All posts tagged "2024 Presidential Race"

Former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign tactic for manufacturing election fraud conspiracy theories — which even his own hired guns admit are baseless — was laid bare this week, Philip Bump wrote for the Washington Post Thursday.

"Over the three-plus years since the election, no evidence of any schemes that affected the vote has been uncovered — despite the enormous effort from Trump and his allies to uncover some," wrote Bump.

"But this is not important to Trump. What is important to him is telling his base of support that he, not Biden, was the legitimate winner of the 2020 contest."...

Donald Trump’s return to the White House would instate an authoritarian rule comparable to fascist leaders of 1930s Europe, an Ivy League academic and Forbes columnist argued Tuesday.

“There will be camps,” wrote Columbia University lecturer Tom Watson. “We will be Spain under Franco. Or worse.”

Watson, in Tuesday’s edition of his newsletter The Liberal, describes a bleak future for the U.S. under a Trump administration he fears would dismantle checks and balances to the detriment of those who do not identify as white and male. ...

Wisconsin's Supreme Court Friday struck down state legislative maps, which Democrat challengers criticized as "extreme partisan gerrymanders," and ordered new maps in time for the 2024 election, reports show.

Newly-elected liberal Justice Janet Protasiewicz sided with the 4-3 majority opinion that was widely celebrated by Democrat lawmakers in the state.

"This is a win for Wisconsin voters and democracy," said Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI). "Voters should always decide their elected officials - not the other way around."...

A man so bad at working with lawyers should not be the nation’s commander-in-chief, a new analysis contends.

The National Review published Wednesday a scathing critique of work done by the many attorneys defending the former president from the numerous criminal and civil charges he faces, but cast blame on their “client from hell.”

“To hear Trump tell it, he is always being betrayed,” writes Dan McLaughlin. “At some point, the chronic incompetence of the people carrying out even simple rule-following tasks on his behalf has to reflect on the man’s capacity to do an executive job.”...

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's gig with ABC News paid him more than what he'd earn as president of the United States, according to a new federal financial filing.

Christie — now running as a long-shot Republican presidential candidate — reported earning $475,000 in salary as a senior legal and political commentator for ABC News, a job he quit just before announcing his candidacy in May. The commander in chief earns a $400,000 annual salary.

But that's just a fraction of Christie's reported earnings. He earned more then $1.6 million from his consulting firm, Christie 55 Solutions, nearly $700,000 from his law firm via salary and his partnership share, more then $400,000 from the various boards of directors he serves on and another $430,000 from speaking fees. ...