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'No free alcohol': Cash-strapped Trump nixes open bar at Mar-a-Lago watch party

Former President Donald Trump skimped on refreshments for his guests at a watch party on Super Tuesday.

Fox News correspondent Aishah Hasnie broke the news as election results were reported Tuesday night.

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'Blah blah blah': Sinema sneers at reporters asking about her retirement

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) doesn't want to talk about her newly announced retirement from the Senate — and mocked reporters who tried to get more information from her on Tuesday.

In a video posted to X, NBC News congressional correspondent Julie Tsirkin caught up with Sinema and asked if she wanted to add anything more. A staffer walking next to her replied, "Blah blah blah blah blah," at which Sinema burst out laughing and continued to walk away.

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Super Tuesday Live Results: Trump claims Colorado after Supreme Court battle

Trump takes Colorado after Supreme Court battle

[Filed 9:45 p.m.]

Former President Donald Trump claimed victory in Colorado after a contentious battle with the state's Supreme Court over the definition of an insurrectionist, according to predictions from NBC News and the New York Times.

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GOP strategist outlines how Nikki Haley could still do Trump 'real damage'

As voters in 15 states and one U.S. territory head to the polls to vote for their preferred candidates in observance of Super Tuesday, a Republican strategist shared her thoughts on how Nikki Haley could still do "real damage" to Donald Trump by refusing to endorse him.

Haley, who is Trump's only serious challenger left in the 2024 race, hopes to gain traction Tuesday night following her primary win on Sunday in Washington, D.C.

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Kyrsten Sinema's retirement met with flood of online celebration: 'Corrupt egomaniac'

Arizona's Kyrsten Sinema announced her retirement from the Senate Tuesday in a carefully worded statement, praising Republican lawmakers she worked with while blasting the "dysfunction" of modern politics.

The former Democrat-turned-Independent switched her allegiances in 2022. She has since worked with both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate.

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Texas GOP sounds alarm after voter roll purge hits Republicans on Super Tuesday

The Republican Party of Texas suggested election officials may have purged too many of their voters from the voting rolls.

In a message on Super Tuesday, the Texas GOP sounded the alarm about possible problems with voting.

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'Not playing games': Lara Trump tells Republicans to get behind father-in-law — or get out

Friday will mark the end of Ronna Romney McDaniel's time as chair of the Republican National Committee, and former President Donald Trump is recommending North Carolina GOP chair Michael Whatley as her replacement — with the former president’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump as co-chair.

Lara Trump has drawn criticism from some conservatives for vowing, during an interview with Newsmax's Rob Schmitt in February, that "every single penny" of RNC money "will go to the number one and the only job of the RNC — that is electing Donald J. Trump as president of the United States and saving this country."

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Georgia county GOP ordered not to purge Republicans from ballot — it might do it anyway

Catoosa County Superior Court Judge Don Thompson of Georgia ruled that county GOP officials cannot implement a rule allowing them to purge unwanted Republicans from the ballot.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution's Greg Bluestein reported the decision on Tuesday.

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Operation ‘Trigger Trump’: Here’s Biden’s plan for driving Trump crazy

President Joe Biden reportedly has plans to “go for Donald Trump’s jugular” in a new campaign strategy to get under the former president’s skin.

Axios reported Biden wants to “trigger Trump” and that he’s been telling people close to him that “he thinks Trump is wobbly, both intellectually and emotionally, and will explode if Biden mercilessly gigs and goads him,” according to the report.

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'Million-dollar question': Ex-Trump staffer points to primary results that spell doom

As Donald Trump heads into "Super Tuesday" — and is expected to wipe the floor with his opponent — his former communications director sees warning signs that he should be very concerned about.

Even though he's clearly beating Nikki Haley, Alyssa Farah Griffin sees substantial numbers voting for her — and those people, she said, will not be joining team Trump.

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'Because she’s female': Trump voter admits why he can’t vote for Nikki Haley

Reporters on the ground in Super Tuesday states questioned voters about the reasoning behind their decisions in the primary and general elections — and some of their answers were eye-opening.

A North Carolina man gave MSNBC's Shaq Brewster a bluntly honest reason why he thought Nikki Haley is "not going to be a good president" — because of her gender.

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'Curtains for MAGA crowd': Analyst warns timing of immunity hearing 'nightmare' for Trump

The Supreme Court's plan to hear Donald Trump's presidential immunity case in April could actually set the GOP's leading candidate up for a scheduling disaster as he near the November election, a columnist warned Tuesday.

Former conservative Jennifer Rubin, in her Washington Post column, speculated that the Supreme Court might actually be handing Trump the worst possible trial date for his Washington, D.C. election interference case.

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'Monday Massacre:' Florida Democratic Party chief suspends multiple county chairs

Florida Democratic Party chair Nikki Fried suspended multiple county chairs on Monday, with just eight months to go before the presidential election — a massive shakeup in a state where Democrats have seen a long string of losses in the previous decade.

Fried started by suspending Robert Dempster, the chair of the Miami-Dade County Democratic Party, reported the Miami Herald. Then, in what Florida-based Bulwark reporter Marc Caputo described as a "Monday Massacre," she followed up with a similar suspension of Palm Beach County chair Mindy Koch.

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