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Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey No American billionaire has played politics like Elon Musk. He is not the first to seed vanity super PACs with nine-figure sums or work his [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer A super PAC with Republican Party ties has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent days to support the Green Party presidential candidacy of Jill Stein [...]

Byline: Tyler Pager, Michael Scherer Queen Bey is taking sides. The recording artist Beyoncé has agreed to appear at a Friday rally in Houston with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, along [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the day of a rally by Kamala Harris in Bucks County, Pa., as Thursday. The rally [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The world's richest man, Elon Musk, has offered Americans $47 for each swing state voter they recruit to his effort to elect Donald Trump. Democratic groups have [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager Aspiring members of Donald Trump's potential second administration gathered Thursday at Washington's Royal Sands Social Club - a bar designed to resemble the [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Democratic strategists beat back potentially catastrophic third-party threats this year with a campaign to force attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the race and prevent a presidential [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The coordinated campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris made history this week when it became the first to raise $1 billion in less than 80 days since [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Tyler Pager, Jonathan O'Connell After taking over the Democratic ticket, picking a running mate, staging a convention and turning in a strong debate performance, Vice President Kamala [...]

Byline: Josh Dawsey, Michael Scherer, Clara Ence Morse, Theodoric Meyer With a month to go, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris remain nearly tied in battleground polls. The similarities end there. [...]

Byline: Tyler Pager, Michael Scherer, Cleve R. Wootson Jr. NEW YORK - It was a political joust with a healthy side of Midwest nice. Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Kamala Harris doesn't get to decide if Donald Trump debates her a second time. But she will attempt to extract a cost if he won't. Her campaign [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Shortly after Kamala Harris took control of Joe Biden's campaign, her top advisers began holding senior staff meetings unlike any that had happened before. New strategists appeared [...]

Byline: Patrick Marley, Josh Dawsey, Michael Scherer Former president Donald Trump spoke by phone this week with a Nebraska state senator as part of a last-minute push to change how [...]

Byline: Josh Dawsey, Michael Scherer Less than two weeks after an assassin's bullet grazed Donald Trump's ear this summer, he was held backstage at a Nashville event for more than [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The Kamala Harris campaign sent a signal to deep-pocketed donors Monday by blessing the work of 13 independent groups that could help elect the vice president over [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Democrats have spent the last year eyeing a familiar trio of northern states that would deliver the White House in November: Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania are the [...]

Byline: Toluse Olorunnipa, Marianne LeVine, Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey Some allies of former president Donald Trump conceded privately Wednesday that he performed poorly in Tuesday's debate and were deliberating over [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Vice President Kamala Harris wants to go another debate round with former president Donald Trump. The Democrat's campaign announced after Tuesday's debate a desire for a second [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Meryl Kornfield Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent presidential candidate who recently endorsed Donald Trump, called on his supporters Thursday to vote for the Republican nominee no [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The coordinated campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris raised $361 million in August, nearly three times as much as the $130 million collected by the coordinated effort [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign and the Democratic National Committee plan to transfer nearly $25 million to support down-ballot Democratic candidates in state and federal races this [...]

Byline: Yasmeen Abutaleb, Michael Scherer, Reis Thebault CHICAGO - Democrats for weeks have been bracing for massive pro-Palestinian demonstrations outside this week's convention, fearing they would recall the protests of [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Meryl Kornfield Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he will address the nation about the path forward for his campaign Friday in Arizona, amid advanced [...]

Byline: Leigh Ann Caldwell, Michael Scherer CHICAGO - Organizers of the Democratic National Convention have decided not to award a speaking slot to a speaker who would talk about the [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Meryl Kornfield Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced he will address the nation about the path forward for his campaign Friday in Arizona, amid advanced discussions [...]

Byline: Mariana Alfaro, Michael Scherer CHICAGO - Democrats unveiled a party platform Sunday night that does not mention an arms embargo on Israel - a demand uncommitted delegates had made [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey Donald Trump's top brass gathered reporters in West Palm Beach, Fla., this month to showcase the inner workings of the former president's campaign and exude [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris announced Saturday that it will reserve at least $370 million in television and digital advertising between Labor Day and Election [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sought a meeting last week with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris to discuss the possibility of serving in her [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Vice President Kamala Harris aims to share the campaign trail vibes with the public in Chicago next week with free manicures, friendship bracelet making and campaign training [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Patrick Svitek PALM BEACH, Fla. - Donald Trump defended people who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, saying they had been treated 'very unfairly' [...]

Byline: Josh Dawsey, Michael Scherer Donald Trump's candidacy appeared all but destined for victory only weeks ago. He rose defiant from the bullet graze of an attempted assassination, hoisting his [...]

Byline: Isaac Arnsdorf, Michael Scherer, Abbie Cheeseman Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Saturday that he will no longer appear at a previously scheduled debate on Sept. 10 and will [...]

Byline: Azi Paybarah, Szu Yu Chen, Hayden Godfrey, Michael Scherer Of the 42 people who worked in President Donald Trump's Cabinet, just over half support his bid for another term. [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Matt Viser, Tyler Pager Vice President Harris formally secured the Democratic presidential nomination on Friday, culminating a long career and dramatic rise to become the nation's first [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Vice President Harris secured a majority of the pledged delegates to the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Democratic Party officials announced Friday, officially making her the party's presidential [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Tyler Pager Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris hired a battery of new senior advisers to her campaign this week, moving swiftly to replace lifetime loyalists of [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The political arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun regulation group founded by former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, plans to spend $45 million over the [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The Trump campaign's first television ad of the general election attacks likely Democratic nominee Kamala Harris as an evasive, weak and distracted leader who did not protect [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Anita Dunn, a top adviser to President Biden and architect of his 2020 campaign, will leave the White House next week to advise the largest super PAC [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Tyler Pager As long as Joe Biden still believed, there could be no Plan B. The boss had earned that much. Vice President Harris approved no discussions. [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The Kamala Harris ad blitz has launched. Future Forward, the largest Democratic-leaning super PAC, will spend $50 million on advertising in six states over the next three [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Gerrit De Vynck, Maeve Reston Weeks of pent-up Democratic panic gave way to a historic flood of campaign cash for likely presidential nominee Vice President Harris this [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Democratic leaders on Monday laid out a new process for selecting a presidential nominee to replace President Biden through a virtual process that would conclude by Aug. [...]

Byline: Josh Dawsey, Michael Scherer Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held talks this month with former president Donald Trump about endorsing his campaign and taking a job in [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Tyler Pager, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker, Yasmeen Abutaleb President Biden called Vice President Harris on Sunday to tell her directly. He spoke one-on-one with Jeff Zients, his [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Tyler Pager, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker, Paul Kane, Marianna Sotomayor The president of the United States had spoken - with 24 million Americans watching on TV. Every [...]

Byline: Tyler Pager, Leigh Ann Caldwell, Michael Scherer, Toluse Olorunnipa, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez Major Democratic donors are funding a preliminary vetting process for potential vice-presidential nominees should President Biden exit [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, one of the Biden campaign's biggest donors, is separating from his chief political strategist, Dmitri Mehlhorn, after both men apologized publicly for comments [...]