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Tom Williams, Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc./Getty Images Ohio Sen. JD Vance, left, and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. CNN — The two Republican senators on Donald Trump’s shortlist for potential running mates may have to overcome some political baggage in the form of their home-state governors to get the nod. If Trump picks either Marco Rubio of Florida or JD Vance of Ohio, the senator’s successor would be chosen by a Republican governor who has engaged in high-profile clashes with the former president. In Florida, that honor would go to Gov. Ron DeSantis, a onetime ally viewed more recently by Trump as “disloyal” for launching a…
In the wake of the first presidential debate, a chorus of top Biden allies and campaign officials has advanced a simple message: The race has not fundamentally changed.In a sense, they’re right.The latest New York Times/Siena College poll on Wednesday finds that, far from upending the contest, the debate reinforced the central dynamic of the election: the political decline of President Biden, who no longer possesses the advantages that allowed him to defeat Donald J. Trump four years ago.Overall, the poll finds Mr. Trump leading Mr. Biden by six percentage points among likely voters and nine points among registered voters…
Donald Trump and his campaign hope President Biden stays in the race, according to four people familiar with private discussions, believing they can beat him even with Trump’s felony conviction and other charges. But they are also ramping up attacks on Vice President Harris.Publicly, Trump and his allies have dismissed suggestions that Biden could withdraw from the race, insisting that it is too late for Democrats to change course. Privately, they have started preparing for different possibilities, and feel it could be harder to beat another Democrat who is not Biden or Harris.“I’m going to show up and I’m going…
Voters removed the only three Republican women in the South Carolina Senate after the senators took on their party, barring efforts to pass a total abortion ban. Sens. Sandy Senn, Penry Gustafson and Katrina Shealy were voted out of the run towards capturing another term in office during South Carolina’s June primaries. With their departure, the Republican Party in South Carolina will have no women on their side of the aisle when the senate convenes in 2025. “Women, somebody else is going to have to stand up. Somebody else is going to have to come and make things right,” Senn…
A new CBS News/YouGov poll nationally and in seven key battleground states finds the presidential race picture largely unchanged nationally after Thursday’s debate, 50% of likely voters nationwide back Donald Trump, 48% Joe Biden, about the same as in CBS’s pre-debate poll. Across battleground states, 51% back Trump, 48% Biden. CBS did not provide a state-by-state breakdown of results in the battlegrounds, which include Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. About seven in 10 registered voters in this poll say Biden should not be running (69%, slightly down from the 72% who said so in a CBS poll released over the weekend), including 41% of Democrats (a slight downtick from 46% who said so in the June 28-29 poll) and 78% of independents (that was 82% in the prior post-debate poll). Republicans in the poll are more likely to say they will definitely vote in the presidential election this year than are Democrats (90% of Republican registered voters…
In the days since Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance, a sizable chunk of the liberal commentariat has called for the sitting president to drop out of the race. The Biden campaign, meanwhile, says the 81-year-old is not going anywhere. On this point, Biden and Donald Trump agree. According to multiple sources, Trump expects that—barring a health crisis—the historic effort to dump Biden will fail. “They’re stuck with Biden,” a senior Trump campaign source told me. Longtime Trump confidant Kellyanne Conway agreed, arguing that Democrats are too disorganized to draft a replacement. “That party has fallen into a state of sclerosis,”…
RICHMOND — The Virginia Senate reconvened to consider lifting new restrictions on a college tuition program for military families but walked away empty-handed for the second time in two weeks.Senators from across the state returned to Richmond on Monday to consider repealing the restrictions on the program, which waives tuition and fees at public colleges and universities for the spouses and children of veterans disabled or killed in the line of duty.But Democrats on the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee did not vote on the repeal bill the House passed unanimously Friday, calling it constitutionally flawed. Democrats on the panel…
Washington CNN — President Joe Biden needs to do far more to quell Democratic panic over his terrible performance at his debate showdown with former President Donald Trump, and fast. After Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett on Tuesday became the first Democratic lawmaker to break ranks and demand Biden step aside, top party figures are now asking for more openness and details on the president’s health and mental state as the anxiety about his reelection campaign evolves into an increasingly genuine threat to his grip on the Democratic nomination. Every effort the president and his White House and campaign teams make to fix the problem end up exacerbating it. Biden,…
Voting in the Republican primary was still a month away and Fox News host Sean Hannity was eager to dispel a cloud that was forming over Donald Trump’s candidacy. Wasn’t it true, he asked the former president in December, that all of this chatter about Trump’s seeking retribution against his opponents was overwrought and inaccurate?“I love this guy,” Trump said to the in-studio audience. “He says, ‘You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I say, ‘No, no, no — other than Day One.’ ”The crowd cheered its approval. In short order, Trump was using this bit — dictator…
A group of Republican senators are expected to host a roundtable discussion about the exploitation of unaccompanied migrant children at the U.S. southern border. Entitled “[t]he Exploitation Crisis: How the U.S. Government is Failing to Protect Migrant Children from Trafficking and Abuse,” the event will be held July 9 and hosted by Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa; Ron Johnson, R-Wis.; and Bill Cassidy, R-La. “The roundtable will examine the failures of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’s Unaccompanied Children (UC) program, which has allowed thousands of vulnerable migrant kids to be lost or handed over to potential criminals,” Grassley said in…