Politics

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — It’s just one day after President Joe Biden announced that he would end his reelection campaign and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee taking on former President Donald Trump in this year’s presidential race. That’s far too soon for polling to capture the dynamics of

By Camila DeChalus, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign team began conducting outreach to several youth grassroots organizations shortly after President Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the race. Voters of Tomorrow, a youth voting grassroots organization, said it spoke with Harris’ campaign after members reached out shortly after Biden’s Sunday announcement. “Vice

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a request from a former Colorado county clerk to halt her upcoming trial on charges stemming from her alleged involvement in an apparent security breach at the county’s election offices in 2021. Justice Neil Gorsuch denied the request from Tina Peters, the former clerk of

By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s decision to end his reelection bid and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him in the campaign has upended the presidential race and shined a renewed spotlight on Harris. Her career path from prosecutor to politician has been defined by many firsts: She was the nation’s first

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — The Senate Ethics Committee announced Monday that they have initiated a review of Sen. Bob Menendez’s alleged rules violations, a week after a jury found the New Jersey Democrat guilty on all counts in his federal corruption trial. “Earlier today, the Committee notified Senator Menendez through his counsel that

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Karl de Vries and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — With President Joe Biden’s support unleashing a flood of endorsements from many prominent Democrats across the country, Kamala Harris has emerged as the favorite to take his place as the party’s nominee for president. Harris immediately received the endorsements of many Democratic party leaders

CNN By Marshall Cohen, Holmes Lybrand, Devan Cole and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle faced off Monday with angry lawmakers from both parties, who grilled her over the stunning security failures that led to the recent assassination attempt against Donald Trump. Cheatle acknowledged that there were “significant” problems at

CNN By Marshall Cohen, Holmes Lybrand, Devan Cole and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle faced off Monday with angry lawmakers from both parties, who grilled her over the stunning security failures that led to the recent assassination attempt against Donald Trump. Cheatle acknowledged that there were “significant” problems at

By Marshall Cohen, Holmes Lybrand, Devan Cole and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle faced off Monday with angry lawmakers from both parties, who grilled her over the stunning security failures that led to the recent assassination attempt against Donald Trump. Cheatle acknowledged that there were “significant” problems at Trump’s

CNN By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Karl de Vries and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — With President Joe Biden’s support unleashing a flood of endorsements from many prominent Democrats across the country, Kamala Harris has emerged as the favorite to take his place as the party’s nominee for president. Harris immediately received the endorsements of many Democratic party

By MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — When the Rev. Al Sharpton’s phone rang Sunday night, on the line was Vice President Kamala Harris, who just hours prior had received the most consequential phone call of her political career. In Sharpton’s telling, the vice president sounded perhaps almost taken aback by the events of the past

By Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — The presidential election is completely changed now that President Joe Biden has stepped aside and Democrats are rallying around Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement. Share your questions about the process of replacing him and what it means for the 2024 election below. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2024

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris is marching to the Democratic nomination as broad swaths of the party — including potential rivals, lawmakers, governors, influential labor and advocacy groups and more — line up behind her bid to take on Donald Trump. No credible challenger had emerged by late Monday morning, nearly a

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Kamala Harris has spent much more of her life as a prosecutor than as a senator or vice president – and that is exactly how she is now going to run against Donald Trump. In sessions that were quietly underway at the Naval Observatory even before Joe Biden’s disastrous debate, Harris and

CNN By Steve Contorno, Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — The Sunday after the June 27 presidential debate, top advisers to Donald Trump went to bed expecting the Democratic handwringing over President Joe Biden’s performance to cool and give way to a fresh cycle of headlines at the start of the