2024 Elections

South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem was in political freefall Friday as embarrassing revelations continued to emerge from the scrutiny of advance copies of her memoir, which doesn’t officially publish until Tuesday.

Noem was already reeling from near-universal backlash against her disclosure in the book that she shot and killed a dog named Cricket and a billy goat years ago — the dog for its failures on a hunting excursion and its attacks on a neighbor’s chickens, and the goat for chasing after Noem’s children and smelling bad.

In his bid for a third term, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is hoping to cross the finish line by making overtures to voters he hasn't previously engaged with: Democrats. His 2024 Democratic opponent isn't impressed by the gesture.

On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Cruz is hoping to attract more suburban-dwelling Democratic voters to win reelection. In more recent campaign appearances, Texas' junior U.S. senator has been actively rebranding himself as a bipartisan dealmaker not afraid to reach across the aisle to deliver for constituents on issues like immigration. One campaign ad Cruz is running this cycle features "Democrats for Cruz," featuring voices described as "local elected officials, law enforcement, business owners and industry advocates, who back Cruz in his reelection campaign."

Reacting to recent comments from Donald Trump that he may not accept the results of the 2024 presidential election if he loses to President Joe Biden, former RNC chair Michael Steele went on an extensive tirade on Saturday morning accusing the former president of weakness.

Steele, who now co-hosts MSNBC's "The Weekend," jumped on comments the former president made in an interview with Time, where he admitted when it comes to the election results, "... if we don’t win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an election.”

Fearful of a potential consumer backlash and guilt by association, corporations are heeding the advice of corporate consultants and keeping their distance from the Republican Party convention in Milwaukee where Donald Trump will likely be coronated as the 2024 presidential nominee.

According to a report from CNBC, advocacy group Color of Change has put potential corporate sponsors on notice that they will be singled out for linking themselves with the party that will be backing the embattled ex-president who is facing 88 criminal indictments.

Donald Trump's recent outrage at the campus demonstrations over the war in Gaza is less of an expression of support for Israel than it is in handing his hardcore MAGA a justification to riot if he loses the 2024 presidential election.

In her column for Salon, political observer Amanda Marcotte maintains that the former president is "laying the groundwork" for a new wave of violence that will allow his more violent supporters to point to the slap-on-the-wrist treatment of the student protesters if called to account.