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Conventional wisdom holds that vice presidents don’t matter much, either in elections, because voters choose based on the top of the ticket, or in practice, because they have few assigned duties. But Joe Biden’s choice of Kamala D. Harris in 2020 is shaping up to be a momentous decision now that the president might have to leave the race following his disastrous debate performance. So, too, will former president Donald Trump’s soon-to-be-announced choice of a running mate be significant.Trump is now — much as it pains me to say it — the favorite to win in November. Assuming that, if…
With polls showing Donald Trump on track to handily win next week’s Iowa caucuses, the 2024 Republican primary is looking like a repeat of the 2016 race. GOP rivals like Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis have spent months attacking one another instead of rallying around a candidate with the best chance of beating Trump one-on-one. But the 2024 cycle has been starkly different in one respect: The Lord of the Flies–esque chaos and infighting that plagued Trump’s prior campaigns have been tamed. “This campaign is locked down,” a Republican close to Trump said.Republicans close to Trump said there are multiple…
The White House on Wednesday announced the nomination of Ryan Park, North Carolina’s solicitor general, to a judicial position on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. NC Attorney General’s Office President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his intent to nominate North Carolina Solicitor General Ryan Y. Park to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. The nomination won’t make it far, North Carolina’s Republican senators said in a joint statement. But Park may not need their votes.The U.S. Senate must confirm Park’s nomination before it’s finalized. And North Carolina’s GOP Sens. Thom Tillis and Ted Budd haven’t been interested in filling…
Top advisers to Donald Trump have begun to discuss draft language for the 2024 Republican platform that antiabortion leaders expect will abandon the party’s decades-long call to amend the U.S. Constitution to extend personhood protections to the unborn, according to multiple people involved with the discussions.The escalating behind-the-scenes disagreement over the abortion language has become so tense and acrimonious in recent weeks that some social conservative leaders have issued public warnings of a coming split within Trump’s coalition. Others have started to discuss an effort to issue a “minority report” to the platform at the convention, according to the people…
2024-02-10T14:30:07-05:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvYzVhXC8wMTBcLzE3MDc1OTM3MDdfMDEwLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJmaXQiOiJjb3ZlciIsImhlaWdodCI6NTA2fX19During campaign remarks in Conway, South Carolina, Donald Trump said as president he warned NATO allies that he would tell Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to countries that had not met the alliance’s financial commitments. During campaign remarks in Conway, South Carolina, Donald Trump said as president he warned NATO allies that he would tell Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to countries that had not met the alliance’s financial commitments. This article was originally published by a www.c-span.org . Read the Original article here. .
WASHINGTON — The cycle continues: Clarence Thomas has former President Donald Trump’s back, Trump has Senate Republicans in his back pocket and Senate Republicans, in turn, have Thomas’ back.No matter how much financial dirt journalists and watchdog groups dig up on Thomas, and no matter howmuch Democrats single Thomas out for what they consider his shameful jurisprudence, his legend only continues to grow within conservative circles.And those conservatives are striking back.ALSO READ: How to survive Supreme Court stupidity without losing your mindSen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and other Republicans on Capitol Hill say they have no plan to drop their blockade…
President Biden told Democratic governors during a private meeting at the White House on Wednesday evening that he needed to get more sleep and that he had instructed his staff to avoid scheduling events for him after 8 p.m., according to people familiar with his comments, signaling that Biden now believes he must make changes to improve his public appearances.The president’s remark during Wednesday’s meeting came after Gov. Josh Green (D-Hawaii), a longtime physician who has worked in emergency rooms, asked about his physical condition. The meeting was an hour-long discussion with the governors in which Biden was seeking to…
Trump will campaign in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and then head to Freeland, Michigan.May 1, 2024, 5:13 AM ET• 6 min readFormer President Donald Trump is back on the campaign trail, hitting two battleground states Wednesday after severe weather and his legal calendar have prevented him from holding his traditional campaign stops for weeks.Trump will first campaign in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and then head to Freeland, Michigan, for an evening rally, packing his campaign schedule on his only regularly scheduled off day from court during the week.Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, April 30,…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The only three Republican women in the South Carolina Senate took on their party and stopped a total abortion ban from passing in their state last year. In return, they lost their jobs.Voters removed Sens. Sandy Senn, Penry Gustafson and Katrina Shealy from office during sparsely turned out primaries in June, and by doing so completely vacated the Republican wing of the five-member “Sister Senators,” a female contingent that included two Democrats and was joined in their opposition to the abortion ban.For Republicans, the departure of Senn, Gustafson and Shealy likely means there will be no…
President Biden’s guiding principle for jumping into the 2020 presidential race was that he was the only person who could beat then-President Donald Trump. Now, if Biden is to jump out of the race, he — and he alone — will have to decide he is no longer that person, according to allies and aides.Following a faltering, confused debate performance facing off against Trump last week, Democrats inside and outside the administration are privately grappling with what would need to happen for Biden to exit the presidential contest just six weeks before the party convention and four months before the…