2024 Elections

Former Vice President Mike Pence blasted Donald Trump after his former running mate said that people who committed crimes on Jan. 6 were "hostages" to the legal system.

During an interview on CBS's Face the Nation program on Sunday, host Margaret Brennan asked Pence if he agreed with Trump when he referred to the Jan. 6 criminals as "hostages and patriots" at a recent rally.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) let out an audible sigh on Sunday when he was asked whether Donald Trump would follow the U.S. Constitution if he is elected for a second term.

During a Sunday interview on NBC, host Kristen Welker noted that Trump had vowed to release people convicted of crimes for the attacks on Jan. 6, 2021.

Not everyone in Milwaukee is excited that the Republican Party will be rolling into town to hold their national convention where delegates will presumably anoint Donald Trump as their 2024 presidential candidate.

According to the owner of The Mothership, a local bar with a raucous reputation, he wants no part of the horde of conservative delegates who will be descending on his community between July 15 and the 18th, so he announced on Facebook this week he'd rather shut down for a few days until after the hubbub dies down.

In an interview with WISN, Ricky Ramirez bluntly stated, "Don't mix alcohol and politics."

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Building on his Facebook announcement where he wrote, "Sup idiots pretty funny that we’re open for s----y weather today but our snowflake a---s won’t open for the rnc lmao yo bar is open and a certain basketball team from a few miles away from bar are playing the Philadelphia basketball team jawns cheese steak Wawa rocky balboas and we will have it on our tvs and who knows maybe right after it we will have cool butts on the tv come to bar and get sloshed I’m losing my goddamned mind come on down to the mommy," he told WISN he also had no interest in renting out his place for private parties for Republicans.

"I'm not trying to get involved with or actively take money or rent the space out to that tomfoolery," Ramirez explained before confessing, "I think I would have done it if it was the DNC. Like, you know, there's a lot to be upset about right now, and they don't deserve a party, especially the fun party that we throw every single night here."

According to the owner, he is enjoying the attention his announcement has received nationally.

"It's really cool when, like, Rolling Stone reaches out to you, and they're like, this is worthwhile for us to talk to you about," Ramirez said. "I think everyone knows that this is kind of like a really crazy state right now."

He added he may hold private parties if they have nothing to do with the RNC invasion.

You can watch his interview with WISN below:

A decision by Donald Trump's campaign strategists to concentrate their efforts on reaching out to hardcore Republicans could turn out to be a fatal error according to election experts.

According to a recent report from Gallup which has been tracking party affiliations, both major parties are bleeding voters who strongly identify with their respective parties but Republicans are faring far worse.

That makes Trump's pool of voters who will actually turn out limited at a time when he and his campaign should be reaching out to the growing numbers who call themselves independents.

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As Newsweek reported, "As of February 2024, when the latest data is available, 28 percent say they are Republicans, while 30 percent say they are Democrats, showing Republican's base declining," political scientist Todd Landman at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham in the U.K. said Republicans have the larger problem of the two.

"The stakes are thus high for both parties in the runup to the November election, and both parties need to draw from the independents to assure victory. The Biden campaign has so far sought to reach out to these independents, while the Trump campaign appears to be retrenching to the solid base of supporters, which mathematically may be the wrong strategy to win the election," Landman explained.

Mark Shanahan of the University of Surrey in the U.K. agreed and blamed the problem on candidate Trump as the main sticking point for potential voters.

Former President Donald Trump officially locked up enough delegates to become the presumptive GOP presidential nominee after winning Tuesday's Republican primary in Georgia. However, he has yet to make any efforts to unite his party after dispatching his former UN ambassador Nikki Haley — his last remaining rival — on Super Tuesday.

In her concession speech, Haley refused to endorse Trump and said the former president would have to "earn" the votes of her supporters between March and November. Trump has so far not made any direct pleas to Haley voters, and continues to mock the former South Carolina governor on social media. In an interview with Politico, one unnamed "top Haley donor" said Trump ignores the sizable swath of GOP voters who were in Haley's corner at his own peril.

Faced with a massive shortfall in raising campaign cash compared to his presumptive opponent in the 2024 presidential race, Donald Trump and his advisers have decided to cut back on his high-profile campaign rallies in an effort to not drain the coffers even more.

With filings showing President Joe Biden and the Democrats sitting on a war chest of $130 million going into February while the former president, while not releasing all of his numbers, did show a combined $40 million with RNC cash included, the New York Times reports the Trump and his election prospects are facing a "perilous" stage.

As the Times' Maggie Haberman and Shane Goldmacher wrote, Trump has been holding donor meetings at Mar-a-Lago imploring supporters to increase their contributions.