2024 Elections

Former President Donald Trump used the Easter holiday to attack his perceived opponents.

In a message posted to his Trump Social platform, Trump ranted about the Easter Sunday holiday in all capital letters.

This past Tuesday Donald Trump made history by becoming the first former president to be hauled into court and be indicted on felony charges and, for Republicans, the rest of the week went downhill from that point.

That is the opinion of the Washington Post's longtime analyst Dan Balz, who surveyed the week's damage that included a key election loss in Wisconsin, infighting among the GOP's House leadership and concluded with the terrible optics of the far-right Republican-dominated Tennessee House expelling two Black lawmakers for protesting the carnage being inflicted on America's children due to the easy availability of high-powered weaponry.

According to Jessica Levinson of Loyola Law School, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has a path littered with obstacles as he seeks to get guilty verdicts on 34 felony counts he has filed against Donald Trump, but they are surmountable and his case is legally solid.

In a column for MSNBC, Levinson said the facts of the case are on Bragg's side despite objections that are sure to come from the former president's lawyers.

Now that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has charged Donald Trump on 34 felony counts related to hush money payments to an adult film star and Playboy model before the 2016 election, all eyes are focused on Fulton County, Georgia, where the next shoe is poised to drop that could force the former president to make another court appearance.

According to a report from the New York Times, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis could be bringing a case against Trump and an assortment of aides and supporters that will be far more complex and far-reaching than the legal proceedings in New York City.

Federal officials are calling shenanigans on a new 2024 presidential candidate who purports to be President Joe Biden himself — but almost certainly is not.

"It has come to the attention of the Federal Election Commission that you may have failed to include true, correct, or complete candidate information," FEC senior campaign finance analyst Jacqueline Gausepohl wrote Wednesday to "Mr Joseph R Biden Jr" in a letter obtained by Raw Story.

Donald Trump's increasingly inflammatory rhetoric up to and since he was arraigned in a Manhattan courtroom appears to be lighting a fuse that's turning his followers into a mob bent on revenge on his behalf, an analyst warned.

As longtime political observer David Corn wrote for "Mother Jones," Trump's bid for a third presidential run was always rooted in seeking revenge after voters rejected him in 2020. But now, with felony criminal charges hanging over him, he seems dead set on inciting violence that might go beyond the Jan 6 insurrection.

Democrats are planning to use a strategy engineered by former George W. Bush strategist Karl Rove to drive up turnout in next year's elections.

Rove boosted Republican turnout in 2004 by pushing ballot initiatives to ban same-sex marriage in swing states to help re-elect George W. Bush, and Democrats are hoping to copy the strategy by capitalizing on the backlash to last year's Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, reported CNN.

According to conservative commentator Amanda Carpenter, if the seemingly endless reports of investigations into Donald Trump blur together that is because they are all, at the end of the day, about the same thing.

In her column for the Bulwark, she stated that "election criminality" is at the center of the 34 felony count Manhattan indictment, the Fulton County, Georgia grand jury investigation, and special counsel Jack Smith's Jan. 6 investigation.

Ever since former President Donald Trump became the de facto leader of the Republican Party in 2016, the party has been in a slow-moving disaster as they rack up an ever-growing "epic losing streak" as voters turn away from them, wrote Mike Allen and Zachary Basu for Axios on Friday.

Their troubles began in the 2018 midterms — and have just continued from there.

All of the concessions that Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) made in his desperate bid to become House Speaker are coming back to haunt him as his caucus can't seem to get on the same page and now he is starting to point fingers at his deputies for their failings -- many of which are his fault, according to a report.

Politico said McCarthy's travails have led him to start looking for "scapegoats" in an effort to escape blame and allay doubts that he is not up to the job.

The war between Donald Trump and the powerful Club for Growth is threatening to undermine the Republican party's plans for the 2024 election and that could blow up endorsement plans.

According to a report from the Daily Beast, the Club for Growth has made it clear they don't want Donald Trump at the top of the 2024 Republican Party ticket and so they are reportedly pressuring GOP lawmakers to not endorse the now-indicted former president and that could lead Trump to blow up their own runs for office.

Legal commentator Marcy Wheeler predicted former President Donald Trump will likely be charged with obstruction or the Espionage Act after he took classified documents to his home at Mar-a-Lago.

Wheeler spoke to We've Got Issues host Joshua Holland in a podcast aired on Friday.

Lake addressed about 80 people at the Story County Republicans’ Lincoln Highway Dinner. Her visit comes as Iowans are beginning to consider 2024 Republican caucus candidates, but Lake is likely not running for president. She is still fighting in the courts over her claims of election fraud in her 2022 loss to Democrat Katie Hobbs.

A member of the audience asked Lake whether she would consider serving as Trump’s running mate in 2024.