All posts tagged "Super Tuesday"

WASHINGTON — Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy may have been publicly beat down before being booted out of power after just 269 days on the job, but his presence is still being felt in the GOP.

And McCarthy’s got some scores to settle first.

McCarthy’s allies have been on the offense against some of the eight far-right Republicans who cost him his coveted speaker’s gavel last fall and prompted his resignation in December....

Washington (AFP) - When the richest haul in the US presidential primary race arrives on "Super Tuesday," millions of Americans will cast their votes -- and many of them will count for nothing. In the primary system it is the number of allocated delegates that matters more than the popular vote count. The Republican and Democratic nominating contests that play out across the United States every four years serve to elect delegates to the national conventions, where they formally select their party's presidential nominee. Most of the 15 states holding primaries on "Super Tuesday" award them on a ......

Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump will march to the threshold of a third Republican presidential nomination this week as millions of Americans vote in "Super Tuesday" -- a critical milestone in his party's lopsided 2024 race for the White House. Normally the most consequential part of the campaign before the election itself, Super Tuesday decides Republican and Democratic primaries in the giant states of California and Texas, as well as more than a dozen other battlegrounds. But the usual drama will largely be absent this year, with the door expected to swing firmly shut on Trump's only remainin......

The yawning gap between the two remaining contenders for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination was on full display Saturday at a pair of pre-Super Tuesday campaign events in North Carolina.

Former President Donald Trump drew more than 5,000 supporters and prominent Republican candidates to the Special Events Center of the Greensboro Coliseum while former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, once Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, drew about 1,500 people at downtown Raleigh’s Union Station. The two speeches, and the size and type of the crowds they drew, provided a stark view of a Republican party fractured but leaning away from Haley’s conservative pragmatism and toward the vitriol and melodrama of the Trump campaign.

Trump paints bleak picture of America, promises to again be its savior

Cool weather and light rain didn’t deter Trump fans in Greensboro, where thousands lined up hours before doors opened or the candidate arrived. Waving large Trump flags and buying Trump merchandise at a makeshift carnival midway, some came from hours and states away to show their devotion....

It’s hard to imagine anything wearing down the bravado of Donald Trump, but will his legal troubles play poorly in a general election, leading him to lose again in November 2024?

Or might the current Republican front runner go out a different way?

At present, Trump stands accused of 91 charges in four felony cases, testing his political death-defying ability....

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....