The indicted former president is looking to further stall his trial in case his play for absolute immunity fails.
Elections Haley is swiping at Trump in a fight over her record on gas taxes. Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaks at a town hall campaign event, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, in Rye, N.H. | Robert F. Bukaty/AP By Lisa Kashinsky 01/03/2024 07:46 PM EST Link CopiedLONDONDERRY, N.H. — Nikki Haley didn’t bat an eye…
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“It’s sad and pathetic, and it’s an addiction to Donald Trump by the core of the Republican Party,” Psaki said on MSNBC.
Watch CBS News By Melissa Quinn January 2, 2024 / 4:48 PM EST / CBS News Washington — A group of Colorado voters who are seeking to keep former President Donald Trump off the state’s Republican primary ballot have called for the Supreme Court to step in and decide whether he is constitutionally eligible for…
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Administrations facing tough reelection campaigns avoid controversial new policy initiatives. Not surprisingly, they prefer to campaign on their successes. Yet, a frightening humanitarian crisis is brewing just off the Florida coast. In Cuba, rampant inflation, sharply deflating wages and severe food shortages are driving a massive migrant exodus. Many of those who remain behind have been reduced to just…
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Oh, how the political winds shift. One week, Nikki Haley was riding high on an endorsement from New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu and rising poll numbers. The next week, she is choking on a question about the civil war, losing support from the anti-Trump side by suggesting she’d pardon the former president, and dealing…
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Former President Trump recently weighed in on Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation in the wake of controversy surrounding antisemitism and plagiarism at the university. “Claudine Gay has set Harvard back 50 to 100 years,” Trump posted Wednesday evening to his Truth Social site. “Other than that, she has done a great job!!!” Gay resigned from…
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Skepticism over vote counting appears to be spreading into the 2024 election, with most supporters of former President Trump in a new poll expressing doubt their votes will be accurately counted in this year’s election. In a Suffolk University/USA Today poll published Thursday, 52 percent of voters said they lack confidence the ballots will be…
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5 things to watch for in CNN’s town halls with DeSantis and Haley CNNsource
By Ted Johnson Political Editor Former President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to weigh in the question of whether states can remove his name from the ballot. His attorneys filed a petition for a writ of certiorari on Wednesday, arguing that the Colorado Supreme Court exceeded its authority when a majority of judges…
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More Republicans say former President Trump is a person of faith than several other Republican figures, his GOP primary challengers and President Biden, a new poll found. In the survey, conducted by HarrisX for Deseret News, 64 percent of Republicans said Trump was a person of faith, up from 53 percent in October. Former Vice…
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One of Donald Trump’s lawyers appeared to accidentally admit that the former president may have engaged in insurrection.Christina Bobb, a vocal 2020 election denier, tried to argue Tuesday night that voters should be able to elect anyone they want for president.“The president is elected by the entire nation, and it should be the entire nation…
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Florida state Rep. Anna Eskamani (D) criticized Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) decision to attend an event in the Sunshine State celebrating the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. “Just another day in Florida where the local Republican Party in Osceola County is hosting an ‘anniversary’ event to mark January…
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Decisions kicking former President Trump off the ballot in two states — Colorado and Maine — are amping up the pressure on the Supreme Court to resolve questions about Trump’s eligibility under the 14th Amendment.The Trump campaign appealed the Maine ruling Tuesday and is expected to do the same in Colorado, the latter of which…
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BREAKING: Active shooter situation reported at Iowa high school ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeDonald Trump’s 2024 campaign is taking direct aim at Republican rival Nikki Haley in a new advertisement airing in New Hampshire in a shift in strategy just weeks before the state’s primary.The 30-second ad, viewed by…
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Colorado supreme court issued ruling on Tuesday but in anticipation of appeal stayed it until 4 JanuaryDonald Trump appealed to the US supreme court on Wednesday to undo the Colorado ruling that removed him from the ballot in the western state under the 14th amendment to the US constitution, for inciting an insurrection.“In our system…
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Former Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci described the likely rematch between former President Trump and President Biden as a choice between “demented” and “dementia” in an interview on Wednesday. During an interview with Scaramucci, Newsmax host Eric Bolling said he will take Trump, who he described as “the 77 year old,” and Scaramucci can take…
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Republican strategist: Trump campaign is not taking Iowa for granted this time CNNsource
BREAKING: Active shooter situation reported at Iowa high school ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeDES MOINES, Iowa — Vivek Ramaswamy repeatedly described former President Donald Trump as “wounded” on Wednesday and said he was the best candidate to lead the MAGA movement forward as he makes a final attempt to…
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President Biden’s age isn’t a liability, it’s a ledger of lessons learned and relationships built and honed over decades of service. Under his administration, we’re not merely drifting toward normalcy, we’re navigating toward a more thoughtful and resilient future. In Biden’s case, age isn’t just a number — it’s a lifelong dedication to public service…
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WATCH LIVEThe U.S. Supreme Court is expected to determine whether former President Donald Trump can keep running for the White House.Trump on Wednesday appealed a ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court that he's ineligible for the presidency because he violated a rarely used constitutional prohibition on those who hold office having "engaged in insurrection." On…
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Ahead of Iowa, House Republicans Are Kissing Donald Trump’s Ring Vanity Fairsource
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Colorado's Supreme Court had barred him from the state's GOP primary ballot.Former President Donald Trump's legal team on Wednesday appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling disqualifying him from that state's GOP primary ballot.In the 43-page filing, Trump's lawyers contend that "in our system of 'government of the people,…
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Colorado’s secretary of state said in an interview late Wednesday that former President Trump does not have a “get out of jail free card” after he appealed a decision to kick him off the ballot in the state earlier in the day. “Donald Trump is trying to argue he did not incite an insurrection while…
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