McCarthy doubles down on support for Trump but says 2024 campaign ‘can’t be about revenge’ CNNsource
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) argued America “doesn’t want to see the idea of retribution” from former President Trump, who has signaled revenge if elected to a second term in the White House. Pressed in an interview on “CBS News Sunday Morning” over concerns Trump’s rhetoric and plans resemble those of authoritarians, McCarthy said, “Look,…
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While counting the results of Georgia’s 2020 election, Fulton County poll worker Ruby Freeman passed her daughter, another poll worker named Shaye Moss, a ginger mint. But longtime Trump ally Rudy Giuliani claimed a video of that interaction showed evidence of election fraud against former President Trump — proof of the mother-daughter pair passing a…
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Jump to Kevin McCarthy, who earlier this week announced plans to resign from Congress just months after being ousted from the Speakership, has more news: He’s endorsing Donald Trump for president in 2024, and possibly eyeing a cabinet position.Speaking in a pre-recorded clip released Saturday ahead of his appearance on “CBS News Sunday Morning,” McCarthy…
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Former President Trump on Sunday, in a last-minute reversal, said he won’t be testifying again in his New York fraud trial, posting on Truth Social that he has already “successfully and conclusively testified” in the case and had nothing more to say. Trump had been expected to take the stand Monday to be questioned by…
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The former president was originally going to testify Monday, which he has repeatedly claimed is election interference by the Biden campaign.
Trump has ‘authoritarian’ interests, says Mitt Romney after dictator comments NBC Newssource
Former President Trump and his former chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, were seen embracing Saturday night at the New York Young Republican Club’s annual gala, in a moment captured in a Reuters photograph. The event featured a keynote address from Trump, who appeared to double down on remarks that he would be a “dictator” on day…
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Frum: U.S. “on notice” about second Trump term CNNsource
Counties in swing states like Georgia overwhelmed with requests at the same time as they scramble to prepare for 2024Deb Cox has been elections director of Lowndes county in southern Georgia for more than a decade – and has never before received so many time-consuming demands for public information.Like many elections officials across the country,…
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Elections “A thought or a notion comes in and it comes out of his mouth. There’s not a lot of filter that goes on,” he said of Trump. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is seen at the Capitol on Nov. 14, 2023. | Francis Chung/POLITICO By Kelly Garrity 12/10/2023 10:26 AM EST Link CopiedSome Republicans have…
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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 inFormer president addressed his ‘dictator on day one’ claims in a keynote address to New York Young Republican Club gala Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profileDonald Trump…
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Trump doubles down on ‘dictator for one day’ comments in new speech at New York gala MSNBCsource
Former President Trump on Saturday appeared to double down on remarks he made about whether he would abuse power or serve as a “dictator” if he was reelected to the White House, reiterating that he only wants to be a “dictator for one day” in order to secure the southern border and embark on drilling…
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The White House touted remarks Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) made in an interview Sunday in which the Utah lawmaker said House Republicans had no evidence to support their effort to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. A White House spokesperson sent an email shortly after Romney made the remarks on NBC’s “Meet the Press”…
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Watch CBS News By Robert Costa December 10, 2023 / 9:45 AM EST / CBS News California Republican Kevin McCarthy holds a place in history as the first-ever Speaker of the House to be voted out of that position. Historic, but looking at how his tenure began, hardly a shock. Back in January, it took…
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“You kind of wonder what it’ll take for people to believe him when he tells us who he is,” Gore told CNN’s Jake Tapper.
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) on Sunday argued it would be “preposterous” to think former President Trump would abuse power if reelected to the White House in 2024. “The idea that Trump is going to be radically different that what he was four years ago is preposterous,” Vance said in an interview on CNN’s “State of…
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Rep. Bryan Donalds (R-Fla.) predicted in a Sunday interview that impeachment articles for President Biden would be drafted by the spring. “Well, what I see happening is that, over the next month or two, we’re going to finish our investigation,” Donalds said in an interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo. “I…
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Former President Donald Trump campaigned in his home state of New York on Saturday. Trump headlined the annual gala of the New York Young Republicans Club to outline what his campaign has to offer. During his comments, he referred to President Joe Biden, who beat him in 2020 as “Crooked Joe,” the same nickname Trump…
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Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) sidestepped a question Sunday on whether he would be interested in running as former President Trump’s vice president following reports that swirled suggesting as much. CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Vance on “State of the Union” about an Axios report last week that listed the Ohio Republican as being on the short…
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Federal court rules Trump free to speak about special counsel Jack Smith but maintains other restrictionsDonald Trump may now assail the special counsel who brought the federal criminal case against him over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, in addition to being free to criticize the judge, the justice department, the Biden administration…
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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said in a Sunday interview that 2024 GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley is the “only one that has a shot” at beating former President Trump for the Republican nomination, but he declined to endorse any candidate specifically. “Well, because if I endorsed them, that would be the kiss of death. I’m…
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“I Will Support Donald Trump”: Ex-Speaker McCarthy Endorses 2024 GOP Frontrunner, Mulls Cabinet Role Vanity Fairsource