Month: January 2024

DES MOINES — Donald Trump has hundreds of Iowa “caucus captains” recruiting their neighbors to participate for the first time. Canvassers for Ron DeSantis are knocking a fifth time on the doors of their targets. Allies of Nikki Haley have surged their TV spending, outmatching their rivals in the final, pivotal weeks.But the frenzy of…
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A voter in Iowa pressed Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis on Wednesday over why he hasn’t directly “gone after” former President Trump, citing DeSantis’s falling poll numbers. The voter, in the audience of a campaign stop in Waukee, Iowa on Wednesday, asked DeSantis, “One, why haven’t you gone directly after him [Trump]? Your polls are…
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Featured ShowsMSNBC TVMoreFollow msnbcMore BrandsMore ShowsBy Clarissa-Jan LimIn between peddling conspiracy theories and seeming to advocate violence on his show, Fox News host Jesse Watters has had no shortage of odd moments since taking over Tucker Carlson’s prime-time slot in July.On Tuesday night, he had another awkward moment when he brought out a psychic, Paula…
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Stay up to speed on all the latest local and national political news.A hearing was held Wednesday in federal court over a new lawsuit aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump off the ballot in New Hampshire. Little-known Republican candidate John Anthony Castro has filed another lawsuit in federal court arguing that Trump is disqualified…
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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.Maine’s Democratic secretary of state spoke about her decision to unilaterally bar former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause. (Dec. 29)FILE – Former President Donald Trump speaks during a commit to caucus rally, Dec. 19, 2023, in Waterloo, Iowa. Police…
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Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing in election and policy coverage.Donald Trump's attorneys inadvertently just helped Special Counsel Jack Smith prove a major part of his case against the former president, argued…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeWASHINGTON — Since Donald Trump left office in January 2021, the former president has not fared well at the Supreme Court, despite its conservative majority, including three justices he appointed.When Trump tried to prevent prosecutors from obtaining his financial records, the court rejected his…
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WASHINGTON − Former President Donald Trump is already expanding his big talk about the 2024 general election, claiming he will play for Democratic-leaning states that Republicans − including him − have not won in decades.“One of the other things I’m going to do − and I may be foolish in doing it − is I’m…
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Elections New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu on Sunday called Christie “a friend” before adding that he thinks the former New Jersey governor’s 2024 bid is “at an absolute dead end.” By Andrew Howard 01/03/2024 12:04 PM EST Updated: 01/03/2024 01:03 PM EST Link CopiedChris Christie thinks anyone who expects him to drop out of the…
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Outside a 2016 Trump campaign rally in Eugene. (Miguel Pobre) Attorneys for former President Donald Trump filed a 162-page brief with the Oregon Supreme Court on Dec. 29, arguing that efforts to block him from the state’s ballot, led by Portland lawyers Dan Meek and Jason Kafoury, are “inappropriate.”The top court in Colorado and Maine’s…
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Barry Bennett and Douglas Watts admitted to lying to the Justice Department.A former adviser to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, along with a former aide to one-time presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson, have admitted to unlawfully lobbying on behalf of Qatar, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.Barry Bennett and Douglas Watts admitted to lying to the…
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Senior Reporter, HuffPostFormer President Donald Trump may have a “sense of loss” in his future, according to a psychic on Fox News.On his primetime show Tuesday, Jesse Watters said he had recently received a “delightful reading” from a fortune teller at a dinner party. “And when I asked her about Trump, she said there’d be…
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Trump appeals Maine decision to boot him from ballot and he’s expected to appeal in Colorado. What that means and …  Yahoo Newssource

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Before becoming the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump was known for his dealings in real estate. However, all of his media coverage today is related to politics, and a notable development of late is Maine's Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, removing Trump from the state's primary ballot for the 2024 election.With all…
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A federal judge on Tuesday tossed most of the counts against former President Donald Trump and two Jan. 6 rioters in a civil suit over the death of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who was killed by a stroke one day after he was attacked with bear spray while doing battle with a violent…
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Several of Donald Trump’s biggest fans seem increasingly frantic about a forthcoming list divulging the names of those who traveled on Epstein’s plane and visited his various international estates.In social media posts and public appearances, several MAGA talking heads have made it clear that Trump’s highly anticipated presence on such a list, which is expected…
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Help keep Salon independentSpecial counsel Jack Smith’s hypotheticals in recent court filings have caught the eye of legal analysts who think he may be telegraphing “seriously scandalous Trump crimes,” according to The Daily Beast’s Jose Pagliery.Smith’s team in an 82-page filing over the weekend warned an appellate court against granting former President Donald Trump’s claim…
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WASHINGTON − Former President Donald Trump sued Maine’s secretary of state Tuesday for disqualifying him from the state’s primary ballot because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, opening another legal front in the saga over whether voters in some states will be barred from selecting the Republican front-runner.Election…
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Senior White House Correspondent, HuffPostWASHINGTON ― President Joe Biden could, in theory, have Donald Trump abducted from his Mar-a-Lago home, spirited off to St. Helena in the faraway South Atlantic, and secretly kept there indefinitely, or even straight-up killed, without ever having to worry about criminal charges.Or so says Donald Trump’s logic.As part of his…
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Former President Trump’s campaign is urging the Supreme Court to overturn the decision in Colorado booting the former president from the 2024 presidential ballot last month. Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung accused the Colorado Supreme Court and the plaintiffs on Wednesday of “doing all they can to disenfranchise all American voters” by removing the former…
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How about Vice President Vivek Ramaswamy?Though not a single voter has cast a ballot for the 2024 presidential nominations yet, surely it’s not too soon to start the speculation about Donald Trump’s pick as running mate.For starters, the general election is heading toward a rematch between Trump and President Joe Biden, but there’s basically no…
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As Donald Trump prepared to ring in the new year at Mar-a-Lago alongside his attorney Alina Habba, his other attorney, Christina Bobb, was busy spewing MAGA talking points and peddling propaganda on his behalf. Bobb went on Newsmax last week to accuse opponents of the one-term, twice-impeached, quadruply-indicted ex-president of trying to poison his 2024…
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Former President Trump’s attorney Alina Habba on Wednesday said the former president is concerned the U.S. Supreme Court justices may “shy away from being pro-Trump,” and rule against him in regard to the recent decisions in Colorado and Maine that kicked him off the states’ 2024 primary ballots. Responding to New York Times reporter Maggie…
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