By Charisma Madarang Trump hit two critical Midwest battlegrounds on Tuesday, first stopping in Grand Rapids, Michigan, then traveling to Green Bay, Wisconsin — “blue wall” states he won in 2016, then lost to President Joe Biden four year later. Yet in a speech peppered with blunders, Trump — who faces two criminal indictments brought…
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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.A voter braves a cold rain running to cast a ballot during the Spring election Tuesday, April 2, 2024, in Fox Point, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)Arthur Crookes, center, fills out his ballot as his grandson, Joseph Godek, 9, right, watches at a polling station in Cumberland, R.I. during…
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Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissman said Tuesday that former President Trump could face a jail sentence if he is convicted of falsifying business records in his New York hush money trial, which starts later this month. Trump is facing 34 felony counts over claims that he falsified business records in attempts to cover up hush…
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This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox.A decade and a half ago, the Affordable Care Act set the stage for Donald Trump’s White House victory. The conservative backlash to Democrats’ massive and agenda-setting health care proposal was so strong…
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Donald Trump’s Mind ‘Faltering,’ Top Psychologist Warns Newsweeksource
Both candidates have clinched nominations, but Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island and Wisconsin turnout may hint at 2024 resultsBoth Joe Biden and Donald Trump won primary elections in four states, including the crucial battleground state of Wisconsin.Hundreds of delegates were up for grabs in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and Wisconsin on Tuesday, and Biden…
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Donald Trump’s eldest son got nostalgic as he called on supporters to help save Trump Tower.
Donald Trump Will Be Ignored by Judge—Attorney Newsweeksource
Newsmax posted a tweet and article that enraged the far-right channel’s consumers.
Nearly 30 percent of Americans say they don’t believe President Biden or former President Trump would be good in the White House if elected in November, according to a new Gallup poll published Wednesday. Slightly more respondents said they believe Trump would be effective than Biden — 35 percent to 30 percent. That’s a change…
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A California judge recommended Wednesday that right-wing attorney John Eastman be disbarred and sanctioned $10,000, becoming the latest attorney allied with former President Donald Trump to face penalties and legal costs in the years since they aided his failed effort to overturn the 2020 election.Eastman was sanctioned $10,000 in addition to the court recommending he…
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For all of his complaints about the timing and his insistence that his various indictments and trials are an effort to block his return to the White House, Donald Trump has benefited enormously from the overlap of his campaign and his legal travails, and he continues to do so.The most obvious way this is true…
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Former President Trump leads President Biden in six of seven of the closest swing states, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll, published Wednesday. Leaning on dissatisfaction with the economy and swirling questions over Biden’s age, Trump has a multipoint lead in each battleground except for Wisconsin, where Biden leads by three in a…
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Former President Trump has secured a $175 million bond in his civil fraud case, keeping at bay the seizure of his most prized properties — for now.The bond — a fraction of the amount Trump and his co-defendants owe after a New York judge found they engaged in deceitful business practices — ensures that New…
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SEARCHThe ex-president has gotten creative with getting around an expanded gag order against him.Breaking News ReporterJust hours after a New York judge expanded a gag order to stop Donald Trump from making nasty attacks against his daughter, the ex-president posted a clip to Truth Social on Tuesday in which the Fox News commentator Brian Kilmeade…
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Donald Trump, hardly known as a scholar of Christian scripture, is now hawking Bibles. It is a strange story that sums up an important reality in America today. Traditional religious practice is losing its grip on Americans overall. It apparently never had much of a grip on the former president, even if its influence has contributed mightily to the modern Republican Party. For decades, the U.S. was an outlier. Americans were more…
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RFK Jr. calls Biden bigger threat to democracy than Trump over deleted anti-vaccine posts Axiossource
The bill seeks to rename the airport to “Donald J. Trump International Airport.”House Republicans have introduced a bill to rename Washington Dulles International Airport after former President Donald Trump — a move in an election year that brings added attention to the presumptive Republican nominee.The bill, which was referred to the House Transportation and Infrastructure…
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It’s difficult to think of a more combustible mixture than Donald Trump and a gag order. Even with the former president’s freedom on the line, that combination is smoldering again.After violating gag orders on at least two and arguably three previous occasions — and after a judge this week employed a novel tactic to get…
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Third-party candidates are the worrisome wild card amid Biden-Trump rematch in Wisconsin CNNsource
Trump posts Fox News clip to his social media. Expert thinks it violates gag order CNNsource
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A group of House Republicans want to rename Washington Dulles International Airport after former President Trump.“In my lifetime, our nation has never been greater than under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump,” Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-Pa.), the sponsor of a bill introduced Friday to name the Virginia airport the “Donald J. Trump International Airport,”…
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The presumed GOP nominee kicked up more outrage for an annual celebration that happened to fall on Easter.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) may have endorsed former President Trump in his bid for the White House, but their relationship remains as icy as ever. McConnell still doesn’t talk to Trump, even while some of his top deputies — Senate GOP Whip John Thune (S.D.) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) — have reached…
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