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Election 2024

Star-Advertiser coverage of the 2024 elections.

 
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Trump’s plans could hike U.S. debt and raise costs for many

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan group that seeks lower deficits, found that Trump’s various plans could add as much as $15 trillion to the nation’s debt over a decade. That is nearly twice as much as the economic plans being proposed by Vice President Kamala Harris. Read more

Trump’s rambling speeches renew concerns over age

“He’s not competing at the level he was competing at eight years ago, no question about it,” said Anthony Scaramucci, a former Trump ally who has endorsed Harris. “He’s lost a step. He’s lost an ability to put powerful sentences together.” Read more

Liz Cheney, campaigning with Harris, says Trump ‘not fit to lead’

Cheney and her father Dick Cheney, who was vice president under George W. Bush and is still vilified by Democrats for his bullish defense of the Iraq War, are staunch conservatives and two of the most prominent Republicans to have endorsed Harris against Trump in the Nov. 5 election. Read more

‘Ideological choice’ faces House District 39 voters

Voters in Royal Kunia-Waipahu-­Honouliuli — part of a West Oahu area that’s been increasingly turning politically red — will have a clear choice between a traditional union-backed Democrat and an incumbent, evangelical Christian Republican whose views are sometimes so extreme that he was condemned by a West side Republican senator. Read more

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