Month: April 2024

13 times Trump’s abortion position shifted over the last 25 years  CNNsource

A group of anti-Trump Republicans in Nebraska announced an ad blitz on Monday against a proposed change to the state’s Electoral College votes, which could net the former president an additional electoral vote if passed. The effort to change Nebraska from a split district to a “winner-take-all” state for electoral votes is backed by Trump,…
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David Cameron meets Donald Trump to urge Republican support for Ukraine aid  Financial Timessource

Filed under:To see what a second Trump administration would mean for reproductive rights, look to the mogul’s record and alliances. Donald Trump has an abortion problem.The presumptive GOP nominee boasts an advantage over President Joe Biden on most of today’s most salient issues. In a recent ABC News/Ipsos poll, voters said that they trusted Trump…
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Former President Trump tried to thread the needle on abortion on Monday — with apparently limited success. But Trump, for once, appears to be playing a longer game with an eye on November’s election. He appears willing to take short-term pain, in the shape of criticism from anti-abortion voices, in the hope that his position will…
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Watch CBS News By Graham Kates Updated on: April 8, 2024 / 5:46 PM EDT / CBS News An appellate judge Monday denied an 11th hour request by former President Donald Trump seeking to delay the start of the trial in his New York criminal case. Trump has made multiple attempts to push back the trial,…
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More than a dozen retired four-star generals, admirals and other former military leaders filed an amicus brief with in the Supreme Court on Monday, arguing against former President Trump’s claims of immunity in his criminal cases. The group said Trump’s claims “would threaten the military’s role in American society, our nation’s constitutional order, and our…
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Watch CBS News By Kate Gibson Edited By Alain Sherter April 8, 2024 / 3:35 PM EDT / CBS News Trump Media & Technology Group shares continued to spiral Monday, putting the company’s stock on track close at its lowest level since listing on the Nasdaq exchange in late March.In late-day trading the stock was…
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Morning Rundown: Special counsel says history ‘refutes’ Trump argument, lawyer kills ex-daughter-in-law in deposition, and the most stunning images from the eclipse ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeA state appeals court judge Monday denied Donald Trump‘s bid for an emergency delay of his impending criminal trial in New York.Justice Lizbeth…
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British Foreign Secretary David Cameron meets with Trump ahead of DC visit  CNNsource

Former President Trump’s favorability is rising among Latinos while President Biden’s has fallen, according to a new poll. The Axios/Ipsos survey, released Tuesday, shows Biden’s favorability among Latinos has fallen 6 points since last summer — 47 percent in June 2023 to 41 percent in March. Trump’s favorability among Latinos in the same time period…
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Prospective jurors in former President Trump’s hush money trial can expect to be asked about QAnon and Antifa — but not their political party affiliation. The New York judge overseeing Trump’s criminal trial has approved a questionnaire for jury selection, which is expected to get underway next week at the start of the trial. Judge…
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British foreign secretary will also urge congressional leaders in Washington to advance aid for Kyiv in its war against RussiaThe UK foreign secretary, David Cameron, has taken the unusual and potentially risky step of travelling to see Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida before a visit to Washington DC on Tuesday.Cameron was hoping…
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Letitia James to Begin Claiming Donald Trump’s Properties: Lawyer  Newsweeksource

Trump says Jewish Americans who vote for Biden don’t love Israel and ‘should be spoken to’  CNNsource

The recently retired House Republican also ripped his former colleague for focusing on her social media profile.

A veteran Democratic strategist painted a dark picture for Republicans Monday ahead of November’s election, confidently claiming that the GOP’s intraparty conflict makes it an “unprecedented dumpster fire” that could end up helping Democrats. Simon Rosenberg said that between a House GOP in chaos over retiring members, the potential of a new Speaker fight and…
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Donald Trump’s ‘Desperate’ Court Move Slammed  Newsweeksource

A New York appeals judge on Monday rejected former President Donald Trump’s emergency effort to delay his upcoming hush money trial until a decision was made on his request to move the case out of Manhattan.Trump is scheduled to face trial April 15 on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a…
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Trump Media Spirals as 36% Dive From Debut Erases Billions  Yahoo Financesource

Editor’s note: The Hill’s Morning Report is our daily newsletter that dives deep into Washington’s agenda. To subscribe, click here or fill out the box below. Close Thank you for signing up! Subscribe to more newsletters here The latest in politics and policy. Direct to your inbox. Sign up for the Morning Report newsletter Subscribe Former President Trump was pummeled…
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RFK Jr. ballot access consultant promotes strategy to throw the election to Trump  POLITICOsource

A key element of Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York is whether prosecutors can successfully tie the specific counts against him — that he doctored financial records of his companies — to a more lurid election-related conspiracy for which he is not facing charges.The trial, scheduled to begin April 15, centers on 34 counts…
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How Trump’s abortion stance has shifted over the years  The Washington Postsource

Andrew Weissmann said the former president’s efforts “really signal” one thing.