President Biden will announce on Tuesday that he is raising tariffs on an array of Chinese imports, including electric vehicles, solar cells, semiconductors and advanced batteries, in what he calls an effort to protect strategic American industries from a new wave of competitors that are unfairly subsidized by Beijing. The president will also officially endorse…
Blinken Arrives in Ukraine Amid Russian Military Gains
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday morning for a visit meant to reaffirm American support for Ukraine but that might be shadowed by Russian military gains in the country’s northeast. The unannounced trip, by overnight train from eastern Poland, was Mr. Blinken’s fourth to Kyiv since Russia’s February 2022 invasion…
Can This Never Trumper Find a Future in the Republican Party?
In February 2021, weeks after Jan. 6, Larry Hogan, who was then the Republican governor of Maryland and a frequent critic of Donald Trump, told Katie Couric that a battle for the soul of their party was underway — and that Trump’s influence was really, finally, diminishing. He realizes that declaration was a little premature….
Biden’s Team Brushes Off the Latest Bad Poll for Him
President Biden’s campaign on Monday brushed off the findings of new polls from The New York Times, Siena College and The Philadelphia Inquirer that found him trailing in five of the presidential battleground states, dismissing their significance and arguing that the president still has six months left before Election Day to persuade voters to support…
Battleground Polling Shows Ticket- Splitting Pattern
This morning, we have a new set of polls for you in the battleground states, including New York Times/Siena College polls of Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona and the inaugural Times/Philadelphia Inquirer/Siena poll in Pennsylvania. The results in the presidential race would have been surprising a year ago, but it’s hard to call them surprising…
Bernie Moreno Is Running for Senate With an Immigrant’s Origin Story. Here’s the Rest.
He is running for the Senate as an immigrant who made good, reaching out to Ohio voters with a stirring, only-in-America bootstraps story: arriving as a child from Colombia, taking a risk on a struggling business, and then turning it into a smashing success and himself into a millionaire 100 times over. Running under the…
Freshman Democrats Work to Turn Biden Impeachment Effort on Its Head
Representative Jasmine Crockett was sitting in a House Oversight Committee hearing last fall, growing increasingly frustrated as she listened to Republicans accuse President Biden of impeachable offenses without producing any evidence, when she had an idea. Ms. Crockett, a freshman Democrat from Texas and former defense attorney, summoned an aide and asked them to quickly…
J.D. Vance Says He Would Accept the Election Results, With a Caveat
Senator J.D. Vance, the Ohio Republican who is a contender to be former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate, hedged on Sunday when he was asked whether he would accept the results of the November election. “If we have a free and fair election, I will accept the results,” Mr. Vance told CNN’s Dana Bash…
In Deep-Blue Maryland, a Democratic Primary Turns Uncommonly Competitive
Wearing white Chuck Taylor sneakers with her gray pantsuit, Angela Alsobrooks was in the middle of a whirlwind day of campaigning in the vote-rich suburbs of Maryland last week when a voter confronted her with the question on everyone’s mind: Was she the candidate with the best chance of keeping the state’s up-for-grabs seat in…
Away From the Confines of a Courtroom, Trump Rallies Beachside at the Jersey Shore
After a long and often tense week in his criminal trial in Manhattan, former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday took part in a time-honored ritual enjoyed by countless New Yorkers in need of a break: He went to the shore. Sandwiched between the boardwalk and the Atlantic Ocean, Mr. Trump stood in front of…