Gordon D. Sondland said in his prepared statement to House impeachment investigators that he was disappointed the president involved his personal lawyer in diplomacy with Kiev.
Gordon D. Sondland said in his prepared statement to House impeachment investigators that he was disappointed the president involved his personal lawyer in diplomacy with Kiev.
Readers offer both praise and criticism, suggesting how some questions could have been handled better.
President Trump and his allies seized on debate moments over taxes, health care and economic inequality to portray the Democratic candidates as tax-and-spend liberals.
The technical superiority and sophistication of the president’s digital campaign is a hidden advantage of incumbency.
Tuesday’s debate — the tensest yet — put the Democrats’ newly minted front-runner to the test.
Twelve Democratic presidential candidates shared the stage in Ohio for the fourth televised primary debate.
Twelve Democratic presidential candidates shared the stage in Ohio for the fourth televised primary debate.
Twelve Democratic presidential candidates shared the stage in Ohio for the fourth televised primary debate.
Twelve Democratic presidential candidates shared the stage in Ohio for the fourth televised primary debate.
Far more than at the previous Democratic debates, President Trump will be a major factor in the discussion, scrambling the candidates’ calculations about what to say onstage.
How closely have you been paying attention to the 2020 campaign so far? Test your knowledge and see how your answers stack up with others.
How closely have you been paying attention to the 2020 campaign so far? Test your knowledge and see how your answers stack up with others.
In an interview with ABC News, Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s son rejected as “ridiculous” President Trump’s suggestions that he and his father had engaged in wrongdoing.
Candidates are leaving potential Republican converts without options.
Undecided voters in Ohio are focused on urgent bread-and-butter issues.
A new petition asks the justices to rule quickly, before the next election, on whether members of the Electoral College may vote their consciences.
The video was shown at a conference attended by Donald Trump Jr. and Sarah Huckabee Sanders. They said they did not see it.
The 1998 trial damaged Democrats more than Republicans.
The changing racial attitudes of white liberals are changing how 2020 candidates try to win votes.
The president denounced the impeachment inquiry and condemned what he called the “unholy alliance of corrupt Democrat politicians, deep-state bureaucrats and the fake news media.”
The Trumps have criticized Hunter Biden for doing business overseas while his father was vice president. Last month, the Trumps won approval in Scotland to build 500 homes.
The estate said that despite an agreement last year not to use Prince’s music, the song was played at the president’s rally on Thursday night in Minneapolis, the singer’s hometown.
President Trump criticized former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Mr. Biden’s son, Hunter, during a rally in Minneapolis on Thursday, his first since the beginning of an impeachment inquiry last month.
The president’s lawyer was paid by Lev Parnas, who with Igor Fruman worked on behalf of President Trump in Ukraine.
Democrats want to test the limits of the White House’s refusal to hand over documents and witnesses related to Ukraine.
The president lost the state by less than 45,000 votes in 2016, despite barely campaigning there. He holds a rally in Minneapolis Thursday night.
And is that even the right question for 2020?
No presidential candidate has Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s experience in the trenches of the climate wars. For a youth-driven movement, though, he may not be the man of the hour.
Until Wednesday, he had resisted calling for President Trump’s impeachment. His experience as a senator helps explain his restraint.
The company’s handling of a Trump campaign ad with unsubstantiated accusations about Joseph Biden foreshadows a continuing fight over misinformation.
A $530,000 fee for security at a rally planned for Thursday is too high, President Trump and his campaign said. “Welcome to Minneapolis where we pay our bills,” the city’s mayor said in response.
Republican lawmakers were incensed. Yet President Trump has actually warped foreign policy for political reasons and they defend him.
After taking a chance on Donald Trump in 2016, a swing county in western Pennsylvania is up for grabs again.
As Trump made unfounded allegations about Biden and his son, the former vice president was torn over what to do. He now looks more vulnerable than at any point in the campaign.
Since President Trump called for China to investigate the Bidens, Chinese media and officials have been notably muted. They have reason for caution, said experts.
Speaking to reporters, President Trump also said his requests for information on former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son Hunter Biden don’t “pertain to anything but corruption.”
While President Trump has denied any quid pro quo in pushing Ukraine to investigate his foes, text messages indicate that his own team saw it otherwise.
While President Trump has denied any quid pro quo in pushing Ukraine to investigate his foes, text messages indicate that his own team saw it otherwise.
Now he wants China to investigate the Bidens and help his re-election bid. Give him this, he’s not subtle.
An imagined conversation with Flyover Man.
Why the president’s Twitter account is the closest thing to a coordinated response to the impeachment inquiry.
The network declined to run a pair of 30-second ads that express the president’s view of the impeachment inquiry, calling them “demonstrably false.”
President Trump made a similar, but private, request of the president of Ukraine, an episode that has prompted an impeachment inquiry.
The counterattack, people close to Mr. Biden said, was intended to show that he would not let Mr. Trump “hijack” his campaign.
The top three Democratic candidates are 78, 76 and 70 years old and one of them, Bernie Sanders, went to the hospital with chest pain. Voters want experienced leaders, but exactly how much life experience do they want?
The White House itself has no organized response to impeachment, and some aides doubt whether it even poses a serious threat.
President Trump’s political advisers have been working for months to get states to adjust their plans to ensure that nothing disrupts next year’s convention.
There’s an approach that avoids both a “civil war” and Trump’s guaranteed re-election.
The huge infusion of money confirms that President Trump is building an enormous war chest heading into the 2020 election.
The president’s brazen attempt at cheating has taken “decide it at the ballot box” off the menu. Impeachment is imperative.
President Trump’s personal lawyer. The prosecutor general of Ukraine. Joe Biden’s son. These are just some of the names mentioned in the whistle-blower’s complaint. What were their roles? We break it down.
Increasing numbers of Democrats and independents support the inquiry into President Trump, while Republicans are lining up behind him.
The president’s accusations turn reality on its head and the media should say so.
The penalties were announced as Congress investigates whether President Trump tried to enlist Ukraine’s leader in a smear campaign against one of his top Democratic challengers in 2020.
“Our tone must be prayerful, respectful, solemn, worthy of the Constitution,” the House speaker privately told her colleagues as Democrats planned more subpoenas, including to Rudy Giuliani.
A tricky balancing act is underway for Democrats in battleground districts: protecting political gains from 2018 while selling voters on an inquiry into the president.
Advisers to the former vice president wrote to executives at ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News to “demand” that Mr. Giuliani not be invited on the air to discuss Ukraine and President Trump.
The election commission’s Democratic chairwoman said a Republican commissioner had blocked official publication of the memo.
The lawmaker on Saturday parsed his words about supporting congressional oversight of a whistle-blower’s complaint against President Trump.
Details of the push by President Trump and Rudolph Giuliani for Ukraine to investigate Democrats show a sustained effort that encompassed elections in both countries.
The Democratic candidate is entering a critical new phase of the race, with the president facing impeachment and a spotlight on the Biden family.
Current and former officials said the White House used a highly classified computer system accessible to only a select few officials to store transcripts of calls from President Vladimir Putin and the Saudi royal family.
Wary of the former vice president’s slipping poll numbers and the onslaught of attacks from President Trump, some Biden supporters want him to embrace a super PAC.
The whistle-blower, a C.I.A. officer detailed to the White House at one point, first expressed his concerns anonymously to the agency’s top lawyer.
According to a White House record of the phone call, those were President Trump’s words to Ukraine’s leader. But what do they mean for the impeachment inquiry?
And the Republicans running against Trump.
Rancor surrounding impeach inquiry certain to spill over and constrict an already limited legislative agenda
Since the 2016 campaign, the president has had an intense fixation on the country, which he believes is tied up in the origins of the special counsel’s investigation.
New details have emerged about the intelligence officer who raised alarms about the president’s pressure on Ukraine to open inquiries that could benefit him politically.
President Trump mentioned an American cybersecurity firm that is at the center of a conspiracy theory in a call with Ukraine’s president.
“They’re complete Orwellian lies and toxic trash,” Representative Bill Pascrell Jr., a Democrat who received the message, said of the talking points. (He did not use them.)
It is far worse than we could have imagined.
To get re-elected, he will stop at nothing. That’s why impeachment is crucial.
The president and the Democrats may be girding for a constitutional clash, but their campaigns are working to capitalize on the moment with fund-raising appeals.
Wary of the way Republicans and President Trump attacked Hillary Clinton in 2016, the Biden camp is looking for ways to control the story line.
Across the Democratic field, candidates are approaching the impeachment battle as a necessary process, but perhaps not one that ought to redefine their own campaigns.
The president pressed Ukraine’s leader on potential investigations that could benefit him politically.
And they are headed in different directions — with serious consequences for the president and his political opponents.
The major question is whether President Trump used American foreign policy to try to damage a political rival.
The Ukraine scandal has a lot of similarities to Watergate.
Mr. Biden will argue in a speech that if the president does not provide information, “Congress has no choice but to impeach,” an aide said.
As the House of Representatives begins an inquiry, Mr. Biden has been drawn into a wildly unpredictable situation that may affect his standing in the 2020 race.
Impeachment, he insists, will be “a positive for me.”
Why this story is different.
Four reasons the president might welcome articles of impeachment.
President Trump is casting Joe Biden in a familiar role.
It was a familiar story: First came the backlash, then the backlash to the backlash.
They said a failure by the administration to disclose a complaint about President Trump’s interactions with the leader of Ukraine would be considered obstruction.
The man in 40 sentences.
A secret whistle-blower complaint has raised questions about whether President Trump improperly pressured a foreign government to investigate a political opponent.
No evidence has surfaced that the former vice president intentionally tried to help his son by pressing for the ouster of a Ukrainian prosecutor.
Just the facts, in 40 sentences.
To build a national majority, the party has to win the areas around smaller cities, which have resisted the blue wave.
Democratic candidates are publicly aligning themselves with union members in hopes of holding onto their support — and winning over those who flipped for President Trump in 2016.
President Trump said his call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was perfectly appropriate, as Democrats intensified demands for an inquiry into abuse of power.
President Trump is under intense scrutiny over a classified whistle-blower complaint about some of his behavior.
Has he finally gone too far?
Mr. Trump, intensifying a line of attack his allies have stoked for months, accused the media of covering up the former vice president’s dealings with Ukraine.
The controversy centers on whether President Trump manipulated foreign policy to pressure Ukraine to take action to damage Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s election bid.
Many elements are murky, but something clearly stinks.
The president and his allies have been pressing Ukraine for months to investigate Joseph R. Biden Jr., complicating relations between the two countries.
Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City, whose run for the Democratic nomination was often described as quixotic, never gained traction.
An increasing share of Americans say the tariff fight with China will be bad for the United States, and the concern crosses party lines.
The three candidates, coupled with a softening economy and the president’s falling poll numbers against almost any Democrat, may offer reluctant Trump voters a way out.
And should we fear “cancel culture”?
President Trump’s photo op at the border was his only public appearance during two days in California, a state that has been a hotbed of opposition to his presidency and policies.
At a rally in New Mexico this week, Hispanic voters enthusiastically backed the president’s hard-line approach to immigration.
Readers discuss advice for Democrats from President Obama’s senior strategist.
She has struggled with white, working-class voters like those important to winning Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Trump leads among small donors. Democrats now get plenty of support from the wealthy, with predictable consequences.