Hope For America with Heather Delaney Reese

At 4:36 this afternoon, Donald Trump stood on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews and lost control when a reporter asked about his canceled rally. “You are disgusting,” he snapped. “Put yourself in shape. You look like hell.” Hours later, another rally was canceled. With five days until the midterms, a senator warning about reported plans for war with Iran, and Trump apparently unable to identify the general his administration had just fired, this was far more than another ugly exchange with the...

At 12:29 in the afternoon, my phone lit up with so many messages that I pulled off the freeway, worried there had been an emergency. The first began with “URGENT!” Someone named Dave claimed he had been assigned to “TRACK” my ballot. Dave wasn’t real. The fear was deliberate. As Republican campaigns filled our phones with threats and false urgency, Trump defended an ad attacking a child abuse survivor, Obama reminded Americans what leadership could look like, and a federal judge stopped the D...

Just before 6:30 Central Time, Donald Trump emerged in Lubbock with MAGA hats stacked up his arm, tossing them into the audience before an hour and forty-five minutes of familiar stories. He joked about handsome young men, wondered aloud whether a noise was Iran “dropping something,” and called this “the golden age of America.” But none of it could distract from the disturbing allegations in a new House Judiciary report, or from election officials preparing to protect our votes from possible ...

Donald Trump sent JD Vance to Montana to help Republicans, and one sentence about gas prices captured the problem with their entire argument. Vance said prices skyrocket when a “tin-pot dictator” throws a tantrum. Meanwhile, CNN reported preparations for possible new military operations against Iran, with no final decision from Trump. Then Vance asked for a healthy two-party system and, less than ten seconds later, accused Democrats of not believing in America. Loving this country has never m...

At 3:29 this afternoon, Donald Trump stepped onto a stage in Port Huron, Michigan, and turned a campaign rally into an attack on a Muslim American doctor’s right to belong in his own country. He called Abdul El-Sayed a jihadist, attacked his family, and shamed Jewish Americans who support him. Then David Beamer stood beside the president and told the crowd that a birth certificate doesn’t make someone an American. We have heard versions of that argument before, and we should remember where th...