Elections “If I were a Democrat in Michigan, I would be breaking the emergency fire alarms,” the pollster says. Other recent state and national polls have found former President Trump with a similar strong lead over President Joe Biden. | Alex Brandon/AP By Olivia Alafriz 01/09/2024 08:10 PM EST Link CopiedDonald Trump is trouncing Joe…
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Democrats who control the Maine Legislature have turned back a Republican effort to impeach the state’s top election official for her decision to keep former President Donald Trump off the ballotAUGUSTA, Maine — Democrats who control the Maine Legislature on Tuesday rejected a Republican effort to impeach the state's top election official for her decision…
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Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) endorsed former President Trump for the White House Tuesday evening. “Well, the people of Wyoming and of course all your viewers know that the country was much better off under President Donald Trump and Joe Biden continues to fail America,” Barrasso first announced on Fox News’s “Hannity.” Barrasso praised Trump for his…
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President Biden’s reelection campaign bashed former President Trump on Tuesday after he said he hoped the U.S. economy would crash in the next 12 months, arguing he doesn’t care about people.“Donald Trump should just say he doesn’t give a damn about people, because that’s exactly what he’s telling the American people when he says he hopes the…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump aims to deliver his own closing argument Thursday in his New York civil business fraud trial in addition to his legal team’s summations, according to two people familiar with the highly unusual plan.Trump is a defendant in the case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.…
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LIVE: Appeals court hears arguments over Trump’s immunity claim NBC Newssource
Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb warned that people need to take former President Trump seriously as a threat to democracy. CNN anchor Erin Burnett asked Cobb about an argument from Trump’s legal team Tuesday that suggested a president directing SEAL Team Six to assassinate a political opponent is covered by presidential immunity. She pointed out Trump’s…
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Daily News e-EditionEvening e-EditionSign up for email newsletters Sign up for email newslettersDaily News e-EditionEvening e-Edition Trending: Former President Donald Trump returned to a federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday as an appeals court vigorously grilled his lawyers about his claim to be immune from prosecution in his federal election interference case.The former president…
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WASHINGTON − Former President Donald Trump seems to be rooting for a financial crash this year so that it can help him get reelected.“When there’s a crash − I hope it’s gonna be during this next 12 months, because I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover,” Trump told interviewer Lou Dobbs on the “Lindell TV”…
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House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik’s (R-N.Y.) campaign said it has raised a record $5.2 million in fourth-quarter fundraising. “Chairwoman Elise Stefanik announced that Team Elise raised over $5.2 million in Q4 of 2024, with an average donation of $25, over 35,000 first-time donors, and shattering our previous fundraising record as well as shattering the…
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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.FILE – Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a commit to caucus rally, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024, in Clinton, Iowa. Trump is seizing on his party’s frustration with the recent surge of illegal crossings at the southern U.S. border to churn up fears around voter…
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He’s fueled lies about Barack Obama, Ted Cruz, Kamala Harris and now Nikki Haley not being natural-born Americans. What do they all have in common?
A three-judge panel during a hearing Tuesday appeared broadly skeptical of former President Trump’s claims that he enjoys broad presidential immunity from prosecution on charges related to the 2020 presidential election.Trump’s lawyers took a firm position, arguing former presidents such as Trump can only face prosecution if they are first impeached and then convicted by…
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Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inA trial is scheduled to begin next week. His attorneys have suggested appealing to the Supreme Court Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profileDonald Trump lost yet another…
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Takeaways from the appeals court hearing on Donald Trump’s immunity claims CNNsource
Reporter, HuffPostFormer U.S. Attorney Harry Litman explained why newly emerged testimony ― including from Dan Scavino, former deputy chief of staff for communications in the Trump White House ― is the final “nail in the coffin” that proves former President Donald Trump had no intention of calling off his supporters during their attack on the…
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Watch CBS News By Melissa Quinn, Katrina Kaufman, Robert Legare Updated on: January 9, 2024 / 3:24 PM EST / CBS News Washington — A federal appeals court questioned the limits of a broad claim of presidential immunity put forward by former President Donald Trump, peppering his attorney with extreme hypothetical scenarios during contentious oral…
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Former President Trump said in an interview that aired Monday that he predicts the U.S. economy will crash and that he hopes it does so within the next year.In the interview with Lou Dobbs, Trump, the current front-runner in the GOP presidential primary race, explained that, if he were elected again, he would not want…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico’s top prosecutor said Friday that the state’s five Republican electors cannot be prosecuted under the current law for filing election certificates that falsely declared Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 presidential race.However, Democratic Attorney General Raúl Torrez is…
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Massachusetts is among a handful of states contesting former President Donald Trump’s ability to appear on the 2024 ballot after he encouraged his supporters’ failed insurrection bid on January 6th, 2021. Trump has been removed from the Colorado and Maine primary ballots already and following appeals by the Trump campaign, the Supreme Court says it…
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Live updates: Trump to attend arguments today over immunity in election interference case NBC Newssource
Republicans are again giving the former president a pass as he steamrolls his way to the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.
He lies just like him, he abandons his duty just like him.Joe Biden is a lie and a liar.That opening sentence is meant to sting. More importantly, it is meant to shatter the happy caricature that the sitting US president is an antidote – in character, nature and temperament – to his predecessor, Donald Trump.Biden…
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President Biden is trailing former President Trump by 8 percentage points in the battleground state of Michigan, according to a new poll. The latest Michigan poll found that while neither of the frontrunner candidates secured a majority support, voters were more likely to support Trump than Biden, The Detroit News reported. The poll, which was commissioned by…
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Judges expressed scepticism on Tuesday, as lawyers for Donald Trump presented a landmark case that ex-presidents should get immunity from criminal prosecution.Mr Trump's lawyers claimed his time in office protects him from charges connected to his alleged effort to overturn the 2020 election.The justice department argued the presidency was not "above the law".Mr Trump, the…
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