Month: September 2023

Republicans prominent in move to accelerate long-shot bid say they have been in close touch with twice-impeached ex-presidentDonald Trump has been in discussions with influential House Republicans over the party’s long-shot attempt to impeach Joe Biden over unproven corruption allegations relating to his son Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings.Trump was in contact with Elise Stefanik,…
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Alex Brandon/APIf only the Republicans could get rid of Donald Trump, it could return to normal. This is a common refrain they you often hear from pundits and members of the political class, or maybe from a relative or friend. Trump, in this view, is a dangerous aberration, and all that is needed to de-Trumpify…
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Lawsuits filed in the state aimed to bar the former president from appearing on 2024 presidential ballots there.

President Biden holds a slim one-point lead over former President Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup ahead of the 2024 presidential election.  In a Quinnipiac University poll published Wednesday, 47 percent of registered respondents said they would vote for Biden, while 46 percent of respondents said they would cast their vote for Trump.  By age…
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AdvertisementSupported byThe party’s big donors have made clear their distaste for the former president. Now, as he barrels toward the nomination, they are reacting with a mix of hand-wringing, calls to arms and fatalism.By Rebecca Davis O’BrienOn Labor Day, Eric Levine, a New York lawyer and Republican fund-raiser, sent an email to roughly 1,500 donors,…
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced his plans Tuesday to launch an impeachment inquiry, saying it was the “logical next step” after months of probing by House Republicans into the Biden family. The investigations have so far yet to turn up evidence that the president violated the law. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily…
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Support for former President Trump has ticked up in a new GOP primary poll, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s support has dipped.  The new Quinnipiac University poll found that support for the former president stood at 62 percent among Republican-aligned voters, up from the 57 percent he garnered in August. DeSantis received 12 percent, continuing a decline…
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My record as a political forecaster is creditable, but I admit to one complete aberration. In 1996, I thought that, despite the incumbent’s overwhelming advantage in political skills, Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas would narrowly defeat President Bill Clinton. (Clinton won 379 to 159 in the Electoral College. I was not even close.) My rationale…
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Roughly 6 in 10 American voters in a new Quinnipiac University poll support an age cap as an eligibility requirement for presidential candidates.  The poll found 61 percent of voters support a maximum age limit to be eligible to run for president, while 34 percent of voters do not back the idea. The results come…
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The New Hampshire Secretary of State on Wednesday said there are no legal grounds to not allow Donald Trump on the primary ballot in the state. “There is no mention in New Hampshire state statute that a candidate in a New Hampshire presidential primary can be disqualified using the 14th Amendment of the United States…
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The policymaking body of the federal courts indicated Tuesday that it hasn’t considered a change in rules to allow livestreaming of criminal trials such as those of former President Donald Trump.Judge Lavenski Smith, chair of the Executive Committee of the Judicial Conference, told reporters that while the conference met and changed rules for broadcasts of…
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A presidential candidate was photographed and fingerprinted at a jail in Atlanta while his  campaign hawked merchandise featuring the candidate’s prison photo. The candidate vowed to pardon himself if elected, and his supporters promised to vote for him no matter what. The year was 1920, and perennial Socialist Party presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs was…
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By Justin WiseRon DeSantis leads Donald Trump with a better than 6-to-1 advantage in campaign donations from lawyers, who appear eager to deny the former president a third Republican nomination.DeSantis raked in more than $1.3 million in individual lawyer contributions through the end of June compared with just under $200,000 for Trump, according to federal…
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Fulton County’s District Attorney Fani Willis (D) on Wednesday insisted former President Trump and all of his co-defendants in the 2020 election interference case be tried together in October, despite already-emerging skepticism from the judge. “The State requests this Court to keep all defendants together for trial … until the Defendants have presented to this Court…
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Sean Penn says the way that former President Trump can win the 2024 White House race is if voters either didn’t “give two shits” or were “too cynical.” “Let’s say one believes it would be awful, embarrassing, dangerous, numbing, stupefying, unloving of our children to elect Donald Trump president,” Penn said in an interview with Variety published Wednesday. “That’s…
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Former Vice President Mike Pence poked fun at an angry heckler at a Tuesday campaign stop in Iowa. “Get the f— out of our country and get the f— out of Iowa!” a heckler shouted at Pence at an event in Decorah, Iowa, according to a video aired by NBC.  “I’m going to put him down as…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThe New York judge presiding over Donald Trump‘s hush-money case has signaled a possible change to the trial’s March start date as a result of the former president’s other cases that are set to play out in court next year.In a brief letter, Judge Juan Merchan said he that he would…
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Trump Has Been Privately Encouraging GOP Lawmakers to Impeach Biden  Yahoo Newssource

A federal judge issued a protective order Wednesday in the Mar-a-Lago case, clearing the sharing of classified evidence as the Justice Department prosecutes former President Trump for mishandling government secrets. The order from Judge Aileen Cannon does not acknowledge a request from Trump to review those documents by redesignating a space in his home as…
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Haberman: How impeachment inquiry could benefit Biden  CNNsource

Elections experts warn that two decades of hyperpartisan politics and close elections have put American democracy under “great stress” that boiled over during the last presidential election.   Concerns of electoral legitimacy exploded after the 2020 election when former President Trump made false claims against the integrity of the election system and attempted to overturn the…
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More than 80 New Hampshire Republican elected officials, including Senate President Jeb Bradley and House Speaker Sherman Packard, have signed onto a letter calling for Donald Trump to be granted ballot access during next year’s state presidential primary. The letter, released by the Trump campaign Thursday, calls potential legal efforts to bar the former president…
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Mark Meadows’ latest failure in court is terrible news for Donald Trump.  Slatesource

BREAKING: Escaped Pennsylvania killer Danelo Cavalcante captured after almost 2 weeks on the run Featured ShowsMSNBC TVMoreFollow msnbcMore BrandsMore ShowsMSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell lays out breaking news in the Georgia RICO case that District Attorney Willis insists on trying Trump and his 18 co-defendants together in late October and breaking the case up into multiple trials would…
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On Tuesday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) finally acknowledged that the far-right House Freedom Caucus had beaten him. In rushing to announce a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, McCarthy gave his hardline colleagues exactly what they wanted — and did away with the last remaining reason for keeping McCarthy in his job. It…
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