election results, Harris says she won’t interfere.

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Both former President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump announced Thursday that they would be publishing new books — separately from each other, promoted by different publishing houses.

The former first lady announced she will be releasing her first memoir this fall, which will tell the “powerful and inspiring story of a woman who has carved her own path, overcome adversity and defined personal excellence.”

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Beards are seemingly ubiquitous in pop culture and public life. From sports stars to country singers to Hollywood actors, facial hair has made a noticeable comeback in recent years — except in politics.

It’s been more than a century since a sitting president or vice president sported a beard, and nearly 80 years since a candidate for the White House had any facial hair whatsoever. Even in Congress, those with beards remain few and far between.

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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Even Donald Trump's supporters sense he suddenly has a tougher race on his hands.

As the former president unloaded on Kamala Harris in the swing state of North Carolina on Wednesday — calling her a “radical, left lunatic” at one point — faithful fans conceded that what had been a sleepy contest had abruptly become something quite different.

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Former President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that Democrats calling him a “threat to democracy” could have led a 20-year-old gunman to try to assassinate him, though the FBI has not unveiled a motive behind the July 13 shooting.

“Such a distressed sick world but you know what could be caused when they call you a threat to democracy,” Trump told a crowd of supporters in North Carolina. “You never know what causes it. I'm a threat to them. They're a threat to democracy. They're a threat. They're a threat to our country period.”

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In the days since launching her presidential bid, Vice President Kamala Harris is polling slightly better than President Joe Biden did against former President Donald Trump — but the upended 2024 race is still statistically tied, according to a CNN/SSRS poll published Wednesday.

Harris, the all-but-certain Democratic nominee for president, drew the support of 46 percent of registered voters in a hypothetical match-up, lower than Trump’s 49 percent but within the poll’s margin of error. Trump’s support is unchanged compared to previous editions of the CNN poll, while Harris polls 3 percentage points better than Biden did in a survey released early this month. The latest poll is a panel-back survey, meaning that CNN interviewed people they have talked to before.

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Fox News has invited newly minted presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump to a Sept. 17 debate.

The network sent out invitations to both campaigns on Wednesday to participate in the debate. It is tentatively scheduled to take place just a week after a proposed debate on Sept. 10 from ABC News, which both President Joe Biden and Trump committed to participating in before the incumbent bowed out of the race. Fox News is proposing to hold the debate in Pennsylvania, but left the door open to discussions with each campaign about the date, format, location, and whether or not there is an audience.

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President Joe Biden is expected to exert more pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday in an attempt to secure an elusive deal to bring a cease-fire to Gaza — and help shape his political legacy and the campaign he just left.

Freed of the political shackles of having to seek reelection, Biden will look to take a tougher tone with Netanyahu — with whom he has frequently clashed — to reach an agreement with Hamas to free the group’s hostages and end the fighting that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, according to three administration officials granted anonymity because they are not authorized to publicly discuss private conversations.

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Former President Donald Trump has solidified Republican support in the wake of an assassination attempt and unity-building national convention, while Vice President Kamala Harris has seamlessly stepped into the Democratic nomination after President Joe Biden withdrew his candidacy.

But Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is nowhere to be seen.

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On July 29, 2021, JD Vance appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show back when he was still a Fox News host. Like Carlson, Vance had once opposed Donald Trump, and like Carlson, he had transformed into a prominent Trump supporter and a rabid participant in the culture wars. “We are effectively run in the country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs,” he told Carlson, “by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.” He went on to name Kamala Harris (and Pete Buttigieg, and AOC) as his prime examples of the childless leaders who should be excluded from positions of power.

For years, Vance has played a key role in the elite echelons of the New Right, which can be described, loosely, as the intellectual wing of the Trumpified GOP (including many of the people in charge of Project 2025). This mixed-up group of intellectuals, activists, politicians and influencers is made up of a wide array of characters, who hold to a variety of belief systems and sometimes have divergent policy goals.

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Wealthy Silicon Valley donors are newly open to putting their financial firepower behind a Democratic presidential ticket led by Vice President Kamala Harris. But they’re debating whether to back her immediately — or after she has revealed her policy agenda in greater detail.

The tech industry, largely based in California, has helped fuel Democratic campaigns over the past few decades and had a particularly warm relationship with Barack Obama and his administration. This year, several tech titans — most prominently Elon Musk — have thrown their support and money behind Donald Trump, due in part to their view that President Joe Biden and his regulators are hostile to innovation.

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So much for the new Donald Trump.

The former president is back, after a brief pause, to the insults and personal attacks that characterized his last two presidential campaigns — less than two weeks after the attempted assassination that allies and aides insisted had left him a changed man.

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Democrats for the last month have been too busy fighting over whether President Joe Biden should lead the ticket to keep voters’ attention on abortion. Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to bring the focus back.

On Monday, Harris told campaign staff in Wilmington, Delaware, that she would prevent Republicans from enacting a national ban because “the government should not be telling a woman what to do with her body.” On Tuesday, she concluded a rally in a Milwaukee suburb by promising to sign legislation that would “restore reproductive freedoms.” And on Wednesday, the Harris campaign said it plans to counter former President Donald Trump’s rally in Charlotte with an abortion-focused event in North Carolina featuring Hadley Duvall, a Kentucky woman who was raped by her stepfather when she was 12.

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