Month: January 2024

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), the No. 2 Republican in the House, endorsed former President Trump in his 2024 presidential bid Tuesday.“I am proud to endorse Donald Trump for president in 2024, and I look forward to working with President Trump and a Republican House and Senate to fight for those families who are…
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Trump was expected to also ask the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on his eligibility to return to the presidency in a related Colorado case.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr called efforts to push former President Trump from primary ballots “doomed to legal failure” in an op-ed for The Free Press on Tuesday. “The actions of Colorado and Maine, and other states that follow suit, are not only doomed to legal failure, they also embolden and empower the former president,”…
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The Colorado voters who successfully axed Donald Trump from state primary ballots are asking the nation’s highest court to weigh in.

Del Bigtree, a leading anti-vaccine activist, has joined Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign as communications director. In a letter to supporters, Bigtree called for donations and said Kennedy is healing the divide among Americans “who censor vs. those who disagree.” Kennedy, who switched his bid from Democrat to independent in October, has been a…
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Former President Trump on Tuesday appealed a decision kicking him off Maine’s primary ballot to state court, beginning the next phase of the consequential 14th Amendment case. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) disqualified Trump last week, making Maine the second state to rule Trump is ineligible under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection ban. Trump’s…
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GOP candidates spar in Iowa as Trump remains in the lead  TODAYsource

WASHINGTON – House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., endorsed former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential race, becoming the latest high-profile Republican to fall behind the former president as he seeks the GOP nomination. “I am proud to endorse Donald Trump for president in 2024, and I look forward to working with President Trump and…
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Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who was recently expelled from Congress, made a pitch on Tuesday to serve as former President Trump’s director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if Trump wins his bid to return to the White House in 2024. “My new year resolution is that President Trump returns to the white…
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Two men with ties to former President Trump’s 2016 campaign were charged Tuesday with violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Barry Bennett, an unpaid adviser to the 2016 Trump campaign, and his associate Douglas Watts were charged with violating FARA, according to court documents. Prosecutors alleged Bennett “did knowingly and willfully falsify, conceal, and…
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The year 2023 in Atlanta will be forever remembered as the year a Fulton County grand jury indicted a former U.S. president. Formal charges of racketeering and 12 other felonies were brought against Donald Trump for allegedly overseeing a conspiracy that sought to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.The indictment was…
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By Debra Cassens WeissJanuary 2, 2024, 10:08 am CST Michael Cohen, who was once a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, exits the courtroom of Trump’s civil business fraud trial at the New York Supreme Court in New York in October. Photo by Yuki Iwamura/The Associated Press.Former lawyer Michael Cohen has informed a federal judge…
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Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission. Former President Donald Trump will hold an Iowa town hall with Fox News Channel next week, directly opposite CNN’s debate featuring 2024 rivals Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, FNC announced Tuesday.Trump, 77, is confirmed to miss the fifth debate of the Republican primary calendar Jan. 10 in…
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He could ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn his disqualification Tuesday.Former President Donald Trump's legal team as early as Tuesday could appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court the Colorado Supreme Court decision barring him from the GOP primary ballot under the 14th Amendment.Trump's team has already said it intends to appeal the decision, which…
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Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) said she and her House Republican colleagues see border security as “nonnegotiable,” and it should be prioritized over foreign aid as lawmakers debate a supplemental spending package. The fight over the border has become intertwined with requests for additional aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. “For me and so many of…
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Will KJ-T strike Olympic gold? Will Sunak go for an early election? How much will Taylor Swift fans bring to the UK economy? From tech to fashion, food to politics, the Observer’s top writers predict who and what will make the headlinesby Ellie BramleyFashion and lifestyle have a knack for the surprise. The out-of-the-blue rise…
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Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) says that CNN anchor Anderson Cooper doing shots on live television during the network’s coverage of New Year’s Eve celebrations around the world is evidence of decline in America. “Nothing is better under Joe Biden’s America,” the Republican lawmaker said during an appearance on the Fox Business Network. “Heck, even Anderson Cooper is…
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Dave McCormick, a Republican seeking to challenge Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) in November, met with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Israel on Tuesday. Axios reporter Barak Ravid posted photos of McCormick’s trip on X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter. “Today he met w/ IDF officials at Kfar Azza. He will meet military…
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Trump’s courtroom and campaign trail collision is about to become a reality  CNNsource

When the Colorado Supreme Court ejected Donald Trump from the state’s Republican primary ballot next year, it set off what will be the biggest political story in the first quarter of 2024.  Whether the former president engaged in insurrection and whether Section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars him from running for president is a…
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Ken Block, whom the Trump campaign hired in 2020 to find voter fraud in the election, penned an op-ed Tuesday stating unequivocally that the 2020 presidential election was not stolen and that there was no evidence of voter fraud sufficient to change the outcome of the election. “Can a steady diet of lies and innuendo…
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Kathleen Culliton is Raw Story's assistant managing editor. She's been covering local and national news for more than a decade for outlets that include the New York Post, Al Jazeera, DNAinfo New York, Bustle, the New York Daily News, WNYC, NY1, City Limits and the New York City Patch. Kathleen is a proud alumna of the…
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Get the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app. Learn More Continue in Browser Get hyperlocal forecasts, radar and weather alerts.Please enter a valid zipcode.SaveDonald Trump was acting within his role as president when he pressed claims about “alleged fraud and irregularity” in the 2020 election, his lawyers told a…
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A super PAC backing former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s bid for the GOP presidential nomination is going after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on the issue of China in the closing days before the Iowa caucuses. The new ad hammers DeSantis for describing China as Florida’s most important trading partner and for the expansion of…
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Special counsel Jack Smith pushes back on Trump’s immunity claim  CNNsource