As he campaigns for his wife, Kamala Harris, Mr. Emhoff has said he will make fighting antisemitism a top priority if he becomes the nation’s first first gentleman.
“Thank you, Joe!’’ the crowd members chanted to a tearful president for his lifetime of public service. But they were also thanking him for not running again.
Eight years after failing to smash the “highest and hardest glass ceiling” in politics, Hillary Clinton urged her party to make Kamala Harris the nation’s first female president.
On policy, the vice president is drafting off President Biden, essentially cherry-picking the most popular parts of his agenda and betting that a younger messenger can sell them to Americans.
In a lengthy report released on the first day of the Democratic National Convention, Republicans used circumstantial evidence to accuse the president of corruption tied to his son’s foreign business dealings.
The unelected body that shapes voting rules has a new conservative majority who question the state’s 2020 results. They now have new power to influence the results in 2024.
An unusual and chaotic set of political circumstances forced Illinois’s billionaire governor to take the lead in securing the Democratic convention for Chicago.