2024 Elections

Since becoming Speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) has caused concern that if Republicans hold the House in 2024, he will refuse to certify a President Joe Biden victory.

Johnson was an avid supporter of the 2020 election overthrow attempt, shopping a lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton around the House in an attempt to garner support from other GOP members. The suit accused Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin of making last-minute changes to their elections to skew the results.

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference is under way at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center through Saturday and, according to one political analyst, its best days are behind it.

This year's meeting was already dogged by accusations of sexual harassment lodged against CPAC head Matt Schlapp that have not only not gone away, but have moved into a new phase, according to reporting from The Daily Beast that exposed possible document shredding.

Whether it was because he was almost three hours late or due to lack of interest, event organizers in Nashville removed approximately 300 chairs from the hall where Donald Trump was slated to appear on Thursday night.

Before the former president addressed the National Religious Broadcasters conference at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessean reporter Vivian Jones posted pictures to X that showed a before-and-after of the hall where rows and rows of seats seem to have disappeared.

According to Jones, "More than two hours into the presidential forum, Donald Trump is not yet on stage. The room is far from full. About 20 mins ago, staff cleared out about 300 chairs from the far back corner. Photo on the left was taken just after 7pm, photo on the right was taken just now."

Reporting on the event, she later wrote that the former president did receive an enthusiastic welcome from the attendees who did show up.

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Donald Trump's plan to place his daughter-in-law in a leadership position in the Republican National Committee will put the entire party on the road to disaster claimed former RNC chair Michael Steele.

With the former president endorsing the selection of Lara Trump as RNC co-chair, Steele believes that she will do irreparable harm to the other GOP candidates the RNC should be developing and promoting.

Reacting to plans by Donald Trump to insert his daughter-in-law into the Republican National Committee's leadership, combined with a report that the former president's small donor base has dramatically collapsed, one of the MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-hosts said the former president and the GOP are headed off a cliff.

After watching a clip of Lara Trump, the wife of Eric Trump, talk about using the RNC to make sure her father-in-law gets re-elected as her primary goal, MSNBC's Willie Geist agreed with Joe Scarborough that a new "grift" is afoot.

Geist also asserted the former president is finding out that a substantial number of his fans are no longer willing to pay his legal bills.

"He's a self-proclaimed billionaire who is asking working class people to chip in $5, $10, $20 to pay his legal bills for alleged crimes he committed, " Geist told the "Morning Joe" panel. "We thought he had all this money. We thought his beach club was worth $100 million. He lives on 5th Avenue, he has a plane, all that stuff. You're right, Joe, this is a racket."

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"So Lara Trump, looks like, will be put, at least if she's not the head of the RNC, she'll be the co-head of the RNC," he continued. "It is a family business, she'll do whatever he says just like Congress does what he says. she's literally a member of the family."

"They can dig deeper down this hole, Joe, and they can keep playing to the 10, 15, 20 percent and they can keep thinking and taking for granted all of their voters," he elaborated. " I guess thinking they're dumb enough to think they should be giving their money away and flushing it down the toilet like this. but they're going to do it. There are enough people, as you cited in that 'Financial Times' report, that he has 200,000 fewer donors this time around than he did four years ago, for this very reason. They don't want to give money to pay his legal bills."

A strong woman who might be able to bring the United States together: Nikki Haley, Donald Trump's only remaining opponent, is indeed popular among many Republican women voting in South Carolina's upcoming presidential primary.

But Trump, the runaway favorite who has already won the contests in Iowa and New Hampshire easily, remains the top choice among many women voters even though he faces four criminal indictments and raises eyebrows with his unseemly, even outrageous comments.