Trump Bolsters Staff for Election With New Deputy Campaign Manager
President Trump’s aides are promoting one of his top political advisers to deputy campaign manager, in a move to bolster the team heading into the...
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Widower Asks Jack Dorsey to Remove Trump’s False Tweets. Twitter Says No.
The widower of Lori Klausutis, whose death President Trump has used to smear the MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, is asking Twitter to remove the president’s...
Twitter Must Cleanse the Trump Stain
“Please delete those tweets,” the widower begged in a letter last week to Twitter’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey. “My wife deserves better.” Yes, Twitter, Lori...
Inside the Dizzying Effort to Pitch Trump to Black Voters
WASHINGTON — Nearly every week this spring, President Trump’s re-election team has held one of the most peculiar events of the 2020 online campaign: “Black...
Why a Biden Victory Hinges on Picking the Right Running Mate
Do vice-presidential picks matter? Conventional wisdom argues they have limited electoral impact. But a vice-presidential pick does matter in a particular way to elections. It...
Campaigning in a Crisis: Obama, McCain, Trump and Biden
It was a late Sunday afternoon in September 2008, and senior aides to Barack Obama were gathered at his presidential campaign headquarters in Chicago. Their...
The Brutal Clarity of the Trump-McConnell Plan to Protect Businesses
House Democrats have passed a new “phase four” $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill. You could call it an opening bid toward a package to support...
In Praise of Fallible Leaders
Last week Joe Biden made an off-the-cuff joke that could be interpreted as taking African-American votes for granted. It wasn’t a big deal — Biden,...
Trump Administration Coronavirus Testing Strategy Draws Concerns: ‘This Isn’t the Hunger Games’
The Trump administration’s new testing strategy, released Sunday to Congress, holds individual states responsible for planning and carrying out all coronavirus testing, while planning to...
ISIS Prisoners Threaten U.S. Mission in Northeastern Syria
WASHINGTON — A year after American-backed forces seized the last remnant of territory under Islamic State rule in Syria, some 10,000 captured ISIS fighters in...