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Donald Trump and his campaign team had a field day with President Joe Biden’s slip-ups at his NATO press conference Thursday evening, gleefully posting after Biden referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump”: “Crooked Joe has a case of Trump Derangement Syndrome!” Trump himself wrote on Truth Social of the moment: “Crooked Joe begins his ‘Big Boy’ Press Conference with, ‘I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, though I think she was not qualified to be president.’ Great job, Joe!” The Trump War Room also amplified a video of Biden taking a question…
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans have long had ties to the Heritage Foundation, one of the most influential conservative think tanks based in Washington, D.C. with deep connections to the Republican Party, congressional lawmakers and the broader conservative movement. But if you ask them about the group’s Project 2025, a radical, 900-page policy blueprint that would dramatically restructure the federal government under a second Donald Trump presidency, GOP senators say they don’t know much about it at all.“All I’ve been doing is reading about it from afar,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told HuffPost. “I haven’t really gotten into it.”Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa),…
Eight of the economists in the WSJ survey said inflation would be worse under Biden than Trump. The other 14 said the difference between the two agendas would be negligible.Economists and Wall Street analysts say that Trump’s hardline tariff proposals — a 10% tariff on all imports paired with a 60 to 100% China-specific rate — could increase producer costs that translate to higher consumer prices.Trump also wants to crackdown on immigration, which could cut off the stream of immigrant workers who have buoyed the strong U.S. labor market without rekindling inflation.Meanwhile, the several economists who saw Biden as the bigger inflation threat cited large spending packages.Still, 51% of…
Donald Trump’s campaign spent over $35,000 on fast food and catering in the month of May, with the largest portion of transactions at McDonald’s, according to new financial disclosures.According to data provided by Donald J. Trump For President 2024 — the official campaign aimed at supporting the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s reelection bid — the campaign spent over $36,780 in the period in 113 transactions in chains including Chick Fil-A, Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts.Meanwhile, President Joe Biden’s official campaign, Biden For President, spent more than $32,100 on food and drinks in 17 transactions in June. His campaign patronized steakhouses and…
Republican Senate hopeful Nella Domenici in New Mexico hauled in $2.9 million in the second quarter of 2024, a sum that her campaign dubbed “the largest fundraising quarter of any U.S. Senate candidate in New Mexico political history.” Domenici, a former hedge fund executive, received the donations through her Senate campaign and its affiliated joint fundraising committee. The candidate would be the first Republican to win a Senate election in the Land of Enchantment in over two decades, with the last being her father, the late Pete Domenici. “The momentum is growing, the movement is building, and our state is…
On the same evening this week, the two major parties’ presidential candidates each gave a speech that revealed the fundamental nature of the man.In Washington, President Biden assembled world leaders to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of NATO, which Biden has rebuilt and expanded over the last 3½ years. “The American people know that all the progress we’ve made in the past 75 years has happened behind the shield of NATO,” the (very) elder statesman told them, in the same room where Harry S. Truman signed the treaty forming the alliance. “And the American people understand what would…
Former President Donald Trump’s last campaign stop before next week’s Republican National Convention will be in Western Pennsylvania as speculation builds about his long-awaited choice of a running mate.The visit to Butler County marks Trump’s fifth visit to Pennsylvania this year, a sign of the state’s crucial importance in the presidential contest. But it marks the first visit this year by either presidential nominee to a county that Trump won in 2020.It will be Trump’s first stop in Western Pennsylvania this year. Trump’s previous visits were to Philadelphia, Dauphin, Bucks, and Lehigh Counties — all of which went for President…
EXCLUSIVE — Sens. Roger Marshall (R-KS) and Joni Ernst (R-IA) are aiming to block all funding for risky gain-of-function pathogen and biomedical research at labs owned by foreign adversaries following the mishaps leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic. “COVID-19 claimed the lives of over 1 million Americans, demonstrating the deadly nature of risky gain-of-function research,” Marshall told the Washington Examiner. “We must ensure this never happens again. That starts by stopping the federal government from using taxpayer dollars to fund these dangerous projects.” The senators proposed on Thursday an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would explicitly prohibit…
Republican presidents and presidential candidates have used their leadership at critical moments to set a tone for society to live up to. Mr. Reagan faced down totalitarianism in the 1980s, appointed the first woman to the Supreme Court and worked with Democrats on bipartisan tax and immigration reforms. George H.W. Bush signed the Americans With Disabilities Act and decisively defended an ally, Kuwait, against Iraqi aggression. George W. Bush, for all his failures after Sept. 11, did not stoke hate against or demonize Muslims or Islam. As a candidate during the 2008 race, Mr. McCain spoke out when his fellow…
Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign called itself a “juggernaut” in May of that year, on par with a planet-destroying Death Star that was “firing on all cylinders.”Trump’s 2024 campaign has traded Star Wars metaphors for talk of a “leaner” and “more efficient” operation, with less real estate, fewer employees and greater dependence on outside groups.“We’re focused on quality over quantity. I mean, how novel a concept,” top strategist Chris LaCivita told the crowd of top donors May 4 at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., according to attendees.The shift comes as President Biden’s campaign and its allies, buoyed by incumbency, have been…