Lynn Sweet
Washington Bureau Chief
Lynn Sweet is the Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun-Times. She appears frequently on CNN and other outlets as an analyst. Sweet has a master’s from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and an undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She also attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sweet is a former fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics. Sweet is in Northwestern University’s Medill Hall of Achievement and was named by Washingtonian Magazine as one of the capital’s “50 Top Journalists.”
Will Joe Biden still be at the Democratic National Convention? And what’s a delegate anyway? Here’s what to know about the Chicago convention.
The goal is for the nominee to be selected by Aug.7 in order to lock in access to ballots in every state by not waiting for the Democratic convention in Chicago running Aug. 19-22.
El gobernador J.B. Pritzker, que había estado en las listas de posibles sustitutos del Presidente Joe Biden, dijo el lunes por la mañana que había hablado con Harris y le había dicho que la decisión del presidente “fue una verdadera sorpresa”.
Some major donors signaled their distress about Biden staying in the race by declining to write more checks or host events. That concern dissolved within hours of Harris becoming the presumptive Democratic 2024 nominee, with no rival coming forward.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who had been on short lists as a potential replacement for President Joe Biden, said Monday morning he had spoken to Harris and told her the president’s decision “came as a genuine surprise.”
Some Democrats are staying mum, with just weeks to go before the Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago next month.
Luntz said the impact of Sen. JD Vance as former President Donald Trump’s VP pick is “not that much” because those who like Vance “are already giving Trump a hearing.”
The Illinois Republican had a lot going on at the convention because he wears a lot of hats. He’s a vice chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee — a House GOP political organization — and a member of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee and the Intelligence Committee.
When Trump delivers his acceptance address Thursday night, it will become clear whether the failed assassination attempt in any way changed him.