United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle likely walked away from Monday’s House Oversight Committee thinking to herself, to quote Bill the Butcher, that was “the finest beating I ever took.” In a rare showing of bipartisanship, Cheatle is being called on to resign after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. Cheatle dodged questions from lawmakers to the point where members of both parties found her supremely irritating. She also refused to...

Election law experts say House Speaker Mike Johnson is wrong when he says it is “unlawful” for Democrats to “simply just switch out a candidate who has been chosen through the … democratic process.” Although President Joe Biden was chosen by the vast majority of primary and caucus voters, and amassed more than 99% of the pledged delegates who will meet at the Democratic National Convention in mid-August, he has not been formally nominated. And since he has voluntarily dropped out...

  Congressional Democrats are cautiously coming to one conclusion: We’re no longer doomed. President Joe Biden’s exit from the presidential race breathed new life in the fight for control of Congress, and the party’s candidates said they feel like they once again have a real chance at winning. Within 24 hours, many of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents coalesced behind Vice President Kamala Harris as the nominee, eager to project unity after weeks of chaos. Almost no one is...

Embattled Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle was always going to have a rough time explaining to lawmakers how her agency allowed an aspiring assassin to get such an easy shot at Donald Trump at a July 13 rally in Butler, Pa. Somehow, she did worse than expected. In hours of grilling from both Republicans and Democrats, Cheatle stonewalled and further highlighted the stunning incompetence at the top of an agency with a critical zero-fail mission. The failure in Butler was...

Vice President Harris is going to be the Democratic presidential nominee, barring a cataclysm. Harris accumulated support Monday, one day after President Biden announced he would step aside. Nearly all of Harris’s potential rivals have now endorsed her. The list includes Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.  On Monday afternoon, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi...

As Democrats unite around Vice President Kamala Harris as their likely new nominee, their public mood is absolutely jubilant. Now, they hope, the party has a nominee who can take the fight to Trump — and win. These hopes are not yet supported by polling data, which currently shows Harris on track to lose. Harris’s approval rating is not good (38 percent approval, 50 percent disapproval in FiveThirtyEight’s average). She trails Trump by about 2 points nationally, on average, and...

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