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Tom Hanks says former President Trump winning a second term in the White House could indicate that America’s “journey to a more perfect union has missteps in it.” “I think there’s always reason to be worried about the short term,” the “Saving Private Ryan” star told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday, when asked if he worries about the country’s “commitment to democracy and freedom” if Trump wins in November. “But I look at the longer term of what happened I think there’s an ongoing — look, our Constitution says, ‘We the people of the United States, in order to form a more…
Senate Republicans have blocked legislation designed to protect women’s access to contraception, arguing that the bill was just a political stunt as Democrats mount an election-year effort to put GOP senators on the record on reproductive rights issues. The test vote won a 51-39 majority, but that was well short of the 60 votes to move ahead on the legislation. It came as the Senate has abandoned hopes of doing serious bipartisan legislation before the election. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and his Democrats are trying to instead spotlight issues they believe can help them win the presidency and…
Fox News host Sean Hannity has been involved in politics for a long time. His success stems, in part, from being a conduit between the fervors of the Republican base and the centers of Republican power, effectively conveying messages back and forth between those groups to keep things on an even keel. It was derivative, but it worked.Then along came Donald Trump, who took a different tack: Trump embraced the rhetoric of the base, rhetoric that itself was largely driven by the fringe-right sources of information and misinformation that the base and Trump consumed. That fringe right was already a…
The Donald Trump campaign has begun vetting vice presidential contenders for the former president — and several notable names are on his short list, The Post has learned. Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Tim Scott (R-SC) have all recently exchanged varying degrees of vetting documents with Trump’s campaign, a source familiar told The Post Wednesday. Reps. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Elise Stefanik (R-NY), North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and former Trump administration Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson have done the same, the source said. The vetting process has been in the works for the past…
Republican senators are starting to demand a new strategy to counter the string of politically tough votes being forced on them by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)Why it matters: Republicans have bashed votes on the border and reproductive rights as partisan moves by Democrats in a hotly-contested election year. But some want to fight back, harder.Zoom in: Some Republicans want to turn the tables on Schumer by voting yes on future messaging bills — and then demanding votes on their own political priorities through amendments.Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) raised the idea of running the play on Wednesday’s vote on contraception…
Donald Trump is set for a major stop in the 2024 money race Thursday when he travels to Silicon Valley for a high-profile fundraiser co-hosted by investor David O. Sacks and venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya.This is just the latest indicator of the ex-President’s success in traditionally deep-blue Silicon Valley.”SF Bay Area is shifting towards Trump,” added Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday.But experts who have studied the role of billionaires in politics over recent decades said it shouldn’t be a shock.”The valley has been pivoting for a while,” noted Northwestern University political scientist Jason Seawright in a recent interview.”It…
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump ‘s campaign has begun requesting information from his potential vice presidential candidates, sending vetting paperwork to a list of top contenders in recent weeks, according to two people familiar with the effort.Among those who have received requests are North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, according to one of the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the outreach.Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, New York Rep. Elise Stefanik and Trump’s 2016 rival-turned cabinet member Ben Carson were also said…
U.S. Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked consideration of the Right to Contraception Act, a move that Democratic leaders and rights advocates pointed to as further evidence that the GOP is hellbent on further degrading reproductive freedom.”It’s appalling. Shameful. Inexcusable. Grossly out of touch. Today Republicans in the U.S. Senate refused to take the simple step of enshrining our right to contraception into federal law when they voted down the Right to Contraception Act,” declared Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, executive director and CEO of MomsRising. “When Senate Republicans turned their backs on it today, they turned their backs on America’s moms.” Reproductive Freedom…
CNN — A Georgia appeals court has halted the election subversion conspiracy case against Donald Trump and several of his co-defendants – a massive victory for the former president seeking to push further legal issues until 2025 if he can’t beat them altogether. The new order filed on Wednesday from the Georgia Court of Appeals is the latest indication that a trial in the state-level Georgia election subversion case will not occur before the 2024 presidential election. The court said the case will be on hold until a panel of judges rules on whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis…
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump ‘s campaign has begun requesting information from his potential vice presidential candidates, sending vetting paperwork to a list of top contenders in recent weeks, according to two people familiar with the effort.Among those who have received requests are North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, according to one of the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the outreach.Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, New York Rep. Elise Stefanik and Trump’s 2016 rival-turned cabinet member Ben Carson were also said…