Month: April 2024

ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeWASHINGTON — The White House seized on remarks by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell that former President Donald Trump resisted accepting any bipartisan compromise to toughen border security laws.McConnell, R-Ky., made the comments hours before the Senate passed a sweeping $95 billion foreign aid…
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Former President Donald Trump attacked independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sunday as a “Radical Left Lunatic” who is “far more LIBERAL than anyone running as a Democrat,” as both candidates hope to align Kennedy with the other ahead of the November elections.Former President Donald Trump’s attack on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. comes…
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Donald Trump has fussed about many things during his criminal trial in Manhattan: the judge, prosecutors, their relatives, witnesses, jurors and of course the media, for reporting on the sparse crowds outside.Yet Trump of all people knows that his fellow New Yorkers are proudly blasé about celebrity goings-on. It shouldn’t be surprising that not much…
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South Dakota governor includes bloody tale in campaign volume – and admits ‘a better politician … wouldn’t tell the story here’In 1952, as a Republican candidate for vice-president, Richard Nixon stirred criticism by admitting receiving a dog, Checkers, as a political gift.In 2012, as the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney was pilloried for tying a…
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President Biden’s reelection campaign faces the difficult task of appealing to moderate Republicans who may feel like they don’t have a place to go this election with former President Trump on the ballot. The president has a prime opportunity to peel off some of those voters, which would boost his reelection chances and expand his…
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Often referred to as Washington’s “nerd prom,” hundreds of journalists, politicians, and celebrities rubbed shoulders on Saturday evening at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.The evening often features a roast from the president that takes aim at reporters and other guests in the audience. But this year, Joe Biden used the speech to mock his…
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Michelle L. Price, Associated Press Michelle L. Price, Associated Press Leave your feedbackNEW YORK (AP) — Even by Donald Trump’s standards, this was a dizzying week.The first criminal prosecution of a former president began in earnest with opening statements and testimony in a lower Manhattan courtroom. But the action quickly spread to involve more than half a dozen cases…
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday that all of the criminal court cases brought against former President Trump are “selective prosecution.” Graham told CNN’s Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the legal battles brought against the former president are “political.” The South Carolina Republican also mentioned the New York hush money trial…
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US election 2024: Who are the mega-rich donors backing Trump?  Reuters.comsource

Former president Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis met privately Sunday morning in Miami, according to people familiar with the matter, breaking a years-long chill between the presumptive Republican nominee and his onetime chief primary rival.Allies brokered the meeting in hopes of a potential détente between the two men, and Trump’s advisers hope DeSantis…
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Utah GOP picks Trump-backed mayor as nominee to replace Mitt Romney  POLITICOsource

Even for Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee, the latest legal mess involving their 2020 election lies is a little too on the nose.Christina Bobb, the RNC’s new senior counsel for election integrity, is likely one of 18 Trump aides and supporters swept up in an Arizona indictment, charged with felonies like fraud, forgery…
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Watch CBS News By Anthony Salvanto, Kabir Khanna, Jennifer De Pinto April 28, 2024 / 9:30 AM EDT / CBS News For years, they’ve been three of the handful of states that decided presidential elections. In the summer of 2020, amid the COVID pandemic and lockdown debates, sizable majorities in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania rated…
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The former president took shots at host Colin Jost and called Biden’s speech “an absolute disaster!”

More ‘LIBERAL than anyone running as a Democrat’: Trump keeps up attacks on RFK Jr.  POLITICOsource

Donald Trump is running against Joe Biden, but Trump keeps bringing up another Democrat, Jimmy CarterATLANTA — As Donald Trump campaigns for a return to the White House, he often reaches back more than 40 years and seven administrations to belittle President Joe Biden by comparing him to 99-year-old Jimmy Carter.Most recently, Trump used his…
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Featured ShowsMSNBC TVMoreFollow msnbcMore BrandsMore ShowsDonald Trump has allegedly violated the gag order in his New York criminal trial more than a dozen times. Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti shares how the judge may be delaying any penalties for Trump to leave the threat "hanging over" his lawyers so they rein in their client.April 28,…
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‘I’m a grown man running against a 6-year-old’: Biden jokes about his age and Trump at Correspondents’ Dinner  CNNsource

Eric Trump defended his father’s stamina, in a Sunday interview, even as the former president remains stuck in a New York courtroom instead of on the campaign trail. In an interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Maria Bartiromo noted that former President Trump – who is on trial for 34 alleged crimes in New…
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Political experts say ongoing court cases not likely to hurt Trump's reelection bid and could actually help himAt a time in the election cycle when every moment counts for presidential candidates, the usual calculus has changed for former President Donald Trump. He’s spent most of his time lately attending his New York criminal trial, but…
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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are again neck and neck in tight races across several battleground states, with voters expressing lingering economic concerns weighing heavily on Biden. A new CBS News poll conducted in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin found that Biden and Trump are virtually tied in voters’ preferences for president within…
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Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your WorldRead our research on:Full Topic ListRead Our Research On:|Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand voters’ views on the 2024 presidential election, as well how the public views President Joe Biden. For this analysis, we surveyed 8,709 adults – including 7,166 registered voters – from April 8 to…
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In this pokey courtroom in Manhattan, I’m so close to the former president I think I can hear the mints rattling in his pocket “Are you on the list?” the burly man guarding the door asks.“Yes… I should be”, I reply, watching nervously as he flicks through several sheets of A4 paper.It’s 7.30am and I’ve…
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Former President Trump’s pursuit of a second term in the White House could lead to an administration stocked with loyalists who are laser-focused on implementing Trump’s agenda and are willing to cater to his whims. Critics, including some who have worked closely with Trump, have expressed concerns that a second Trump administration would have fewer…
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