RNC
Nikki Haley Wants Her Own Voters to Get Off the Fence—and Back Donald Trump
During her Tuesday night speech at the Republican National Convention, Haley addressed her past feud with the former president while giving him her wholehearted support: “You don’t have to agree with Trump 100 percent of the time to vote for him.”
By Katie Herchenroeder
RNC
At the Republican National Convention, Ron DeSantis Gets a Warm Welcome Back Into the MAGA Fold
The Florida governor, who suffered a brutal primary defeat to Donald Trump, was met with thunderous applause during his Tuesday speech, in which he heaped praise on the former president while calling Joe Biden a “figurehead.”
By Eric Lutz
J.D. Vance’s Extreme Political Positions on Everything From Abortion to Staying in a Violent Marriage for the Sake of the Kids
Trump’s running mate wants to criminalize gender-affirming care for minors and said, “I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other.”
By Bess Levin
RNC
Trump Adviser Eyes Loosening Gun Laws Even More: “The Team’s Complete”
Days after a gunman attempted to assassinate the former president, Chris LaCivita called shooting ranges “therapeutic” before a pro–Second Amendment crowd at the RNC, and laid out a plan to have the judicial branch do the party’s bidding.
By Eric Lutz
2024 ELECTION
Trump Trashes Vaccines and Appears to Court RFK Jr. In Leaked Call
The video also shows Trump telling Kennedy about the assassination attempt and his call later with Biden.
By Katie Herchenroeder
wife life
Who Is J.D. Vance's Wife? Usha Vance, a Former SCOTUS Clerk, Sounds Like a Reluctant Political Wife
“I'm not raring to change anything about our lives,” the lawyer told Fox, just weeks before Trump announced his VP pick.
By Kase Wickman
2024 Election
Every Terrible Thing J.D. Vance Said About Trump Before Becoming His Running Mate
“America’s Hitler,” anyone?
By Bess Levin
Bob Menendez Found Guilty of Bribery and Foreign-Agent Charges
The New Jersey senator, trailed for years by corruption allegations, was convicted on 16 counts of accepting bribes and working on behalf of the Egyptian and Qatari governments.
By Dan Adler
The Election
2024 Republican National Convention: It’s Donald Trump’s Party
The former president’s triumphant arrival Monday night in Milwaukee, complete with a bandage on his ear, came just two days after a failed assassination attempt.
By Eric Lutz
2024 Election
Joe Biden on J.D. Vance, His Call With Trump, and Why He’s Staying in the Race
In an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, the president also said it was a mistake to refer to putting Trump in a bull’s-eye, though defended calling his rival a threat to democracy.
By Katie Herchenroeder
Election 2024
Donald Trump Picks Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as His Vice Presidential Nominee
The Hillbilly Elegy author and Ohio Senator once reportedly feared Trump would be “America’s Hitler,” but has since emerged as a fierce defender of the former president and inheritor of the MAGA mantle.
By Katie Herchenroeder
Trump Says His RNC Speech Was Going to Rip Biden but Will Now “Bring the Whole Country” Together
“The speech will be a lot different, a lot different than it would’ve been two days ago.”
By Bess Levin
50% of the Criminal Cases Against Trump Are Effectively Now Kaput
Judge Aileen Cannon has dismissed the entire federal documents case.
By Bess Levin
RNC
“Shut It Down”: Project 2025 Architects Rail Against the Administrative State Outside Republican National Convention
At at Monday event in Milwaukee, Heritage Foundation’s top brass bemoaned the “deep state” while attempting to draw (unconvincing) daylight between themselves and Donald Trump. “We’re not running for president,” said the executive director of the project.
By Eric Lutz
2024 Election
Donald Trump’s Inner Circle Says He’s “Changed” Post-Shooting. But Has He Really?
Sources who’ve spoken to the former president say he’s softened his tone since Saturday’s assassination attempt. Yet Trump has modulated his behavior before, only to revert to his divisive and demagogic ways.
By Gabriel Sherman
2024 Election
No One Knows How the Election Will Play Out
The failed assassination of Donald Trump has led pundits to predict his electoral victory. But if this horrific event has revealed anything, it’s that nothing about this cycle is predictable.
By Molly Jong-Fast
2024 Election
An Eerie Quiet Hangs Over the Republican National Convention
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump has rattled the nation and potentially upended a presidential election. Here in Milwaukee, there’s tension and uncertainty, but also a show-must-go-on sentiment among the politicos, attendees, and journalists descending on the midwestern city.
By Eric Lutz
2024 Election
Joe Biden Calls for “Unity” After Trump Assassination Attempt
The president’s message comes as prominent Republicans have cast blame on Democrats and the media for the shooting—and as investigators have yet to establish the 20-year-old suspected gunman’s motive.
By Katie Herchenroeder
Breaking news
Donald Trump Rally Shooting Suspect Identified as 20-Year-Old Pennsylvania Man
Here's what we know about Thomas Matthew Crooks, who is suspected of shooting former president Donald Trump and killing a Butler, PA rally attendee on Saturday.
By Eve Batey
Q&A
Jordan Klepper, MAGA “Anthropologist,” on the 2024 Republican National Convention
The Daily Show correspondent talks to Vanity Fair about what he’s learned chronicling the MAGA faithful and how these quadrennial spectacles provide “such a surreal look at American politics.”
By Chris Smith
breaking news
Donald Trump “Safe” After Shooting at Pennsylvania Rally, Suspected Shooter and Attendee Dead
Secret Service agents rushed a bleeding Donald Trump from the stage at Butler, PA, on Saturday after shots were fired at a packed campaign rally.
By Eve Batey and Mike Hogan