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WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Former President Donald Trump, who has spent years criticizing absentee voting in Michigan, on Saturday night urged supporters to cast early votes in person ahead of the state's Feb. 27 presidential primary. Municipalities across Michigan on Saturday started offering early, in-person voting for the first time after voters mandated it in a 2022 constitutional amendment. "You can do that or you can wait a little bit," Trump said of early voting at the outset of a speech inside a hanger at Oakland County International Airport in Waterford Township. Trump is favored to ......

WASHINGTON — A lobbying group for the oil and gas industry has launched a new television advertising campaign targeting the Biden administration’s promotion of electric vehicles in several battleground states. One ad from American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers accuses Democratic President Joe Biden of “rushing to ban new gas-powered cars, no matter where you live or what you need.” “They want to force you into an electric vehicle,” the ad continues. Since he took office in 2021, Biden has been ambitious in setting targets for reducing emissions from vehicles with internal combustion eng......

Former President Donald Trump will make his first Michigan campaign stop of the 2024 election year in Oakland County on Saturday. Trump's campaign announced the visit Monday. The Republican candidate will hold a "get out the vote" rally at 7 p.m. at a venue at the Oakland County International Airport in Waterford Township, according to a press release. The event will take place 10 days ahead of Michigan's Feb. 27 presidential primary election, in which Trump is competing for GOP votes with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who served as his ambassador to the United Nations. The primary e......

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Early voting in South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary started Monday. Any of the state’s 3.1 million registered voters who did not participate in the Feb. 3 Democratic presidential primary is eligible to cast a ballot in the GOP primary. State GOP Chairman Drew McKissick has estimated about 1 million people could vote in the Feb. 24 primary. Before heading to the polls, here’s what to know. Polling places may have been combined. County election commissions have the flexibility to combine locations in primary in order to save money, the state election commission said......

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Vice President Kamala Harris will make one last swing through South Carolina ahead of Saturday’s Democratic presidential primary, capping the president’s Palmetto State campaign at an HBCU. Harris will headline a get-out-the-vote event at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg on Friday, the state’s largest public HBCU and is part of President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign to reach out to Black voters in the state. Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison, who is originally from Orangeburg, also is scheduled to speak at the event. Friday is the final day ......

Iowa is bundled up and ready to kick off the 2024 presidential campaign with its famed quirky caucus. With bone-chilling cold gripping the state, former President Trump is aiming for a landslide win over rivals Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis. Trump, wholeads in polls with more than 50% support, hopes to eviscerate his opponents and head on to the tricky next contest in New Hampshire next Tuesday with the political wind at his back. Iowa has a history of delivering major political upsets, but most political pundits say Trump’s grip on the GOP conservative base should help him deliver an expected ......