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DULUTH, Ga. — Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson warmed up the crowd at Donald Trump’s rally here Wednesday night with a dark metaphor, bashing Vice President Kamala Harris and declaring that “dad” was coming home to mete out discipline. “He’s pissed!” Carlson said to extended cheers. “Dad is pissed. … And when dad gets…

MADISON, Wis. — Barack Obama appeared at a rally Tuesday with Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz, marking the former president’s first event with a member of his party’s ticket since Kamala Harris launched her presidential campaign in July. Both Obama and Walz, the governor of Minnesota, implored a crowd of thousands in Wisconsin’s capital on…

The Georgia Supreme Court has declined to reinstate an array of rules approved this year by a pro-Trump majority of the state’s election board that a lower court judge had tossed last week after calling them unconstitutional and void. The decision all but ensures that the rules will not be in effect for the November…

DORAL, Fla. — Republican nominee Donald Trump used a racist stereotype to attack Vice President Kamala Harris and described his desire to exercise “extreme power” as president during an event Tuesday that was billed as a summit to highlight his support among Latinos. “I was going to hit her really hard on the trail today,…

Americans are voting ahead of Election Day in historic numbers this year. That includes Republicans, who appear to be responding favorably to a new message from former president Donald Trump: It’s okay to vote early. Dozens of states have opened in-person early-voting locations, and turnout has been robust. In Georgia, more than 1.6 million people…

A federal judge has ordered Rudy Giuliani to place numerous assets, including cash, jewelry and his New York apartment, into a receivership controlled by two former Georgia election workers as they seek to collect a $148 million defamation claim against the former lawyer for Donald Trump. This post appeared first on washingtonpost.com

Before former president Donald Trump addressed the audience at a meeting of religious activists in North Carolina on Monday, his son offered some thoughts. After suggesting that his father survived the attempt on his life earlier this year thanks to divine intervention, Eric Trump told the audience that “we need God in our life. We…

Both of the major-party presidential candidates describe the election two weeks from now as determinative for the future of the nation. Many or most of their supporters, it seems safe to say, concur with those assessments: that America is at a fork in the road, and voters will determine which route the nation takes. This…

CONCORD, N.H. — President Joe Biden sparked controversy Tuesday with a new attack line against former president Donald Trump, telling Democrats, “We’ve got to lock him up,” before moderating to suggest he meant figurative rather than literal incarceration. After listing several dangers posed by a potential second Trump presidency at a Democratic Party campaign office…

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