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(Composite / Photos: GettyImages / Shutterstock)YOU KNOW YOU’RE READY TO MOVE ON when you start envisioning a Kamala vs. Donald campaign and it makes you smile. At least I know that’s when I’m ready.For more than two years, I’ve been on a Joe Biden rollercoaster. Now, amid a national outbreak of debate PTSD, there are signs that change may come. Daily polling trauma. Donors hitting pause. One report after another about Biden’s limited energy and cognitive lapses, past and present. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) trying to assess support for asking him to leave the race.The Biden rollercoaster is idling, and…
The platform is a statement of first principles traditionally written by party activists. Trump’s campaign wants the group drafting this year’s platform to produce a shorter document without statements favored by many conservatives but potentially unpopular with the broader electorate. The platform committee begins its meeting Monday, a week before the start of the Republican National Convention where Trump is scheduled to accept his third straight nomination for president.Trump has faced months of Democratic criticism over abortion as President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign has highlighted that Trump nominated half of the Supreme Court majority that struck down the nationwide right…
Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, on Sunday said former President Donald Trump has not spoken to him about joining his campaign as his vice presidential pick.“Have you gotten the call from Donald Trump? Has he asked you to be his running mate?” moderator Kristen Welker asked Vance during an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”Vance, who is on Trump’s short list of potential running mates, said he has “not gotten the call” but would alert the media if that happens.“We’ll let the media know if I ever get that call,” he said. “But most importantly, we’re just trying to work…
Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Donald Trump has publicly celebrated calls for Joe Biden to end his bid for reelection, but some in the GOP are worried that if Biden steps aside, it could make the race harder for Trump. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Donald Trump has publicly celebrated growing calls for Joe Biden to end his bid for reelection.But some in the GOP are worried that if Biden steps aside, it could make the race harder for Trump.Sen. Lindsey Graham on CBS said a new Democratic challenger would make the race “dramatically…
Donald Trump’s legendary ability to raise massive sums of political cash may be on a collision course with a new and unpleasant reality. Campaign finance reports released this week flashed bright warning lights, showing two key committees in his political operation raised an anemic $13.8 million in January while collectively spending more than they took in. A major driver of those costs was millions of dollars in legal fees from Trump’s myriad of court cases. What You Need To Know Campaign finance reports released this week flashed bright warning lights, showing two key committees in former President Donald Trump’s political operation raised an anemic…
GOP Senate candidate Royce White accused of making antisemitic comments at rallyRepublican-endorsed Senate candidate Royce White is being accused of antisemitism for his comments during a rally outside the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis on Thursday.“The first time I started my campaign at the Federal Reserve they said I was a debt hawk. And that I was dogwhistling antisemitism because I was at a place where a lot of Jewish elites actually run the Fed,” White said. “(Ben) Bernanke, you know — there’s a long list of them. So you can’t mention the Fed because of a Jewish person that…
President Biden is campaigning at two events in Pennsylvania on Sunday as he and his staff remain defiant against calls to drop his reelection bid after a damaging debate performance. First lady Jill Biden has planned a three-city campaign swing on Monday.Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) scheduled a Sunday call with top Democrats in the House. The meeting, usually held on Wednesdays when the chamber is in session, was moved up amid members’ restlessness over Biden. This article was originally published by a www.washingtonpost.com . Read the Original article here. .
Timothy Mellon, a billionaire who was born into one of the wealthiest families in the U.S., has donated $50 million to the Trump campaign super-pac Make America Great Again Inc., according to federal filings released on Thursday. Mellon’s contribution is now considered to be the largest disclosed individual donation in the 2024 election.Mellon, 81, previously served as the chairman of Pan AM Systems Inc., a private manufacturing and transportation company. This year, he plans to release a memoir about his experience as chairman, published by Skyhorse Publishing, titled panam.captain.According to the federal documents, Mellon made his donation on May 31,…
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are off to a quicker, more united start this year when it comes to funding the federal government, passing four of 12 annual appropriations bills before the end of June compared to zero at this time last year when the new majority got off to a rocky start.But there is no denying the spending fights to come.All four bills that passed the House so far generated veto threats from President Joe Biden ‘s administration and drew widespread Democratic opposition and they have no chance of passing the Senate in their current form. That means a protracted,…
A group of Republican officials is to convene this week in Milwaukee to hash out what their party would try to do if given power. Former president Donald Trump’s campaign has pushed for their conclusions, in the form of a 2024 party platform, to be as anodyne and vague as possible.One could argue that this shows today’s Republican Party stands for nothing beyond fealty to Mr. Trump. Actually, the GOP has an ambitious agenda, and much of it is unpopular. That is likely why Mr. Trump doesn’t want it written down in an official document — and why the party’s…