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By the end of winter 2024, the return of Donald Trump to the top of the GOP presidential ticket has revealed a surprising trend in the former president’s base of support: his increasing popularity among Black and Latino voters. Several polls suggest as many as 23% of Black voters and 46% of Latino voters could cast their ballot for Trump. If the polls are right, these numbers represent a far cry from the 6% of Black and 28% of Latino voters who supported Trump in 2016 and the 8% of Black voters and 32% of Latino voters who voted for…
DENVER— Today, Colorado Senate Republicans delivered a package of tax relief totaling almost $2 billion for small businesses, ranchers, and the taxpayers of Colorado. The combination of income tax rate cuts, property tax relief, and targeted tax credits will benefit people in every corner of the state. “The Republican team delivered relief in a big way this session concluding measures we have championed for years,” said Senate Minority Leader Paul Lundeen (R – Monument). “The package we have delivered puts the people of Colorado ahead of government at every turn.” This session, the Senate Republicans led the charge in delivering…
CNN — Health professionals have long warned that ultraprocessed foods can have detrimental impacts on the body, but some options — like cereals and whole grain bread — can be nutritious when enjoyed in moderation. The scientific community also broadly agrees that processed meats and sugary beverages are the foods you most need to avoid. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. Get 5 Things in your inbox President Joe Biden told CNN on Wednesday he would halt some shipments of US weapons to Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered…
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that former President Donald Trump would not accept the outcome of the 2024 election.”He may not accept the outcome of the election? I promise you he won’t,” Biden said in an interview on CNN, adding that it was “dangerous.”Biden was responding to a question about Trump’s remarks last week in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.”If everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results. I don’t change on that. If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country,” Trump said. Biden said about his rival Wednesday, “The guy is not a…
Politics By Josh Christenson Published May 8, 2024, 6:27 p.m. ET President Biden’s labor head could be forcing US taxpayers to foot the bill for roughly $32 billion in unemployment fraud she caused when serving during the COVID-19 pandemic as California’s top labor official, Republican senators wrote in a Wednesday letter. Sens. Bill Cassidy and Mike Crapo expressed concerns in a letter to Labor Secretary Julie Su about December Labor Department guidelines that may “allow California to shift the consequences of a still unknown amount of federal funds that was lost” by its Employment Development Department (EDD) during her tenure.…
CNN — Donald Trump is heading into the most perilous phase of his hush money trial aside from the moment when the jury retires to consider its verdict. Former adult film star Stormy Daniels is back on the stand on Thursday to continue what has been at times explicit and cringe-worth testimony about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump nearly two decades ago, which set off a winding chain of events that led to the first criminal trial of an ex-president. Her evidence on Tuesday was deeply embarrassing for Trump and drew an aggressive cross-examination from his attorney trying to…
He promised thousands of jobs at the site where Trump’s Foxconn project failed.May 8, 2024, 3:58 PM ET• 5 min readPresident Joe Biden took shots at former President Donald Trump on Wednesday as he traveled to Wisconsin to tout a new multi-billion dollar Microsoft investment at the same site where a Trump administration project failed.The event in the 2024 election battleground state, billed by the White House as an official stop in his capacity as president, came as Biden ramps up both campaign and official visits across the country while his political rival is largely stuck in a Manhattan courtroom.”The…
The state Capitol building in Hartford on April 18, 2024. Credit: Doug Hardy / CTNewsJunkie (UPDATED 11 p.m.) HARTFORD, CT – As the 2024 legislative session approached the finish line Wednesday, Senate Republicans released a statement saying they were “disappointed and frustrated” over the legislature’s inability to pass any legislation to lower health insurance costs in Connecticut. “We live in the ‘Insurance Capital of the World,’ and the legislature’s insurance committee was unable to pass any bills to lower health insurance costs for Connecticut families this year,” the Republicans’ statement read. They were referring to a clash earlier in the…
Win McNamee/Pool/AFP/Getty Images Former President Donald Trump attends his trial in New York for allegedly covering up hush money payments on May 7, 2024. A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN — Former President Donald Trump’s public defense against his four, distinct prosecutions in four, separate jurisdictions is that they are a coordinated hit job and a political persecution – evidence, he says, of a double standard of justice. Disproving Trump’s allegation is the likelihood, which seems to be growing this week, that three of…
Truth Social, former president Donald’s Trump’s clone of Twitter, has a fraction of the users of competitors like Reddit and X. The company has never turned a profit, and just happens to be the place where Trump is currently posting.But on the Nasdaq, the stock exchange where Truth Social became a publicly traded company today, there’s a different story: Truth Social has become a certified meme stock. Trump supporters seem to have conflated their support for the former president with the stock itself, and are buying en masse.The stock quickly rose more than 40 percent after being listed and trades…