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Another Republican presidential candidate ends campaign and endorses Trump

Another Republican presidential candidate ends campaign and endorses Trump

Yet another candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential primary has given up his campaign and endorsed Donald Trump.

Larry Elder is bowing out after his "We've got a country to save" mission didn't appear to resonate with voters and backers.

“As I look at the path forward, and after careful consideration and consultation with my campaign team, I have made the difficult decision to suspend my campaign,” he said, according to a statement posted on Twitter/X....

‘Right-wing misinformation’ newspaper gave a GOP presidential candidate up to $5M in salary

‘Right-wing misinformation’ newspaper gave a GOP presidential candidate up to $5M in salary

Long-shot Republican presidential candidate Larry Elder made between $1 million and $5 million from The Epoch Times, according to a new financial disclosure submitted three months past a federal deadline.

The Epoch Times — accused by the New York Times of being “a leading purveyor of right-wing misinformation” — spent heavily on Facebook ads for Donald Trump in 2020 and was later banned from the platform for violating political transparency rules. The Epoch Times is associated with the Chinese religious movement Falun Gong.

Elder’s filing, covering the past year and first reported by Raw Story on Monday, characterized his earnings from The Epoch Times as “salary.” ...

Tough-on-crime GOP presidential candidate pleads ignorance after violating financial disclosure law

Tough-on-crime GOP presidential candidate pleads ignorance after violating financial disclosure law

Larry Elder, the tough-on-crime conservative talk radio host and longshot Republican candidate for president, blew past a federal deadline for filing a personal financial disclosure report, Raw Story has learned.

The violation could result in a fine. But it’s unlikely Elder will pay much — if anything — because of notoriously weak enforcement of federal laws governing lawmakers’ mandatory personal financial disclosures.

In a letter to the Federal Election Commission dated July 7, Elder for President 24 treasurer David Satterfield acknowledged that Elder, who entered the race in April, should have filed the personal financial disclosure report by May 20. By the campaign’s own math, Elder is nearly two months late....