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Former President Donald Trump has vowed to unleash federal prosecutors on critics if he wins reelection next year in what he frames as retaliation for his own criminal woes. The once-and-maybe-future president openly admitted that he would order authorities to prosecute his rivals, a move that would amount to a dramatic break with a bedrock principle of the American legal system. “If I happen to be president and I see somebody who’s doing well and beating me very badly, I say: ‘Go down and indict them,'” Trump told the Spanish-language Univision network in an interview aired Thursday night. “T......

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 ......

MIAMI — Former President Donald Trump has privately floated Florida state Sen. Joe Gruters as a potential replacement for Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel should she decide to step down later this month, according to a person familiar with the matter. Gruters, a former Sarasota County and Florida GOP chairman, previously ran for RNC treasurer with Trump’s support in 2023, but ultimately lost that race to Kentucky Republican National Committeewoman K.C. Crosbie. Still, Gruters has remained a loyal ally to Trump, who recently expressed support for change within the RNC and......

President Joe Biden grabbed a 6% lead over Trump in a national poll released Wednesday even as a survey of battleground states painted a gloomier picture of his reelection prospects. Biden leads Trump 50% to 44% in their likely presidential election rematch, according to the new Quinnipiac University poll. The survey showed a significant shift toward Biden since a December poll that placed the two candidates as virtually deadlocked. The fresh lead was powered primarily by a growing gender gap as women moved strongly into Biden’s camp. Women backed Biden by a 22-point margin, up from 12 points ......

LANSING, Mich. — Former Ambassador Pete Hoekstra was elected chairman of a faction of the Michigan Republican Party that is fighting in court to be recognized as the legitimate replacement to embattled chairwoman Kristina Karamo. The new chair, whose victory was clinched with a call from Mar-a-Lago, inherits a party torn by internal divisions and under financial stresses, including default on a roughly $500,000 loan, just 10 months ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Hoekstra's party filed suit Friday seeking a court order establishing the group as the legitimate state party after former ......

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s U.S. Sen. Tim Scott will endorse former President Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the senator’s plans. The New York Times was first to report the decision. Scott is expected to appear at a rally Friday night with Trump in New Hampshire, which holds its GOP primary in four days. The endorsement is a blow to former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who appointed Scott to the U.S. Senate in December 2012. Haley and Trump have been working to get Scott’s endorsement ever since the state’s junior senator dropped out of the race in November. The end......