KAMALA HARRIS

Republicans faced their own presidential nominee’s poor performance without the same clear-eyed analysis Democrats voiced after Biden’s terrible June 27 debate.

After an initial period of relative restraint, the former president has begun blaming the shooting on his opponents and amplifying conspiracy theories.

The vice president has raised Democrats’ hopes of winning the Tar Heel State, a populous battleground that has been just beyond their grasp ever since Barack Obama briefly turned it blue in 2008.

Arizona’s Republican Party erected about a dozen billboards in the Phoenix area that say “EAT LESS KITTENS” and look similar to Chick-fil-A’s promos.

Harris’s aides are confident she won Tuesday’s showdown but are looking for more ways to reach swing voters. Trump aides discuss whether a second debate would help or hurt.

Aiden Clark’s death has been amplified by leading Republicans who have to sought to attack Vice President Kamala Harris on immigration.

Harris, Biden, Trump and Vance standing together at the New York memorial was a striking tableau in a political cycle in which Harris has attempted to reclaim the mantle of patriotism.

A recent poll showed voters thought he sided with Russia more than Ukraine. He apparently doesn’t care to disabuse them of that notion.

On the debate stage Tuesday, Donald Trump doubled down on baseless and dehumanizing claims pushed by his running mate that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are stealing and eating pets.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has signaled that it wants a second debate, in October. Trump said Wednesday that he is “less inclined” to participate.

Early polling shows Harris won by a historically large margin. And Trump voters acknowledged that and said it could impact their votes.

In Tuesday night’s scorching debate, Harris tried to keep Trump on the defensive. But with polls showing no clear leader, the race may stay tight until the end.

Democrats hailed “cultural icon” Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris after the debate. Donald Trump said he had “no idea” about it.

Trump doubled down on false claims about immigrants eatings pets in Springfield, Ohio, and Harris reiterated that she and her running mate Tim Walz are gun owners.

Benjamin Button, one of Swift’s three cats, grabs the spotlight in the social media post signed “Childless Cat Lady.” Her felines are cult figures to Swifties.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump debated China ties, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war in Gaza and the exit from Afghanistan.

Trump, on the defensive, makes four times more suspect claims than Harris.

A Harris campaign official described the effort as part of a multiday strategy that her team hoped would ensure that Trump walked onto the debate stage “triggered.”