National Politics

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump sat down Friday with prominent podcast host Joe Rogan for a conversational interview that ran for nearly three hours — and the former president delivered his standard bombardment of false claims, at least 32 in all. Many of those false claims are lies that were debunked months or even years

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Voters in the presidential battlegrounds have seen a heavy rotation of presidential campaign ads this month, as their states have been blitzed by tens of millions of dollars in spending by the campaigns of Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and their respective allies. The ads have focused on an evolving

CNN By Kit Maher and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance insisted that Donald Trump’s attacks on “the enemy within” were not directed at Democratic Party leaders but dissenting Americans he described as “far-left lunatics” poised to riot if the former president wins in November. Grilled by CNN’s Jake Tapper on

By Kit Maher and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance insisted that Donald Trump’s attacks on “the enemy within” were not directed at Democratic Party leaders but dissenting Americans he described as “far-left lunatics” poised to riot if the former president wins in November. Grilled by CNN’s Jake Tapper on Trump’s

By CNN staff (CNN) — Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance appeared on “State of the Union” on Sunday in a taped interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. Read the full transcript of the interview here. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2024 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.

By Eva McKend and Arit John, CNN (CNN) — More than a thousand religious leaders endorsed Kamala Harris on Sunday, bolstering the Democratic presidential nominee’s push to emphasize how faith is informing her campaign ahead of next week’s election. Among those backing the vice president is the Rev. William J. Barber II, a North Carolina-based

By Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris is launching new ads this weekend targeting men in battleground states as part of her campaign’s effort to close the deficit she faces with male voters in the final days before Election Day. The new ads will air during sporting events on Sunday and Monday

By Steve Contorno and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Top executives at some of the country’s largest tech companies have sought out Donald Trump ahead of Election Day, looking to get an audience with the former president as the likelihood he returns to the Oval Office sits at a coin flip. Trump and Apple CEO

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Two very different futures await Hakeem Jeffries in January. In one, the New York Democrat is sitting in the Oval Office with a woman he first met when she was a district attorney and he was a state assemblyman. He’d be a key shepherd for the legislative agenda of Kamala Harris, a peer and

By Kristen Holmes, Eric Bradner and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is kicking off the final full week of the presidential race Sunday with a rally at Madison Square Garden, betting on his own showmanship as he seeks to fill the iconic venue and create a spectacle that will reach television and phone

By Rob Picheta, CNN London (CNN) — A former prosecutor takes over a political party in turmoil, promises to turn the page on an era of political chaos, and surges to an election victory that once seemed unthinkable. It’s the playbook that Vice President Kamala Harris is hoping will take her to the White House.

CNN By Manu Raju and Haley Talbot, CNN MADISON, Wisconsin (CNN) — Sen. Tammy Baldwin seemed to be in a comfortable spot in August. The Democratic incumbent was leading in the polls and favored to hang onto her seat. Her GOP opponent, Eric Hovde, CEO of a $3 billion bank, was on the defensive after tens

By Manu Raju and Haley Talbot, CNN MADISON, Wisconsin (CNN) — Sen. Tammy Baldwin seemed to be in a comfortable spot in August. The Democratic incumbent was leading in the polls and favored to hang onto her seat. Her GOP opponent, Eric Hovde, CEO of a $3 billion bank, was on the defensive after tens of

CNN By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Michelle Obama issued a scathing indictment of Donald Trump on Saturday at a rally in Michigan for Kamala Harris, calling the former president an existential threat to women’s rights and telling men that a vote for Trump “is a vote against us.” The former first lady, in a

CNN By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Michelle Obama issued a scathing indictment of Donald Trump on Saturday at a rally in Michigan for Kamala Harris, calling the former president an existential threat to women’s rights and telling men that a vote for Trump “is a vote against us.” The former first lady, in a

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Michelle Obama issued a scathing indictment of Donald Trump on Saturday at a rally in Michigan for Kamala Harris, calling the former president an existential threat to women’s rights and telling men that a vote for Trump “is a vote against us.” The former first lady, in a reprise

By Tami Luhby and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — After promising to eliminate taxes on tips, Social Security benefits and overtime pay, former President Donald Trump is taking aim at the largest levy of them all — the federal income tax. With Election Day around the corner, Trump talked about his interest in ending the

By Kate Sullivan and Gregory Krieg, CNN Novi, Michigan (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on Saturday invited several Muslim leaders onstage with him at a campaign rally in Michigan as he courts Arab American and Muslim voters disillusioned or angry over US policy on Israel and Gaza in the critical battleground state. “They could

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump continues to repeat his lie that US schools are sending children for gender-affirming surgeries without their parents’ consent — even though his own presidential campaign could not find a single example of this having happened. Trump debuted the tale in late August. It was debunked by