2024 Elections

Michigan Republican Party co-chair Malinda Pego has joined an effort to unseat her former running mate, co-chair Kristina Karamo.

The move comes as the state party faces financial troubles and internal division, the Detroit News reported.

Republican candidates for the presidency have fawned over farmers this caucus season as they’ve courted voters in Iowa — the nation’s top producer of corn, eggs and pork.

The candidates often talk in platitudes about their support for Iowa agriculture and paint themselves as farmers’ best friends.

Republicans have spent the past year throwing multiple accusations at President Joe Biden and his family -- but still haven't come up with any proof of wrongdoing that could justify impeaching him.

Washington Post columnist Philip Bump penned a piece explaining that House Oversight Committee chair, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) came into Congress a year ago promising that he would use his power to uncover if Biden was being bribed by China, Russia and Ukraine. He pledged to find "a legislative fix" to address influence-peddling in Congress.

Special counsel Jack Smith continues pushing U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon to grant a "speedy trial" in a classified documents case against former President Donald Trump and two of his employees.

In a filing on Tuesday, Smith presented the court with his ninth speedy trial report. Smith noted that the Speedy Trial Act requires the filing of reports.

It's a little less than a year before the election and Donald Trump has been up and running his campaign for the early primary states for months. The political polls show Trump and President Joe Biden dancing back and forth between who is leading, with both always in the margin of error.

Legal expert Norm Eisen, pollster Celinda Lake and campaign researcher Anat Shenker-Osorio explained in The New York Times that there is one key detail that is being ignored in all of the polls. Most polls are asking whether voters would still support Trump if he is convicted by a jury of his peers -- and the polls consistently show that a conviction would damage him.

The problems the Republican Party had in 2022 that crippled the "red wave" that was supposed to hand the GOP a massive majority in the House and control of the Senate could plague them again because Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is flexing his muscles after leading the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

According to a report from Politico, the GOP leadership is growing exasperated with Gaetz for promoting alternative far-right candidates of his own choosing for seats where the party already has a candidate in mind.

To some GOP insiders, that has created worries about being stuck with unelectable candidates much like what happened in 2022 and putting hopes of controlling both chambers of Congress — and the White House — in jeopardy.

Politico's Madison Fernandez and Gary Fineout report McCarthy has been busy lining up and promoting candidates as he readies his exit from the House while Gaetz is picking his own candidates to challenge them.

Pressed on the fact that he is bucking McCarthy's work, Gaetz replied, "He’s old news. Mike Johnson’s speaker now.”

Politico notes that "the common theme among these candidates who have caught Gaetz’s attention: They’re all ultra-conservatives who are running in primaries against candidates backed by McCarthy," and then adds that Gaetz's interference is causing a "headache for national Republicans."

Pressed on the fact that he is pushing candidates who stand a strong chance of losing in possible pick-up districts, Gaetz brushed aside concerns by stating, "Primaries are a really important part of the political process. It shows the direction the party is moving.”