2024 election

Trump will meet with House and Senate Republicans this week near the Capitol

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans will meet privately with Donald Trump on Thursday, as the former president who is now the party’s presumptive nominee returns to Capitol Hill for the first time since his supporters attacked the building on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to overturn President Joe Biden’s election. Trump was already scheduled to meet with Senate Republicans …

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Governorship and House seat on the ballot in conservative North Dakota, where GOP primaries are key

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Voters are settling a rambunctious Republican primary contest Tuesday for North Dakota’s only U.S. House seat and a competitive race for governor, with each winner putting themselves in a commanding position for the November general election. Also on the ballot is a high-profile initiative that would bar people from running or serving in the U.S. House …

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Biden and gun control advocates want to flip an issue long dominated by the NRA

ATLANTA (AP) — Groups pushing tighter gun laws have been building political muscle through multiple elections, boosted by the outcry following mass shootings at schools and other public places, to say nothing of the nation’s daily gun violence. Now, gun control advocates and many Democrats see additional openings created by hard-line positions of the gun lobby and their most influential …

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Trump is dangling a lot of promises for a second term as he seeks support in new spaces

Former President Donald Trump lately has dangled some very specific promises to his audiences. At a Las Vegas campaign rally on Sunday, for example, Trump pledged to exempt tips from income taxes, a proposal tailor-made for the hundreds of thousands of people working in America’s tourism capital. Speaking at the Libertarian convention a couple weeks earlier, Trump vowed to put …

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Critical primaries in four states on Tuesday loom large for fall elections

Voters in four states on Tuesday will head to the polls to choose which candidates in a slate of congressional and state primaries will battle it out in contentious races this fall. The results of close races in Nevada and Maine could determine which party controls the House and Senate next year and with it significant power over the agenda …

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Key legal and electoral dates for Donald Trump

The Georgia Court of Appeals on Wednesday ordered a halt to the state election interference case against Donald Trump while it examines a judge’s ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to stay on the case. Trump — the GOP’s presumptive nominee for president — is facing four criminal cases altogether. He is the first former American president to …

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