Donald Trump’s best line in the September debate against Vice President Kamala Harris came near the end, when he sought to tie her to the unpopular president under whom she serves. “She just started by saying she’s going to do […]
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Mark Robinson is many things: the lieutenant governor of North Carolina, the Republican nominee for governor, and a bigot. But the key to understanding him is that he is a poster. The poster is an internet creature—the sort of person
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“His thinking is not straight,” the former House speaker said. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Andrew Cabellero-Reynolds / Getty. September 19, 2024, 8:39 PM ET Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Donald Trump lacks the “sanity” to be president
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Though it was hard to believe that Mark Robinson could stoop any lower, the Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina found a way. A CNN report this afternoon said that Robinson described himself as “a Black Nazi” and said
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Springfield, Ohio, is just the sort of beleaguered heartland manufacturing town that Donald Trump and J. D. Vance say the MAGA movement wants to help. Instead, the Republican ticket has chosen to make life miserable for the town and its
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“You are being lied to,” Elon Musk posted on X yesterday. He’d know, since he’s doing the lying. Musk was retweeting a wildly false post insisting that violent crime is on the rise, by an X user whose avatar is
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It takes a unique kind of vulgarity to bring a 9/11 “truther” to events marking the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Michael M. Santiago / Getty September 11, 2024, 4:02 PM ET The bar for tastelessness in American politics
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Even in a debate full of bizarre statements from Donald Trump, the one about cats and dogs stuck out. The question to the former president was simple: Why did you work to kill an immigration bill that would have added
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Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. Donald Trump’s luck in the courts has turned. Trump became the first former president to be convicted of a felony when a jury in Manhattan found him guilty
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Trump used a press conference to remind voters that he’s been accused of sexual assault. Charly Triballeau / AFP / Getty September 6, 2024, 2:39 PM ET A press conference is a tool for a presidential candidate to get reporters
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