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Kamala Harris' election would defy history. Just 1 sitting VP has been elected president since 1836
Read full article: Kamala Harris' election would defy history. Just 1 sitting VP has been elected president since 1836As Vice President Kamala Harris begins her fall campaign for the White House, she can look to history and hope for better luck than others who have tried the same.
There's an apostrophe battle brewing among grammar nerds. Is it Harris' or Harris's?
Read full article: There's an apostrophe battle brewing among grammar nerds. Is it Harris' or Harris's?Whatever possessed Vice President Kamala Harris to pick Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, it probably wasnāt a desire to inflame arguments about apostrophes.
Biden backed off a pledge to abolish the federal death penalty. That's left an opening for Trump
Read full article: Biden backed off a pledge to abolish the federal death penalty. That's left an opening for TrumpProsecutors recently announced that they'd seek capital murder charges in the Buffalo mass shooting case, despite a moratorium on the federal death penalty that's held for nearly three years.
At RNC, GOP echoes racial code of Nixon's 1968 campaign
Read full article: At RNC, GOP echoes racial code of Nixon's 1968 campaignIt came to be known as Nixon's Southern strategy: a campaign that used fear of crime and lawlessness to tap into white Southern voters opposition to racial integration and equality without using overtly racist language. Nixon had to peel away some Southern white voters from Wallace without alienating voters in other regions. As president, Trump denigrated as animals some immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally. Trump's take on the Southern strategy isn't necessarily aimed at Southern voters. His targets are more likely working-class white voters in battleground states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin, Abramowitz said.
As crime surges on his watch, Trump warns of Biden's America
Read full article: As crime surges on his watch, Trump warns of Biden's AmericaLeft unmentioned by Trump is that a recent surge in violent crime recently endured in several big American cities has come under his watch. Left unsaid: A recent surge in violent crime in several American cities has happened on his watch. Violent crime around the U.S. has been on a downward trajectory for the better part of the last three decades. Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York have seen spikes in violent crime and homicides this year. "He has consistently been silent in the midst of communities devolving into lawlessness, Gidley said of the former vice president.