Politics

Democratic former congressman Mondaire Jones has shared his enthusiasm about Vice President Kamala Harris possibly replacing President Joe Biden in the 2024 Presidential Election. Endorsing Harris after President Biden officially announced that he would be ending his reelection campaign, Jones said “People here are enthusiastic about a new generation of...

Last Sunday it was made public that President Joe Biden would be dropping out of the 2024 Presidential election. President Biden penned a letter making this announcement. In a subsequent statement he endorsed current Vice President Kamala Harris as the next Democratic nominee for president. Even with that, the Democratic...

Kamala Harris went to Wisconsin for her first rally since she secured enough delegates to become the likely Democratic nominee for the presidential race. Harris was expected to lay out the Democratic Party’s case against former President Donald Trump, and it seems that she did just that. Harris held the...

After a 50-year political career, President Joe Biden announced yesterday that he’s ending his 2024 re-election campaign. The decision comes after many weeks of him and his team telling the public that he plans to stay in the race. Even within his party, President Biden’s ability to serve as his...

With family and, supposedly, senior staff members seemingly discussing exit strategies, the current president dropping out of the 2024 race is a hot topic of discussion. Paraphrasing Biden’s family, NBC News states they discussed how Biden:  “Would want to end his re-election bid on his own timing…with a carefully calculated...

This week, Donald Trump gave a speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. In his speech, the topic of health care was hardly talked about by Trump or other speakers.  “The silence is surprising, given health care makes up the largest chunk of the federal budget, nearly $2 trillion, as well...

With everything going on in the world and the country, knowing what is next in the political world can be overwhelming. Here are events occurring in the second half of 2024 that you should keep an eye out for.  Currently on their final day, the Republican National Convention is happening...

After days of interviews and investigations, the motive of Thomas Matthew Crooks to attempt an assassination on Donald Trump remains unknown. But here is what has been discovered since the incident: On the day of the shooting, according to ABC News, “Crooks told his father he wanted to go to a...

On the evening of Saturday, July 13, an assassin attempted to kill Donald Trump at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.  Just minutes after 6:00 PM, the assassin’s first shots were fired. The man left two critically injured in the crowd, one dead, and Trump with a wound on his right...

This year’s election is claimed to be one of the most important ones our country has had. As a result, Kamala Harris is faced with on-the-spot questions about Joe Biden and requests for him to step out of the election. According to a recent CNN article, “Whether Biden steps aside...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a representative of New York in the U.S. House of Reps., has filed articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito for failure to report gifts from benefactors while serving and refusing to recuse themselves from cases where they had a potential conflict of...

There has been an ongoing feud between Biden and Trump since the 2020 presidential race. The tensions have only heightened since Trump’s loss and Biden’s win that year. With 2024 being the new election year, and the same two runners as 2020, it was inevitable for miscommunications between the two...

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