2024 Elections

Prominent members of the United States' billionaire class have shelled out massive sums in the final stretch of the 2024 campaign to elect one of their own, Republican nominee Donald Trump, to the White House, with Tesla CEO Elon Musk donating nearly $75 million in recent months to a super PAC supporting the former president's bid for a second term.

According to federal filings made public Tuesday, at least six other billionaires joined Musk in donating to pro-Trump super PACs in the third quarter of 2024: Miriam Adelson, the widow of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson; businessman Richard Uihlein, the heir to a brewing fortune; David Millstone, co-CEO of Standard Industries; Diane Hendricks, co-founder of ABC Supply; Kelcy Warren, the chair of Energy Transfer Partners; and financier Ike Perlmutter.

Special counsel Jack Smith slapped back Wednesday at yet another demand from former President Donald Trump to dismiss his federal election interference case, court records show.

Smith filed in Washington D.C. federal court a response to Trump's recent motion to dismiss charges that he corruptly attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election, won by President Joe Biden, in the lead-up to the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021.

A CNN panel on Wednesday suggested that former President Donald Trump is throwing down-ballot Republicans off kilter with his latest rants about Democrats being "the enemy within" the country.

While discussing the state of the race, Democratic strategist Jim Messina suggested that Trump is causing heartburn for his fellow Republicans by not only ranting about "the enemy within" but also falsely claiming that there was a "peaceful transfer of power" after he lost the 2020 presidential election, when in reality the post-election period was marred by a deadly riot that he incited at the United States Capitol building.

MSNBC host Al Sharpton expressed a small amount of sympathy for Donald Trump on Wednesday morning, wondering why the former president's campaign staff didn't hustle him offstage at a Pennsylvania town hall when he stopped answering questions and danced instead for 39 minutes.

During an appearance on "Morning Joe" to discuss Trump's much-derided "dance party" at his Oaks, Pennsylvania, rally on Monday, Sharpton suggested Trump's team did their man no favors at a time when his cognitive abilities are under intense scrutiny.

After praising how Vice President Kamala Harris is comporting herself on the campaign trail, Sharpton expressed surprise that Trump's people let him remain standing on the stage swaying to the music and occasionally pumping his fists for almost forty minutes while his fans stood waiting.

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"I think they are fooling themselves if they think the momentum is the other way," he said of election prognosticators. "If you want to see somebody [Harris] that can answer questions and has a track record and opposed to somebody that just plays tracks that can't even dance to the tracks, then that's your choice."

"I mean, Donald Trump was embarrassing the other night to anybody that supports him," he added. "If I was there, I would have walked him off the stage if I was a supporter. How long do you let grandpa stand there and humiliate the family?"

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Pro-MAGA TV host Gina Loudon revealed that her friends are "moving to a foreign country" if Vice President Kamala Harris wins her bid for the White House.

Loudon made the admission during a Wednesday broadcast on Real America's Voice.

One complicated congressional law could stand between the White House and a former president Donald Trump armed with legal wiles rather than Electoral College votes, according to a new analysis.

Georgetown University Law Center professor Neal Katyal argued Wednesday in a New York Times editorial that the nation should brace itself for a sprawling legal battle should Trump lose the presidential election to Vice President Kamala Harris in November.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Wednesday morning, Atlantic columnist Peter Wehner, who writes about politics from a conservative Christian perspective, hammered Donald Trump's evangelical supporters for tossing aside their principles to back his third presidential bid.

Asked by the "Morning Joe" co-hosts to talk about his most recent column, "This Election is Different," where he fretted about the declining "decency" of voters, the columnist took aim at Christians who have embraced Trump's MAGA ethos.

Wehner, a former speechwriter for three different Republican presidents, was asked by co-host Joe Scarborough, "They are voting for a man who said, 'I don't need god to forgive me.' So how do they say, I'm voting for my Christian values, I'm going to vote for a man who every day undermines everything that Jesus said and says that he doesn't need god's forgiveness?"

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"You know, it's a psychological trick that they're playing, they've justified it by turning this race into an existential crisis that the Democrats and progressives are against Americans," he explained.

"So Trump is the only thing that stands between them and catastrophe, but of course, it's the opposite thing," he elaborated. "And I do think what you're getting, the point you're making, Joe, is exactly right. It's been a catastrophic damage that's been done to the Christian witness, because this is a moral freak show."

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The Washington Post on Wednesday reported on the likely impacts of former President Donald Trump's economic proposals and found that they would likely cause massive disruptions were they actually implemented as described.

At the center of Trump's plans is a scheme to slap tariffs of 10 percent or higher on all foreign goods, which most economists say would lead to a massive resurgence of inflation given how important imported products are not only for American consumers but for American manufacturers.

With the election less than three weeks away, Vice President Kamala Harris has reportedly directed her campaign to "sharpen" its attacks on Donald Trump using their most potent weapon: using his own words to alarm voters even more.

According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, as Harris' packed rallies that are getting more and more coverage from the major networks, attendees and viewers can expect to see more and more clips of Donald Trump's verbal gaffes, threats of violence and the incoherent rambling that he defends as the "weave."

A federal judge Tuesday appeared inclined to grant a preliminary injunction against an attempt to remove voters state officials claim are noncitizens.

U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco said she believed the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was likely to succeed to in its arguments that the move from Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen in August violated the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) and a requirement that election changes take place no later than 90 days before an election.