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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Who is Sam Brown, the Trump-endorsed candidate running for Nevada’s U.S. Senate seat?
Former President Donald Trump endorsed U.S. Army veteran Sam Brown, a candidate in the state’s crowded U.S. Senate primary, just hours after his rally in Nevada over the weekend. “Sam Brown is a FEARLESS AMERICAN PATRIOT, a Purple Heart Recipient, who has proven he has the “PURE GRIT” and COURAGE to take on our Enemies, both Foreign and Domestic,” Trump …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Republicans seek to unseat Democrat in Maine district rocked by Lewiston shooting
LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Two Republican state lawmakers, one endorsed by former President Donald Trump, are seeking the chance to try to unseat one of the most conservative Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives in a Maine district rocked by a mass shooting last year. The two members of the Maine House of Representatives face each other Tuesday in …
Read More »US Rep. Nancy Mace faces primary challenge in South Carolina after tumultuous term
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina is seeking a third term with the backing of someone who tried to stop her from getting a second — former President Donald Trump. The Trump endorsement after he called her crazy and terrible in 2022 is just one of many ways Mace has attracted a spotlight far …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »After Trump felony conviction, Biden leads for 1st time in months — but not by much
In the wake of former President Donald Trump’s felony conviction last week for falsifying business records to hide a hush money payment to a porn star, President Biden (46%) now leads his Republican rival (44%) in a two-way race for the White House for the first time since October 2023, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. The past six …
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