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Trump starts 2024 with new target to 'crush': report

The campaign to elect Donald Trump as president ended 2023 with a full-on assault to “crush” the person now seen as his top contender, according to a report.

In the last two weeks, MAGA Inc. spent $3.4 million to run an ad attacking Nikki Haley over a gas tax in her home state of South Carolina, followed by $370,000 worth of anti-Haley mailers, the Daily Beast reported.

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'Devil's bargain': strategist says Trump endorsement wins GOP primaries but loses races

Republicans seeking endorsements from former President Donald Trump are making a "devil's bargain" that wins primaries but risks key election races, a political strategist told the Daily Beast.

Democratic strategist Max Burns described the dynamic as a paradox to which Republicans in tight races are frequently obligated to reconcile themselves, despite understanding the risk.

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Resurfaced report puts scrutiny on Trump's call for FBI headquarters to remain in D.C.

In the wake of Donald Trump expressing his support for a replacement to the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover building to be constructed in Washington D.C., a report has resurfaced financially linking the former president to a bid to build the new structure, Newsweek reported.

"The FBI headquarters should not be moved to a far-away location, but should stay right where it is, in a new spectacular building, in the best location in our now crime-ridden and filthy-dirty, graffiti-scarred, capital," Trump wrote on Truth Social Saturday. "They should be involved in bringing back D.C., not running away from it."

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Ex-GOP strategist predicts what will happen if a Republican president pardons Trump

Lincoln Project co-founder and former Republican strategist Rick Wilson lambasted GOP presidential candidates on Sunday for being too scared to hold Donald Trump accountable if he's found guilty of felonies with which he's charged.

Among the questions Republican candidates are getting is whether or not they would pardon Trump were he to be convicted of federal crimes by a jury. Both former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that they would.

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'That date has some significance': Trump plans rally on 3rd anniversary of Jan. 6 riot

Former President Donald Trump will be kicking off the new year with a "commit to caucus" campaign rally in Newton, Iowa on a historically significant date: January 6.

In an interview with the Daily Beast, Jasper County, Iowa Republican Party chairman Thad Nearmyer — a 52-year-old livestock farmer — said the date of the rally may very well be a nod to the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol that resulted in nine deaths and hundreds of injuries of US Capitol and DC Metropolitan police officers.

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Ex-GOP lawmaker slams 'absurd' Republican presidential field 'moved by vanity and power'

Former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL), an outspoken critic of the GOP since having left it, tore into the candidates running against former President Donald Trump on MSNBC Friday evening, blasting them as unserious candidates running more on their own egos than any tangible alternative to the MAGA movement.

This comes as former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, emerging as one of the only noteworthy rivals to Trump as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to falter in polls, has come under fire for vowing to pardon Trump of any crimes, and for being unable to definitively say the Civil War was about slavery.

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DeSantis owns 'the most expensive and embarrassing' collapse in GOP history: ex-colleague

With the Iowa caucus beginning in just over two weeks and the New Hampshire primary hot on its heels, Gov. Ron DeSantis' once-promising bid to be the Republican Party's 2024 presidential bid seems to be already over.

As the HuffPost is reporting, the clamor for DeSantis to be the face of the party went nowhere as Donald Trump not only hung onto conservative voters but pulled away from the Florida governor despite DeSantis' political operation that proved to be ineffective — when it wasn't being plagued with infighting and layoffs.

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Democratic mayors demand notice before arrival of migrant buses from Texas, Florida

The Democratic mayors of New York City, Denver and Chicago have come together to place restrictions on when and where migrant buses from Texas and Florida can arrive. The regulations have been made in order to be able to provide help to the passengers.

The mayors came together on a joint video call to announce new regulations. Eric Adams of New York issued an executive order requiring 32 hours' notice of the arrival of a bus with migrants, according to the New York Times. Adams' order also requires migrant buses only go to certain locations in the city and only during the workweek between the times of 8:30 a.m. and 12 p.m.

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Black Republican slams Haley for Civil War response: 'The answer is slavery period’

A Black Republican congressman slammed Nikki Haley Thursday after a voter’s question about the cause of the Civil War threatened to send the presidential hopeful’s campaign into a nosedive.

“The answer is slavery,” Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) wrote on X. “PERIOD.”

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DeSantis throws crucial campaign allies under the bus as operation implodes: report

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made a risky bet on his Republican presidential campaign, and now he's throwing his allies under the bus and it blows up in his face, according to a report.

The GOP governor's campaign turned over substantial funds and many established responsibilities to the outside group Never Back Down, but that political action committee appears to be on the brink of imploding with the resignation of its chief architect Jeff Roe, reported Real Clear Politics.

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Trump will 'burn America to the ground to help himself': Chris Christie's new ad

Chris Christie can speak truth to Trump.

And his latest pitch to American voters? Who else has the guts to do it in public, because according to him everybody is doing it in the shadows.

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'Small' Ron DeSantis ridiculed after photos show him in big chair

Former president Donald Trump isn't shy about the fact he thinks little of Gov. Ron DeSantis, whom he frequently mocks over alleged lifts in the Florida Republican's boots.

On Wednesday, the public mockery kicked into overdrive after a photo of a seated DeSantis taking part in a podcast appeared on social media.

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DeSantis mocks Colorado boycott: Trump 'would spike the football' if anybody else banned

GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's proposal of a Colorado boycott in the wake of the state's top court booting former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot has not won over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

DeSantis was asked about Ramaswamy's proposed Colorado boycott by Philip Wegmann in an article published Wednesday by RealClearPolitics, and dismissed it out of hand.

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