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What to expect from the 2024 Democratic National Convention
What to expect from the 2024 Democratic National Convention AFP With just three months to go before the 2024 election, thousands of people are gathering in Chicago this week for the Democratic National Convention. It's a tradition dating back to the 1830s, when a group of Democratic delegates supporting President Andrew Jackson gathered in Baltimore
Democratic National Committee releases party platform ahead of convention
CHICAGO — Democrats released their party platform document on Sunday, laying out more than 90 pages of policy priorities just one day before its convention kicks off. But the party platform was written and voted on by the Democratic National Convention’s Platform Committee before President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, and the document
Sen. Lindsey Graham: ‘Trump the provocateur, the showman, may not win this election’
Sen. Lindsey Graham told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Sunday that former President Donald Trump, “the provocateur, the showman, may not win this election.” The South Carolina Republican’s admission came after moderator Kristen Welker asked whether Trump should continue personally attacking his opponent Vice President Kamala Harris on the campaign trail. “President Trump can
Biden heads to the Democratic convention with a large task and heaps of admiration from a party ready to move on
CHICAGO — It will not be the convention President Joe Biden planned. A month ago, Biden was poised to conclude the Democrats’ party by accepting the nomination with bold pronouncements about how his second term would build on the successes of his first. Instead, he will open the convention Monday to make the case that
Democrats project anti-Trump campaign messages onto his Chicago hotel
The Democratic National Committee projected anti-Trump campaign slogans onto Trump Tower in Chicago on Sunday, one day before the Demo c ratic c onvention kicks off. The messages include "Trump-Vance 'weird as hell,'" "Harris Walz fighting for you" and "Project 2025 HQ," a reference to the controversial conservative policy plans written by a slew of
Democrats are dwindling in Wyoming. A primary election law further reduces their influence.
In some far reaches of rural America, Democrats are flirting with extinction. In Niobrara County, Wyoming, the least-populated county in the least-populated state, Becky Blackburn is one of just 32 left. Her neighbors call her “the crazy Democrat,” although it’s more a term of endearment than derision. Some less populated counties have fewer. There are
The Most Dangerous Question Of 2024 – What If Kamala Harris Isn’t An Idiot?
Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, 'n Guns blog, On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, after a coup against their former standard-bearer Joe Biden, we face a very disturbing question. What if Kamala Harris isn’t the idiot the media has made her out to be? Harris was clearly chosen for this role.
Long-doubted by Democrats, Kamala Harris faces her biggest political moment
Long-doubted by Democrats, Kamala Harris faces her biggest political moment BBC When Kamala Harris steps onto the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week as the party’s presidential nominee, she’ll do so knowing that many in the audience cheering her on once counted her out. Ms Harris, 59, has faced years of
Democrats’ Unity Convention Has One Giant Exception: The Gaza War
Even as feel-good displays of joy and confidence are set to dominate the Democratic National Convention this week in Chicago, one painful issue is bitterly dividing the Democratic establishment from its left flank: Israel’s war in Gaza. The specter of convention-upending protests that hovered over a gathering hosted for President Biden has receded somewhat with
Harris and Trump walk a supply-demand tightrope on housing
Housing is a huge pain point for voters, but the issue has only just begun to move off the margins of the presidential campaign. The tricky politics of real estate is a key reason why. On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris shared new housing plans in her economic agenda, which includes efforts to help struggling