Latest U.S. Republican Party News

Republican Liz Cheney to join Kamala Harris at Wisconsin campaign stop

Oct. 03, 2024 05:02 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former congresswoman Liz Cheney, one of Donald Trump’s fiercest Republican antagonists, will join Democrat Kamala Harris at a campaign event in Wisconsin on Thursday aimed at reaching out to moderate voters and rattling the GOP nominee. Cheney was the top...

How Trump credits an immigration chart for saving his life — and what the chart is missing

Oct. 03, 2024 00:17 AM EDT

Ever since the assassination attempt at his rally in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump has professed a unique fondness for a bar chart he credits for saving his life. Trump was addressing the crowd in Butler about illegal immigration and reviewing a chart that detailed U.S.-Mexico border...

Haunted by 2016, some Michigan Democrats worry that Harris remains ill-defined in swing state

Oct. 03, 2024 00:13 AM EDT

EASTPOINTE, Mich. (AP) — Bill Clinton stood with Michigan Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell outside a suburban Detroit grocery store two days before the 2016 election when it was clear to both that Hillary Clinton would lose the state. “They didn’t listen to you,” Dingell recalled the former...

FACT FOCUS: Claims that more than 300,000 migrant children are missing lack context

Oct. 02, 2024 18:42 PM EDT

Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, have recently claimed that hundreds of thousands of migrant children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border unaccompanied are missing, then criticized the border policies of the Biden administration and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President...

Anti-abortion leaders undeterred as Trump for the first time says he'd veto a federal abortion ban

Oct. 02, 2024 16:54 PM EDT

CHICAGO (AP) — Anti-abortion leaders said Wednesday that they're undeterred after Donald Trump said he would veto a federal abortion ban, the first time he has explicitly said so after previously refusing to answer questions on the subject. During Tuesday night's vice presidential...

Republicans are more likely than Democrats to see Israel as a US ally: AP-NORC poll

Oct. 02, 2024 00:08 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a year of war between Israel and Hamas, U.S. public opinion on the conflict remains polarized, a new survey by the Pearson Institute and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds, with Democrats more likely to be critical of Israel, while...

Walz misleadingly claims to have been in Hong Kong during period tied to Tiananmen Square massacre

Oct. 01, 2024 23:11 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Multiple news reports indicate that Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz misleadingly claimed he was in Hong Kong during the turbulence surrounding the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, part of a broader pattern of inaccuracies that Republicans hope to...

Speaker Johnson lays out agenda for Republicans as they fight to hold House majority

Oct. 01, 2024 19:36 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Mike Johnson laid out on Tuesday a policy agenda should Republicans take the majority next year that extends the tax cuts approved when Donald Trump was president, reduces the size of the federal workforce and gives parents more choice on where they can send their...

Number of voters with unconfirmed citizenship documents more than doubles in battleground Arizona

Oct. 01, 2024 19:04 PM EDT

PHOENIX (AP) — The number of voters in the battleground state of Arizona classified as having full access to the ballot without confirmation they are citizens has more than doubled to 218,000, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said. That number represents 5.3% of all registered...

The Latest: VP candidates Vance and Walz meet in last scheduled debate for 2024 tickets

Oct. 01, 2024 16:02 PM EDT

Barring a late addition to the schedule, Tuesday night's vice presidential debate between J.D. Vance and Tim Walz could be the last debate of the 2024 campaign between the Republican and Democratic tickets. Both Vance, a GOP senator from Ohio, and Walz, the Democratic governor of...