2024 Elections

Joy Reid and Ayman Mohyeldin chuckled on Monday about the reports that the Republican Party still hasn't learned anything from their failures.

Speaking on Fox Sunday, Republican Party chair, Ronna Romney McDaniel explained that the biggest problem for the GOP in the 2022 midterm elections is that independent voters weren't breaking their way. "And abortion was a big issue in key states like Michigan and Pennsylvania."

Former President Donald Trump has threatened to blow off Republican primary debates for the 2024 election, a move that could theoretically crash the viewership of the debates and effectively deny a meaningful platform to candidates who want to challenge him, like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.

But it didn't have to be this way, argued MSNBC's Ja'han Jones on Monday — and the Republican Party's own decisions allowed it to happen, chiefly by allowing Trump to skip several debates in 2016 without any real consequences.

A conservative commentator on Monday suggested that Donald Trump’s agreement to participate in a CNN town hall next week is payback to Fox News over the right-wing network’s promotion of the former president’s top rival.

CNN earlier in the day announced that the GOP frontrunner will participate in a New Hampshire presidential town hall on May 10. The town hall will be hosted by Kaitlan Collins.

Quarterly filings from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene show that the Georgia Republican only received six big-dollar donations from her constituents.

Rome News-Tribune first reported on Greene's FEC filings, showing $601,517 in total receipts and $1,593,578 in total disbursements. Greene indicated she had $966,133 on hand as of March 31.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) disagreed with former President Donald Trump's suggestion that he may skip Republican primary debates in the 2024 presidential race.

During an interview on Monday, conservative podcast host Charlie Kirk asked Boebert if Republicans should follow the lead of Democrats by scuttling primary debates.

That’s when judged against the governor’s ambitions when the session opened March 7, to elevate his national profile and smooth his path to the Republican nomination for president, state Rep. Fentrice Driskell said during a Zoom call with reporters as the Legislature winds down this week.

“He has failed to capitalize on his election win to raise his profile nationally and he’s doing worse in the polls than when he started. His culture wars did not win him support nationally. And that’s really the only thing that he cares about — not our insurance crisis, skyrocketing rents, unaffordable health insurance, or any other problem real Florida families struggle with every day,” Driskell said.

With an eye on the 2024 election, young conservative influencers are trying to get a handle on how to reach out to their increasingly alienated generation and pull them back to the Republican Party.

In interviews with Newsweek, the young conservatives admitted they are struggling, with more than a few saying they aren't getting the help from Republicans they need to back up their messages.

A so-called "alternate" elector for Georgia's 2020 presidential election prompted a judge to grant Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis an additional two weeks before deciding on former President Donald Trump's motion to end her investigation.

On Friday, an attorney for former fake elector Cathy Latham petitioned the court to join Trump's motion to bar Willis from pursuing a case against Trump and others for criminal interference in Georgia's election.

A former Democratic state senator has moved to run against controversial Rep. George Santos (R-NY) in New York.

In documents filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday, former state Sen. Anna Kaplan indicated she would run as a Democrat in New York's 3rd Congressional District.

Any hope that the Republican Party has that it will reclaim Arizona's 11 Electoral College votes in the 2024 presidential election will likely hinge on the party's appeal to the growing number of independents in the state.

However, as the New York Times' Trip Gabriel reports, if Donald Trump is the GOP's presidential nominee the odds of a win in the state worsen because of his unpopularity in the once reliably conservative state.

Former President Donald Trump criticized Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch after his company agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems.

During a "fireside chat" with podcaster Steve Bannon, Trump complained Sunday that the government had been "weaponized" against conservatives.

Politicians have always taken their own parties to task to prove their independence come election time, but Donald Trump has turned it into a bloodsport with his vicious attacks on the Republican party, Washington Post columnist Paul Waldman wrote Monday.

Worse still, he notes, Trump has opened the door for his closest allies and rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination to join in his ugly bashing of the party.

Allies of former President Donald Trump, including Roger Stone and Michael Flynn, are backing a far-right Christian group designed to keep evangelicals in the former president's camp for 2024 — but more mainstream Christian denominations are standing up and fighting back, reported The Guardian on Monday.

"The group, Pastors for Trump, is drawing sharp rebukes from mainstream Christian leaders for being extremist, distorting Christian teachings and endangering American democracy, by fueling the spread of Christian nationalism," reported Peter Stone. "The Tulsa, Oklahoma-based evangelical pastor and businessman Jackson Lahmeyer leads the fledgling Pastors for Trump organization. Lahmeyer told the Guardian it boasts over 7,000 pastors as members and that he will unveil details about its plans on 11 May at the Trump National Doral in Miami, an event Trump will be invited to attend."