“There’s no sane, rational person in politics who would say, ‘I’m going to spend “X” amount of money on a race,’” Mr. Nutter said, adding that much of Mr. Bloomberg’s influential giving around the 2018 midterm elections had come the month before Election Day. “He’s usually a later supporter, when …...Read More

Mr. Reid, the last Democratic majority leader, was blunter. “To think that, with what McConnell has done to change the Senate forever, he is going to step in there and things will be just hunky dory, it won’t be,” Mr. Reid said. “If he wants to be a president who …...Read More

“I would expect him to follow the same process he’s used for years,” said Senator Chris Coons, Democrat of Delaware and a close Biden ally who said they spoke on Sunday. “You ask outside advisers. Message, pollsters, political advisers — they give you sort of framing. Then you go away, …...Read More

Yet, even as Democrats championed change, they promised to keep fighting for policies to combat sexual assault and domestic violence and to improve access to affordable child care. The prominent airtime given to those issues underscores the influence Democratic women have gained during the Trump era. Women have emerged as …...Read More

Senator Kamala Harris of California, the first woman of color to become a major party’s nominee for vice president, reintroduced herself to America in an acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night, telling the story of her upbringing as a biracial daughter of immigrants and outlining her …...Read More

An announcer for Fox Sports who has been calling Major League Baseball games for more than 30 years apologized on Wednesday night after he used a homophobic slur during a live broadcast of a Cincinnati Reds doubleheader against the Kansas City Royals. “I don’t know if I’m going to be …...Read More

None of this should be controversial. These shouldn’t be Republican principles or Democratic principles. They’re American principles. But at this moment, this president and those who enable him, have shown they don’t believe in these things. Tonight, I am asking you to believe in Joe and Kamala’s ability to lead …...Read More

Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles, who each nearly ran for president themselves, introduced a segment about how the coronavirus pandemic has wrecked small businesses in America. Mr. Brown spoke with a small manufacturer and a clothier, while Mr. Garcetti discussed how a restaurant …...Read More

Although a majority of Americans say they remain unfamiliar with the particulars of the movement — research shows that people who use social media platforms like Twitter and Reddit are more likely to be familiar with QAnon — those who study the behavior of fringe groups have warned of the …...Read More

The state of Michigan is expected to pay about $600 million to victims of the Flint water crisis, according to two people with knowledge of a major settlement that is set to be announced this week. The money would largely be designated for children in Flint who were poisoned by …...Read More