All posts tagged "Iowa Caucus"

In the hour before the Iowa caucuses started, Donald Trump’s campaign twice blasted out fundraising text messages with an apparent scare tactic to spur supporters to donate.

“President Trump: Suspend my campaign?” the messages began, accompanied by an “ALERT” image of Trump in his signature Make America Great Again hat and billowing American flags.

“ONE MILLION TRUE MAGA RESPONSES NEEDED,” the graphic said....

There’s a new target for Donald Trump’s election fraud accusations — and it’s not President Joe Biden.

“Reject DeSantis on January 15,” a new Iowa campaign flier reads. “Stop the fraud.”

Iowans’ mailboxes this week were stuffed with new campaign literature accusing the Florida governor, and Trump’s conservative competitor in the 2024 presidential race, of attempting to fix the Republican Iowa caucus. ...

Key decisions in Congress, courts and the ballot box will all crash together "in a most profound way," Raw Story Editor-in-Chief Dave Levinthal predicted today.

"And it begins in earnest," Levinthal told "A New Morning" host Susan Rose on WBEN-AM 930.

At stake in Congress: the fate of funding for federal government agencies, Southern border policies and support for Ukraine and Israel. A government shutdown is again in play....

Former President Donald Trump’s legal team faces a tough decision about whether to let their gag-ordered client testify in his $250 million civil court trial Monday, according to legal analyst Lisa Rubin.

“Team Trump has a very difficult choice to make,” Rubin said. “Allow Donald Trump to literally sit within inches of the principal law clerk who he has already talked about twice in violation of the gag order… or keep him at home against what I imagine are his deepest wishes.”

Trump faces high stakes in the New York City courtroom, where he has already been fined $15,000 in gag order violations, as the fate of the Trump Organization hangs in the balance. ...

While covering the Iowa caucus, NBC's Nightly News Andrea Mitchell said that the state's influence on the presidential selection process had been lessened due to its lack of diversity.

A comeback for Republican presidential candidate appeared less likely Tuesday as two more high level staffers reportedly departed with the campaign carrying at least $1 million in debt.