2024 Elections

Reacting to a U.S. Court of Appeals order that slapped aside Donald Trump's hope of keeping former Vice President Mike Pence from appearing before a grand jury investigating efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election results, a CNN legal analysts called it another in a long line of losses for the former president – with no end in sight.

According to the Associated Press, "It was not immediately clear what day Pence might appear before the grand jury, which for months has been investigating the events preceding the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and efforts by Trump and his allies to subvert the election outcome.

On Thursday Donald Trump attorney Joe Tacopina is slated to cross-examine New York writer E. Jean Carroll after her devastating testimony on Wednesday where she described being sexually assaulted by the now former president decades ago and a CNN panel pointed out that the Trump attorney will need to tread delicately before the jury.

Sitting down with "CNN This Morning" co-hosts Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins, political analyst John Avlon called Carroll's testimony on Wednesday "heartwrenching" before noting Tacopina's history of being brusque and then adding it will not play well in a trial over rape allegations.

With Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' 2024 presidential hopes already fading before he officially announces, Republicans are trying to get their arms around how much damage Donald Trump will inflict on the primary process and to candidates down ticket.

According to a report from Politico's Jonathan Martin, the former president is already creating headaches for the GOP leadership by considering disrupting plans for the GOP presidential debates, and aides close to Trump claim "he's angry" and already expressing his displeasure with the Republican National Committee.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan warned Joseph Tacopina, an attorney for Donald Trump, that his client was in "harm's way" after Eric Trump tweeted about E. Jean Carroll's rape allegations despite instructions from the judge.

During a Wednesday court hearing in New York City, Kaplan scolded the former president after he claimed on social media that the trial was a "scam."

President Joe Biden announced his reelection campaign on Tuesday, focusing on "freedoms" as the key issue.

In response, Republicans released what "The View" co-hosts called an "AI-generated" ad about a dystopian future of the American apocalypse. It shows crumbling banks, San Francisco being shut down due to overwhelming crime and the fentanyl crisis, soldiers on the streets, China invading Taiwan, and 80,000 “illegals” storming the U.S. border.

The Manhattan district attorney's office has asked a judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal case to bar the former president from publicly using evidence, citing a "safety risk."

In a motion filed Tuesday, Assistant District Attorney Catherine McCaw said Trump had a "longstanding and perhaps singular history of attacking witnesses, investigators, prosecutors, trial jurors, grand jurors, judges, and others involved in legal proceedings against him, putting those individuals and their families at considerable safety risk."

Donald Trump lashed out at E. Jean Carroll's rape allegations against him just hours before the author was expected to testify at the former president's civil rape trial Wednesday.

"The E. Jean Carroll case, Ms. Bergdorf Goodman, is a made up SCAM," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

A clearly exasperated former speechwriter for President George W. Bush warned Republicans there appears to be little chance that Donald Trump will be successful in his third bid for the White House due to his overwhelmingly poor numbers with independents and swing voters.

In his column for the Washington Post, conservative Marc Theissen claimed the 2024 presidential election will be a debacle for the GOP if they don't dump Trump and find another candidate — any candidate — to head the ticket.

Republican support for Donald Trump is at an all-time high and on Wednesday, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said Democrats were licking their chops for 2024.

The former president's favorability among Republicans hit 81 percent in a recent poll, although another poll showed just 71 percent of Republicans wanted him back in the White House -- and only 29 percent of independents and 7 percent of Democrats agreed -- and the "Morning Joe" host said that was a matchup President Joe Biden would gladly take on again.

The defense of Donald Trump in a Manhattan courtroom, where he stands accused of rape and defamation by writer E. Jean Carroll, got off to a rough start on Tuesday, claims a former sex crimes prosecutor.

In a column for the Daily Beast, attorney and legal analyst Shan Wu stated that the former president's choice not to attend the opening proceedings, while his accuser was in full view of the jury pool, could come back to haunt him and that his attorney's initial approach didn't help matters.

Kandiss Taylor, a failed far-right candidate for governor, declared that God wanted to "take Georgia back" after she was elected to chair a state GOP's district.

After winning the election over the weekend, Taylor made a Tuesday appearance on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast to celebrate.

Supporters of E. Jean Carroll showed up at the federal courthouse in New York City on Tuesday for former President Donald Trump's civil rape trial.

"We believe E. Jean Carroll!" demonstrators chanted as she arrived at court.

Tucker Carlson may be forced into a career change by his contract with Fox News, according to former Republican strategist Rick Wilson.

The conservative network unceremoniously dumped its top-rated host Monday morning just days after agreeing to pay $787 million to settle a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems based in part on false claims Carlson made about Donald Trump's election loss. But Wilson said the conservative broadcaster may now pose a threat to the former president's 2024 chances.