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(NewsNation) — For the last four decades, the Republican party has officially backed a Constitutional amendment to ban abortion nationwide. Now, hardline abortion foes fear the party will soften that stand to conform to likely nominee former President Donald Trump’s new position. The latest evidence: The Trump campaign has banned at least two delegates from the GOP platform committee who had vowed to resist attempts to “water down” the party’s stands on abortion, marriage and Israel. Politico, which first reported the story, says delegates in at least four other states have been told that the Trump campaign will try to…
James Inhofe, a former U.S. senator known for his anti-LGBTQ+ stances and other ultraconservative positions, including denial of climate change, has died at age 89.Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate’s email newsletter.Inhofe died Tuesday after having suffered a stroke five days earlier, according to multiple media outlets.The Republican represented Oklahoma in the U.S. House from 1987 to 1994 and in the Senate from 1994 to 2023. He was previously an Oklahoma state legislator and mayor of Tulsa.Inhofe said in the 1990s that he would not hire gay staffers, and he was…
Donald Trump has returned to the campaign trail for a rally in Miami, Florida as his opponent, President Joe Biden faces calls to resign amid questions over his health.Earlier in the evening, Biden welcomed world leaders to the NATO summit, delivering a lofty speech without referencing the domestic political drama swirling around him. What to know:Trump nears a VP decision: Senior aides and longtime allies insist they still don’t know who the presumptive GOP nominee will choose.Kamala Harris in the spotlight: Biden’s reelection campaign is sending the vice president to events in Nevada and Pennsylvania this week. She’d be Biden’s…
2024-07-09T19:00:00-04:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvYjk4XC8xNzE3MTY4MDQ0LmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJmaXQiOiJjb3ZlciIsImhlaWdodCI6NTA2fX192024 Republican presumptive presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump holds a rally in Doral, Florida, less than a week before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. 2024 Republican presumptive presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump holds a rally in Doral, Florida, less than a week before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. This article was originally published by a www.c-span.org . Read the Original article here. .
Election 2024Get the latest news on the 2024 election from our reporters on the campaign trail and in Washington.The latest on President Biden: A defiant Biden doubled down on staying in the race, rejecting calls to withdraw after his debate performance.Presidential election polls: Check out The Post’s presidential polling averages of the seven battleground states most likely to determine the outcome of the election.The first debate: Biden and Donald Trump faced off in the first presidential debate of 2024. Here are takeaways and fact checks from the debate.Key dates and events: Voters in all states and U.S. territories have been…
We’re changing things up here at Prompt 2024. Instead of a single author, you’ll be seeing multiple Post Opinions columnists leading the newsletter’s conversation and providing insights on the big political questions. This week, James Hohmann is moderating. Not subscribed? Sign up to get Prompt 2024 in your inbox. For moderate Republicans who have vowed never to support former president Donald Trump, witnessing President Biden’s unfitness for another term is more than just a little alarming. As Biden struggles to salvage his reelection prospects, I asked my Post Opinions colleagues Jim Geraghty and Megan McArdle: How should Never Trumpers think…
National abortion ban splits the Trump campaign and Republican activists writing the party platform | Politics | kwwl.com We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time. For any issues, contact news@kwwl.com or call 319-291-1200. This article was originally published by a www.kwwl.com . Read the Original article here. .
Donald Trump Jr. has warned that Marco Rubio might be a risky choice to be his father Donald Trump’s running mate.Speaking on his podcast Triggered, Trump Jr. speculated that if his father picked Rubio as his running mate, “RINOs”—or Republicans in Name Only, a term Trump frequently uses to describe disloyal GOP members—in the Senate would vote with Democrats to impeach Trump for Rubio to become President.”I have a good relationship with Marco, but there’s some truth about having someone that’s a little more establishment in there. It’s like, wouldn’t the Senate RINOS, wouldn’t they love that?”By the time my…
Thanks to an uncharacteristically naive post from fact-checking website Snopes, gaslighter-in-chief Donald Trump is trying to convince the public that his response to Heather Heyer’s 2017 murder in Charlottesville, Virginia, wasn’t morally bankrupt.Heyer was among a crowd of leftist counterprotesters opposing the Unite the Right rally, which was protesting the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. James Alex Fields, who had a reported fascination with Hitler and Nazism, rammed his car into the counterprotesters, injuring more than 30 people and killing Heyer. Trump is citing Snopes to say that President Joe Biden and everybody else with…
DES MOINES, Iowa – The Republican National Committee moved Monday to adopt a party platform that reflects former President Donald Trump’s position opposing a federal abortion ban and ceding limits to states, omitting the explicit basis for a national ban for the first time in 40 years.Trump imposed his priorities on the RNC’s platform committee as he seeks to steer clear during his campaign of strict abortion language, even while taking credit for setting up the 2022 reversal of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court. Trump appointed three of the six justices who voted in the majority to overturn…