President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are locked in a fight for seven swing states that appear to be in control of who will be the next president. But outside the Rust Belt and Sun Belt contests that have dominated everyone’s attention, Republicans and Democrats are both putting states no one expects to […]
Former President Donald Trump has urged the Supreme Court to intervene in his hush money case in New York despite legal experts suggesting the likelihood of this happening soon, or at all, remaining low at this point. Trump, the leading Republican candidate for president, made his long-shot call for Supreme Court intervention in a post […]
Silence is speaking volumes regarding President Joe Biden’s fundraising numbers after former President Donald Trump‘s conviction in his New York hush money trial. Biden had outraised Trump before his predecessor started making up ground in April, post-primary. But despite Trump’s legal costs, Biden’s cash on hand advantage could be gone. Trump’s conviction has “greatly motivated” […]
Primary contests in five states and Washington, D.C., showed incumbent lawmakers continue to have staying power. Council members from the nation’s capital to elected officials in Iowa, Montana, and New Jersey defeated challengers and easily won their primaries. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump easily won primaries Tuesday night, but both 2024 candidates continue to face […]
Senate Republicans won’t be reviving a fight over the Pentagon’s abortion policy as the chamber negotiates this year’s annual defense bill. Next week, the Armed Services Committee will approve the National Defense Authorization Act, which sets the priorities of the U.S. military, without the drama that accompanied last year’s legislation. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), a […]
President Joe Biden’s new border security executive order angered both hard-line conservatives and progressive immigration activists in near-equal measure on Tuesday, but the move could bump his stock with moderates ahead of the 2024 general election. Immigration and border security have steadily climbed the ranks of issues most important to voters ahead of November, and, […]
Residents of Washington, D.C., headed to the polls for a slew of local primary elections on Tuesday in a cycle that has been dominated by rising crime rates in the city as well as high cost of living. Five seats on the local D.C. Council were up for grabs on election night, with all but […]
Montana State Auditor Troy Downing won the contested Republican primary to replace the retiring Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT), who announced earlier this year he would not run for reelection in the solidly Republican seat. Downing won the race for Montana’s 2nd Congressional District with 37.9% of the vote with 4% of ballots tallied. The Associated […]
The first primary night held after Donald Trump became a convicted felon showed Republican voters still have an appetite for the former presidential candidate, Nikki Haley. Haley won nearly 8% of the vote in New Mexico’s GOP primary Tuesday night and another 3% voted uncommitted in the primary, a sign that a persistent weakness in […]
WILMINGTON, Delaware — Prosecutors began presenting their case against Hunter Biden at his gun trial on Tuesday by showing the courtroom the first son’s infamous laptop and highlighting photos and messages from it. Biden’s lead defense attorney Abbe Lowell looked at Judge Maryellen Noreika, with the silver laptop in his peripheral, and said he did […]
