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Dave Boyer

Dave Boyer is a White House correspondent for The Washington Times. A native of Allentown, Pa., Boyer worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 2002 to 2011 and also has covered Congress for the Times. He is a graduate of Penn State University. Boyer can be reached at dboyer@washingtontimes.com.

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Harris holds first campaign rally atop ticket as supporters chant to ‘lock up’ Trump

Vice President Kamala Harris took the fight to former President Donald Trump in the battleground of Wisconsin Tuesday in her first campaign stop as the presumptive Democratic nominee, telling voters that they face "a choice between freedom and chaos" in November.

July 23, 2024

Doug Emhoff says his wife, VP Kamala Harris, will defeat Trump’s ‘lies’ and ‘gaslighting’

A day after Vice President Kamala Harris took over the Democratic presidential campaign, her husband delivered a broad indictment of Donald Trump and Republicans Tuesday as the party that bans books, disenfranchises voters and bars Americans from learning certain "facts."

July 23, 2024

Harris takes center stage after stumbling in 2020 campaign and weathering shaky vice presidency

Vice President Kamala Harris is quickly becoming the Democratic Party's likely replacement nominee, receiving plaudits Monday for saving the campaign and energizing the base, but the rosy assessment belies her lackluster performance as vice president and her embarrassingly short presidential campaign in 2020.

July 22, 2024

Kamala Harris predicts November victory at LGBTQ fundraiser in Cape Cod

While embattled President Biden spent the weekend in isolation with COVID-19, Vice President Kamala Harris held a $2 million campaign fundraiser Saturday in the largely gay community of Provincetown, Massachusetts.

July 20, 2024

Harris holds urgent call with donors as pressure builds on Biden to quit race

Vice President Kamala Harris held a hastily organized video call with Democratic donors Friday afternoon as party leaders urge President Biden to quit the presidential race, according to multiple news outlets.

July 19, 2024

Old acquaintance says Biden might go down in history as ‘selfish’

A retired journalist who's known President Biden since 1971 says the 81-year-old may be remembered as a selfish man who "clung to his office too long."

July 17, 2024

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough threatens to quit show over getting bumped for Trump shooting coverage

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, whose "Morning Joe" show was pulled by network executives in the wake of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, said Tuesday that his bosses can "get somebody else to host this show" if he's bumped off the air again.

July 16, 2024

Trump shooter had no clear politics, wore a Demolition Ranch T-shirt, had bomb-making material

The gunman who attempted to kill former President Donald Trump was Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old who lived south of Pittsburgh, who had been bullied at school and had political leanings that were difficult to pin down.

July 14, 2024

Ridiculed lawmakers laugh all the way to bank; calls grow for ban on stock trading

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi's net worth is approaching $250 million in a surging stock market, and pressure also is growing for the California Democrat and others in Congress to ban lawmakers from individual stock trades.

May 29, 2024

Biden team rolls out De Niro, ex-Capitol police to slam Trump outside courthouse

The Biden campaign brought actor Robert De Niro and two Jan. 6 Capitol police officers to Manhattan Tuesday to blast former President Donald Trump amid closing arguments in the nearby courthouse in his hush money trial.

May 28, 2024

Maryland legislators scramble to pass aid package for idled port workers

Democrats at Maryland's state house scrambled Wednesday to draft an emergency aid package to replace income for more than 15,000 workers at the Port of Baltimore whose jobs are affected by the halt of shipping in the wake of a catastrophic bridge collapse.

March 27, 2024

Key Bridge collapse closes Baltimore’s busy economic artery to shipping traffic

The collapse of the Key Bridge in Baltimore has closed one of the East Coast's busiest ports to shipping traffic, delivering a severe blow to the region's economy.

March 26, 2024

Biden outlines divide with Republicans, embraces age, depicts Trump as threat to integrity of U.S.

President Biden confronted a national State of the Union audience that believes he is too old for the job Thursday night, calling on Republicans to end their blockade of aid to Ukraine and revive a failed border security plan in a prime-time test of his fitness to serve four more years.

March 7, 2024

Biden says indictment of FBI informant for lying should stop GOP’s impeachment probe

President Biden said the indictment of an FBI informant accused of lying about bribes allegedly paid to Mr. Biden and son Hunter Biden should compel Republicans to drop their impeachment investigation of him.

February 16, 2024

Inflation plagues Biden’s reelection despite his corporate greed focus

One of the many problems facing President Biden's bid for reelection is that high inflation, which soared after he took office, is now baked into voters' monthly budgets.

February 16, 2024

Biden makes ‘Mexico’ gaffe while addressing criticism of his memory

An indignant President Biden, trying to refute a special counsel's report that called into question his mental acuity, committed another verbal gaffe Thursday night by referring to the president of Egypt as the "president of Mexico."

February 8, 2024

Biden’s election-year freeze on new LNG exports cheers climate voters, rattles America’s allies

President Biden's moratorium on new LNG exports has threatened more than a dozen energy projects in the U.S. and raised doubts about America's reliability as a global fuel supplier, prompting accusations that he is weakening national security in an election-year ploy to appease young climate-conscious voters.

January 27, 2024

Biden jokes that Democrat McAuliffe is Virginia’s ‘real governor’

President Biden, who criticizes former President Donald Trump for denying the results of the 2020 election, joked Tuesday that former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is the state's "real" governor.

January 23, 2024

Biden approves shakeup of campaign leadership

President Biden has shaken up the leadership of his reelection campaign, sending a top White House aide to take over operations, according to a report.