CALGARY — Carson Lavender is cutting branches in his yard when Conservative candidate Greg McLean approaches. With a big smile, he sets aside the yard work and tells the Calgary Centre candidate that he’s not sure which way he’s going to vote. “It’s hard to vote for that clown that is in there right now,” […]
If you told Mumilaaq Qaqqaq earlier this year that she’d end 2019 an elected Member of Parliament, she likely wouldn’t have believed you. But after Monday’s federal election, the 25-year-old is heading to Ottawa as the MP for Nunavut, bringing a message of change and awareness of issues for the North with her. She’s the […]
EDMONTON — Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg marched into the middle of Canada’s oilpatch Friday to urge people to stop fighting each other, focus on the science and take action. “We cannot allow this crisis to continue to be a partisan, political question,” Thunberg said in a speech before thousands of people on the steps […]
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer put a stop to supporters chanting “lock him up” about Justin Trudeau at one of the final major Conservative rallies of the campaign. Scheer spoke to hundreds of supporters in Richmond Hill, Ont. on Saturday night. As part of his closing argument, the Conservative leader referenced his promise to call a […]
PHILADELPHIA — A GOP implosion in Pennsylvania has Republicans alarmed about President Donald Trump’s reelection prospects in a state that proved essential to his 2016 victory. The enfeebled state party — still reeling after a devastating midterm election where Republicans lost three congressional seats and whiffed gubernatorial and Senate races by double digits — is […]
A group of Democratic activists and progressive “social media influencers” will launch a “Draft Beto” campaign on Tuesday, a source involved with the effort told POLITICO. The group will focus its efforts on raising $1 million for a future presidential campaign for Beto O’Rourke, the Texas congressman whose 2018 Senate campaign against Republican Ted Cruz […]
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Thursday issued an emphatic call for economic reforms to make capitalism work for more Americans but declared that government deficits matter, in a preview of the debate looming for Democrats heading into the 2020 elections. “Modern capitalism is under assault in ways that are frankly unprecedented,” Warner said at a […]
Fox News announced Wednesday that it will host a town hall with Sen. Amy Klobuchar next month, its second event of the nascent 2020 campaign with a Democratic presidential candidate. The town hall is scheduled for May 8 in Milwaukee and is to be hosted by Fox anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. News of […]
President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee raised $105 million in the second quarter of 2019, the RNC announced Tuesday. That number, first reported by The New York Times, eclipses the roughly $85 million in contributions then-President Barack Obama’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee raised during the same period in 2011 […]
Sen. Cory Booker on Sunday said he’d take incremental steps to overhaul the American health care system rather than push through "Medicare for All" if elected president. Despite his support for the proposal, the New Jersey Democrat told CNN host Jake Tapper that his experience as mayor of Newark, N.J., taught him, "You don’t let […]