2024 Elections

Donald Trump's decision to launch an advertising campaign for "Official Trump Coins" on his Truth Social account was met with some disagreement by some of his MAGA supporters and a wave of derision from critics on Saturday morning.

With only 45 days before the election, and as he is falling behind in the polls to his opponent Vice President Kamala Harris, the former president posted a video on his account with a link directing followers to a website where they will be able to purchase "The ONLY OFFICIAL coin designed by me—and proudly minted here in the U.S.A. The President Donald J. Trump First Edition Silver Medallion will be available starting Wednesday, 9/25/24."

Despite deleting any pictures they may have taken with embattled North Carolina GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson, Republican lawmakers are doing as little as they can to disavow their Republican Party colleague who has described himself as a "Black Nazi."

That is the opinion of former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele who claimed that Robinson embodies everything Donald Trump's MAGA followers find appealing.

From his perch as a host of MSNBC's "The Weekend," Steele noted the flood of allegations that have all but assured the North Carolina Republican will lose on election day and claimed Republicans should rid themselves of him — but won't.

Donald Trump's third presidential campaign, once lauded as a well-oiled machine under the leadership of top advisers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, is falling apart with 45 days left before voters go to the polls.

According to a report from the Washington Post's Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey and Marianne LeVine, the Trump train wheels are coming off as Vice President Kamala Harris surges in the polls and "the most disciplined campaign" Trump has even been a part of has spiraled into infighting and finger-pointing at the worst possible time.

On the 2024 campaign trail, former President Donald Trump has made more than 200 promises about what he'll do on day one of a second term — famously promising to act as a "dictator" immediately upon taking the oath of office. And some experts are cautioning that many of those promises fly in the face of the U.S. Constitution and federal statutes.

The Washington Post reported that, by its count, Trump has made 82 education-related Day One promises, 74 related to immigration, 41 ties to energy policy, 25 about transgender issues and 33 other promises. Some of those are about his signature border wall proposal and vows to eliminate the teaching of racial and LGBTQ+ curriculum in schools. But others, according to experts, disregard longstanding federal law.

First-time former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was battered by the MSNBC "The Weekend" panel early Saturday morning over comments he made in Ohio attempting to excuse the racist attacks made by Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance that have upended the lives of the citizens of Springfield, Ohio.

Ramaswamy, an Ohio native, spoke with a small group of supporters in the state this week where he tried to clean up the mess made by the former president and his 2024 running mate who are falsely accusing Haitian immigrants of stealing pets and eating them.

In a clip shown as part of the segment, Ramaswamy can he heard telling the small numbers of supporters, "You take 20,000 people who are unprepared to integrate into a committee, dump them into a city of 50,000, you are going to get a reactionary response. Then you demonize the people who have a reactionary response who say, 'You are blaming me!' they're going to have ill will in this case toward the Haitian community."

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"It is literally fueling a new wave of anti-Black racism in the country that otherwise would not exist if it weren't for those woke anti-racism policies in the first place, " he added.

That, in turn led Princeton professor Eddie Glaude to gasp off-camera, "Oh my god!"

"The Weekend " co-host Michael Steele took it from there, turning to the camera and stating, "Before you give a response, I just have to say, 'Vivek, you're full of crap.' Look at what the Haitian community did when they arrived in Springfield."

Glaude added, "I was trying to edit myself in so many ways. A part of it is this: Vivek just traded on a whole range of tropes and bad history."

"If you look at the debates around immigration in the 1920s, running up to 1924 Johnson Immigration Act, some of the same things were said about immigrant; they are not prepared to integrate into the society," he continued. "Well we know that happened in Springfield; you had an influx of folks, they did not have in place the infrastructure around schools and hospitals as they were inviting the labor into the community to revitalize it. But instead, you blame them and then you other them and justify the deep-seated prejudice against the folks."

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The ad was released this week by the National Republican Congressional Committee on behalf of former U.S. Rep. Mayra Flores, who is trying to win back the seat for the GOP.

Texas Congressional District 34 stretches from Brownsville to Kingsville along the state’s southeastern coast. It is one of the few competitive races in the state and a top priority for both major political parties to win.

The decision to keep a constitutional amendment legalizing abortion on the November statewide ballot was decided by a narrowly-divided Missouri Supreme Court, according to opinions released Friday.

The majority opinion was written by Judge Paul Wilson, with Chief Justice Mary Russell, Judge Robin Ranson and Judge Brent Powell concurring.

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump said Thursday night that if he loses the election in November to Vice President Kamala Harris, Jewish voters “would really have a lot to do with that.”

As the first anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel nears and the war in Gaza continues, the GOP presidential nominee spoke at back-to-back events in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, where he promised Jewish Americans that with their vote, he would be their protector, defender and “the best friend Jewish Americans have ever had in the White House.”

SPRINGFIELD —The United States should abandon its support for Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley said Friday during his first debate with challenger Lucas Kunce and two third party candidates.

“I do not support continued funding to Ukraine,” Hawley said, adding that he would not support any more aid until Congress agrees to compensate Missourians who have suffered diseases from exposure to radioactive waste left over from World War II.

Donald Trump compares himself to Elvis Presley, astronauts voting from space, and Taylor Swift perhaps giving Kamala Harris a run for her money.

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Arlington (United States) (AFP) - With more than a month to go before the November 5 presidential election, some Americans are already lining up to cast their ballots in this tightly contested race.

Early in-person voting kicked off Friday in the US states of Virginia, South Dakota and Minnesota as voters pick between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.

Forty-five days before U.S. elections and less than a month before early voting begins, former President Donald Trump's allies on the Georgia State Election Board on Friday passed a rule requiring county officials in the key swing state to count all ballots by hand, a move one expert said could "be exploited by election deniers" like Trump, the 2024 Republican nominee.

The board's pro-Trump majority voted 3-2 in favor of requiring hand counts, with Chair John Fervier, an Independent, casting one of the two dissenting votes.