2024 Elections

The race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination officially kicked off on November 15th, 2022 when former President Donald Trump declared his candidacy for the White House. Trump was joined by three others — ex-South Carolina governor and United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and ex-Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson — throughout the first few months of 2023.

Yet there are numerous additional potential hopefuls such as former Vice President Mike Pence, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, who like Hutchinson believe that they can mount formidable counter-campaigns to dethrone Trump as the defacto GOP frontrunner and defeat incumbent Democratic President Joe Biden in the general election.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) revealed on Sunday that Republicans had lost track of a top witness in the investigation of President Joe Biden and his family.

During an interview on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo asked Comer about evidence he had of Biden's alleged corruption.

During the panel portion of CNN's "State of the Union," top GOP political strategist Scott Jennings accused Donald Trump of bailing on his rally in Iowa Sunday over fears the turnout would be puny.

Speaking with host Dana Bash about the dueling campaign appearances in the key primary state by the former president and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who has yet to make his formal announcement to run for president in 2024, Jennings said the Florida governor had no problem with the weather keeping him from meeting with voters.

Changes in religious demographics in the key Rust Belt states could end up being a roadblock for Republicans hoping to take back the Oval Office in 2024.

That is the conclusion of a report from Politico based on the 2020 U.S. Religion Census, which led Poilitco's Ryan Burge to note that "religion is taking a beating across the middle part of the country."

With the 2024 election season ramping up, experts are warning that Republicans stoking fears of crime will actually lead to more violent acts by inciting their followers to take matters into their own hands.

According to a report from the Guardian's Adam Gabbatt, GOP office seekers are expected to lean hard into "war on crime" rhetoric as they seek to reclaim the White House and the Senate.

An MSNBC panel discussion on the legal peril Rep. George Santos (R-NY) is facing turned to its impact on how House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will deal with the possible criminal conviction of one of the members of his caucus with Donald Trump drawn into the mix.

As MSNBC reported, "Santos, 34, who surrendered into custody Wednesday morning, has been charged with seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives, according to the Justice Department."

The decison by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to delay his bid for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination may have destroyed his chances before he even makes the official announcement.

According to a report from the New York Times, Donald Trump has used that time to assert his dominance over the party while lobbing insults at the Florida lawmaker who has attempted to rise above the fray -- much to his detriment.

Six months after the Republican Party's "red wave" failed to materialize during the midterm election — in large part because GOP candidates endorsed by Donald Trump flopped with voters — attention will be paid to the results of a GOP primary in Kentucky this Tuesday.

At issue is the former president's endorsement of Kentucky's Attorney General Daniel Cameron who is battling with Kelly Craft, who served as Trump's UN ambassador from 2019 to 2021, to face incumbent Governor Andy Beshear (D) in the general election.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Saturday Show," former GOP strategist Rick Wilson said the double whammy of Donald Trump's $5 million sexual abuse and defamation courtroom loss this week and his demeanor on a CNN town hall devoted to him the next night exposed him as the "scumbag" he is.

Speaking with host Jonathan Capehart, Wilson — a frequent and vociferous critic of the former president — lambasted Trump in no uncertain terms.

Reeling from off-the-mark polling results in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, the nation's pollsters are trying to get their arms around the influence Donald Trump has been having on poll respondents which makes their jobs almost impossible.

According to a report from Politico's Steven Shepard, Donald Trump has created nothing but chaos by hyping outlier polls to boost his standing which is creating a "feedback loop" that impacts other surveys of voter intent.

Legal experts are raising red flags that the 2024 presidential election could be thrown into turmoil if the Supreme Court doesn't make a definitive ruling on a controversial theory that would block courts at the state level from becoming involved in election disputes.

According to a report from Politico's Zach Montellaro, the once "fringe" independent state legislature theory is set to be heard by the court and the overwhelmingly conservative court has given signs it may not deliver a ruling in time for the pivotal 2024 election.