He shared the stage at Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign launch. He’s featured in her online fundraising pitches and stars on her social media accounts. He even has his own selfie lines at organizing events. Bailey, Warren’s fluffy, cheerful golden retriever, has emerged as the senator’s top surrogate and a phenomenon in his own right. Many…

President Donald Trump on Tuesday weighed in on Beto O’Rourke’s presidential campaign with a question: “What the hell happened?” “Beto’s falling fast,” the president told a crowd at a liquified natural gas export facility in Louisiana, spending a few minutes of his speech on taking shots at the pool of Democrats hoping to challenge his…

BOSTON — Former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld is officially challenging President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican primary. “I’m running for president of the United States,” Weld said Monday during an appearance on CNN. “I would be ashamed of myself if I didn’t raise my hand and run.” Weld, 73, most recently ran as the…

Donald Trump won the presidency with just 42 percent of the female vote in 2016. But his fundraising showed an even bigger gender disparity: Only 28 percent of the 350,000 individual donors who gave to his campaign were women. Trump’s 2020 operation has worked hard since then to change those numbers. And new fundraising data…

Joe Biden on Saturday rejected criticism that he’s "the old guy" of the Democratic presidential field during a northern California fundraising swing. Answering critics over his debate performance — and a moment where he was asked to "pass the torch" to a younger generation of candidates — the former vice president said: “I know I…

The World Trade Organization says the United States can impose tariffs on up to $7.5 billion worth of goods from the European Union as retaliation for illegal subsidies to Airbus — a record award from the trade body. Updated at 3:22 p.m. ET The World Trade Organization says the U.S. can move forward with plans…

ADEL, Iowa — Joni Ernst had barely kicked off a town hall one recent morning when the barrage of complaints about Donald Trump began. One after another, constituents grilled the first-term Republican senator about the president — his attacks on John McCain, his emergency declaration at the border and why Ernst hasn’t stood up to…

A man exhales while smoking an e-cigarette. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state will issue an emergency regulation banning certain flavored products amid a health scare linked to vaping. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday he will push for a ban on some electronic cigarettes amid a health scare linked to vaping…

Kamala Harris on Tuesday announced a plan to reduce prescription drug costs and rein in pharmaceutical companies, including linking the price of drugs to their prices in other countries. The California senator is expected to promote the plan at an AARP forum in Davenport, Iowa. What would the plan do? If elected president, Harris said…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump Tuesday on Capitol Hill. Updated at 7:48 p.m. ET After months of expressing caution on a push for impeachment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump Tuesday. “The president must be held accountable,” Pelosi said. “No one is…