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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.

Thanks to the Wall Street Journal, documents — including Jeffrey Epstein's emails and schedule— reveal several surprising people that were previously unknown for having met with the deceased sex offender, including linguist and activist Noam Chomsky, as well as the current director of the CIA.

According to Slate, Epstein met with now-CIA Director William Burns, who had been at the State Department for years. There were three meetings scheduled with Burns in 2014. Two of those were in Manhattan, and another was at a law firm in Washington, D.C. Burns said he only met with Epstein once at the law firm and once in New York.

A federal judge ruled on Monday that President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, must disclose more information about his finances as part of an ongoing paternity case.

And he largely has himself to blame for the current legal situation, argued former federal prosecutor Elie Honig on CNN's "The Lead."

A glib comment about President Joe Biden made by Sen. Ted Cuz while appearing on Fox News on Sunday was hammered by MSNBC analyst Steve Benen, who called out the Texas Republican for his "juvenile nonsense."

Speaking with embattled “Sunday Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo – who was at the center of Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit that cost the network $787 million – Cruz attacked the president over the budget battle as a default deadline looms.

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.

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.

Small-dollar donors are responsible for fueling firebrands and conspiracy theorists who “treat Congress like the Thunderdome,” a Washington Post columnist wrote Monday.

Meant as a way to counter big money’s influence on politics, attempts to use the internet to solicit many small contributions from everyday people has actually damaged democracy, wrote David Byler.

Nine months before the first 2024 US presidential primary, Donald Trump's onetime UN envoy Nikki Haley is barnstorming early-voting New Hampshire, one of several Republicans scrambling to dent the huge poll lead of the nomination front-runner.

With Trump's legal setbacks mounting, Americans are bracing for a parade of contenders positioning themselves as more moderate, less bombastic alternatives to the former president taking another stab at the White House.

During an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union" to praise House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for getting his budget proposal passed by a very slim margin, a member of his caucus was confronted by host Dana Bash about how the proposal will hurt his own constituents.

Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) was on to make the case that it is up to President Joe Biden to meet with McCarthy to resolve their differences which led the CNN host to dig into the details of how the proposed budget will impact the state he represents.