The New Jersey bellwether testing Trump’s Latino support

PASSAIC COUNTY, New Jersey — Both candidates in the New Jersey governor’s race have something to prove here in Passaic. It’s ground zero for the inroads President Donald Trump made with Latino voters — Trump won this plurality-Latino county last year, the first GOP presidential candidate to do so in decades — and it offers…

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Jay Jones is back in the Democratic fold amid texting scandal

NORFOLK, Virginia — Jay Jones, the embattled Democratic nominee for attorney general in Virginia, made a surprise appearance at a major Democratic campaign rally Saturday aimed at revving up the party faithful ahead of the high-stakes statewide elections Tuesday. Jones — whose years-old violent text messages triggered a nationwide GOP backlash and a steady drumbeat…

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Trump tells Ilhan Omar to leave the country

President Donald Trump on Saturday went after Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for her Somali heritage, urging her to leave the country in a social media post, reprising an attack he used several times throughout his time in office. “She should go back!” he wrote on Truth Social, alongside a video of Omar speaking to a…

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