2024 Elections

Right-wing activist and host Charlie Kirk urged his followers to attack Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg because he believed they would be on the Democratic presidential ticket.

For much of Tuesday's three-hour podcast, Kirk focused his attacks on Harris after suggesting President Joe Biden would withdraw from the race.

The Republican Party intends to pass its policy platform "behind closed doors" this year, according to a new report.

Reporters and spectators will be barred from viewing party platform committee proceedings in Milwaukee during the Republican National Convention, Semafor reported Tuesday.

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) became the first Democratic member of Congress to call on President Joe Biden to drop out of the race.

Doggett cited poor debate performance and disappointing polling.

Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) joined the growing chorus of Democrats expressing doubts about President Joe Biden's ability to lead the party into November's election.

Biden's faltering performance at last week's debate against Donald Trump raised concerns about his age and fitness for another term, and Quigley on Tuesday joined a small but growing number of Democratic lawmakers to go on the record to state their concerns.

Former President Donald Trump's supporters rejoiced Tuesday after news broke that a sentencing hearing in his criminal hush money case would likely be delayed until after the Republican National Convention, when the convicted felon is predicted to secure his party's nomination.

"Another W for Trump!" declared "anti-Islam, anti-immigration crusader" Laura Loomer.

America faces an immediate future of military occupations, political executions and concentration camps unless millions of its citizens unite against “dictator” Donald Trump, a furious and frightened political analyst wrote Tuesday.

Salon’s Chauncey DeVega delivered this impassioned rallying cry one day after the Supreme Court strengthened presidential immunity to cover political assassinations and use of the military against rivals, as dissenting justices and legal experts respectively warn.

White House insiders Tuesday warned a tight cabal of senior officials shield Americans from President Joe Biden's declining state as they wield increasing control over national politics — a characterization a White House spokesperson characterized as flatly false.

Those insiders — few of whom put their names to their words — painted a contrasting portrait of the Democratic nominee who they describe as both under the passive sway of controlling advisers and simultaneously terrifying, Politico reported Tuesday.

The Supreme Court's stunning ruling that extended immunity protections covering a wide array of criminal acts allegedly committed by Donald Trump did leave open the door for Judge Tanya Chutkan to hold hearings that could damage his election prospects.

With the high court refusing to delineate what constitutes presidential duties and what should be interpreted as private conduct, the court is demanding Chutkan clear that up for them, which likely will lead to more review.

A bid by Donald Trump and his lawyers to get his 34 felony count conviction in the Manhattan hush money trial thrown out is a longshot at best, according to former Department of Justice official Chuck Rosenberg.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" less than 24 hours after the conservative-leaning Supreme Court issued a stunning ruling extending the former president a wide swath of immunity, Rosenberg admitted that the court is allowing Trump to get away with criminality — but the Manhattan business fraud case is not covered.

Asked by MSNBC co-host Willie Geist about a letter sent by the former president's legal team to Judge Juan Merchan on Monday afternoon asking that the conviction be thrown out in light of the Supreme Court's ruling, Rosenberg poured cold water on it.

"On one hand, the letter to Judge Merchan was entirely predictable," Rosenberg told the panel. "On the other hand, I think it is entirely wrong."

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"I mean, if you look at the Supreme Court's decision from yesterday, ... the conduct that underlined in the New York case seems to me to be purely private," he pointed out. "So perhaps Judge Merchan grants them a hearing, but I have a hard time imagining that they would prevail on it."

"This seems to me the type of case that a president ought not be immunized from," he added.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that presidents, including Donald Trump, have immunity from prosecution for “official” acts taken while in office will require U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutken, overseeing Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of the ex-president’s January 6 case, to determine which actions were official acts, and which were private.

That could provide the Special Counsel with the opportunity to hold “a trial before the trial,” even if the trial will not be able to take place before the election.

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) is going on defense for Donald Trump as he auditions for a possible vice presidential running mate.

Washington Post columnist Philip Bump wrote about Burgum's recent appearance on "Meet the Press," where he delivered some alarming answers to host Kristen Welker's questions.