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A Manhattan jury will hear arguments this week on how much former US president Donald Trump should pay a writer who accused him of rape. This is the second time he will face former Elle magazine columnist E Jean Carroll in court.A jury already found he sexually assaulted and defamed the writer, awarding her $5m…
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Donald Trump’s challengers will only get so many chances to knock the de facto leader of the GOP off his pedestal, and they whiffed on a big one Monday.

Trump cannot deliver closing arguments at NY fraud trial, judge says  Reuters.comsource

Former President Trump easily won the Iowa caucuses Monday, besting Republican rivals Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the kickoff state as the race turns quickly to New Hampshire’s primary next week. Outlets called the race for Trump less than an hour after voting at the caucuses began in the Hawkeye State. While votes are still being…
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Vivek Ramaswamy is dropping out of the presidential race, his campaign spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin confirmed Monday night.“There’s no path for me to be the next president, absent things we don’t want to see happen in this country,” he said in a speech announcing that he was suspending his campaign after coming in 4th place in…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeBy Mark MurrayMore than 6-in-10 likely Republican caucusgoers — 61% — say that it doesn’t matter to their support if former President Donald Trump is convicted of a crime before the general election, according to the latest numbers from the new NBC News/Des Moines…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeDES MOINES, Iowa — Donald Trump has won the Iowa caucuses, NBC News projects, cementing his firm status as the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination.Trump, who is aiming to be the first former president since Grover Cleveland in the 1890s to return to…
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The former president told another whopper after winning the Republican caucuses.

Former President Trump took aim at his Republican rivals on Monday, just hours before Iowans were set to kick off the first presidential election contest of the 2024 cycle.In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump attacked the other GOP candidates for lacking the “America-first” set of values that are associated with his “Make…
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Trump legal news brief: Stormy Daniels says she is ‘set to testify’ at hush money trial  Yahoo Newssource

Sign up for Semafor Principals: What the White House is reading. Read it now.In this article:Donald Trump campaigned in Iowa over the weekend, but the real closing message — the one that has him up by historic margins in polling — was delivered over a thousand miles away.“This is a political witch hunt that should be…
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“It’s like a bunch of children scrambling to get hits,” one DeSantis supporter told HuffPost at the Florida Republican governor’s election watch party in West Des Moines, Iowa.

If Donald Trump polls as well as predicted in the Iowa caucus, the primaries for the US election may be over as quickly as they beganThe sun never sets on election season in America, but today the debates, TV ads and rallies make way briefly for some actual voting.And this year, the primary season —…
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President Biden on Monday night issued a plea for supporters to donate to his campaign in the wake of former President Trump’s victory in Iowa. “Looks like Donald Trump just won Iowa. He’s the clear front runner on the other side at this point,” Biden wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “But here’s the…
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Iowa caucus 2024: Donald Trump, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis campaign ahead of Republican vote – live updates  BBC.comsource

Jump to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Sunday defended the qualifications of a special prosecutor she hired for her case against Donald Trump and others over efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia after a defense lawyer accused Willis of professional impropriety.In her first public remarks since the accusation was made in…
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is poised to finish second in the Iowa GOP caucus, while former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is poised for third place, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ.   DeSantis’s second-place finish comes after the Florida governor invested heavily in the Hawkeye State. His performance in Iowa was seen as make-or-break,…
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Recorded earlier Former President Donald Trump speaks in Iowa at his official watch party in Des Moines. Former President Trump was projected to easily win the Iowa caucuses in the first major test of the 2024 Republican primary race, according to Decision Desk HQ. Watch the live feed above.

The false belief the 2020 election was stolen is part of some Trump voter’s ideology, while others are turned off by his legal woesAs Iowa Republicans gather on Monday to choose their presidential candidate, a host of big questions surround the potential return of Donald Trump and the future of democracy in the US.Ongoing court…
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Iowa is the first contest of the 2024 election.After months of hearing from presidential candidates, Iowans will face frigid temperatures Monday evening as they register their preferences in the first-in-the-nation Republican 2024 caucuses.In a state of a little more than 3 million people, the caucuses — which can take hours to participate in — usually…
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Adult film actress Stormy Daniels indicated over the weekend she expects to testify in former President Trump’s criminal trial in New York, where he faces charges over alleged hush money payments made to the actress. “Obviously, things have been next-level crazy, since I am set to testify in, at this point in time, March. Obviously,…
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) hyped up Iowa caucusgoers on Monday with a rousing speech praising former President Trump, urging the voters to caucus for Trump and reelect him in 2024. The congresswoman focused on immigration policy in her Boone, Iowa, speech, pledging her and Trump’s support for “mass deportations” if he is reelection. “We…
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Video: Donald Trump volunteer network trying to make history in Iowa  CNNsource

Just one year ago, Donald Trump and his team were openly welcoming Nikki Haley into the GOP presidential primary, even as the former president was privately trashing her for being a “two-faced” phony who didn’t know when to stop turning against — then back to — him. For much of 2023, Trump, his senior staff,…
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The three top GOP presidential candidates are all leading President Biden in a hypothetical general election match-up, according to a new poll.The CBS News/YouGov poll found that former President Trump, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis each edge out Biden in a head-to-head match-up. While Trump remains the clear favorite in the GOP…
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