Articles filed under Political Figures
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When it comes to funding state-level campaigns, Pritzker in a league of his ownSep 09, 2024 6:05 pm - The Illinoisans who are among the nation’s top political donors to federal candidates can’t hold a candle to Gov. J.B. Pritzker when it comes to cutting checks to state-registered candidates and groups, records show.
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Harris and Trump prep for debate that could define rest of the campaignSep 09, 2024 8:52 am - When Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump meet Tuesday night in Philadelphia, they will have taken dramatically different approaches to preparing for the first - and likely only - presidential debate between the two candidates.
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Harris' past debates: A prosecutor's style with narrative flair but risks in a matchup with TrumpSep 09, 2024 8:52 am - From her earliest campaigns in California to her serving as President Joe Biden's running mate, Kamala Harris has honed an aggressive but calibrated approach to debates.
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Who are the top federal campaign donors from Illinois?Sep 08, 2024 9:00 pm - The nearly $72 million a Lake Forest billionaire and his wife have contributed to federal candidates and groups this election cycle is significantly greater than any other Illinoisans’ donations, data from an independent research group shows.
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JD Vance’s Catholicism helped shape his views. So did this little-known group of Catholic thinkersSep 06, 2024 9:41 am - Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s religious conversion has put him in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement, viewed by some critics as having reactionary or authoritarian leanings, that has been little known to the American public until Vance’s rise to the national stage.
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Sep 05, 2024 6:12 pm - A lawyer for Donald Trump has clashed with the judge in the federal election interference prosecution of the former president after suggesting the government was rushing forward with an "illegitimate" indictment at the height of the White House campaign.
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Ahead of speech, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says in a Pennsylvania court filing that he's endorsing TrumpAug 23, 2024 1:34 pm - Ahead of a planned speech, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign said in a Pennsylvania court filing Friday that he is endorsing Donald Trump for president.
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‘Kamala knocked it out of the park’: Chicago-area delegates have glowing reviews for Harris’ acceptance speechAug 23, 2024 10:49 am - Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris knocked her acceptance speech “out of the park,” capping a party convention filled with joy and optimism, Chicago-area delegates said Friday.
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Trump deflects, misleads in real-time reaction to Harris speechAug 23, 2024 8:40 am - Former President Donald Trump did not hold back as Democratic nominee Kamala Harris delivered her acceptance speech Thursday night, firing off a series of scathing, insul...
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Fact-checking Kamala Harris at the Democratic convention on Day 4Aug 23, 2024 7:56 am - Vice President Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech on the final night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago featured high rhetoric but not many facts easily...