2024 Elections

Months after Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) threatened to fight Teamsters Union chief Sean O'Brien during a November Senate hearing, the two men have become more than good buddies.

Mullin told CNN Wednesday that a friendship blossomed after former President Donald Trump called months ago and asked the two men to "meet."

A Republican lawmaker steamrolled a CNN anchor on live television Wednesday only to be subjected to a brutal fact-check from infuriated viewers online.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw opened his interview by forcing anchor Boris Sanchez to apologize for a quote he claimed had been misrepresented, then continued to assert former President Donald Trump had been a strong supporter of Ukraine.

Eric Trump is now changing his story about the injury his father suffered in an assassination attempt.

Speaking to Forbes at the Republican National Convention Monday, Trump's son said, "Well, it's been a pretty somber mood, right? I mean, my father got shot at. Somebody took off half of his ear."

During an appearance on CNN with host Jim Acosta, a former colleague of Nikki Haley, who served with her in the South Carolina House of Representatives, claimed he was not surprised in the least that she would set aside her principles and endorse Donald Trump.

Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, was given a key spot in the Republican National Convention on Tuesday where she endorsed the former president, whom she has previously labeled "unhinged" while claiming re-electing him would be equivalent to "suicide."

On Wednesday CNN contributor Bakari Sellars, a former South Carolina lawmaker, smirked when the topic came up and noted her history of being an opportunist with no fixed beliefs.

"I can tell you is that this surprises no one who knows Nikki Haley," he began. "She has the backbone of an octopus and so politically, when you have somebody who floats with the wind, this is not a surprise."

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It has been four days since Donald Trump came inches from death after a failed assassination attempt, and the campaign still hasn't released any kind of medical report talking about the injuries.

While Washington is at work trying to uncover failures by the U.S. Secret Service on Saturday, the ex-president is walking around the Republican Convention with a giant pad of gauze and tape covering his ear.

Despite the over-inflated praise of Donald Trump for picking Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his 2024 running mate at the Republican Party Convention being held in Milwaukee, there are serious questions being raised over whether the freshman senator brings anything to the ticket that it didn't already have.

According to Salon political analyst, Heather "Digby" Parton — no fan of the convicted felon ex-president — he had so many better candidates to choose from and it looks like he blew it.

Parton began by admitting she thought Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) would have fit the bill better had she not confessed to shooting a puppy named Cricket, as she argues that Noem "has the Mar-a-Lago Barbie look, which Trump obviously loves, and putting a woman on the ticket might have helped with those suburban moms who don't like him very much."

She then added skipping over North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum (R) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) could come back to haunt Trump.

Editor's note: An earlier version of this article failed to note that the 2024 Republican National Convention ratings were up slightly from 2020, despite being down markedly from 2016. It also attributed a claim to Biden's campaign that was actually made by Biden supporters.

Notorious critics of former President Donald Trump Lawrence O'Donnell and Rachel Maddow of MSNBC sniped at the Republican National Convention's first day ratings Tuesday, though their claims were misleading if not false.

Many powerful Republicans are horrified and frustrated by Donald Trump's choice of running mate in the upcoming presidential election, according to a new report.

Sen. J.D. Vance's isolationist views both alarm and infuriate hawkish Republicans who fear the 39-year-old will destroy the Republican Party's longtime foreign policy consensus, Politico reported Wednesday.

The Democratic National Committee will no longer try to nominate President Joe Biden on an accelerated timeline.

Although the Democratic National Committee had decided to hold a virtual vote on July 21 to nominate Biden, many Democrats who are pushing for a new nominee protested and claimed that this move was an attempt to rush through the process without giving consideration to a potential new candidate.

Writer Jonathan Chait Wednesday morning used a four-letter word to describe conservative intellectuals' new spin on the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump: "Dumb."

He then shared his latest New York Magazine column explaining in essence, no, it's not hypocritical for Democrats to condemn the attempt on Trump's life.

On Wednesday morning, MSNBC's "Morning Joe' co-host Joe Scarborough lashed out a Democratic campaign consultants and "pod bro" insiders for continuing to undermine President Joe Biden, who is going forward with his 2024 presidential bid.

Sharing graphics of the latest polls taken weeks after Biden's disastrous debate performance on CNN, the MSNBC host pointed out that the election remains tied — just as it was before the debate.

Using the numbers, he took aim — while also singling out longtime Democratic strategist David Axelrod — at Democratic insiders who are continuing to try to force Biden to step aside.

"Now, we hear from Democrats on the inside, see also Obama supporters, saying there's no way he can win, he's down so low, it's all over," he began. "Well here's the latest Morning Consult poll taken on Monday. Last week, before the tragic assassination attempt, Donald Trump was up by two points. On Monday — it's just a snapshot — Donald Trump up by one point."

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"Here's the deal, everybody, if you're looking at this, don't look at the margins, look at the fact that it's a tie. This race is tied," he said before later adding, "'Oh, we must do something,' David Axelrod says on CNN. 'There's no way he can win' said the pod bros,' 'Oh, it's all over.'"

"The Democrats have got to either fish or cut bait," he advised. "Like if they can't drive Joe Biden from the race, they need to line up behind Joe Biden. Because there's no middle ground here ... you're either united or your side loses. They've got to make decisions fast. All of these stories about Nancy Pelosi furiously going around trying to undermine Joe Biden — it's not working. I mean, I don't even know if that's true."