2024 Elections

Former President Donald Trump Thursday called the most populous metropolis of a key swing state hosting the Republican National Convention next month a "horrible city," according to a new report.

Trump insulted Milwaukee to House and Senate Republicans who gathered for a policy discussion on Capitol Hill Thursday, the first of such meetings since January, 2021, Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman reports.

A new viral video showed supporters of Donald Trump arguing that the Earth is flat.

According to The Good Liars, a comedy duo, the video was filmed at a rally for Trump. It had over a million views by Thursday.

One of the leading candidates to be Donald Trump's running mate in the 2024 presidential election is going to have some explaining to do after a CNN report found evidence that he had a habit of liking tweets that were harshly critical of the former president.

According to CNN's KFiles team, Sen. J.D Vance (R-OH), who has been a constant cable news presence defending Trump both before and after he was convicted on 34-felony counts in a Manhattan courtroom which has led many political observers to conclude that he is in a constant state of auditioning for the vice presidential slot.

Former President Donald Trump claimed that he might intentionally lose the first presidential debate of 2024 in an effort to keep President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket.

During an interview that aired Thursday on Real America's Voice, Trump sought to lower expectations for his debate performance. He argued that Biden should take a drug test before the event.

With Donald Trump headed to Capitol Hill on Thursday to meet with GOP lawmakers including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), CNN's John King reported that some GOP lawmakers would just prefer not having to deal with him at all.

Speaking with host John Berman, King stated that ever since the former president first came on the political scene there have been Republicans who privately have taken shots at him but have held their tongues publicly because they fear his wrath.

"That Donald Trump is back on Capitol Hill of all places as Republican kingmaker is a wow," King told Berman who replied, "You know, it's interesting because there's the issue of what it says about him and, as I think, you know, he's got this skill, whether you liked him or not, this political resilience that is in many ways unprecedented, but what does it say about them?"

"What does it say about these Republican members who absolutely were saying other things on January 6, 7, 8, and 9th?" he asked.

"Many of them, some will never say this publicly, but in private conversations, many of them from the beginning had been trying to figure out how do we make him go away? How does he go away?" King replied. "When will the trap door open and he will go away because, never mind 5:00 A.M. tweets when he was president, even never mind the insurrection. I know the people out there throw things at the TV."

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"But he's not a conservative, he's not one of us, he doesn't stand up against Vladimir Putin. You know, he's just not a traditional Reagan Republican or a Bush Cheney Republican," he said of the GOP lawmakers.

"They've wanted him gone a long time, but they haven't even figured out how," he elaborated, "and I think that the fact that the Marco Rubios and Ted Cruzes and the people who Trump just eviscerated in 2016 and still to this day doesn't really respect and thinks he dominates will just follow him. Follow him because they are afraid of his people they're afraid of the phone calls, the protests, the people back home."

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With the first 2024 presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump two weeks away, one GOP campaign consultant said both candidates have "trigger points" that they both need to rise above if they hope to come out on top.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Way Too Early," with host Jonathan Lemire, Susan Del Percio said she expects Biden to get under Trump's skin, which could be disastrous for his bid to return to the Oval Office.

"I think what both men have to do is realize what their trigger points are and know to keep them in check. That's much easier for President Biden who has shown an ability to control himself, unlike the former president," she told the host before laughing.

"But they each have points where they really know how to — they get prickly, if you will," she continued before elaborating, "It will be Donald Trump going after President Biden's son, most likely, and the president has to have that response there. Donald Trump, I do believe that President Biden will go after Donald Trump as a convicted felon, as well he should. But I think this is definitely working to Biden's benefit because he knows how to hold his tongue a lot better."

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Reflecting back on Donald Trump's rally speech in Las Vegas last weekend, former Naval College professor and current political analyst Tom Nichols wrote that there needs to be a serious discussion about the former president's mental faculties following his "bizarre digression" about electrocuting sharks.

In his column for The Atlantic, Nichols got right to the point by noting that the former president has managed to convince "millions of people—and the American media—to treat his lapses into fantasies and gibberish as a normal, meaningful form of oratory."

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has the legal authority to prosecute Attorney General Merrick Garland without the Justice Department's help or a vote from Congress.

After House Republicans voted to hold Garland in contempt on Wednesday, Biggs appeared to be in a celebratory mood but worried that the Justice Department might not act on the contempt vote.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spurred outrage Wednesday when he announced he'd meet with former President Donald Trump in Washington D.C. — despite having condemned him when MAGA supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

McConnell (R-KY) told reporters in Washington D.C. that he was throwing support behind Trump's campaign and intended to meet with him in person on Thursday.

Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) was shut down on live television Wednesday by a CNN anchor who repeatedly interrupted his "Biden crime family" monologue with fact checks and rebuttals.

Tiffany faced off against Boris Sanchez, who took Tiffany to task over his public statement on the criminal conviction of President Joe Biden's son Hunter, was found guilty on gun charges in Delaware federal court this week.

Royce White — the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota — is very angry that Keith Olbermann made fun of him for mistaking gun violence with water fountains.

"You pencil necked dweeb," White declared on X Wednesday. "Now you just look desperate."

A Republican senatorial hopeful this week tried to cause a public uproar over an "out of control" problem in a major U.S. city — and inadvertently directed his rage at water fountains.

Royce White, a former basketball player with ties to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, thought he was raging against Minneapolis crime Tuesday when he shared a map.

Former President Donald Trump has funneled nearly $5 million from his presidential campaign coffers into his private businesses, according to a new financial analysis.

Trump — convicted last month of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election — has yet to donate a cent to his own campaign but his businesses have charged it $4.6 million, Forbes reported Wednesday.