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'I will have to vote for Trump' even though he's 'very frightening': Haley supporter

A supporter of former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley told the Washington Post that she's going to make herself support former President Donald Trump — despite admitting that he scares her.

The voter in question is 80-year-old Virginia resident Micki Stout, who supported Trump in both 2016 and 2020 before deciding to take the plunge for Haley in this year.

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Ex-Trump aide says Republicans are lying to their own voters

Speaking to veteran ABC News journalist Jonathan Karl, "The View's" hosts addressed several questions they had about the state of the 2024 presidential campaign — and what they'd watched unfold over the past several months.

Among the most outspoken was former Donald Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin, who has since denounced the former president and pledged to work to defeat him.

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Mike Johnson expected to be ignored as he begs for 'decorum' at State of Union: report

House Republican leaders are asking lawmakers to behave during President Joe Biden's State of the Union address this Thursday.

Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) loudly heckled the president during last year's address, and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) called for "decorum" at this year's joint session of Congress, reported Axios.

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U.S. lawmakers to avert shutdown with vote on eve of major Biden speech

U.S. lawmakers were set to vote Wednesday to end a long-running row over the federal budget with a giant bill to fund several major federal agencies through the fall, averting a partial shutdown due to start at the weekend.

The vote comes on the eve of President Joe Biden's annual State of the Union address, with the Democrat preparing to deliver a career-defining speech as he bids for a second term against his Republican rival, Donald Trump.

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'Genius work of the Republicans': Analysts say GOP helped Biden by delaying State of Union

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) may have thought he was flexing his newfound power by delaying President Joe Biden his State of the Union Address before Congress until March — but, in fact, he might have just handed the president a huge gift, suggested MSNBC's Chris Hayes.

That's because he actually moved the date of the address, which is often a boost to the presidents' popularity, to a period when it will actually affect the presidential campaign.

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U.S. allies prepare for 'revenge presidency' as Trump closes in on GOP nomination: report

As polls appear to show Donald Trump edging ahead of President Joe Biden, allies of the U.S. around the world are bracing for a potential second Trump presidency.

In public, world leaders tend to withhold comment on their preferences for the next U.S. president — but in private, some are getting ready for a "revenge presidency" that could work against European interests.

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'Burn GOP to the ground': Haley urged to destroy Trump's party after suspending campaign

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley shouldn't go down without a fight, argued The New Republic contributor Damon Linker on his "Notes from the Middleground" substack. Rather, she should seize the moment to "burn the GOP to the ground."

Haley, who has been trailing drastically behind former President Donald Trump ever since her campaign launch and was the final Republican in the race challenging the former president for the 2024 nomination, suspended her campaign Wednesday after losing all but one state Super Tuesday contest.

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MAGA groups lit millions on fire failing to find voter fraud: report

A new analysis reveals the true extent to which Trump-aligned groups spent money to hunt for voter fraud — with nothing to show for it.

According to CNBC's Brian Schwartz, "Trump’s false claims that he lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden only as the result of widespread ballot fraud and other irregularities were the impetus for the creation of those nonprofit groups and political action committees. But a glaring problem for those groups has been the fact that federal and state officials have repeatedly debunked Trump’s claims of fraud. Another problem that doomed some of the groups was their failure to secure any fundraising help from Trump, the de facto leader of the Republican Party, who remains the chief promoter of false claims of widespread voter fraud in the United States."

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'Uncommitted' wins nearly 20% of Democratic primary vote in Minnesota

Nearly 20% of Minnesotans who took part in their state's Democratic presidential primary on Super Tuesday voted "uncommitted," the latest warning to President Joe Biden that his unwavering support for Israel's assault on Gaza risks eroding his base ahead of November's high-stakes general election.

Roughly 46,000 Democratic primary voters in Minnesota, which Biden won in 2020, marked the uncommitted option on their ballots just a week after more than 100,000 Michiganders registered their own protest votes against the incumbent president.

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'There's not a big enough shower' to wash out the stench of Trump: Ex-GOP Lt. Governor

Former Republican Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan on Wednesday urged former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley not to endorse former President Donald Trump, as he predicted the party would have to significantly remake itself in the event that Trump again loses the presidential race.

Appearing on CNN, Duncan argued that President Joe Biden was a weak candidate for Democrats, but lamented the fact that those weaknesses were likely to be wiped out by his party once again nominating Trump.

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U.S. elections 2024: Super Tuesday primary results, state by state

U.S. President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump swept to victory in statewide nominating contests across the country on Tuesday, setting up a historic rematch in November's presidential election, though Nikki Haley's surprise victory in Vermont denied Trump a clean sweep of states in the race for the Republican nomination.

  • The Super Tuesday primaries are the largest voting day of the year outside of the November general election. Elections are held in 15 states and one territory – from Alaska and California to Vermont and Virginia. Hundreds of delegates are at stake in the primaries, the biggest haul for either party on any single day.
  • As expected, longtime frontrunner for the Republican nomination Donald Trump solidly beat his sole remaining opponent Nikki Haley, winning 12 of the first 13 states called, including the key swing state of North Carolina.
  • Nikki Haley won the primary in the liberal state of Vermont, blocking Donald Trump from a clean sweep of victories. Haley had also won the capital Washington DC during the weekend, but is far behind Trump and is facing calls to drop out of the race.
  • On the Democrats' side, President Joe Biden swept to victory in statewide nominating contests across the country. The only contest Biden lost Tuesday was the Democratic caucus in American Samoa, a tiny US territory in the South Pacific Ocean. Biden was defeated by previously unknown candidate Jason Palmer, 51 votes to 40.

Trump backs Israel's war in Gaza

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump expressed his support for Israel's war in Gaza Tuesday, in his most explicit comments yet on the fighting, as international pressure grows on the United States to rein in its ally.

"Yes," Trump responded, when asked during an interview on Fox News if he was "in Israel's camp."

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Trump hails Super Tuesday wins in race to the White House

Donald Trump celebrated an "amazing night" as he closed in on the Republican presidential nomination with easy wins in the Super Tuesday primaries, setting up an all-but-certain rematch with President Joe Biden in November.

Fifteen states and a US territory staged nominating contests on the biggest day of the 2024 race so far, with both candidates coveting a second term in the White House.

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