2024 Elections

During a panel discussion on Tuesday's New Hampshire GOP primary, MSNBC contributor John Heilemann suggested that the enthusiasm for Donald Trump's third run for the presidency, outside of his rabid base, is much less than it seems.

Speaking with hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, Heilemann noted that Trump rallies lack the energy of his previous runs and that his rallies are poorly attended and have been moved to smaller venues to make the former president look better.

"I mean, look, Joe, you mentioned that event," he began. "I was thinking about you on Saturday night. It's the SNHU Arena across the street from where I am now. It's a big sports arena, they do hockey games and basketball games stuff there. We were there together four years ago, Willie [Geist], you, me, [Mike] Barnicle. We were all out there, there was a huge snowstorm. It seats 10,000 people and it was packed to the gills in 2016. The other night here, there were empty seats all over the arena."

"They said there were a few thousand people there, and there probably were a few thousand, but that seats 10,000; it was way less than half filled, and even in the lower level, you could see just seat after seat after seat with no one in it," he reported. "Last night, you know, he did an event on Sunday night in Rochester: the place as a capacity of 700. I mean he filled 700 seats, but, you know, Trump used to brag about the 10,000 people, 12,000 people. 'We kept 10,000 people outside, as far as the eye can see.'"

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"He is getting more people to turn out than Nikki Haley, but the phenomenon, the energy of Donald Trump that you saw on the ground here, that we saw on the ground here in 2016, to a lesser extent in 2020, partly because of the pandemic, it's ebbed a great deal in this primary," he added.

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Former Republican Rep. David Jolly (FL) has a new idea for Gov. Ron DeSantis if he wants to salvage what is left of his career after humiliating himself in the 2024 presidential campaign.

MSNBC host Jen Psaki asked Jolly how DeSantis rebuilds his reputation and his political future.

With Ron DeSantis dropping out of the 2024 presidential race, the political conversations are turning to the state of the race.

Donald Trump was always expected to be the Republican nominee, but the Iowa caucus revealed Trump could barely capture 50 percent of the vote there.

The final day of the E. Jean Carroll damages trial unfolds on Monday when both sides will give closing statements and Donald Trump could testify.

Speaking to a New Hampshire crowd Sunday night, Trump attacked Carroll again, telling the crowd he had to be in court on Monday instead of speaking to voters. The crowd booed. Trump isn't required to be in court for the trial, which explains why he wasn't in the actual trial.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) ended his 2024 presidential campaign using a fake quote from Winston Churchill and critics are calling it the perfect end to what has been a strange campaign.

It began with a flub on the social media site "X," which was formerly referred to as Twitter. The campaign was supposed to be launched using a new feature, that is more akin to an online conference call. The social media site failed so severely that the launch became the presidential announcement not heard around the world.

After releasing the video suspending his campaign, Marc Caputo unleashed a torrent of mockery on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).

Speaking to CNN's Jim Acosta Sunday, Caputo and Republican Scott Jennings discussed the downfall of DeSantis, but it was the former who waxed poetic about the governor's personality.

One New Hampshire voter is so disgusted with former President Donald Trump she'd prefer a cartoon character.

Speaking to MSNBC over the weekend from Nashua, Independent voter Dixy Scott said that she's not wild about her options, but one causes a more visceral reaction.

Former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) didn't hold back when talking about the end of Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign.

After the big announcement on social media, Jolly spoke with MSNBC, explaining that the campaign had been a disaster from the beginning.

A supporter of Donald Trump in New Hampshire falsely insisted that the leading Republican presidential candidate was currently president "as of now."

While waiting for Trump to speak outside an event in Rochester on Sunday, a Newsmax reporter spoke to supporters of the former president.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that he is suspending his 2024 presidential campaign.

His second-place finish in Iowa was still shocking, but it was so close to third-place Nikki Haley that, after spending over $150 million between his campaign and supportive super PAC, it was a humiliating result.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) faced a man heckling him for allegedly dating underage girls.

While speaking at Donald Trump's New Hampshire campaign headquarters on Sunday, a man wearing a Trump hat shouted at Gaetz as he was talking about young voters.

A Republican voter told CBS News that he was "not exactly worried" about abortion rights for women.

During CBS' Face the Nation program on Sunday, host Margaret Brennan asked a panel of Michigan voters about what would happen to abortion rights if Donald Trump was re-elected.