US politics

Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates_l

Here’s what the latest polls say about the 2024 presidential election, from the Independent’s data correspondent. Vice President Kamala Harris is making a bid for the White House with running mate Tim Walz after replacing President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket just a few months before Election Day….

Lindsey Graham warns Trump ‘the provocateur’ in danger of losing election_l

Republican senator urges Trump to focus on policy issues instead of making personal attacks against Harris The Republican senator and Donald Trump loyalist Lindsey Graham has warned that Trump is in danger of losing the US presidential election if he continues to…

The evolution of Kamala Harris: from activist in pigtails to presidential candidate_l

The daughter of civil rights activists has an unbroken history of working to change ‘anything that wasn’t right’, friends say It was the first week of July. News of the presidential election had been mired, for eight days, in alarming…

‘Resurrected’ Democrats look toward 2024 convention with renewed hope_l

Kamala Harris’s ascent in the race for the White House has imbued the party with joy and galvanized Ranking Tens of thousands of Democrats are expected to descend on Chicago this week for their party’s convention, bubbling with a feeling…

Trump taps Tulsi Gabbard for help preparing for debate with Kamala Harris_l

Former Democratic Hawaii representative, who fell out of favor with party, to be rehearsal stand-in for vice-president Donald Trump has tapped Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic Hawaii representative, to help prepare him for next month’s presidential debate with Kamala Harris. The…

Trump campaign reset goes awry in Pennsylvania as he attacks Harris_l

Ex-president quickly broke away from prepared speech to accuse vice-president of being a communist and a fascist Donald Trump tried to reset his campaign at a rally in battleground Pennsylvania on Saturday as polls show Kamala Harris pulling ahead in key swing…

FBI raids US home of Russian-born analyst who advised Trump in 2016

Dimitri Simes, whose name appeared prominently in Mueller report, ‘puzzled and concerned’ by raid in Virginia The Hoover FBI building in Washington. Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters FBI agents have raided and searched the Virginia home of Dimitri Simes, an author and policy…

‘The world is watching’: 1968 protests set stage for Democratic convention

National guard soldiers face off with demonstrators at Grant Park in Chicago on 26 August 1968. Photograph: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images On Monday Democrats return to Chicago to prepare to anoint Kamala Harris as their candidate – amid striking…

JD Vance agrees to October vice-presidential debate with Tim Walz

VP nominees to face off on 1 October as Vance challenges Walz to an earlier debate in September JD Vance makes a campaign stop in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, on Thursday. Photograph: Quinn Glabicki/Reuters JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, has accepted…

Extremist or mainstream: how do Tim Walz’s policies match up globally?

Tim Walz campaigns in Las Vegas, Nevada, last week. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images As Minnesota governor he took action on school meals, climate, family leave, guns and more – how does that compare with other developed countries? Within hours of Minnesota’s…