Susan Ferrechio has been writing about politics and national news for more than three decades, providing coverage through six presidents and eight House speakers. She writes about politics and other top national issues for The Washington Times. Her coverage includes Congress, the presidency, elections, and energy policy with an emphasis on stories ignored by other media. She first joined The Washington Times in 1995 then moved to The Miami Herald, followed by Congressional Quarterly and The Washington Examiner, where she served as chief congressional correspondent and provided coverage for four presidential campaign cycles and countless congressional and senate races. She returned to The Washington Times in 2022 and serves as national politics correspondent. Susan has provided commentary for Fox News, MSNBC, NEWSMAX, ABC News, NewsNation, WMAL Radio, CSPAN and the McLaughlin Group. She can be reached at sferrechio@washingtontimes.com.
Former President Trump may select a relatively unknown governor as his running mate, casting aside more-publicized Republican choices, including two from the U.S. Senate.
The assassination attempt against Donald Trump came after months of heated rhetoric aimed at the former president, including from President Biden who a week ago said it was time to put his political rival "in a bullseye."
A Trump supporter saw a man with a rifle crawling on top of the roof of a building behind the campaign rally stage in Butler, Pennsylvania where former President Donald Trump was apparently hit by a bullet in an assassination attempt on Saturday.
Former President Donald Trump was injured but survived an apparent assassination attempt Saturday in which law enforcement agents shot dead a gunman, and a Trump supporter was killed, at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
Former President Trump was bloodied but escaped serious injury when apparent shots rang out while he was speaking Saturday at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
The White House physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, has been deeply intertwined in the Biden family for 15 years and the close relationship has raised doubts about his objectivity in assessing President Biden for neurological problems that some believe have rendered him unfit to serve.
In one of the most consequential press conferences of his political career, President Biden defended his foreign and domestic leadership, stumbling several times in his bid to prove he is fit for another four years in office despite his 81 years.
Former President Barack Obama's ex-aides and prominent pals have become the loudest voices pushing President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race, even as their old boss publicly backs his vice president.
President Biden is hell-bent on showing he's not too old for the job as he helms a critical NATO summit while lawmakers in his own Democratic Party scrutinize his performance to determine if he belongs on the 2024 ticket.
President Biden delivered a defiant message Monday to panicked Democratic Party leaders: He's not quitting his reelection campaign because it would defy the will of primary voters.
A neurologist and Parkinson's disease specialist has made nearly a dozen visits to the White House Medical Unit, visitor logs show, raising new questions about President Biden's fitness for office as he battles efforts to push him off the 2024 ballot.
Leading Democrats warn that President Biden has just days to prove he can overcome questions about his mental and physical fitness and defeat former President Donald Trump in November.
President Biden's White House physician helped the Biden family secure a big payout from a failed hospital venture in 2018, and lawmakers are now questioning whether his doctor's involvement in family business marred his objectivity in diagnosing Mr. Biden's cognitive abilities.
Hunter Biden played "the dad card" to help shield him in a securities fraud case when Joe Biden was vice president, say House investigators who are demanding answers from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
First lady Jill Biden has taken a leading role in propping up President Biden, inviting comparisons to first lady Edith Wilson who took the reins at the White House a century ago when President Wilson was incapacitated by a stroke halfway through his second term.
President Biden could be pushed aside, or he could voluntarily give up the nomination and endorse a replacement, panicked party insiders and vocal Democrats are saying in the aftermath of Mr. Biden's catastrophic debate performance.
A calm and measured former President Trump leveled blows at President Biden's job performance as Mr. Biden struggled at times to provide cogent answers as the two faced off in the first presidential debate.
The 2020 letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials discrediting the Hunter Biden laptop story was fueled by a phone call from then-Biden campaign adviser Antony Blinken to former Deputy CIA Director Michael Morrell, according to a House investigation.
Former President Donald Trump is being warned to avoid debate pitfalls Thursday that could weaken his standing with voters, particularly critical independents and moderate Republicans who remain on the fence about the former president.
President Biden will face his most crucial mental acuity test on Thursday when he steps onto the debate stage in Atlanta with former President Donald Trump. Mr. Biden will be unassisted during one of the most important events of his political career and as public confidence in his fitness for office plummets.