Politics

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Philadelphia’s district attorney asked a state judge on Monday to shut down tech billionaire Elon Musk’s controversial $1 million giveaway to registered voters, calling it an “illegal lottery scheme.” Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, a Democrat, filed the civil lawsuit against Musk and his pro-Trump group, America PAC. “America

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Virginia Republican officials asked the US Supreme Court on Monday to allow the state to implement a program to remove suspected noncitizens from the voter rolls, in one of the first major voting cases to reach the high court ahead of next week’s presidential election. The appeal has political

By Kevin Liptak and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — When President Joe Biden entered a voting booth in Delaware on Monday to cast his early ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris, it wasn’t necessarily the moment for which he’d been planning a few months ago. Biden, of course, once hoped to vote for himself, one last opportunity to check the box next to

By Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Most voters think former President Donald Trump will not concede if he loses the 2024 presidential election, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, with a sizable minority of his backers saying losing candidates have no obligation to do so. And should legal challenges related to

By Tierney Sneed and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — This election cycle — in which a former president who tried to overturn his 2020 loss is topping the Republican ticket — has featured an unprecedented amount of pre-election litigation, with the GOP touting that it’s been involved in 130 cases. The GOP’s aggressive approach in

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny signaled support for Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday, sharing a clip on social media of the vice president’s plans for the island moments after a speaker made an offensive joke at Donald Trump’s New York rally, sparking outrage. The move comes as both

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump repeated a series of false claims, many of which have long been debunked, about immigration and other subjects in his speech at a Sunday evening rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Here is a fact check of 16 false claims he

CNN By Andrew Torgan and Tricia Escobedo, CNN (CNN) — When considering who is living paycheck to paycheck, households with an income of six-figures or more likely aren’t the first to come to mind. However, it turns out that about a fifth of US households that earn more than $150,000 a year are in that

CNN By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden in New York began with a series of profane attacks on Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, other Democratic leaders, Puerto Rico and migrants sheltering in the city. Local Trump loyalists, who made up many of the event’s speakers’ list ahead of the

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump closed his Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday with an ominous 80-minute speech denouncing his political rivals, assailing immigrants and promising to invoke an 18th century law to pave the way for mass deportations. But it was the opening acts of the New York City

By Gregory Krieg, Priscilla Alvarez and Jeff Simon, CNN (CNN) — The road to the White House goes through Philadelphia, Vice President Kamala Harris said on Sunday, as she made several stops across the city that could determine her fate in Pennsylvania — and with it, the race to 270 electoral votes. Harris was joined

By Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have laid out a broad array of ideas aimed at making life more affordable and strengthening the economy, which rank at the top of voters’ concerns. Nearly all of the measures on their differing wish lists, which

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court refused to reinstate a Virginia purge program aimed at culling suspected noncitizens from the voter rolls, leaving in place a lower court ruling that found the program likely violated a federal prohibition on “systematic” removals in the 90 days before an election. The Sunday decision

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.