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Republicans having 'one of the worst years we've ever seen' financially: GOP committeeman

Republicans are admitting that the party is in trouble financially, and it's reportedly spilling into talks of putting Donald Trump in charge.

The former president previously considered his 2024 run would be as an independent, but now the Republican party itself is considering putting him as their front man to help with fundraising, according to a report from the New York Times.

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'Obviously insane' Trump is making himself unelectable: conservative

According to Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson, Donald Trump's legal problems along with his gaffes and bizarre off-the-cuff remarks are creating a larger pool of conservative voters much more receptive to voting for President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election.

Speaking with MSNBC host Katie Phang, Wilson called the embattled ex-president an "obviously insane and an adjudicated rapist" who is faced with a major problem hanging on to conservative voters, and that there are more persuadable voters for the Lincoln Project to target than there were in 2020.

"We have an expanded range of voters who are responsive to an anti-Trump message than we did in 2020," he reported to the host. "In 2020, depending on the state, we modeled between three and eight percent of Republicans and independent-leaning voters who could be reached and moved by our message."

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'Doubling down on things that aren’t true': RNC ripped over 'fake electors' resolution

A resolution passed at the Republican National Committee's (RNC) recent winter meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada shows that the question of whether the party accepts that former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election is still a very divisive topic among Republicans.

The Washington Post reported on the resolution, which states the RNC will continue to support fake electors currently embroiled in criminal investigations in multiple states around the country. However, that resolution notably included language like putting the word "vocally" before support (rather than financially, for example) and the word "lawfully" when describing Trump electors from states that then-candidate Joe Biden won in 2020.

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Black voters matter: Biden seeks South Carolina boost

If there's one place US President Joe Biden can count on for support from Black voters, it is Toliver's Mane Event barbershop in the South Carolina state capital Columbia.

A framed photo on the wall pictures the moment a smiling Biden visited the shop before his turnaround Democratic primary win in 2020.

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The Democrats standing between Biden and a second term

One is a best-selling self-help writer, the other a US congressman -- and both are applying their rhetorical talents to pitch themselves to Democrats as better bets than President Joe Biden to beat Donald Trump in November.

Short of a major upset, Americans are unlikely ever to find out.

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Trump's declining 'mental capacity' is now his greatest weakness: GOP strategist

Donald Trump's repeated gaffes and slurring during his speeches and public appearances has opened the door for former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) to make inroads into cutting into his support as the two battle for the GOP's 2024 presidential nomination, and one GOP strategist claims his declining mental capacity is fair game.

In a column for MSNBC, campaign strategist Susan Del Percio pointed out that the former president has only himself to blame for making his decline front and center as the primary season ramps up and that Haley is doing a good job of raising the alarm that the former president is not up to the job of being president again.

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Biden faces South Carolina test of Black support

Charleston (United States) (AFP) - US President Joe Biden faces his first test of support among Black voters in the South Carolina Democratic primary Saturday as he seeks to build momentum against Donald Trump for November's presidential election. Incumbent Biden is almost certain to win the first official vote in the race for his party's nomination, which comes the day after US retaliatory strikes hit Iran-linked targets in Syria and Iraq following the deaths of three US troops in Jordan. Turnout will be closely watched: Black voters drove Biden's campaign-saving victory in the 2020 South Car...

'A fraud': Dem slams Trump for paying 'non-union workers to pose as union members'

Donald Trump on Friday was called out for being a purported fraud when a Democratic lawmaker responded to reports that the ex-president had paid around $20,000 in order to host a pretend union rally at a plant that is not unionized.

Rep. Daniel Goldman was responding to a report flagged by former prosecutor Ron Filipkowski, who claimed that the former president's campaign had paid "$20k to fake a union rally."

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Hochul, backing Tom Suozzi, calls race for Santos’ seat her ‘top priority’

NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday offered her one-time bitter rival Tom Suozzi a full-throated endorsement in his high-stakes special election race for the Long Island House seat vacated by George Santos. On the eve of the start of early voting, Hochul, a centrist Democrat, said it was her “top priority” to help Suozzi win the seat for the Democratic Party, which is aiming to cut the Republican Party’s advantage in the House to two seats. “I’ve been working very closely with Tom Suozzi. I believe that he is the best person to represent that district,” Hochultold reporters at a prosecutors...

Revealed: New Jack Smith filing blows up Trump's theory about Biden influence in docs case

A new filing from special counsel Jack Smith in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case swats down former President Donald Trump's demand for a broad range of discovery from various branches of the federal government, detailed by Politico's Kyle Cheney on Friday evening.

Trump pushed the discovery request as a bid to try to find evidence that the Biden administration orchestrated the investigation as a political hit against him — but Smith's filing reveals the exact nature of the Biden White House's involvement.

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Busted: Kari Lake campaign reportedly caught in a lie about speaking fees

Senate candidate Kari Lake has reportedly been making coin off of her speeches, despite her campaign saying she does them out of the goodness of her heart.

The Arizona Republican who failed to win her gubernatorial run, reported taking in $75,000 in speaking fees last year, contradicting her campaign's prior claims that she doesn't get paid for the public speaking events, The Copper Courier reports.

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'Blowout jobs report!' Trump adviser says to put politics aside and enjoy the economy

The U.S. economy is booming — and even former Trump White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow thinks it's time to celebrate it.

Economists expected some degree of slowdown at the end of the year, but instead the jobs report smashed all expectations, with 353,000 new jobs added, unemployment holding steady at 3.7 percent, wages rising, and all major sectors now seeing employment at or above pre-COVID levels.

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Ex-RNC head thanks Biden for cursing Trump: Speaking 'for the rest of us'

Reacting to a report from Politico that President Joe Biden has taken to referring to Donald Trump with a colorful and crude choice of words, the Republican Party's former national chairman stated he doesn't see a problem with it.

He then thanked the current president for his candor and added that Biden speaks for a substantial number of Americans.

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