2024 Presidential elections
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Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden, billed as a triumphant homecoming, turned into a political fiasco on Sunday night as a pro-Trump comedian’s racist diatribe drew furious condemnation, including from prominent Republicans. The rally, held just more than a week before Election Day, was intended to serve as a platform for Trump to make…
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TikTok has said it’s removed accounts associated with Russian state media for “engaging in covert influence operations”. It’s part of the site’s efforts to prevent disinformation in the run up to November’s US presidential election. Accounts affected are those from media group Rossiya Segodnya, which owns the RIA Novosti and Sputnik news services; and TV-Novosti, the…
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Donald Trump said during his debate with Kamala Harris that she has been the “worst vice president in the history of our country.” So, Miami Herald asked two scholars who have studied the vice presidency if that was so. Harris, vice president since 2021, was rated 11th of 18 modern vice presidents in a study by Justin Vaughn,…
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Former President Trump on Saturday dismissed findings from the Justice Department about Russia’s covert efforts to influence the 2024 U.S. elections and joked about whether he should be offended that Vladimir Putin had offered a tongue-in-cheek endorsement of Vice President Harris. Trump held a rally in Wisconsin, where he referenced a Justice Department announcement earlier…
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Former President Obama is offering his official endorsement of Charli XCX and a brat summer but says he’s “had it” with people who aren’t registered to vote. The 44th president appeared on an episode of the “I’ve Had It” podcast released Thursday. During the sit-down, Obama was asked by co-hosts Angie “Pumps” Sullivan and Jennifer…
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Former President Donald Trump acknowledged Wednesday that a lot of voters don’t like him – so he has to persuade them to be even more negative toward Vice President Kamala Harris.. “”You can’t take the chance! You have no choice! You’ve got to for me!” Trump said while discussing fracking during an event with Fox News host Sean Hannity.…
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Donald Trump will be “scared to death” to face Kamala Harris in the US elections, says former Republican presidential candidate Joe Walsh. Ms Harris is the early frontrunner to succeed Joe Biden as the Democrat nominee for November’s poll following the president’s decision to step down today. And Mr Walsh, who ran as a candidate…
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Donald Trump repeats his claim that the 2020 election was “rigged”, without providing evidence. He says he wouldn’t have run against Joe Biden if he was a “great president”. “If he’s doing a great job that’s so important I wouldn’t have run, I wouldn’t be going through all this stuff…” Trump then says being on…
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A New York judge Tuesday issued a gag order barring Donald Trump from making public statements about witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and jurors in his upcoming criminal trial. Judge Juan M. Merchan cited Trump’s previous comments about him and others involved in the case, as well as a looming April 15 trial date in granting…
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With the Republican presidential primary behind him, former President Donald Trump said he vows to take a tough fight to his critics, political persecutors, and justice weaponizers in the Biden administration and the Democratic Party. “I will always be nice; I will always be respectful; but when they hit you, you have to hit them…
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Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says it’s not “the end of our story” despite Donald Trump’s easy primary victory in South Carolina, her home state where the onetime governor had long suggested her competitiveness with the former president would show. Defying calls from South Carolina Republicans to exit the race, Haley planned to travel Sunday…
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Joe Biden’s fitness to continue as president, let alone run for the White House again, is beginning to be questioned after a special counsel investigation into the handling of classified documents said he portrayed himself as an “elderly man with a poor memory”. Robert Hur said President Biden had “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials” after he…
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Donald Trump has described one-time Republican rival Ron DeSantis as a “really terrific person” after the Florida governor ended his presidential campaign and endorsed the former president. It was a far cry from previous comments from Mr Trump who has previously labelled him as “DeSantimonious” or “DeSanctus”. Ending what was perhaps the most bitter rivalry…
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Donald Trump has easily won the Republican party’s Iowa caucuses, according to a projection by NBC News. The voting is the first step in a process that’s likely to see the former president picked as Republican candidate for November’s election. Mr Trump was overwhelming favourite to win the state and all eyes were on his margin…
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Maine disqualified former US President Donald Trump on Thursday from appearing on the state’s 2024 Republican primary ballot, becoming the second such state to do so under a part of the US Constitution that bars insurrectionists from holding public office. The decision by Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows came in response to three challenges…
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Donald Trump is ineligible for the US presidency under the constitution’s insurrection clause, the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled. The ruling comes as the former US leader prepares to run for the presidency in 2024. Trump is accused of inciting riots at the US Capitol Building in an effort to overturn the result after he lost the…
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